What HS code 8540.12 covers
HS code 8540.12 classifies tubes; cathode-ray television picture tubes, including video monitor cathode-ray tubes, monochrome. It is a subheading of heading 8540 (Thermionic, cold cathode or photo-cathode valves and tubes (e.g. vacuum, vapour, gas filled valves and tubes, mercury arc rectifying valves and tubes, cathode-ray and television camera tubes)), 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 8540.12
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 8540
Not quite the right fit? These subheadings sit under the same heading and are the most common alternatives to 8540.12.
- 8540.11 Tubes; cathode-ray television picture tubes, including video monitor cathode-ray tubes, colour
- 8540.20 Tubes; television camera tubes, image converters and intensifiers, other photo-cathode tubes
- 8540.40 Tubes; data/graphic display tubes, monochrome; data/graphic display tubes, colour, with a phosphor dot screen pitch smaller than 0.4mm
- 8540.60 Tubes; cathode ray, n.e.c. in heading no. 8540
- 8540.71 Tubes; microwave, magnetrons, excluding grid-controlled tubes
- 8540.79 Tubes; microwave (for example klystrons, travelling wave tubes, carlinotrons), excluding magnetrons and grid-controlled tubes
- 8540.81 Valves and tubes; receiver or amplifier
- 8540.89 Valves and tubes; n.e.c. in heading no. 8540
- 8540.91 Tubes; parts of cathode-ray tubes
- 8540.99 Valves and tubes; parts of the valves and tubes of heading no. 8540, excluding parts of cathode-ray tubes
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