9018.49.80

Analysis

HTS 9018.49.80 covers other: other under heading 9018 (instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.

For statistics it divides in two: 9018.49.80.40 for dental hand instruments and parts and accessories thereof and 9018.49.80.80 for other. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.

Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 35% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 35% 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.

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 339114 (Dental Equipment and Supplies Manufacturing), an industry of 503 US establishments employing 16,518 people. That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.