8471.70.40

Analysis

HTS 8471.70.40 covers not assembled in cabinets, and without attached external power supply under heading 8471 (automatic data processing machines and units thereof; magnetic or optical readers…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 3 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.

Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 35% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 35% duty.

There is no general-rate duty on this line, which puts it with roughly 61% of the 823 tariff lines in chapter 84 that are also free. Chapter 99 measures such as Section 301 or 232 can still apply on top, depending on where the goods come from.

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 334112 (Computer Storage Device Manufacturing), an industry of 61 US establishments employing 7,221 people, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.

The ten-digit suffixes separate flexible and hard magnetic disk drive units. The duty is the same across them; the suffix matters for statistics, licensing and some quotas, and an entry needs all ten digits.