9025.80.40

Analysis

HTS 9025.80.40 covers thermographs, barographs, hygrographs and other recording instruments under heading 9025 (hydrometers and similar floating instruments, thermometers, pyrometers, barometers…).

The general duty rate is 1% of the customs value, which is above most the rates in chapter 90 (75th percentile of 296 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $100 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.

Rates on the nearby lines range from 1% 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 1.9 points on the customs value.

The column 2 rate, for countries without normal trade relations, is 35%, 35.0 times the general rate.

Goods that qualify under GSP, the Australia FTA, the Bahrain FTA, the civil aircraft agreement, the Chile FTA, and 13 others can enter duty-free instead of paying 1%. It is also eligible under GSP, the developing-country programme, which Congress has to renew; check whether GSP is in force on the entry date.