HTS tariff line · chapter 85
8517.18.00
Telephone sets, including smartphones and other telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks: other
Analysis
HTS 8517.18.00 covers telephone sets, including smartphones and other telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks: other under heading 8517 (telephone sets, including smartphones and other telephones for cellular networks or for…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 3 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.
Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 334210 (Telephone Apparatus Manufacturing), an industry of 161 US establishments employing 8,893 people. That is the industry code a US manufacturer of the same product would normally use.
The ten-digit suffixes separate videophones and multiline telephones. The duty is the same across them; the suffix matters for statistics, licensing and some quotas, and an entry needs all ten digits.
Statistical suffixes
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 8517.11.00 | Line telephone sets with cordless handsets | Free |
| 8517.13.00 | Telephone sets, including smartphones and other telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks: smartphones | Free |
| 8517.14.00 | Telephone sets, including smartphones and other telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks: other telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks | Free |
| 8517.61.00 | Other apparatus for transmission or reception of voice, images or other data, including apparatus for communication in a wired or wireless network (such as a local or wide area network): base stations | Free |
| 8517.62.00 | Machines for the reception, conversion and transmission or regeneration of voice, images or other data, including switching and routing apparatus | Free |
| 8517.69.00 | Other apparatus for transmission or reception of voice, images or other data, including apparatus for communication in a wired or wireless network (such as a local or wide area network): other | Free |
| 8517.71.00 | Aerials and aerial reflectors of all kinds; parts suitable for use therewith | Free |
| 8517.79.00 | Parts: other | Free |