9018.90.75

Analysis

HTS 9018.90.75 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 5 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.

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.

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 ten-digit suffixes separate dialysis instruments and apparatus, ultrasonic and parts and accessories of dialysis…. 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 334510 (Electromedical and Electrotherapeutic Apparatus Manufacturing), an industry of 892 US establishments employing 94,361 people, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.