8467.29.00

Analysis

HTS 8467.29.00 covers with self-contained electric motor: other under heading 8467 (tools for working in the hand, pneumatic, hydraulic or with self-contained electric or…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 11 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.

Within this group the rate runs from duty-free to 4.5%. Compared with 8467.19.10 (suitable for metal working), which pays 4.5%, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 4.5 percentage points.

The ten-digit suffixes separate angle grinders, sanders and polishers, orbital and straight-line sanders, belt sanders, screwdrivers, nut-runners and impact…, routers and planers and 3 more. The duty is the same across them; the suffix matters for statistics, licensing and some quotas, and an entry needs all ten digits.

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.

The normal trade relations rate here is zero, shared by about 61% of the 823 tariff lines in chapter 84, a useful check when a neighbouring dutiable line is a candidate. Chapter 99 measures such as Section 301 or 232 can still apply on top, depending on where the goods come from.