Analysis
HTS 8479.83.00 covers cold isostatic presses under heading 8479 (machines and mechanical appliances having individual functions, not specified or included…).
Within this group the rate runs from duty-free to 2.8%. Compared with 8479.90.95 (parts: other), which pays duty-free, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 2.5 percentage points.
The general duty rate is 2.5% of the customs value, which is in the middle of the rates in chapter 84 (68th percentile of 823 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $250 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.
The column 2 rate, for countries without normal trade relations, is 35%, 14.0 times the general rate.
Goods that qualify under GSP, the Australia FTA, the Automotive Products Trade Act, the Bahrain FTA, the Chile FTA, and 13 others can enter duty-free instead of paying 2.5%. 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.
Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 33399 (All Other General Purpose Machinery Manufacturing), an industry of 3,460 US establishments employing 158,898 people. That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 8479.10.00 | Machinery for public works, building or the like | Free |
| 8479.20.00 | Machinery for the extraction or preparation of animal or fixed vegetable or microbial fats or oils | Free |
| 8479.30.00 | Presses for the manufacture of particle board or fiber building board of wood or other ligneous materials and other machinery for treating wood or cork | Free |
| 8479.40.00 | Rope or cable-making machines | Free |
| 8479.50.00 | Industrial robots, not elsewhere specified or included | 2.5% |
| 8479.60.00 | Evaporative air coolers | 2.8% |
| 8479.71.00 | Of a kind used in airports | Free |
| 8479.79.00 | Passenger boarding bridges: other | Free |
| 8479.81.00 | For treating metal, including electric wire coil-winders | Free |
| 8479.82.00 | Mixing, kneading, crushing, grinding, screening, sifting, homogenizing, emulsifying or stirring machines | Free |
| 8479.89.10 | Air humidifiers or dehumidifiers | Free |
| 8479.89.20 | Electromechanical appliances with self-contained electric motor: floor polishers | Free |
| 8479.89.55 | Electromechanical appliances with self-contained electric motor: trash compactors | 2.8% |
| 8479.89.65 | Electromechanical appliances with self-contained electric motor: other | 2.8% |
| 8479.89.70 | Other: carpet sweepers | Free |
| 8479.89.83 | Machines for the manufacturing of optical media | Free |
| 8479.89.92 | Automated electronic component placement machines of a kind used solely or principally for the manufacture of printed circuit assemblies | Free |
| 8479.89.95 | Other: other | 2.5% |
| 8479.90.41 | Of articles of subheading 8479.89.10 or 8479.89.70 | Free |
| 8479.90.45 | Frame assemblies incorporating more than one of the following: baseplate; side frames; power screws; front plates | Free |
| 8479.90.55 | Ram assemblies incorporating a ram wrapper and/or ram cover | Free |
| 8479.90.65 | Container assemblies incorporating more than one of the following: container bottom; container wrapper; slide track; container front | Free |
| 8479.90.75 | Of trash compactors: cabinets or cases | Free |
| 8479.90.85 | Of trash compactors: other | Free |
| 8479.90.95 | Parts: other | Free |