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 8541: Semiconductor devices (for example, diodes, transistors, semiconductor-based transducers); photosensitive semiconductor devices, including…
49 numbered lines under heading 8541, including 36 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8541 | Semiconductor devices (for example, diodes, transistors, semiconductor-based transducers); photosensitive semiconductor devices, including photovoltaic cells whether or not assembled in modules or made up into panels; light-emitting diodes (LED), whether or not assembled with other light-emitting diodes (LED); mounted piezo-electric crystals; parts thereof: | ||||
| 8541.10.00 | Diodes, other than photosensitive or light-emitting diodes (LED) | Free | 35% | ||
| 8541.10.00.40 | Unmounted chips, dice and wafers | No. | |||
| Other: | |||||
| 8541.10.00.50 | Zener | No. | |||
| 8541.10.00.60 | Microwave | No. | |||
| Other: | |||||
| 8541.10.00.70 | With a maximum current of 0.5 A or less | No. | |||
| 8541.10.00.80 | Other | No. | |||
| Transistors, other than photosensitive transistors: | |||||
| 8541.21.00 | With a dissipation rate of less than 1 W | Free | 35% | ||
| 8541.21.00.40 | Unmounted chips, dice and wafers | No. | |||
| Other: | |||||
| 8541.21.00.75 | With an operating frequency not less than 100 MHz | No. | |||
| 8541.21.00.95 | Other | No. | |||
| 8541.29.00 | Other | Free | 35% | ||
| 8541.29.00.40 | Unmounted chips, dice and wafers | No. | |||
| Other: | |||||
| 8541.29.00.55 | With an operating frequency less than 30 MHz | No. | |||
| 8541.29.00.65 | With an operating frequency 30 MHz or greater but less than 30,000 MHz | No. | |||
| 8541.29.00.85 | With an operating frequency 30,000 MHz or greater | No. | |||
| 8541.30.00 | Thyristors, diacs and triacs, other than photosensitive devices | Free | 35% | ||
| 8541.30.00.40 | Unmounted chips, dice and wafers | No. | |||
| 8541.30.00.80 | Other | No. | |||
| Photosensitive semiconductor devices, including photovoltaic cells whether or not assembled in modules or made up into panels; light-emitting diodes (LED): | |||||
| 8541.41.00.00 | Light-emitting diodes (LED)Note: See 9903.90.08. | No. | Free | 20% | |
| 8541.42.00 | Photovoltaic cells not assembled in modules or made up into panels | Free | 35% | ||
| 8541.42.00.10 | Crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells of a kind described in statistical note 12 to this chapter | No., W | |||
| 8541.42.00.80 | Other | No., W | |||
| 8541.43.00 | Photovoltaic cells assembled in modules or made up into panels | Free | 35% | ||
| 8541.43.00.10 | Crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells of a kind described in statistical note 12 to this chapter | No., W | |||
| 8541.43.00.80 | Other | No., W | |||
| 8541.49 | Other: | ||||
| 8541.49.10 | Other diodes | Free | 35% | ||
| 8541.49.10.10 | Unmounted chips, dice and wafers | No. | |||
| 8541.49.10.50 | Other | No. | |||
| 8541.49.70 | Transistors | Free | 35% | ||
| 8541.49.70.40 | Unmounted chips, dice and wafers | No. | |||
| 8541.49.70.80 | Other | No. | |||
| Other: | |||||
| 8541.49.80.00 | Optical coupled isolators | No. | Free | 35% | |
| 8541.49.95.00 | Other | No. | Free | 35% | |
| Other semiconductor devices: | |||||
| 8541.51.00.00 | Semiconductor-based transducers | No. | Free | 35% | |
| 8541.59.00 | Other | Free | 35% | ||
| 8541.59.00.40 | Unmounted chips, dice and wafers | No. | |||
| 8541.59.00.80 | Other | No. | |||
| 8541.60.00 | Mounted piezoelectric crystals | Free | 35% | ||
| Quartz designed for operating frequencies of: | |||||
| 8541.60.00.10 | 32.768 kHz | No. | |||
| 8541.60.00.20 | Not exceeding 1 MHz, except 32.768 kHz | No. | |||
| 8541.60.00.30 | Exceeding 1 MHz, but not exceeding 5 MHZ | No. | |||
| 8541.60.00.50 | Exceeding 5 MHZ, but not exceeding 20 MHz | No. | |||
| 8541.60.00.60 | Exceeding 20 MHZ | No. | |||
| 8541.60.00.80 | Other | No. | |||
| 8541.90.00 | Parts | Free | 35% | ||
| 8541.90.00.10 | Frames for photovoltaic cells assembled in modules or made up into panels (as covered by subheading 8541.43.00) | No. | |||
| 8541.90.00.80 | Other | No. |
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