HTS tariff line · chapter 85
8504.40.60
Suitable for physical incorporation into automatic data processing machines or units thereof of heading 8471
Analysis
HTS 8504.40.60 covers suitable for physical incorporation into automatic data processing machines or units thereof of heading 8471 under heading 8504 (electrical transformers, static converters (for example, rectifiers) and inductors; parts…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 4 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.
The normal trade relations rate here is zero, shared by about 58% of the 624 tariff lines in chapter 85, a useful check when a neighbouring dutiable line is a candidate. Free here means free of the base duty only: origin-specific Chapter 99 duties such as Section 301 can still be owed.
The other lines in the same group are 8504.40.40 (speed drive controllers for electric motors, duty-free), 8504.40.70 (power supplies for automatic data processing machines or…, duty-free), 8504.40.85 (for telecommunication apparatus, duty-free) and 8504.40.95 (static converters: other, duty-free).
Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 335999 (All Other Miscellaneous Electrical Equipment and Component Manufacturing), an industry of 828 US establishments employing 40,468 people. That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.
Statistical suffixes
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 8504.40.40 | Speed drive controllers for electric motors | Free |
| 8504.40.70 | Power supplies for automatic data processing machines or units thereof of heading 8471; power supplies for goods of subheading 8443.31 or 8443.32; power supplies for monitors of subheading 8528.42 or 8528.52 or projectors of subheading 8528.62: other | Free |
| 8504.40.85 | For telecommunication apparatus | Free |
| 8504.40.95 | Static converters: other | Free |