Analysis
HTS 8528.69.05 covers incorporating video recording or reproducing apparatus 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 8528.69.70 (black and white or other monochrome) at 5%, a difference of 5 points on the customs value.
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.
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, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.
The general rate of Free has not changed in any edition of the schedule since Jan 2023.
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 8528.69.10 | 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 |
| 8528.69.15 | Incorporating video recording or reproducing apparatus | 3.9% |
| 8528.69.20 | Non-high definition, with a cathode-ray tube: other | 5% |
| 8528.69.25 | Incorporating video recording or reproducing apparatus | 3.9% |
| 8528.69.30 | High definition, with a cathode-ray tube: other | 5% |
| 8528.69.35 | With a video display diagonal not exceeding 34.29 cm | Free |
| 8528.69.40 | Incorporating video recording or reproducing apparatus: other | 3.9% |
| 8528.69.45 | With a video display diagonal not exceeding 34.29 cm | Free |
| 8528.69.50 | Other: other | 5% |
| 8528.69.55 | Incorporating video recording or reproducing apparatus | 3.9% |
| 8528.69.60 | Other: other | 5% |
| 8528.69.70 | Black and white or other monochrome | 5% |