8518

Analysis

Heading 8518 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule covers microphones and stands therefor; loudspeakers, whether or not mounted in their enclosures; headphones and earphones, whether or not combined with a microphone, and sets consisting of a microphone and one or more…. It divides into 8 six-digit subheadings and 15 eight-digit tariff lines, with 16 ten-digit statistical suffixes below them.

Every one of its 15 tariff lines is duty-free at the general rate, so classification within the heading affects statistics and Chapter 99 measures rather than the base duty.

The largest subheadings are 8518.90 (parts, 4 lines), 8518.10 (microphones and stands therefor, 2 lines), 8518.29 (other, 2 lines) and 8518.30 (headphones and earphones, whether or not combined…, 2 lines).

Its median rate of duty-free sits at the 29th percentile of the headings in chapter 85.

By Census's concordance, most of its statistical lines are made by Audio and Video Equipment Manufacturing (334310), Telephone Apparatus Manufacturing (334210) and Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing (334220). Those are the NAICS industries a US producer of these goods would report under.