9014.10.70

Analysis

HTS 9014.10.70 covers other: electrical under heading 9014 (direction finding compasses; other navigational instruments and appliances; parts and…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.

Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 40% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 40% duty.

For statistics it divides in two: 9014.10.70.30 for gyroscopic compasses and 9014.10.70.60 for other. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.

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.

The other lines in the same group are 9014.10.10 (optical instruments, duty-free), 9014.10.60 (gyroscopic compasses, other than electrical, duty-free) and 9014.10.90 (other: other, duty-free).

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 334511 (Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing), an industry of 522 US establishments employing 127,864 people. That is the industry code a US manufacturer of the same product would normally use.