8525

Analysis

Heading 8525 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule covers transmission apparatus for radio-broadcasting or television, whether or not incorporating reception apparatus or sound recording or reproducing apparatus; television cameras, digital cameras and video camera recorders. It divides into 6 six-digit subheadings and 13 eight-digit tariff lines, with 21 ten-digit statistical suffixes below them.

Every one of its 13 tariff lines is duty-free at the general rate, so classification within the heading affects statistics and Chapter 99 measures rather than the base duty.

The largest subheadings are 8525.89 (other, 5 lines), 8525.50 (transmission apparatus, 3 lines), 8525.60 (transmission apparatus incorporating reception…, 2 lines) and 8525.81 (unnamed, 1 line).

Its median rate of duty-free sits at the 29th percentile of the headings in chapter 85.

By Census's concordance, most of its statistical lines are made by Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing (334220) and Audio and Video Equipment Manufacturing (334310). Those are the NAICS industries a US producer of these goods would report under.