9015.80.80

Analysis

HTS 9015.80.80 covers other: other under heading 9015 (surveying (including photogrammetrical surveying), hydrographic, oceanographic…). 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: 9015.80.80.40 for geophysical instruments and appliances and 9015.80.80.80 for other. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.

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.

The other lines in the same group are 9015.80.20 (optical instruments and appliances, duty-free) and 9015.80.60 (other: seismographs, duty-free).

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 334519 (Other Measuring and Controlling Device Manufacturing), an industry of 913 US establishments employing 34,818 people, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.