9508

Analysis

Heading 9508 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule covers traveling circuses and traveling menageries; amusement park rides and water park amusements; fairground amusements, including shooting galleries; traveling theaters; parts and accessories thereof. It divides into 10 six-digit subheadings and 10 eight-digit tariff lines, with 10 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 9508.10 (unnamed, 1 line), 9508.21 (unnamed, 1 line), 9508.22 (unnamed, 1 line) and 9508.23 (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 Commercial and Service Industry Machinery Manufacturing (33331). 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.