Analysis
HTS 8466.93.98 covers other: other under heading 8466 (parts and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.
The general duty rate is 4.7% of the customs value, which is among the highest the rates in chapter 84 (96th percentile of 823 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $470 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.
Rates on the nearby lines range from duty-free to 5.8%. The costliest confusion would be with 8466.93.96 (parts and accessories of machine tools of subheadings 8456.11…) at duty-free, a difference of 4.7 points on the customs value.
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 4.7%. 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.
For statistics it divides in two: 8466.93.98.40 for of metalworking machine tools for grinding or finishing… and 8466.93.98.85 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%, 7.4 times the general rate.
Statistical suffixes
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |