9205

Analysis

Heading 9205 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule covers wind musical instruments (for example, keyboard pipe organs, accordions, clarinets, trumpets, bagpipes), other than fairground organs and mechanical street organs. It divides into 2 six-digit subheadings and 9 eight-digit tariff lines, with 13 ten-digit statistical suffixes below them.

5 of its 9 lines with a percentage rate are duty-free at the general rate (56%) and 4 are dutiable, from duty-free up to 4.9%. The median line pays duty-free.

Its median rate of duty-free sits at the 19th percentile of the headings in chapter 92.

The largest subheadings are 9205.90 (other, 8 lines) and 9205.10 (unnamed, 1 line).

By Census's concordance, most of its statistical lines are made by Musical Instrument Manufacturing (339992). Those are the NAICS industries a US producer of these goods would report under.

The heading text decides whether a product belongs here at all (General Rule of Interpretation 1); the subheadings and lines below it only apply once that is settled. Section and chapter notes can override the heading wording, so read them for borderline goods.