HTS Index

HTS 8533

Electrical resistors (including rheostats and potentiometers), other than heating resistors; parts thereof

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
8533.10.00Fixed carbon resistors, composition or film typesFree
8533.10.00.20Having more than two terminals (resistor networks)No.Free
8533.10.00.42Having two terminalsNo.Free
8533.10.00.57Having more than two leads (resistor networks)No.Free
8533.10.00.60Carbon compositionNo.Free
8533.10.00.65Carbon filmNo.Free
8533.21.00For a power handling capacity not exceeding 20 WFree
8533.21.00.10Dual-in-line packageNo.Free
8533.21.00.20Other (including flat packs)No.Free
8533.21.00.30Flat resistor chipsNo.Free
8533.21.00.40Cylindrical leadless resistors (including metal film, metal oxide and thick cement film)No.Free
8533.21.00.50Single-in-lineNo.Free
8533.21.00.60Dual-in-lineNo.Free
8533.21.00.70OtherNo.Free
8533.21.00.80WirewoundNo.Free
8533.21.00.90Other (including metal film, metal oxide and thick cement film)No.Free
8533.29.00.00OtherNo.Free
8533.31.00.00For a power handling capacity not exceeding 20 WNo.Free
8533.39.00OtherFree
8533.39.00.40DimmersNo.Free
8533.39.00.80OtherNo.Free
8533.40Other variable resistors, including rheostats and potentiometerssee above
8533.40.40.00Metal oxide varistorsNo.Free
8533.40.80OtherFree
8533.40.80.40Rheostat and resistor type motor starters and controllersNo.Free
8533.40.80.50CermetNo.Free
8533.40.80.60Metal glazeNo.Free
8533.40.80.70OtherNo.Free
8533.90Partssee above
8533.90.40.00For the goods of subheading 8533.40, of ceramic or metallic materials, electrically or mechanically reactive to changes in temperatureNo.Free
8533.90.80.00OtherNo.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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Source: Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States, U.S. International Trade Commission (public domain). Re-checked daily.