8525.89.50

Analysis

HTS 8525.89.50 covers other: other under heading 8525 (transmission apparatus for radio-broadcasting or television, whether or not incorporating…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.

For statistics it divides in two: 8525.89.50.30 for camcorders and 8525.89.50.50 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.

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.

The other lines in the same group are 8525.89.10 (gyrostabilized television cameras, duty-free), 8525.89.20 (studio television cameras excluding shoulder-carried and…, duty-free), 8525.89.30 (television cameras: other, duty-free) and 8525.89.40 (digital still image video cameras, duty-free).