HS 8542 integrated circuits

The Harmonized System 4-digit heading for electronic integrated circuits, the product lens behind the OEC trade profile that recorded $928B of world trade in 2024.

In this catalog it appears concretely: - OEC Integrated Circuits Trade Profile (HS 8542) — "profile for electronic integrated circuits (HS 8542) with bilateral trade values". - UN Comtrade Plus TradeFlow acquisition_notes — "cmdCode takes HS codes at 2, 4 or 6 digits (8541 diodes/transistors, 8542 integrated circuits)".

UN Comtrade Plus TradeFlow acquisition_notes is the second reference point worth knowing: "cmdCode takes HS codes at 2, 4 or 6 digits (8541 diodes/transistors, 8542 integrated circuits)".

Conventions decide whether two sources can be joined at all. Buy one side of an analysis that ignores this convention and every reconciliation step — calendar alignment, unit conversion, entity matching — lands on your team instead of the vendor's.

The failure mode is concrete: a source can carry the HS 8542 integrated circuits label while differing from what you need on exactly the dimension that matters — profile for electronic integrated circuits (HS 8542) with bilateral trade values. Comparing two sources on that line usually settles the choice faster than any feature matrix.

You rarely have to take a vendor's word for it. 82.4% of the 1,744 datasets Datadory catalogs are free to access, and OEC Integrated Circuits Trade Profile (HS 8542) lets you inspect the real artifact before any budget is committed.

Treat every claim of this attribute as testable:

1. Open OEC Integrated Circuits Trade Profile (HS 8542) and confirm its record — "profile for electronic integrated circuits (HS 8542) with bilateral trade values" — against the files you actually receive.

1. Open UN Comtrade Plus TradeFlow acquisition_notes and confirm its record — "cmdCode takes HS codes at 2, 4 or 6 digits (8541 diodes/transistors, 8542 integrated circuits)" — against the files you actually receive.

1. Open UN Comtrade Plus TradeFlow long_description and confirm its record — "Commodity coverage relevant to electronic equipment and instruments sits mainly in HS chapter 85 (electrical machinery and equipment, semiconductors, printed circuits, batteries, consumer electronics)" — against the files you actually receive.

See the term applied to real records: electronic-equipment-instruments data, semiconductor-materials-equipment data.

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