8487.90.00

Analysis

HTS 8487.90.00 covers machinery parts, not containing electrical connectors, insulators, coils, contacts or other electrical features, and not specified or included elsewhere in… under heading 8487 (machinery parts, not containing electrical connectors, insulators, coils, contacts or…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in kilograms.

Within this group the rate runs from duty-free to duty-free. Compared with 8487.10.00 (ships' or boats' propellers and blades therefor), which pays duty-free, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 3.9 percentage points.

The general duty rate is 3.9% of the customs value, which is above most the rates in chapter 84 (84th percentile of 823 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $390 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.

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 3.9%. 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 45%, 11.5 times the general rate.

For statistics it divides in two: 8487.90.00.40 for oil seals, other than those of chapter 40 and 8487.90.00.80 for other. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.