Analysis
HTS 8515.19.00 covers brazing or soldering machines and apparatus: other under heading 8515 (electric (including electrically heated gas), laser or other light or photon beam…).
Rates on the nearby lines range from duty-free to 2.5%. The costliest confusion would be with 8515.11.00 (soldering irons and guns) at 2.5%, a difference of 2.5 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 58% of the 624 tariff lines in chapter 85 that are also free. Free here means free of the base duty only: origin-specific Chapter 99 duties such as Section 301 can still be owed.
Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 333992 (Welding and Soldering Equipment Manufacturing), an industry of 553 US establishments employing 16,525 people, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.
The general rate of Free has not changed in any edition of the schedule since Jan 2023.
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 8515.11.00 | Soldering irons and guns | 2.5% |
| 8515.21.00 | Fully or partly automatic | Free |
| 8515.29.00 | Machines and apparatus for resistance welding of metal: other | Free |
| 8515.31.00 | Fully or partly automatic | 1.6% |
| 8515.39.00 | Machines and apparatus for arc (including plasma arc) welding of metals: other | 1.6% |
| 8515.80.00 | Electric (including electrically heated gas), laser or other light or photon beam, ultrasonic, electron beam, magnetic pulse or plasma arc soldering, brazing or welding machines and apparatus, whether or not capable of cutting; electric machines and apparatus for hot spraying of metals or cermets; parts thereof: other machines and apparatus | Free |
| 8515.90.20 | Of welding machines and apparatus | 1.6% |
| 8515.90.40 | Parts: other parts | Free |