Analysis
HTS 8466.10.01 covers tool holders and self-opening dieheads under heading 8466 (parts and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 3 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.
Rates on the nearby lines range from duty-free to 8%. The costliest confusion would be with 8466.30.80 (other special attachments: other) at 8%, a difference of 4.1 points on the customs value.
The general duty rate is 3.9% of the customs value, which is above most the rates in chapter 84 (84th percentile of 823 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $390 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.
Goods that qualify under GSP, the Australia FTA, the Bahrain FTA, the Chile FTA, the Colombia TPA, and 13 others can enter duty-free instead of paying 3.9%. 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.
The column 2 rate, for countries without normal trade relations, is 45%, 11.5 times the general rate.
Statistical suffixes
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 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% |