HTS tariff line · chapter 85
8536.70.00
Connectors for optical fibers, optical fiber bundles or cables
Analysis
HTS 8536.70.00 covers connectors for optical fibers, optical fiber bundles or cables 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 45% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 45% 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 334417 (Electronic Connector Manufacturing), an industry of 206 US establishments employing 20,430 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 |
| 8536.30.80 | Other apparatus for protecting electrical circuits: other | 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% |
| 8536.90.40 | 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 |