8518.90.20

Analysis

HTS 8518.90.20 covers printed circuit assemblies of line telephone handsets; parts of repeaters under heading 8518 (microphones and stands therefor; loudspeakers, whether or not mounted in their…).

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.

The other lines in the same group are 8518.90.41 (of line telephone handsets of subheading 8518.30.10; of…, duty-free), 8518.90.60 (printed circuit assemblies of the articles of subheading…, duty-free) and 8518.90.81 (other: other, duty-free).

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 334418 (Printed Circuit Assembly (Electronic Assembly) Manufacturing), an industry of 861 US establishments employing 49,932 people. That is the industry code a US manufacturer of the same product would normally use.