8466.94.65

Analysis

HTS 8466.94.65 covers bed, base, table, column, cradle, frame, bolster, crown, slide, rod, tailstock and headstock castings, weldments or fabrications 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.

Within this group the rate runs from duty-free to 4.7%. Compared with 8466.94.40 (cast-iron parts not advanced beyond cleaning, and machined only for…), which pays duty-free, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 4.7 percentage points.

Goods that qualify under GSP, the Australia FTA, the Bahrain FTA, the Chile FTA, the Colombia TPA, and 12 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: 8466.94.65.40 for parts of mechanical transfer presses and 8466.94.65.85 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.