8522.90.80

Analysis

HTS 8522.90.80 covers other: 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: 8522.90.80.40 for magnetic recording and reproducing heads and 8522.90.80.81 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 334419 (Other Electronic Component Manufacturing), an industry of 1,081 US establishments employing 54,983 people. That is the industry code a US manufacturer of the same product would normally use.