9002.19.00

Analysis

HTS 9002.19.00 covers objective lenses and parts and accessories thereof: other under heading 9002 (lenses, prisms, mirrors and other optical elements, of any material, mounted, being parts…).

Rates on the nearby lines range from duty-free to 2.45%. The costliest confusion would be with 9002.11.40 (for cameras, projectors or photographic enlargers or reducers…) at 2.45%, a difference of 2.5 points on the customs value.

Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 45% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 45% duty.

There is no general-rate duty on this line, which puts it with roughly 73% of the 296 tariff lines in chapter 90 that are also free. Duty-free at the general rate does not rule out additional duties under Chapter 99, such as Section 301 or Section 232 measures, which depend on the country of origin.

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 33331 (Commercial and Service Industry Machinery Manufacturing), an industry of 1,731 US establishments employing 80,504 people, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.