8452.90.20

Analysis

HTS 8452.90.20 covers furniture, bases and covers for sewing machines, and parts thereof; other parts of sewing machines: other parts of sewing machines under heading 8452 (sewing machines, other than book-sewing machines of heading 8440; furniture, bases and…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.

Within this group the rate runs from duty-free to 2.5%. Compared with 8452.90.10 (furniture, bases and covers for sewing machines, and parts thereof), which pays 2.5%, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 2.5 percentage points.

For statistics it divides in two: 8452.90.20.10 for of household machines and 8452.90.20.90 for other. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.

The normal trade relations rate here is zero, shared by about 61% of the 823 tariff lines in chapter 84, a useful check when a neighbouring dutiable line is a candidate. Chapter 99 measures such as Section 301 or 232 can still apply on top, depending on where the goods come from.

Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 30% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 30% duty.