Analysis
HTS 8536.90.85 covers other apparatus: other under heading 8536 (electrical apparatus for switching or protecting electrical circuits, or for making…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 3 ten-digit suffixes, reported in kilograms.
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.
The other lines in the same group are 8536.90.40 (terminals, electrical splices and electrical couplings…, duty-free) and 8536.90.60 (battery clamps of a kind used in motor vehicles of heading…, 2.7%).
Statistical suffixes
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 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% |