HTS Index

HTS heading 9018

Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other electro-medical apparatus and sight-testing instruments; parts and accessories thereof — 54 codes under this heading, with the duty on each.

CodeDescriptionGeneral rateUnits
9018Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other electro-medical apparatus and sight-testing instruments; parts and accessories thereof + Ch. 99not stated
9018.11Electrocardiographs, and parts and accessories thereof + Ch. 99not stated
9018.11.30.00Electrocardiographs + Ch. 99FreeNo.
9018.11.60.00Printed circuit assemblies + Ch. 99FreeNo.
9018.11.90.00Other + Ch. 99FreeNo.
9018.12.00.00Ultrasonic scanning apparatus + Ch. 99FreeNo.
9018.13.00.00Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus + Ch. 99FreeNo.
9018.14.00.00Scintigraphic apparatus + Ch. 99FreeNo.
9018.19Other + Ch. 99not stated
9018.19.40.00Apparatus for functional exploratory examination, and parts and accessories thereof + Ch. 99FreeNo.
9018.19.55.00Patient monitoring systems + Ch. 99FreeNo.
9018.19.75.00Printed circuit assemblies for parameter acquisition modules + Ch. 99FreeNo.
9018.19.95Other + Ch. 99Free
9018.19.95.30Basal metabolism and blood pressure apparatus + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 9018.19.95)No.
9018.19.95.35Electroencephalographs (EEG) and electromyographs (EMG) + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 9018.19.95)No.
9018.19.95.50Other apparatus + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 9018.19.95)No.
9018.19.95.60Parts and accessories + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 9018.19.95)No.
9018.20.00Ultraviolet or infrared ray apparatus, and parts and accessories thereof + Ch. 99Free
9018.20.00.40Therapeutic + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 9018.20.00)No.
9018.20.00.80Other + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 9018.20.00)No.
9018.31.00Syringes, with or without needles; parts and accessories thereof + Ch. 99Free
9018.31.00.40Hypodermic + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 9018.31.00)No.
9018.31.00.80Other + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 9018.31.00)No.
9018.31.00.90Parts and accessories + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 9018.31.00)No.
9018.32.00.00Tubular metal needles and needles for sutures and parts and accessories thereof + Ch. 99FreeNo.
9018.39.00Other + Ch. 99Free
9018.39.00.20Rubber catheters + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 9018.39.00)doz.
9018.39.00.40Other + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 9018.39.00)No.
9018.39.00.50Other + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 9018.39.00)No.
9018.41.00.00Dental drill engines, whether or not combined on a single base with other dental equipment, and parts and accessories thereof + Ch. 99FreeNo.
9018.49Other + Ch. 99not stated
9018.49.40.00Dental burs + Ch. 99Freegross
9018.49.80Other + Ch. 99Free
9018.49.80.40Dental hand instruments and parts and accessories thereof + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 9018.49.80)No.
9018.49.80.80Other + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 9018.49.80)No.
9018.50.00.00Other ophthalmic instruments and appliances and parts and accessories thereof + Ch. 99FreeNo.
9018.90Other instruments and appliances and parts and accessories thereof + Ch. 99not stated
9018.90.10.00Mirrors and reflectors + Ch. 99FreeNo.
9018.90.20.00Other + Ch. 99FreeNo.
9018.90.30.00Anesthetic instruments and appliances and parts and accessories thereof + Ch. 99FreeNo.
9018.90.40.00Percussion hammers, stethoscopes and parts of stethoscopes + Ch. 99FreeNo.
9018.90.50Sphygmomanometers, tensimeters and oscillometers; all the foregoing and parts and accessories thereof + Ch. 99Free
9018.90.50.40Sphygmomanometers and parts and accessories thereof + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 9018.90.50)No.
9018.90.50.80Other + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 9018.90.50)No.
9018.90.60.00Electro-surgical instruments and appliances, other than extracorporeal shock wave lithotripters; all the foregoing and parts and accessories thereof + Ch. 99FreeNo.
9018.90.64.00Defibrillators + Ch. 99FreeNo.
9018.90.68.00Printed circuit assemblies for the defibrillators of subheading 9018.90.64 + Ch. 99FreeNo.
9018.90.75Other + Ch. 99Free
9018.90.75.20Dialysis instruments and apparatus + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 9018.90.75)No.
9018.90.75.40Ultrasonic + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 9018.90.75)No.
9018.90.75.60Other + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 9018.90.75)No.
9018.90.75.70Parts and accessories of dialysis instruments and apparatus + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 9018.90.75)No.
9018.90.75.80Other + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 9018.90.75)No.
9018.90.80.00Other + Ch. 99FreeNo.

21 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.