8522.90.58

Analysis

HTS 8522.90.58 covers parts of telephone answering machines: other under heading 8522 (parts and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.

For statistics it divides in two: 8522.90.58.40 for magnetic recording and reproducing heads and 8522.90.58.80 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.

There is no general-rate duty on this line, which puts it with roughly 58% of the 624 tariff lines in chapter 85 that are also free. 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 334419 (Other Electronic Component Manufacturing), an industry of 1,081 US establishments employing 54,983 people, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.