HTS heading · chapter 84
8470
Calculating machines and pocket-size data recording, reproducing and displaying machines with calculating functions; accounting machines, postage-franking machines, ticket-issuing machines and similar machines, incorporating a calculating device; cash registers
Analysis
Heading 8470 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule covers calculating machines and pocket-size data recording, reproducing and displaying machines with calculating functions; accounting machines, postage-franking machines, ticket-issuing machines and similar machines…. It divides into 6 six-digit subheadings and 6 eight-digit tariff lines, with 9 ten-digit statistical suffixes below them.
Every one of its 6 tariff lines is duty-free at the general rate, so classification within the heading affects statistics and Chapter 99 measures rather than the base duty.
The largest subheadings are 8470.10 (unnamed, 1 line), 8470.21 (unnamed, 1 line), 8470.29 (unnamed, 1 line) and 8470.30 (unnamed, 1 line).
Its median rate of duty-free sits at the 30th percentile of the headings in chapter 84.
By Census's concordance, most of its statistical lines are made by Commercial and Service Industry Machinery Manufacturing (33331) and Computer Terminal and Other Computer Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing (334118). Those are the NAICS industries a US producer of these goods would report under.
Tariff lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 8470.10.00 | Electronic calculators capable of operation without an external source of electric power and pocket-size data recording, reproducing and displaying machines with calculating functions | Free |
| 8470.21.00 | Incorporating a printing device | Free |
| 8470.29.00 | Other electronic calculating machines: other | Free |
| 8470.30.00 | Calculating machines and pocket-size data recording, reproducing and displaying machines with calculating functions; accounting machines, postage-franking machines, ticket-issuing machines and similar machines, incorporating a calculating device; cash registers: other calculating machines | Free |
| 8470.50.00 | Calculating machines and pocket-size data recording, reproducing and displaying machines with calculating functions; accounting machines, postage-franking machines, ticket-issuing machines and similar machines, incorporating a calculating device; cash registers: cash registers | Free |
| 8470.90.01 | Calculating machines and pocket-size data recording, reproducing and displaying machines with calculating functions; accounting machines, postage-franking machines, ticket-issuing machines and similar machines, incorporating a calculating device; cash registers: other | Free |