8512

Analysis

Heading 8512 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule covers electrical lighting or signaling equipment (excluding articles of heading 8539), windshield wipers, defrosters and demisters, of a kind used for cycles or motor vehicles; parts thereof. It divides into 5 six-digit subheadings and 12 eight-digit tariff lines, with 16 ten-digit statistical suffixes below them.

4 of its 12 lines with a percentage rate are duty-free at the general rate (33%) and 8 are dutiable, from duty-free up to 2.7%. The median line pays 2.5%.

The largest subheadings are 8512.90 (parts, 5 lines), 8512.10 (lighting or visual signaling equipment of a kind…, 2 lines), 8512.20 (other lighting or visual signaling equipment, 2 lines) and 8512.40 (windshield wipers, defrosters and demisters, 2 lines).

Its median rate of 2.5% sits at the 67th percentile of the headings in chapter 85.

By Census's concordance, most of its statistical lines are made by Motor Vehicle Electrical and Electronic Equipment Manufacturing (336320), Other Communications Equipment Manufacturing (334290) and Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing (334511). Those are the NAICS industries a US producer of these goods would report under.