HTS Index

HTS 8471

Automatic data processing machines and units thereof; magnetic or optical readers, machines for transcribing data onto data media in coded form and machines for processing such data, not elsewhere specified or included

General rateNot stated for this line
What most imports pay — countries with normal trade relations, which is nearly all of them.
Special rateNot stated for this line
Only under a trade programme or agreement, and only if the goods qualify. The codes name the programmes.
Column 2 rateNot stated for this line
Only for the few countries without normal trade relations.

This line states no general duty rate, and none is inherited from the lines above it. That is not the same as duty-free: lines in Chapters 98 and 99 are provisions and qualifiers rather than ordinary commodities, and a rate may be stated elsewhere. Check the heading before assuming anything.

Additional duties may apply

This line references Chapter 99, where Section 301, Section 232 and other additional duties live. Those are charged on top of the general rate above and depend on where the goods were made. The rate shown here is therefore not the whole story for every origin.

What the Chapter 99 provisions are

Statistical breakouts

The 10-digit lines under this code. They are reporting categories; the duty is the one above unless a line states its own.

CodeDescriptionUnitsRate
8471.30.01.00Portable automatic data processing machines, weighing not more than 10 kg, consisting of at least a central processing unit, a keyboard and a displayNo.Free
8471.41.01Comprising in the same housing at least a central processing unit and an input and output unit, whether or not combinedFree
8471.41.01.10With cathode-ray tube (CRT)No.Free
8471.41.01.50OtherNo.Free
8471.49.00.00Other, entered in the form of systemsNo.Free
8471.50.01Processing units other than those of subheading 8471.41 or 8471.49, whether or not containing in the same housing one or two of the following types of unit: storage units, input units, output unitsFree
8471.50.01.10With cathode-ray tube (CRT)No.Free
8471.50.01.50OtherNo.Free
8471.60Input or output units, whether or not containing storage units in the same housingsee above
8471.60.10Combined input/output unitsFree
8471.60.10.10With cathode-ray tube (CRT)No.Free
8471.60.10.50OtherNo.Free
8471.60.20.00KeyboardsNo.Free
8471.60.70.00Units suitable for physical incorporation into automatic data processing machines or units thereofNo.Free
8471.60.80.00Optical scanners and magnetic ink recognition devicesNo.Free
8471.60.90OtherFree
8471.60.90.30Card key and magnetic media entry devicesNo.Free
8471.60.90.50OtherNo.Free
8471.70Storage unitssee above
8471.70.10.00Without read-write unit assembled therein; read-write units entered separatelyNo.Free
8471.70.20.00Units for physical incorporation into automatic data processing machines or units thereofNo.Free
8471.70.30.00OtherNo.Free
8471.70.40Not assembled in cabinets, and without attached external power supplyFree
8471.70.40.35Flexible (floppy) magnetic disk drive unitsNo.Free
8471.70.40.65Hard magnetic disk drive unitsNo.Free
8471.70.40.95OtherNo.Free
8471.70.50OtherFree
8471.70.50.35Flexible (floppy) magnetic disk drive unitsNo.Free
8471.70.50.65Hard magnetic disk drive unitsNo.Free
8471.70.50.95OtherNo.Free
8471.70.60.00Not assembled in cabinets for placing on a table, desk, wall, floor or similar placeNo.Free
8471.70.90.00OtherNo.Free
8471.80Other units of automatic data processing machinessee above
8471.80.10.00Control or adapter unitsNo.Free
8471.80.40.00Units suitable for physical incorporation into automatic data processing machinesNo.Free
8471.80.90.00OtherNo.Free
8471.90.00.00OtherNo.Free

What changed

No recorded change to this line since we began reading the schedule daily. That is the ordinary state: USITC revises it fifteen to eighteen times a year, and most codes are untouched in any given revision.

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Source: Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States, U.S. International Trade Commission (public domain). Re-checked daily.