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HS code 8508.70: Parts

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Key facts

HS code
8508.70
Covers
Parts
Heading
85.08: Vacuum cleaners
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
Edition
HS2022
Duty in the United States
See its 1 line

Summary

HS code 8508.70 covers parts. It sits in heading 85.08 (vacuum cleaners) in 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). Other goods of heading 85.08 are classified under 8508.11 (with self-contained electric motor, of a power not exceeding 1,500 W and having a dust bag or other receptacle capacity not exceeding 20l), 8508.19 (with self-contained electric motor, other) or 8508.60 (other vacuum cleaners). National tariff lines under 8508.70 are live on border.bot for the United States (1 line, also used by 1 other country).

What this code covers

HS code 8508.70 covers parts.

The legal text of the subheading is “Parts”, in HS2022.

What it doesn’t cover

Other goods of heading 85.08 are classified under 8508.11 (with self-contained electric motor, of a power not exceeding 1,500 W and having a dust bag or other receptacle capacity not exceeding 20l), 8508.19 (with self-contained electric motor, other) or 8508.60 (other vacuum cleaners).

  • 8508.11With self-contained electric motor: Of a power not exceeding 1,500 W and having a dust bag or other receptacle capacity not exceeding 20l
  • 8508.19With self-contained electric motor: Other
  • 8508.60Other vacuum cleaners

How it is structured

8508.70 is a six-digit subheading. Its first two digits, 85, are the chapter; the first four, 8508, are heading 85.08; the last two, 70, identify the subheading within the heading.

Countries add their own digits after these six for their national tariff lines.

Heading 85.08
Vacuum cleaners
Subheading 8508.70
Parts

In other countries

National tariff lines under 8508.70 are live on border.bot for the United States (1 line, also used by 1 other country).

Related codes

The same text, “Parts”, also divides 20 other headings in chapter 85: 8504.90 under heading 85.04, 8506.90 under heading 85.06, 8507.90 under heading 85.07, 8509.90 under heading 85.09, 8510.90 under heading 85.10, 8511.90 under heading 85.11, 8512.90 under heading 85.12 and 8513.90 under heading 85.13 and others.

  • 8504.90Heading 85.04: Electrical transformers, static converters (for example, rectifiers) and inductors
  • 8506.90Heading 85.06: Primary cells and primary batteries
  • 8507.90Heading 85.07: Electric accumulators, including separators therefor, whether or not rectangular (including square)
  • 8509.90Heading 85.09: Electro-mechanical domestic appliances, with self-contained electric motor, other than vacuum cleaners of heading 85.08
  • 8510.90Heading 85.10: Shavers, hair clippers and hair-removing appliances, with self- contained electric motor
  • 8511.90Heading 85.11: 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, sparking plugs and glow plugs, starter motors); generators (for example, dynamos, alternators) and cut-outs of a kind used in conjunction with such engines
  • 8512.90Heading 85.12: Electrical lighting or signalling equipment (excluding articles of heading 85.39), windscreen wipers, defrosters and demisters, of a kind used for cycles or motor vehicles
  • 8513.90Heading 85.13: Portable electric lamps designed to function by their own source of energy (for example, dry batteries, accumulators, magnetos), other than lighting equipment of heading 85.12
  • 8514.90Heading 85.14: 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
  • 8515.90Heading 85.15: 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
  • 8516.90Heading 85.16: 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
  • 8518.90Heading 85.18: 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
  • 8530.90Heading 85.30: Electrical signalling, safety or traffic control equipment for railways, tramways, roads, inland waterways, parking facilities, port installations or airfields (other than those of heading 86.08)
  • 8531.90Heading 85.31: Electric sound or visual signalling apparatus (for example, bells, sirens, indicator panels, burglar or fire alarms), other than those of heading 85.12 or 85.30
  • 8532.90Heading 85.32: Electrical capacitors, fixed, variable or adjustable (pre-set)
  • 8533.90Heading 85.33: Electrical resistors (including rheostats and potentiometers), other than heating resistors
  • 8539.90Heading 85.39: Electric filament or discharge lamps, including sealed beam lamp units and ultra-violet or infra-red lamps; arc-lamps; light- emitting diode (LED) light sources
  • 8541.90Heading 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
  • 8542.90Heading 85.42: Electronic integrated circuits
  • 8543.90Heading 85.43: Electrical machines and apparatus, having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter

Frequently asked questions

What does HS code 8508.70 cover?

HS code 8508.70 covers parts.

Which heading and chapter is HS code 8508.70 in?

HS code 8508.70 is in heading 85.08 (vacuum cleaners) in 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).

Where are goods of heading 85.08 classified when 8508.70 doesn’t fit?

Other goods of heading 85.08 are classified under 8508.11 (with self-contained electric motor, of a power not exceeding 1,500 W and having a dust bag or other receptacle capacity not exceeding 20l), 8508.19 (with self-contained electric motor, other) or 8508.60 (other vacuum cleaners).

Which countries’ tariffs list national lines under HS code 8508.70?

National tariff lines under 8508.70 are live on border.bot for the United States (1 line, also used by 1 other country).

Sources and updates

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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