How to check any US tariff rate by HTS code (2026)
The US duty on an imported product is set by its 10-digit HTS code (Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States). For products of China, a second layer applies on top: the Section 301 tariffs, which add 7.5% or 25% to most codes. This guide shows how to get both numbers for any code, from the official source, in under a minute.
The short answer
- Find the code: search the HTS by product words (for example "coffee maker").
- Read the General rate column for that 8-digit line. That is the normal (MFN) duty.
- Check Chapter 99 U.S. note 20 to see if the code is on a Section 301 list. If it is, products of China pay the list's extra duty as well.
Doing step 3 by hand is the slow part: note 20 is a long list of codes spread over several lists, exclusions and later increases. The rest of this guide does all three steps with real data.
Step 1: find the HTS code
Search the product words. A search for coffee maker in the current schedule (2026 Revision 19, in effect from 15 September 2026) returns heading 8516, subheading 8516.71.00 "Coffee or tea makers", with statistical suffixes such as 8516.71.00.20 "Automatic drip and pump type".
Try it: look up 8516.71.00 (free, no key)
Step 2: read the general duty rate
For 8516.71.00 the official rates are:
| Column | Rate | Who pays it |
|---|---|---|
| General (MFN) | 3.7% | most countries, including China |
| Special | Free | free-trade partners (AU, CL, CO, KR, SG and others listed on the line) |
| Column 2 | 40% | the few countries without normal trade relations |
Across the whole schedule, 38% of the 11,414 rated tariff lines are duty-free at the general rate, and only 107 lines are above 25%:
11,414 tariff lines with a rate in the USITC HTS 2026 Revision 19. Specific or compound = a rate per unit (e.g. ¢/kg).
Step 3: check Section 301 for products of China
8516.71.00 is on List 4A (heading 9903.88.15), so a coffee maker made in China pays 3.7% + 7.5% = 11.2% of its customs value. The same coffee maker made in Vietnam pays 3.7%.
Section 301 is not a niche issue: 10,003 of the 11,414 rated lines (88%) are on a list that is in effect today. The lists differ a lot in size:
Codes named in HTS Chapter 99, U.S. note 20. List 4B has been suspended since December 2019, so it is not collected.
Some codes also have product exclusions (currently running to 9 November 2026) or a 2024 four-year-review increase with its own start date, such as electric vehicles (+100%) and semiconductors (+50%). Always read the exclusion text: it often covers only one described product inside a code.
The 2026 US–China tariff cuts
On 26 September 2026 the US and Chinese governments announced plans to lower tariffs on about $30 billion of "non-sensitive" goods in each direction; press reports name small appliances, toys and decorations. As of 27 September the HTS code lists and effective dates are not published. When USTR publishes them in the Federal Register, every affected code changes at once, which is exactly when a manual spreadsheet goes stale.
Do it by API (and get told when a rate changes)
If you check more than a handful of codes, or you quote landed costs to customers, the lookups belong in code. Dutyfinch answers GET /api/hts?code=8516.71.00 with the description path, the three rate columns, the Section 301 list, exclusions with end dates and a flag for the 2026 US–China reduction list. Keyword search covers all 26,246 HTS codes, and the same key works as a remote MCP server for AI agents.
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Published prices on 27 September 2026: US Tariff Rates Pro is $49/month for 5,000 requests, Global Tariff Rates Pro is $49/month, and Dutify Plus is $75/month for 500 tariff lookups. Dutyfinch has 50 free calls a day with no key, Importer at $19/month for 2,500 calls, Broker at $49/month for 7,500 calls plus webhook alerts on 100 watched codes. See the full comparisons and every chapter's rates on the tariff pages, for example chapter 85 (electrical machinery).
Sources: USITC Harmonized Tariff Schedule 2026 Revision 19 and HTS Chapter 99 U.S. notes 20 and 31; Federal Register (USTR notices, checked daily).