9620.00.30

Analysis

HTS 9620.00.30 covers accessories for the instruments and appliances, including rangefinders, of heading 9015 under heading 9620 (monopods, bipods, tripods and similar articles). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 7 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.

The general rate is The rate applicable to the article of which it is an accessory, a specific or compound duty rather than a simple percentage, so the effective burden depends on the unit value of the goods: cheap goods pay proportionally more than expensive ones. Importers usually convert it to an ad valorem equivalent to compare it with other lines.

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 The rate applicable to the article of which it is an accessory. 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 ten-digit suffixes separate of rangefinders, of theodolites and tachymeters, of levels, of photogrammetrical surveying…, of seismographs and of other geophysical instruments and…. The duty is the same across them; the suffix matters for statistics, licensing and some quotas, and an entry needs all ten digits.