Analysis
HTS 8536.30.80 covers other apparatus for protecting electrical circuits: other under heading 8536 (electrical apparatus for switching or protecting electrical circuits, or for making…).
Within this group the rate runs from duty-free to 2.7%. Compared with 8536.90.60 (battery clamps of a kind used in motor vehicles of heading 8702…), which pays 2.7%, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 2.7 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.
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.
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 8536.10.00 | Electrical apparatus for switching or protecting electrical circuits, or for making connections to or in electrical circuits (for example, switches, relays, fuses, surge suppressors, plugs, sockets, lamp-holders and other connectors, junction boxes), for a voltage not exceeding 1,000 V; connectors for optical fibers, optical fiber bundles or cables: fuses | 2.7% |
| 8536.20.00 | Automatic circuit breakers | 2.7% |
| 8536.30.40 | Motor overload protectors | Free |
| 8536.41.00 | For a voltage not exceeding 60 V | 2.7% |
| 8536.49.00 | Relays: other | 2.7% |
| 8536.50.40 | Other switches: motor starters | Free |
| 8536.50.70 | Electronic AC switches consisting of optically coupled input and output circuits (insulated thyristor AC switches); electronic switches, including temperature protected switches, consisting of a transistor and a logic chip (chip-on-chip technology); electromechanical snap-action switches for a current not exceeding 11 amps | Free |
| 8536.50.90 | Other: other | Free |
| 8536.61.00 | Lamp-holders, plugs and sockets: lamp-holders | 2.7% |
| 8536.69.40 | Coaxial connectors; cylindrical multicontact connectors; rack and panel connectors; printed circuit connectors; ribbon or flat cable connectors | Free |
| 8536.69.80 | Other: other | 2.7% |
| 8536.70.00 | Connectors for optical fibers, optical fiber bundles or cables | Free |
| 8536.90.40 | Terminals, electrical splices and electrical couplings; wafer probers | Free |
| 8536.90.60 | Battery clamps of a kind used in motor vehicles of heading 8702, 8703, 8704 or 8711 | 2.7% |
| 8536.90.85 | Other apparatus: other | Free |