HTS Index

HTS 8504.40

Electrical transformers, static converters (for example, rectifiers) and inductors; parts thereof > Static converters

General rateNot stated for this line
What most imports pay — countries with normal trade relations, which is nearly all of them.
Special rateNot stated for this line
Only under a trade programme or agreement, and only if the goods qualify. The codes name the programmes.
Column 2 rateNot stated for this line
Only for the few countries without normal trade relations.

This line states no general duty rate, and none is inherited from the lines above it. That is not the same as duty-free: lines in Chapters 98 and 99 are provisions and qualifiers rather than ordinary commodities, and a rate may be stated elsewhere. Check the heading before assuming anything.

Additional duties may apply

This line references Chapter 99, where Section 301, Section 232 and other additional duties live. Those are charged on top of the general rate above and depend on where the goods were made. The rate shown here is therefore not the whole story for every origin.

What the Chapter 99 provisions are

Statistical breakouts

The 10-digit lines under this code. They are reporting categories; the duty is the one above unless a line states its own.

CodeDescriptionUnitsRate
8504.40.40.00Speed drive controllers for electric motorsNo.Free
8504.40.60Suitable for physical incorporation into automatic data processing machines or units thereof of heading 8471Free
8504.40.60.01With a power output not exceeding 50 WNo.Free
8504.40.60.07With a power output exceeding 50 W but not exceeding 150 WNo.Free
8504.40.60.12With a power output exceeding 150 W but not exceeding 500 WNo.Free
8504.40.60.18OtherNo.Free
8504.40.70OtherFree
8504.40.70.01With a power output not exceeding 50 WNo.Free
8504.40.70.07With a power output exceeding 50 W but not exceeding 150 WNo.Free
8504.40.70.12With a power output exceeding 150 W but not exceeding 500 WNo.Free
8504.40.70.18OtherNo.Free
8504.40.85.00For telecommunication apparatusNo.Free
8504.40.95OtherFree
8504.40.95.10With a power output not exceeding 50 WNo.Free
8504.40.95.20With a power output exceeding 50 W but not exceeding 150 WNo.Free
8504.40.95.30With a power output exceeding 150 W but not exceeding 500 WNo.Free
8504.40.95.40OtherNo.Free
8504.40.95.50OtherNo.Free
8504.40.95.71Of a capacity not exceeding 200 WNo.Free
8504.40.95.73Of a capacity exceeding 200 W but not exceeding 650 WNo.Free
8504.40.95.75Of a capacity exceeding 650 W but not exceeding 20,000 WNo.Free
8504.40.95.77Of a capacity exceeding 20,000 W but not exceeding 125,000 WNo.Free
8504.40.95.78Of a capacity exceeding 125,000 W but not exceeding 1,000,000 WNo.Free
8504.40.95.79OtherNo.Free
8504.40.95.80OtherNo.Free

What changed

No recorded change to this line since we began reading the schedule daily. That is the ordinary state: USITC revises it fifteen to eighteen times a year, and most codes are untouched in any given revision.

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Classification and the duties that finally apply to a shipment are a licensed customs broker's call. This page publishes the schedule as USITC does; it does not calculate what an entry will cost.

Source: Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States, U.S. International Trade Commission (public domain). Re-checked daily.