8447

Analysis

Heading 8447 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule covers knitting machines, stitch-bonding machines and machines for making gimped yarn, tulle, lace, embroidery, trimmings, braid or net and machines for tufting. It divides into 4 six-digit subheadings and 11 eight-digit tariff lines, with 15 ten-digit statistical suffixes below them.

10 of its 11 lines with a percentage rate are duty-free at the general rate (91%) and 1 are dutiable, from duty-free up to 2.6%. The median line pays duty-free.

The largest subheadings are 8447.20 (flat knitting machines; stitch-bonding machines, 4 lines), 8447.90 (other, 3 lines), 8447.11 (with cylinder diameter not exceeding 165 mm, 2 lines) and 8447.12 (with cylinder diameter exceeding 165 mm, 2 lines).

Its median rate of duty-free sits at the 30th percentile of the headings in chapter 84.

By Census's concordance, most of its statistical lines are made by Industrial Machinery Manufacturing (33324). Those are the NAICS industries a US producer of these goods would report under.