HS Chapter 84: Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances

The First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 heads chapter 84 as “Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof”. Every tariff item in chapter 84 that this dataset carries a duty and a tax rate for, listed by heading so a code can be found by reading rather than by guessing. The rates sit on the code itself: open any item for the standard rate of basic customs duty from the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975, the integrated tax beside it, the surcharge and cess on top with the base each is charged on, and the part a duty-credit scrip can pay.

Heading 8401: Nuclear reactors; fuel elements (cartridges), non-irradiated, for nuclear reactors

Heading 8402: Steam or other vapour generating boilers

Heading 8403: Central heating boilers other than thoseof heading 8402

Heading 8404: Auxiliary plant for use with boilers of heading 8402 or 8403

Heading 8405: Producer gas or water gas generators, with or without their purifiers

Heading 8406: Steam turbines and other vapour turbines

Heading 8407: Spark-ignition reciprocating or rotary internal combustion piston engines

Heading 8408: Compression-ignition internal combustion piston engines (diesel or semi-diesel engines)

Heading 8409: Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the engines of heading 8407 or 8408

Heading 8410: Hydraulic turbines, water wheels, andregulators therefor

Heading 8411: Turbo-jets, turbo-propellers and other gas turbines

Heading 8412: Other engines and motors

Heading 8413: Pumps for liquids, whether or not fitted with a measuring device

Heading 8414: Air or vacuum pumps, air or other gas compressors and fans

Heading 8415: Air conditioning machines

Heading 8416: Furnace burners for liquid fuel, for pulverised solid fuel or for gas; mechanical stokers

Heading 8417: Industrial or laboratory furnaces and ovens, including incinerators, non-electric

Heading 8418: Refrigerators, freezers and other refrigerating or freezing equipment, electric or other

Heading 8419: Machinery, plant or laboratory equipment, whether or not electrically heated

Heading 8420: Calendering or other rolling machines, other than for metals or glass

Heading 8421: Centrifuges, including centrifugal dryers; filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus

Heading 8422: Dish washing machines; machinery for cleaning or drying bottles or other containers

Heading 8423: Weighing machinery (excluding balances of a sensitivity of 5 centigrams or better)

Heading 8424: Mechanical appliances (whether or not hand- operated) for projecting

Heading 8425: Pulley tackle and hoists other than skip hoists; winches and capstans

Heading 8426: Ship's derricks; cranes including cable cranes; mobile lifting frames

Heading 8427: Fork-lift trucks; other works trucks fitted with lifting or handling equipment

Heading 8428: Other lifting, handling, loading or unloading machinery

Heading 8429: Self-propelled bulldozers, angledozers, graders, levellers, scrapers, mechanical shovels

Heading 8430: Other moving, grading, levelling, scraping, excavating, tamping, compacting

Heading 8431: Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machinery of headings 8425 to 8430

Heading 8432: Agricultural, horticultural or forestry machinery for soil preparation or cultivation

Heading 8433: Harvesting or threshing machinery, including straw or fodder balers; grass or hay mowers

Heading 8434: Milking machines and dairy machinery

Heading 8435: Presses, crushers and similar machinery used in the manufacture of wine, cider

Heading 8436: Other agricultural, horticultural, forestry, poultry-keeping or bee-keeping machinery

Heading 8437: Machines for cleaning, sorting or grading seed, grain or dried leguminous vegetables

Heading 8438: Machinery, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter

Heading 8439: Machinery for making pulp of fibrous cellulosic material or for making or finishing paper

Heading 8440: Book-binding machinery, including book- sewing machines

Heading 8441: Other machinery for making up paper pulp, paper or paperboard

Heading 8442: Machinery, apparatus and equipment

Heading 8443: Printing machinery used for printing by means of plates

CodeDescription
8443 11 00Off set printing machinery, reel fed
8443 12 00Offset printing machinery, sheet- fed, office type (using sheets With one side not exceeding 22 cm and the other side not exceeding 36 cm in the unfolded state)
8443 13 00Other offset printing machinery
8443 14 00Letterpress printing machinery, reel fed, excluding flexography printing
8443 15 00Letterpress printing machinery, other than reel fed, excluding flexographic printing
8443 16 00Flexographic printing machinery
8443 17 00Gravure printing machinery
8443 19 10Flat bed prianting presses
8443 19 20Platen printing presses
8443 19 30Proof presses or colour
8443 19 41On cotton textile
8443 19 49Other
8443 19 90Other machines, whether or not combined
8443 31 00Machines which perform two or more of the functions of printing, copying or facsimile transmission, capable of connecting to an automatic data processing machine or to a network
8443 32 10Line printer
8443 32 20Dot matrix printer
8443 32 30Letter quality daisy wheel printer
8443 32 40Laser jet printer
8443 32 50Ink jet printer
8443 32 60Facsimile machine
8443 32 90Other
8443 39 10Ink-jet printing machine
8443 39 20Electrostatic photocopying apparatus operated by reproducing the original image directly onto the copy (direct process)
8443 39 30Electrostatic photocopying apparatus operated by reproducing the original image via and interme- diate onto the copy (indirect process)
8443 39 40Other photocopying apparatus incorporating an optical system
8443 39 50Other photocopying apparatus of contact type
8443 39 60Thermo-copying apparatus
8443 39 70Facsimile machine not capable of getting connected to automatic data processing machine
8443 39 90Other
8443 91 00Parts and accessories of printing machinery used for printing by means of plates, cylinders and other printing components of heading 8442
8443 99 10Automatic documents feeders of copying machines
8443 99 20Paper feeders of copying machines
8443 99 30Sorters of copying machines
8443 99 40Other parts of copying machines 8443 31, 8443 32
8443 99 51Ink cartridges, with print head assembly
8443 99 52Ink cartridges, without print head assembly
8443 99 53Ink spray nozzle
8443 99 59Other
8443 99 60Parts and accessories of goods of sub-heading 8443 39
8443 99 90Other

Heading 8444: Machines for extruding, drawing, texturing or cutting man-made textile materials

Heading 8445: Machines for preparing textile fibres; spinning

Heading 8446: Weaving machines (looms)

Heading 8447: Knitting machines, stitch-bonding machines and machines for making gimped yarn, tulle

Heading 8448: Auxiliary machinery for use with machines of heading

Heading 8449: Machinery for the manufacture or finishing of felt or nonwovens in the piece or in shapes

Heading 8450: Household or laundry-type washing machines

Heading 8451: Machinery (other than machines of heading 8450) for washing, cleaning, wringing, drying

Heading 8452: Sewing machines, other than book-sewing machines of heading 8440; furniture

Heading 8453: Machinery for preparing, tanning or working hides

Heading 8454: Converters, ladles, ingot moulds and casting machines

Heading 8455: Metal-rolling mills and rolls therefor

Heading 8456: Machine-tools for working any material by removal of material

Heading 8457: Machining centres, unit construction machines

Heading 8458: Lathes (including turning centres) for removing metal

Heading 8459: Machine-tools (including way-type unit head machines) for drilling, boring, milling

Heading 8460: Machine-tools for deburring, sharpening, grinding, honing, lapping

Heading 8461: Machine-tools for planing, shaping, slotting, broaching, gear cutting

Heading 8462: Machine-tools (including presses) for working metal by forging, hammering or die forging

Heading 8463: Other machine-tools for working metal, or cermets, without removing material

Heading 8464: Machine-tools for working stone, ceramics concrete

Heading 8465: Machine-tools

Heading 8466: Parts and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of headings

Heading 8467: Tools for working in the hand, pneumatic

Heading 8468: Machinery and apparatus for soldering, brazing or welding

Heading 8470: Calculating machines and pocket-size data recording

Heading 8471: Automatic data processing machines and units thereof; magnetic or optical readers

Heading 8472: Other office machines

Heading 8473: Parts and accessories

Heading 8474: Machinery for sorting, screening, separating, washing, crushing, grinding

Heading 8475: Machines for assembling electric or electronic lamps, tubes or valves or flash- bulbs

Heading 8476: Automatic goods-vending machines

Heading 8477: Machinery for working rubber or plastics or for the manufacture of products from these

Heading 8478: Machinery for preparing or making up tobacco

Heading 8479: Machines and mechanical appliances having individual functions

CodeDescription
8479 10 00Machinery for public works, building or the like
8479 20 10Oil-seed crushing or grinding machinery including purifying tanks
8479 20 90Other
8479 30 00Presses for the manufacture of particle board or fibre building board of wood or other ligneous materials and other machinery for treating wood or cork
8479 40 00Rope or cable-making machines
8479 50 00Industrial robots, not elsewhere specified or included
8479 60 00Evaporative air coolers
8479 71 00Of a kind used in airports
8479 79 00Other
8479 81 00For treating metal, including electric wire coil-winders
8479 82 00Mixing, kneading, crushing, grinding, screening, homogenising, emulsifying or stirring machines sifting
8479 83 00Cold isostatic presses
8479 89 10Soap cutting or moulding machinery
8479 89 20Air humidifiers or dehumidifiers (other than those falling under heading 8412.5 or 8424)
8479 89 30Mechanical shifting machines
8479 89 40Ultrasonic transducers
8479 89 50Car washing machines and related appliances
8479 89 60Coke oven plants
8479 89 70Machinery for the manufacture of chemical and pharmaceuticals goods
8479 89 92Briquetting plant and machinery intended for manufactureof briquettes from agricultural and municipal waste
8479 89 99Other
8479 90 10Of machines for public works, building or the like
8479 90 20Of machines for the extraction of animal or fruit and vegetable fats or oil
8479 90 30Of machines and mechanical appliances for treating wood
8479 90 40Of machinery used for manufacture of chemicals and pharmaceuticals
8479 90 90Other

Heading 8480: Moulding boxes for metal foundry; mould bases; moulding patterns; moulds for metal

Heading 8481: Taps, cocks, valves and similar appliances for pipes, boiler shells, tanks

Heading 8482: Ball or roller bearings

Heading 8483: Transmission shafts (including cam shafts and crank shafts) and cranks

Heading 8484: Gaskets and similar joints of metal sheeting combined with other material or of two

Heading 8485: Machines for additive manufacturing

Heading 8486: Machines and apparatus of a kind used solely or principally for the manufacture

Heading 8487: Machines parts, not containing electrical connectors, insulators, coils

Reading the duty column

The duty shown is the standard rate in the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975. It is not the whole bill and it is often not the rate a consignment is finally assessed at. On top of it sits the Social Welfare Surcharge at ten per cent of the duty under section 110 of the Finance Act, 2018, then integrated tax on the value plus those duties under section 3(8) of the Customs Tariff Act, 1975, and compensation cess on the same base under section 3(9) where the goods attract it.

Four things are outside every figure in this chapter, and each of them can move a Bill of Entry on its own. An exemption notification, which a great many consignments are assessed under and which this site does not apply. The Agriculture Infrastructure and Development Cess under section 124 of the Finance Act, 2021. A duty the schedule states per unit rather than as a percentage. And an anti-dumping, countervailing or safeguard duty on the line. The calculator works the whole stack.

The run on 18 August 2026 found no Integrated Tax (Rate) notification newer than the ones this dataset already carries, and no disagreement across the 447 duty codes it sampled against ICEGATE. Duty rates change by notification, and a notification can take effect the day it is issued. Confirm against the tariff in force before you file a Bill of Entry.

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For importers

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