9015

Analysis

Heading 9015 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule covers surveying (including photogrammetrical surveying), hydrographic, oceanographic, hydrological, meteorological or geophysical instruments and appliances, excluding compasses; rangefinders; parts and accessories thereof. It divides into 6 six-digit subheadings and 12 eight-digit tariff lines, with 19 ten-digit statistical suffixes below them.

11 of its 12 lines with a percentage rate are duty-free at the general rate (92%) and 1 are dutiable, from duty-free up to 2.8%. The median line pays duty-free.

The largest subheadings are 9015.80 (other instruments and appliances, 3 lines), 9015.10 (rangefinders, 2 lines), 9015.20 (theodolites and tachymeters (tacheometers), 2 lines) and 9015.30 (levels, 2 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 Other Measuring and Controlling Device Manufacturing (334519). Those are the NAICS industries a US producer of these goods would report under.