8524.11.10

Analysis

HTS 8524.11.10 covers flat panel display modules, other than flat panel display modules for articles of subheadings 8528.59, 8528.69, 8528.72 and 8528.73 under heading 8524 (flat panel display modules, whether or not incorporating touch-sensitive screens).

Within this group the rate runs from duty-free to 4.5%. Compared with 8524.91.90 (of liquid crystals: other), which pays 4.5%, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 4.5 percentage points.

Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 45% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 45% 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 33331 (Commercial and Service Industry Machinery Manufacturing), an industry of 1,731 US establishments employing 80,504 people. That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.