8548.00.00

Analysis

HTS 8548.00.00 covers electrical parts of machinery or apparatus, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter under heading 8548 (electrical parts of machinery or apparatus, not specified or included elsewhere in this…).

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.

It is the only US line under subheading 8548.00, so the six-digit code used by every Harmonized System country and the eight-digit US line describe the same goods; a foreign tariff or an exporter's invoice showing 8548.00 points straight here.

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. That is the industry code a US manufacturer of the same product would normally use.