8528.42.00

Analysis

HTS 8528.42.00 covers capable of directly connecting to and designed for use with an automatic data processing machine of heading 8471 under heading 8528 (monitors and projectors, not incorporating television reception apparatus; reception…).

Neighbouring lines carry rates from duty-free to 5%, so the exact line matters. The widest gap is with 8528.69.60 (other: other), at 5%: a product that belongs there but is entered here, or the reverse, changes the duty by 5 percentage points.

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.

Goods classified here enter the United States duty-free at the general (normal trade relations) rate, as do about 58% of the 624 tariff lines in chapter 85. Free here means free of the base duty only: origin-specific Chapter 99 duties such as Section 301 can still be owed.

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 334118 (Computer Terminal and Other Computer Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing), an industry of 284 US establishments employing 11,143 people. That is the industry code a US manufacturer of the same product would normally use.