HSN chapter 85

HSN chapter 85: Electrical machinery and equipment; sound and television recorders and reproducers; parts

48 headings and 834 8-digit tariff items. HSN codes in this chapter start with 85.

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Headings in chapter 85

8501Electric motors and generators (excluding generating sets) · 43 items 8502Electric generating sets and rotary converters · 15 items 8503Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of heading 8501 or 8502 · 4 items 8504Electrical transformers, static converters (for example, rectifiers) and inductors]426 [other than charger or charging station for Electrically operated vehicles · 23 items 8505Electro-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 li · 6 items 8506Primary cells and primary batteries · 8 items 8507Electric accumulators, including separators therefor, whether or not rectangular (including square) other than Lithiumion battery and other Lithium-ion accumulators including Lithium-ion power banks · 9 items 8508Vacuum cleaners · 4 items 8509Electro-mechanical domestic appliances, with self-contained electric motor, other than vacuum cleaners of heading 8508 · 7 items 8510Shavers, hair clippers and hair-removing appliances, with self-contained electric motor · 4 items 8511Electrical 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 ( · 9 items 8512Electrical lighting or signalling equipment (excluding articles of heading 8539), windscreen wipers, defrosters and demisters, of a kind used for cycles or motor vehicles · 8 items 8513Portable electric lamps designed to function by their own source of energy (for example, dry batteries, accumulators, magnetos), other than lighting equipment of heading 8512 · 6 items 8514Industrial or laboratory electric furnaces and ovens (including those functioning by induction or dielectric loss); other industrial or laboratory equipment for the heat treatment of materials by induction or dielectric loss · 6 items 8515Electric (including electrically heated gas), laser or other light or photo 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 apparat · 13 items 8516Electric instantaneous or storage water heaters and immersion heaters; electric space heating apparatus and soil heating apparatus; electro thermic hairdressing apparatus (for example, hair dryers, hair curlers, curling tong heaters) and hand dryers; elect · 16 items 8517Telephone sets / smartphones · 50 items 8518Microphones 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 ampli · 8 items 8519Sound recording or reproducing apparatus · 22 items 8520Magnetic Tape Recorders And Other Sound Recording Apparatus, Whether Or Not Incorporating A Sound Reproducing Device · 9 items 8521Video recording or reproducing apparatus, whether or not incorporating a video tuner · 12 items 8522Parts and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of headings 8519 or 8521 · 2 items 8523Discs, 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 3 · 69 items 8524Flat Panel Display Modules, Whether or Not Incorporating Touch-Sensitive Screens · 46 items 8525Closed-circuit television (CCTV), 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 inc · 35 items 8526Radar apparatus, radio navigational aid apparatus and radio remote control apparatus · 8 items 8527Reception apparatus for radio- broadcasting, whether or not combined, in the same housing, with sound recording or reproducing apparatus or a clock · 18 items 8528Monitors and projectors, not incorporating television reception apparatus; reception apparatus for television, whether or not incorporating radio-broadcast receiver or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus [other than computer monitors not exce · 37 items 8529Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of headings 8525 to 8528 · 12 items 8530Electrical signalling, safety or traffic control equipment for railways, tramways, roads, inland waterways, parking facilities, port installations or airfields (other than those of heading 8608) · 4 items 8531Electric sound or visual signalling apparatus (for example, bells, sirens, indicator panels, burglar or fire alarms), other than those of heading 8512 or 8530 · 6 items 8532Electrical capacitors, fixed, variable or adjustable (pre-set) · 10 items 8533Electrical resistors (including rheostats and potentiometers), other than heating resistors · 20 items 8534Printed Circuits · 1 items 8535Electrical 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 · 34 items 8536Electrical 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 · 27 items 8537Boards, 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 numer · 2 items 8538Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading 8535, 8536 or 8537 · 3 items 8539Electrical Filament or discharge lamps including sealed beam lamp units and ultra-violet or infrared lamps; arc lamps · 22 items 8540Thermionic, 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) · 14 items 8541Semiconductor Devices (for example, Diodes, Transistors, Semiconductor Based Transducers); Photosensitive Semiconductor devices; Light-Emitting Diodes (LED), whether or not assembled with other Light-Emitting Diodes (LED); Mounted Piezo-Electric crystals · 12 items 8542Electronic integrated circuits · 13 items 8543Electrical machines and apparatus, having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter · 71 items 8544Insulated wire, cable and other electric conductors · 50 items 8545Carbon 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 · 6 items 8546Electrical insulators of any material · 17 items 8547Insulating 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 the purposes of assembly, ot · 9 items 8548Waste and scrap of primary cells, primary batteries and electric accumulators; spent primary cells, spent primary batteries and spent electric accumulators; electrical parts of machinery or apparatus, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter · 4 items

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