9015.90.01

Analysis

HTS 9015.90.01 covers parts and accessories under heading 9015 (surveying (including photogrammetrical surveying), hydrographic, oceanographic…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 7 ten-digit suffixes, reported in kilograms.

Within this group the rate runs from duty-free to 2.8%. Compared with 9015.30.80 (levels: other), which pays 2.8%, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 2.8 percentage points.

The normal trade relations rate here is zero, shared by about 73% of the 296 tariff lines in chapter 90, a useful check when a neighbouring dutiable line is a candidate. 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 ten-digit suffixes separate of rangefinders, of theodolites and tachymeters, of levels, of photogrammetrical surveying…, of seismographs and of other geophysical instruments and…. The duty is the same across them; the suffix matters for statistics, licensing and some quotas, and an entry needs all ten digits.

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 334519 (Other Measuring and Controlling Device Manufacturing), an industry of 913 US establishments employing 34,818 people. That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.