HTS tariff line · chapter 85
8533.39.00
Wirewound variable resistors, including rheostats and potentiometers: other
Analysis
HTS 8533.39.00 covers wirewound variable resistors, including rheostats and potentiometers: other under heading 8533 (electrical resistors (including rheostats and potentiometers), other than heating…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.
For statistics it divides in two: 8533.39.00.40 for dimmers and 8533.39.00.80 for other. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.
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.
Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 335931 (Current-Carrying Wiring Device Manufacturing), an industry of 397 US establishments employing 24,429 people. That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.
Statistical suffixes
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 8533.10.00 | Fixed carbon resistors, composition or film types | Free |
| 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 |
| 8533.40.40 | 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 |