HTS heading 8470
Calculating machines and pocket-size data recording, reproducing and displaying machines with calculating functions; accounting machines, postage-franking machines, ticket-issuing machines and similar machines, incorporating a calculating device; cash registers — 13 codes under this heading, with the duty on each.
| Code | Description | General rate | Units |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8470 | Calculating machines and pocket-size data recording, reproducing and displaying machines with calculating functions; accounting machines, postage-franking machines, ticket-issuing machines and similar machines, incorporating a calculating device; cash registers + Ch. 99 | not stated | — |
| 8470.10.00 | Electronic calculators capable of operation without an external source of electric power and pocket-size data recording, reproducing and displaying machines with calculating functions + Ch. 99 | Free | — |
| 8470.10.00.40 | Display only + Ch. 99 | Free (inherited from 8470.10.00) | No. |
| 8470.10.00.60 | Other + Ch. 99 | Free (inherited from 8470.10.00) | No. |
| 8470.21.00.00 | Incorporating a printing device + Ch. 99 | Free | No. |
| 8470.29.00.00 | Other + Ch. 99 | Free | No. |
| 8470.30.00.00 | Other calculating machines + Ch. 99 | Free | No. |
| 8470.50.00 | Cash registers + Ch. 99 | Free | — |
| 8470.50.00.20 | Point-of-sale terminals + Ch. 99 | Free (inherited from 8470.50.00) | No. |
| 8470.50.00.60 | Other + Ch. 99 | Free (inherited from 8470.50.00) | No. |
| 8470.90.01 | Other + Ch. 99 | Free | — |
| 8470.90.01.10 | Postage-franking machines + Ch. 99 | Free (inherited from 8470.90.01) | No. |
| 8470.90.01.90 | Other + Ch. 99 | Free (inherited from 8470.90.01) | No. |
6 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
13 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.