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HS 84 Chapter · Machinery & Electrical Equipment

Machinery and mechanical appliances, boilers, nuclear reactors; parts thereof

Chapter 84 of the Harmonised System covers Machinery and mechanical appliances, boilers, nuclear reactors; parts thereof. It groups 86 four-digit headings used worldwide to classify these goods for customs and duty.

Sourcing this category from India

Products classified under HS 84 can be sourced from India across a range of clusters and price points. Use this page to understand where Machinery and mechanical appliances, boilers, nuclear reactors; parts thereof sits in the tariff schedule, then explore the Indian sectors and products that supply it.

How to read this code

84 is the two-digit HS chapter. Your destination country extends it to 8–10 digits and assigns the duty rate. India's preferential trade agreements (UAE CEPA, Australia ECTA, and others) can reduce or zero out that duty for many goods — check our import guides for your market.

Headings under HS 84

The Harmonised System breaks Machinery and mechanical appliances, boilers, nuclear reactors; parts thereof into these 86 headings. Drill down to the exact classification for your goods.

84.01 4 subheadings

Nuclear reactors; fuel elements (cartridges), non-irradiated, for nuclear reactors, machinery and apparatus for isotopic separation

84.02 5 subheadings

Boilers; steam or other vapour generating (other than central heating hot water boilers, capable also of producing low pressure steam), super heated water boilers

84.03 2 subheadings

Central heating boilers; excluding those of heading no. 8402

84.04 3 subheadings

Auxiliary plant for use with boilers of heading no. 8402 or 8403; e.g. economisers, super-heaters, soot removers, gas recoverers), condensers for steam or other vapour power units

84.05 2 subheadings

Generators for producer or water gas with or without their purifiers acetylene gas generators and similar water process gas generators, with or without their purifiers

84.06 4 subheadings

Turbines; steam and other vapour turbines

84.07 8 subheadings

Reciprocating or rotary internal combustion piston engines

84.08 3 subheadings

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

84.09 3 subheadings

Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the engines of heading no. 8407 or 8408

84.10 4 subheadings

Turbines; hydraulic water wheels and regulators therefor

84.11 8 subheadings

Turbo-jets, turbo-propellers and other gas turbines

84.12 7 subheadings

Engines and motors; n.e.c. (e.g. reaction engines, hydraulic power engines, pneumatic power engines)

84.13 12 subheadings

Pumps; for liquids, whether or not fitted with measuring device, liquid elevators

84.14 10 subheadings

Air or vacuum pumps, air or other gas compressors and fans; ventilating or recycling hoods incorporating a fan; gas-tight biological safety cabinets whether or not fitted with filters

84.15 6 subheadings

Air conditioning machines; comprising a motor driven fan and elements for changing the temperature and humidity, including those machines in which the humidity cannot be separately regulated

84.16 4 subheadings

Furnace burners for liquid fuel, for pulverised solid fuel or for gas; mechanical grates, mechanical ash dischargers and similar appliances

84.17 4 subheadings

Furnaces and ovens; industrial or laboratory, including incinerators, non-electric

84.18 10 subheadings

Refrigerators, freezers and other refrigerating or freezing equipment, electric or other; heat pumps other than air conditioning machines of heading no. 8415

84.19 14 subheadings

Machinery, plant (not domestic), or laboratory equipment; electrically heated or not, (excluding items in 85.14) for the treatment of materials by a process involving change of temperature; including instantaneous or non electric storage water heaters

84.20 3 subheadings

Machines; calendering or other rolling machines, for other than metal or glass and cylinders therefor

84.21 12 subheadings

Centrifuges, including centrifugal dryers; filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for liquids or gases

84.22 6 subheadings

Dish washing machines; machinery for cleaning, drying, filling, closing, sealing, capsuling or labelling bottles, cans, boxes, bags, etc, machinery for aerating beverages

84.23 7 subheadings

Weighing machines; excluding balances of a sensitivity of 5cg or better, including weight operated counting or checking machines and weights of all kinds

84.24 8 subheadings

Mechanical appliances for projecting, dispersing or spraying liquids or powders; fire extinguishers, spray guns, steam, sand blasting machines

84.25 7 subheadings

Pulley tackle and hoists other than skip hoists; winches and capstans; jacks

84.26 9 subheadings

Derricks, cranes, including cable cranes, mobile lifting frames, straddle carriers and works trucks fitted with a crane

84.27 3 subheadings

Fork-lift and other works trucks; fitted with lifting or handling equipment

84.28 10 subheadings

Lifting, handling, loading or unloading machinery; n.e.c. in heading no. 8425, 8426 or 8427 (e.g. lifts, escalators, conveyors, teleferics)

84.29 8 subheadings

Bulldozers, graders, levellers, scrapers, angledozers, mechanical shovels, excavators, shovel loaders, tamping machines and road rollers, self-propelled

84.30 9 subheadings

Moving, grading, levelling, scraping, excavating, tamping, compacting, extracting or boring machinery, for earth, minerals, or ores; pile drivers and extractors; snow ploughs and snow blowers

84.31 8 subheadings

Machinery parts; used solely or principally with the machinery of heading no. 8425 to 8430

84.32 9 subheadings

Agricultural, horticultural or forestry machinery for soil preparation or cultivation; lawn or sports-ground rollers

84.33 11 subheadings

Harvesting and threshing machinery, straw and fodder balers, grass or hay mowers; machines for cleaning, sorting or grading eggs, fruit or other agricultural produce, other than machinery of heading no 8437

84.34 3 subheadings

Milking machines and dairy machinery

84.35 2 subheadings

Presses, crushers and similar machinery; used in the manufacture of wine, cider, fruit juices or similar beverages

84.36 6 subheadings

Agricultural, horticultural, forestry, poultry-keeping, bee-keeping machinery; including germination plant fitted with mechanical or thermal equipment; poultry incubators and brooders

84.37 3 subheadings

Machines for cleaning, sorting, grading seed, grain, dried leguminous vegetables; machinery used in the milling industry for the working of cereals or dried leguminous vegetables, not farm type machinery

84.38 8 subheadings

Machinery n.e.c. in this chapter, for the industrial preparation or manufacture of food or drink; other than machinery for extraction or preparation of animal or fixed vegetable or microbial fats or oils

84.39 5 subheadings

Machinery; for making pulp of fibrous cellulosic material, or for making or finishing paper or paperboard

84.40 2 subheadings

Book-binding machinery; including book-sewing machines

84.41 6 subheadings

Machines; for making up paper pulp, paper or paperboard, including cutting machines of all kinds

84.42 3 subheadings

Machinery, apparatus and equipment (excluding machines of headings 8456 to 8465) for preparing or making printing components; plates, cylinders and other printing components; lithographic stones prepared for printing purposes

84.43 13 subheadings

Printing machinery; used for printing by means of plates, cylinders and other printing components of heading 84.42; other printers, copying machines and facsimile machines, whether or not combined; parts and accessories thereof

84.44 1 subheadings

Textile machinery; for extruding, drawing, texturing or cutting man-made textile materials

84.45 8 subheadings

Textile machinery; spinning, doubling, twisting machines, textile reeling or winding machines and machines for preparing textile yarns for use on machines of heading no. 8446 and 8447

84.46 4 subheadings

Weaving machines (looms)

84.47 4 subheadings

Knitting machines, stitch-bonding machines and machines for making gimped yarn, tulle, lace, embroidery, trimmings, braid or net and machines for tufting

84.48 11 subheadings

Machinery, auxiliary; for use with machines of heading no. 8444 to 8447 (e.g. dobbies, jacquards, automatic stop motions, shuttle changing mechanisms) parts, accessories for machines of heading no. 8444, 8447

84.49 1 subheadings

Machinery; for manufacture or finishing felt or non-wovens in the piece or in shapes, including machinery for making felt hats, blocks for making hats

84.50 5 subheadings

Household or laundry-type washing machines; including machines which both wash and dry

84.51 8 subheadings

Machinery (not of heading no. 8450) for washing, cleaning, wringing, drying, ironing, pressing, bleaching, dyeing, dressing, finishing, coating or impregnating textile yarn, fabrics or made up articles

84.52 5 subheadings

Sewing machines; other than book-sewing machines of heading no. 8440; furniture, bases and covers specially designed for sewing machines; sewing machine needles

84.53 4 subheadings

Machinery for preparing, tanning or working hides, skins or leather or for making or repairing footwear or other articles of hides, skins or leather, other than sewing machines

84.54 4 subheadings

Converters, ladles, ingot moulds and casting machines; of a kind used metallurgy or in metal foundries

84.55 5 subheadings

Metal-rolling mills and rolls therefor

84.56 7 subheadings

Machine-tools; for working any material by removal of material, by laser or other light or photon beam, ultrasonic, electro-discharge, electro-chemical, electron beam, ionic-beam, or plasma arc processes; water-jet cutting machines

84.57 3 subheadings

Machining centres, unit construction machines (single station) and multi-station transfer machines for working metal

84.58 4 subheadings

Lathes for removing metal

84.59 12 subheadings

Machine-tools; (including way-type unit head machines) for drilling, boring, milling, threading or tapping by removing metal, other than lathes of heading no. 8458

84.60 10 subheadings

Machine-tools; for deburring, sharpening, grinding, honing, lapping, polishing or otherwise finishing metal, sintered metal carbides or cermets by means of grinding stones, abrasives or polishing products

84.61 5 subheadings

Machine-tools; for planing, shaping, slotting, broaching, gear cutting and grinding, finishing, sawing, cutting off and other tools working by removing metal, sintered metal carbides or cermets n.e.c.

84.62 20 subheadings

Machine-tools (including presses) for working metal by forging, hammering or die forging (excluding rolling mills); machine-tools (including presses, slitting lines and cut-to-length lines) for working metal by bending, folding, straightening, flattening,

84.63 4 subheadings

Machine-tools; n.e.c. for working metal, sintered metal carbides or cermets without removing material

84.64 3 subheadings

Machine-tools; for working stone, ceramics, concrete, asbestos-cement or like mineral materials or for cold working glass

84.65 9 subheadings

Machine-tools; (including machines for nailing, stapling, glueing or otherwise assembling) for working wood, cork, bone, hard plastics or rubber or similar hard materials

84.66 7 subheadings

Parts & accessories suited for use only/mainly with machines of headings 8456-8465, including work/tool holders, self-opening dieheads, dividing heads & other special attachments for the machines; tool holders for any type of tool for working in the hand

84.67 10 subheadings

Tools; for working in the hand, pneumatic, hydraulic or with self-contained electric or non-electric motor

84.68 4 subheadings

Machinery and apparatus for soldering, brazing, welding, whether or not capable of cutting, other than those of heading no. 8515; gas-operated surface tempering machines and appliances

84.70 6 subheadings

Calculating machines and pocket-size data recording, reproducing and displaying machines with calculating functions; accounting machines, postage-franking machines, ticket-issuing machines and similar, incorporating a calculating device; cash registers

84.71 8 subheadings

Automatic data processing machines and units thereof, magnetic or optical readers, machines for transcribing data onto data media in coded form and machines for processing such data, not elsewhere specified or included

84.72 3 subheadings

Office machines; not elsewhere classified

84.73 5 subheadings

Machinery; parts and accessories (other than covers, carrying cases and the like) suitable for use solely or principally with machines of headings 84.70 to 84.72

84.74 7 subheadings

Machinery for sorting, screening, separating, washing, crushing, grinding, mixing or kneading earth, stone, ores in solid form, shaping, moulding machinery for solid mineral fuels

84.75 4 subheadings

Machines; for assembling electric or electronic lamps, tubes, valves, flashbulbs, in glass envelopes, machines for manufacturing or hot working glass or glassware

84.76 5 subheadings

Automatic goods-vending machines (e.g. postage stamp, cigarette, food or beverage machines), including money-changing machines

84.77 8 subheadings

Machinery; for working rubber or plastics or for the manufacture of products from these materials, n.e.c. in this chapter

84.78 2 subheadings

Machinery; for preparing or making up tobacco, n.e.c. in this chapter

84.79 13 subheadings

Machinery and mechanical appliances; having individual functions, n.e.c. in this chapter

84.80 9 subheadings

Moulding boxes for metal foundry, moulding patterns, moulds for metals (excluding ingot moulds), metal carbides, glass, mineral materials, rubber or plastics

84.81 6 subheadings

Taps, cocks, valves and similar appliances for pipes, boiler shells, tanks, vats or the like, including pressure-reducing valves and thermostatically controlled valves

84.82 8 subheadings

Ball or roller bearings

84.83 7 subheadings

Transmission shafts (including cam and crank) and cranks; bearing housings and plain shaft bearings; gears and gearing; ball or roller screws; gear boxes and other speed changers; flywheels and pulleys; clutches and shaft couplings

84.84 3 subheadings

Gaskets and similar joints of metal sheeting combined with other material or of two or more layers of metal; sets or assortments of gaskets and similar joints, dissimilar in composition, put up in pouches, envelopes or similar packings; mechanical seals

84.85 5 subheadings

Machines for additive manufacturing

84.86 5 subheadings

Machines and apparatus of a kind used solely or principally for the manufacture of semiconductor boules or wafers, semiconductor devices, electronic integrated circuits or flat panel displays; machines & apparatus specified in note 11 (C) to this Chapter

84.87 2 subheadings

Machinery parts; not containing electrical connectors, insulators, coils, contacts or other electrical features, n.e.c. in this chapter

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Last updated 28 Jun 2026 Figures are indicative sourcing benchmarks compiled from exporter quotes, India trade-scheme notifications and public customs tariffs. Confirm live pricing and HS classification before contracting.
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