8472.90.90

Analysis

HTS 8472.90.90 covers other: other under heading 8472 (other office machines (for example, hectograph or stencil duplicating machines…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 3 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.

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.

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. That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.

The ten-digit suffixes separate desktop note counters and note scanners and other currency and coin handling…. The duty is the same across them; the suffix matters for statistics, licensing and some quotas, and an entry needs all ten digits.