Analysis
HTS 8477.30.00 covers blow-molding machines under heading 8477 (machinery for working rubber or plastics or for the manufacture of products from these…).
Within this group the rate runs from duty-free to 3.1%. Compared with 8477.10.40 (for use in the manufacture of optical media), which pays duty-free, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 3.1 percentage points.
The general duty rate is 3.1% of the customs value, which is above most the rates in chapter 84 (77th percentile of 823 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $310 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.
Goods that qualify under GSP, the Australia FTA, the Bahrain FTA, the Chile FTA, the Colombia TPA, and 13 others can enter duty-free instead of paying 3.1%. 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.
The column 2 rate, for countries without normal trade relations, is 35%, 11.3 times the general rate.
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 8477.10.30 | For manufacturing shoes | Free |
| 8477.10.40 | For use in the manufacture of optical media | Free |
| 8477.10.90 | Injection-molding machines: other | 3.1% |
| 8477.20.00 | Machinery for working rubber or plastics or for the manufacture of products from these materials, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter; parts thereof: extruders | 3.1% |
| 8477.40.01 | Vacuum-molding machines and other thermoforming machines | 3.1% |
| 8477.51.00 | For molding or retreading pneumatic tires or for molding or otherwise forming inner tubes | 3.1% |
| 8477.59.01 | Other machinery for molding or otherwise forming: other | 3.1% |
| 8477.80.01 | Machinery for working rubber or plastics or for the manufacture of products from these materials, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter; parts thereof: other machinery | 3.1% |
| 8477.90.25 | Base, bed, platen, clamp cylinder, ram, and injection castings, weldments and fabrications | 3.1% |
| 8477.90.45 | Parts: barrel screws | 3.1% |
| 8477.90.65 | Hydraulic assemblies incorporating more than one of the following: manifold; valves; pump; oil cooler | 3.1% |
| 8477.90.86 | Parts: other | 3.1% |