9027.30.40

Analysis

HTS 9027.30.40 covers spectrometers, spectrophotometers and spectrographs using optical radiations (ultraviolet, visible, infrared): electrical under heading 9027 (instruments and apparatus for physical or chemical analysis (for example, polarimeters…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.

Rates on the nearby lines range from duty-free to 1.2%. The costliest confusion would be with 9027.50.10 (other instruments and apparatus using optical radiations…) at 1.2%, a difference of 1.2 points on the customs value.

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: 9027.30.40.40 for spectrophotometers and 9027.30.40.80 for other. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.

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.