HTS tariff line · chapter 90
9030.82.00
For measuring or checking semiconductor wafers or devices (including integrated circuits)
Analysis
HTS 9030.82.00 covers for measuring or checking semiconductor wafers or devices (including integrated circuits) under heading 9030 (oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers and other instruments and apparatus for measuring or…).
Within this group the rate runs from duty-free to 1.7%. Compared with 9030.33.34 (resistance measuring instruments), which pays 1.7%, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 1.7 percentage points.
Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 40% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 40% duty.
The normal trade relations rate here is zero, shared by about 73% of the 296 tariff lines in chapter 90, a useful check when a neighbouring dutiable line is a candidate. Duty-free at the general rate does not rule out additional duties under Chapter 99, such as Section 301 or Section 232 measures, which depend on the country of origin.
Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 334515 (Instrument Manufacturing for Measuring and Testing Electricity and Electrical Signals), an industry of 672 US establishments employing 29,914 people. That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 9030.10.00 | Instruments and apparatus for measuring or detecting ionizing radiations | Free |
| 9030.20.05 | Specially designed for telecommunications | Free |
| 9030.20.10 | Oscilloscopes and oscillographs: other oscilloscopes and oscillographs | Free |
| 9030.31.00 | Multimeters, without a recording device | Free |
| 9030.32.00 | Multimeters, with a recording device | Free |
| 9030.33.34 | Resistance measuring instruments | 1.7% |
| 9030.33.38 | Other, without a recording device: other | Free |
| 9030.39.01 | Other instruments and apparatus, for measuring or checking voltage, current, resistance or power (other than those for measuring or checking semiconductor wafers or devices): other, with a recording device | Free |
| 9030.40.00 | Oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers and other instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking electrical quantities, excluding meters of heading 9028; instruments and apparatus for measuring or detecting alpha, beta, gamma, X-ray, cosmic or other ionizing radiations; parts and accessories thereof:: other instruments and apparatus, specially designed for telecommunications (for example, cross-talk meters, gain measuring instruments, distortion factor meters, psophometers) | Free |
| 9030.84.00 | Other instruments and apparatus: other, with a recording device | Free |
| 9030.89.01 | Other instruments and apparatus: other | Free |
| 9030.90.25 | Printed circuit assemblies | Free |
| 9030.90.46 | For articles of subheading 9030.10: other | Free |
| 9030.90.66 | Of instruments and apparatus of subheading 9030.40 or 9030.82 | Free |
| 9030.90.68 | Printed circuit assemblies: other | Free |
| 9030.90.84 | Of instruments and apparatus of subheading 9030.82 | Free |
| 9030.90.89 | Other: other | Free |