8528.52.00

Analysis

HTS 8528.52.00 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…).

Rates on the nearby lines range from duty-free to 5%. The costliest confusion would be with 8528.69.60 (other: other) at 5%, a difference of 5 points on the customs value.

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.

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, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.