9029.20.40

Analysis

HTS 9029.20.40 covers speedometers and tachometers; stroboscopes: other speedometers and tachometers under heading 9029 (revolution counters, production counters, taximeters, odometers, pedometers and the like…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.

Within this group the rate runs from 6% to 6%. Compared with 9029.20.20 (bicycle speedometers), which pays 6%, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 6 percentage points.

For statistics it divides in two: 9029.20.40.40 for for use in civil aircraft and 9029.20.40.80 for other. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.

Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 35% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 35% duty.

The normal trade relations rate here is zero, shared by about 73% of the 296 tariff lines in chapter 90, a useful check when a neighbouring dutiable line is a candidate. 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.