9025

Analysis

Heading 9025 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule covers hydrometers and similar floating instruments, thermometers, pyrometers, barometers, hygrometers and psychrometers, recording or not, and any combination of these instruments; parts and accessories thereof. It divides into 4 six-digit subheadings and 11 eight-digit tariff lines, with 14 ten-digit statistical suffixes below them.

5 of its 11 lines with a percentage rate are duty-free at the general rate (45%) and 6 are dutiable, from duty-free up to 2.9%. The median line pays 1%.

The largest subheadings are 9025.80 (other instruments, 6 lines), 9025.11 (liquid-filled, for direct reading, 2 lines), 9025.19 (other, 2 lines) and 9025.90 (unnamed, 1 line).

Its median rate of 1% sits at the 75th percentile of the headings in chapter 90.

By Census's concordance, most of its statistical lines are made by Other Measuring and Controlling Device Manufacturing (334519), Surgical and Medical Instrument Manufacturing (339112) and Instruments and Related Products Manufacturing for Measuring, Displaying, and Controlling Industrial Process Variables (334513). Those are the NAICS industries a US producer of these goods would report under.