HS Code | Official Doc | Tariff Rate | Origin | Destination | Effective Date |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
8201906000 | Doc | 55.0% | CN | US | 2025-05-12 |
8201904000 | Doc | 55.0% | CN | US | 2025-05-12 |
8206000000 | Doc | The rate of duty applicable to that article in the set subject t+30.0% | CN | US | 2025-05-12 |
9603100500 | Doc | 38.0% | CN | US | 2025-05-12 |
9603904000 | Doc | 37.5% | CN | US | 2025-05-12 |
9620005500 | Doc | 58.3% | CN | US | 2025-05-12 |
9620006500 | Doc | 57.9% | CN | US | 2025-05-12 |
GARDENING TOOLS & ACCESSORIES
Gardening tools and accessories encompass a wide range of items used to cultivate, maintain, and harvest gardens. These items facilitate various gardening tasks, from soil preparation to plant care and aesthetic enhancement.
Materials
Gardening tools are constructed from diverse materials, each offering specific benefits:
- Steel: Commonly used for blades and digging parts due to its strength and durability. Stainless steel resists rust and corrosion. Carbon steel is harder but requires more maintenance to prevent rust.
- Aluminum: Lightweight and rust-resistant, often used for tool handles and some tool heads.
- Wood: Traditional handle material, providing a comfortable grip. Requires treatment to prevent rot and splintering.
- Plastic/Polymer: Used for lightweight components, watering cans, plant pots, and some tool bodies. Offers affordability and resistance to moisture.
- Rubber/Ergonomic Grips: Applied to handles for enhanced comfort and reduced strain.
Purpose & Function
Gardening tools serve a variety of purposes:
- Soil Preparation: Tools like spades, forks, and cultivators break up, aerate, and prepare soil for planting.
- Planting: Trowels, hand forks, and dibbers assist in creating holes and transplanting seedlings.
- Watering & Feeding: Watering cans, hoses, sprinklers, and fertilizer applicators deliver water and nutrients to plants.
- Weeding: Weeding forks, hand weeders, and hoes remove unwanted vegetation.
- Pruning & Cutting: Pruning shears, loppers, saws, and hedge trimmers trim and shape plants.
- Harvesting: Harvesting knives, secateurs, and baskets collect mature fruits, vegetables, and flowers.
- Support & Protection: Stakes, plant ties, netting, and row covers provide support, protect plants from pests and weather, and guide growth.
Usage Scenarios
- Vegetable Gardens: Tools for soil preparation, planting, weeding, and harvesting.
- Flower Beds: Tools for planting, weeding, pruning, and maintaining floral displays.
- Lawns: Tools for edging, mowing, and general lawn care.
- Potted Plants & Containers: Smaller tools for planting, pruning, and maintaining container gardens.
- Greenhouses & Indoor Gardening: Specialized tools for indoor plant care.
Common Types
Hand Tools:
- Trowel: For digging small holes and transplanting.
- Hand Fork: For loosening soil and weeding.
- Cultivator: For breaking up soil and removing weeds.
- Weeder: For removing weeds with minimal soil disturbance.
- Pruning Shears/Secateurs: For cutting small branches and stems.
- Loppers: For cutting thicker branches.
- Pruning Saw: For cutting larger branches.
- Garden Knife/Hori-Hori: Versatile tool for digging, weeding, and cutting.
Long-Handled Tools:
- Spade: For digging, turning soil, and edging.
- Fork: For turning soil, aerating, and lifting potatoes.
- Hoe: For weeding and cultivating.
- Rake: For leveling soil and collecting debris.
- Shovel: For moving soil, compost, and other materials.
Watering & Feeding:
- Watering Can: For controlled watering of plants.
- Hose: For watering larger areas.
- Sprinkler: For automated watering.
- Fertilizer Spreader: For even distribution of fertilizer.
Other Accessories:
- Gardening Gloves: For hand protection.
- Plant Pots & Containers: For growing plants.
- Plant Labels: For identifying plants.
- Garden Stakes & Ties: For supporting plants.
- Wheelbarrows: For transporting materials.
- Garden Hose Reels: For storing hoses.
- Compost Bins: For creating compost.
The declared goods, “GARDENINGTOOLSACCESSORIES”, encompass a range of items used in agriculture, horticulture, or forestry. These can include hand tools, sets of tools, and various accessories supporting gardening activities.
The following HS codes are relevant based on the provided information:
- 8201906000: This code covers “Other handtools of a kind used in agriculture, horticulture or forestry, and parts thereof: Other”. This is a broad category for hand tools not specifically classified elsewhere within the 8201 heading. The basic duty is 0.0%, with an additional surcharge of 25.0%, increasing to 30.0% after April 2, 2025, resulting in a total tariff of 55.0%.
- 8201904000: This code specifically covers “Other handtools of a kind used in agriculture, horticulture or forestry, and parts thereof: Forks, and parts thereof”. Similar to 8201906000, the basic duty is 0.0%, with an additional surcharge of 25.0%, increasing to 30.0% after April 2, 2025, resulting in a total tariff of 55.0%.
- 8206000000: This code applies to “Tools of two or more of headings 8202 to 8205, put up in sets for retail sale”. The duty rate is dependent on the individual articles within the set, plus an additional surcharge of 0.0%, increasing to 30.0% after April 2, 2025, resulting in a total tariff of the applicable rate plus 30.0%.
- 9603100500: This code covers “Brooms, brushes (including brushes constituting parts of machines, appliances or vehicles), hand-operated mechanical floor sweepers, not motorized, mops and feather dusters; prepared knots and tufts for broom or brush making; paint pads and rollers; squeegees (other than roller squeegees): Brooms and brushes, consisting of twigs or other vegetable materials bound together, with or without handles: Whiskbrooms, wholly or in part of broom corn: Valued not over 96¢ each: In any calendar year prior to the entry, or withdrawal from warehouse for comsumption, of 61,655 dozen whiskbrooms classifiable under subheadings 9603.10.05 to 9603.10.35, inclusive”. The basic duty is 8.0%, with an additional surcharge of 0.0%, increasing to 30.0% after April 2, 2025, resulting in a total tariff of 38.0%.
- 9603904000: This code covers “Brooms, brushes (including brushes constituting parts of machines, appliances or vehicles), hand-operated mechanical floor sweepers, not motorized, mops and feather dusters; prepared knots and tufts for broom or brush making; paint pads and rollers; squeegees (other than roller squeegees): Other: Feather dusters”. The basic duty is 0.0%, with an additional surcharge of 7.5%, increasing to 30.0% after April 2, 2025, resulting in a total tariff of 37.5%.