Analysis
HTS 9024.90.00 covers parts and accessories under heading 9024 (machines and appliances for testing the hardness, strength, compressibility, elasticity…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in kilograms.
Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 40% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 40% duty.
For statistics it divides in two: 9024.90.00.40 for of machines and appliances for testing metals and 9024.90.00.80 for other. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.
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 9024.10.00 (machines and appliances for testing metals, duty-free) and 9024.80.00 (machines and appliances for testing the hardness, strength…, duty-free).
Statistical suffixes
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 9024.10.00 | Machines and appliances for testing metals | Free |
| 9024.80.00 | Machines and appliances for testing the hardness, strength, compressibility, elasticity or other mechanical properties of materials (for example, metals, wood, textiles, paper, plastics), and parts and accessories thereof: other machines and appliances | Free |