8527

Analysis

Heading 8527 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule covers reception apparatus for radiobroadcasting, whether or not combined, in the same housing, with sound recording or reproducing apparatus or a clock. It divides into 8 six-digit subheadings and 21 eight-digit tariff lines, with 27 ten-digit statistical suffixes below them.

20 of its 21 lines with a percentage rate are duty-free at the general rate (95%) and 1 are dutiable, from duty-free up to 2%. The median line pays duty-free.

The largest subheadings are 8527.13 (other apparatus combined with sound recording or…, 4 lines), 8527.91 (combined with sound recording or reproducing…, 4 lines), 8527.21 (combined with sound recording or reproducing…, 3 lines) and 8527.99 (other, 3 lines).

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 Audio and Video Equipment Manufacturing (334310), Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing (334220) and Other Communications Equipment Manufacturing (334290). Those are the NAICS industries a US producer of these goods would report under.