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Machinery and mechanical appliances; electrical equipment; parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers and parts and accessories of such articles
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Nuclear reactors; fuel elements (cartridges), non-irradiated, for nuclear reactors; ma..
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Steam or other vapour generating boilers (other than central heating hot water boilers..
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Central heating boilers other than those of 8402
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Auxiliary plant for use with boilers of 8402 or 8403 (for example, economisers, super-..
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Producer gas or water gas generators, with or without their purifiers; acetylene gas ...
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Steam turbines and other vapour turbines
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Spark-ignition reciprocating or rotary internal combustion piston engines
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Compression-ignition internal combustion piston engines (diesel or semi-diesel engines)
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Parts suitable for use with engines of 8407 or 8408
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Hydraulic turbines, water wheels and regulators therefor
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Turbo-jets, turbo-propellers and other gas turbines
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Other engines and motors
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Pumps for liquids, whether or not fitted with a measuring device; liquid elevators
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Air or vacuum pumps, air or other gas compressors and fans; ventilating or recycling h..
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Air conditioning machines, comprising a motor-driven fan and elements for changing the..
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Furnace burners for liquid fuel, for pulverised solid fuel or for gas; mechanical stok..
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Industrial or laboratory furnaces and ovens, including incinerators, non-electric
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Refrigerators, freezers and other refrigerating or freezing equipment, electric or oth..
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Machinery plant or laboratory equipment,whether or not electrically heated(excludin....
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Calendering or other rolling machines, other than for metals or glass, and cylinders t..
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Centrifuges, including centrifugal dryers; filtering or purifying machinery and appara..
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Dish washing machines; machinery for cleaning or drying bottles or other containers; m..
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Weighing machinery (excluding balances of a sensitivity of 5 cg or better), including ..
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Mechanical appliances (whether or not hand-operated) for projecting, dispersing or spr..
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Pulley tackle and hoists other than skip hoists; winches and capstans; jacks
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Ships' derricks; cranes, including cable cranes; mobile lifting frames, straddle carri..
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Fork-lift trucks; other works trucks fitted with lifting or handling equipment
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Other lifting, handling, loading or unloading machinery (for example, lifts, escalato...
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Self-propelled bulldozers, angledozers, graders, levellers, scrapers, mechanical shove..
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Other moving, grading, levelling, scraping, excavating, tamping, compacting, extractin..
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Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machinery of 8425 to 8430
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Agricultural, horticultural or forestry machinery for soil preparation or cultivation;..
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Harvesting or threshing machinery, including straw or fodder balers; grass or hay mowe..
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Milking machines and dairy machinery
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Presses, crushers and similar machinery used in the manufacture of wine, cider, fruit ..
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Presses, crushers and similar machinery used in the manufacture of wine, cider, fruit ..
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Machines for cleaning, sorting or grading seed, grain or dried leguminous vegetables; ..
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Machinery, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter, for the industrial pre..
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Machinery for making pulp of fibrous cellulosic material or for making or finishing pa..
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Book-binding machinery, including book-sewing machines
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Other machinery for making up paper pulp, paper or paperboard, including cutting mac...
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Machinery, apparatus and equipment (other than the machine-tools of 8456 to 8465), for..
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Printing machinery used for by means of the printing type,blocks,plates,cylinder.......
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Machines for extruding, drawing, texturing or cutting man-made textile materials
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Machines for preparing textile fibres; spinning, doubling or twisting machines and oth..
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Weaving machines (looms)
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Knitting machines, stitch-bonding machines and machines for making gimped yarn, tulle,..
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Auxiliary machinery for use with machines of 8444, 8445, 8446 or 8447 (for example, do..
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Machinery for the manufacture or finishing of felt or nonwovens in the piece or in sha..
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Household or laundry-type washing machines, including machines which both wash and dry
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Machinery (other than machines of 8450) for washing, cleaning, wringing, drying, ironi..
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Sewing machines, other than book-sewing machines of 8440; furniture, bases and covers ..
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Machinery for preparing, tanning or working hides, skins or leather or for making or r..
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Converters, ladles, ingot moulds and casting machines, of a kind used in metallurgy or..
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Metal-rolling mills and rolls therefor
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Machine-tools for working any material by removal of material, by lase
r or other light or photon beam, ultrasonic, electro-discharge , ele
ctro-chemical, electron beam, ionic-beam or plasma arc process;
water-jet cutting machines.
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Machining centres, unit construction machines (single station) and multi-station trans..
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Lathes (including turning centres) for removing metal
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Machine-tools (including way-type unit head machines) for drilling, boring, milling, t..
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Machine-tools for deburring, sharpening, grinding, honing, lapping, polishing or other..
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Machine-tools for planing, shaping, slotting, broaching, gear cutting, gear grinding ...
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Machine-tools (including presses) for working metal by forging, hammering or die-stamp..
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Other machine-tools for working metal, or cermets, without removing material
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Machine-tools for working stone, ceramics, concrete, asbestos-cement or like mineral m..
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Machine-tools (including machines for nailing, stapling, glueing or otherwise assembli..
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Parts and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the
machines of 8456 to 8465, including work or tool holders, self-openi
ng dieheads, dividing heads and other special attachments for machin
e-tools; tool holders for any type of tool for working in the hand.
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Tools for working in the hand, pneumatic hydraulic or with self-contained elect..
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Machinery and apparatus for soldering, brazing or welding, whether or not capable of c..
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Typewriters other than printers of heading No. 84.43; word-processing machines
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Calculating machines and pocket size data recording, reproducing and displaying machin..
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Automatic data processing machines and units thereof; magnetic or optical readers, mac..
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Other office machines (for example, hectograph or stencil duplicating machines, addres..
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Parts and accessories (other than covers, carrying cases and the like)
suitable for use solely or principally with machines of headings,
84.70 to 84.72
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Machinery for sorting, screening, separating, washing, crushing, grinding, mixing or k..
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Machines for assembling electric or electronic lamps, tubes or valves or flashbulbs, ...
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Automatic goods-vending machines (for example, postage stamp, cigarette, food or bever..
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Machinery for working rubber or plastics or for the manufacture of products from these..
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Machinery for preparing or making up tobacco, not specified or included elsewhere in t..
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Machines and mechanical appliances having individual functions, not specified or incl...
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Moulding boxes for metal foundry; mould bases; moulding patterns; moulds for metal (o...
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Taps, cocks, valves and similar appliances for pipes, boiler shells, tanks, vats or t...
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Ball or roller bearings
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Transmission shafts (including cam shafts and crank shafts) and cranks; bearing housin..
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Transmission shafts (including cam shafts and crank shafts) and cranks; bearing housin..
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Machines for additive manufacturing
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Machinery and apparatus of a kind used solely or principally for the manufacture of semi
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Machinery parts, not containing electrical connectors, insulators, coils, contacts or...
Section notes
- SECTION XV
NOTES
1. This section does not cover:
(a) Transmission or conveyor belts or belting, of plastics
of Chapter 39, or of vulcanised rubber (heading no.
40.10); or other articles of a kind used in mechinery or
machanical or electrical appliances or for other technical
uses, of vulcanised rubber other than hard rubber(heading
no. 40.16);
(b) Articles of leather or of composition leather (heading
no. 42.04) or of furskin (heading no. 43.03), of a kind
used in machinery or mechanical appliances or for other
technical uses;
(c) Bobbins, spools, cops, cones, 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 of textile material
(heading no. 59.10) other articles of textile material for
technical uses (heading no. 59.11);
(f) Precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic
or reconstructed) of heading nos. 71.02 to 71.04 or
articles wholly of such stones of heading no. 71.16,
except unmounted worked sapphires and diamonds for styli
(heading no. 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 no. 82.07 or brushes
of a kind used as parts of machines (heading no. 96.03):
similar interchangeable tools are to be classified
according to the constituent material of their working
parts (for example, in chapter 40, 42, 43, 45 or 59 or
heading no. 68.04 or 69.09); or
(p) Articles of chapter 95.
2. Subject to note 1 to this section, note 1 to chapter 84
and to note 1 to chapter 85, parts of machines (not being
parts of the articles of heading no. 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 chapter 84 or 85 ( other than
Heading nos. 84.09, 84.31, 84.48, 84.56, 84.73, 84.85,
85.03, 85.22, 85.29, 85.38 and 85.48) are in all cases to
be classied in their respective headings;
(b) Other parts, if suitable for use solely or principally with a particular king of machine
or with a number of machines of the same heading
(including a machine of heading no. 84.79 or
85.43) are to be classified with the machines of that kind
or in heading nos. 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 heading nos. 85.17 and 85.25 to 85 28 are to
be classified in heading no. 85.17;
(c) All other parts are to be classified in heading nos. 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 no. 84.85 or 85.48.
etc.........
Chapter notes
- Chapter 84 -NOTES
1.- This Chapter does not cover :
(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 No. 70.17); machinery,
appliances or other articles for technical uses or parts
thereof, of glass (heading No. 70.19 or 70.20);
(d) Articles of heading No. 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 8508;
(f) Electro-mechanical domestic appliances of heading No.
85.09; digital cameras of heading 85.25; or
(g) Hand-operated mechanical floor sweepers, not
motorised (heading No. 96.03).
2.- Subject to the operation of Note 3 to Section XVI and
subject to Note 9 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 Nos.
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.
Heading No. 84.19 does not, however, cover :
(a) Germination plant, incubators or brooders (Heading
No. 84.36);
(b) Grain dampening machines (heading No. 84.37);
(c) Diffusing apparatus for sugar juice extraction
(heading No. 84.38);
(d) Machinery for the heat-treatment of textile yarns,
fabrics or made up textile articles (heading no. 84.51);
or
(e) Machinery or plant, designed for mechanical
operation, in which a change of temperature, even if
necessary, is subsidiary.
Heading No. 84.22 does not cover :
(a) Sewing machines for closing bags or similar
containers (heading No. 84.52); or
(b) Office machinery of heading No. 84.72.
Heading No. 84.24 does not cover :
(a) Ink-jet printing machines (heading 84.43)
(b) Water-jet cutting machines (heading 84.56).
3.- A machine-tool for working any material which answers
to a description in heading No. 84.56 and at the same time
to a description in heading No. 84.57, 84.58, 84.59,
84.60, 84.61, 84.64 or 84.65 is to be classified in
heading No. 84.56.
4.- Heading No. 84.57 applies only to machine-tools for
working metal, other than 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 a 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.- (A) For the purposes of heading No. 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) Analogue data processing machines may be in the form
of systems consisting of a variable number of separate
unit
(C) Subject to paragraphs (D) and (E) below, a unit
is to be regarded as being a 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 connecta