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  "summary": "HS chapter 85 covers 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. It has 48 headings, 85.01 to 85.49, and 296 six-digit subheadings in HS2022. National tariff lines under chapter 85 are live on border.bot for the United States (982 lines, also used by 1 other country).",
  "updatedAt": "2026-10-11",
  "facts": [
    {
      "label": "Chapter",
      "value": "85",
      "source": "border.bot release GLOBAL:hs #2"
    },
    {
      "label": "Description",
      "value": "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",
      "source": "border.bot release GLOBAL:hs #2"
    },
    {
      "label": "Headings",
      "value": "48",
      "source": "border.bot release GLOBAL:hs #2"
    },
    {
      "label": "Subheadings",
      "value": "296",
      "source": "border.bot release GLOBAL:hs #2"
    },
    {
      "label": "Edition",
      "value": "HS2022",
      "source": "border.bot release GLOBAL:hs #2"
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  "faq": [
    {
      "question": "What does HS chapter 85 cover?",
      "answer": "HS chapter 85 covers 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."
    },
    {
      "question": "How many headings and subheadings are in HS chapter 85?",
      "answer": "HS chapter 85 has 48 headings and 296 six-digit subheadings in HS2022."
    },
    {
      "question": "Which countries’ tariffs list national lines in HS chapter 85?",
      "answer": "National tariff lines under chapter 85 are live on border.bot for the United States (982 lines, also used by 1 other country)."
    }
  ],
  "sections": [
    {
      "id": "covers",
      "title": "What this chapter covers",
      "text": [
        "HS chapter 85 covers 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.",
        "It has 48 headings, 85.01 to 85.49, and 296 six-digit subheadings in HS2022."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "not-covered",
      "title": "What it doesn’t cover",
      "text": [
        "Chapter 84, before it, covers nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof; chapter 86, after it, covers railway or tramway locomotives, rolling-stock and parts thereof; railway or tramway track fixtures and fittings and parts thereof; mechanical (including electro-mechanical) traffic signalling equipment of all kinds."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "structure",
      "title": "How it is structured",
      "text": [
        "Chapter 85 is the first level of the Harmonized System. Its headings add two digits to the chapter number (85.01), and each heading's subheadings add two more."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "other-countries",
      "title": "In other countries",
      "text": [
        "National tariff lines under chapter 85 are live on border.bot for the United States (982 lines, also used by 1 other country)."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "sources",
      "title": "Sources and updates",
      "text": [
        "The Harmonized System legal text comes from border.bot release 2 (edition HS 2022), imported from a file, and has 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."
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        "code": "8516",
        "description": "Electric instantaneous or storage water heaters and immersion heaters; electric space heating apparatus and soil heating apparatus; electro-thermic hair-dressing apparatus (for example, hair dryers, hair curlers, curling tong heaters) and hand dryers; electric smoothing irons; other electro-thermic appliances of a kind used for domestic purposes; electric heating resistors, other than those of heading 85.45",
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            "code": "851633",
            "description": "Electrothermic hairdressing or hand-drying apparatus: Hand-drying apparatus"
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            "code": "851640",
            "description": "Electric smoothing irons"
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            "code": "851650",
            "description": "Microwave ovens"
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            "code": "851660",
            "description": "Other ovens; cookers, cooking plates, boiling rings, grillers and roasters"
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            "description": "Other electrothermic appliances: Coffee or tea makers"
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            "code": "851672",
            "description": "Other electrothermic appliances: Toasters"
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            "description": "Electric heating resistors"
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        "description": "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 84.43, 85.25, 85.27 or 85.28",
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            "code": "851711",
            "description": "Telephone sets, including smartphones and other telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks: Line telephone sets with cordless handsets"
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          {
            "code": "851713",
            "description": "Telephone sets, including smartphones and other telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks: Smartphones"
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          {
            "code": "851714",
            "description": "Telephone sets, including smartphones and other telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks: Other telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks"
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            "description": "Telephone sets, including smartphones and other telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks: Other"
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            "description": "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): Base stations"
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            "code": "851762",
            "description": "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): Machines for the reception, conversion and transmission or regeneration of voice, images or other data, including switching and routing apparatus"
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            "code": "851769",
            "description": "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"
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            "description": "Parts: Aerials and aerial reflectors of all kinds; parts suitable for use therewith"
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        "description": "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",
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            "code": "851810",
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            "description": "Audio-frequency electric amplifiers"
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            "description": "Electric sound amplifier sets"
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        "description": "Sound recording or reproducing apparatus",
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            "code": "851920",
            "description": "Apparatus operated by coins, banknotes, bank cards, tokens or by other means of payment"
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            "code": "851930",
            "description": "Turntables (record-decks)"
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            "code": "851981",
            "description": "Other apparatus: Using magnetic, optical or semiconductor media"
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            "code": "851989",
            "description": "Other apparatus: Other"
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        "description": "Video recording or reproducing apparatus, whether or not incorporating a video tuner",
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            "code": "852110",
            "description": "Magnetic tape-type"
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            "code": "852190",
            "description": "Other"
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        "code": "8522",
        "description": "Parts and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading 85.19 or 85.21",
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            "code": "852210",
            "description": "Pick-up cartridges"
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            "code": "852290",
            "description": "Other"
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      {
        "code": "8523",
        "description": "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",
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            "code": "852321",
            "description": "Magnetic media: Cards incorporating a magnetic stripe"
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          {
            "code": "852329",
            "description": "Magnetic media: Other"
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            "code": "852341",
            "description": "Optical media: Unrecorded"
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          {
            "code": "852349",
            "description": "Optical media: Other"
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          {
            "code": "852351",
            "description": "Semiconductor media: Solid-state non-volatile storage devices"
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          {
            "code": "852352",
            "description": "Semiconductor media: “Smart cards”"
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          {
            "code": "852359",
            "description": "Semiconductor media: Other"
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          {
            "code": "852380",
            "description": "Other"
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      {
        "code": "8524",
        "description": "Flat panel display modules, whether or not incorporating touch- sensitive screens",
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            "code": "852411",
            "description": "Without drivers or control circuits: Of liquid crystals"
          },
          {
            "code": "852412",
            "description": "Without drivers or control circuits: Of organic light-emitting diodes (OLED)"
          },
          {
            "code": "852419",
            "description": "Without drivers or control circuits: Other"
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            "code": "852491",
            "description": "Other: Of liquid crystals"
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          {
            "code": "852492",
            "description": "Other: Of organic light-emitting diodes (OLED)"
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          {
            "code": "852499",
            "description": "Other: Other"
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        "code": "8525",
        "description": "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",
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            "code": "852550",
            "description": "Transmission apparatus"
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          {
            "code": "852560",
            "description": "Transmission apparatus incorporating reception apparatus"
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          {
            "code": "852581",
            "description": "Television cameras, digital cameras and video camera recorders: High-speed goods as specified in subheading note 1 to this chapter"
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          {
            "code": "852582",
            "description": "Television cameras, digital cameras and video camera recorders: Other, radiation-hardened or radiation-tolerant goods as specified in Subheading Note 2 to this Chapter"
          },
          {
            "code": "852583",
            "description": "Television cameras, digital cameras and video camera recorders: Other, night vision goods as specified in Subheading Note 3 to this Chapter"
          },
          {
            "code": "852589",
            "description": "Television cameras, digital cameras and video camera recorders: Other"
          }
        ]
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      {
        "code": "8526",
        "description": "Radar apparatus, radio navigational aid apparatus and radio remote control apparatus",
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            "code": "852610",
            "description": "Radar apparatus"
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          {
            "code": "852691",
            "description": "Other: Radio navigational aid apparatus"
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          {
            "code": "852692",
            "description": "Other: Radio remote control apparatus"
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        "description": "Reception apparatus for radio-broadcasting, whether or not combined, in the same housing, with sound recording or reproducing apparatus or a clock",
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            "code": "852712",
            "description": "Radio-broadcast receivers capable of operating without an external source of power: Pocket-size radio cassette-players"
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            "description": "Radio-broadcast receivers capable of operating without an external source of power: Other apparatus combined with sound recording or reproducing apparatus"
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            "code": "852721",
            "description": "Radio-broadcast receivers not capable of operating without an external source of power, of a kind used in motor vehicles: Combined with sound recording or reproducing apparatus"
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            "description": "Other: Combined with sound recording or reproducing apparatus"
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            "description": "Other: Not combined with sound recording or reproducing apparatus but combined with a clock"
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            "code": "852799",
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            "description": "Cathode-ray tube monitors: Capable of directly connecting to and designed for use with an automatic data processing machine of heading 84.71"
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            "description": "Reception apparatus for television, whether or not incorporating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus: Not designed to incorporate a video display or screen"
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            "description": "Reception apparatus for television, whether or not incorporating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus: Other, colour"
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            "code": "852873",
            "description": "Reception apparatus for television, whether or not incorporating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus: Other, monochrome"
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            "code": "852910",
            "description": "Aerials and aerial reflectors of all kinds; parts suitable for use therewith"
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            "code": "852990",
            "description": "Other"
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            "code": "853010",
            "description": "Equipment for railways or tramways"
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            "description": "Other equipment"
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            "code": "853110",
            "description": "Burglar or fire alarms and similar apparatus"
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            "code": "853120",
            "description": "Indicator panels incorporating liquid crystal devices (LCD) or light-emitting diodes (LED)"
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          {
            "code": "853180",
            "description": "Other apparatus"
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            "code": "853190",
            "description": "Parts"
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        "description": "Electrical capacitors, fixed, variable or adjustable (pre-set)",
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            "description": "Fixed capacitors designed for use in 50/60 Hz circuits and having a reactive power handling capacity of not less than 0,5 kvar (power capacitors)"
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            "description": "Other fixed capacitors: Tantalum"
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            "description": "Other fixed capacitors: Aluminium electrolytic"
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            "description": "Other fixed capacitors: Ceramic dielectric, single layer"
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            "description": "Other fixed capacitors: Ceramic dielectric, multilayer"
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            "description": "Parts"
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            "description": "Fixed carbon resistors, composition or film types"
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