sUAS News is reporting today that a number of DJI drones and/or their parts and accessories may be affected by the proposed 25% tariff on Chinese goods coming to America.
The 58 page document from the White House lists the following components that will likley impact DJI products, if implemented:
- 85030035 Parts of electric motors under 18.65 W, stators and rotors
- 85044040 Electrical speed drive controllers for electric motors (static converters)
- 85065000 Lithium primary cells and primary batteries
- 85066000 Air-zinc primary cells and primary batteries
- 85069000 Parts of primary cells and primary batteries
- 85073080 Nickel-cadmium storage batteries, other than of a kind used as the primary source of power for electric vehicles
- 85079040 Parts of lead-acid storage batteries, including separators therefor
- 85079080 Parts of storage batteries
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85269250 Radio remote control apparatus other than for video game consoles
- 85299016 Printed circuit assemblies which are subassemblies of radar, radio nav. aid or remote control apparatus, of 2 or more parts joined together
- 85299019 Printed circuit assemblies, nesi, for radar, radio navigational aid or radio remote control apparatus
- 88010000 Balloons, dirigibles and non-powered aircraft, gliders and hang gliders
- 88021100 Helicopters, with an unladen weight not over 2,000 kg
- 88022000 Airplanes and other powered aircraft, with an unladen weight not over 2,000 kg
- 88031000 Parts of airplanes and other aircraft, propellers and rotors and parts thereof
- 88032000 Parts of airplanes and other aircraft, undercarriages and parts thereof
- 88033000 Parts of airplanes and helicopters, nesoi
- 88039090 Parts of aircraft (o/than airplanes and helicopters), spacecraft (o/than comm. satell.) and suborbital and launch vehicles,
- 88051000 Aircraft launching gear and parts thereof; deck-arrestors or similar gear and parts thereof
- 88052900 Ground flying trainers and parts thereof, other than air combat simulators
- 90142040 Automatic pilots for aeronautical or space navigation
If you’ve been thinking of buying a DJI drone, now may be the time before any of the proposed tariffs are put in place. And the timing might be ideal as well, now that DJI has just started their 2 week “Spring Sale” on their most popular drones.
