Analysis
HTS 8504.90.96 covers other: other under heading 8504 (electrical transformers, static converters (for example, rectifiers) and inductors; parts…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 8 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.
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.
The ten-digit suffixes separate for transformers, laminations for incorporation into…, stacked cores for incorporation into…, wound cores for incorporation into… and of static converters. The duty is the same across them; the suffix matters for statistics, licensing and some quotas, and an entry needs all ten digits.
The other lines in the same group are 8504.90.20 (printed circuit assemblies, duty-free), 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) and 8504.90.75 (printed circuit assemblies: other, duty-free).
Statistical suffixes
| Code | Description | Units | NAICS |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8504.90.96.10 | For transformers | No. | 327110 |
| 8504.90.96.30 | Other | No. | 327110 |
| 8504.90.96.34 | Laminations for incorporation into stacked cores | No., kg | 335311 |
| 8504.90.96.38 | Stacked cores for incorporation into transformers | No., kg | 335311 |
| 8504.90.96.42 | Wound cores for incorporation into transformers | No., kg | 335311 |
| 8504.90.96.46 | Other | No., kg | 335311 |
| 8504.90.96.50 | Of static converters | No. | 334419 |
| 8504.90.96.90 | Other | No. | 334419 |
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |