Heading
8438
Machinery, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter, for the industrial preparation or manufacture of food or drink, other than machinery for the extraction or preparation of animal or fixed vegetable or microbial fats or oils; parts thereof:
Duty rates
Column 1, General
Not stated at any level above this lineThe rate for goods from countries with normal trade relations.
Column 1, Special
No programme rate on this lineOnly if the goods qualify under that programme's rules of origin, which is a determination nobody here can make for you.
Column 2
Not stated at any level above this lineFor the small number of countries named in General Note 3(b), which is not held here.
Additional duties
No footnote on this line, or on the lines above it, points at a chapter 99 provision.
These are the published rates for this line. They are not a landed duty. Additional duties under chapter 99, which is where section 232 and section 301 sit, can apply through the U.S. notes to that chapter without a footnote on this line, and those notes are not held here. Classification and country of origin are yours to determine.
Below this
| Code | Description | General |
|---|---|---|
| 8438.10.00 | Bakery machinery and machinery for the manufacture of macaroni, spaghetti or similar products | Free |
| 8438.50.00 | Machinery for the preparation of meat or poultry | 2.8% |
| 8438.90 | Parts: | from above |
| 8438.90.90 | Other | 2.8% |
Keep this line
An account can watch this line, so a section 232 or 301 action naming it reopens the determination that rested on it.
2026HTSRev17, retrieved 2026-08-27, from the USITC