HTS Index

HTS heading 9017

Drawing, marking-out or mathematical calculating instruments (for example, drafting machines, pantographs, protractors, drawing sets, slide rules, disc calculators); instruments for measuring length, for use in the hand (for example, measuring rods and tapes, micrometers, calipers), not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter; parts and accessories thereof — 23 codes under this heading, with the duty on each.

CodeDescriptionGeneral rateUnits
9017Drawing, marking-out or mathematical calculating instruments (for example, drafting machines, pantographs, protractors, drawing sets, slide rules, disc calculators); instruments for measuring length, for use in the hand (for example, measuring rods and tapes, micrometers, calipers), not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter; parts and accessories thereof + Ch. 99not stated
9017.10Drafting tables and machines, whether or not automatic + Ch. 99not stated
9017.10.40.00Plotters + Ch. 99FreeNo.
9017.10.80.00Other + Ch. 993.9%No.
9017.20Other drawing, marking-out or mathematical calculating instruments + Ch. 99not stated
9017.20.40.00Disc calculators, slide rules and other mathematical calculating instruments + Ch. 993.9%No.
9017.20.70.00Plotters + Ch. 99FreeNo.
9017.20.80Other + Ch. 994.6%
9017.20.80.40Hand operated input devices which transmit position data to computer processors or displays (digitizers) + Ch. 994.6% (inherited from 9017.20.80)No.
9017.20.80.80Other + Ch. 994.6% (inherited from 9017.20.80)kg
9017.30Micrometers, calipers and gauges + Ch. 99not stated
9017.30.40.00Micrometers and calipers + Ch. 995.8%No.
9017.30.80.00Other + Ch. 993.9%No.
9017.80.00.00Other instruments + Ch. 995.3%No.
9017.90.01Parts and accessories + Ch. 99The rate applicable to the article of which it is a part or accessory
9017.90.01.05Of articles of subheading 9017.10.40 + Ch. 99The rate applicable to the article of which it is a part or accessory (inherited from 9017.90.01)kg
9017.90.01.15Of articles of subheading 9017.10.80 + Ch. 99The rate applicable to the article of which it is a part or accessory (inherited from 9017.90.01)kg
9017.90.01.20Of articles of subheading 9017.20.40 + Ch. 99The rate applicable to the article of which it is a part or accessory (inherited from 9017.90.01)kg
9017.90.01.32Of articles of subheading 9017.20.70 + Ch. 99The rate applicable to the article of which it is a part or accessory (inherited from 9017.90.01)kg
9017.90.01.36Of articles of subheading 9017.20.80 + Ch. 99The rate applicable to the article of which it is a part or accessory (inherited from 9017.90.01)kg
9017.90.01.40Of articles of subheading 9017.30.40 + Ch. 99The rate applicable to the article of which it is a part or accessory (inherited from 9017.90.01)kg
9017.90.01.50Of articles of subheading 9017.30.80 + Ch. 99The rate applicable to the article of which it is a part or accessory (inherited from 9017.90.01)kg
9017.90.01.60Other + Ch. 99The rate applicable to the article of which it is a part or accessory (inherited from 9017.90.01)kg

10 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

23 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.