Analysis
HTS 8527.19.50 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.
Within this group the rate runs from duty-free to 2%. Compared with 8527.21.25 (radio-tape player combinations: other), which pays 2%, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 2 percentage points.
For statistics it divides in two: 8527.19.50.10 for FM only or AM/FM only and 8527.19.50.25 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.
Statistical suffixes
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 8527.12.00 | Pocket-size radio cassette players | Free |
| 8527.13.11 | Combinations incorporating tape players which are incapable of recording | Free |
| 8527.13.20 | Radio-tape recorder combinations | Free |
| 8527.13.40 | Radio-phonograph combinations | Free |
| 8527.13.60 | Other: other | Free |
| 8527.19.10 | Valued not over $40 each, incorporating a clock or clock-timer, not in combination with any other article, and not designed for motor vehicle installation | Free |
| 8527.21.15 | Combined with sound recording or reproducing apparatus capable of receiving and decoding digital radio data system signals | Free |
| 8527.21.25 | Radio-tape player combinations: other | 2% |
| 8527.21.40 | Combined with sound recording or reproducing apparatus: other | Free |
| 8527.29.40 | FM only or AM/FM only | Free |
| 8527.29.80 | Other: other | Free |
| 8527.91.05 | Articles designed for connection to telegraphic or telephonic apparatus or instruments or to telegraphic or telephonic networks | Free |
| 8527.91.40 | Combinations incorporating tape players which are incapable of recording | Free |
| 8527.91.50 | Other: other combinations incorporating tape recorders | Free |
| 8527.91.60 | Other: other | Free |
| 8527.92.10 | Valued not over $40 each | Free |
| 8527.92.50 | Not combined with sound recording or reproducing apparatus but combined with a clock: other | Free |
| 8527.99.10 | Infant nursery monitor systems, each consisting in the same package of a radio transmitter, an electrical adapter, and a radio receiver | Free |
| 8527.99.15 | Other: other radio receivers | Free |
| 8527.99.40 | Other: other | Free |