9031

Analysis

Heading 9031 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule covers measuring or checking instruments, appliances and machines, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter; profile projectors; parts and accessories thereof. It divides into 6 six-digit subheadings and 15 eight-digit tariff lines, with 21 ten-digit statistical suffixes below them.

14 of its 15 lines with a percentage rate are duty-free at the general rate (93%) and 1 are dutiable, from duty-free up to 1.7%. The median line pays duty-free.

The largest subheadings are 9031.90 (parts and accessories, 6 lines), 9031.49 (other, 4 lines), 9031.80 (other instruments, appliances and machines, 2 lines) and 9031.10 (unnamed, 1 line).

Its median rate of duty-free sits at the 37th percentile of the headings in chapter 90.

By Census's concordance, most of its statistical lines are made by Commercial and Service Industry Machinery Manufacturing (33331), Instrument Manufacturing for Measuring and Testing Electricity and Electrical Signals (334515) and All Other General Purpose Machinery Manufacturing (33399). Those are the NAICS industries a US producer of these goods would report under.