Classification facts
Facts that commonly matter inside Chapter 84
- principal function
- complete machine versus part
- power or capacity specifications
- dedicated versus general-purpose use
Not a classification ruling
These facts help structure the search. They do not establish that a product belongs in Chapter 84 or in any specific HTS line.
Official schedule hierarchy
Four-digit headings currently indexed in Chapter 84
8401Heading
Nuclear reactors; fuel elements (cartridges), non-irradiated, for nuclear reactors; machinery and apparatus for isotopic separation; parts thereof:
8402Heading
Steam or other vapor generating boilers (other than central heating hot water boilers capable also of producing low pressure steam); super-heated water boilers; parts thereof:
8403Heading
Central heating boilers (other than those of heading 8402) and parts thereof:
8404Heading
Auxiliary plant for use with boilers of heading 8402 or 8403 (for example, economizers, super-heaters, soot removers, gas recoverers); condensers for steam or other vapor power units; parts thereof:
8405Heading
Producer gas or water gas generators, with or without their purifiers; acetylene gas generators and similar water process gas generators, with or without their purifiers; parts thereof:
8406Heading
Steam turbines and other vapor turbines, and parts thereof:
8407Heading
Spark-ignition reciprocating or rotary internal combustion piston engines:
8408Heading
Compression-ignition internal combustion piston engines (diesel or semi-diesel engines):
8409Heading
Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the engines of heading 8407 or 8408:
8410Heading
Hydraulic turbines, water wheels and regulators therefor; parts thereof:
8411Heading
Turbojets, turbopropellers and other gas turbines, and parts thereof:
8412Heading
Other engines and motors, and parts thereof:
8413Heading
Pumps for liquids, whether or not fitted with a measuring device; liquid elevators; part thereof:
8414Heading
Air 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; parts thereof:
8415Heading
Air 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; parts thereof:
8416Heading
Furnace burners for liquid fuel, for pulverized solid fuel or for gas; mechanical stokers, including their mechanical grates, mechanical ash dischargers and similar appliances; parts thereof:
8417Heading
Industrial or laboratory furnaces and ovens, including incinerators, nonelectric, and parts thereof:
8418Heading
Refrigerators, freezers and other refrigerating or freezing equipment, electric or other; heat pumps, other than the air conditioning machines of heading 8415; parts thereof:
8419Heading
Machinery, plant or laboratory equipment, whether or not electrically heated (excluding furnaces, ovens and other equipment of heading 8514), for the treatment of materials by a process involving a change of temperature such as heating, cooking, roasting, distilling, rectifying, sterilizing, pasteurizing, steaming, drying, evaporating, vaporizing, condensing or cooling, other than machinery or plant of a kind used for domestic purposes; instantaneous or storage water heaters, nonelectric; parts thereof:
8420Heading
Calendering or other rolling machines, other than for metals or glass, and cylinders therefor; parts thereof:
8421Heading
Centrifuges, including centrifugal dryers; filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus, for liquids or gases; parts thereof:
8422Heading
Dishwashing machines; machinery for cleaning or drying bottles or other containers; machinery for filling, closing, sealing or labeling 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; parts thereof:
8423Heading
Weighing machinery (excluding balances of a sensitivity of 5 cg or better), including weight-operated counting or checking machines; weighing machine weights of all kinds; parts of weighing machinery:
8424Heading
Mechanical 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; parts thereof:
8425Heading
Pulley tackle and hoists other than skip hoists; winches and capstans; jacks:
8426Heading
Ships' derricks; cranes, including cable cranes; mobile lifting frames, straddle carriers and works trucks fitted with a crane:
8427Heading
Fork-lift trucks; other works trucks fitted with lifting or handling equipment:
8428Heading
Other lifting, handling, loading or unloading machinery (for example, elevators, escalators, conveyors, teleferics):
8429Heading
Self-propelled bulldozers, angledozers, graders, levelers, scrapers, mechanical shovels, excavators, shovel loaders, tamping machines and road rollers:
8430Heading
Other moving, grading, leveling, scraping, excavating, tamping, compacting, extracting or boring machinery, for earth, minerals or ores; pile-drivers and pile-extractors; snowplows and snowblowers:
8431Heading
Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machinery of headings 8425 to 8430:
8432Heading
Agricultural, horticultural or forestry machinery for soil preparation or cultivation; lawn or sports ground rollers; parts thereof:
8433Heading
Harvesting or threshing machinery, including straw or fodder balers; grass or hay mowers; machines for cleaning, sorting or grading eggs, fruit or other agricultural produce, other than machinery of heading 8437; parts thereof:
8434Heading
Milking machines and dairy machinery, and parts thereof:
8435Heading
Presses, crushers and similar machinery, used in the manufacture of wine, cider, fruit juices or similar beverages; parts thereof:
8436Heading
Other agricultural, horticultural, forestry, poultry-keeping or bee-keeping machinery, including germination plant fitted with mechanical or thermal equipment; poultry incubators and brooders; parts thereof:
8437Heading
Machines for cleaning, sorting or grading seed, grain or dried leguminous vegetables, and parts thereof; machinery used in the milling industry or for the working of cereals or dried leguminous vegetables, other than farm type machinery; parts thereof:
8438Heading
Machinery, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter, for the industrial preparation or manufacture of food or drink, other than machinery for the extraction or preparation of animal or fixed vegetable or microbial fats or oils; parts thereof:
8439Heading
Machinery for making pulp of fibrous cellulosic material or for making or finishing paper or paperboard (other than the machinery of heading 8419); parts thereof:
8440Heading
Bookbinding machinery, including book-sewing machines, and parts thereof:
8441Heading
Other machinery for making up paper pulp, paper or paperboard, including cutting machines of all kinds, and parts thereof:
8442Heading
Machinery, apparatus and equipment (other than the machines of headings 8456 to 8465), for preparing or making plates, cylinders or other printing components; plates, cylinders and other printing components; plates, cylinders and lithographic stones, prepared for printing purposes (for example, planed, grained or polished); parts thereof:
8443Heading
Printing machinery used for printing by means of plates, cylinders and other printing components of heading 8442; other printers, copying machines and facsimile machines, whether or not combined; parts and accessories thereof:
8445Heading
Machines for preparing textile fibers; 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 8446 or 8447:
8446Heading
Weaving machines (looms):
8447Heading
Knitting machines, stitch-bonding machines and machines for making gimped yarn, tulle, lace, embroidery, trimmings, braid or net and machines for tufting:
8448Heading
Auxiliary machinery for use with machines of heading 8444, 8445, 8446 or 8447 (for example, dobbies, Jacquards, automatic stop motions and shuttle changing mechanisms); parts and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of this heading or of heading 8444, 8445, 8446 or 8447 (for example, spindles and spindle flyers, card clothing, combs, extruding nipples, shuttles, healds and heald-frames, hosiery needles):
8450Heading
Household- or laundry-type washing machines, including machines which both wash and dry; parts thereof:
8451Heading
Machinery (other than machines of heading 8450) 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; parts thereof:
8452Heading
Sewing machines, other than book-sewing machines of heading 8440; furniture, bases and covers specially designed for sewing machines; sewing machine needles; parts thereof:
8453Heading
Machinery for preparing, tanning or working hides, skins or leather or for making or repairing footwear or other articles of hides, skins or leather, other than sewing machines; parts thereof:
8454Heading
Converters, ladles, ingot molds and casting machines, of a kind used in metallurgy or in metal foundries, and parts thereof:
8455Heading
Metal-rolling mills and rolls therefor; parts thereof:
8456Heading
Machine 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:
8457Heading
Machining centers, unit construction machines (single station) and multistation transfer machines, for working metal:
8458Heading
Lathes (including turning centers) for removing metal:
8459Heading
Machine tools (including way-type unit head machines) for drilling, boring, milling, threading or tapping by removing metal, other than lathes (including turning centers) of heading 8458:
8460Heading
Machine tools for deburring, sharpening, grinding, honing, lapping, polishing or otherwise finishing metal or cermets by means of grinding stones, abrasives or polishing products, other than gear cutting, gear grinding or gear finishing machines of heading 8461:
8461Heading
Machine 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:
8462Heading
Machine 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 drawbenches); presses for working metal or metal carbides, not specified above:
8463Heading
Other machine tools for working metal or cermets, without removing material:
8464Heading
Machine tools for working stone, ceramics, concrete, asbestos-cement or like mineral materials or for cold working glass:
8465Heading
Machine tools (including machines for nailing, stapling, glueing or otherwise assembling) for working wood, cork, bone, hard rubber, hard plastics or similar hard materials:
8466Heading
Parts and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of headings 8456 to 8465, 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:
8467Heading
Tools for working in the hand, pneumatic, hydraulic or with self-contained electric or nonelectric motor, and parts thereof:
8468Heading
Machinery and apparatus for soldering, brazing or welding, whether or not capable of cutting, other than those of heading 8515; gas-operated surface tempering machines and appliances; parts thereof:
8470Heading
Calculating 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:
8471Heading
Automatic 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:
8472Heading
Other 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):
8473Heading
Parts and accessories (other than covers, carrying cases and the like) suitable for use solely or principally with machines of headings 8470 to 8472:
8474Heading
Machinery 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 molding solid mineral fuels, ceramic paste, unhardened cements, plastering materials or other mineral products in powder or paste form; machines for forming foundry molds of sand; parts thereof:
8475Heading
Machines for assembling electric or electronic lamps, tubes or flashbulbs, in glass envelopes; machines for manufacturing or hot working glass or glassware; parts thereof:
8476Heading
Automatic goods-vending machines (for example, postage stamp, cigarette, food or beverage machines), including money-changing machines; parts thereof:
8477Heading
Machinery for working rubber or plastics or for the manufacture of products from these materials, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter; parts thereof:
8478Heading
Machinery for preparing or making up tobacco, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter; parts thereof:
8479Heading
Machines and mechanical appliances having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter; parts thereof:
8480Heading
Molding boxes for metal foundry; mold bases; molding patterns; molds for metal (other than ingot molds), metal carbides, glass, mineral materials, rubber or plastics:
8481Heading
Taps, cocks, valves and similar appliances, for pipes, boiler shells, tanks, vats or the like, including pressure-reducing valves and thermostatically controlled valves; parts thereof:
8482Heading
Ball or roller bearings, and parts thereof:
8483Heading
Transmission shafts (including camshafts and crankshafts) and cranks; bearing housings, housed bearings 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); parts thereof:
Declarable examples
Examples of exact 10-digit lines in the current schedule
These are numerical examples from the published schedule, not recommendations for a product.
8401.10.00.0010-digit line
Nuclear reactors
General rate: 3.3%
8401.20.00.0010-digit line
Machinery and apparatus for isotopic separation, and parts thereof
General rate: 2.6%
8401.30.00.0010-digit line
Fuel elements (cartridges), non-irradiated, and parts thereof
General rate: 3.3%
8401.40.00.0010-digit line
Parts of nuclear reactors
General rate: 3.3%
8402.11.00.0010-digit line
Watertube boilers with a steam production exceeding 45 t per hour
General rate: 5.2%
8402.12.00.0010-digit line
Watertube boilers with a steam production not exceeding 45 t per hour
General rate: 4.3%
8402.19.00.0010-digit line
Other vapor generating boilers, including hybrid boilers
General rate: 5.2%
8402.20.00.0010-digit line
Super-heated water boilers
General rate: 3.3%
8402.90.00.1010-digit line
Heat exchangers
General rate: 4.3%
8402.90.00.9010-digit line
Other
General rate: 4.3%
8403.10.00.0010-digit line
Boilers
General rate: Free
8403.90.00.0010-digit line
Parts
General rate: Free