9014

Analysis

Heading 9014 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule covers direction finding compasses; other navigational instruments and appliances; parts and accessories thereof. It divides into 4 six-digit subheadings and 16 eight-digit tariff lines, with 19 ten-digit statistical suffixes below them.

Every one of its 16 tariff lines is duty-free at the general rate, so classification within the heading affects statistics and Chapter 99 measures rather than the base duty.

The largest subheadings are 9014.10 (direction finding compasses, 4 lines), 9014.20 (instruments and appliances for aeronautical or…, 4 lines), 9014.80 (other instruments and appliances, 4 lines) and 9014.90 (parts and accessories, 4 lines).

Its median rate of duty-free sits at the 37th percentile of the headings in chapter 90.

By Census's concordance, most of its statistical lines are made by Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing (334511). Those are the NAICS industries a US producer of these goods would report under.