HTS Index

HTS heading 8443

Printing machinery used for printing by means of plates, cylinders and other printing components of heading 8442; other printers, copying machines and facsimile machines, whether or not combined; parts and accessories thereof — 54 codes under this heading, with the duty on each.

CodeDescriptionGeneral rateUnits
8443Printing machinery used for printing by means of plates, cylinders and other printing components of heading 8442; other printers, copying machines and facsimile machines, whether or not combined; parts and accessories thereof + Ch. 99not stated
8443.11Offset printing machinery, reel-fed + Ch. 99not stated
8443.11.10.00Double-width newspaper printing presses + Ch. 993.3%No.
8443.11.50.00Other + Ch. 99FreeNo.
8443.12.00.00Offset printing machinery, sheet-fed, office type (using sheets with one side not exceeding 22 cm and the other side not exceeding 36 cm in the unfolded state) + Ch. 99FreeNo.
8443.13.00.00Other offset printing machinery + Ch. 99FreeNo.
8443.14.00.00Letterpress printing machinery, reel fed, excluding flexographic printing + Ch. 992.2%No.
8443.15.00.00Letterpress printing machinery, other than reel fed, excluding flexographic printing + Ch. 99FreeNo.
8443.16.00.00Flexographic printing machinery + Ch. 992.2%No.
8443.17.00.00Gravure printing machinery + Ch. 992.2%No.
8443.19Other + Ch. 99not stated
8443.19.20.00Textile printing machinery + Ch. 992.6%No.
8443.19.30.00Other + Ch. 99FreeNo.
8443.31.00.00Machines which perform two or more of the functions of printing, copying or facsimile transmission, capable of connecting to an automatic data processing machine or to a network + Ch. 99FreeNo.
8443.32Other, capable of connecting to an automatic data processing machine or to a network + Ch. 99not stated
8443.32.10Printer units + Ch. 99Free
8443.32.10.10Capable of producing more than 20 pages per minute + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 8443.32.10)No.
8443.32.10.20Other + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 8443.32.10)No.
8443.32.10.30Light bar electronic type + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 8443.32.10)No.
8443.32.10.40Ink jet + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 8443.32.10)No.
8443.32.10.50Thermal transfer + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 8443.32.10)No.
8443.32.10.60Ionographic + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 8443.32.10)No.
8443.32.10.70Daisy wheel + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 8443.32.10)No.
8443.32.10.80Dot matrix + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 8443.32.10)No.
8443.32.10.90Other + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 8443.32.10)No.
8443.32.50.00Other + Ch. 99FreeNo.
8443.39Other + Ch. 99not stated
8443.39.10.00Operating by reproducing the original image directly onto the copy (direct process) + Ch. 99FreeNo.
8443.39.20.00Operating by reproducing the original image via an intermediate onto the copy (indirect process) + Ch. 99FreeNo.
8443.39.30.00Incorporating an optical system + Ch. 99FreeNo.
8443.39.40.00Of the contact type + Ch. 99FreeNo.
8443.39.50.00Thermocopying apparatus + Ch. 99FreeNo.
8443.39.60.00Other + Ch. 99FreeNo.
8443.39.90.00Other + Ch. 99FreeNo.
8443.91Parts and accessories of printing machinery used for printing by means of plates, cylinders and other printing components of heading 8442 + Ch. 99not stated
8443.91.10.00Machines for uses ancillary to printing + Ch. 99FreeNo.
8443.91.20.00Parts for textile printing machinery + Ch. 99FreeNo.
8443.91.30.00Other + Ch. 99FreeNo.
8443.99Other + Ch. 99not stated
8443.99.10.00Accessory and auxiliary machines which are intended for attachment to an electrostatic photocopier and which do not operate independently of such photocopier + Ch. 99FreeNo.
8443.99.20Parts of printer units of subheading 8443.32.10 specified in additional U.S. note 2 to this chapter + Ch. 99Free
8443.99.20.10Ink cartridges + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 8443.99.20)No.
8443.99.20.50Other + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 8443.99.20)No.
8443.99.25Other + Ch. 99Free
8443.99.25.10Ink cartridges + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 8443.99.25)No.
8443.99.25.50Other + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 8443.99.25)No.
8443.99.30.00Parts of facsimile machines specified in additional U.S. note 3 to this chapter + Ch. 99FreeNo.
8443.99.35.00Other + Ch. 99FreeNo.
8443.99.40.00Parts of photocopying apparatus of subheading 8443.39.20 specified in additional U.S. note 4 to this chapter + Ch. 99FreeNo.
8443.99.45.00Other + Ch. 99FreeNo.
8443.99.50Other + Ch. 99Free
8443.99.50.11Ink cartridges + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 8443.99.50)No.
8443.99.50.15Other + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 8443.99.50)No.
8443.99.50.50Other + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 8443.99.50)No.

16 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

54 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.