8453.80.00

Analysis

HTS 8453.80.00 covers machinery for preparing, tanning or working hides, skins or leather or for making or repairing footwear or other articles of hides, skins or leather, other… under heading 8453 (machinery for preparing, tanning or working hides, skins or leather or for making or…).

Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 35% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 35% duty.

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.

The other lines in the same group are 8453.10.00 (machinery for preparing, tanning or working hides, skins or…, duty-free), 8453.20.00 (machinery for making or repairing footwear, duty-free), 8453.90.10 (of machinery for making or repairing footwear, duty-free) and 8453.90.50 (parts: other, duty-free).

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 33399 (All Other General Purpose Machinery Manufacturing), an industry of 3,460 US establishments employing 158,898 people. That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.