Analysis
HTS 9010.60.00 covers projection screens under heading 9010 (apparatus and equipment for photographic (including cinematographic) laboratories, not…).
Neighbouring lines carry rates from duty-free to 2.9%, so the exact line matters. The widest gap is with 9010.90.95 (parts and accessories: other), at 2.9%: a product that belongs there but is entered here, or the reverse, changes the duty by 2.9 percentage points.
Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 50% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 50% duty.
Goods classified here enter the United States duty-free at the general (normal trade relations) rate, as do about 73% of the 296 tariff lines in chapter 90. 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. That is the industry code a US manufacturer of the same product would normally use.
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 9010.10.00 | Apparatus and equipment for automatically developing photographic (including cinematographic) film or paper in rolls or for automatically exposing developed film to rolls of photographic paper | 2.4% |
| 9010.50.10 | Other apparatus and equipment for photographic (including cinematographic) laboratories; negatoscopes: contact printers | Free |
| 9010.50.20 | Other apparatus and equipment for photographic (including cinematographic) laboratories; negatoscopes: developing tanks | Free |
| 9010.50.30 | Editors and combination editor-splicers, for cinematographic film | Free |
| 9010.50.40 | Articles containing an optical lens or designed to contain such a lens: other | Free |
| 9010.50.50 | Photographic film viewers, titlers, splicers and editors, all the foregoing and combinations thereof: other | Free |
| 9010.50.60 | Other apparatus and equipment for photographic (including cinematographic) laboratories; negatoscopes: other | Free |
| 9010.90.85 | Parts and accessories of articles of subheadings 9010.50 and 9010.60 | Free |
| 9010.90.95 | Parts and accessories: other | 2.9% |