8527.13.20

Analysis

HTS 8527.13.20 covers radio-tape recorder combinations under heading 8527 (reception apparatus for radiobroadcasting, whether or not combined, in the same housing…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.

For statistics it divides in two: 8527.13.20.15 for cassette type and 8527.13.20.25 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 8527.13.11 (combinations incorporating tape players which are incapable…, duty-free), 8527.13.40 (radio-phonograph combinations, duty-free) and 8527.13.60 (other: other, duty-free).

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 334310 (Audio and Video Equipment Manufacturing), an industry of 539 US establishments employing 10,977 people. That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.