PART 4-MACHINERY AND MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT
[28 F.R. 8923]

Articles

Part 4 headnotes:

1. This part does not cover

(1) bobbins, spools, cops, tubes, and similar hold

ers;

(ii) belts and belting;

(iii) machine clothing, other than card clothing provided for in items 670.52 and 670.54;

(iv) articles of textile materials; articles of stone, of ceramic ware, of glass, or of other materials provided for in schedule 5; or articles of leather or of fur on the skin; or

(v) articles and parts of articles specifically provided for elsewhere in the schedules.

2. Unless the context requires otherwise, and subject to headnote 1 to subpart A of this part, a multipurpose machine is classifiable according to its principal purpose, but if such a machine is not described in a superior tariff heading as to its principal purpose, or if it has no one principal purpose, it is classifiable in subpart H of this part as a machine not specially provided for.

3. An electric motor or other power unit imported with a machine is classifiable with such machine as an entirety if fitted thereto when imported, or, if the machine or its framework is designed to receive the power unit, or if the shipment includes a common base designed to receive both the power unit and the machine. Subpart A-Boilers, Nonelectric Motors and Engines, and Other General Purpose Machinery

A

660.10 Steam and other vapor generating boilers (except central 6.5% ad val
heating hot water boilers capable also of producing low
pressure steam), and parts thereof.

45% ad val.

A

660.15 Economizers, superheaters, soot removers, gas recoverers, 7% ad val
and auxiliary plants for use with steam and other vapor
generating boilers; condensers for vapor engines and
power units; all of the foregoing and parts thereof.
Producer gas and water gas generators, with or without pu-
rifiers; acetylene gas generators (water process) and other
gas generators, with or without purifiers; all the forego-
ing and parts thereof:

45% ad val.

Apparatus for the generation of acetylene gas from cal- 4% ad val
cium carbide, and parts thereof.
Other.......

20% ad val.

7% ad val

45% ad val.

Steam engines, steam turbines, and other vapor power
units, and parts thereof:

Steam engines and parts thereof.

20% ad val.

4.5% ad val

27.5% ad val.

Internal combustion engines and parts thereof:

Piston-type engines:

660.40

To be installed in tractors of a type provided for in Free
item 692.30 or in agricultural or horticultural ma-
chinery or implements provided for in item 666.00.
Other:

Compression-ignition engines.........

If Canadian article and original motor-vehi- Free.
cle equipment (see headnote 2, part 6B,
schedule 6).

Engines other than compression-ignition engines 4% ad val
If Canadian article and original motor-vehi- Free
cle equipment (see headnote 2, part 6B,
schedule 6).

35% ad val.

35% ad val.

10% ad val.

35% ad val.

Other.....

If Canadian article and original motor-vehicle Free.......
equipment (see headnote 2, part 6B, schedule 6).

5% ad val
If Canadian article and original motor-vehicle Free....
equipment (see headnote 2, part 6B, schedule 6).
Air pumps, vacuum pumps and air or gas compressors (in-
cluding free-piston compressors for gas turbines); fans
and blowers; all the foregoing, whether operated by hand
or by any kind of power unit, and parts thereof:
Fans and blowers, and parts thereof:

Blowers for pipe organs

Other

If Canadian article and original motor-vehicle
equipment (see headnote 2, part 6B, schedule
6).

Compressors, and parts thereof.

35% ad val.

35% ad val.

661.13

If Canadian article and original motor-vehicle
equipment (see headnote 2, part 6B, schedule 6).

Free.

5% ad val If Canadian article and original motor-vehicle Free. equipment (see headnote 2, part 6B, schedule 6).

35% ad val.

A

35% ad val.

661.21

661.20 Air-conditioning machines, comprising a motor-driven fan 5.5% ad val and elements for changing the temperature and humidity

661.25 Furnace burners for liquid fuel (atomizers), for pulverized 4.5% ad val.
solid fuel or gas; mechanical stokers, mechanical grates,
mechanical ash dischargers and similar appliances; and
parts thereof.

27.5% ad val.

45% ad val.

35% ad val.

Calendering and similar rolling machines (except metal-
working and metalrolling machines and glassworking ma-
chines), and parts thereof:

gether by iron or steel heads or washers fastened to
iron or steel cores or mandrels, for calendering, em-
bossing, mangling, or pressing operations.

Calender bowls or rolls of textile fibers, husk, paper, or 14% ad val
mixtures thereof, compressed between and held to-

35% ad val.

Embossing rollers of metal.

Textile calendering and rolling machines, and parts 8% ad val
thereof.

40% ad val.

5% ad val

35% ad val.

A

661.55

Other.

Industrial machinery, plant, and similar laboratory equip-
ment, whether or not electrically heated, for the treat-
ment of materials by a process involving a change of tem-
perature, such as heating, cooking, roasting, distilling,
rectifying, sterilizing, pasteurizing, steaming, drying, eva-
porating, vaporizing, condensing, or cooling; instanta-
neous or storage water heaters, nonelectrical; all the fore-
going (except agricultural implements, sugar machinery,
shoe machinery, and machinery or equipment for the
heat-treatment of textile yarns, fabrics, or made-up tex-
tile articles) and parts thereof:

35% ad val.

Weighing machinery and scales (except balances of a sensi-
tivity of 5 centigrams or better provided for in part 2D of
schedule 7), including weight-operated counting and
checking machines, and parts thereof; weighing machine
weights not provided for in part 2D of schedule 7:

Weighing machinery for use in the manufacture of Free
sugar.

Fully automatic weighing machinery requiring no 5% ad val.
manual operations for weight determinations, and ac-
curate to 20 of 1 percent or better of the maximum
weighing capacity, on weight tests within the weigh-
ing range of the scale.
Other....

Mechanical appliances, whether or not hand operated, for
projecting, dispersing, or spraying liquids or powders; fire
extinguishers, whether or not charged; spray guns and
similar appliances; steam- or sand-blasting machines and
similar jet projecting machines; all the foregoing (except
automatic vending machines) and parts thereof:

Free.

35% ad val.

9% ad val

45% ad val.

Simple piston pump sprays, powder bellows, all the 9.5% ad val
foregoing and parts thereof.

If Canadian article and original motor-vehicle Free.
equipment (see headnote 2, part 6B, schedule 6).

Sandblasting machines, and parts thereof.......

Free

Sprayers (except sprayers, self-contained, having a ca- Free.
pacity not over 5 gallons) suitable for agricultural or
horticultural use.

45% ad val.

Free.
Free.

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Articles

A

A

Subpart B-Elevators, Winches, Cranes, and Related
Machinery; Earthmoving and Mining Machinery
Subpart B headnote:

1. This subpart does not cover

(i) cranes or other machines mounted on vehicles,
on vessels or other floating structures, or on other
transport equipment (see part 6 of the schedule); or
(ii) agricultural implements (see subpart C of this
part).

664.05 Mechanical shovels, coalcutters, excavators, scrapers, bull- 5% ad val
dozers, and other excavating, levelling, boring, and ex-
tracting machinery, all the foregoing, whether stationary
or mobile, for earth, minerals, or ores; pile drivers; snow
plows, not self-propelled; all the foregoing and parts
thereof.

664.10 Elevators, hoists, winches, cranes, jacks, pulley tackle, belt 5% ad val
conveyors, and other lifting, handling, loading, or unload-

Subpart C headnote:

1. The provisions of item 666.00 for "agricultural and
horticultural implements not specially provided for" do
not apply to any of the articles provided for in schedule
6, part 3 (subparts A through F. inclusive), part 5
(except item 687.40), or part 6, or to any of the articles
specially provided for elsewhere in the tariff schedules,
but interchangeable agricultural and horticultural im-
plements are classifiable in item 666.00 even if mounted
at the time of importation on a tractor provided for in
part 6B of this schedule.

666.00 Machinery for soil preparation and cultivation, agricultural Free
drills and planters, fertilizer spreaders, harvesting and
threshing machinery, hay or grass mowers (except lawn-
mowers), farm wagons and carts, milking machines, on-
farm equipment for the handling or drying of agricultur-
al or horticultural products, and agricultural and horti-
cultural implements not specially provided for, and parts
of any of the foregoing.

666.10 Lawnmowers and parts thereof

A

10% ad val

30% ad val.

Industrial machinery for preparing and manufacturing
food or drink and parts thereof:

666.20

Machinery for use in the manufacture of sugar, and Free.
parts therof.

Free.

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