Chapter 85: Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
HTS heading 8540: Thermionic, cold cathode or photocathode tubes (for example, vacuum or vapor or gas filled tubes, mercury arc rectifying tubes, cathode-ray…
52 numbered lines under heading 8540, including 38 10-digit statistical lines. The first six digits are the international HS subheading; the general column is the normal US duty rate.
| HTS code | Description | Unit | General | Special | Column 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8540 | Thermionic, cold cathode or photocathode tubes (for example, vacuum or vapor or gas filled tubes, mercury arc rectifying tubes, cathode-ray tubes, television camera tubes); parts thereof: | ||||
| Cathode-ray television picture tubes, including video monitor cathode-ray tubes: | |||||
| 8540.11 | Color: | ||||
| 8540.11.10 | Non-high definition, non-projection, having a video display diagonal exceeding 35.56 cm | 15% | Free (A+,AU,B,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL,JO,KR,MA,OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG) | 60% | |
| Having a video display diagonal: | |||||
| 8540.11.10.30 | Not exceeding 39 cm | No. | |||
| 8540.11.10.40 | Exceeding 39 cm but not exceeding 45 cm | No. | |||
| 8540.11.10.50 | Exceeding 45 cm but not exceeding 50 cm | No. | |||
| 8540.11.10.55 | Exceeding 50 cm but not exceeding 63 cm | No. | |||
| 8540.11.10.85 | Exceeding 63 cm | No. | |||
| Non-high definition, non-projection, having a video display diagonal not exceeding 35.56 cm: | |||||
| 8540.11.24.01 | Having a video display diagonal not exceeding 34.29 cm | No. | 7.5% | Free (A+,AU,B,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL, JO,KR,MA, OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG) | 60% |
| 8540.11.28.01 | Other | No. | 15% | Free (A+,AU,B,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL, JO,KR,MA, OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG) | 60% |
| 8540.11.30.00 | High definition, having a video display diagonal exceeding 35.56 cm | No. | 15% | Free (A+,AU,B,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL,JO,KR,MA,OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG) | 60% |
| High definition, having a video display diagonal not exceeding 35.56 cm: | |||||
| 8540.11.44.01 | Having a video display diagonal not exceeding 34.29 cm | No. | 7.5% | Free (A+,AU,B,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL, JO,KR,MA, OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG) | 60% |
| 8540.11.48.01 | Other | No. | 15% | Free (A+,AU,B,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL, JO,KR,MA, OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG) | 60% |
| 8540.11.50.00 | Other | No. | 15% | Free (A+,AU,B,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL,JO,KR,MA,OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG) | 60% |
| 8540.12 | Monochrome: | ||||
| Television picture tubes having a straight line dimension across the faceplate greater than 29 cm but having no straight line dimension across the faceplate that exceeds 42 cm: | |||||
| 8540.12.10.00 | Non-high definition | No. | 3.6% | Free (A,AU,B,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL,JO,KR,MA,OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG) | 60% |
| 8540.12.20.00 | High definition | No. | 3.6% | Free (A,AU,B,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL,JO,KR,MA,OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG) | 60% |
| Other: | |||||
| 8540.12.50 | Non-high definition | 3.3% | Free (A+,AU,B,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL, JO,KR,MA, OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG) | 60% | |
| 8540.12.50.40 | Projection | No. | |||
| 8540.12.50.80 | Other | No. | |||
| 8540.12.70.00 | High definition | No. | 3.3% | Free (A+,AU,B,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL, JO,KR,MA, OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG) | 60% |
| 8540.20 | Television camera tubes; image converters and intensifiers; other photocathode tubes: | ||||
| 8540.20.20 | Cathode-ray tubes | 6% | Free (A+,AU,B,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL, JO,KR,MA, OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG) | 35% | |
| 8540.20.20.40 | Color | No. | |||
| 8540.20.20.80 | Other | No. | |||
| 8540.20.40.00 | Other | No. | 3.3% | Free (A+,AU,B,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL, JO,KR,MA, OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG) | 35% |
| 8540.40.10 | Data/graphic display tubes, monochrome; data/graphic display tubes, color, with a phosphor dot screen pitch smaller than 0.4 mm | 3% | Free (A+,AU,B,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL, JO,KR,MA, OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG) | 35% | |
| 8540.40.10.10 | Color | No. | |||
| 8540.40.10.50 | Other | No. | |||
| 8540.60.00 | Other cathode-ray tubes | 3% | Free (A+,AU,B,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL, JO,KR,MA,OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG) | 35% | |
| Having a video display diagonal: | |||||
| 8540.60.00.20 | Not exceeding 30 cm | No. | |||
| 8540.60.00.65 | Exceeding 30 cm but not exceeding 36 cm | No. | |||
| 8540.60.00.80 | Exceeding 36 cm | No. | |||
| Microwave tubes (for example, magnetrons, klystrons, traveling wave tubes, carcinotrons), excluding grid-controlled tubes: | |||||
| 8540.71 | Magnetrons: | ||||
| 8540.71.20.00 | Modified for use as parts of microwave ovens | No. | Free | 35% | |
| 8540.71.40.00 | Other | No. | 3.7% | Free (A+,AU,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL, JO,KR,MA, OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG) | 35% |
| 8540.79 | Other: | ||||
| 8540.79.10.00 | Klystrons | No. | 3.3% | Free (A+,AU,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL, JO,KR,MA, OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG) | 35% |
| 8540.79.20.00 | Other | No. | 3.7% | Free (A+,AU,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL,JO,KR,MA, OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG) | 35% |
| Other tubes: | |||||
| 8540.81.00.00 | Receiver or amplifier tubes | No. | 4.2% | Free (A+,AU,B,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL, JO,KR,MA, OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG) | 35% |
| 8540.89.00 | Other | 3.7% | Free (A+,AU,B,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL,JO,KR,MA,OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG) | 35% | |
| 8540.89.00.20 | Gas and vapor electron tubes | No. | |||
| 8540.89.00.40 | Diodes, triodes and tetrodes | No. | |||
| 8540.89.00.60 | Light-sensing tubes | No. | |||
| 8540.89.00.80 | Other | No. | |||
| Parts: | |||||
| 8540.91 | Of cathode-ray tubes: | ||||
| 8540.91.15.00 | Front panel assemblies | No. | 5.4% | Free (A+,AU,B,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL,JO,KR,MA,OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG) | 35% |
| 8540.91.20.00 | Deflection coils | No. | Free | 35% | |
| 8540.91.50.00 | Other | kg | 5.4% | Free (A+,AU,B,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL, JO,KR,MA, OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG) | 35% |
| 8540.99 | Other: | ||||
| 8540.99.40.00 | Electron guns; radio frequency (RF) interaction structures for microwave tubes of subheadings 8540.71 through 8540.79, inclusive | No. | Free | 35% | |
| 8540.99.80.00 | Other | No. | Free | 35% |
Statistical (10-digit) lines without a rate use the rate of the 8-digit line above them. Additional duties such as Section 301 and Section 232 may apply; check them with the tariff checker.
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