8479.89.92

Analysis

HTS 8479.89.92 covers automated electronic component placement machines of a kind used solely or principally for the manufacture of printed circuit assemblies under heading 8479 (machines and mechanical appliances having individual functions, not specified or included…).

Rates on the nearby lines range from duty-free to 2.8%. The costliest confusion would be with 8479.89.65 (electromechanical appliances with self-contained electric motor: other) at 2.8%, a difference of 2.8 points on the customs value.

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 33399 (All Other General Purpose Machinery Manufacturing), an industry of 3,460 US establishments employing 158,898 people, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.