HTS heading · chapter 84
8465
Machine tools (including machines for nailing, stapling, glueing or otherwise assembling) for working wood, cork, bone, hard rubber, hard plastics or similar hard materials
Analysis
Heading 8465 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule covers machine tools (including machines for nailing, stapling, glueing or otherwise assembling) for working wood, cork, bone, hard rubber, hard plastics or similar hard materials. It divides into 9 six-digit subheadings and 11 eight-digit tariff lines, with 78 ten-digit statistical suffixes below them.
None of its 11 lines is duty-free at the general rate. Rates run from 2.4% to 3% with a median of 2.9%, so the line you choose sets the duty.
The largest subheadings are 8465.20 (machining centers, 3 lines), 8465.10 (unnamed, 1 line), 8465.91 (unnamed, 1 line) and 8465.92 (unnamed, 1 line).
Its median rate of 2.9% sits at the 74th percentile of the headings in chapter 84.
By Census's concordance, most of its statistical lines are made by Sawmill, Woodworking, and Paper Machinery Manufacturing (333243), Industrial Machinery Manufacturing (33324) and All Other General Purpose Machinery Manufacturing (33399). Those are the NAICS industries a US producer of these goods would report under.
Tariff lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 8465.10.00 | Machines which can carry out different types of machining operations without tool change between such operations | 2.4% |
| 8465.20.10 | For sawing, planing, milling, molding, grinding, sanding, polishing, drilling or mortising | 3% |
| 8465.20.50 | For bending or assembling | 2.9% |
| 8465.20.80 | Machining centers: other | 2.4% |
| 8465.91.00 | Other: sawing machines | 3% |
| 8465.92.00 | Planing, milling or molding (by cutting) machines | 3% |
| 8465.93.00 | Grinding, sanding or polishing machines | 3% |
| 8465.94.00 | Bending or assembling machines | 2.9% |
| 8465.95.00 | Drilling or mortising machines | 3% |
| 8465.96.00 | Splitting, slicing or paring machines | 2.4% |
| 8465.99.02 | Other: other | 2.4% |