Analysis
HTS 8528.59.05 covers incorporating video recording or reproducing apparatus under heading 8528 (monitors and projectors, not incorporating television reception apparatus; reception…).
Within this group the rate runs from duty-free to 5%. Compared with 8528.59.60 (black and white or other monochrome), which pays 5%, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 5 percentage points.
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.
Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 25% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 25% duty.
Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 334310 (Audio and Video Equipment Manufacturing), an industry of 539 US establishments employing 10,977 people. That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.
Every edition we compared, from Jan 2023 to Oct 2026 (Rev. 22), shows the same general rate of Free.
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 8528.59.10 | Incomplete or unfinished (including assemblies consisting of the parts specified in subdivisions (a), (b), (c) and (e) in additional U.S. note 9 to this chapter plus a power supply), presented without a display device: other | Free |
| 8528.59.15 | With a video display diagonal not exceeding 34.29 cm | Free |
| 8528.59.23 | Incorporating video recording or reproducing apparatus: other | 3.9% |
| 8528.59.25 | With a video display diagonal not exceeding 34.29 cm | Free |
| 8528.59.33 | Other: other | 5% |
| 8528.59.35 | With a video display diagonal not exceeding 34.29 cm | Free |
| 8528.59.40 | Incorporating video recording or reproducing apparatus: other | 3.9% |
| 8528.59.45 | With a video display diagonal not exceeding 34.29 cm | Free |
| 8528.59.50 | Other: other | 5% |
| 8528.59.60 | Black and white or other monochrome | 5% |