8512.20.20

8-digit subheading

Lighting equipment

This is a 8-digit subheading — a category, not a filing code. Pick the more specific code beneath it that best matches your goods; only a 10-digit statistical code can be used on a customs entry.

Duty rates

Duty-free under this rate column.

Duty rates for HTS 8512.20.20
Rate	Value and what it means
General rate (Column 1)	FreeColumn 1 general Applies to most trading partners — the standard "normal trade relations" rate.
Special rate (Column 1)	—Trade programs The country letters in parentheses are free trade agreement and preference programs. If your goods qualify under one of them, that rate replaces the general rate.
Column 2 rate	25%Non-NTR Reserved for the small group of countries that do not have normal trade relations with the US (currently Cuba, North Korea, Russia and Belarus). Almost no importer uses this column — if you are shipping from anywhere else, ignore it.
Unit of quantity	— How CBP expects the quantity to be reported on the entry summary.

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Where this sits in the schedule

The tariff schedule is read top-down: each line inherits the wording of the categories above it.

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: > Other lighting or visual signaling equipment:

Codes within Lighting equipment

2 more specific lines fall under 8512.20.20.

Chapter 85: Electrical Machinery and Equipment; Sound and TV Equipment; Parts

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Source: USITC Harmonized Tariff Schedule, 2026 Basic Edition, Revision 16. Rate text is reproduced verbatim from the official export; category paths and duty estimates are derived.

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