Chapter 85 Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers; television image and sound recorders and reproducers, parts and accessories of such articles
48 headings · 296 six-digit codes · World Customs Organization Harmonized System
Chapter 85 is one of the more finely subdivided chapters: 48 headings carry 296 six-digit codes between them, an average of 6.2 per heading. The deepest is 8501 (Electric motors and generators (excluding generating sets)) with 17. The chapter sits in Section XVI, Machinery, Electrical Equipment and Parts, alongside 1 other chapter.
Headings in this chapter
8501Electric motors and generators (excluding generating sets)850110 to 850180e.g. 850110 — Electric motors; of an output not exceeding 37.5w8502Electric generating sets and rotary converters850211 to 850240e.g. 850211 — Electric generating sets; with compression-ignition internal combustion piston engines (diesel or semi-diesel engines), of an output not exceeding 75kva8503Electric motors and generators; parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of heading no. 8501 or 8502e.g. 850300 — Electric motors and generators; parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of heading no. 8501 or 85028504Electric transformers, static converters (e.g. rectifiers) and inductors850410 to 850490e.g. 850410 — Discharge lamps or tubes; ballasts therefor8505Electro-magnets; permanent magnets, intended permanent magnets; electro-magnetic, permanent magnet chucks, clamps, similar; electromagnetic couplings, clutches, brakes; electro-magnetic lifting heads850511 to 850590e.g. 850511 — Magnets; permanent magnets and articles intended to become permanent magnets after magnetisation, of metal8506Cells and batteries; primary850610 to 850690e.g. 850610 — Cells and batteries; primary, manganese dioxide8507Electric accumulators, including separators therefor; whether or not rectangular (including square)850710 to 850790e.g. 850710 — Electric accumulators; lead-acid, of a kind used for starting piston engines, including separators, whether or not rectangular (including square)8508Vacuum cleaners850811 to 850870e.g. 850811 — Vacuum cleaners, with self-contained electric motor, of a power not exceeding 1,500 w and having a dust bag or other receptacle capacity not exceeding 20l8509Electro-mechanical domestic appliances; with self-contained electric motor, other than vacuum cleaners of heading 85.08.850940 to 850990e.g. 850940 — Electro-mechanical domestic appliances; food grinders and mixers, fruit or vegetable juice extractors, with self-contained electric motor8510Shavers, hair clippers and hair removing appliances, with self-contained electric motor851010 to 851090e.g. 851010 — Shavers; with self-contained electric motor8511Ignition or starting equipment; used for spark-ignition or compression-ignition internal combustion engines; generators and cut outs used in conjunction with such engines851110 to 851190e.g. 851110 — Ignition or starting equipment; spark plugs, of a kind used for spark or compression-ignition internal combustion engines8512Lighting or visual signalling equipment (excluding articles of heading no. 8539), windscreen wipers, defrosters and demisters; electrical, of a kind used for cycles or motor vehicles851210 to 851290e.g. 851210 — Lighting or visual signalling equipment; electrical, of a kind used on bicycles, excluding articles of heading no. 85398513Lamps; portable, electric, designed to function by their own source of energy (e.g. dry batteries, accumulators, magnetos), excluding lighting equipment of heading no. 8512851310 to 851390e.g. 851310 — Lamps; portable, electric, designed to function by their own source of energy (excluding lighting equipment of heading no. 8512)8514Industrial or laboratory electric furnaces and ovens (including those functioning by induction or dielectric loss); other industrial or laboratory equipment for the heat treatment of materials by induction or dielectric loss851411 to 851490e.g. 851411 — Furnaces and ovens; electric, for industrial or laboratory use, resistance heated; hot isostatic presses8515Electric (electrically heated gas) soldering, brazing, welding machines and apparatus, capable or not of cutting, electric machines and apparatus for hot spraying of metals or sintered carbides851511 to 851590e.g. 851511 — Brazing or soldering machines and apparatus; soldering irons and guns, whether or not capable of cutting8516Electric water, space, soil heaters; electro-thermic hair-dressing apparatus; hand dryers, irons; electro-thermic appliances for domestic purposes; electro heating resistors, not of heading no. 8545851610 to 851690e.g. 851610 — Heaters; electric, instantaneous or storage water and immersion heaters8517Telephone sets, including smartphones and other telephones for cellular/wireless networks; other apparatus for the transmission or reception of voice, images or other data (including wired/wireless networks), excluding items of 8443, 8525, 8527, or 8528851711 to 851779e.g. 851711 — Line telephone sets with cordless handsets8518Microphones and their stands; loudspeakers, mounted or not in their enclosures; headphones and earphones, combined or not with a microphone, and sets of a microphone and one or more loudspeakers; audio-frequency and electric sound amplifiers and sets851810 to 851890e.g. 851810 — Microphones and stands therefor8519Sound recording or reproducing apparatus851920 to 851989e.g. 851920 — Sound recording or reproducing apparatus; operated by coins, banknotes, bank cards, tokens or by other means of payment8521Video recording or reproducing apparatus852110 to 852190e.g. 852110 — Video recording or reproducing apparatus; magnetic tape-type8522Sound or video recording apparatus; parts and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading 8519 or 8521852210 to 852290e.g. 852210 — Sound recording or reproducing apparatus; parts and accessories thereof, pick-up cartridges8523Discs, tapes, solid-state non-volatile storage devices, smart cards and other media for the recording of sound or of other phenomena, whether or not recorded, including matrices and masters for the production of discs, excluding products of chapter 37852321 to 852380e.g. 852321 — Magnetic media; cards incorporating a magnetic stripe, whether or not recorded, excluding products of chapter 378524Flat panel display modules, whether or not incorporating touch-sensitive screens852411 to 852499e.g. 852411 — Flat panel display modules, whether or not incorporating touch-sensitive screens; of liquid crystals, without drivers or control circuits8525Transmission apparatus for radio-broadcasting or television, whether or not incorporating reception apparatus or sound recording or reproducing apparatus; television cameras, digital cameras and video camera recorders852550 to 852589e.g. 852550 — Transmission apparatus for radio-broadcasting or television, whether or not incorporating sound recording or reproducing apparatus, not incorporating reception apparatus8526Radar apparatus, radio navigational aid apparatus and radio remote control apparatus852610 to 852692e.g. 852610 — Radar apparatus8527Reception apparatus for radio-broadcasting, whether or not combined, in the same housing, with sound recording or reproducing apparatus or a clock.852712 to 852799e.g. 852712 — Radio broadcast receivers capable of operating without an external power source; pocket-size radio cassette-players8528Monitors and projectors, not incorporating television reception apparatus; reception apparatus for television, whether or not incorporating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus852842 to 852873e.g. 852842 — Monitors; cathode-ray tube, capable of directly connecting to and designed for use with an automatic data processing machine of heading 84.718529Transmission apparatus; parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading no. 8524 to 8528852910 to 852990e.g. 852910 — Reception and transmission apparatus; aerials and aerial reflectors of all kinds and parts suitable for use therewith8530Signalling, safety or traffic control equipment; for railways, tramways, roads, inland waterways, parking facilities, port installations, airfields, excluding those of heading no. 8608853010 to 853090e.g. 853010 — Signalling, safety or traffic control equipment; for railways or tramways (excluding those of heading no. 8608)8531Signalling apparatus; electric sound or visual (e.g. bells, sirens, indicator panels, burglar or fire alarms), excluding those of heading no. 8512 or 8530853110 to 853190e.g. 853110 — Signalling apparatus; electric, sound or visual, burglar or fire alarms and similar, other than those of heading no. 8512 or 85308532Electrical capacitors; fixed, variable or adjustable (pre-set)853210 to 853290e.g. 853210 — Electrical capacitors; fixed, designed for use in 50/60 hz circuits and having a reactive power handling capacity of not less than 0.5 kvar (power capacitors)8533Electrical resistors (including rheostats and potentiometers), excluding heating resistors853310 to 853390e.g. 853310 — Electrical resistors; fixed carbon resistors, composition or film types (including rheostats and potentiometers but excluding heating resistors)8534Circuits; printede.g. 853400 — Circuits; printed8535Electrical apparatus for switching, protecting electrical circuits, for making connections to or in electrical circuits; for a voltage exceeding 1000 volts853510 to 853590e.g. 853510 — Electrical apparatus; fuses, for a voltage exceeding 1000 volts8536Electrical apparatus for switching, protecting electrical circuits, for making connections to or in electrical circuits, for a voltage not exceeding 1000 volts; connectors for optical fibres, optical fibre bundles or cables853610 to 853690e.g. 853610 — Electrical apparatus; fuses, for a voltage not exceeding 1000 volts8537Boards, panels, consoles, desks, cabinets, bases with apparatus of heading no. 8535, 8536 for electricity control and distribution, (other than switching apparatus of heading no. 8517)853710 to 853720e.g. 853710 — Boards, panels, consoles, desks and other bases; for electric control or the distribution of electricity, (other than switching apparatus of heading no. 8517), for a voltage not exceeding 1000 volts8538Electrical apparatus; parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading no. 8535, 8536 and 8537853810 to 853890e.g. 853810 — Electrical apparatus; parts (e.g. boards, panels, consoles, desks, cabinets, other bases), for goods of heading no. 8537, not equipped with their apparatus8539Lamps; electric filament or discharge lamps, including sealed beam lamp units and ultra-violet or infra-red lamps, arc lamps, light-emitting diode (led) light sources853910 to 853990e.g. 853910 — Lamps; sealed beam units8540Thermionic, cold cathode or photo-cathode valves and tubes (e.g. vacuum, vapour, gas filled valves and tubes, mercury arc rectifying valves and tubes, cathode-ray and television camera tubes)854011 to 854099e.g. 854011 — Tubes; cathode-ray television picture tubes, including video monitor cathode-ray tubes, colour8541Semiconductor devices (e.g. diodes, transistors, semiconductor based transducers); including photovoltaic cells assembled or not in modules or panels, light-emitting diodes (led) assembled with other leds or not, mounted piezo-electric crystals854110 to 854190e.g. 854110 — Electrical apparatus; diodes, other than photosensitive or light-emitting diodes (led)8542Electronic integrated circuits854231 to 854290e.g. 854231 — Electronic integrated circuits; processors and controllers, whether or not combined with memories, converters, logic circuits, amplifiers, clock and timing circuits, or other circuits8543Electrical machines and apparatus; having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter854310 to 854390e.g. 854310 — Electrical machines and apparatus; particle accelerators8544Insulated wire, cable and other electric conductors, connector fitted or not; optical fibre cables of individually sheathed fibres, whether or not assembled with electric conductors or fitted with connectors854411 to 854470e.g. 854411 — Insulated electric conductors; winding wire, of copper8545Carbon electrodes, carbon brushes, lamp carbons, battery carbons and other articles of graphite or other carbon; with or without metal, of a kind used for electrical purposes854511 to 854590e.g. 854511 — Carbon electrodes; with or without metal, of a kind used for furnaces8546Electrical insulators of any material854610 to 854690e.g. 854610 — Electrical insulators; of glass8547Insulating fittings; for electrical machines, appliances, equipment, excluding insulators of heading no. 8546, electrical conduit tubing and joints therefore854710 to 854790e.g. 854710 — Insulating fittings; of ceramics, for electrical machines, of insulating material only (except minor assembly parts), excluding those of heading no. 85468548Electrical parts of machinery or apparatus; not specified or elsewhere included in this chaptere.g. 854800 — Electrical parts of machinery or apparatus; not specified or elsewhere included in this chapter8549Electrical and electronic waste and scrap854911 to 854999e.g. 854911 — Waste and scrap of lead-acid accumulators; spent lead-acid accumulators
Other chapters in Section XVI
Machinery, Electrical Equipment and Parts covers chapters 84–85.
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