Classification facts
Facts that commonly matter inside Chapter 85
- electrical function
- power/output specifications
- complete apparatus versus component
- communications, storage, conversion or other principal use
Not a classification ruling
These facts help structure the search. They do not establish that a product belongs in Chapter 85 or in any specific HTS line.
Official schedule hierarchy
Four-digit headings currently indexed in Chapter 85
8501Heading
Electric motors and generators (excluding generating sets):
8502Heading
Electric generating sets and rotary converters:
8504Heading
Electrical transformers, static converters (for example, rectifiers) and inductors; parts thereof:
8505Heading
Electromagnets; permanent magnets and articles intended to become permanent magnets after magnetization; electromagnetic or permanent magnet chucks, clamps and similar holding devices; electromagnetic couplings, clutches and brakes; electromagnetic lifting heads; parts thereof:
8506Heading
Primary cells and primary batteries; parts thereof:
8507Heading
Electric storage batteries, including separators therefor, whether or not rectangular (including square); parts thereof:
8508Heading
Vacuum cleaners; parts thereof:
8509Heading
Electromechanical domestic appliances, with self-contained electric motor, other than vacuum cleaners of heading 8508; parts thereof:
8510Heading
Shavers, hair clippers and hair-removing appliances, with self-contained electric motor; parts thereof:
8511Heading
Electrical 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, spark plugs and glow plugs, starter motors); generators (for example, dynamos, alternators) and cut-outs of a kind used in conjunction with such engines; parts thereof:
8512Heading
Electrical lighting or signaling equipment (excluding articles of heading 8539), windshield wipers, defrosters and demisters, of a kind used for cycles or motor vehicles; parts thereof:
8513Heading
Portable electric lamps designed to function by their own source of energy (for example, dry batteries, storage batteries, magnetos), other than lighting equipment of heading 8512; parts thereof:
8514Heading
Industrial 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; parts thereof:
8515Heading
Electric (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; parts thereof:
8516Heading
Electric instantaneous or storage water heaters and immersion heaters; electric space heating apparatus and soil heating apparatus; electrothermic hairdressing apparatus (for example, hair dryers, hair curlers, curling tong heaters) and hand dryers; electric flatirons; other electrothermic appliances of a kind used for domestic purposes; electric heating resistors, other than those of heading 8545; parts thereof:
8517Heading
Telephone 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), other than transmission or reception apparatus of heading 8443, 8525, 8527 or 8528; parts thereof:
8518Heading
Microphones 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; parts thereof:
8519Heading
Sound recording or reproducing apparatus:
8521Heading
Video recording or reproducing apparatus, whether or not incorporating a video tuner:
8522Heading
Parts and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading 8519 or 8521:
8523Heading
Discs, 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, but excluding products of Chapter 37:
8524Heading
Flat panel display modules, whether or not incorporating touch-sensitive screens:
8525Heading
Transmission 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:
8526Heading
Radar apparatus, radio navigational aid apparatus and radio remote control apparatus:
8527Heading
Reception apparatus for radiobroadcasting, whether or not combined, in the same housing, with sound recording or reproducing apparatus or a clock:
8528Heading
Monitors 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:
8529Heading
Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of headings 8524 to 8528:
8530Heading
Electrical signaling, safety or traffic control equipment for railways, streetcar lines, subways, roads, inland waterways, parking facilities, port installations or airfields (other than those of heading 8608); parts thereof:
8531Heading
Electric sound or visual signaling apparatus (for example, bells, sirens, indicator panels, burglar or fire alarms), other than those of heading 8512 or 8530; parts thereof:
8532Heading
Electrical capacitors, fixed, variable or adjustable (pre-set); parts thereof:
8533Heading
Electrical resistors (including rheostats and potentiometers), other than heating resistors; parts thereof:
8535Heading
Electrical 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 1,000 V:
8536Heading
Electrical 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 and other connectors, junction boxes), for a voltage not exceeding 1,000 V; connectors for optical fibers, optical fiber bundles or cables:
8537Heading
Boards, panels, consoles, desks, cabinets and other bases, equipped with two or more apparatus of heading 8535 or 8536, for electric control or the distribution of electricity, including those incorporating instruments or apparatus of chapter 90, and numerical control apparatus, other than switching apparatus of heading 8517:
8538Heading
Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading 8535, 8536 or 8537:
8539Heading
Electrical filament or discharge lamps, including sealed beam lamp units and ultraviolet or infrared lamps; arc lamps; light-emitting diode (LED) light sources; parts thereof:
8540Heading
Thermionic, cold cathode or photocathode tubes (for example, vacuum or vapor or gas filled tubes, mercury arc rectifying tubes, cathode-ray tubes, television camera tubes); parts thereof:
8541Heading
Semiconductor 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; parts thereof:
8542Heading
Electronic integrated circuits; parts thereof:
8543Heading
Electrical machines and apparatus, having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter; parts thereof:
8544Heading
Insulated (including enameled or anodized) wire, cable (including coaxial cable) and other insulated electric conductors, whether or not fitted with connectors; optical fiber cables, made up of individually sheathed fibers, whether or not assembled with electric conductors or fitted with connectors:
8545Heading
Carbon 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:
8546Heading
Electrical insulators of any material:
8547Heading
Insulating 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 molding solely for the purposes of assembly, other than insulators of heading 8546; electrical conduit tubing and joints therefor, of base metal lined with insulating material:
8549Heading
Electrical and electronic waste and scrap:
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.
8501.10.20.0010-digit line
Synchronous, valued not over $4 each
General rate: 6.7%
8501.10.40.2010-digit line
AC
General rate: 4.4%
8501.10.40.4010-digit line
Brushless
General rate: 4.4%
8501.10.40.6010-digit line
Other
General rate: 4.4%
8501.10.40.8010-digit line
Other
General rate: 4.4%
8501.10.60.2010-digit line
AC
General rate: 2.8%
8501.10.60.4010-digit line
Brushless
General rate: 2.8%
8501.10.60.6010-digit line
Other
General rate: 2.8%
8501.10.60.8010-digit line
Other
General rate: 2.8%
8501.20.20.0010-digit line
Exceeding 37.5 W but not exceeding 74.6 W
General rate: 3.3%
8501.20.40.0010-digit line
Exceeding 74.6 W but not exceeding 735 W
General rate: 4%
8501.20.50.0010-digit line
Exceeding 735 W but under 746 W
General rate: 3.3%