8516.71.00.40 - Percolator

This HTS classification covers percolators, which are electrothermic appliances specifically designed for brewing coffee by circulating boiling water through coffee grounds. These devices typically utilize a heating element to boil water and a mechanism to repeatedly force the hot water up through a tube and over the coffee grounds, thus extracting the flavor. The classification is limited to appliances functioning as percolators, regardless of their specific design features such as manual or automatic operation.

Distinguishing this category from its siblings, "Automatic drip and pump type" (8516.71.00.20) covers coffee makers that employ gravity or a pump to pass hot water through coffee grounds placed in a filter. The "Other" category (8516.71.00.60) serves as a residual for electrothermic coffee makers not specifically defined elsewhere within the 8516.71 heading. Therefore, 8516.71.00.40 is exclusively for the traditional percolator method of coffee brewing.

As a leaf node, there are no further subcategories under 8516.71.00.40. Classification within this code relies on the definitive operational method of the appliance, specifically the recirculating boiling water through grounds characteristic of a percolator. Any electrothermic appliance intended for brewing coffee that does not operate via the percolator method would be classified under a different subcategory or the residual "Other" category.