8486.20.00

Analysis

HTS 8486.20.00 covers machines and apparatus for the manufacture of semiconductor devices or of electronic integrated circuits under heading 8486 (machines and apparatus of a kind used solely or principally for the manufacture of…).

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.

The other lines in the same group are 8486.10.00 (machines and apparatus for the manufacture of boules or…, duty-free), 8486.30.00 (machines and apparatus for the manufacture of flat panel…, duty-free), 8486.40.00 (machines and apparatus specified in note 11(C) to this…, duty-free) and 8486.90.00 (parts and accessories, duty-free).

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 333242 (Semiconductor Machinery Manufacturing), an industry of 170 US establishments employing 28,799 people, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.