HTS heading · chapter 84
8466
Parts and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of headings 8456 to 8465, including work or tool holders, self-opening dieheads, dividing heads and other special attachments for the machines; tool holders for any type of tool for working in the hand
Analysis
Heading 8466 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule covers parts and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of headings 8456 to 8465, including work or tool holders, self-opening dieheads, dividing heads and other special attachments for the…. It divides into 7 six-digit subheadings and 22 eight-digit tariff lines, with 36 ten-digit statistical suffixes below them.
The spread of 8 percentage points between the cheapest and dearest lines makes misclassification expensive here. The highest rate, 8%, applies to 8466.30.80 (other special attachments: other).
9 of its 22 lines with a percentage rate are duty-free at the general rate (41%) and 13 are dutiable, from duty-free up to 8%. The median line pays 3.7%.
Its median rate of 3.7% sits at the 83rd percentile of the headings in chapter 84.
The largest subheadings are 8466.93 (for machines of headings 8456 to 8461, 8 lines), 8466.94 (for machines of heading 8462 or 8463, 4 lines), 8466.30 (dividing heads and other special attachments for…, 3 lines) and 8466.20 (work holders, 2 lines).
Tariff lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 8466.10.01 | Tool holders and self-opening dieheads | 3.9% |
| 8466.20.10 | For machine tools used in cutting gears | 4.6% |
| 8466.20.80 | Work holders: other | 3.7% |
| 8466.30.10 | Dividing heads and other special attachments for machines: dividing heads | 3.7% |
| 8466.30.60 | Other special attachments: machines | 2.9% |
| 8466.30.80 | Other special attachments: other | 8% |
| 8466.91.10 | Cast-iron parts not advanced beyond cleaning, and machined only for the removal of fins, gates, sprues and risers or to permit location in finishing machinery | Free |
| 8466.91.50 | For machines of heading 8464: other | Free |
| 8466.92.10 | Cast-iron parts not advanced beyond cleaning, and machined only for the removal of fins, gates, sprues and risers or to permit location in finishing machinery | Free |
| 8466.92.50 | For machines of heading 8465: other | 4.7% |
| 8466.93.11 | For water-jet cutting machines | Free |
| 8466.93.15 | Cast-iron parts not advanced beyond cleaning, and machined only for the removal of fins, gates, sprues and risers or to permit location in finishing machinery | Free |
| 8466.93.30 | Of metalworking machine tools for cutting gears | 5.8% |
| 8466.93.53 | Other: other | 4.7% |
| 8466.93.60 | Cast-iron parts not advanced beyond cleaning, and machined only for the removal of fins, gates, sprues and risers or to permit location in finishing machinery | Free |
| 8466.93.75 | Of metalworking machine tools for cutting gears | 5.8% |
| 8466.93.96 | Parts and accessories of machine tools of subheadings 8456.11, 8456.12, 8456.30, 8457.10, 8458.91, 8459.21, 8459.61 and 8461.50, of a kind used solely or principally for the manufacture of printed circuits, printed circuit assemblies, parts of heading 8517 or parts of automatic data processing machines | Free |
| 8466.93.98 | Other: other | 4.7% |
| 8466.94.20 | Bed, base, table, column, cradle, frame, bolster, crown, slide, rod, tailstock and headstock castings, weldments or fabrications | Free |
| 8466.94.40 | Cast-iron parts not advanced beyond cleaning, and machined only for the removal of fins, gates, sprues and risers or to permit location in finishing machinery: other | Free |
| 8466.94.65 | Bed, base, table, column, cradle, frame, bolster, crown, slide, rod, tailstock and headstock castings, weldments or fabrications | 4.7% |
| 8466.94.85 | Other: other | 4.7% |