8527.99.10

Analysis

HTS 8527.99.10 covers infant nursery monitor systems, each consisting in the same package of a radio transmitter, an electrical adapter, and a radio receiver under heading 8527 (reception apparatus for radiobroadcasting, whether or not combined, in the same housing…).

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 8527.99.15 (other: other radio receivers, duty-free) and 8527.99.40 (other: other, duty-free).

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 334290 (Other Communications Equipment Manufacturing), an industry of 332 US establishments employing 12,455 people, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.

All 2 neighbouring lines carry the same duty-free rate, so a borderline choice between them changes the statistics reported, not the duty paid.