Analysis
HTS 8518.10.80 covers microphones and stands therefor: other under heading 8518 (microphones and stands therefor; loudspeakers, whether or not mounted in their…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.
For statistics it divides in two: 8518.10.80.30 for microphones and 8518.10.80.40 for other. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.
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 334310 (Audio and Video Equipment Manufacturing), an industry of 539 US establishments employing 10,977 people. That is the industry code a US manufacturer of the same product would normally use.
Statistical suffixes
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 8518.10.40 | Microphones having a frequency range of 300 Hz to 3.4 kHz with a diameter of not exceeding 10 mm and a height not exceeding 3 mm, for telecommunication use | Free |
| 8518.21.00 | Single loudspeakers, mounted in their enclosures | Free |
| 8518.22.00 | Multiple loudspeakers, mounted in the same enclosure | Free |
| 8518.29.40 | Without housing, having a frequency range of 300 Hz to 3.4 kHz with a diameter of not exceeding 50 mm, for telecommunication use | Free |
| 8518.29.80 | Other: other | Free |
| 8518.30.10 | Line telephone handsets | Free |
| 8518.30.20 | Headphones and earphones, whether or not combined with a microphone, and sets consisting of a microphone and one or more loudspeakers: other | Free |
| 8518.40.10 | For use as repeaters in line telephony | Free |
| 8518.40.20 | Audio-frequency electric amplifiers: other | Free |
| 8518.50.00 | Electric sound amplifier sets | Free |
| 8518.90.20 | Printed circuit assemblies of line telephone handsets; parts of repeaters | Free |
| 8518.90.41 | Of line telephone handsets of subheading 8518.30.10; of repeaters of subheading 8518.40.10: other | Free |
| 8518.90.60 | Printed circuit assemblies of the articles of subheading 8518.10.40 or 8518.29.40 | Free |
| 8518.90.81 | Other: other | Free |