HTS Index

HTS 8474

Machinery for sorting, screening, separating, washing, crushing, grinding, mixing or kneading earth, stone, ores or other mineral substances, in solid (including powder or paste) form; machinery for agglomerating, shaping or molding solid mineral fuels, ceramic paste, unhardened cements, plastering materials or other mineral products in powder or paste form; machines for forming foundry molds of sand; parts thereof

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
8474.10.00Sorting, screening, separating or washing machinesFree
8474.10.00.10PortableNo.Free
8474.10.00.90StationaryNo.Free
8474.20.00Crushing or grinding machinesFree
8474.20.00.10PortableNo.Free
8474.20.00.50CrushingNo.Free
8474.20.00.70OtherNo.Free
8474.31.00.00Concrete or mortar mixersNo.Free
8474.32.00.00Machines for mixing mineral substances with bitumenNo.Free
8474.39.00.00OtherNo.Free
8474.80.00Other machineryFree
8474.80.00.10Designed for use with ceramic paste, unhardened cements and plastering materialsNo.Free
8474.80.00.15OtherNo.Free
8474.80.00.20Machines for forming foundry molds of sandNo.Free
8474.80.00.80OtherNo.Free
8474.90.00PartsFree
8474.90.00.10Of sorting, screening, separating or washing machinesNo.Free
8474.90.00.20Of crushing or grinding machinesNo.Free
8474.90.00.50Of mixing or kneading machinesNo.Free
8474.90.00.90OtherNo.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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Classification and the duties that finally apply to a shipment are a licensed customs broker's call. This page publishes the schedule as USITC does; it does not calculate what an entry will cost.

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