Analysis
HTS 9025.80.50 covers other: other under heading 9025 (hydrometers and similar floating instruments, thermometers, pyrometers, barometers…).
The general duty rate is 1.6% of the customs value, which is above most the rates in chapter 90 (78th percentile of 296 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $160 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.
Within this group the rate runs from 1% to 2.9%. Compared with 9025.80.20 (hydrometers and similar floating instruments, whether or not…), which pays 2.9%, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 1.3 percentage points.
The column 2 rate, for countries without normal trade relations, is 50%, 31.2 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 1.6%. 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.
Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 334519 (Other Measuring and Controlling Device Manufacturing), an industry of 913 US establishments employing 34,818 people. That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 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% |