8509.80

Analysis

Subheading 8509.80 covers other appliances, within heading 8509. The first six digits are shared by every country that uses the Harmonized System, so this part of the code is the same in the US, UK and EU schedules; the 3 US tariff lines below it are national.

2 of its 3 lines with a percentage rate are duty-free at the general rate (67%) and 1 are dutiable, from duty-free up to 4.2%. The median line pays duty-free.

The US splits it as follows: 8509.80.10 for other appliances: floor polishers (duty-free), 8509.80.20 for kitchen waste disposers (disposals) (duty-free) and 8509.80.50 for other appliances: other (4.2%).

By Census's concordance, most of its statistical lines are made by Small Electrical Appliance Manufacturing (335210) and Major Household Appliance Manufacturing (335220). Those are the NAICS industries a US producer of these goods would report under.

Goods only reach 8509.80 once they fall within heading 8509 (electromechanical domestic appliances, with self-contained electric motor, other than…). Under General Rule 6, subheadings are then compared only with others at the same level, so a product is matched against its siblings, not against lines elsewhere in the chapter.