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
HS heading 84.30 covers 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. Within Chapter 84 it splits into 9 six-digit subheadings spanning pile-drivers and pile-extractors to machinery, each carrying its own customs duty line.
- India exports 2024
- $292.5M
- Share of Chapter 84
- 0.9%
- Rank in its chapter
- #22 of 86
Source: UN Comtrade — India's reported merchandise exports to the world, 2024.
Sourcing this category from India
HS 84.30 covers 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. At the six-digit line it separates pile-drivers and pile-extractors, snow-ploughs and snow-blowers and coal or rock cutters and tunnelling machinery, among others — each a distinct duty line shown below. Machinery is one of India's largest engineering-export chapters — pumps, engines and industrial equipment ship worldwide. India exported $292.5M under this code worldwide in 2024, about 0.9% of all Chapter 84 exports, ranking #22 of 86 lines in its chapter (UN Comtrade).
How to read this code
84.30 is the four-digit HS heading for moving, grading, levelling, scraping, excavating,. To clear customs your destination country extends it to a full 8–10 digit code and assigns the duty rate. India's preferential trade agreements (UAE CEPA, Australia ECTA, and others) can reduce or zero out that duty on many machinery & electrical equipment lines — check our import guides for your market.
Subheadings under HS 84.30
The Harmonised System breaks 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 into these 9 subheadings. Drill down to the exact classification for your goods.
Pile-drivers and pile-extractors
Snow-ploughs and snow-blowers
Coal or rock cutters and tunnelling machinery; self-propelled
Coal or rock cutters and tunnelling machinery; not self-propelled
Boring or sinking machinery; self-propelled, n.e.c. in heading no. 8430
Boring and sinking machinery; not self-propelled
Machinery; for handling earth, minerals or ores, self-propelled, n.e.c. in heading no. 8430
Machinery; for tamping or compacting, not self-propelled
Machinery; for moving, levelling, scraping, grading, excavating earth minerals or ores; not self propelled n.e.c in 84.30
Top destinations for Chapter 84 exports
India's largest buyers of goods in this HS chapter in 2024, ranked by export value.
Chapter-level destination mix — your specific HS line may skew differently. Source: UN Comtrade, 2024.
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