Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound and television recorders and reproducers

The 48 headings of chapter 85

• 8501: Electric motors and generators (excluding generating sets) (71 codes, General duty Free to 6.7%)
• 8502: Electric generating sets and rotary converters (12 codes, General duty 2% to 3%)
• 8503: Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of heading 8501 or 8502 (11 codes, General duty Free to 6.5%)
• 8504: Electrical transformers, static converters (for example, rectifiers) and inductors; parts thereof (54 codes, General duty Free to 6.6%)
• 8505: Electromagnets; permanent magnets and articles intended to become permanent magnets after magnetization; electromagnetic or permanent magnet chucks, clamps and similar holding devices; electromagnetic couplings, clutches and brakes; electromagnetic lifting heads; parts thereof (13 codes, General duty Free to 4.9%)
• 8506: Primary cells and primary batteries; parts thereof (14 codes, General duty 2.7%)
• 8507: Electric storage batteries, including separators therefor, whether or not rectangular (including square); parts thereof (19 codes, General duty 2.5% to 3.5%)
• 8508: Vacuum cleaners; parts thereof (4 codes, General duty Free)
• 8509: Electromechanical domestic appliances, with self-contained electric motor, other than vacuum cleaners of heading 8508; parts thereof (16 codes, General duty Free to 4.2%)
• 8510: Shavers, hair clippers and hair-removing appliances, with self-contained electric motor; parts thereof (9 codes, General duty Free to 4.2%)
• 8511: Electrical ignition or starting equipment of a kind used for spark-ignition or compression-ignition internal combustion engines (for example, ignition magnetos, magneto-dynamos, ignition coils, spark plugs and glow plugs, starter motors); generators (for example, dynamos, alternators) and cut-outs of a kind used in conjunction with such engines; parts thereof (13 codes, General duty Free to 3.1%)
• 8512: Electrical lighting or signaling equipment (excluding articles of heading 8539), windshield wipers, defrosters and demisters, of a kind used for cycles or motor vehicles; parts thereof (16 codes, General duty Free to 2.7%)
• 8513: Portable electric lamps designed to function by their own source of energy (for example, dry batteries, storage batteries, magnetos), other than lighting equipment of heading 8512; parts thereof (4 codes, General duty 3.5% to 12.5%)
• 8514: Industrial or laboratory electric furnaces and ovens (including those functioning by induction or dielectric loss); other industrial or laboratory equipment for the heat treatment of materials by induction or dielectric loss; parts thereof (14 codes, General duty Free to 4.2%)
• 8515: Electric (including electrically heated gas), laser or other light or photon beam, ultrasonic, electron beam, magnetic pulse or plasma arc soldering, brazing or welding machines and apparatus, whether or not capable of cutting; electric machines and apparatus for hot spraying of metals or cermets; parts thereof (12 codes, General duty Free to 2.5%)
• 8516: Electric instantaneous or storage water heaters and immersion heaters; electric space heating apparatus and soil heating apparatus; electrothermic hairdressing apparatus (for example, hair dryers, hair curlers, curling tong heaters) and hand dryers; electric flatirons; other electrothermic appliances of a kind used for domestic purposes; electric heating resistors, other than those of heading 8545; parts thereof (43 codes, General duty Free to 5.3%)
• 8517: Telephone sets, including smartphones and other telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks; other apparatus for the transmission or reception of voice, images or other data, including apparatus for communication in a wired or wireless network (such as a local or wide area network), other than transmission or reception apparatus of heading 8443, 8525, 8527 or 8528; parts thereof (15 codes, General duty Free)
• 8518: Microphones and stands therefor; loudspeakers, whether or not mounted in their enclosures; headphones and earphones, whether or not combined with a microphone, and sets consisting of a microphone and one or more loudspeakers; audio-frequency electric amplifiers; electric sound amplifier sets; parts thereof (16 codes, General duty Free)
• 8519: Sound recording or reproducing apparatus (15 codes, General duty Free to 3.9%)
• 8521: Video recording or reproducing apparatus, whether or not incorporating a video tuner (4 codes, General duty Free)
• 8522: Parts and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading 8519 or 8521 (9 codes, General duty Free to 3.9%)
• 8523: Discs, tapes, solid-state non-volatile storage devices, "smart cards" and other media for the recording of sound or of other phenomena, whether or not recorded, including matrices and masters for the production of discs, but excluding products of Chapter 37 (25 codes, General duty Free)
• 8524: Flat panel display modules, whether or not incorporating touch-sensitive screens (8 codes, General duty Free to 4.5%)
• 8525: Transmission apparatus for radio-broadcasting or television, whether or not incorporating reception apparatus or sound recording or reproducing apparatus; television cameras, digital cameras and video camera recorders (21 codes, General duty Free)
• 8526: Radar apparatus, radio navigational aid apparatus and radio remote control apparatus (6 codes, General duty Free)
• 8527: Reception apparatus for radiobroadcasting, whether or not combined, in the same housing, with sound recording or reproducing apparatus or a clock (27 codes, General duty Free to 2%)
• 8528: Monitors and projectors, not incorporating television reception apparatus; reception apparatus for television, whether or not incorporating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus (79 codes, General duty Free to 5%)
• 8529: Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of headings 8524 to 8528 (46 codes, General duty Free)
• 8530: Electrical signaling, safety or traffic control equipment for railways, streetcar lines, subways, roads, inland waterways, parking facilities, port installations or airfields (other than those of heading 8608); parts thereof (3 codes, General duty Free)
• 8531: Electric sound or visual signaling apparatus (for example, bells, sirens, indicator panels, burglar or fire alarms), other than those of heading 8512 or 8530; parts thereof (16 codes, General duty Free to 1.3%)
• 8532: Electrical capacitors, fixed, variable or adjustable (pre-set); parts thereof (29 codes, General duty Free)
• 8533: Electrical resistors (including rheostats and potentiometers), other than heating resistors; parts thereof (25 codes, General duty Free)
• 8534: Printed circuits (7 codes, General duty Free)
• 8535: Electrical apparatus for switching or protecting electrical circuits, or for making connections to or in electrical circuits (for example, switches, fuses, lightning arresters, voltage limiters, surge suppressors, plugs and other connectors, junction boxes), for a voltage exceeding 1,000 V (12 codes, General duty 2% to 2.7%)
• 8536: Electrical apparatus for switching or protecting electrical circuits, or for making connections to or in electrical circuits (for example, switches, relays, fuses, surge suppressors, plugs, sockets, lamp-holders and other connectors, junction boxes), for a voltage not exceeding 1,000 V; connectors for optical fibers, optical fiber bundles or cables (43 codes, General duty Free to 2.7%)
• 8537: Boards, panels, consoles, desks, cabinets and other bases, equipped with two or more apparatus of heading 8535 or 8536, for electric control or the distribution of electricity, including those incorporating instruments or apparatus of chapter 90, and numerical control apparatus, other than switching apparatus of heading 8517 (10 codes, General duty Free to 2.7%)
• 8538: Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading 8535, 8536 or 8537 (9 codes, General duty Free to 3.5%)
• 8539: Electrical filament or discharge lamps, including sealed beam lamp units and ultraviolet or infrared lamps; arc lamps; light-emitting diode (LED) light sources; parts thereof (40 codes, General duty Free to 5.8%)
• 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 (38 codes, General duty Free to 15%)
• 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 (36 codes, General duty Free)
• 8542: Electronic integrated circuits; parts thereof (31 codes, General duty Free)
• 8543: Electrical machines and apparatus, having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter; parts thereof (33 codes, General duty Free to 2.6%)
• 8544: Insulated (including enameled or anodized) wire, cable (including coaxial cable) and other insulated electric conductors, whether or not fitted with connectors; optical fiber cables, made up of individually sheathed fibers, whether or not assembled with electric conductors or fitted with connectors (19 codes, General duty Free to 5.3%)
• 8545: Carbon electrodes, carbon brushes, lamp carbons, battery carbons and other articles of graphite or other carbon, with or without metal, of a kind used for electrical purposes (8 codes, General duty Free)
• 8546: Electrical insulators of any material (5 codes, General duty Free to 3%)
• 8547: Insulating fittings for electrical machines, appliances or equipment, being fittings wholly of insulating material apart from any minor components of metal (for example, threaded sockets) incorporated during molding solely for the purposes of assembly, other than insulators of heading 8546; electrical conduit tubing and joints therefor, of base metal lined with insulating material (7 codes, General duty Free to 4.6%)
• 8548: Electrical parts of machinery or apparatus, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter (1 code, General duty Free)
• 8549: Electrical and electronic waste and scrap (14 codes, General duty Free)

Where it sits in the schedule

Chapter 85 is in Section XVI of the Harmonized System, machinery and electrical equipment (chapters 84 to 85). Rates are those printed in the 2026 HTS Revision 23; Chapter 99 duties (Section 232, Section 301, IEEPA) are charged on top and are not included.