8519.20.00

Analysis

HTS 8519.20.00 covers apparatus operated by coins, banknotes, bank cards, tokens or by other means of payment under heading 8519 (sound recording or reproducing apparatus).

Within this group the rate runs from duty-free to 3.9%. Compared with 8519.30.10 (with automatic record changing mechanism), 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 334310 (Audio and Video Equipment Manufacturing), an industry of 539 US establishments employing 10,977 people. That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.