HS Chapter 85: Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof

The First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 heads chapter 85 as “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”. Every tariff item in chapter 85 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 8501: Electric motors and generators (excluding generating sets)

CodeDescription
8501 10 11Micro motor
8501 10 12Stepper motor
8501 10 13Wiper motor
8501 10 19Other
8501 10 20AC motor
8501 20 00Universal AC or DC motors of an output exceeding 37.5 W photovoltaic generators
8501 31 11Micro motor
8501 31 12Stepper motor
8501 31 13Wiper motor
8501 31 19Other
8501 31 20DC generators
8501 32 10DC motor
8501 32 20DC generators
8501 33 10DC motors
8501 33 20DC generators
8501 34 10Of an output exceeding 375 kW but not exceeding 1,000 kW
8501 34 20Of an output exceeding 1,000 kW but not exceeding 2,000 kW
8501 34 30Of an output exceeding 2,000 kW but not exceeding 5,000 kW
8501 34 40Of an output exceeding 5,000 kW but not exceeding 10,000 kW
8501 34 50Of an output exceeding 10,000 kW
8501 40 10Fractional horse power motor
8501 40 90Other
8501 51 10Squirrel cage induction motor, 3 phase type
8501 51 20Slipring motor
8501 51 90Other
8501 52 10Squirrel cage induction motor, 3 phase type
8501 52 20Slipring motor
8501 52 90Other
8501 53 10Squirrel cage induction motor, 3 phase type
8501 53 20Slipring motor
8501 53 30Traction motor
8501 53 90Other photovoltaic generators
8501 61 00Of an output not exceeding 75 kVA
8501 62 00Of an output exceeding 75 kVA but not exceeding 375 kVA
8501 63 00Of an output exceeding 375 kVA but not exceeding 750 kVA
8501 64 10Of an output exceeding 750 kVA but not exceeding 2,000 kVA
8501 64 20Of an output exceeding 2,000 kVA but not exceeding 5,000 kVA
8501 64 30Of an output exceeding 5,000 kVA but not exceeding 15,000 kVA
8501 64 40Of an output exceeding 15,000 kVA but notexceeding 37,500 kVA
8501 64 50Of an output exceeding 37,500 kVA but not exceeding 75,000 kVA
8501 64 60Of an output exceeding 75,000 kVA but notexceeding 1,37,500 kVA
8501 64 70Of an output exceeding 1,37,500 kVA but not exceeding 3,12,500 kVA
8501 64 80Of an output exceeding 3,12,500 kVA
8501 71 00Of an output not exceeding 50 W
8501 72 00Of an output exceeding 50 W
8501 80 00Photovoltaic AC generators

Heading 8502: Electric generating sets and rotary converters internal combustion piston engines

Heading 8503: Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of heading 8501 or 8502

Heading 8504: Electrical transformers, static converters (for example, rectifiers) and inductors

Heading 8505: Electro-magnets

Heading 8506: Primary cells and primary batteries

Heading 8507: Electric accumulators, including separators therefor, whether or not rectangular

Heading 8508: Vacuum cleaners

Heading 8509: Electro-mechanical domestic appliances, with self contained electric motor

Heading 8510: Shavers, hair clippers and hair-removing appliances, with self-contained electric motor

Heading 8511: Electrical ignition or starting equipment of a kind used for spark-ignition

Heading 8512: Electrical lighting or signalling equipment (excluding articles of heading 8539)

Heading 8513: Portable electric lamps designed to function by their own source of energy

Heading 8514: Industrial or laboratory electric furnaces and ovens

Heading 8515: Electric (including electrically heated gas), laser or other light or photo beam

Heading 8516: Electric instantaneous or storage water heaters and immersion heaters

Heading 8517: Telephone sets

Heading 8518: Microphones and stands therefor: loudspeakers, whether or not mounted in their enclosures

Heading 8519: Sound recording or reproducing apparatus

Heading 8521: Video recording or reproducing apparatus, whether or not incorporating a video tuner

Heading 8522: Parts and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus

Heading 8523: Discs, tapes, solid-state non-volatile storage devices

Heading 8525: Transmission apparatus for radio-broadcasting or television

Heading 8526: Radar apparatus, radio navigational aid apparatus and radio remote control apparatus

Heading 8527: Reception apparatus for radio-broadcasting whether or not combined, in the same housing

Heading 8528: Monitors and projectors, not incorporating television reception apparatus

Heading 8529: Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of headings 8524 to 8528

Heading 8530: Electrical signalling, safety or traffic control equipment for railways, tramways, roads

Heading 8531: Electric sound or visual signalling apparatus

Heading 8532: Electrical capacitors, fixed, variable or adjustable (pre-set)

Heading 8533: Electrical resistors (including rheostats and potentiometers)

Heading 8534

Heading 8535: Electrical apparatus for switching or protecting electrical circuits

Heading 8536: Electrical apparatus for switching or protecting electrical circuits

Heading 8537: Boards, panels, consoles, desks, cabinets and other bases

Heading 8538: Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of headings

Heading 8539: Electric filament or discharge lamps including sealed beam lamp units and ultra-violet

Heading 8540: Thermionic, cold cathode or photo-cathode valves and tubes

Heading 8541: Semiconductor devices

Heading 8542: Electronic integrated circuits

Heading 8543: Electrical machines and apparatus having individual functions

CodeDescription
8543 10 10Ion implanters for doping semi conductor material
8543 10 20Vane graff, cock-croft, Walton accelerators
8543 10 30Synchrocyclotrons, synchrotrons
8543 10 90Other including cyclotrons
8543 20 10Sweep generators
8543 20 20Impulse generators
8543 20 30Tacho generators
8543 20 90Other
8543 30 00Machines and apparatus for electroplating, electrolysis or electrophoresis
8543 40 00Electronic cigarettes and similar personal electric vaporising devices
8543 70 11Proximity card and tags
8543 70 12Metal detector
8543 70 13Mine detector
8543 70 19Other
8543 70 21Digital reverberators
8543 70 22Mixing system or consoles
8543 70 29Other
8543 70 31Video mixing system or consoles
8543 70 32Video effect system
8543 70 33Digital layering machine
8543 70 34Paint box
8543 70 35Video typewriter
8543 70 36Video matting machine
8543 70 39Other
8543 70 41Computerised editing system controlling more than three video editing machines
8543 70 42Other video control unit
8543 70 49Other
8543 70 50Colour corrector
8543 70 61Broadcast amplifier
8543 70 62Limiting amplifier, video distribution amplifier and stabilizing amplifiers
8543 70 69Other
8543 70 71Graphic equalizer
8543 70 72Synthesised receivers
8543 70 91RF(radio frequency) power amplifer and noise generators for communication jamming equipment, static and mobile or man-portable
8543 70 92Equipment gadgets based on solar energy
8543 70 93Professional beauty care equipment
8543 70 94Audio visual stereo encoders
8543 70 95Time code generator
8543 70 99Other
8543 90 00Parts

Heading 8544: Insulated (including enamelled or anodised) wire, cable

Heading 8545: Carbon electrodes, carbon brushes, lamp carbons

Heading 8546: Electrical insulators of any material

Heading 8547: Insulating fittings for electrical machines, appliances or equipment

Heading 8548

Heading 8549: Electrical and electronic waste and scrap batteries and electric accumulators

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

Pay the basic customs duty line with a scrip, not cash.

Money locked before the scrip moves. Settlement the same business day.