Analysis
HTS 8504.90.20 covers printed circuit assemblies under heading 8504 (electrical transformers, static converters (for example, rectifiers) and inductors; parts…).
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 8504.90.41 (of power supplies for automatic data processing machines or…, duty-free), 8504.90.65 (of the goods of subheading 8504.40 or 8504.50 for…, duty-free), 8504.90.75 (printed circuit assemblies: other, duty-free) and 8504.90.96 (other: other, duty-free).
Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 334418 (Printed Circuit Assembly (Electronic Assembly) Manufacturing), an industry of 861 US establishments employing 49,932 people. That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |