HTS Index

HTS heading 9504

Video game consoles and machines, table or parlor games, including pinball machines, billiards, special tables for casino games and automatic bowling equipment, amusement machines operated by coins, banknotes, bank cards, tokens or by any other means of payment — 20 codes under this heading, with the duty on each.

CodeDescriptionGeneral rateUnits
9504Video game consoles and machines, table or parlor games, including pinball machines, billiards, special tables for casino games and automatic bowling equipment, amusement machines operated by coins, banknotes, bank cards, tokens or by any other means of payment + Ch. 99not stated
9504.20Articles and accessories for billiards of all kinds + Ch. 99not stated
9504.20.20.00Balls + Ch. 99FreeNo.
9504.20.40.00Chalk + Ch. 99FreeNo.
9504.20.60.00Tables + Ch. 99FreeNo.
9504.20.80.00Other, including parts and accessories + Ch. 99Freekg
9504.30.00Other games, operated by coins, banknotes, bank cards, tokens or by any other means of payment, other than automatic bowling alley equipment; parts and accessories thereof + Ch. 99Free
9504.30.00.10Video + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 9504.30.00)No.
9504.30.00.20Pinball machines and bell-type machines and consoles + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 9504.30.00)No.
9504.30.00.40Other + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 9504.30.00)No.
9504.30.00.60Parts and accessories + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 9504.30.00)No.
9504.40.00.00Playing cards + Ch. 99Freepack
9504.50.00.00Video game consoles and machines, other than those of subheading 9504.30, and parts and accessories thereof + Ch. 99FreeNo.
9504.90Other + Ch. 99not stated
9504.90.40.00Game machines, other than those operated by coins, banknotes (paper currency), discs or similar articles; parts and accessories thereof + Ch. 99FreeNo.
9504.90.60.00Chess, checkers, parchisi, backgammon, darts and other games played on boards of a special design, all the foregoing games and parts there of (including their boards); mah-jong and dominoes; any of the foregoing games in combination with each other, or with other games, packaged together as a unit in immediate containers of a type used in retail sales; poker chips and dice + Ch. 99FreeNo.
9504.90.90Other + Ch. 99Free
9504.90.90.40Bowling balls + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 9504.90.90)No.
9504.90.90.60Bowling equipment and parts and accessories thereof + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 9504.90.90)No.
9504.90.90.80Other + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 9504.90.90)No.

7 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

20 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.