8541.49.70

Analysis

HTS 8541.49.70 covers other: transistors 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: 8541.49.70.40 for unmounted chips, dice and wafers and 8541.49.70.80 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.

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 8541.49.10 (other: other diodes, 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. That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.