9018.19.40

Analysis

HTS 9018.19.40 covers apparatus for functional exploratory examination, and parts and accessories thereof under heading 9018 (instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences…).

Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 55% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 55% duty.

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 other lines in the same group are 9018.19.55 (patient monitoring systems, duty-free), 9018.19.75 (printed circuit assemblies for parameter acquisition modules, duty-free) and 9018.19.95 (other: other, duty-free).

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 334510 (Electromedical and Electrotherapeutic Apparatus Manufacturing), an industry of 892 US establishments employing 94,361 people. That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.