8528.59.05.00 - Incorporating video recording or reproducing apparatus

This HTS category, 8528.59.05.00, specifically covers "Other monitors: Other: Color: Incomplete or unfinished (including assemblies consisting of the parts specified in subdivisions (a), (b), (c) and (e) in additional U.S. note 9 to this chapter plus a power supply), presented without a display device." This classification pertains to color monitors that are not fully assembled, meaning they are lacking their primary display panel. It includes kits or partially built units comprising essential components such as control boards, video input/output modules, and power supplies, but crucially, without the screen itself. These items are intended for further assembly into complete color monitors.

Distinguishing this category from its sibling, 8528.59.10.00 ("Other"), is the explicit requirement for incompleteness or unfinished status and the absence of a display device. While both fall under "Other monitors" and "Other: Color," this specific subheading targets products where the display component is intentionally omitted, often for specialized manufacturing or repair purposes. The sibling category would encompass complete, functional color monitors that do not fit into more specific subheadings.

As this is a leaf node within the HTS structure, there are no further subcategories to introduce. The classification is definitive for incomplete or unfinished color monitors presented without their display device, and therefore the focus remains on the precise criteria of incomplete assembly and the absence of the display panel as the key determinative factors for classification within this code.