8541.49.10

Analysis

HTS 8541.49.10 covers other: other diodes 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.

For statistics it divides in two: 8541.49.10.10 for unmounted chips, dice and wafers and 8541.49.10.50 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.

The other lines in the same group are 8541.49.70 (other: transistors, duty-free), 8541.49.80 (optical coupled isolators, duty-free) and 8541.49.95 (other: other, duty-free).

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 334413 (Semiconductor and Related Device Manufacturing), an industry of 822 US establishments employing 116,831 people, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.