8447.12.90

Analysis

HTS 8447.12.90 covers with cylinder diameter exceeding 165 mm: other under heading 8447 (knitting machines, stitch-bonding machines and machines for making gimped yarn, tulle…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 3 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.

Neighbouring lines carry rates from duty-free to 2.6%, so the exact line matters. The widest gap is with 8447.20.30 (v-bed flat knitting machines: other), at 2.6%: a product that belongs there but is entered here, or the reverse, changes the duty by 2.6 percentage points.

Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 40% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 40% duty.

Goods classified here enter the United States duty-free at the general (normal trade relations) rate, as do about 61% of the 823 tariff lines in chapter 84. Chapter 99 measures such as Section 301 or 232 can still apply on top, depending on where the goods come from.

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 33324 (Industrial Machinery Manufacturing), an industry of 2,836 US establishments employing 111,497 people. That is the industry code a US manufacturer of the same product would normally use.