Analysis
HTS 9025.11.40 covers liquid-filled, for direct reading: other under heading 9025 (hydrometers and similar floating instruments, thermometers, pyrometers, barometers…).
Rates on the nearby lines range from duty-free to 2.9%. The costliest confusion would be with 9025.80.20 (hydrometers and similar floating instruments, whether or not…) at 2.9%, a difference of 2.9 points on the customs value.
Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 85% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 85% 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 334519 (Other Measuring and Controlling Device Manufacturing), an industry of 913 US establishments employing 34,818 people, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 9025.11.20 | Liquid-filled, for direct reading: clinical | Free |
| 9025.19.40 | Other: pyrometers | Free |
| 9025.19.80 | Other: other | Free |
| 9025.80.10 | Other instruments: electrical | 1.7% |
| 9025.80.15 | Barometers, not combined with other instruments | 1% |
| 9025.80.20 | Hydrometers and similar floating instruments, whether or not incorporating a thermometer, non-recording | 2.9% |
| 9025.80.35 | Hygrometers and psychrometers, non-recording | 1.4% |
| 9025.80.40 | Thermographs, barographs, hygrographs and other recording instruments | 1% |
| 9025.80.50 | Other: other | 1.6% |
| 9025.90.06 | Parts and accessories | Free |