9208.90.00

Analysis

HTS 9208.90.00 covers music boxes, fairground organs, mechanical street organs, mechanical singing birds, musical saws and other musical instruments not falling within any other… under heading 9208 (music boxes, fairground organs, mechanical street organs, mechanical singing birds…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.

The general duty rate is 5.3% of the customs value, which is above most the rates in chapter 92 (86th percentile of 40 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $530 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.

Within this group the rate runs from 3.2% to 3.2%. Compared with 9208.10.00 (music boxes, fairground organs, mechanical street organs, mechanical…), which pays 3.2%, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 2.1 percentage points.

Goods that qualify under GSP, the Australia FTA, the Bahrain FTA, the Chile FTA, the Colombia TPA, and 12 others can enter duty-free instead of paying 5.3%. 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.

The column 2 rate, for countries without normal trade relations, is 40%, 7.5 times the general rate.

For statistics it divides in two: 9208.90.00.40 for musical instruments and 9208.90.00.80 for other. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.