8516.90.35

Analysis

HTS 8516.90.35 covers assemblies, incorporating more than one of the following: cooking chamber; structural supporting chassis; door; outer case under heading 8516 (electric instantaneous or storage water heaters and immersion heaters; electric space…).

Within this group the rate runs from duty-free to 3.9%. Compared with 8516.90.90 (parts: other), which pays 3.9%, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 3.9 percentage points.

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.

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 335220 (Major Household Appliance Manufacturing), an industry of 180 US establishments employing 47,877 people. That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.