8542.31.00

Analysis

HTS 8542.31.00 covers processors and controllers, whether or not combined with memories, converters, logic circuits, amplifiers, clock and timing circuits, or other circuits under heading 8542 (electronic integrated circuits; parts thereof). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 13 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.

The ten-digit suffixes separate 8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit, digital signal processors, graphics processing units and central processing units and 3 more. The duty is the same across them; the suffix matters for statistics, licensing and some quotas, and an entry needs all ten digits.

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.

Goods classified here enter the United States duty-free at the general (normal trade relations) rate, as do about 58% of the 624 tariff lines in chapter 85. 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 8542.32.00 (electronic integrated circuits: memories, duty-free), 8542.33.00 (electronic integrated circuits: amplifiers, duty-free), 8542.39.00 (electronic integrated circuits: other, duty-free) and 8542.90.00 (electronic integrated circuits; parts thereof: parts, duty-free).