HTS heading · chapter 84
8451
Machinery (other than machines of heading 8450) for washing, cleaning, wringing, drying, ironing, pressing (including fusing presses), bleaching, dyeing, dressing, finishing, coating or impregnating textile yarns, fabrics or made up textile articles and machines for applying the paste to the base fabric or other support used in the manufacture of floor coverings such as linoleum; machines for reeling, unreeling, folding, cutting or pinking textile fabrics; parts thereof
Analysis
Heading 8451 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule covers machinery (other than machines of heading 8450) for washing, cleaning, wringing, drying, ironing, pressing (including fusing presses), bleaching, dyeing, dressing, finishing, coating or impregnating textile yarns…. It divides into 8 six-digit subheadings and 10 eight-digit tariff lines, with 14 ten-digit statistical suffixes below them.
3 of its 10 lines with a percentage rate are duty-free at the general rate (30%) and 7 are dutiable, from duty-free up to 3.5%. The median line pays 3.45%.
Its median rate of 3.45% sits at the 80th percentile of the headings in chapter 84.
The largest subheadings are 8451.90 (parts, 3 lines), 8451.10 (unnamed, 1 line), 8451.21 (unnamed, 1 line) and 8451.29 (unnamed, 1 line).
By Census's concordance, most of its statistical lines are made by Major Household Appliance Manufacturing (335220), Industrial Machinery Manufacturing (33324) and Commercial and Service Industry Machinery Manufacturing (33331). Those are the NAICS industries a US producer of these goods would report under.
Tariff lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 8451.10.00 | Dry-cleaning machines | Free |
| 8451.21.00 | Each of a dry linen capacity not exceeding 10 kg | 3.4% |
| 8451.29.00 | Drying machines: other | 2.6% |
| 8451.30.00 | Ironing machines and presses (including fusing presses) | Free |
| 8451.40.00 | Washing, bleaching or dyeing machines | 3.5% |
| 8451.50.00 | Machines for reeling, unreeling, folding, cutting or pinking textile fabrics | Free |
| 8451.80.00 | Machinery (other than machines of heading 8450) for washing, cleaning, wringing, drying, ironing, pressing (including fusing presses), bleaching, dyeing, dressing, finishing, coating or impregnating textile yarns, fabrics or made up textile articles and machines for applying the paste to the base fabric or other support used in the manufacture of floor coverings such as linoleum; machines for reeling, unreeling, folding, cutting or pinking textile fabrics; parts thereof: other machinery | 3.5% |
| 8451.90.30 | Drying chambers for the drying machines of subheading 8451.21 or 8451.29, and other parts of drying machines incorporating drying chambers | 3.5% |
| 8451.90.60 | Furniture designed to receive the drying machines of subheading 8451.21 or 8451.29 | 3.5% |
| 8451.90.90 | Parts: other | 3.5% |