Analysis
HTS 8533.10.00 covers fixed carbon resistors, composition or film types under heading 8533 (electrical resistors (including rheostats and potentiometers), other than heating…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 5 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.
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.
The ten-digit suffixes separate having more than two terminals, having two terminals, having more than two leads, carbon composition and carbon film. The duty is the same across them; the suffix matters for statistics, licensing and some quotas, and an entry needs all ten digits.
Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 334416 (Capacitor, Resistor, Coil, Transformer, and Other Inductor Manufacturing), an industry of 322 US establishments employing 15,225 people, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.
Statistical suffixes
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 8533.21.00 | For a power handling capacity not exceeding 20 W | Free |
| 8533.29.00 | Other fixed resistors: other | Free |
| 8533.31.00 | For a power handling capacity not exceeding 20 W | Free |
| 8533.39.00 | Wirewound variable resistors, including rheostats and potentiometers: other | Free |
| 8533.40.40 | Metal oxide varistors | Free |
| 8533.40.80 | Other variable resistors, including rheostats and potentiometers: other | Free |
| 8533.90.40 | For the goods of subheading 8533.40, of ceramic or metallic materials, electrically or mechanically reactive to changes in temperature | Free |
| 8533.90.80 | Parts: other | Free |