HTS heading · chapter 95
9504
Video game consoles and machines, table or parlor games, including pinball machines, billiards, special tables for casino games and automatic bowling equipment, amusement machines operated by coins, banknotes, bank cards, tokens or by any other means of payment
Analysis
Heading 9504 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule covers video game consoles and machines, table or parlor games, including pinball machines, billiards, special tables for casino games and automatic bowling equipment, amusement machines operated by coins, banknotes, bank…. It divides into 5 six-digit subheadings and 10 eight-digit tariff lines, with 15 ten-digit statistical suffixes below them.
Every one of its 10 tariff lines is duty-free at the general rate, so classification within the heading affects statistics and Chapter 99 measures rather than the base duty.
The largest subheadings are 9504.20 (articles and accessories for billiards of all…, 4 lines), 9504.90 (other, 3 lines), 9504.30 (unnamed, 1 line) and 9504.40 (unnamed, 1 line).
Its median rate of duty-free sits at the 30th percentile of the headings in chapter 95.
By Census's concordance, most of its statistical lines are made by Sporting and Athletic Goods Manufacturing (339920), All Other Miscellaneous Manufacturing (339999) and Doll, Toy, and Game Manufacturing (339930). Those are the NAICS industries a US producer of these goods would report under.
Tariff lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 9504.20.20 | Articles and accessories for billiards of all kinds: balls | Free |
| 9504.20.40 | Articles and accessories for billiards of all kinds: chalk | Free |
| 9504.20.60 | Articles and accessories for billiards of all kinds: tables | Free |
| 9504.20.80 | Articles and accessories for billiards of all kinds: other, including parts and accessories | Free |
| 9504.30.00 | Video game consoles and machines, table or parlor games, including pinball machines, billiards, special tables for casino games and automatic bowling equipment, amusement machines operated by coins, banknotes, bank cards, tokens or by any other means of payment: other games, operated by coins, banknotes, bank cards, tokens or by any other means of payment, other than automatic bowling alley equipment; parts and accessories thereof | Free |
| 9504.40.00 | Video game consoles and machines, table or parlor games, including pinball machines, billiards, special tables for casino games and automatic bowling equipment, amusement machines operated by coins, banknotes, bank cards, tokens or by any other means of payment: playing cards | Free |
| 9504.50.00 | Video game consoles and machines, other than those of subheading 9504.30, and parts and accessories thereof | Free |
| 9504.90.40 | Game machines, other than those operated by coins, banknotes (paper currency), discs or similar articles; parts and accessories thereof | Free |
| 9504.90.60 | Chess, checkers, parchisi, backgammon, darts and other games played on boards of a special design, all the foregoing games and parts there of (including their boards); mah-jong and dominoes; any of the foregoing games in combination with each other, or with other games, packaged together as a unit in immediate containers of a type used in retail sales; poker chips and dice | Free |
| 9504.90.90 | Other: other | Free |