8528.71.30

Analysis

HTS 8528.71.30 covers printed circuit assemblies incorporating a tuner, of a kind used with data processing machines of heading 8471 under heading 8528 (monitors and projectors, not incorporating television reception apparatus; reception…).

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.

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.

The other lines in the same group are 8528.71.10 (incorporating video recording or reproducing apparatus, duty-free), 8528.71.20 (set top boxes which have a communications function, duty-free), 8528.71.40 (other: color, duty-free) and 8528.71.45 (black and white or other monochrome, duty-free).

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.