Analysis
HTS 8504.50.80 covers other inductors: other under heading 8504 (electrical transformers, static converters (for example, rectifiers) and inductors; parts…).
Rates on the nearby lines range from duty-free to 6.6%. The costliest confusion would be with 8504.31.40 (having a power handling capacity less than 1 kVA) at 6.6%, a difference of 6.6 points on the customs value.
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 58% of the 624 tariff lines in chapter 85 that are also free. Free here means free of the base duty only: origin-specific Chapter 99 duties such as Section 301 can still be owed.
Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 334416 (Capacitor, Resistor, Coil, Transformer, and Other Inductor Manufacturing), an industry of 322 US establishments employing 15,225 people, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.
Every edition we compared, from Jan 2023 to Oct 2026 (Rev. 22), shows the same general rate of Free.
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 8504.10.00 | Ballasts for discharge lamps or tubes | 3% |
| 8504.21.00 | Having a power handling capacity not exceeding 650 kVA | Free |
| 8504.22.00 | Having a power handling capacity exceeding 650 kVA but not exceeding 10,000 kVA | Free |
| 8504.23.00 | Having a power handling capacity exceeding 10,000 kVA | 1.6% |
| 8504.31.20 | Having a power handling capacity not exceeding 1 kVA: unrated | Free |
| 8504.31.40 | Having a power handling capacity less than 1 kVA | 6.6% |
| 8504.31.60 | Having a power handling capacity of 1 kVA | 1.6% |
| 8504.32.00 | Having a power handling capacity exceeding 1 kVA but not exceeding 16 kVA | 2.4% |
| 8504.33.00 | Having a power handling capacity exceeding 16 kVA but not exceeding 500 kVA | 1.6% |
| 8504.34.00 | Having a power handling capacity exceeding 500 kVA | 1.6% |
| 8504.40.40 | Speed drive controllers for electric motors | Free |
| 8504.40.60 | Suitable for physical incorporation into automatic data processing machines or units thereof of heading 8471 | 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 |
| 8504.50.40 | For 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; for telecommunication apparatus | Free |
| 8504.90.20 | Printed circuit assemblies | Free |
| 8504.90.41 | Of power supplies for automatic data processing machines or units thereof of heading 8471; of power supplies for goods of subheading 8443.31 or 8443.32; of power supplies for monitors of subheading 8528.42 or 8528.52 or projectors of subheading 8528.62: other | Free |
| 8504.90.65 | Of the goods of subheading 8504.40 or 8504.50 for telecommunication apparatus | Free |
| 8504.90.75 | Printed circuit assemblies: other | Free |
| 8504.90.96 | Other: other | Free |