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HTS tariff line · chapter 95

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

Analysis

HTS 9504.30.00 covers video game consoles and machines, table or parlor games, including pinball machines, billiards, special tables for casino games and automatic bowling… under heading 9504 (video game consoles and machines, table or parlor games, including pinball machines…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 4 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.

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.

Goods classified here enter the United States duty-free at the general (normal trade relations) rate, as do about 60% of the 84 tariff lines in chapter 95. 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.

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 339999 (All Other Miscellaneous Manufacturing), an industry of 3,012 US establishments employing 40,510 people. That is the industry code a US manufacturer of the same product would normally use.

Statistical suffixes

CodeDescriptionUnitsNAICS
9504.30.00.10VideoNo.339999
9504.30.00.20Pinball machines and bell-type machines and consolesNo.339999
9504.30.00.40OtherNo.339999
9504.30.00.60Parts and accessoriesNo.339999

Neighbouring lines

LineDescriptionGeneral rate
9504.20.20Articles and accessories for billiards of all kinds: ballsFree
9504.20.40Articles and accessories for billiards of all kinds: chalkFree
9504.20.60Articles and accessories for billiards of all kinds: tablesFree
9504.20.80Articles and accessories for billiards of all kinds: other, including parts and accessoriesFree
9504.40.00Video 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 cardsFree
9504.50.00Video game consoles and machines, other than those of subheading 9504.30, and parts and accessories thereofFree
9504.90.40Game machines, other than those operated by coins, banknotes (paper currency), discs or similar articles; parts and accessories thereofFree
9504.90.60Chess, 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 diceFree
9504.90.90Other: otherFree