What HS code 8533.40 covers
HS code 8533.40 classifies electrical resistors; variable, including rheostats and potentiometers (excluding heating). It is a subheading of heading 8533 (Electrical resistors (including rheostats and potentiometers), excluding heating resistors), in chapter 85 (Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers; television image and sound recorders and reproducers, parts and accessories of such articles), section XVI of the Harmonized System. These six digits are identical in every country that uses the HS.
Classification path
Import duty for 8533.40
Base MFN rate only. Section 301 and 2025 IEEPA tariffs can stack on top for goods from China.
Source: HTSUS / CBP
Erga-omnes (third-country) MFN rate. Import VAT of 17 to 27 percent by country, and any anti-dumping measures, apply separately.
Source: TARIC
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Related codes in heading 8533
Not quite the right fit? These subheadings sit under the same heading and are the most common alternatives to 8533.40.
- 8533.10 Electrical resistors; fixed carbon resistors, composition or film types (including rheostats and potentiometers but excluding heating resistors)
- 8533.21 Electrical resistors; fixed, for a power handling capacity not exceeding 20W (including rheostats and potentiometers but excluding heating resistors and carbon resistors)
- 8533.29 Electrical resistors; fixed, for a power handling capacity exceeding 20W (including rheostats and potentiometers but excluding heating resistors and carbon resistors)
- 8533.31 Electrical resistors; wirewound variable, including rheostats and potentiometers, for a power handling capacity not exceeding 20W (excluding heating)
- 8533.39 Electrical resistors; wirewound variable, including rheostats and potentiometers, for a power handling capacity exceeding 20W (excluding heating)
- 8533.90 Resistors; parts of the resistors of heading no. 8533
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