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Medical instrument tariff & import duty from the European Union to the USA (2026) — HTS 9018.90.60.00

10%

HTS code 9018.90.60.00 · Medical instrument · origin the European Union · data as of 2026-11-02

A shipment of medical instrument entering the United States from the European Union is classified under HTS code 9018.90.60.00 and pays 10% total import duty on its customs value. That is the 0% normal (MFN) rate plus Section 301, which is a separate heading in Chapter 99 of the tariff schedule. The duty is worked out on the customs value of the goods, which is normally what you paid for them; freight, insurance, customs brokerage and any merchandise processing fee come on top and are not included in the figure above.

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How the rate is built up

Layer	Heading	Rate	As the schedule words it
Normal duty (MFN, column 1-General)	`9018.90.60.00`	0%	Free
Section 301 (forced labor, by country)	`9903.05.39`	10%	10%
Total		10%

Common ways this question is asked

What is the tariff on medical instrument from the European Union? 10% of the customs value, all layers included.
What is the HTS code for medical instrument? 9018.90.60.00.
How much is the import tax from the European Union to the USA on medical instrument? The table above shows every duty that applies and the heading each one comes from.
Who pays it? The importer of record pays the duty to CBP at entry, not the seller abroad.

What each of these duties is

Normal duty (MFN, column 1-General)

The normal duty is the column 1-General rate the Harmonized Tariff Schedule sets for this code. Every country the United States trades with normally pays it unless a trade agreement or a preference programme says otherwise.

Section 301 (forced labor, by country)

Since July 24, 2026 a Section 301 duty of 10% or 12.5% applies to goods from 60 economies that do not ban imports made with forced labor. It replaced the Section 122 surcharge, which had replaced the IEEPA "reciprocal" and fentanyl tariffs the Supreme Court struck down on February 20, 2026. For the EU, Japan, South Korea, Switzerland and Taiwan it works as a floor: the normal rate is topped up to 10% or 12.5%.

What the code rests on

Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other electro-medical apparatus and sight-testing instruments; parts and accessories thereof: > Other instruments and appliances and parts and accessories thereof: > Other: > Electro-medical instruments and appliances and parts and accessories thereof: > Electro-surgical instruments and appliances, other than extracorporeal shock wave lithotripters; all the foregoing and parts and accessories thereof

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Other origins

This page is information, not legal or customs advice. The final classification and the duty owed are decided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection at entry. All products · Classify a whole list (free during beta) · Duty by country: report and data
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