8541.43.00

Analysis

HTS 8541.43.00 covers photovoltaic cells assembled in modules or made up into panels under heading 8541 (semiconductor devices (for example, diodes, transistors, semiconductor-based…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items and W.

For statistics it divides in two: 8541.43.00.10 for crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells of a kind described… and 8541.43.00.80 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.

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.

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 335999 (All Other Miscellaneous Electrical Equipment and Component Manufacturing), an industry of 828 US establishments employing 40,468 people, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.