# European Union tariff, 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 (page 3 of 3)

> The European Union tariff has 875 national lines in HS chapter 85 (electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and… Page 3 of 3.

Source: https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/85?page=3
Last updated: 11 October 2026

[Countries](https://border.bot/countries) / [European Union](https://border.bot/countries/european-union) / [Chapter 85](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/85)

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## Key facts

- National lines: 875
- Subheadings: 296
- Import VAT/GST in the European Union: VAT 21%
- De minimis in the European Union: Flat €3 duty up to €150; tax always charged
- Tariff: [European Union](https://border.bot/countries/european-union)
- 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

## Subheadings with European Union lines

The European Union tariff has 875 national lines in HS 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), under 296 subheadings in 48 headings.

### 85.35 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

- [8535.10](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/853510) Fuses (2 lines)
- [8535.21](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/853521) Automatic circuit breakers: For a voltage of less than 72.5 kV (2 lines)
- [8535.29](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/853529) Automatic circuit breakers: Other (2 lines)
- [8535.30](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/853530) Isolating switches and make-and-break switches (4 lines)
- [8535.40](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/853540) Lightning arresters, voltage limiters and surge suppressors (2 lines)
- [8535.90](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/853590) Other (2 lines)

### 85.36 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 fibres, optical fibre bundles or cables

- [8536.10](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/853610) Fuses (6 lines)
- [8536.20](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/853620) Automatic circuit breakers (4 lines)
- [8536.30](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/853630) Other apparatus for protecting electrical circuits (3 lines)
- [8536.41](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/853641) Relays: For a voltage not exceeding 60 V (7 lines)
- [8536.49](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/853649) Relays: Other (4 lines)
- [8536.50](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/853650) Other switches (7 lines)
- [8536.61](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/853661) Lamp holders, plugs and sockets: Lamp-holders (4 lines)
- [8536.69](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/853669) Lamp holders, plugs and sockets: Other (8 lines)
- [8536.70](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/853670) Connectors for optical fibres, optical fibre bundles or cables (3 lines)
- [8536.90](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/853690) Other apparatus (4 lines)

### 85.37 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

- [8537.10](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/853710) For a voltage not exceeding 1,000 V (29 lines)
- [8537.20](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/853720) For a voltage exceeding 1,000 V (4 lines)

### 85.38 Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading 8535, 8536 or 8537

- [8538.10](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/853810) Boards, panels, consoles, desks, cabinets and other bases for the goods of heading 85.37, not equipped with their apparatus (1 line)
- [8538.90](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/853890) Other (10 lines)

### 85.39 Electric filament or discharge lamps, including sealed beam lamp units and ultraviolet or infra-red lamps; arc-lamps; light-emitting diode (LED) light sources

- [8539.10](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/853910) Sealed beam lamp units (2 lines)
- [8539.21](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/853921) Other filament lamps, excluding ultraviolet or infra-red lamps: Tungsten halogen (5 lines)
- [8539.22](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/853922) Other filament lamps, excluding ultraviolet or infra-red lamps: Other, of a power not exceeding 200 W and for a voltage exceeding 100 V (4 lines)
- [8539.29](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/853929) Other filament lamps, excluding ultraviolet or infra-red lamps: Other (5 lines)
- [8539.31](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/853931) Discharge lamps, other than ultraviolet lamps: Fluorescent, hot cathode (4 lines)
- [8539.32](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/853932) Discharge lamps, other than ultraviolet lamps: Mercury or sodium vapour lamps; metal halide lamps (3 lines)
- [8539.39](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/853939) Discharge lamps, other than ultraviolet lamps: Other (3 lines)
- [8539.41](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/853941) Ultraviolet or infra-red lamps; arc lamps: Arc-lamps (1 line)
- [8539.49](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/853949) Ultraviolet or infra-red lamps; arc lamps: Other (1 line)
- [8539.51](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/853951) Light-emitting diode (LED) light sources: Light-emitting diode (LED) modules (1 line)
- [8539.52](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/853952) Light-emitting diode (LED) light sources: Light-emitting diode (LED) lamps (1 line)
- [8539.90](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/853990) Parts (2 lines)

### 85.40 Thermionic, cold cathode or photocathode 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)

- [8540.11](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854011) Cathode ray television picture tubes, including video monitor cathode ray tubes: Colour (2 lines)
- [8540.12](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854012) Cathode ray television picture tubes, including video monitor cathode ray tubes: Monochrome (2 lines)
- [8540.20](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854020) Television camera tubes; image converters and intensifiers; other photo-cathode tubes (5 lines)
- [8540.40](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854040) Data/graphic display tubes, monochrome; data/graphic display tubes, colour, with a phosphor dot screen pitch smaller than 0,4 mm (2 lines)
- [8540.60](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854060) Other cathode-ray tubes (2 lines)
- [8540.71](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854071) Microwave tubes (for example, magnetrons, klystrons, travelling-wave tubes, carcinotrons), excluding grid-controlled tubes: Magnetrons (2 lines)
- [8540.79](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854079) Microwave tubes (for example, magnetrons, klystrons, travelling-wave tubes, carcinotrons), excluding grid-controlled tubes: Other (2 lines)
- [8540.81](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854081) Other valves and tubes: Receiver or amplifier valves and tubes (2 lines)
- [8540.89](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854089) Other valves and tubes: Other (3 lines)
- [8540.91](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854091) Parts: Of cathode-ray tubes (3 lines)
- [8540.99](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854099) Parts: Other (2 lines)

### 85.41 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

- [8541.10](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854110) Diodes, other than photosensitive or light-emitting diodes (LED) (1 line)
- [8541.21](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854121) Transistors, other than photosensitive transistors: With a dissipation rate of less than 1 W (1 line)
- [8541.29](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854129) Transistors, other than photosensitive transistors: Other (1 line)
- [8541.30](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854130) Thyristors, diacs and triacs, other than photosensitive devices (1 line)
- [8541.41](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854141) Photosensitive semiconductor devices, including photovoltaic cells whether or not assembled in modules or made up into panels; light-emitting diodes (LED): Light-emitting diodes (LED) (1 line)
- [8541.42](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854142) Photosensitive semiconductor devices, including photovoltaic cells whether or not assembled in modules or made up into panels; light-emitting diodes (LED): Photovoltaic cells not assembled in modules or made up into panels (1 line)
- [8541.43](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854143) Photosensitive semiconductor devices, including photovoltaic cells whether or not assembled in modules or made up into panels; light-emitting diodes (LED): Photovoltaic cells assembled in modules or made up into panels (1 line)
- [8541.49](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854149) Photosensitive semiconductor devices, including photovoltaic cells whether or not assembled in modules or made up into panels; light-emitting diodes (LED): Other (1 line)
- [8541.51](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854151) Other semiconductor devices: Semiconductor-based transducers (1 line)
- [8541.59](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854159) Other semiconductor devices: Other (1 line)
- [8541.60](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854160) Mounted piezo-electric crystals (1 line)
- [8541.90](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854190) Parts (1 line)

### 85.42 Electronic integrated circuits

- [8542.31](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854231) Electronic integrated circuits: Processors and controllers, whether or not combined with memories, converters, logic circuits, amplifiers, clock and timing circuits, or other circuits (3 lines)
- [8542.32](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854232) Electronic integrated circuits: Memories (10 lines)
- [8542.33](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854233) Electronic integrated circuits: Amplifiers (2 lines)
- [8542.39](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854239) Electronic integrated circuits: Other (3 lines)
- [8542.90](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854290) Parts (1 line)

### 85.43 Electrical machines and apparatus, having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter

- [8543.10](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854310) Particle accelerators (1 line)
- [8543.20](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854320) Signal generators (1 line)
- [8543.30](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854330) Machines and apparatus for electroplating, electrolysis or electrophoresis (2 lines)
- [8543.40](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854340) Electronic cigarettes and similar personal electric vaporising devices (1 line)
- [8543.70](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854370) Other machines and apparatus (24 lines)
- [8543.90](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854390) Parts (2 lines)

### 85.44 Insulated (including enamelled or anodised) wire, cable (including coaxial 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

- [8544.11](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854411) Winding wire: Of copper (2 lines)
- [8544.19](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854419) Winding wire: Other (1 line)
- [8544.20](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854420) Co-axial cable and other co-axial electric conductors (2 lines)
- [8544.30](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854430) Ignition wiring sets and other wiring sets of a kind used in vehicles, aircraft or ships (12 lines)
- [8544.42](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854442) Other electric conductors, for a voltage not exceeding 1 000 V: Fitted with connectors (9 lines)
- [8544.49](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854449) Other electric conductors, for a voltage not exceeding 1 000 V: Other (9 lines)
- [8544.60](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854460) Other electric conductors, for a voltage exceeding 1,000 V (3 lines)
- [8544.70](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854470) Optical fibre cables (3 lines)

### 85.45 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

- [8545.11](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854511) Electrodes: Of a kind used for furnaces (3 lines)
- [8545.19](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854519) Electrodes: Other (1 line)
- [8545.20](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854520) Brushes (1 line)
- [8545.90](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854590) Other (4 lines)

### 85.46 Electrical insulators of any material

- [8546.10](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854610) Of glass (1 line)
- [8546.20](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854620) Of ceramics (1 line)
- [8546.90](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854690) Other (2 lines)

### 85.47 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 moulding solely for purposes of assembly, other than insulators of heading 8546; electrical conduit tubing and joints therefor, of base metal lined with insulating material

- [8547.10](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854710) Insulating fittings of ceramics (1 line)
- [8547.20](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854720) Insulating fittings of plastics (1 line)
- [8547.90](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854790) Other (2 lines)

### 85.48 Electrical parts of machinery or apparatus, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter

- [8548.00](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854800) Electrical parts of machinery or apparatus, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter (8 lines)

### 85.49 Electrical and electronic waste and scrap

- [8549.11](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854911) Waste and scrap of primary cells, primary batteries and electric accumulators; spent primary cells, spent primary batteries and spent electric accumulators: Waste and scrap of lead-acid accumulators; spent lead-acid accumulators (2 lines)
- [8549.12](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854912) Waste and scrap of primary cells, primary batteries and electric accumulators; spent primary cells, spent primary batteries and spent electric accumulators: Other, containing lead, cadmium or mercury (3 lines)
- [8549.13](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854913) Waste and scrap of primary cells, primary batteries and electric accumulators; spent primary cells, spent primary batteries and spent electric accumulators: Sorted by chemical type and not containing lead, cadmium or mercury (4 lines)
- [8549.14](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854914) Waste and scrap of primary cells, primary batteries and electric accumulators; spent primary cells, spent primary batteries and spent electric accumulators: Unsorted and not containing lead, cadmium or mercury (3 lines)
- [8549.19](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854919) Waste and scrap of primary cells, primary batteries and electric accumulators; spent primary cells, spent primary batteries and spent electric accumulators: Other (3 lines)
- [8549.21](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854921) Of a kind used principally for the recovery of precious metal: Containing 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) (1 line)
- [8549.29](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854929) Of a kind used principally for the recovery of precious metal: Other (1 line)
- [8549.31](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854931) Other electrical and electronic assemblies and printed circuit boards: Containing 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) (1 line)
- [8549.39](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854939) Other electrical and electronic assemblies and printed circuit boards: Other (1 line)
- [8549.91](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854991) Other: Containing 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) (1 line)
- [8549.99](https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/854999) Other: Other (1 line)


## Import VAT and de minimis in the European Union

The European Union charges VAT on imports at a standard rate of 21%.

From 1 July 2026 until 1 July 2028, consignments sold to buyers in the European Union worth up to €150 pay a flat customs duty of €3 per tariff classification in the consignment instead of the tariff rate. Import tax is charged whatever the value.

## In other countries

National tariff lines under chapter 85 are live on border.bot for the United States (982 lines, also used by 1 other country).

- [United States](https://border.bot/countries/united-states/hs-codes/85): 982 lines, used by 1 other country
- [The Harmonized System text for chapter 85](https://border.bot/hs-codes/85)

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## Frequently asked questions

### How many national tariff lines does the European Union tariff have in HS chapter 85?

The European Union tariff has 875 national lines in HS 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), under 296 subheadings in 48 headings.

## Sources and updates

The tariff lines for the European Union come from border.bot release 1, read from the publisher’s files, and have been live since 11 October 2026.

The duty rates for the European Union come from border.bot release 1, read from the publisher’s files, and have been live since 11 October 2026.

The trade programmes for the European Union come from border.bot release 1, read from the publisher’s files, and have been live since 11 October 2026.

The import taxes for the European Union come from border.bot release 1, imported from a file, and have been live since 9 October 2026.

The de minimis thresholds for the European Union come from border.bot release 2, entered by border.bot, and have been live since 11 October 2026.

This page was last updated on 11 October 2026.

Guidance from published tariff data, not a binding ruling. For a decision customs must follow, apply to the destination’s customs authority for a binding tariff ruling.

Official source files:

- https://circabc.europa.eu/sd/a/9e277705-ac42-441d-8580-90cd730d9bc6/Geographical%20areas%20composition.xlsx
- https://circabc.europa.eu/sd/a/bfb94607-8b4c-40c3-ad33-1efef11bb80a/Duties%20Import%2001-99.xlsx
- https://circabc.europa.eu/sd/a/4b3c682c-947c-4f34-932d-0b8d192537bd/Measure%20exclusions.xlsx
- https://circabc.europa.eu/sd/a/13694f84-6980-4966-8c91-22459447b52b/Nomenclature%20EN.xlsx

Machine-readable: https://border.bot/countries/european-union/hs-codes/85.json?page=3