Analysis
HTS 8528.69.45 covers with a video display diagonal not exceeding 34.29 cm 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 8528.69.70 (black and white or other monochrome), 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 334310 (Audio and Video Equipment Manufacturing), an industry of 539 US establishments employing 10,977 people. That is the industry code a US manufacturer of the same product would normally use.
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 8528.69.05 | Incorporating video recording or reproducing apparatus | Free |
| 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% |
| 8528.69.50 | 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% |