8452

Analysis

Heading 8452 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule covers sewing machines, other than book-sewing machines of heading 8440; furniture, bases and covers specially designed for sewing machines; sewing machine needles; parts thereof. It divides into 5 six-digit subheadings and 8 eight-digit tariff lines, with 10 ten-digit statistical suffixes below them.

7 of its 8 lines with a percentage rate are duty-free at the general rate (88%) and 1 are dutiable, from duty-free up to 2.5%. The median line pays duty-free.

The largest subheadings are 8452.21 (automatic units, 2 lines), 8452.29 (other, 2 lines), 8452.90 (furniture, bases and covers for sewing machines…, 2 lines) and 8452.10 (unnamed, 1 line).

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), Fastener, Button, Needle, and Pin Manufacturing (339993) and All Other Miscellaneous Wood Product Manufacturing (321999). Those are the NAICS industries a US producer of these goods would report under.