HTS Index

HTS heading 8430

Other moving, grading, leveling, scraping, excavating, tamping, compacting, extracting or boring machinery, for earth, minerals or ores; pile-drivers and pile-extractors; snowplows and snowblowers — 26 codes under this heading, with the duty on each.

CodeDescriptionGeneral rateUnits
8430Other moving, grading, leveling, scraping, excavating, tamping, compacting, extracting or boring machinery, for earth, minerals or ores; pile-drivers and pile-extractors; snowplows and snowblowers + Ch. 99not stated
8430.10.00.00Pile-drivers and pile-extractors + Ch. 99FreeNo.
8430.20.00Snowplows and snowblowers + Ch. 99Free
8430.20.00.30Attachment type + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 8430.20.00)No.
8430.20.00.60Other + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 8430.20.00)No.
8430.20.00.90Other + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 8430.20.00)No.
8430.31.00Self-propelled + Ch. 99Free
8430.31.00.40Rock breaking machines + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 8430.31.00)No.
8430.31.00.80Other + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 8430.31.00)No.
8430.39.00Other + Ch. 99Free
8430.39.00.40Rock breaking machines + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 8430.39.00)No.
8430.39.00.80Other + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 8430.39.00)No.
8430.41.00.00Self-propelled + Ch. 99FreeNo.
8430.49Other + Ch. 99not stated
8430.49.40.00Offshore oil and natural gas drilling and production platforms + Ch. 99Freekg
8430.49.80Other + Ch. 99Free
8430.49.80.10Rotary + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 8430.49.80)No.
8430.49.80.20Other + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 8430.49.80)No.
8430.49.80.30Rotary + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 8430.49.80)No.
8430.49.80.40Other + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 8430.49.80)No.
8430.49.80.50Other + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 8430.49.80)No.
8430.50Other machinery, self-propelled + Ch. 99not stated
8430.50.10.00Peat excavators + Ch. 99FreeNo.
8430.50.50.00Other + Ch. 99FreeNo.
8430.61.00.00Tamping or compacting machinery + Ch. 99FreeNo.
8430.69.01.00Other + Ch. 99FreeNo.

12 of these lines state no rate of their own and inherit one from the line above, which is how the schedule is read. Each says which line it came from.

Additional duties may apply

26 lines here reference Chapter 99, where Section 301, Section 232 and other additional duties live. Those are charged on top of the general rate and depend on where the goods were made. What those provisions are.

Source: Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States, U.S. International Trade Commission (public domain). Classification and the duties that finally apply to a shipment are a licensed customs broker's call.