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Section XVI
Machinery and Mechanical Appliances; Electrical Equlpment; Parts Thereof; Sound Recorders and Reproducers, Television Image and Sound Recorders and Reproducers, and Parts and Accessories of Such Articles

Notes

1.

This Section does not cover the following:

(a)

Transmission or conveyor belts or belting, of plastics of Chapter 39, or of vulcanised rubber (heading 40.10), or other articles of a kind used in machinery or mechanical or electrical appliances or for other technical uses, of vulcanised rubber(excluding hard rubber) (heading 40.16);

(b)

articles of leather or of composition leather (heading 42.05) or of furskin (heading 43.03), of a kind used in machinery or mechanical appliances or for other technical uses;

(c)

bobbins, spools, cops, cones, cores, reels or similar supports, of any material (for example, Chapter 39, 40,.44 or 48 or Section XV);

(d)

perforated cards for Jacquard or similar machines (for example, Chapter 39 or 48 or Section XV);

(e)

transmission or conveyor belts or belting of textile material (heading 59.10) or other articles of textile material for technical uses (heading 59.11);

(f)

precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed) of headings 71.02 to 71.04, or articles wholly of such stones of heading 71.16 (excluding unmounted worked sapphires and diamonds for styli) (heading 85.22));

(g)

parts of general use, as defined in Note 2 to Section XV, of base metal (Section XV), or similar goods of plastics (Chapter 39);

(h)

drill pipe (heading 73.04);

(ij)

endless belts of metal wire or strip (Section XV);

(k)

articles of Chapter 82 or 83;

(l)

articles of Section XVII;

(m)

articles of Chapter 90;

(n)

clocks, watches or other articles of Chapter 91;

(o)

interchangeable tools of heading 82.07 or brushes of a kind used as parts of machines (heading 96.03); similar interchangeble tools are to be classified according to the constituent material of their working part (for example, in Chapter 40, 42, 43, 45 or 59 or heading 68.04 or 69.09);

(p)

articles of Chapter 95; or

(q)

typewriter or similar ribbons, whether or not on spools or in cartridges (classified according to their constituent material, or in heading 96.12 if inked or otherwise prepared for giving impressions), or monopods, bipods, tripods and similar articles, of heading 96.20.

2.

Subject to Note 1 to this Section, Note 1 to Chapter 84 and Note 1 to Chapter 85, parts of machines (not being parts of the articles of heading 84.84, 85.44, 85.45, 85.46 or 85.47) are to be classified according to the following rules:

(a)

Parts which are goods included in any of the headings of Chapters 84 or 85 (excluding headings 84.09, 84.31, 84.48, 84.66, 84.73, 84.87, 85.03, 85.22, 85.29, 85.38 and 85.48) are in all cases to be classified in their respective headings;

(b)

other parts, if suitable for use solely or principally with a particular kind of machine, or with a number of machines of the same heading (including a machine of heading 84.79 or 85.43) are to be classified with the machines of that kind or in heading 84.09, 84.31, 84.48, 84.66, 84.73, 85.03, 85.22, 85.29 or 85.38 as appropriate. However, parts which are equally suitable for use principally with the goods of headings 85.17 and 85.25 to 85.28 are to be classified in heading 85.17, and parts which are suitable for use solely or principally with goods of heading 85.24 are to classified in heading 85.29;

(c)

all other parts are to be classified in heading 84.09, 84.31, 84.48, 84.66, 84.73, 85.03, 85.22, 85.29 or 85.38 as appropriate or, failing that in heading 84.87 or 85.48.

3.

Unless the context otherwise requires, composite machines consisting of two or more machines fitted together to form a whole and other machines designed for the purpose of performing two or more complementary or alternative functions are to be classified as if consisting only of that component or as being that machine which performs the principal function.

4.

Where a machine (including a combination of machines) consists of individual components (whether separate or inter-connected by piping, by transmission devices, by electric cables or by other devices) intended to contribute together to a clearly defined function covered by one of the headings in Chapter 84 or Chapter 85, then the whole falls to be classified in the heading appropriate to that function.

5.

For the purposes of these Notes, the expression "machine" means any machine, machinery, plant, equipment, apparatus or appliance cited in the headings of Chapter 84 or 85.

6.(A)

Throughout the Nomenclature, the expression "electrical and electronic waste and scrap" means electrical and electronic assemblies, printed circuit boards, and electrical or electronic articles that:

(i)

have been rendered unusable for the original purpose by breakage, cutting-up or other processes or economically unsuitable for repair, refurbishment or renovation to render them fit for original purposes; and

(ii)

are packed or shipped in a manner not intended to protect individual articles from damage during transportation, loading and unloading operation.

(B)

Mixed consignments of "electrical and electronic waste and scrap" and other waste and are to be classified in heading 85.49.

(C)

This section does not cover municipal waste, as defined in Note 4 to Chapter 38.

Additional Notes

1.

The Commissioner may in his discretion and in the circumstances which he deems exceptional, in respect of an unassembled or disassembled machine, allow the provisions of General Note A. 2(a) to be applied also to an unassembled or disassembled machine of this Section which is imported in more than one consignment if the mass of such machine exceeds 500 t or is of a measurement for shipping purposes exceeding 500 m³, provided the application to enter the unassembled or disassembled machine in terms of this Note reaches the Commissioner prior to the importation of the first consignment.

2.

No paragraph.

3.

No paragraph.

4.

No paragraph.

5.

Tools necessary for the assembly or maintenance of machines or appliances are to be classified with those machines or appliances if imported with them. Interchangeable tools imported with machines or appliances are also to be classified therewith if they form part of the normal equipment of the machines or appliances and are normally sold with them.

6.

A reference in this Section to "portable" or to "mobile" is deemed to relate to machinery or other goods, irrespective of the mass or construction thereof, which can readily be moved, carried, transferred or conveyed by any means, for use on different premises and which are not for any reason in connection with the operation of the machinery or other goods, required to be attached permanently.

Chapter 84
Nuclear Reactors, Boilers, Machinery and Mechanical Appliances; Parts Thereof

Notes

1.

This Chapter does not cover the following:

(a)

millstones, grindstones or other articles of Chapter 68;

(b)

machinery or appliances (for example, pumps) of ceramic material and ceramic parts of machinery or appliances of any material (Chapter 69);

(c)

laboratory glassware (heading 70.17); machinery, appliances or other articles for technical uses or parts thereof, of glass (heading 70.19 or 70.20);

(d)

articles of heading 73.21 or 73.22 or similar articles of other base metals (Chapters 74 to 76 or 78 to 81);

(e)

vacuum cleaners of heading 85.08;

(f)

electro-mechanical domestic appliances of heading 85.09; digital cameras of heading 85.25;

(g)

Radiators for the articles of Section XVII; or

(h)

hand-operated mechanical floor sweepers, not motorised (heading 96.03).

2.

Subject to the operation of Note 3 to Section XVI and subject to Note 11 to this Chapter, a machine or appliance which answers to a description in one or more of the headings 84.01 to 84.24, or heading 84.86 and at the same time to a description in one or other of the headings 84.25 to 84.80 is to be classified under the appropriate heading of the former group or under heading 84.86, as the case may be, and not the latter group.

Heading 84.19 does not, however, cover:

(a)

germination plant, incubators or brooders (heading 84.36);

(b)

grain dampening machines (heading 84.37);

(c)

diffusing apparatus for sugar juice extraction (heading 84.38);

(d)

machinery for the heat-treatment of textile yarns, fabrics or made up textile articles (heading 84.51); or

(e)

machinery, plant or laboratory equipment, designed for mechanical operation, in which a change of temperature, even if necessary, is subsidiary.

Heading 84.22 does not cover:

(a)

sewing machines for closing bags or similar containers (heading 84.52); or

(b)

office machinery of heading 84.72.

Heading 84.24 does not cover:

(a)

ink-jet printing machines (heading 84.43); or

(b)

water-jet cutting machines (heading 84.56).

3.

A machine-tool for working any material which answers to a description in heading 84.56 and at the same time to a description in heading 84.57, 84.58, 84.59, 84.60, 84.61, 84.64 or 84.65 is to be classfied in heading 84.56.

4.

Heading 84.57 applies only to machine-tools for working metal (excluding lathes, including turning centres), which can carry out different types of machining operations either:

(a)

by automatic tool change from a magazine or the like in conformity with a machining programme (machining centres),

(b)

by the automatic use, simultaneously or sequentially, of different unit heads working on fixed position workpiece (unit construction machines, single station), or

(c)

by the automatic transfer of the workpiece to different unit heads (multi-station transfer machines).

5.

For the purposes of heading 84.62, a "slitting line" for flat products is a processing line composed of an uncoiler, a coil flattener, a slitter and as recoiler. A "cut-to-length line" for flat products is a processing line composed of an uncoiler, a coil flattener, and a shear.

6. (A)

For the purposes of heading 84.71, the expression "automatic data processing machines" means machines capable of:

(i)

storing the processing program or programs and at least the data immediately necessary for the execution of the program;

(ii)

being freely programmed in accordance with the requirements of the user;

(iii

performing arithmetical computations specified by the user; and

(iv)

executing, without human intervention, a processing program which requires them to modify their execution, by logical decision during the processing run.

(B)

Automatic data processing machines may be in the form of systems consisting of a variable number of separate units.

(C)

Subject to paragraphs (D) and (E) below, a unit is to be regarded as being part of an automatic data processing system if it meets all of the following conditions:

(i)

it is of a kind solely or principally used in an automatic data processing system;

(ii)

it is connectable to the central processing unit either directly or through one or more other units; and

(iii

it is able to accept or deliver data in a form (codes or signals) which can be used by the system.

Separately presented units of an automatic data processing machine are to be classified in heading 84.71.

However, keyboards, X-Y co-ordinate input devices and disk storage units which satisfy the conditions of paragraphs (C)(ii) and C(iii) above, are in all cases to be classified as units of heading 84.71.

(D)

Heading 84.71 does not cover the following when presented separately, even if they meet all of the conditions set forth in Note 6(C) above:

(i)

printers, copying machines, facsimile machines, whether or not combined;

(ii)

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);

(iii

loudspeakers and microphones:

(iv)

television cameras, digital cameras and video camera recorders;

(v)

monitors and projectors, not incorporating television reception apparatus.

(E)

Machines incorporating or working in conjunction with an automatic data processing machine and performing a specific function other than data processing are to be classified in the headings appropriate to their respective functions or, failing that, in residual headings.

7.

Heading 84.82 applies, inter alia, to polished steel balls, the maximum and minimum diameters of which do not differ from the norminal diameter by more than 1 per cent or by more than 0,05 mm, whichever is less. Other steel balls are to be classified in heading 73.26.

8.

A machine which is used for more than one purpose is, for the purposes of classification, to be treated as if its principal purpose were its sole purpose.

Subject to Note 2 to this Chapter and Note 3 to Section XVI, a machine the principal purpose of which is not described in any heading or for which no one purpose is the principal purpose is, unless the context otherwise requires, to be classified in heading 84.79. Heading 84.79 also covers machines for making rope or cable (for example, stranding, twisting or cabling machines) from metal wire, textile yarn or any other material or from a combination of such materials.

9.

For the purposes of heading 84.70. the term "pocket-size" applies only to machines the dimensions of which do not exceed 170 mm x 100 mm x 45 mm.

10.

For the purposes of heading 84.85, the expression "additive manufacturing" (also referred to as 3D printing) means the formation of physical objects, based on a digital model, by the successive addition and layering, and consolidation and solidification, of material (for example, metal, plastics or ceramics)

Subject to Note 1 to Section XVI and Note 1 to Chapter 84, machines answering to the description in heading 84.85 are to be classified in that heading and in no other heading of the Nomenclature.

11. (A)

Notes 12 (a) and 12 (b) to Chapter 85 also apply with respect to the expressions "semiconductor devices" and "electronic integrated circuits", respectively, as used in this Note and in heading 84.86.

However, for the purposes of this Note and of heading 84.86, the expression "semiconductor devices" also covers photosensitive semiconductor devices and light emitting diodes (LED).

(B)

For the purposes of this Note and of heading 84.86, the expression "manufacture of flat panel displays" covers the fabrication of substrates into a flat panel. It does not cover the manufacture of glass or the assembly of printed circuit boards or other electronic components onto the flat panel. The expression "flat panel display" does not cover cathode-ray tube technology.

(C)

Heading 84.86 also includes machines and apparatus solely or principally of a kind used for:

(i)

The manufacture or repair of masks and reticle;

(ii)

assembling semiconductor device or electronic integrated circuits;

(iii)

lifting, handling, loading or unloading of boules, wafers, semiconductor devices, electronic integrated circuits and flat panel displays.

(D)

Subject to Note 1 to Section XVI and Note 1 to Chapter 84, machines and apparatus answering to the description in heading 84.86 are to be classified in that heading and in no other heading of the Schedule.

Subheading Notes

1.

For the purposes of subheading 8465.20, the term "machining centres" applies only to machine-tools for working wood, cork, bone, hard rubber, hard plastics or similar hard materials, which can carry out different types of machining operations by automatic tool change from a magazine or the like in conformity with a machining programme.

2.

For the purposes of subheading 8471.49, the term "system" means automatic data processing machines whose units satisfy the conditions laid down in Note 6 (C) to Chapter 84 and which comprise at least a central processing unit, one input unit (for example, a keyboard or a scanner), and one output unit (for example, a visual display unit or a printer).

3.

For the purposes of subheading 8481.20, the expression "valves for oleohydraulic or pneumatic transmissions" means valves which are used specifically in the transmission of "fluid power" in a hydraulic or pneumatic system, where the energy source is supplied in the form of pressurised fluids (liquid or gas). These valves may be of any type (for example, pressure-reducing type, check type). Subheading 8481.20 takes precedence over all the other subheadings of headings 84.81.

4.

Subheading 8482.40 applies only to bearings with cylindrical rollers of a uniform diameter not exceeding 5 mm and having a length which is at least three times the diameter. The ends of the rollers may be rounded.

Additional Notes

1.

For the purposes of subheading 8481.40 the expression "safety or relief valves" means:

(a)

an automatic escape or relief valve (as for a steam boiler or hydraulic system) held shut by a device exerting a definite, usually adjustable pressure, so that the valve lifts and the steam, water or other c

Rates as at
HeadingDescriptionGeneral
84.01Nuclear reactors; fuel elements (cartridges), non-irradiated, for nuclear reactors; machinery and apparatus for isotopic separation:
8401.10Nuclear reactorsfree
8401.20Machinery and apparatus for isotopic separation, and parts thereoffree
8401.30Fuel elements (cartridges), non-irradiatedfree
8401.40Parts of nuclear reactorsfree
84.02Steam or other vapour generating boilers (excluding central heating hot water boilers capable also of producing low pressure steam); super-heated water boilers:
8402.1Steam or other vapour generating boilers:
8402.11Watertube boilers with a steam production exceeding 45 t/hourfree
8402.12Watertube boilers with a steam production not exceeding 45 t/hourfree
8402.19Other vapour generating boilers, including hybrid boilersfree
8402.20Super-heated water boilersfree
8402.90Partsfree
84.03Central heating boilers (excluding those of heading 84.02):
8403.10Boilersfree
8403.90Partsfree
84.04Auxiliary plant for use with boilers of heading 84.02 or 84.03 (for example, economisers, super-heaters, soot removers, gas recoverers); condensers for steam or other vapour power units:
8404.10Auxiliary plant for use with boilers of heading 84.02 or 84.03free
8404.20Condensers for steam or other vapour power unitsfree
8404.90Parts:
8404.90.10Plate-type heat exchange elements for air pre-heaters5%
8404.90.90Otherfree
84.05Producer gas or water gas generators, with or without their purifiers; acetylene gas generators and similar water process gas generators, with or without their purifiers:
8405.10Producer gas or water gas generators, with or without their purifiers; acetylene gas generators and similar water process gas generators, with or without their purifiersfree
8405.90Partsfree
84.06Steam turbines and other vapour turbines:
8406.10Turbines for marine propulsionfree
8406.8Other turbines:
8406.81Of an output exceeding 40 MWfree
8406.82Of an output not exceeding 40 MWfree
8406.90Partsfree
84.07Spark-ignition reciprocating or rotary internal combustion piston engines:
8407.10Aircraft enginesfree
8407.2Marine propulsion engines:
8407.21Outboard motorsfree
8407.29Otherfree
8407.3Reciprocating piston engines of a kind used for the propulsion of vehicles of Chapter 87:
8407.31Of a cylinder capacity not exceeding 50 cm³free
8407.32Of a cylinder capacity exceeding 50 cm³ but not exceeding 250 cm³free
8407.33Of a cylinder capacity exceeding 250 cm³ but not exceeding 1 000 cm³free
8407.34Of a cylinder capacity exceeding 1 000 cm³free
8407.90Other enginesfree
84.08Compression-ignition internal combustion piston engines (diesel or semi-diesel engines):
8408.10Marine propulsion enginesfree
8408.20Engines of a kind used for the propulsion of vehicles of Chapter 87free
8408.90Other engines:
8408.90.90Otherfree
8408.90.65Stationary engines, four-stroke, normally aspirated, of a cylinder capacity of 300 cm³ or more but less than 4 000 cm³ (excluding those identifiable for use solely or principally with road rollers)free
84.09Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the engines of heading 84.07 or 84.08:
8409.10For aircraft enginesfree
8409.9Other:
8409.91.37Gudgeon pins (excluding those for motor cycle engines)20%
8409.91.40Inlet and exhaust valves, with a head diameter not exceeding 80 mm20%
8409.91.27Pistons, whether or not fitted with gudgeon pins, piston rings or cylinder liners or sleeves, for motor vehicle enginesfree
8409.91Suitable for use solely or principally with spark-ignition internal combustion piston engines:
8409.91.90Otherfree
8409.91.60Radiators10%
8409.99Other:
8409.99.30Pistons, with an outside diameter not exceeding 155 mm, whether or not fitted with gudgeon pins, piston rings or cylinder liners or sleeves, for motor vehicle enginesfree
84.10Hydraulic turbines, water wheels, and regulators therefor:
8409.99.90Otherfree
8409.99.60Radiators10%
8410.1Hydraulic turbines and water wheels:
8410.11Of a power not exceeding 1 000 kWfree
8410.12Of a power exceeding 1 000 kW but not exceeding 10 000 kWfree
8410.13Of a power exceeding 10 000 kWfree
8410.90Parts, including regulatorsfree
84.11Turbo-jets, turbo-propellers and other gas turbines:
8411.1Turbo-jets:
8411.11Of a thrust not exceeding 25 kNfree
8411.12Of a thrust exceeding 25 kNfree
8411.2Turbo-propellers:
8411.21Of a power not exceeding 1 100 kWfree
8411.22Of a power exceeding 1 100 kWfree
8411.8Other gas turbines:
8411.81Of a power not exceeding 5 000 kWfree
8411.82Of a power exceeding 5 000 kWfree
8411.9Parts:
8411.91Of turbo-jets or turbo-propellersfree
8411.99Otherfree
84.12Other engines and motors:
8412.10Reaction engines (excluding turbo-jets)free
8412.2Hydraulic power engines and motors:
8412.21Linear acting (cylinders)free
8412.29Otherfree
8412.3Pneumatic power engines and motors:
8412.31Linear acting (cylinders)free
8412.39Otherfree
8412.80.10Generators for wind turbinesfree
8412.80Other:
8412.80.90Otherfree
8412.90Partsfree
84.13Pumps for liquids, whether or not fitted with a measuring device; liquid elevators:
8413.1Pumps fitted or designed to be fitted with a measuring device:
8413.11Pumps for dispensing fuel or lubricants, of the type used in filling- stations or in garagesfree
8413.19Otherfree
8413.20Hand pumps (excluding those of subheading 8413.11 or 8413.19)free
8413.30Fuel, lubricating or cooling medium pumps for internal combustion piston enginesfree
8413.40Concrete pumpsfree
8413.50Other reciprocating positive displacement pumpsfree
8413.60Other rotary positive displacement pumpsfree
8413.70.25Submersible pumpsfree
8413.70Other centrifugal pumps:
8413.70.90Otherfree
8413.8Other pumps; liquid elevators:
8413.81Pumpsfree
8413.82Liquid elevatorsfree
8413.9Parts:
8413.91Of pumpsfree
8413.92Of liquid elevatorsfree
84.14Air or vacuum pumps, air or other gas compressors and fans; ventilating or recycling hoods incorporating a fan, whether or not fitted with filters; gas-tight biological safety cabinets, whether or not fitted with filters.:
8414.10Vacuum pumpsfree
8414.20Hand- or foot-operated air pumpsfree
8414.30Compressors of a kind used in refrigerating equipmentfree
8414.40Air compressors mounted on a wheeled chassis for towingfree
8414.5Fans:
8414.51Table, floor, wall, window, ceiling or roof fans, with a self-contained electric motor of an output not exceeding 125 W5%
8414.59Otherfree
8414.60.20Domestic type15%
8414.60Hoods having a maximum horizontal side not exceeding 120 cm:
8414.60.90Otherfree
8414.70Gas-tight biological safety cabinetsfree
8414.80Otherfree
8414.90Parts:
8414.90.90Otherfree
8414.90.70For ventilating fans (excluding that for fans identifiable for use with motor vehicle engines)5%
84.15Air conditioning machines, comprising a motor-driven fan and elements for changing the temperature and humidity, including those machines in which the humidity cannot be separately regulated:
8415.10.20Of a kind used for buildings, not compressor operated, having a rated cooling capacity not exceeding 8,8 kWfree
8415.10Of a kind designed to be fixed to a window, wall, ceiling or floor, self-contained or "split-system":
8415.10.10Of a kind used for buildings, compressor operated, having a rated cooling capacity not exceeding 8,8 kW15%
8415.10.50Other, compressor operated, having a rated cooling capacity not exceeding 8,8 kW15%
8415.10.90Otherfree
8415.20Of a kind used for persons, in motor vehicles15%
8415.8Other:
8415.81Incorporating a refrigerating unit and a valve for reversal of the cooling/heat cycle (reversible heat pumps):
8415.81.10Of a kind used for buildings, having a rated cooling capacity not exceeding 8,8 kWfree
8415.82Other, incorporating a refrigerating unit:
8415.82.10Of a kind used for buildings, having a rated cooling capacity not exceeding 8,8 kWfree
8415.81.90Otherfree
8415.82.90Otherfree
8415.83Not incorporating a refrigerating unit:
8415.83.10Of a kind used for buildings, having a rated cooling capacity not exceeding 8,8 kWfree
8415.83.90Otherfree
8415.90Parts:
8415.90.05Indoor units and outdoor units for machines of subheadings 8415.10.10 and 8415.10.2015%
8415.90.20Other parts identifiable for use solely or principally with compressor operated machines of subheading 8415.10 having a rated cooling capacity not exceeding 8,8 kW15%
8415.90.90Otherfree
84.16Furnace burners for liquid fuel, for pulverised solid fuel or for gas; mechanical stokers, including their mechanical grates, mechanical ash dischargers and similar appliances:
8416.10Furnace burners for liquid fuelfree
8416.20Other furnace burners, including combination burnersfree
8416.30Mechanical stokers, including their mechanical grates, mechanical ash dischargers and similar appliancesfree
8416.90Partsfree
84.17Industrial or laboratory furnaces and ovens, including incinerators, non-electric:
8417.10Furnaces and ovens for the roasting, melting or other heat-treatment of ores, pyrites or of metalsfree
8417.20Bakery ovens, including biscuit ovensfree
8417.80Otherfree
8417.90Partsfree
84.18Refrigerators, freezers and other refrigerating or freezing equipment, electric or other; heat pumps (excluding air conditioning machines of heading 84.15):
8418.10.10For storage and display20%
8418.10.20Other, with a total capacity not exceeding 400li25%
8418.10Combined refrigerator-freezers, fitted with separate external doors or drawers, or combination thereof:
8418.10.90Other30%
8418.2Refrigerators, household type:
8418.21Compression-type25%
8418.29Other25%
8418.30Freezers of the chest type, not exceeding 800 li capacity:
8418.30.10Of which any wall thickness exceeds 110 mm and with the ability to maintain temperature of less than minus 50°Cfree
8418.30.90Other25%
8418.40Freezers of the upright type, not exceeding 900 li capacity:
8418.40.10Of which any wall thickness exceeds 110 mm and with the ability to maintain temperatures of less than minus 50°Cfree
8418.40.90Other25%
8418.50Other furniture (chests, cabinets, display counters, show-cases and the like) for storage and display, incorporating refrigerating or freezing equipment20%
8418.6Other refrigerating or freezing equipment; heat pumps:
8418.61.10Suitable for household refrigerators or freezers25%
8418.61Heat pumps other than air conditioning machines of heading 84.15:
8418.61.90Otherfree
8418.69.10Suitable for household refrigerators or freezers10%
8418.69Other:
8418.69.90Otherfree
8418.9Parts:
8418.91.10For household refrigerators or freezers20%
8418.91.20For display counters, cabinets, show-cases or the like20%
8418.91Furniture designed to receive refrigerating or freezing equipment:
8418.91.90Otherfree
8418.99Other:
8418.99.10Panels of bonded aluminium sheet, incorporating evaporation channels, not punched or sheared, without copper or aluminium pipesfree
8418.99.40Other evaporators and condensers10%
8418.99.30Other, for display counters, cabinets, show-cases or the like10%
8418.99.20Other, for household refrigerators or freezers10%
8418.99.90Otherfree
84.19Machinery, plant or laboratory equipment, whether or not electrically heated (excluding furnaces, ovens and other equipment of heading 85.14), for the treatment of materials by a process involving a change of temperature such as heating, cooking, roasting, distilling, rectifying, sterilising, pasteurising, steaming, drying, evaporating, vaporising, condensing or cooling (excluding machinery or plant of a kind used for domestic purposes); instantaneous or storage water heaters, non-electric:
8419.1Instantaneous or storage water heaters, non-electric:
8419.11Instantaneous gas water heaters:
8419.11.10Domestic type15%
8419.12Solar water heaters:
8419.12.10Domestic type15%
8419.11.90Otherfree
8419.12.90Otherfree
8419.19.10Domestic type15%
8419.19Other:
8419.19.90Otherfree
8419.20Medical, surgical or laboratory sterilisersfree
8419.3Dryers:
8419.33Lyophilisation apparatus, freeze drying units and spray dryersfree
8419.34Other, for agricultural productsfree
8419.35Other, for wood, paper pulp, paper or paperboardfree
8419.39Otherfree
8419.40Distilling or rectifying plantfree
8419.50Heat exchange units15%
8419.60Machinery for liquefying air or other gasesfree
8419.8Other machinery, plant and equipment:
8419.81For making hot drinks or for cooking or heating foodfree
8419.89Otherfree
8419.90Parts:
8419.90.10For domestic instantaneous or storage water heaters15%
8419.90.90Otherfree
84.20Calendering or other rolling machines (excluding those for metals or glass), and cylinders therefor:
8420.10Calendering or other rolling machinesfree
8420.9Parts:
8420.91Cylindersfree
8420.99Otherfree
84.21Centrifuges, including centrifugal dryers; filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus, for liquids or gases:
8421.1Centrifuges, including centrifugal dryers:
8421.11Cream separatorsfree
8421.12.20Of a dry mass loading capacity not exceeding 7 kg (excluding coin- operated types)15%
8421.12Clothes-dryers:
8421.12.90Otherfree
8421.19Otherfree
8421.2Filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for liquids:
8421.21For filtering or purifying waterfree
8421.22For filtering or purifying beverages (excluding water)free
8421.23.30Suitable for use with motor vehicle engines (including motorcycle engines)16%
8421.23Oil or petrol-filters for internal combustion engines:
8421.23.90Otherfree
8421.29Otherfree
8421.3Filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for gases:
8421.31.20Air filters of the heavy duty dry type, without elements, of a kind fitted with a pre-cleanerfree
8421.31.50Other, suitable for use with motor vehicle engines (including motorcycle engines)15%
8421.31Intake air filters for internal combustion engines:
8421.31.10Air filters with 6 or more filter tubesfree
8421.31.90Otherfree
8421.32.10Of a kind used for motor vehiclesfree
8421.32Catalytic converters or particulate filters, whether or not combined, for purifying or filtering exhaust gases from internal combustion engines :
8421.32.90Otherfree
8421.39Other:
8421.39.20Filtering apparatus of a kind used in motor vehicle air-conditioning systems19%
8421.39.90Otherfree
8421.9Parts:
8421.91.20For clothes dryers of a dry mass loading capacity not exceeding 7 kg15%
8421.91Of centrifuges, including centrifugal dryers:
8421.91.90Otherfree
8421.99Other:
8421.99.90Otherfree
8421.99.66For filters suitable for use with motor vehicle engines (including motorcycle engines)15%
84.22Dish washing machines; machinery for cleaning or drying bottles or other containers; machinery for filling, closing, sealing or labelling bottles, cans, boxes, bags or other containers; machinery for capsuling bottles, jars, tubes and similar containers; other packing or wrapping machinery (including heat-shrink wrapping machinery); machinery for aerating beverages:
8422.1Dish washing machines:
8422.11Of the household typefree
8422.19Otherfree
8422.20Machinery for cleaning or drying bottles or other containersfree
8422.30Machinery for filling, closing, sealing or labelling bottles, cans, boxes, bags or other containers; machinery for capsuling bottles, jars, tubes and similar containers; machinery for aerating beveragesfree
8422.40Other packing or wrapping machinery (including heat-shrink wrapping machinery)free
8422.90Partsfree
84.23Massmeters (excluding balances of a sensitivity of 5 cg or better), including masspiece-operated counting or checking machines; masspieces of all kinds:
8423.10Personal massmeters, including baby massmeters; household massmetersfree
8423.20Massmeters for the continuous measuring of mass of goods on conveyorsfree
8423.30Constant mass massmeters and massmeters for discharging a predetermined mass of material into a bag or container, including hopper massmetersfree
8423.8Other massmeters:
8423.81Having a maximum mass measurement capacity not exceeding 30 kgfree
8423.82Having a maximum mass measurement capacity exceeding 30 kg but not exceeding 5 000 kgfree
8423.89Otherfree
8423.90Masspieces of all kinds; parts of massmetersfree
84.24Mechanical appliances (whether or not hand-operated) for projecting, dispersing or spraying liquids or powders; fire extinguishers, whether or not charged; spray guns and similar appliances; steam or sand blasting machines and similar jet projecting machines:
8424.10Fire extinguishers, whether or not chargedfree
8424.20Spray guns and similar appliancesfree
8424.30Steam or sand blasting machines and similar jet projecting machinesfree
8424.4Agricultural or horticultural sprayers:
8424.41Portable sprayersfree
8424.49Otherfree
8424.8Other appliances:
8424.82Agricultural or horticulturalfree
8424.89Otherfree
8424.90Partsfree
84.25Pulley tackle and hoists (excluding skip hoists); winches and capstans; jacks:
8425.1Pulley tackle and hoists (excluding skip hoists or hoists of a kind used for raising vehicles):
8425.11Powered by electric motor10%
8425.19Otherfree
8425.3Winches; capstans:
8425.31Powered by electric motor:
8425.31.10Whaling or trawling winches10%
8425.31.90Otherfree
8425.39Other:
8425.39.10Whaling or trawling winches10%
8425.4Jacks; hoists of a kind used for raising vehicles:
8425.39.90Otherfree
8425.41Built-in jacking systems of a type used in garagesfree
8425.42.35Four-post jacks, of a lifting capacity not exceeding 3,5 t10%
8425.42Other jacks and hoists, hydraulic:
8425.42.10Trolley mounted garage jacks, of a lifting capacity not exceeding 11 t10%
8425.42.20Other trolley mounted garage jacksfree
8425.42.25Bottle jacks, of a lifting capacity not exceeding 90,7 t10%
8425.42.30Other lifting jacks, hand-type, of a lifting capacity not exceeding 90,7t10%
8425.42.40Other lifting jacksfree
8425.42.90Otherfree
8425.42.50Other jacks10%
8425.49.10Trolley mounted garage jacksfree
8425.49.25Other mechanical lifting jacks, hand-type, of a lifting capacity not exceeding 90,7 t10%
8425.49.30Other lifting jacksfree
8425.49.15Lifting jacks, mechanical, hand-type, of a lifting height of 800 mm or more when fully extended (excluding trolley mounted garage jacks)10%
8425.49Other:
8425.49.90Other10%
84.26Ships' derricks; cranes, including cable cranes; mobile lifting frames, straddle carriers and works trucks fitted with a crane:
8426.1Overhead travelling cranes, transporter cranes, gantry cranes, bridge cranes, mobile lifting frames and straddle carriers:
8426.11Overhead travelling cranes on fixed supportfree
8426.12Mobile lifting frames on tyres and straddle carriersfree
8426.19Otherfree
8426.20Tower cranesfree
8426.30Portal or pedestal jib cranesfree
8426.4Other machinery, self-propelled:
8426.41.10Works trucks fitted with a crane and designed for container handlingfree
8426.41On tyres:
8426.41.90Otherfree
8426.49Otherfree
8426.9Other machinery:
8426.91Designed for mounting on road vehiclesfree
8426.99Otherfree
84.27Fork-lift trucks; other works trucks fitted with lifting or handling equipment:
8427.10Self-propelled trucks powered by an electric motorfree
8427.20.40Other fork-lift trucks of a mass not exceeding 10 000 kgfree
8427.20.30Reach stackers of the boom type for container handling of a mass not exceeding 6 000 kgfree
8427.20Other self-propelled trucks:
8427.20.50Other fork-lift trucks of a mass exceeding 10 000 kgfree
8427.20.90Otherfree
8427.90Other trucks:
8427.90.20Manually operated pallet trucksfree
8427.90.90Otherfree
84.28Other lifting, handling, loading or unloading machinery (for example, lifts, escalators, conveyors, teleferics):
8428.10Lifts and skip hoistsfree
8428.20Pneumatic elevators and conveyorsfree
8428.3Other continuous-action elevators and conveyors, for goods or materials:
8428.31Specially designed for underground usefree
8428.32Other, bucket typefree
8428.33Other, belt typefree
8428.39Otherfree
8428.40Escalators and moving walkwaysfree
8428.60Teleferics, chair-lifts, ski-draglines; traction mechanisms for funicularsfree
8428.70Industrial robotsfree
8428.90Other machinery:
8428.90.10Elevating platforms and elevating buckets for overhead maintenance, designed for mounting on a vehicle, with an operating height not exceeding 20 m measured from the ground to the bottom of the platform or bucketfree
8428.90.90Otherfree
84.29Self-propelled bulldozers, angledozers, graders, levellers, scrapers, mechanical shovels, excavators, shovel loaders, tamping machines and road rollers:
8429.1Bulldozers and angledozers:
8429.11Track layingfree
8429.19Otherfree
8429.20Graders and levellersfree
8429.30Scrapersfree
8429.40.11With a roller width not exceeding 650 mmfree
8429.40.21With a roller width not exceeding 650 mmfree
8429.40.29With a roller width exceeding 650 mmfree
8429.40.19With a roller width exceeding 650 mmfree
8429.40.2Road rollers, with more than one roller, pedestrian controlled:
8429.40.1Road rollers, with a single roller, pedestrian controlled:
8429.40Tamping machines and road rollers:
8429.40.90Otherfree
8429.5Mechanical shovels, excavators and shovel loaders:
8429.51.20Not tracked, driven by internal combustion piston engines, of a mass of 3 000 kg or more but not exceeding 30 000 kg (excluding those specially designed for use in mines)10%
8429.51Front-end shovel loaders:
8429.52Machinery with a 360° revolving superstructurefree
8429.51.90Otherfree
8429.59Otherfree
84.30Other moving, grading, levelling, scraping, excavating, tamping, compacting, extracting or boring machinery, for earth, minerals or ores; pile-drivers and pile-extractors; snow-ploughs and snow-blowers:
8430.10Pile-drivers and pile-extractorsfree
8430.20Snow-ploughs and snow-blowersfree
8430.3Coal or rock cutters and tunnelling machinery:
8430.31Self-propelledfree
8430.39Otherfree
8430.4Other boring or sinking machinery:
8430.41Self-propelledfree
8430.49Otherfree
8430.50Other machinery, self-propelledfree
8430.6Other machinery, not self-propelled:
8430.61Tamping or compacting machineryfree
8430.69Otherfree
84.31Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machinery of headings 84.25 to 84.30:
8431.10.05Of triple spur gear chain hoists10%
8431.10.10Of hydraulic trolley mounted garage jacks, of a lifting capacity not exceeding 11 t10%
8431.10Of machinery of heading 84.25:
8431.10.25Of other hydraulic lifting jacks, hand-type, of a lifting capacity not exceeding 90,7 t (excluding trolley mounted garage jacks)10%
8431.10.30Of other mechanical lifting jacks, hand-type, of a lifting capacity not exceeding 90,7 t (excluding trolley mounted garage jacks)10%
8431.10.90Otherfree
8431.20.10Radiators10%
8431.20Of machinery of heading 84.27:
8431.20.90Otherfree
8431.3Of machinery of heading 84.28:
8431.31Of lifts, skip hoists or escalatorsfree
8431.39Otherfree
8431.4Of machinery of heading 84.26, 84.29 or 84.30:
8431.41Buckets, shovels, grabs and gripsfree
8431.42Bulldozer or angledozer bladesfree
8431.43Parts for boring or sinking machinery of subheading 8430.41 or 8430.49free
8431.49Other:
8431.49.60Radiators10%
8431.49.90Otherfree
84.32Agricultural, horticultural or forestry machinery for soil preparation or cultivation; lawn or sports-ground rollers:
8432.10Ploughsfree
8432.2Harrows, scarifiers, cultivators, weeders and hoes:
8432.21Disc harrowsfree
8432.29Otherfree
8432.3Seeders, planters and transplanters:
8432.31No-till direct seeders, planters and transplantersfree
8432.39Otherfree
8432.4Manure spreaders and fertiliser distributors:
8432.41Manure spreadersfree
8432.42Fertiliser distributorsfree
8432.80Other machineryfree
8432.90Partsfree
84.33Harvesting or threshing machinery, including straw or fodder balers; grass or hay mowers; machines for cleaning, sorting or grading eggs, fruit or other agricultural produce (excluding machinery of heading 84.37):
8433.1Mowers for lawns, parks or sports-grounds:
8433.11Powered, with the cutting device rotating in a horizontal plane:
8433.11.10Having a cutting width not exceeding 470 mm20%
8433.11.90Other10%
8433.19Other:
8433.19.10Having a cutting width not exceeding 460 mm10%
8433.19.90Other10%
8433.20Other mowers, including cutter bars for tractor mountingfree
8433.30Other haymaking machineryfree
8433.40Straw or fodder balers, including pick-up balersfree
8433.5Other harvesting machinery; threshing machinery:
8433.51Combine harvester-threshersfree
8433.52Other threshing machineryfree
8433.53Root or tuber harvesting machinesfree
8433.59Otherfree
8433.60Machines for cleaning, sorting or grading eggs, fruit or other agricultural producefree
8433.90Partsfree
84.34Milking machines and dairy machinery:
8434.10Milking machinesfree
8434.20Dairy machineryfree
8434.90Partsfree
84.35Presses, crushers and similar machinery used in the manufacture of wine, cider, fruit juices or similar beverages:
8435.10Machineryfree
8435.90Partsfree
84.36Other agricultural, horticultural, forestry, poultry-keeping or bee-keeping machinery, including germination plant fitted with mechanical or thermal equipment; poultry incubators and brooders:
8436.10Machinery for preparing animal feeding stuffsfree
8436.2Poultry-keeping machinery; poultry incubators and brooders:
8436.21Poultry incubators and broodersfree
8436.29Otherfree
8436.80Other machineryfree
8436.9Parts:
8436.91Of poultry-keeping machinery or poultry incubators and broodersfree
8436.99Otherfree
84.37Machines for cleaning, sorting or grading seed, grain or dried leguminous vegetables; machinery used in the milling industry or for the working of cereals or dried leguminous vegetables (excluding farm-type machinery):
8437.10Machines for cleaning, sorting or grading seed, grain or dried leguminous vegetablesfree
8437.80Other machineryfree
8437.90Partsfree
84.38Machinery, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter, for the industrial preparation or manufacture of food or drink, (excluding machinery for the extraction or preparation of animal or fixed vegetable or microbial fats or oils:
8438.10Bakery machinery and machinery for the manufacture of macaroni, spaghetti or similar productsfree
8438.20Machinery for the manufacture of confectionery, cocoa or chocolatefree
8438.30Machinery for sugar manufacturefree
8438.40Brewery machineryfree
8438.50Machinery for the preparation of meat or poultryfree
8438.60Machinery for the preparation of fruits, nuts or vegetablesfree
8438.80Other machineryfree
8438.90Partsfree
84.39Machinery for making pulp of fibrous cellulosic material or for making or finishing paper or paperboard:
8439.10Machinery for making pulp of fibrous cellulosic materialfree
8439.20Machinery for making paper or paperboardfree
8439.30Machinery for finishing paper or paperboardfree
8439.9Parts:
8439.91Of machinery for making pulp of fibrous cellulosic materialfree
8439.99Otherfree
84.40Book-binding machinery, including book-sewing machines:
8440.10Machineryfree
8440.90Partsfree
84.41Other machinery for making up paper pulp, paper or paperboard, including cutting machines of all kinds:
8441.10Cutting machinesfree
8441.20Machines for making bags, sacks or envelopesfree
8441.30Machines for making cartons, boxes, cases, tubes, drums or similar containers (excluding by moulding)free
8441.40Machines for moulding articles in paper pulp, paper or paperboardfree
8441.80Other machineryfree
8441.90Partsfree
84.42Machinery, apparatus and equipment (excluding the machines of headings 84.56 to 84.65), for preparing or making plates, cylinders and other printing components; plates, cylinders and other printing components; plates, cylinders and lithographic stones, prepared for printing purposes (for example, planed, grained or polished):
8442.30Machinery, apparatus and equipmentfree
8442.40Parts of the foregoing machinery, apparatus or equipmentfree
8442.50Plates, cylinders and other printing components; plates, cylinders and lithographic stones, prepared for printing purposes (for example, planed, grained or polished)free
84.43Printing machinery used for printing by means of plates, cylinders and other printing components of heading 84.42; other printers, copying machines and facsimile machines, whether or not combined; parts and accessories thereof:
8443.1Printing machinery used for printing by means of plates, cylinders and other printing components of heading 84.42:
8443.11Offset printing machinery, reel-fedfree
8443.12Offset printing machinery, sheet-fed, office type (using sheets with one side not exceeding 22 cm and the other side not exceeding 36 cm in the unfolded state)free
8443.13Other offset printing machineryfree
8443.14Letterpress printing machinery, reel fed (excluding flexographic printing)free
8443.15Letterpress printing machinery, other than reel fed (excluding flexographic printing)free
8443.16Flexographic printing machineryfree
8443.17Gravure printing machineryfree
8443.19Otherfree
8443.3Other printers, copying machines and facsimile machines, whether or not combined:
8443.31Machines which perform two or more of the functions of printing, copying or facsimile transmission, capable of connecting to an automatic data processing machine or to a networkfree
8443.32Other, capable of connecting to an automatic data processing machine or to a network:
8443.32.10Teleprinters5%
8443.32.90Otherfree
8443.39Otherfree
8443.9Parts and accessories:
8443.91Parts and accessories of printing machinery used for printing by means of plates, cylinders and other printing components of heading 84.42free
8443.99Otherfree
8444.00Machines for extruding, drawing, texturing or cutting man-made textile materialsfree
84.45Machines for preparing textile fibres; spinning, doubling or twisting machines and other machinery for producing textile yarns; textile reeling or winding (including weft- winding) machines and machines for preparing textile yarns for use on the machines of heading 84.46 or 84.47:
8445.1Machines for preparing textile fibres:
8445.11Carding Machinesfree
8445.12Combing machinesfree
8445.13Drawing or roving machinesfree
8445.19Otherfree
8445.20Textile spinning machinesfree
8445.30Textile doubling or twisting machinesfree
8445.40Textile winding (including weft-winding) or reeling machinesfree
8445.90Otherfree
84.46Weaving machines (looms):
8446.10For weaving fabrics of a width not exceeding 30 cmfree
8446.2For weaving fabrics of a width exceeding 30 cm, shuttle type:
8446.21Power loomsfree
8446.29Otherfree
8446.30For weaving fabrics of a width exceeding 30 cm, shuttleless typefree
84.47Knitting machines, stitch-bonding machines and machines for making gimped yarn, tulle, lace, embroidery, trimmings, braid or net and machines for tufting:
8447.1Circular knitting machines:
8447.11With cylinder diameter not exceeding 165 mmfree
8447.12With cylinder diameter exceeding 165 mmfree
8447.20Flat knitting machines; stitch-bonding machinesfree
8447.90Otherfree
84.48Auxiliary machinery for use with machines of heading 84.44, 84.45, 84.46 or 84.47 (for example, dobbies, Jacquards, automatic stop motions, shuttle changing mechanisms); parts and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of this heading or of heading 84.44, 84.45, 84.46 or 84.47 (for example, spindles and spindle flyers, card clothing, combs, extruding nipples, shuttles, healds and heald-frames, hosiery needles):
8448.1Auxiliary machinery for machines of heading 84.44, 84.45, 84.46 or 84.47:
8448.11Dobbies and Jacquards; card reducing, copying, punching or assembling machines for use therewithfree
8448.19Otherfree
8448.20Parts and accessories of machines of heading 84.44 or of their auxiliary machineryfree
8448.3Parts and accessories of machines of heading 84.45 or of their auxiliary machinery:
8448.31Card clothingfree
8448.32Of machines for preparing textile fibres (excluding card clothing)free
8448.33Spindles, spindle flyers, spinning rings and ring travellersfree
8448.39Otherfree
8448.4Parts and accessories of weaving machines (looms) or of their auxiliary machinery:
8448.42Reeds for looms, healds and heald-framesfree
8448.49Otherfree
8448.5Parts and accessories of machines of heading 84.47 or of their auxiliary machinery:
8448.51Sinkers, needles and other articles used in forming stitchesfree
8448.59Otherfree
8449.00Machinery for the manufacture or finishing of felt or nonwovens in the piece or in shapes, including machinery for making felt hats; blocks for making hatsfree
84.50Household or laundry-type washing machines, including machines which both wash and dry:
8450.1Machines, each of a dry linen capacity not exceeding 10 kg:
8450.11.10Top load machines30%
8450.11Fully-automatic machines:
8450.11.90Otherfree
8450.12.30Of a dry linen capacity not exceeding 7 kg30%
8450.12Other machines, with built-in centrifugal drier:
8450.12.90Other30%
8450.19Otherfree
8450.20.20Top load machines, fully automaticfree
8450.20Machines, each of a dry linen capacity exceeding 10 kg:
8450.20.10Not fully automatic, with built-in cetrifugal drier, of a dry linen capacity not exceeding 13 kg30%
8450.20.90Otherfree
8450.90Partsfree
84.51Machinery (excluding machines of heading 84.50) for washing, cleaning, wringing, drying, ironing, pressing (including fusing presses), bleaching, dyeing, dressing, finishing, coating or impregnating textile yarns, fabrics or made up textile articles and machines for applying the paste to the base fabric or other support used in the manufacture of floor coverings such as linoleum; machines for reeling, unreeling, folding, cutting or pinking textile fabrics:
8451.10Dry-cleaning machinesfree
8451.2Drying machines:
8451.21Each of a dry linen capacity not exceeding 10 kg:
8451.21.10Laundry drying machines, tumbler type, of a dry linen capacity not exceeding 7,5 kg (excluding coin-operated machines)20%
8451.21.20Other laundry drying machines of a dry linen capacity not exceeding 7,5 kg (excluding coin-operated machines)free
8451.21.90Otherfree
8451.29Otherfree
8451.30Ironing machines and presses (including fusing presses)free
8451.40Washing, bleaching or dyeing machinesfree
8451.50Machines for reeling, unreeling, folding, cutting or pinking textile fabricsfree
8451.80Other machineryfree
8451.90Parts:
8451.90.10For laundry drying machines, tumbler-type, of a dry linen capacity not exceeding 7,5 kg10%
8451.90.90Otherfree
84.52Sewing machines (excluding book-sewing machines of heading 84.40); furniture, bases and covers specially designed for sewing machines; sewing machine needles:
8452.10Sewing machines of the household typefree
8452.2Other sewing machines:
8452.21Automatic unitsfree
8452.29Otherfree
8452.30Sewing machine needlesfree
8452.90Furniture, bases and covers for sewing machines and parts thereof; other parts of sewing machinesfree
84.53Machinery for preparing, tanning or working hides, skins or leather or for making or repairing footwear or other articles of hides, skins or leather (excluding sewing machines):
8453.10Machinery for preparing, tanning or working hides, skins or leatherfree
8453.20Machinery for making or repairing footwearfree
8453.80Other machineryfree
8453.90Partsfree
84.54Converters, ladles, ingot moulds and casting machines, of a kind used in metallurgy or in metal foundries:
8454.10Convertersfree
8454.20Ingot moulds and ladlesfree
8454.30Casting machinesfree
8454.90Partsfree
84.55Metal-rolling mills and rolls therefor:
8455.10Tube millsfree
8455.2Other rolling mills:
8455.21Hot or combination hot and coldfree
8455.22Coldfree
8455.30Rolls for rolling millsfree
8455.90Other partsfree
84.56Machine-tools for working any material by removal of material, by laser or other light or photon beam, ultrasonic, electro-discharge, electro-chemical, electron beam, ionic- beam or plasma arc processes; water-jet cutting machines:
8456.1Operated by laser or other light or photon beam processes:
8456.11Operated by laserfree
8456.12Operated by other light or photon beam processesfree
8456.20Operated by ultrasonic processesfree
8456.30Operated by electro-discharge processesfree
8456.40Operated by plasma arc processesfree
8456.50Water-jet cutting machinesfree
8456.90Otherfree
84.57Machining centres, unit construction machines (single station) and multi-station transfer machines, for working metal:
8457.10Machining centresfree
8457.20Unit construction machines (single station)free
8457.30Multi-station transfer machinesfree
84.58Lathes (including turning centres) for removing metal:
8458.1Horizontal lathes:
8458.11Numerically controlledfree
8458.19Otherfree
8458.9Other lathes:
8458.91Numerically controlledfree
8458.99Otherfree
84.59Machine-tools (including way-type unit head machines) for drilling, boring, milling, threading or tapping by removing metal [(excluding lathes (including turning centres) of heading 84.58)]:
8459.10Way-type unit head machinesfree
8459.2Other drilling machines:
8459.21Numerically controlledfree
8459.29Otherfree
8459.3Other boring-milling machines:
8459.31Numerically controlledfree
8459.39Otherfree
8459.4Other boring machines:
8459.41Numerically controlledfree
8459.49Otherfree
8459.5Milling machines, knee-type:
8459.51Numerically controlledfree
8459.59Otherfree
8459.6Other milling machines:
8459.61Numerically controlledfree
8459.69Otherfree
8459.70Other threading or tapping machinesfree
84.60Machine-tools for deburring, sharpening, grinding, honing, lapping, polishing or otherwise finishing metal or cermets by means of grinding stones, abrasives or polishing products (excluding gear cutting, gear grinding or gear finishing machines of heading 84.61):
8460.1Flat-surface grinding machines:
8460.12Numerically controlledfree
8460.19Otherfree
8460.2Other grinding machines:
8460.22Centreless grinding machines, numerically controlledfree
8460.23Other cylindrical grinding machines, numerically controlledfree
8460.24Other, numerically controlledfree
8460.29Otherfree
8460.3Sharpening (tool or cutter grinding) machines:
8460.31Numerically controlledfree
8460.39Otherfree
8460.40Honing or lapping machinesfree
8460.90Other:
8460.90.20Double wheel horizontal grinding machines (excluding those in which the positioning in any one axis can be set up to an accuracy of at least 0,01 mm) incorporating an electric motor of an output not exceeding 600 W15%
8460.90.90Otherfree
84.61Machine-tools for planing, shaping, slotting, broaching, gear cutting, gear grinding or gear finishing, sawing, cutting-off and other machine-tools working by removing metal or cermets, not elsewhere specified or included:
8461.20Shaping or slotting machinesfree
8461.30Broaching machinesfree
8461.40Gear cutting, gear grinding or gear finishing machinesfree
8461.50Sawing or cutting-off machinesfree
8461.90Otherfree
84.62Machine-tools (including presses) for working metal by forging, hammering or die-forging (excluding rolling mills); machine-tools (including presses, slitting lines and cut- to-length lines) for working metal by bending, folding, straightening, flattening, shearing, punching, notching or nibbling (excluding draw-benches); presses for working metal or metal carbides, not specified above:
8462.1Hot forming machines for forging, die forging (including presses) and hot hammers:
8462.11Closed die forging machinesfree
8462.19.10Presses, hydraulic (excluding those with 3 or more axes, numerically controlled)15%
8462.19Other:
8462.2Bending, folding, straightening or flattening machines (including press brakes) for flat products:
8462.19.90Otherfree
8462.22Profile forming machinesfree
8462.23Numerically controlled press brakes:
8462.23.10Hydraulic, of a capacity of less than 8 900 kN (excluding those with 3 or more axes)15%
8462.23.90Otherfree
8462.24Numerically controlled panel bendersfree
8462.25Numerically controlled roll forming machinesfree
8462.26.10Presses, hydraulic (excluding those with 3 or more axes)15%
8462.26Other numerically controlled bending, folding, straightening or flattening machines:
8462.26.90Otherfree
8462.29Other:
8462.29.10Plate rolling machines with 3 rollers15%
8462.29.20Pressbrakes, hydraulic, of a capacity of less than 8 900 kN15%
8462.29.90Otherfree
8462.29.70Presses (excluding press brakes), hydraulic15%
8462.3Slitting lines, cut-to-length lines and other shearing machines (excluding presses) for flat products, (excluding combined punching and shearing machines):
8462.32Slitting lines and cut-to-length lines:
8462.32.10Of the guillotine type, with a cutting length exceeding 1 000 mm but not exceeding 4 150 mm (excluding those with 3 or more axes), numerically controlled15%
8462.32.20Other, numerically controlledfree
8462.33Numerically controlled shearing machines:
8462.32.90Otherfree
8462.33.10Of the guillotine type, with a cutting length exceeding 1 000 mm but not exceeding 4 150 mm (excluding those with 3 or more axes)15%
8462.33.90Otherfree
8462.39Other:
8462.39.10Of the guillotine type, with a cutting length exceeding 1 000 mm but not exceeding 4 150 mm15%
8462.4Punching, notching or nibbling machines (excluding presses) for flat products, including combined punching and shearing machines:
8462.39.90Otherfree
8462.42Numerically controlledfree
8462.49Otherfree
8462.5Machines for working tube, pipe, hollow section and bar (excluding presses):
8462.51.20Of the guillotine type, with a cutting length exceeding 1 000 mm but not exceeding 4 150 mm (excluding those with 3 or more axes)15%
8462.51.10Presses and press brakes of a capacity of less than 8 900kN, hydraulic, (excluding those with 3 or more axes)15%
8462.51Numerically controlled :
8462.51.90Otherfree
8462.59Other:
8462.59.20Of the guillotine type, with a cutting length exceeding 1 000 mm but not exceeding 4 150 mm (excluding those with 3 or more axes)15%
8462.59.10Presses, hydraulic (excluding those with 3 or more axes)15%
8462.59.90Otherfree
8462.6Cold metal working presses:
8462.61.40Of the guillotine type, with a cutting length exceeding 1 000 mm but not exceeding 4 150 mm (excluding those with 3 or more axes)15%
8462.61Hydraulic presses:
8462.61.10With 3 or more axesfree
8462.61.20Other plate rolling machines with 3 rollers15%
8462.61.90Other15%
8462.62.10Plate rolling machines with 3 rollers15%
8462.62.20Of the guillotine type, with a cutting length exceeding 1 000 mm but not exceeding 4 150 mm (excluding those with 3 or more axes)15%
8462.62Mechanical presses:
8462.63Servo-presses :
8462.63.10Plate rolling machines with 3 rollers15%
8462.62.90Otherfree
8462.63.20Of the guillotine type, with a cutting length exceeding 1 000 mm but not exceeding 4 150 mm (excluding those with 3 or more axes)15%
8462.63.90Otherfree
8462.69Other:
8462.69.10Plate rolling machines with 3 rollers15%
8462.69.20Of the guillotine type, with a cutting length exceeding 1 000 mm but not exceeding 4 150 mm (excluding those with 3 or more axes)15%
8462.69.90Otherfree
8462.90.20Plate rolling machines with 3 rollers15%
8462.90.10Presses and press brakes of a capacity of less than 8 900kN, hydraulic, (excluding those with 3 or more axes)15%
8462.90.30Of the guillotine type, with a cutting length exceeding 1 000 mm but not exceeding 4 150 mm15%
8462.90Other:
8462.90.90Otherfree
84.63Other machine-tools for working metal or cermets, without removing material:
8463.10Draw-benches for bars, tubes, profiles, wire or the likefree
8463.20Thread rolling machinesfree
8463.30Machines for working wirefree
8463.90Otherfree
84.64Machine-tools for working stone, ceramics, concrete, asbestos-cement or like mineral materials or for cold-working glass:
8464.10Sawing machinesfree
8464.20Grinding or polishing machinesfree
8464.90Otherfree
84.65Machine-tools (including machines for nailing, stapling, glueing or otherwise assembling) for working wood, cork, bone, hard rubber, hard plastics or similar hard materials:
8465.10Machines which can carry out different types of machining operations without tool change between such operationsfree
8465.20Machining centresfree
8465.9Other:
8465.91Sawing machinesfree
8465.92Planing, milling or moulding (by cutting) machinesfree
8465.93Grinding, sanding or polishing machinesfree
8465.94Bending or assembling machinesfree
8465.95Drilling or morticing machinesfree
8465.96Splitting, slicing or paring machinesfree
8465.99Otherfree
84.66Parts and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of headings 84.56 to 84.65, including work or tool holders, self-opening dieheads, dividing heads and other special attachments for the machines; tool holders for any type of tool for working in the hand:
8466.10Tool holders and self-opening dieheadsfree
8466.20Work holdersfree
8466.30Dividing heads and other special attachments for machinesfree
8466.9Other:
8466.91For machines of heading 84.64free
8466.92For machines of heading 84.65free
8466.93For machines of headings 84.56 to 84.61free
8466.94For machines of heading 84.62 or 84.63free
84.67Tools for working in the hand, pneumatic, hydraulic or with self-contained electric or non-electric motor:
8467.1Pneumatic:
8467.11Rotary type (including combined rotary-percussion)free
8467.19Otherfree
8467.2With self-contained electric motor:
8467.21Drills of all kindsfree
8467.22Sawsfree
8467.29.10Cutters of the flail line type, suitable for cutting lawn edges15%
8467.29Other:
8467.29.90Otherfree
8467.8Other tools:
8467.81Chain sawsfree
8467.89Other:
8467.9Parts:
8467.89.60Brush cutters and trimmers, petrol drivenfree
8467.89.90Otherfree
8467.91Of chain sawsfree
8467.92Of pneumatic toolsfree
8467.99Other:
8467.99.10For the tools of subheading 8467.29.1015%
84.68Machinery and apparatus for soldering, brazing or welding, whether or not capable of cutting (excluding those of heading 85.15); gas-operated surface tempering machines and appliances:
8467.99.90Other20%
8468.10Hand-held blow pipesfree
8468.20Other gas-operated machinery and apparatusfree
8468.80Other machinery and apparatusfree
8468.90Partsfree
84.70Calculating machines and pocket-size data recording, reproducing and displaying machines with calculating functions; accounting machines, postage-franking machines, ticket-issuing machines and similar machines, incorporating a calculating device; cash registers:
8470.10Electronic calculators capable of operation without an external source of electric power and pocket-size data recording, reproducing and displaying machines with calculating functionsfree
8470.2Other electronic calculating machines:
8470.21Incorporating a printing devicefree
8470.29Otherfree
8470.30Other calculating machinesfree
8470.50Cash registersfree
8470.90Otherfree
84.71Automatic data processing machines and units thereof; magnetic or optical readers, machines for transcribing data onto data media in coded form and machines for processing such data, not elsewhere specified or included:
8471.30Portable automatic data processing machines, of a mass not exceeding 10 kg, consisting of at least a central processing unit, a keyboard and a display:
8471.30.10Having a screen with any side exceeding 45 cmfree
8471.30.90Otherfree
8471.4Other automatic data processing machines:
8471.41Comprising in the same housing at least a central processing unit and an input and output unit, whether or not combined:
8471.41.10Having a screen with any side exceeding 45 cmfree
8471.41.90Otherfree
8471.49Other, presented in the form of systems:
8471.49.10Having a screen with any side exceeding 45 cmfree
8471.49.90Otherfree
8471.50Processing units (excluding those of subheading 8471.41 or 8471.49), whether or not containing in the same housing one or two of the following types of units: storage units, input units, output unitsfree
8471.60Input or output units, whether or not containing storage units in the same housingfree
8471.70Storage unitsfree
8471.80Other units of automatic data processing machinesfree
8471.90Otherfree
84.72Other office machines (for example, hectograph or stencil duplicating machines, addressing machines, automatic banknote dispensers, coin-sorting machines, coin- counting or wrapping machines, pencil-sharpening machines, perforating or stapling machines):
8472.10Duplicating machinesfree
8472.30Machines for sorting or folding mail or for inserting mail in envelopes or bands, machines for opening, closing or sealing mail and machines for affixing or cancelling postage stampsfree
8472.90Otherfree
84.73Parts and accessories (excluding covers, carrying cases and the like) suitable for use solely or principally with machines of headings 84.70 to 84.72:
8473.2Parts and accessories of the machines of heading 84.70:
8473.21Of the electronic calculating machines of subheading 8470.10, 8470.21 or 8470.29free
8473.29Otherfree
8473.30Parts and accessories of the machines of heading 84.71free
8473.40Parts and accessories of the machines of heading 84.72free
8473.50Parts and accessories equally suitable for use with the machines of two or more of the headings 84.70 to 84.72free
84.74Machinery for sorting, screening, separating, washing, crushing, grinding, mixing or kneading earth, stone, ores or other mineral substances, in solid (including powder or paste) form; machinery for agglomerating, shaping or moulding solid mineral fuels, ceramic paste, unhardened cements, plastering materials or other mineral products in powder or paste form; machines for forming foundry moulds of sand:
8474.10Sorting, screening, separating or washing machinesfree
8474.20Crushing or grinding machinesfree
8474.3Mixing or kneading machines:
8474.31Concrete or mortar mixersfree
8474.32Machines for mixing mineral substances with bitumenfree
8474.39Otherfree
8474.80Other machineryfree
8474.90Partsfree
84.75Machines for assembling electric or electronic lamps, tubes or valves or flash-bulbs, in glass envelopes; machines for manufacturing or hot working glass or glassware:
8475.10Machines for assembling electric or electronic lamps, tubes or valves or flash-bulbs, in glass envelopesfree
8475.2Machines for manufacturing or hot working glass or glassware:
8475.21Machines for making optical fibres and preforms thereoffree
8475.29Otherfree
8475.90Partsfree
84.76Automatic goods-vending machines (for example, postage stamp, cigarette, food or beverage machines), including money-changing machines:
8476.2Automatic beverage-vending machines:
8476.21Incorporating heating or refrigerating devicesfree
8476.29Otherfree
8476.8Other machines:
8476.81Incorporating heating or refrigerating devicesfree
8476.89Otherfree
8476.90Partsfree
84.77Machinery for working rubber or plastics or for the manufacture of products from these materials, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter:
8477.10Injection-moulding machinesfree
8477.20Extrudersfree
8477.30Blow moulding machinesfree
8477.40Vacuum moulding machines and other thermoforming machinesfree
8477.5Other machinery for moulding or otherwise forming:
8477.51For moulding or retreading pneumatic tyres or for moulding or otherwise forming inner tubesfree
8477.59Otherfree
8477.80Other machineryfree
8477.90Partsfree
84.78Machinery for preparing or making up tobacco, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter:
8478.10Machineryfree
8478.90Partsfree
84.79Machines and mechanical appliances having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter:
8479.10Machinery for public works, building or the likefree
8479.20Machinery for the extraction or preparation of animal or fixed vegetable or microbial fats or oilsfree
8479.30Presses for the manufacture of particle board or fibre building board of wood or other ligneous materials and other machinery for treating wood or corkfree
8479.40Rope or cable-making machinesfree
8479.50Industrial robots, not elsewhere specified or includedfree
8479.60Evaporative air coolersfree
8479.7Passenger boarding bridges:
8479.71Of a kind used in airportsfree
8479.79Otherfree
8479.8Other machines and mechanical appliances:
8479.81For treating metal, including electric wire coil-windersfree
8479.82Mixing, kneading, crushing, grinding, screening, sifting, homogenising, emulsifying or stirring machinesfree
8479.83Cold isostatic pressesfree
8479.89.33Floor polishers and scrubbers, electrical, non-domestic10%
8479.89.50Foot-operated grease guns10%
8479.89Other:
8479.90Partsfree
8479.89.90Otherfree
84.80Moulding boxes for metal foundry; mould bases; moulding patterns; moulds for metal (excluding ingot moulds), metal carbides, glass, mineral materials, rubber or plastics:
8480.10Moulding boxes for metal foundryfree
8480.20Mould basesfree
8480.30Moulding patternsfree
8480.4Moulds for metal or metal carbides:
8480.41Injection or compression typesfree
8480.49Otherfree
8480.50Moulds for glassfree
8480.60Moulds for mineral materialsfree
8480.7Moulds for rubber or plastics:
8480.71Injection or compression typesfree
8480.79Otherfree
84.81Taps, cocks, valves and similar appliances for pipes, boiler shells, tanks, vats or the like, including pressure-reducing valves and thermostatically controlled valves:
8481.10Pressure-reducing valves:
8481.10.10For use with pipes or piping of an outside diameter not exceeding 32 mm15%
8481.10.90Otherfree
8481.20Valves for oleohydraulic or pneumatic transmissionsfree
8481.30Check (nonreturn) valves:
8481.30.10Double door wafer typefree
8481.30.90Other15%
8481.40Safety or relief valves:
8481.40.10Of copper alloys or plastics, for use with pipes or piping of an outside diameter not exceeding 32 mm15%
8481.40.90Otherfree
8481.80.27Ball valves (excluding those of plastics)15%
8481.80.41Gate valves15%
8481.80.33Diaphragm valves (excluding those made of plastics)15%
8481.80.37Other gate valves of copper alloys, not flanged, for use with pipes of an inside cross-sectional dimension exceeding 15 mm but not exceeding 80 mm10%
8481.80.31Butterfly valves (excluding those of plastics)15%
8481.80.19Other float operated valves, for use with pipes or piping of an outside diameter not exceeding 32 mm15%
8481.80.09Valves of a kind commonly used with other inflatable articles15%
8481.80.03Fire hydrants15%
8481.80.01Pressure or flow control valves (excluding valves of aluminium, of a mass of 150 g or more, but not exceeding 200 g, and of a capacity of 5,3 kW or more but not exceeding 8,4 kW used in automotive airconditioning units), for use with pipes or piping of an outside diameter not exceeding 32 mm15%
8481.80.11Flush valves of a kind commonly used with water closet pans, urinals or slop hoppers15%
8481.80Other appliances:
8481.80.90Otherfree
8481.80.79Hose or bibcocks, pillar cocks, water mixing taps, thermostatically controlled mixing valves (bath, washbasin, bidet, shower or sink type), shower units, water-tank locking taps, cooking range taps or tapping ferrules for off-take pipes of an outside diameter not exceeding 32 mm20%
8481.80.73Basin, bath, shower or sink waste holes and plugs therefor15%
8481.80.63Plug valves (excluding those made of plastics)15%
8481.80.72Hose fittings15%
8481.90Parts:
8481.90.90Otherfree
8481.90.80Other parts of valves (excluding those for oleo hydraulic or pneumatic transmissions and for aerosol valves)10%
8481.90.60Of valves commonly used with inflatable articles15%
8481.90.65Housings (excluding those commonly used with inflatable articles and aerosol valves)15%
84.82Ball or roller bearings:
8482.10Ball bearingsfree
8482.20.02Journal roller bearings of the rotating end-cover type, commonly used on the axles of railway rolling stock or locomotives, of an outside diameter of 170 mm or more but not exceeding 210 mm20%
8482.20.45Cone assemblies (excluding single row), of an inside diameter of 119 mm or more but not exceeding 120 mm, or 131 mm or more but not exceeding 132 mm20%
8482.20Tapered roller bearings, including cone and tapered roller assemblies:
8482.20.90Otherfree
8482.30Spherical roller bearingsfree
8482.40Needle roller bearings, including cage and needle roller assembliesfree
8482.50Other cylindrical roller bearings, including cage and roller assembliesfree
8482.80Other, including combined ball/roller bearingsfree
8482.9Parts:
8482.91Balls, needles and rollersfree
8482.99.11Outer rings of radial deep groove ball bearings with grooved ball track in bore, finished (excluding those of an outside diameter of less than 31 mm or exceeding 130 mm)20%
8482.99.17Outer rings of journal roller bearings, finished, of an outside diameter of 195 mm or more but not exceeding 196 mm, or of 207 mm or more but not exceeding 209 mm20%
8482.99Other:
8482.99.29Inner rings of radial deep groove ball bearings with grooved ball track on outer diameter, finished (excluding those of an outside diameter of less than 20 mm or exceeding 95 mm)20%
8482.99.90Otherfree
84.83Transmission shafts (including cam shafts and crank shafts) and cranks; bearing housings and plain shaft bearings; gears and gearing; ball or roller screws; gear boxes and other speed changers, including torque converters; flywheels and pulleys, including pulley blocks; clutches and shaft couplings (including universal joints):
8483.10Transmission shafts (including cam shafts and crank shafts) and cranksfree
8483.20Bearing housings, incorporating ball or roller bearingsfree
8483.30Bearing housings, not incorporating ball or roller bearings; plain shaft bearings:
8483.30.55Plain shaft bearings, of a kind consisting of halves, with an inside diameter not exceeding 125 mm and a wall thickness of less than 5 mm20%
8483.30.90Otherfree
8483.40Gears and gearing (excluding toothed wheels, chain sprockets and other transmission elements presented separately); ball or roller screws; gear boxes and other speed changers, including torque convertersfree
8483.50Flywheels and pulleys, including pulley blocksfree
8483.60Clutches and shaft couplings (including universal joints)free
8483.90Toothed wheels, chain sprockets and other transmission elements presented separately; partsfree
84.84Gaskets and similar joints of metal sheeting combined with other material or of two or more layers of metal; sets or assortments of gaskets and similar joints, dissimilar in composition, put up in pouches, envelopes or similar packings; mechanical seals:
8484.10Gaskets and similar joints of metal sheeting combined with other material or of two or more layers of metal:
8484.10.10Identifiable for use solely or principally in motor vehicles of Chapter 87 (excluding those of subheadings 8701.10 and 8701.90)10%
8484.10.90Otherfree
8484.20Mechanical sealsfree
8484.90Other:
8484.90.10Identifiable for use solely or principally in motor vehicles of Chapter 87 (excluding those of subheadings 8701.10 and 8701.90)10%
8484.90.90Otherfree
84.85Machines for additive manufacturing:
8485.10By metal depositfree
8485.20By plastic or rubber depositfree
8485.30By plaster, cement, ceramics or glass depositfree
8485.80Otherfree
8485.90Partsfree
84.86Machines and apparatus of a kind used solely or principally for the manufacture of semiconductor boules or wafers, semiconductor devices, electronic integrated circuits or flat panel displays; machines and apparatus specified in Note 11(C) to this Chapter; parts and accessories:
8486.10Machines and apparatus for the manufacture of boules or wafersfree
8486.20Machines and apparatus for the manufacture of semiconductor devices or of electronic integrated circuitsfree
8486.30Machines and apparatus for the manufacture of flat panel displaysfree
8486.40Machines and apparatus specified in Note 11 (C) to this Chapterfree
8486.90Parts and accessoriesfree
84.87Machinery parts, not containing electrical connectors, insulators, coils, contacts or other electrical features, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter:
8487.10Ships' or boats' propellers, and blades thereforfree
8487.90Otherfree
Chapter 85
Electrical Machinery and Equipment and Parts Thereof; Sound Recorders and Reproducers, Television Image and Sound Recorders and Reproducers, and Parts and Accessories of Such Articles

Notes

1.

This Chapter does not cover the following:

(a)

electrically warmed blankets, bed pads, foot-muffs or the like; electrically warmed clothing, footwear or ear pads or other electrically warmed articles on or about the person;

(b)

articles of glass of heading 70.11;

(c)

machines and apparatus of heading 84.86;

(d)

vacuum apparatus of a kind used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences (heading 90.18); or

(e)

electrically heated furniture of Chapter 94.

2.

Headings 85.01 to 85.04 do not apply to goods described in heading 85.11, 85.12, 85.40, 85.41 or 85.42.

However, metal tank mercury arc rectifiers remain classified in heading 85.04.

3.

For the purposes of heading 85.07, the expression "electric accumulators" includes those presented with ancillary components which contribute to the accumulator's function of the storing and supplying energy or protect it from damage, such as electrical connectors, temperature control devices (for example, thermistors) and circuit protection devices. They may also include a portion of the protective housing of the goods in which they are to be used.

4.

Heading 85.09 covers only the following electro-mechanical machines of the kind commonly used for domestic purposes:

(a)

floor polishers, food grinders and mixers, and fruit or vegetable juice extractors, of any mass;

(b)

other machines provided the mass of such machines does not exceed 20 kg.

The heading does not, however, apply to fans or ventilating or recycling hoods incorporating a fan, whether or not fitted with filters (heading 84.14), centrifugal clothes-dryers (heading 84.21), dish washing machines (heading 84.22), household washing machines (heading 84.50), roller or other ironing machines (heading 84.20 or 84.51), sewing machines (heading 84.52), electric scissors (heading 84.67) or to electrothermal appliances (heading 85.16).

5.

For the purposes of heading 85.17, the term "smartphones" means telephones for cellular networks, equipped with a mobile operating system designed to perform the functions of an automatic data processing machine such as downloading and running multiple applications simultaneously, including third-party applications, and whether or not integrating other features such as digital cameras and navigational aid systems

6.

For the purposes of heading 85.23:

(a)

"Solid-state non-volatile storage devices" (for example, "flash memory cards" or "flash electronic storage cards") are storage devices with a connecting socket, comprising in the same housing one or more flash memories (for example, "FLASH E²PROM") in the form of integrated circuits mounted on a printed circuit board. They may include a controller in the form of an integrated circuit and discrete passive components, such as capacitors and resistors;

(b)

the term "smart cards" means cards which have embedded in them one or more electronic integrated circuits (a microprocessor, random access memory (RAM) or read-only memory (ROM) in the form of chips.These cards may contain contacts, a magnetic stripe or an embedded antenna but do not contain any other active or passive circuit elements.

7.

For the purposes of heading 85.24, "flat-panel display modules" refer to devices or apparatus for the display of information, equipped at a minimum with a display screen, which are designed to be incorporated into articles of other headings prior to use. Display screens for flat panel display modules include, but are no limited to, those which are flat, curved, flexible, foldable or stretchable in form. Flat panel display modules may incorporate additional elements, including those necessary for receiving video signals and the allocation of those signals to pixels on the display. However, heading 85.24 does not include display modules which are equipped with components for converting video signals (e.g. a scaler IC, decoder IC or application processor) or have otherwise assumed the character of goods of other headings.

For the classification of flat panel display modules defines in this Note, heading 85.24 shall take precedence over any other heading in the Nomenclature.

8.

For the purposes of heading 85.34 "printed circuits" are circuits obtained by forming on an insulating base, by any printing process (for example, embossing, plating-up, etching) or by the "film circuit" technique, conductor elements, contacts or other printed components (for example, inductances, resistors, capacitors) alone or interconnected according to a pre-established pattern, except elements which can produce, rectify, modulate or amplify an electrical signal (for example, semiconductor elements). The expression "printed circuits" does not cover circuits combined with elements other than those obtained during the printing process, nor does it cover individual, discrete resistors, capacitors or inductances. Printed circuits may, however, be fitted with non-printed connecting elements. Thin- or thick-film circuits comprising passive and active elements obtained during the same technological process are to be classified in heading 85.42.

9.

For the purpose of heading 85.36, "connectors for optical fibres, optical fibre bundles or cables" means connectors that simply mechanically align optical fibres end to end in a digital line system. They perform no other function, such as the amplification, regeneration or modification of a signal.

10.

Heading 85.37 does not include cordless infrared devices for the remote control of television receivers or other electrical equipment (heading 85.43).

11.

For the purposes of heading 85.39, the expression "light-emitting diodes (LED) light sources" covers:

(a)

"Light-emitting diode (LED) modules" which are electrical light sources based on light-emitting diodes (LED) arranged in electrical circuits and containing further elements like electrical, mechanical, thermal or optical elements. They also contain discrete active elements, discrete passive elements, or articles of heading 85.36 or 85.42 for the purposes of providing power supply or power control. Light-emitting diode (LED) modules do not have a cap designed to allow easy installation or replacement in a luminaire and ensure mechanical and electrical contact.

(b)

"Light-emitting diode (LED) lamps" which are electrical light sources containing one or more LED modules containing further elements like electrical, mechanical, thermal or optical elements. The distinction between light-emitting diode (LED) modules and light-emitting diode (LED) lamps is that lamps have a cap designed to allow easy installation or replacement in a luminaire and ensure mechanical and electrical contact.

12.

For the purposes of headings 85.41 and 85.42:

(a)(i) "Diodes, transistors and similar semiconductor devices" are semiconductor devices the operation of which depends on variations in resistivity on the application of an electric field;

Semiconductor devices may also include assembly of plural elements, whether or not equipped with active and passive device ancillary functions.

"Semiconductor-based transducers" are, for the purposes of this definition, semiconductor-based sensors, semiconductor-based actuators, semiconductor-based resonators and semiconductor- based oscillators, which are types of discrete semiconductor-based devices, which perform an intrinsic function, which are able to convert any kind of physical or chemical phenomena or an action into an electrical signal or an electrical signal into any type of physical phenomenon or an action.

All the elements in semiconductor-based transducers are indivisibly combined, and may also include necessary materials indivisibly attached, that enable their construction or function.

The following expressions mean:

(1)

"Semiconductor-based" means built or manufactured on a semiconductor substrate or made of semiconductor materials, manufactured by semiconductor technology, in which the semiconductor substrate or material plays a critical and unreplaceable role of transducer function and performance, and the operation of which is based on semiconductor properties including physical, electrical, chemical and optical properties.

(2)

"Physical or chemical phenomena" relate to phenomena, such as pressure, acoustic waves, acceleration, vibration, movement, orientation, strain, magnetic field strength, electric field strength, light, radioactivity, humidity, flow, chemicals concentration, etc.

(3)

"Semiconductor-based sensor" is a type of semiconductor device, which consists of microelectronic or mechanical structures that are created in the mass or on the surface of the semiconductor and that have the function of detecting physical or chemical quantities and converting these into electric signals caused by resulting variations in electric properties of displacement of a mechanical structure.

(4)

"Semiconductor-based actuator" is a type of semiconductor device, which consists of microelectronic or mechanical structures that are created in the mass or on the surface of a semiconductor and that have the function of converting electric signals into physical movement

(5)

"Semiconductor-based resonator" is a type of semiconductor device, which consists of microelectronic or mechanical structures that are created in the mass or on the surface of the semiconductor and that have the function of generating a mechanical or electrical oscillation of a predefined frequency that depends on the physical geometry of these structures in response to an external input.

(6)

"Semiconductor-based oscillator" is a type of a semiconductor device, which consists of microelectronic or mechanical structure that are created in the mass or on the surface of a semiconductor and that have the function of generating a mechanical or electrical oscillation of a predefined frequency that depends on the physical geometry of these structures.

(ii)

"Light-emitting diodes (LED)" are semiconductor devices based on semiconductor materials which convert electrical energy into visible, infra-red or ultra-violet rays, whether or not electrically connected among each other and whether or not combined with protective diodes. Light-emitting diodes" of heading 85.41 do not incorporate elements for the purposes of providing power supply of power control;

(b)

"Electronic integrated circuits" are:

(i)

monolithic integrated circuits in which the circuit elements (diodes, transistors, resistors, capacitors, inductances, etc.) are created in the mass (essentially) and on the surface of a semiconductor or compound semiconductor material (for example, doped silicon, gallium arsenide, silicon germanium, indium phosphide) and are inseparably associated;

(ii)

hybrid intergrated circuits in which passive elements (resistors, capacitors, inductances, etc.), obtained by thin- or thick-film technology, and active elements (diodes, transistors, monolithic integrated circuits, etc.), obtained by semiconductor technology, are combined to all intents and purposes indivisibly, by interconnections or interconnecting cables, on a single insulating substrate (glass, ceramic, etc.). These circuits may also include discrete components;

(iii)

multichip integrated circuits consisting of two or more interconnected monolithic integrated circuits combined to all intents and purposes indivisibly, whether or not on one or more insulating substrates, with or without leadframes, but with no other active or passive circuit elements.

(iv)

multi-component integrated circuits (MCOs): a combination of one or more monolithic, hybrid, or multi-chip integrated circuits with at least one of the following components: silicon-based sensors, actuators, oscillators, resonators or combinations thereof, or components performing the functions of articles classifiable under heading 85.32, 85.33, 85.41, or inductors classifiable under heading 85.04, formed to all intents and purposes indivisibly into a single body like an integrated circuit, as a component of a kind used for assembly onto a printed circuit board (PCB) or other carrier, through the connecting of pins, leads, balls, lands, bumps or pads.

For the purpose of this definition:

1.

"Components" may be discrete, manufactured independently then assembled on the rest of the MCO, or integrated into other components.

2.

"Silicon based" means built on a silicon substrate, or made of silicon materials, or manufactured onto integrated circuit die.

3.

(a)

"Silicon based sensors" consist of microelectronic or mechanical structures that are created in the mass or on the surface of a semiconductor and that have the function of detecting physical or chemical phenomena and transducing these into electric signals, caused by resulting variations in electric properties or displacement of a mechanical structure. "Physical or chemical phenomena" relates to phenomena, such as pressure, acoustic waves, acceleration, vibration, movement, orientation, strain, magnetic field strength, electric field strength, light, radioactivity, humidity, flow, chemicals concentration, etc.

(b)

"Silicon based actuators" consist of microelectronic and mechanical structures that are created i

Rates as at
HeadingDescriptionGeneral
85.01Electrical motors and generators (excluding generating sets):
8501.10Motors of an output not exceeding 37,5 Wfree
8501.20Universal AC/DC motors of an output exceeding 37,5 Wfree
8501.3Other DC motors; DC generators, (excluding photovoltaic generators):
8501.31Of an output not exceeding 750 Wfree
8501.32Of an output exceeding 750 W but not exceeding 75 kWfree
8501.33Of an output exceeding 75 kW but not exceeding 375 kWfree
8501.34Of an output exceeding 375 kWfree
8501.40Other AC motors, single-phasefree
8501.5Other AC motors, multi-phase:
8501.51Of an output not exceeding 750 W:
8501.51.15Motors with a cylindrical frame less than 100 mm in diameter of which the length exceeds 2,35 times the outside diameter, motors fitted with valve actuators, commutator motors, synchronous motors and repulsion induction motorsfree
8501.52.15Motors with a cylindrical frame less than 200 mm in diameter of which the length exceeds 3 times the outside diameters, motors fitted with valve actuators, commutator motors, synchronous motors and repulsion induction motorsfree
8501.51.90Other20%
8501.52Of an output exceeding 750 W but not exceeding 75 kW:
8501.53.15Motors with a cylindrical frame of which the length exceeds 5 times the outside diameter, motors fitted with valve actuators, commutator motors, synchronous motors, repulsion induction motors and torque motorsfree
8501.52.90Other20%
8501.53Of an output exceeding 75 kW:
8501.53.90Other20%
8501.6AC generators (alternators), (excluding photovoltaic generators):
8501.61.10Of an output not exceeding 25 kVAfree
8501.61Of an output not exceeding 75 kVA:
8501.62Of an output exceeding 75 kVA but not exceeding 375 kVAfree
8501.61.90Otherfree
8501.63Of an output exceeding 375 kVA but not exceeding 750 kVAfree
8501.64Of an output exceeding 750 kVAfree
8501.7Photovoltaic DC generators:
8501.71Of an output not exceeding 50 Wfree
8501.72Of an output exceeding 50 Wfree
8501.80Photovoltaic AC generatorsfree
85.02Electric generating sets and rotary converters:
8502.1Generating sets with compression-ignition internal combustion piston engines (diesel or semi-diesel engines):
8502.11Of an output not exceeding 75 kVA20%
8502.12Of an output exceeding 75 kVA but not exceeding 375 kVA20%
8502.13Of an output exceeding 375 kVA20%
8502.20Generating sets with spark-ignition internal combustion piston enginesfree
8502.3Other generating sets:
8502.31Wind-poweredfree
8502.39Otherfree
8502.40Electric rotary converters20%
8503.00.30Radiators10%
8503.00.10Rotors or armatures, with an outside cross-sectional dimension exceeding 57 mm but not exceeding 200 mm15%
8503.00.40Thermocouples for the generation of electric energy from heat energy5%
8503.00.20Stators or stator packs, whether or not wound, with an inside cross- sectional dimension exceeding 57 mm but not exceeding 200 mm15%
8503.00Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of heading 85.01 or 85.02:
8503.00.90Other5%
85.04Electrical transformers, static converters (for example, rectifiers) and inductors:
8504.10Ballasts for discharge lamps or tubes10%
8504.2Liquid dielectric transformers:
8504.21Having a power handling capacity not exceeding 650 kVA10%
8504.22Having a power handling capacity exceeding 650 kVA but not exceeding 10 000 kVA10%
8504.23Having a power handling capacity exceeding 10 000 kVA10%
8504.3Other transformers:
8504.31Having a power handling capacity not exceeding 1 kVA10%
8504.32Having a power handling capacity exceeding 1 kVA but not exceeding 16 kVA10%
8504.33Having a power handling capacity exceeding 16 kVA but not exceeding 500 kVA10%
8504.34Having a power handling capacity exceeding 500 kVA10%
8504.40Static convertersfree
8504.50Other inductors5%
8504.90.10Transformer cores, having a power handling capacity not exceeding 50 000 KVA15%
8504.90Parts:
8504.90.90Other5%
85.05Electro-magnets; permanent magnets and articles intended to become permanent magnets after magnetisation; electro-magnetic or permanent magnet chucks, clamps and similar holding devices; electro-magnetic couplings, clutches and brakes; electro-magnetic lifting heads:
8505.1Permanent magnets and articles intended to become permanent magnets after magnetisation:
8505.11Of metalfree
8505.19Otherfree
8505.20Electro-magnetic couplings, clutches and brakesfree
8505.90Other, including partsfree
85.06Primary cells and primary batteries:
8506.10.10Other, of a height not exceeding 7 mmfree
8506.10Manganese dioxide:
8506.10.25Other, cylindrical (excluding those of a height not exceeding 7 mm), of a diameter exceeding 19 mm10%
8506.10.05Cylindrical, of an external volume exceeding 300 cm³10%
8506.10.90Other20%
8506.30Mercuric oxide:
8506.30.25Other, cylindrical (excluding those of a height not exceeding 7 mm), of a diameter exceeding 19 mmfree
8506.30.10Other, of a height not exceeding 7 mmfree
8506.30.05Cylindrical, of an external volume exceeding 300 cm³free
8506.30.90Otherfree
8506.40.10Other, of a height not exceeding 7 mmfree
8506.40Silver oxide:
8506.40.25Other, cylindrical (excluding those of a height not exceeding 7 mm), of a diameter exceeding 19 mmfree
8506.40.05Cylindrical, of an external volume exceeding 300 cm³free
8506.40.90Otherfree
8506.50Lithium:
8506.50.05Cylindrical, of an external volume exceeding 300 cm³10%
8506.50.10Other, of a height not exceeding 7 mmfree
8506.50.25Other, cylindrical (excluding those of a height not exceeding 7 mm), of a diameter exceeding 19 mmfree
8506.50.90Other20%
8506.60Air-zinc:
8506.60.25Other, cylindrical (excluding those of a height not exceeding 7 mm), of a diameter exceeding 19 mmfree
8506.60.10Other, of a height not exceeding 7 mmfree
8506.60.05Cylindrical, of an external volume exceeding 300 cm³free
8506.60.90Otherfree
8506.80Other primary cells and primary batteries:
8506.80.40Fuel cells20%
8506.80.25Other, cylindrical (excluding those of a height not exceeding 7 mm), of a diameter exceeding 19 mm10%
8506.80.05Cylindrical, of an external volume exceeding 300 cm³10%
8506.80.10Other, of a height not exceeding 7 mmfree
8506.80.90Other20%
8506.90Partsfree
85.07Electric accumulators, including separators therefor, whether or not rectangular (including square):
8507.10.11Used5%
8507.10.1With dimensions not exceeding 185 mm (length) x 125 mm (width) x 195 mm (height):
8507.10Lead-acid, of a kind used for starting piston engines:
8507.10.19Other5%
8507.10.9Other:
8507.10.99Other30%
8507.10.91Used30%
8507.20Other lead-acid accumulatorsfree
8507.30Nickel-cadmiumfree
8507.50Nickel-metal hydridefree
8507.60Lithium-ionfree
8507.80Other accumulatorsfree
8507.90Partsfree
85.08Vacuum cleaners:
8508.1With self-contained electric motor:
8508.11.10Of a value for duty purposes not exceeding R65020%
8508.11Of a power not exceeding 1 500 W and having a dust bag or other receptacle capacity not exceeding 20 litres:
8508.11.90Other5%
8508.19.10Of a value for duty purposes not exceeding R650, non-domestic10%
8508.19.20Other, of a value for duty purposes not exceeding R65020%
8508.19Other:
8508.19.90Other5%
8508.60Other vacuum cleaners:
8508.60.10Of a value for duty purposes not exceeding R650, non-domestic10%
8508.60.90Other, of a value for duty purposes exceeding R650, non-domestic5%
8508.70Parts:
8508.70.10For vacuum cleaners, non-domesticfree
8508.70.90Other20%
85.09Electro-mechanical domestic appliances, with self-contained electric motor (excluding vacuum cleaners of heading 85.08):
8509.40Food grinders and mixers; fruit or vegetable juice extractorsfree
8509.80Other appliances:
8509.80.10Floor polishers20%
8509.80.90Otherfree
8509.90Parts20%
85.10Shavers, hair clippers and hair-removing appliances, with self-contained electric motor:
8510.10Shaversfree
8510.20Hair clippersfree
8510.30Hair-removing appliancesfree
8510.90Partsfree
85.11Electrical ignition or starting equipment of a kind used for spark-ignition or compression-ignition internal combustion engines (for example, ignition magnetos, magneto- dynamos, ignition coils, sparking plugs and glow plugs, starter motors); generators (for example, dynamos, alternators) and cut-outs of a kind used in conjunction with such engines:
8511.10Sparking plugs:
8511.10.10Identifiable for use solely or principally with aircraft or tractor enginesfree
8511.10.90Other10%
8511.20Ignition magnetos; magneto-dynamos; magnetic flywheelsfree
8511.30Distributors; ignition coils:
8511.30.30Distributors and ignition coils, identifiable for use solely or principally with motor vehicle enginesfree
8511.30.90Otherfree
8511.40Starter motors and dual purpose starter-generators:
8511.40.15Identifiable for use solely or principally with motor vehicle engines15%
8511.40.90Otherfree
8511.50Other generators:
8511.50.20Identifiable for use solely or principally with motor vehicle engines15%
8511.50.90Otherfree
8511.80Other equipmentfree
8511.90Partsfree
85.12Electrical lighting or signalling equipment (excluding articles of heading 85.39), windscreen wipers, defrosters and demisters, of a kind used for cycles or motor vehicles:
8512.10Lighting or visual signalling equipment of a kind used on bicyclesfree
8512.20Other lighting or visual signalling equipment15%
8512.30Sound signalling equipment15%
8512.40Windscreen wipers, defrosters and demisters15%
8512.90Partsfree
85.13Portable electric lamps designed to function by their own source of energy (for example, dry batteries, accumulators, magnetos) (excluding lighting equipment of heading 85.12):
8513.10Lampsfree
8513.90Partsfree
85.14Industrial 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 loss:
8514.1Resistance heated furnaces and ovens:
8514.11Hot isostatic pressesfree
8514.19Otherfree
8514.20Furnaces and ovens functioning by induction or dielectric lossfree
8514.3Other furnaces and ovens:
8514.31Electron beam furnacesfree
8514.32Plasma and vacuum arc furnacesfree
8514.39Otherfree
8514.40Other equipment for the heat treatment of materials by induction or dielectric lossfree
8514.90Partsfree
85.15Electric (including electrically heated gas), laser or other light or photon beam, ultrasonic, electron beam, magnetic pulse or plasma arc soldering, brazing or welding machines and apparatus, whether or not capable of cutting; electric machines and apparatus for hot spraying of metals or cermets:
8515.1Brazing or soldering machines and apparatus:
8515.11Soldering irons and gunsfree
8515.19Otherfree
8515.2Machines and apparatus for resistance welding of metal:
8515.21Fully or partly automaticfree
8515.29Otherfree
8515.3Machines and apparatus for arc (including plasma arc) welding of metals:
8515.31Fully or partly automaticfree
8515.39Otherfree
8515.80Other machines and apparatusfree
8515.90Partsfree
85.16Electric instantaneous or storage water heaters and immersion heaters; electric space heating apparatus and soil heating apparatus; electro-thermic hair-dressing apparatus (for example, hair dryers, hair curlers, curling tong heaters) and hand dryers; electric smoothing irons; other electro-thermic appliances of a kind used for domestic purposes; electric heating resistors (excluding those of heading 85.45):
8516.10Electric instantaneous or storage water heaters and immersion heaters:
8516.10.10Immersion heaters identifiable for use solely or principally for heating industrial liquidsfree
8516.10.90Other20%
8516.2Electric space heating apparatus and electric soil heating apparatus:
8516.21Storage heating radiators20%
8516.29.10Electric radiators20%
8516.29Other:
8516.29.90Other20%
8516.3Electro-thermic hair-dressing or hand-drying apparatus:
8516.31.10Hand-typefree
8516.31Hair dryers:
8516.31.90Otherfree
8516.32Other hair-dressing apparatusfree
8516.33Hand-drying apparatusfree
8516.40Electric smoothing irons20%
8516.50Microwave ovensfree
8516.60Other ovens; cookers, cooking plates, boiling rings, grillers and roasters20%
8516.7Other electro-thermic appliances:
8516.71Coffee or tea makers20%
8516.72Toasters20%
8516.79Other20%
8516.80.10Identifiable for use solely or principally with domestic stoves, hot- plates and ovens20%
8516.80.20Identifiable for use solely or principally with industrial ovens and furnacesfree
8516.80Electric heating resistors:
8516.80.90Other20%
8516.90.10For immersion heaters identifiable for use solely or principally for heating industrial liquidsfree
8516.90.20For hand-type hair dryers8%
8516.90.25For electric smoothing irons20%
8516.90.30For other electro-thermic appliances of a kind used for domestic purposes20%
8516.90Parts:
8516.90.90Other20%
85.17Telephone 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) (excluding transmission or reception apparatus of heading 84.43, 85.25, 85.27 or 85.28):
8517.1Telephone sets, including smartphones and other telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks:
8517.11Line telephone sets with cordless handsetsfree
8517.13Smartphones:
8517.13.10Designed for use when carried in the hand or on the person, with a value for duty purposes exceeding R2 500free
8517.14.10Designed for use when carried in the hand or on the person, with a value for duty purposes exceeding R2 500free
8517.14Other telephones for cellular networks or for wireless networks:
8517.13.90Otherfree
8517.14.90Otherfree
8517.18Other:
8517.18.10Card or coin operated telephone setsfree
8517.18.90Otherfree
8517.6Other 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):
8517.61Base stationsfree
8517.62.20Apparatus designed for use when carried in the hand or on the person (excluding two-way radios), with a value for duty purposes exceeding R2 500free
8517.62Machines for the reception, conversion and transmission or regeneration of voice, images or other data, including switching and routing apparatus:
8517.62.10Videophonesfree
8517.62.90Otherfree
8517.69Other:
8517.69.10Apparatus designed for use when carried in the hand or on the person, with a value for duty purposes exceeding R2 500free
8517.7Parts:
8517.69.90Otherfree
8517.71Aerials and aerial reflectors of all kind; parts suitable for use therewithfree
8517.79Otherfree
85.18Microphones and stands therefor; loudspeakers, whether or not mounted in their enclosures; headphones and earphones, whether or not combined with a microphone, and sets consisting of a microphone and one or more loudspeakers; audio-frequency electric amplifiers; electric sound amplifier sets:
8518.10Microphones and stands thereforfree
8518.2Loudspeakers, whether or not mounted in their enclosures:
8518.21Single loudspeakers, mounted in their enclosuresfree
8518.22Multiple loudspeakers, mounted in the same enclosurefree
8518.29Otherfree
8518.30Headphones and earphones, whether or not combined with a microphone, and sets consisting of a microphone and one or more loudspeakersfree
8518.40Audio-frequency electric amplifiersfree
8518.50Electric sound amplifier setsfree
8518.90Partsfree
85.19Sound recording or reproducing apparatus:
8519.20Apparatus operated by coins, banknotes, bank cards, tokens or by other means of paymentfree
8519.30Turntables (record-decks)free
8519.8Other apparatus:
8519.81.10Other, cinematographic sound recording apparatus, tape duplicators and dubbing machinesfree
8519.81Using magnetic, optical or semiconductor media:
8519.81.05Using magnetic mediafree
8519.81.90Otherfree
8519.89Other:
8519.89.10Cinematographic sound recording apparatus, tape duplicators and dubbing machinesfree
8519.89.90Otherfree
85.21Video recording or reproducing apparatus, whether or not incorporating a video tuner:
8521.10Magnetic tape-typefree
8521.90.10With eight or more input channels and a value for customs duty purposes exceeding R13 000free
8521.90Other:
8521.90.90Otherfree
85.22Parts and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of headings 85.19 or 85.21:
8522.10Pick-up cartridgesfree
8522.90Otherfree
85.23Discs, 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 37):
8523.2Magnetic media:
8523.21Cards incorporating a magnetic stripe5%
8523.29Otherfree
8523.4Optical media:
8523.41Unrecordedfree
8523.49Otherfree
8523.5Semiconductor media:
8523.51Solid-state non-volatile storage devicesfree
8523.52.10Digital5%
8523.52"Smart cards":
8523.52.90Otherfree
8523.59Otherfree
8523.80Otherfree
85.24Flat panel display modules, whether or not incorporating touch-sensitive screens:
8524.1Without drivers or control circuits:
8524.11.10Suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of headings 85.25 to 85.2820%
8524.11Of liquid crystals:
8524.11.90Otherfree
8524.12.10Suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of headings 85.25 to 85.2820%
8524.12Of organic light-emitting diodes (OLED):
8524.12.90Otherfree
8524.19.10Suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of headings 85.25 to 85.2820%
8524.19Other:
8524.19.90Otherfree
8524.9Other:
8524.91Of liquid crystal:
8524.91.10Suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of headings 85.25 to 85.2820%
8524.92.10Suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of headings 85.25 to 85.2820%
8524.92Of organic light-emitting diodes (OLED):
8524.91.90Otherfree
8524.92.90Otherfree
8524.99Other:
8524.99.10Suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of headings 85.25 to 85.2820%
85.25Transmission 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 recorders:
8524.99.90Otherfree
8525.50Transmission apparatus:
8525.50.10For radio-telephony or radio-telegraphyfree
8525.50.90Otherfree
8525.60Transmission apparatus incorporating reception apparatusfree
8525.8Television cameras, digital cameras and video camera recorders:
8525.81.10Television camerasfree
8525.81.20Digital camcorders with a value for duty purposes exceeding R15 000 for the basic camera unit exclusive of any peripherals e.g. memory stick, battery, additional lenses, etc.free
8525.81High-speed goods as specified in Subheading Note 1 to this Chapter:
8525.81.90Otherfree
8525.82.10Television camerasfree
8525.82.20Digital camcorders with a value for duty purposes exceeding R15 000 for the basic camera unit exclusive of any peripherals e.g. memory stick, battery, additional lenses, etc.free
8525.82Other, radiation-hardened or radiation-tolerant goods as specified in Subheading Note 2 to this Chapter:
8525.83.20Digital camcorders with a value for duty purposes exceeding R15 000 for the base camera unit exclusive of any peripherals e.g. memory stick, battery, additional lenses, etc.free
8525.83Other, night vision goods as specified in Subheading Note 3 to this Chapter:
8525.82.90Otherfree
8525.83.10Television camerasfree
8525.83.90Otherfree
8525.89.20Digital camcorders with a value for duty purposes exceeding R15 000 for the base camera unit exclusive of any peripherals e.g. memory stick, battery, additional lenses, etc.free
8525.89.10Television camerasfree
8525.89Other:
8525.89.90Otherfree
85.26Radar apparatus, radio navigational aid apparatus and radio remote control apparatus:
8526.10Radar apparatusfree
8526.9Other:
8526.91Radio navigational aid apparatusfree
8526.92Radio remote control apparatusfree
85.27Reception apparatus for radio-broadcasting, whether or not combined, in the same housing, with sound recording or reproducing apparatus or a clock:
8527.1Radio-broadcast receivers capable of operating without an external source of power:
8527.12Pocket-size radio cassette-playersfree
8527.13Other apparatus combined with sound recording or reproducing apparatus:
8527.13.10Domestic apparatusfree
8527.13.90Otherfree
8527.19Other:
8527.19.10Domestic apparatusfree
8527.19.90Otherfree
8527.2Radio-broadcast receivers not capable of operating without an external source of power, of a kind used in motor vehicles:
8527.21Combined with sound recording or reproducing apparatusfree
8527.29Otherfree
8527.9Other:
8527.91Combined with sound recording or reproducing apparatus:
8527.91.10Domestic apparatusfree
8527.92.10Domestic apparatusfree
8527.92Not combined with sound recording or reproducing apparatus but combined with a clock:
8527.91.90Otherfree
8527.92.90Otherfree
8527.99Other:
8527.99.10Domestic apparatusfree
8527.99.90Otherfree
85.28Monitors 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 apparatus:
8528.4Cathode-ray tube monitors:
8528.42Capable of directly connecting to and designed for use with an automatic data processing machine of heading 84.71free
8528.49.10Colour, with a screen size not exceeding 3 m x 4 m25%
8528.49Other:
8528.49.90Otherfree
8528.5Other monitors:
8528.52.10Colour, with a screen with no side exceeding 45 cmfree
8528.52.20Colour, with a screen size exceeding 3 m x 4 mfree
8528.52Capable of directly connecting to and designed for use with an automatic data processing machine of heading 84.71:
8528.52.90Other25%
8528.59.05Colour, with a screen with no side exceeding 45 cmfree
8528.59Other:
8528.59.15Colour, with a screen size exceeding 3 m x 4 mfree
8528.6Projectors:
8528.59.90Other25%
8528.62Capable of directly connecting to and designed for use with an automatic data processing machine of heading 84.71free
8528.69Other:
8528.69.10With a value for duty purposes exceeding R250 000free
8528.69.90Otherfree
8528.7Reception apparatus for television, whether or not incorporating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus:
8528.71.10With a value for duty purposes not exceeding R5 00015%
8528.71Not designed to incorporate a video display or screen:
8528.71.90Otherfree
8528.72Other, colour:
8528.72.50Other, with a screen size exceeding 3 m x 4 mfree
8528.72.20Incorporating a cathode-ray tube (CRT)25%
8528.72.40Other, with a screen with no side exceeding 45 cmfree
8528.73.40Other, with a screen with no side exceeding 45 cmfree
8528.73.20Incorporating a cathode-ray tube (CRT)25%
8528.73Other, monochrome:
8528.72.90Other25%
8528.73.50Other, with a screen size exceeding 3 m x 4 mfree
8528.73.90Other25%
85.29Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of headings 85.24 to 85.28:
8529.10Aerials and aerial reflectors of all kinds; parts suitable for use therewith:
8529.10.20Other aerials for reception apparatus for television, whether or not capable of receiving radio-broadcast, (excluding indoors "set- top" aerials with a permanently affixed base for placing on top of the television set or another flat surface)20%
8529.10.10Parabolic aerial reflector dishes of a diameter not exceeding 120 cm10%
8529.10.90Otherfree
8529.90Other:
8529.90.20Cabinets for reception apparatus for televisionfree
8529.90.50Filters or separators, for the aerials for reception apparatus for televisionfree
8529.90.60Tuners (very high frequency or ultra-high frequency) and tuner control devices, for reception apparatus for televisionfree
8529.90.70Parts of moulded plastics or base metal, not incorporating electronic components, for reception apparatus for televisionfree
8529.90.80Other parts for reception apparatus for television20%
8529.90.90Otherfree
85.30Electrical signalling, safety or traffic control equipment for railways, tramways, roads, inland waterways, parking facilities, port installations or airfields (excluding those of heading 86.08):
8530.10Equipment for railways or tramwaysfree
8530.80Other equipment10%
8530.90Parts:
8530.90.10For equipment for railwaysfree
8530.90.90Other10%
85.31Electric sound or visual signalling apparatus (for example, bells, sirens, indicator panels, burglar or fire alarms) (excluding those of heading 85.12 or 85.30):
8531.10Burglar or fire alarms and similar apparatusfree
8531.20Indicator panels incorporating liquid crystal devices (LCD) or light- emitting diodes (LED)free
8531.80Other apparatusfree
8531.90Partsfree
85.32Electrical capacitors, fixed, variable or adjustable (pre-set):
8532.10.20Other, for voltages exceeding 1 000 V (AC) or 2000 V (DC)free
8532.10.10Of a capacitance exceeding 50 microfarads, for voltages not exceeding 1000 V(AC) or 2 000 V(DC) (excluding electrolytic capacitors)free
8532.10Fixed capacitors designed for use in 50/60 Hz circuits and having a reactive power handling capacity of not less than 0,5 kVar (power capacitors):
8532.10.90Other15%
8532.2Other fixed capacitors:
8532.21Tantalumfree
8532.22Aluminium electrolyticfree
8532.23Ceramic dielectric, single layerfree
8532.24Ceramic dielectric, multilayerfree
8532.25Dielectric of paper or plasticsfree
8532.29.15Designed for use in 50/60 Hz circuits and having a reactive power handling capacity of less than 0,5 kVar15%
8532.29Other:
8532.30Variable or adjustable (pre-set) capacitorsfree
8532.29.90Otherfree
8532.90.10Windings15%
8532.90Parts:
8532.90.90Otherfree
85.33Electrical resistors (including rheostats and potentiometers) (excluding heating resistors):
8533.10Fixed carbon resistors, composition or film typesfree
8533.2Other fixed resistors:
8533.21For a power handling capacity not exceeding 20 Wfree
8533.29Otherfree
8533.3Wirewound variable resistors, including rheostats and potentiometers:
8533.31For a power handling capacity not exceeding 20 Wfree
8533.39Otherfree
8533.40Other variable resistors, including rheostats and potentiometersfree
8533.90Partsfree
8534.00Printed circuitsfree
85.35Electrical apparatus for switching or protecting electrical circuits, or for making connections to or in electrical circuits (for example, switches, fuses, lightning arresters, voltage limiters, surge suppressors, plugs and other connectors, junction boxes), for a voltage exceeding 1 000V:
8535.10Fuses5%
8535.2Automatic circuit breakers:
8535.21.10With a current rating not exceeding 2 000 A, for a voltage exceeding 2 kV (AC) but not exceeding 12 kV (AC) and a breaking capacity exceeding 10 000 A but not exceeding 31 500 A (excluding those with moulded casings of plastics)15%
8535.21.20With a current rating not exceeding 1 200 A, for a voltage exceeding 12 kV (AC) but not exceeding 24 kV (AC) and a breaking capacity rating exceeding 10 000 A but not exceeding 25 000 A (excluding those with moulded casings of plastics)15%
8535.21.30With a current rating not exceeding 1 600 A, for a voltage exceeding 24kV (AC) but not exceeding 36 kV (AC) and a breaking capacity rating exceeding 10 000 A but not exceeding 31 500 A (excluding those with moulded casings of plastics)5%
8535.21.40With a current rating not exceeding 1 600 A, for a voltage exceeding 36 kV (AC) but not exceeding 72,5 kV (AC) and a breaking capacity rating exceeding 10 000 A but not exceeding 21 900 A (excluding those with moulded casings of plastics)15%
8535.21.05With moulded casings of plastics, with a current rating not exceeding 1 250 A, for a voltage not exceeding 1,1 kV (AC) or 125 V per pole (DC) and a breaking capacity rating not exceeding 100 000 A15%
8535.21For a voltage of less than 72,5kV:
8535.21.90Other5%
8535.29Other5%
8535.30Isolating switches and make-and-break switches:
8535.30.05Isolating switches, with moulded casings of plastics, with a current rating not exceeding 1 250 A, for a voltage not exceeding 1 100 V (AC) or 125 V per pole (DC) and a breaking capacity rating not exceeding 100 000 A15%
8535.30.90Other5%
8535.40Lightning arresters, voltage limiters and surge suppressors5%
8535.90Other:
8535.90.10Switch cover plates; apparatus connectors15%
8535.90.90Other5%
85.36Electrical apparatus for switching or protecting electrical circuits, or for making connections to or in electrical circuits (for example, switches, relays, fuses, surge suppressors, plugs, sockets, lamp-holders, junction boxes), for a voltage not exceeding 1 000 V; connectors for optical fibres, optical fibre bundles or cables:
8536.10Fusesfree
8536.20Automatic circuit breakers:
8536.20.15With casings of plastics or other insulating material, with a current rating not exceeding 800 A15%
8536.20.90Otherfree
8536.30.30Switch fuses, for a voltage of less than 500 V10%
8536.30.10Identifiable for use solely or principally with radio, radar, television, radio-telegraphic or radio-telephonic apparatus10%
8536.30.20Identifiable for use solely or principally with motor vehicles10%
8536.30.40Other, surge protection/suppression plugs and sockets for a voltage not exceeding 250 V5%
8536.30Other apparatus for protecting electrical circuits:
8536.30.90Other5%
8536.4Relays:
8536.41For a voltage not exceeding 60 V:
8536.41.10Earth leakage relays, with a sensitivity not exceeding 1 000 mA5%
8536.41.30Thermo-electric relays incorporating bimetal elements5%
8536.41.20Electro-magnetic and permanent magnet relays5%
8536.41.80Other, of a value for duty purposes of R250 or more5%
8536.41.90Other10%
8536.49.10Earth leakage relays, for a voltage not exceeding 660 V with a sensitivity not exceeding 1 000 mA5%
8536.49.20Electro-magnetic and permanent magnet relays5%
8536.49.30Thermo-electric relays incorporating bimetal elements5%
8536.49Other:
8536.49.80Other, of a value for duty purposes of R250 or more5%
8536.50Other switches:
8536.49.90Other10%
8536.50.10Identifiable for use solely or principally with radio, radar, television, radio-telegraphic or radio-telephonic apparatusfree
8536.50.25Identifiable for use solely or principally with motor vehicles, domestic stoves and hot-platesfree
8536.50.40Identifiable for use solely or principally with rail locomotives and railway rolling-stockfree
8536.50.90Other5%
8536.50.50Other, with moulded casings of plastics or other insulating material, with a current rating not exceeding 800 A15%
8536.6Lamp-holders, plugs and sockets:
8536.61.40Other, for a voltage of less than 500 V10%
8536.61.20Identifiable for use solely or principally with motor vehicles10%
8536.61.10Identifiable for use solely or principally with radio, radar, television, radio-telegraphic or radio-telephonic apparatusfree
8536.61.30Other, for fluorescent lamps10%
8536.61Lamp-holders:
8536.61.90Other5%
8536.69Other:
8536.69.30Other, identifiable for use solely or principally with motor vehicles10%
8536.69.10Identifiable for use solely or principally with radio, radar, television, radio-telegraphic or radio-telephonic apparatus10%
8536.69.63Other, sockets for a voltage less than 500 V15%
8536.69.67Other, plugs for a voltage not exceeding 250 V10%
8536.69.90Other5%
8536.69.69Other, for a voltage exceeding 250 V but less than 500 V10%
8536.70Connectors for optical fibres, optical fibre bundles or cablesfree
8536.69.61Other, sockets for a voltage not exceeding 250 V15%
8536.90.40Terminals, terminal strips and other metal parts for the reception of conductors or cables, identifiable for use solely or principally with domestic stoves and hot-plates10%
8536.90.30Apparatus connectors; switch cover plates10%
8536.90.10Identifiable for use solely or principally with radio, radar, television, radio-telegraphic or radio-telephonic apparatusfree
8536.90.20Identifiable for use solely or principally with motor vehicles10%
8536.90Other apparatus:
8536.90.90Other5%
85.37Boards, panels, consoles, desks, cabinets and other bases, equipped with two or more apparatus of heading 85.35 or 85.36, for electric control or the distribution of electricity, including those incorporating instruments or apparatus of Chapter 90, and numerical control apparatus (excluding switching apparatus of heading 85.17):
8537.10.30Equipped with apparatus of subheading 8536.20.15 or 8536.50.5015%
8537.10.20Identifiable for use solely or principally with motor vehicles15%
8537.10For a voltage not exceeding 1 000 V:
8537.10.90Other5%
8537.20For a voltage exceeding 1 000 V:
8537.20.10Not flameproof, with a current rating not exceeding 2 000 A, for a voltage exceeding 2 kV (AC) but not exceeding 12 kV (AC) and a breaking capacity rating exceeding 10 000 A but not exceeding 31 500 A (excluding gas insulated metal clad switchgear)15%
8537.20.20Not flameproof, with a current rating not exceeding 1 250 A, for a voltage exceeding 12 kV (AC) but not exceeding 24 kV (AC) and a breaking capacity rating exceeding 10 000 A but not exceeding 25 000 A (excluding gas insulated metal clad switchgear)15%
8537.20.40Not flameproof, with a current rating not exceeding 1 600 A, for a voltage exceeding 36 kV (AC) but not exceeding 72,5 kV (AC) and a breaking capacity rating exceeding 21 900 A (excluding gas insulated metal clad switchgear)15%
8537.20.90Other5%
85.38Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading 85.35, 85.36 or 85.37:
8538.10Boards, panels, consoles, desks, cabinets and other bases for the goods of heading 85.37, not equipped with their apparatusfree
8538.90Other:
8538.90.45For circuit breakers and isolating switches, with moulded casings of plastics, with a current rating not exceeding 1 250 A, for a voltage not exceeding 1 100 V (AC) or 125 V per pole (DC) and a breaking capacity rating not exceeding 100 000 A10%
8538.90.48For other automatic circuit breakers for a voltage exceeding 1 kV10%
8538.90.90Otherfree
85.39Electric filament or discharge lamps, including sealed beam lamp units and ultra-violet or infra-red lamps; arc-lamps; light-emitting diode (LED) light sources:
8539.10Sealed beam lamp units20%
8539.2Other filament lamps (excluding ultra-violet or infra-red lamps):
8539.21.20Identifiable for use solely or principally with motor vehicles (excluding quartz iodide lamps)20%
8539.21Tungsten halogen:
8539.21.25Quartz iodide lamps identifiable for use solely or principally with motor vehiclesfree
8539.21.45Other, of a power of 15 W or more but not exceeding 1 000 W and for a voltage exceeding 100 V but not exceeding 260 V20%
8539.22Other, of a power not exceeding 200 W and for a voltage exceeding 100 V:
8539.21.90Otherfree
8539.22.20Projector lampsfree
8539.22.45Other, of a power of 15 W or more and for a voltage not exceeding 260 V20%
8539.22.90Other20%
8539.29.10Carbon filament lampsfree
8539.29Other:
8539.29.15Projector lampsfree
8539.29.20Radiator lampsfree
8539.29.25Torch lampsfree
8539.29.45Lamps, identifiable for use solely or principally with motor vehicles21%
8539.29.50Other, vacuum type, of less than 15 W20%
8539.29.57Other, of a power exceeding 200 W but not exceeding 1 000 W and for a voltage exceeding 100 V but not exceeding 260 V20%
8539.3Discharge lamps (excluding ultra-violet lamps):
8539.29.90Other20%
8539.29.60Other, not exceeding 100 W, identifiable for use solely or principally in headlamps for minersfree
8539.31Fluorescent, hot cathode:
8539.31.45Linear (excluding mercury vapour lamps) of a length of 600 mm or more but not exceeding 2 500 mm, of a diameter of 25 mm or more but not exceeding 40 mm and of 20 W or more but not exceeding 105 W20%
8539.32.45Fluorescent lamps, linear (excluding mercury vapour lamps) of a length of 600 mm or more but not exceeding 2 500 mm, of a diameter of 25 mm or more but not exceeding 40 mm and of 20 W or more but not exceeding 105 W20%
8539.32Mercury or sodium vapour lamps; metal halide lamps:
8539.31.90Other15%
8539.32.90Other15%
8539.39Other:
8539.39.45Fluorescent lamps, linear (excluding mercury vapour lamps) of a length of 600 mm or more but not exceeding 2 500 mm, of a diameter of 25 mm or more but not exceeding 40 mm and of 20 W or more but not exceeding 105 W20%
8539.4Ultra-violet or infra-red lamps; arc-lamps:
8539.39.90Other15%
8539.41Arc lamps20%
8539.49Other:
8539.49.20Infra-red lamps20%
8539.49.10Ultra-violet lamps15%
8539.5Light-emitting diode (LED) light sources:
8539.51Light-emitting diode (LED) modulesfree
8539.52Light-emitting diode (LED) lamps:
8539.52.10Of the screw-in, bayonet or similar typesfree
8539.52.90Otherfree
8539.90Parts15%
85.40Thermionic, cold cathode or photo-cathode valves and tubes (for example, vacuum or vapour or gas filled valves and tubes, mercury arc rectifying valves and tubes, cathode-ray tubes, television camera tubes):
8540.1Cathode-ray television picture tubes, including video monitor cathode-ray tubes:
8540.11Colour25%
8540.12Monochrome25%
8540.20Television camera tubes; image converters and intensifiers; other photo-cathode tubesfree
8540.40Data/graphic display tubes, monochrome; data/graphic display tubes, colour, with a phosphor dot screen pitch smaller than 0,4 mmfree
8540.60Other cathode-ray tubesfree
8540.7Microwave tubes (for example, magnetrons, klystrons, travelling wave tubes, carcinotrons) (excluding grid-controlled tubes):
8540.71Magnetronsfree
8540.79Otherfree
8540.8Other valves and tubes:
8540.81Receiver or amplifier valves and tubesfree
8540.89Otherfree
8540.9Parts:
8540.91Of cathode-ray tubes5%
8540.99Other5%
85.41Semi-conductor devices (for example, diodes, transistors, semiconductor-based transducers); photosensitive semiconductor devices, including photovoltaic cells whether or not assembled in modules or made up into panels; light-emitting diodes (LED), whether or not assembled with other light-emitting diodes (LED); mounted piezo-electric crystals:
8541.10Diodes (excluding photosensitive or light-emitting diodes (LED))free
8541.2Transistors (excluding photosensitive transistors):
8541.21With a dissipation rate of less than 1 Wfree
8541.29Otherfree
8541.30Thyristors, diacs and triacs (excluding photosensitive devices)free
8541.4Photosensitive semiconductor devices, including photovoltaic cells whether or not assembled into modules or made up into panels; light-emitting diodes (LED):
8541.41Light-emitting diodes (LED)free
8541.42Photovoltaic cells not assembled in modules or made up onto panelsfree
8541.43Photovoltaic cells assembled in modules or made up into panels10%
8541.49Otherfree
8541.5Other semiconductor devices:
8541.51Semiconductor-based transducersfree
8541.59Otherfree
8541.60Mounted piezo-electric crystalsfree
8541.90Partsfree
85.42Electronic integrated circuits:
8542.3Electronic integrated circuits:
8542.31Processors and controllers, whether or not combined with memories, converters, logic circuits, amplifiers, clock and timing circuits, or other circuitsfree
8542.32Memoriesfree
8542.33Amplifiersfree
8542.39Otherfree
8542.90Partsfree
85.43Electrical machines and apparatus, having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter:
8543.10Particle acceleratorsfree
8543.20Signal generatorsfree
8543.30Machines and apparatus for electroplating, electrolysis or electrophoresisfree
8543.40Electronic cigarettes and similar personal electric vaporising devices:
8543.40.10Presented with vaping liquid, whether or not containing nicotinefree
8543.40.90Otherfree
8543.70Other machines and apparatusfree
8543.90Partsfree
85.44Insulated (including enamelled or anodised) wire, cable (including co-axial cable) and other insulated electric conductors, whether or not fitted with connectors; optical fibre cables, made up of individually sheathed fibres, whether or not assembled with electric conductors or fitted with connectors:
8544.1Winding wire:
8544.11Of copper15%
8544.19Other15%
8544.20.15Cable, single-core, with a centre conductor of copper plated with silver or gold, of a length exceeding 400 m and a cross-sectional dimension not exceeding 4,5 mm, not sheathed in aluminiumfree
8544.20Co-axial cable and other co-axial electric conductors:
8544.20.90Other15%
8544.30Ignition wiring sets and other wiring sets of a kind used in vehicles, aircraft or ships5%
8544.4Other electric conductors, for a voltage not exceeding 1 000 V:
8544.42.20For a voltage exceeding 80 V but not exceeding 240 V15%
8544.42Fitted with connectors:
8544.42.10For a voltage not exceeding 80 V15%
8544.42.90Other15%
8544.49.29For a voltage exceeding 500 V15%
8544.49.31For a voltage exceeding 80 V but not exceeding 750 V15%
8544.49.39For a voltage exceeding 750 V15%
8544.49.23For a voltage exceeding 300 V but not exceeding 500 V15%
8544.49.21For a voltage exceeding 80 V but not exceeding 300 V15%
8544.49.10For a voltage not exceeding 80 V15%
8544.49.3Rubber insulated:
8544.49.2Plastic insulated:
8544.49Other:
8544.49.90Other15%
8544.60.32For a voltage exceeding 1 kV but not exceeding 1,1 kV15%
8544.60.39For a voltage exceeding 275 kV15%
8544.60.34For a voltage exceeding 3,3 kV but not exceeding 33 kV15%
8544.60.2Plastic insulated:
8544.60Other electric conductors, for a voltage exceeding 1 000 V:
8544.60.3Rubber insulated:
8544.60.1Paper insulated:
8544.60.21For a voltage not exceeding 1.5 kV DC15%
8544.60.35For a voltage exceeding 33 kV but not exceeding 132 kV15%
8544.60.13For a voltage exceeding 33 kV but not exceeding 132 kV15%
8544.60.11For a voltage exceeding 1 kV but not exceeding 33 kV15%
8544.60.19For a voltage exceeding 132 kV15%
8544.60.23For a voltage exceeding 3,3 kV but not exceeding 33 kV15%
8544.60.24For a voltage exceeding 33 kV but not exceeding 132 kV15%
8544.60.22Other, for a voltage exceeding 1 kV but not exceeding 3,3 kV15%
8544.60.25For a voltage exceeding 132 kV but not exceeding 275 kV15%
8544.60.29For a voltage exceeding 275 kV15%
8544.60.37For a voltage exceeding 132 kV but not exceeding 275 kV15%
8544.60.31For a voltage not exceeding 1.5 kV DC15%
8544.60.33Other, for a voltage exceeding 1,1 kV but not exceeding 3,3 kV15%
8544.60.90Other15%
8544.70Optical fibre cables15%
85.45Carbon 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 purposes:
8545.1Electrodes:
8545.11Of a kind used for furnacesfree
8545.19Otherfree
8545.20Brushesfree
8545.90Otherfree
85.46Electrical insulators of any material:
8546.10Of glassfree
8546.20Of ceramicsfree
8546.90Otherfree
85.47Insulating fittings for electrical machines, appliances or equipment, being fittings wholly of insulating material apart from any minor components of metal (for example, threaded sockets) incorporated during moulding solely for purposes of assembly (excluding insulators of heading 85.46); electrical conduit tubing and joints therefor, of base metal lined with insulating material:
8547.10Insulating fittings of ceramicsfree
8547.20Insulating fittings of plasticsfree
8547.90Otherfree
8548.00Electrical parts of machinery or apparatus, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapterfree
85.49Electrical and electronic waste and scrap :
8549.1Waste and scrap of primary cells, primary batteries and electric accumulators; spent primary cells, spent primary batteries and spent electric accumulators:
8549.11Waste and scrap of lead-acid accumulators; spent lead-acid accumulators:
8549.11.10Of a kind used for starting piston engines, of tariff subheading 8507.10free
8549.12Other, containing lead, cadmium or mercuryfree
8549.11.90Otherfree
8549.13Sorted by chemical type and not containing lead, cadmium or mercuryfree
8549.14Unsorted and not sorted containing lead, cadmium or mercuryfree
8549.19Otherfree
8549.2Of a kind used principally for the recovery of precious metal :
8549.21.10Of plastics, containing silver compounds15%
8549.21Containing primary cells, primary batteries, electric accumulators, mercury-switches, glass from cathode-ray tubes or other activated glass, or electrical or electronic components containing cadmium, mercury, lead or polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs):
8549.21.90Otherfree
8549.29.10Of plastics, containing silver compounds15%
8549.29Other:
8549.29.90Otherfree
8549.3Other electrical and electronic assemblies and printed circuit boards:
8549.31Containing primary cells, primary batteries, electric accumulators, mercury-switches, glass from cathode-ray tubes or other activated glass or electrical or electronic components containing cadmium, mercury, lead or polychlorinated biphenyls(PCBs)free
8549.39Otherfree
8549.9Other:
8549.91Containing primary cells, primary batteries, electric accumulators, mercury-switches, glass from cathode-ray tubes or other activated glass, or electrical or electronic components containing cadmium, mercury, lead or polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)free
8549.99Otherfree

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