HTS heading 8442
Machinery, apparatus and equipment (other than the machines of headings 8456 to 8465), for preparing or making plates, cylinders or other printing components; plates, cylinders and other printing components; plates, cylinders and lithographic stones, prepared for printing purposes (for example, planed, grained or polished); parts thereof — 8 codes under this heading, with the duty on each.
| Code | Description | General rate | Units |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8442 | Machinery, apparatus and equipment (other than the machines of headings 8456 to 8465), for preparing or making plates, cylinders or other printing components; plates, cylinders and other printing components; plates, cylinders and lithographic stones, prepared for printing purposes (for example, planed, grained or polished); parts thereof + Ch. 99 | not stated | — |
| 8442.30.01 | Machinery, apparatus and equipment + Ch. 99 | Free | — |
| 8442.30.01.10 | Phototypesetting and composing machines + Ch. 99 | Free (inherited from 8442.30.01) | No. |
| 8442.30.01.50 | Other machinery, apparatus and equipment + Ch. 99 | Free (inherited from 8442.30.01) | No. |
| 8442.40.00.00 | Parts of the foregoing machinery, apparatus or equipment + Ch. 99 | Free | No. |
| 8442.50 | Plates, cylinders and other printing components; plates, cylinders and lithographic stones, prepared for printing purposes (for example, planed, grained or polished) + Ch. 99 | not stated | — |
| 8442.50.10.00 | Plates + Ch. 99 | Free | No. |
| 8442.50.90.00 | Other + Ch. 99 | Free | No. |
2 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
8 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.