9018.31.00

Analysis

HTS 9018.31.00 covers syringes, with or without needles; parts and accessories thereof under heading 9018 (instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 3 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.

Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 60% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 60% duty.

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.

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 339112 (Surgical and Medical Instrument Manufacturing), an industry of 1,310 US establishments employing 132,354 people, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.

The ten-digit suffixes separate hypodermic and parts and accessories. The duty is the same across them; the suffix matters for statistics, licensing and some quotas, and an entry needs all ten digits.