Analysis
HTS 8466.91.50 covers for machines of heading 8464: other under heading 8466 (parts and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of…).
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 8 points on the customs value.
Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 35% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 35% duty.
There is no general-rate duty on this line, which puts it with roughly 61% of the 823 tariff lines in chapter 84 that are also free. Chapter 99 measures such as Section 301 or 232 can still apply on top, depending on where the goods come from.
Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 33324 (Industrial Machinery Manufacturing), an industry of 2,836 US establishments employing 111,497 people, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.
The general rate of Free has not changed in any edition of the schedule since Jan 2023.
Neighbouring 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 |
| 8466.92.10 | 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% |