U.S. imports of Weighing Machinery Including Weight-Operated Counting and Checking Machines (SITC 74531) totaled $46.8M in August 2026, imported from 47 countries.
Importers of Weighing Machinery Including Weight-Operated Counting and Checking Machines paid $3.6M in duties in August 2026, an average duty rate of 7.67% — duty actually collected as a share of the imports that cleared customs, not the published tariff schedule.
Last updated: August 2026 dataIndustrial and commercial weighing equipment — spanning platform scales, checkweighers, belt-weighing systems, and weight-operated counting machines — is classified under SITC 74531, with precision laboratory balances and personal scales explicitly excluded. These machines are essential quality-control and compliance tools in food processing, pharmaceutical manufacturing, logistics, and retail trade, where legal-for-trade certification (NTEP approval in the US) governs admissibility for commercial transactions. Importers should verify that equipment meets NIST Handbook 44 requirements if the scale will be used in a commercial transaction subject to weights-and-measures regulation.
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The National Type Evaluation Program (NTEP), administered through NCWM, certifies that a weighing device meets NIST Handbook 44 performance standards. NTEP approval is required when a scale is used in a commercial transaction — such as selling goods by weight — in most US states. Importers of commercial scales should confirm NTEP certification before sale or deployment to avoid rejection by state weights-and-measures authorities.
Yes — balances capable of measuring to 5 centigrams (0.05 grams) or better are explicitly excluded from SITC 74531 and fall under a separate precision-instrument heading. Importers of analytical or semi-micro balances should confirm the instrument's readability specification to ensure correct classification.
Basic heading 236 of 642 in section 7
Basic heading 74531 · $46.8M of $172.0B
Imports · August 2026
origin
Mexico and Germany together supply 56% of it. China pays 37.2% duty; Canada 0.3%.
customs district
Census does not publish district detail for this classification system.
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Census does not publish state detail for this classification system.
entry
Census does not publish port detail for this classification system.
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12-mo low · imports
Low · free accountOver the twelve months to August 2026, the U.S. imported $522.2M of Weighing Machinery Including Weight-Operated Counting and Checking Machines.
Through August 2026 · exports 10 of 12 months reported. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.