8464.90.01

Analysis

HTS 8464.90.01 covers machine tools for working stone, ceramics, concrete, asbestos-cement or like mineral materials or for cold working glass: other under heading 8464 (machine tools for working stone, ceramics, concrete, asbestos-cement or like mineral…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.

Rates on the nearby lines range from duty-free to 2%. The costliest confusion would be with 8464.10.01 (machine tools for working stone, ceramics, concrete, asbestos-cement…) at duty-free, a difference of 2 points on the customs value.

The general duty rate is 2% of the customs value, which is in the middle of the rates in chapter 84 (63rd percentile of 823 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $200 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.

For statistics it divides in two: 8464.90.01.10 for glass-working machines and 8464.90.01.20 for other. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.

The column 2 rate, for countries without normal trade relations, is 35%, 17.5 times the general rate.

Goods that qualify under GSP, the Australia FTA, the Bahrain FTA, the Chile FTA, the Colombia TPA, and 12 others can enter duty-free instead of paying 2%. It is also eligible under GSP, the developing-country programme, which Congress has to renew; check whether GSP is in force on the entry date.