8504.22.00

Analysis

HTS 8504.22.00 covers having a power handling capacity exceeding 650 kVA but not exceeding 10,000 kVA under heading 8504 (electrical transformers, static converters (for example, rectifiers) and inductors; parts…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items and kilograms.

Neighbouring lines carry rates from duty-free to 6.6%, so the exact line matters. The widest gap is with 8504.31.40 (having a power handling capacity less than 1 kVA), at 6.6%: a product that belongs there but is entered here, or the reverse, changes the duty by 6.6 percentage points.

For statistics it divides in two: 8504.22.00.40 for having a power handling capacity exceeding 650 kVA but not… and 8504.22.00.80 for having a power handling capacity exceeding 2,500 kVA but…. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.

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.

Goods classified here enter the United States duty-free at the general (normal trade relations) rate, as do about 58% of the 624 tariff lines in chapter 85. Free here means free of the base duty only: origin-specific Chapter 99 duties such as Section 301 can still be owed.