8517.61.00.00

10-digit statistical code

Base stations

This is the specific 10-digit code used for customs filing. Enter it on your CBP entry summary (form 7501) or give it to your customs broker exactly as shown. Duty is free for most countries.

Duty rates

Duty-free under this rate column.

Duty rates for HTS 8517.61.00.00
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	35%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	No. 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.

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: > Other apparatus for 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):

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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