8527.13.60

Analysis

HTS 8527.13.60 covers other: other 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: 8527.13.60.40 for incorporating optical disc (including compact disc) players… and 8527.13.60.80 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.

There is no general-rate duty on this line, which puts it with roughly 58% of the 624 tariff lines in chapter 85 that are also free. 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), 8527.13.20 (radio-tape recorder combinations, duty-free) and 8527.13.40 (radio-phonograph combinations, 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, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.