HTS tariff line · chapter 85
8516.10.00
Electric instantaneous or storage water heaters and immersion heaters
Analysis
HTS 8516.10.00 covers electric instantaneous or storage water heaters and immersion heaters under heading 8516 (electric instantaneous or storage water heaters and immersion heaters; electric space…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.
Rates on the nearby lines range from duty-free to 5.3%. The costliest confusion would be with 8516.72.00 (other electrothermic appliances: toasters) at 5.3%, a difference of 5.3 points on the customs value.
For statistics it divides in two: 8516.10.00.40 for storage water heaters and 8516.10.00.80 for other water heaters and immersion heaters. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.
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.
Statistical suffixes
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 8516.21.00 | Storage heating radiators | Free |
| 8516.29.00 | Electric space heating apparatus and electric soil heating apparatus: other | 3.7% |
| 8516.31.00 | Electrothermic hairdressing or hand-drying apparatus: hair dryers | 3.9% |
| 8516.32.00 | Electrothermic hairdressing or hand-drying apparatus: other hairdressing apparatus | 3.9% |
| 8516.33.00 | Hand-drying apparatus | Free |
| 8516.40.20 | Electric flatirons: travel type | Free |
| 8516.40.40 | Electric flatirons: other | 2.8% |
| 8516.50.00 | Electric instantaneous or storage water heaters and immersion heaters; electric space heating apparatus and soil heating apparatus; electrothermic hairdressing apparatus (for example, hair dryers, hair curlers, curling tong heaters) and hand dryers; electric flatirons; other electrothermic appliances of a kind used for domestic purposes; electric heating resistors, other than those of heading 8545; parts thereof: microwave ovens | 2% |
| 8516.60.40 | Cooking stoves, ranges and ovens | Free |
| 8516.60.60 | Other ovens; cooking stoves, ranges, cooking plates, boiling rings, grillers and roasters: other | 2.7% |
| 8516.71.00 | Coffee or tea makers | 3.7% |
| 8516.72.00 | Other electrothermic appliances: toasters | 5.3% |
| 8516.79.00 | Other electrothermic appliances: other | 2.7% |
| 8516.80.40 | Assembled only with simple insulated former and electrical connections, used for anti-icing or deicing | Free |
| 8516.80.80 | Electric heating resistors: other | Free |
| 8516.90.05 | Of heaters or heating apparatus of subheading 8516.10, 8516.21 or 8516.29 | 3.7% |
| 8516.90.15 | Housings for the hand-drying apparatus of subheading 8516.33 | 3.9% |
| 8516.90.25 | Housings and steel bases for the electric flatirons of subheading 8516.40 | 3.9% |
| 8516.90.35 | Assemblies, incorporating more than one of the following: cooking chamber; structural supporting chassis; door; outer case | Free |
| 8516.90.45 | Printed circuit assemblies | Free |
| 8516.90.50 | Parts for the microwave ovens of subheading 8516.50: other | Free |
| 8516.90.55 | Cooking chambers, whether or not assembled | Free |
| 8516.90.65 | Top surface panels with or without heating elements or controls | Free |
| 8516.90.75 | Door assemblies, incorporating more than one of the following: inner panel; outer panel; window; insulation | Free |
| 8516.90.80 | Parts for the cooking stoves, ranges and ovens of subheading 8516.60.40: other | Free |
| 8516.90.85 | Housings for toasters | 3.9% |
| 8516.90.90 | Parts: other | 3.9% |