HTS Index

HTS 8477

Machinery for working rubber or plastics or for the manufacture of products from these materials, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter; 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
8477.10Injection-molding machinessee above
8477.10.30.00For manufacturing shoesNo.Free
8477.10.40.00For use in the manufacture of optical mediaNo.Free
8477.10.90Other3.1%
8477.10.90.15Of a type used for processing rubber or other thermosetting materialsNo.3.1%
8477.10.90.30With a clamp force less than 50 tonsNo.3.1%
8477.10.90.40With a clamp force equal to or greater than 50 tons and less than 300 tonsNo.3.1%
8477.10.90.50With a clamp force equal to or greater than 300 tons and less than 750 tonsNo.3.1%
8477.10.90.60With a clamp force equal to or greater than 750 tonsNo.3.1%
8477.20.00Extruders3.1%
8477.20.00.05Single screwNo.3.1%
8477.20.00.15Other, including multiple screwNo.3.1%
8477.20.00.35Less than 6.4 cmNo.3.1%
8477.20.00.456.4 cm or greaterNo.3.1%
8477.20.00.55With a screw size less than 6.4 cmNo.3.1%
8477.20.00.65With a screw size 6.4 cm or greaterNo.3.1%
8477.30.00.00Blow-molding machinesNo.3.1%
8477.40.01.00Vacuum-molding machines and other thermoforming machinesNo.3.1%
8477.51.00For molding or retreading pneumatic tires or for molding or otherwise forming inner tubes3.1%
8477.51.00.10For molding or retreading pneumatic tiresNo.3.1%
8477.51.00.90OtherNo.3.1%
8477.59.01.00OtherNo.3.1%
8477.80.01.00Other machineryNo.3.1%
8477.90Partssee above
8477.90.25Base, bed, platen, clamp cylinder, ram, and injection castings, weldments and fabrications3.1%
8477.90.25.40Of machines of subheading 8477.10.30, 8477.10.40 or 8477.10.90No.3.1%
8477.90.25.80OtherNo.3.1%
8477.90.45.01Barrel screwsNo.3.1%
8477.90.65.00Hydraulic assemblies incorporating more than one of the following: manifold; valves; pump; oil coolerNo.3.1%
8477.90.86Other3.1%
8477.90.86.01Of injection-molding machinesNo.3.1%
8477.90.86.20Of extrudersNo.3.1%
8477.90.86.30Of blow-molding machinesNo.3.1%
8477.90.86.40Of machines for forming pneumatic tiresNo.3.1%
8477.90.86.95Other partsNo.3.1%

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.