8542.39.00

Analysis

HTS 8542.39.00 covers electronic integrated circuits: other under heading 8542 (electronic integrated circuits; parts thereof). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 7 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.

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 ten-digit suffixes separate RF transceivers, active filters, analog to digital converters, digital to analog converters and with adjustable performance…. The duty is the same across them; the suffix matters for statistics, licensing and some quotas, and an entry needs all ten digits.

The other lines in the same group are 8542.31.00 (processors and controllers, whether or not combined with…, duty-free), 8542.32.00 (electronic integrated circuits: memories, duty-free), 8542.33.00 (electronic integrated circuits: amplifiers, duty-free) and 8542.90.00 (electronic integrated circuits; parts thereof: parts, duty-free).