8523.51.00

Analysis

HTS 8523.51.00 covers solid-state non-volatile storage devices under heading 8523 (discs, tapes, solid-state non-volatile storage devices, "smart cards" and other media for…).

Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 80% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 80% 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 33461 (Manufacturing and Reproducing Magnetic and Optical Media), an industry of 292 US establishments employing 4,540 people. That is the industry code a US manufacturer of the same product would normally use.

All 19 neighbouring lines carry the same duty-free rate, so a borderline choice between them changes the statistics reported, not the duty paid.

Every edition we compared, from Jan 2023 to Oct 2026 (Rev. 22), shows the same general rate of Free.