Tariff Lines: A
HTS tariff lines and product descriptions beginning with “A”, with their general duty rates.
495 tariff lines starting with "A"
Showing 201–250 of 495
| HTS Number | Description | Rate |
|---|---|---|
| 8411.22.40.00 | Aircraft turbines | Free |
| 8411.81.40.00 | Aircraft turbines | Free |
| 8411.82.40.00 | Aircraft turbines | Free |
| 8414.40.00.00 | Air compressors mounted on a wheeled chassis for towing | 2.7% |
| 8418.29.10.00 | Absorption type, electrical | 1% |
| 8424.82.00 | Agricultural or horticultural | 2.4% |
| 8443.99.10.00 | Accessory and auxiliary machines which are intended for attachment to an electrostatic photocopier and which do not operate independently of such photocopier | Free |
| 8472.90.05.00 | Addressing machines and address plate embossing machines | Free |
| 8472.90.10.00 | Automatic teller machines | Free |
| 8479.89.10.00 | Air humidifiers or dehumidifiers | Free |
| 8479.89.92.00 | Automated electronic component placement machines of a kind used solely or principally for the manufacture of printed circuit assemblies | Free |
| 8506.60.00 | Air-zinc | 2.7% |
| 8516.80.40.00 | Assembled only with simple insulated former and electrical connections, used for anti-icing or deicing | Free |
| 8516.90.35.00 | Assemblies, incorporating more than one of the following: cooking chamber; structural supporting chassis; door; outer case | Free |
| 8517.71.00.00 | Aerials and aerial reflectors of all kinds; parts suitable for use therewith | Free |
| 8519.20.00.00 | Apparatus operated by coins, banknotes, bank cards, tokens or by other means of payment | Free |
| 8527.91.05.00 | Articles designed for connection to telegraphic or telephonic apparatus or instruments or to telegraphic or telephonic networks | Free |
| 8529.90.16 | Assemblies and subassemblies, consisting of 2 or more parts or pieces fastened or joined together | Free |
| 8529.90.95 | Assemblies and subassemblies, consisting of 2 or more parts or pieces fastened or joined together | Free |
| 8532.22.00 | Aluminum electrolytic | Free |
| 8536.20.00 | Automatic circuit breakers | 2.7% |
| 8537.10.30.00 | Assembled with outer housing or supports, for the goods of headings 8421, 8422, 8450 or 8516 | 2.7% |
| 8539.41.00.00 | Arc lamps | 2.6% |
| 8542.33.00.01 | Amplifiers | Free |
| 8543.70.60.00 | Articles designed for connection to telegraphic or telephonic apparatus or instruments or to telegraphic or telephonic networks | Free |
| 8545.90.20.00 | Arc light carbons | Free |
| 8607.19.03.00 | Axles | 0.4% |
| 8714.93.05.00 | Aluminum alloy hubs with a hollow axle and lever-operated quick release mechanism | Free |
| 8802.20.01 | Airplanes and other aircraft, of an unladen weight not exceeding 2,000 kg | Free |
| 8802.30.01 | Airplanes and other aircraft, of an unladen weight exceeding 2,000 kg but not exceeding 15,000 kg | Free |
| 8802.40.01 | Airplanes and other aircraft, of an unladen weight exceeding 15,000 kg | Free |
| 8805.10.00.00 | Aircraft launching gear and parts thereof; deck- arrestors or similar gear and parts thereof | Free |
| 8805.21.00.00 | Air combat simulators and parts thereof | Free |
| 9010.10.00.00 | Apparatus and equipment for automatically developing photographic (including cinematographic) film or paper in rolls or for automatically exposing developed film to rolls of photographic paper | 2.4% |
| 9014.20.40.00 | Automatic pilots | Free |
| 9018.19.40.00 | Apparatus for functional exploratory examination, and parts and accessories thereof | Free |
| 9018.90.30.00 | Anesthetic instruments and appliances and parts and accessories thereof | Free |
| 9021.31.00.00 | Artificial joints and parts and accessories thereof | Free |
| 9106.90.75.00 | Apparatus for measuring, recording or otherwise indicating intervals of time, with clock or watch movements, AC powered and with opto-electronic display only | 3.9% |
| 9114.40.40.00 | Any plate, or set of plates, suitable for assembling thereon a clock movement | 10¢ each |
| 9301.10.00 | Artillery weapons (for example, guns, howitzers and mortars) | Free |
| 9506.40.00.00 | Articles and equipment for table-tennis, and parts and accessories thereof | 5.1% |
| 9506.91.00 | Articles and equipment for general physical exercise, gymnastics or athletics; parts and accessories thereof | 4.6% |
| 9506.99.05 | Archery articles and equipment and parts and accessories thereof | Free |
| 9507.90.70.00 | Artificial baits and flies | 9% |
| 9620.00.10.00 | Accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading 8519 or 8521 | 2% |
| 9620.00.15.00 | Accessories for the articles of heading 9005 | The rate applicable to the article of which it is an accessory |
| 9620.00.20.00 | Accessories for photographic (other than cinematographic) cameras of heading 9006 | 5.8% |
| 9620.00.25.00 | Accessories for cinematographic cameras of heading 9007 | 3.9% |
| 9620.00.30 | Accessories for the instruments and appliances, including rangefinders, of heading 9015 | The rate applicable to the article of which it is an accessory |
About this letter-paged tariff browse
Tariff lines starting with the letter A span multiple HTS chapters and sections, because the Harmonized Tariff Schedule classifies products by common product name rather than by industry sector at the description level. Products beginning with this letter may appear across animal-product chapters, mineral-product chapters, prepared-food chapters, machinery chapters, and so on — wherever the USITC's plain-language description for the tariff line happens to start with A. The pagination above moves through every line whose description starts with this letter, in chapter order by default.
For each tariff line you can click through to the detail page to see the full General (MFN) duty rate, any Special preferential rates available under free trade agreements (USMCA, GSP, CAFTA-DR, KORUS, JAPAN), and the Column 2 rate that applies to imports from non-MFN countries. Rates can be expressed as ad valorem (a percentage of customs value), specific (a dollar amount per unit of quantity), or compound. The detail page preserves the original USITC rate text exactly as published and additionally extracts a numeric percentage for search and ranking where applicable.
How alphabetic browse complements hierarchical browse
The HTS has two primary navigation modes: hierarchical (sections → chapters → headings → subheadings → tariff lines) and alphabetic (by description). Hierarchical browse is the formal structure customs brokers use because classification rules require working through chapter notes and General Rules of Interpretation. But alphabetic browse is often faster for importers who know the common name of a product but not which chapter it belongs to. For example, "almonds" appears in Chapter 8 (edible fruit) while "almond oil" appears in Chapter 15 (animal/vegetable fats) and "almond paste" appears in Chapter 20 (prepared fruit) — three different duty regimes for related products. Alphabetic browse surfaces all three faster than chapter drill-down.
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Why duty rates vary so widely
MFN duty rates on the schedule range from 0% (free) on roughly 5,979 tariff lines to north of 100% on a small number of textile and tobacco classifications. The variation reflects decades of accumulated trade policy: GATT/WTO rounds of reciprocal tariff reductions, sector-specific protection retained for textiles, footwear, and certain agricultural commodities, and special programs that eliminated duties for products with strategic-supply or development-policy rationale. Within a single chapter, individual subheadings can carry rates from 0% to 30%+ depending on the specific product description — which is why classification accuracy matters so much for importers.
Free trade agreements layer on top of the MFN schedule and can override the General rate for imports from FTA partners. USMCA (Canada, Mexico) eliminates duties on most tariff lines for qualifying originating goods; CAFTA-DR, KORUS, JAPAN, AUSTRALIA, ISRAEL, and other bilaterals each have their own product-level carve-outs and rules of origin. The Special rate column on each detail page identifies which FTAs apply to that line. Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) and African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) provide unilateral preferences for eligible developing-country imports.
Additional duties beyond the MFN rate
The Column 1 General rate is not always the final duty an importer pays. Section 201 safeguards, Section 232 national-security tariffs (steel, aluminum), and Section 301 actions (China-origin goods) can add 10-100 percentage points to the effective rate. Antidumping and countervailing duties imposed by the Department of Commerce on specific product/country combinations can add hundreds of percentage points. None of these supplemental duties appear in the General rate column — importers need to cross-reference the country of origin and the product-specific orders in effect at time of entry to compute the actual landed duty cost.
PlainTariff currently surfaces the General, Special, and Column 2 rates as published in the USITC HTS 2026 Basic Edition. Section 301, AD/CVD, and other supplemental duty data is not integrated; for those, importers should consult Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) and the active Federal Register notices, or work with a licensed customs broker.