HTS Index

HTS heading 9021

Orthopedic appliances, including crutches, surgical belts and trusses; splints and other fracture appliances; artificial parts of the body; hearing aids and other appliances which are worn or carried, or implanted in the body, to compensate for a defect or disability; parts and accessories thereof — 19 codes under this heading, with the duty on each.

CodeDescriptionGeneral rateUnits
9021Orthopedic appliances, including crutches, surgical belts and trusses; splints and other fracture appliances; artificial parts of the body; hearing aids and other appliances which are worn or carried, or implanted in the body, to compensate for a defect or disability; parts and accessories thereof + Ch. 99not stated
9021.10.00Orthopedic or fracture appliances, and parts and accessories thereof + Ch. 99Free
9021.10.00.50Bone plates, screws and nails, and other internal fixation devices or appliances + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 9021.10.00)No.
9021.10.00.90Other + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 9021.10.00)No.
9021.21Artificial teeth and parts and accessories thereof + Ch. 99not stated
9021.21.40.00Of plastics + Ch. 99FreeNo.
9021.21.80.00Other + Ch. 99FreeNo.
9021.29Other + Ch. 99not stated
9021.29.40.00Of plastics + Ch. 99FreeNo.
9021.29.80.00Other + Ch. 99FreeNo.
9021.31.00.00Artificial joints and parts and accessories thereof + Ch. 99FreeNo.
9021.39.00.00Other + Ch. 99FreeNo.
9021.40.00.00Hearing aids, excluding parts and accessories thereof + Ch. 99FreeNo.
9021.50.00.00Pacemakers for stimulating heart muscles, excluding parts and accessories thereof + Ch. 99FreeNo.
9021.90Other + Ch. 99not stated
9021.90.40Parts and accessories for hearing aids and for pacemakers for stimulating heart muscles + Ch. 99Free
9021.90.40.40For hearing aids + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 9021.90.40)No.
9021.90.40.80Other + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 9021.90.40)No.
9021.90.81.00Other + 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

19 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.