HTS heading · chapter 84
8462
Machine tools (including presses) for working metal by forging, hammering or die forging (excluding rolling mills); machine tools (including presses, slitting lines and cut-to-length lines) for working metal by bending, folding, straightening, flattening, shearing, punching, notching or nibbling (excluding drawbenches); presses for working metal or metal carbides, not specified above
Analysis
Heading 8462 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule covers machine tools (including presses) for working metal by forging, hammering or die forging (excluding rolling mills); machine tools (including presses, slitting lines and cut-to-length lines) for working metal by bending…. It divides into 20 six-digit subheadings and 26 eight-digit tariff lines, with 71 ten-digit statistical suffixes below them.
None of its 26 lines is duty-free at the general rate. Rates run from 4.4% to 4.4% with a median of 4.4%, so the line you choose sets the duty.
Its median rate of 4.4% sits at the 91st percentile of the headings in chapter 84.
The largest subheadings are 8462.32 (slitting lines and cut-to-length lines, 2 lines), 8462.61 (hydraulic presses, 2 lines), 8462.62 (mechanical presses, 2 lines) and 8462.63 (servo-presses, 2 lines).
By Census's concordance, most of its statistical lines are made by Machine Tool Manufacturing (333517). Those are the NAICS industries a US producer of these goods would report under.
Tariff lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 8462.11.00 | Closed die forging machines | 4.4% |
| 8462.19.00 | Hot forming machines for forging, die forging (including presses) and hot hammers: other | 4.4% |
| 8462.22.00 | Profile forming machines | 4.4% |
| 8462.23.00 | Numerically controlled press brakes | 4.4% |
| 8462.24.00 | Numerically controlled panel benders | 4.4% |
| 8462.25.00 | Numerically controlled roll forming machines | 4.4% |
| 8462.26.00 | Bending, folding, straightening or flattening machines (including press brakes) for flat products: other numerically controlled bending, folding, straightening or flattening machines | 4.4% |
| 8462.29.00 | Bending, folding, straightening or flattening machines (including press brakes) for flat products: other | 4.4% |
| 8462.32.10 | Numerically controlled | 4.4% |
| 8462.32.50 | Slitting lines and cut-to-length lines: other | 4.4% |
| 8462.33.00 | Numerically controlled shearing machines | 4.4% |
| 8462.39.00 | Slitting lines, cut-to-length lines and other shearing machines (excluding presses) for flat products, other than combined punching and shearing machines: other | 4.4% |
| 8462.42.00 | Numerically controlled | 4.4% |
| 8462.49.00 | Punching, notching or nibbling machines (excluding presses) for flat products including combined punching and shearing machines: other | 4.4% |
| 8462.51.00 | Numerically controlled | 4.4% |
| 8462.59.00 | Machines for working tube, pipe, hollow section and bar (excluding presses): other | 4.4% |
| 8462.61.40 | Numerically controlled | 4.4% |
| 8462.61.80 | Hydraulic presses: other | 4.4% |
| 8462.62.40 | Numerically controlled | 4.4% |
| 8462.62.50 | Mechanical presses: other | 4.4% |
| 8462.63.40 | Numerically controlled | 4.4% |
| 8462.63.80 | Servo-presses: other | 4.4% |
| 8462.69.40 | Numerically controlled | 4.4% |
| 8462.69.80 | Other: other | 4.4% |
| 8462.90.40 | Numerically controlled | 4.4% |
| 8462.90.80 | Other: other | 4.4% |