8470.90.01

Analysis

HTS 8470.90.01 covers calculating machines and pocket-size data recording, reproducing and displaying machines with calculating functions; accounting machines, postage-franking… under heading 8470 (calculating machines and pocket-size data recording, reproducing and displaying machines…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.

For statistics it divides in two: 8470.90.01.10 for postage-franking machines and 8470.90.01.90 for other. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.

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 33331 (Commercial and Service Industry Machinery Manufacturing), an industry of 1,731 US establishments employing 80,504 people, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.