HTS Index

HTS heading 8448

Auxiliary machinery for use with machines of heading 8444, 8445, 8446 or 8447 (for example, dobbies, Jacquards, automatic stop motions and shuttle changing mechanisms); parts and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of this heading or of heading 8444, 8445, 8446 or 8447 (for example, spindles and spindle flyers, card clothing, combs, extruding nipples, shuttles, healds and heald-frames, hosiery needles) — 29 codes under this heading, with the duty on each.

CodeDescriptionGeneral rateUnits
8448Auxiliary machinery for use with machines of heading 8444, 8445, 8446 or 8447 (for example, dobbies, Jacquards, automatic stop motions and shuttle changing mechanisms); parts and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of this heading or of heading 8444, 8445, 8446 or 8447 (for example, spindles and spindle flyers, card clothing, combs, extruding nipples, shuttles, healds and heald-frames, hosiery needles) + Ch. 99not stated
8448.11.00.00Dobbies and Jacquards; card reducing, copying, punching or assembling machines for use therewith + Ch. 99FreeNo.
8448.19.00.00Other + Ch. 99FreeNo.
8448.20Parts and accessories of machines of heading 8444 or of their auxiliary machinery + Ch. 99not stated
8448.20.10.00Of machines for extruding or drawing man-made textile filaments + Ch. 993.7%No.
8448.20.50Other + Ch. 993.3%
8448.20.50.10Of texturing machines + Ch. 993.3% (inherited from 8448.20.50)No.
8448.20.50.90Other + Ch. 993.3% (inherited from 8448.20.50)No.
8448.31.00.00Card clothing + Ch. 993.3%m2
8448.32.00Of machines for preparing textile fibers, other than card clothing + Ch. 99Free
8448.32.00.10Of cotton gins + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 8448.32.00)No.
8448.32.00.90Other + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 8448.32.00)No.
8448.33.00.00Spindles, spindle flyers, spinning rings and ring travellers + Ch. 993.3%No.
8448.39Other + Ch. 99not stated
8448.39.10.00Parts of spinning, doubling or twisting machines + Ch. 99FreeNo.
8448.39.50.00Parts of winding or reeling machines + Ch. 993.7%No.
8448.39.90.00Other + Ch. 99FreeNo.
8448.42.00.00Reeds for looms, healds and heald-frames + Ch. 993.7%No.
8448.49Other + Ch. 99not stated
8448.49.10.00Shuttles + Ch. 993.7%No.
8448.49.20.00Other + Ch. 99FreeNo.
8448.51Sinkers, needles and other articles used in forming stitches + Ch. 99not stated
8448.51.10.00Latch needles + Ch. 99Freethousands
8448.51.20.00Spring-beard needles + Ch. 99Freethousands
8448.51.30.00Other + Ch. 99Freethousands
8448.51.50.00Other + Ch. 99FreeNo.
8448.59Other + Ch. 99not stated
8448.59.10.00Parts of knitting machines + Ch. 99FreeNo.
8448.59.50.00Other + Ch. 99FreeNo.

4 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

29 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.