Analysis
HTS 8515.90.40 covers parts: other parts under heading 8515 (electric (including electrically heated gas), laser or other light or photon beam…).
Within this group the rate runs from duty-free to 2.5%. Compared with 8515.11.00 (soldering irons and guns), which pays 2.5%, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 2.5 percentage points.
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.
The normal trade relations rate here is zero, shared by about 58% of the 624 tariff lines in chapter 85, a useful check when a neighbouring dutiable line is a candidate. 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. That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.
Every edition we compared, from Jan 2023 to Oct 2026 (Rev. 22), shows the same general rate of Free.
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 8515.11.00 | Soldering irons and guns | 2.5% |
| 8515.19.00 | Brazing or soldering machines and apparatus: other | Free |
| 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% |