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HS 85 Chapter · Machinery & Electrical Equipment

Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers; television image and sound recorders and reproducers, parts and accessories of such articles

Chapter 85 of the Harmonised System covers Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers; television image and sound recorders and reproducers, parts and accessories of such articles. It groups 48 four-digit headings used worldwide to classify these goods for customs and duty.

Sourcing this category from India

Products classified under HS 85 can be sourced from India across a range of clusters and price points. Use this page to understand where Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers; television image and sound recorders and reproducers, parts and accessories of such articles sits in the tariff schedule, then explore the Indian sectors and products that supply it.

How to read this code

85 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 85

The Harmonised System breaks Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers; television image and sound recorders and reproducers, parts and accessories of such articles into these 48 headings. Drill down to the exact classification for your goods.

85.01 17 subheadings

Electric motors and generators (excluding generating sets)

85.02 7 subheadings

Electric generating sets and rotary converters

85.03 1 subheadings

Electric motors and generators; parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of heading no. 8501 or 8502

85.04 11 subheadings

Electric transformers, static converters (e.g. rectifiers) and inductors

85.05 4 subheadings

Electro-magnets; permanent magnets, intended permanent magnets; electro-magnetic, permanent magnet chucks, clamps, similar; electromagnetic couplings, clutches, brakes; electro-magnetic lifting heads

85.06 7 subheadings

Cells and batteries; primary

85.07 7 subheadings

Electric accumulators, including separators therefor; whether or not rectangular (including square)

85.08 4 subheadings

Vacuum cleaners

85.09 3 subheadings

Electro-mechanical domestic appliances; with self-contained electric motor, other than vacuum cleaners of heading 85.08.

85.10 4 subheadings

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

85.11 7 subheadings

Ignition or starting equipment; used for spark-ignition or compression-ignition internal combustion engines; generators and cut outs used in conjunction with such engines

85.12 5 subheadings

Lighting or visual signalling equipment (excluding articles of heading no. 8539), windscreen wipers, defrosters and demisters; electrical, of a kind used for cycles or motor vehicles

85.13 2 subheadings

Lamps; portable, electric, designed to function by their own source of energy (e.g. dry batteries, accumulators, magnetos), excluding lighting equipment of heading no. 8512

85.14 8 subheadings

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

85.15 8 subheadings

Electric (electrically heated gas) soldering, brazing, welding machines and apparatus, capable or not of cutting, electric machines and apparatus for hot spraying of metals or sintered carbides

85.16 14 subheadings

Electric water, space, soil heaters; electro-thermic hair-dressing apparatus; hand dryers, irons; electro-thermic appliances for domestic purposes; electro heating resistors, not of heading no. 8545

85.17 9 subheadings

Telephone sets, including smartphones and other telephones for cellular/wireless networks; other apparatus for the transmission or reception of voice, images or other data (including wired/wireless networks), excluding items of 8443, 8525, 8527, or 8528

85.18 8 subheadings

Microphones and their stands; loudspeakers, mounted or not in their enclosures; headphones and earphones, combined or not with a microphone, and sets of a microphone and one or more loudspeakers; audio-frequency and electric sound amplifiers and sets

85.19 4 subheadings

Sound recording or reproducing apparatus

85.21 2 subheadings

Video recording or reproducing apparatus

85.22 2 subheadings

Sound or video recording apparatus; parts and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading 8519 or 8521

85.23 8 subheadings

Discs, tapes, solid-state non-volatile storage devices, smart cards and other media for the recording of sound or of other phenomena, whether or not recorded, including matrices and masters for the production of discs, excluding products of Chapter 37

85.24 6 subheadings

Flat panel display modules, whether or not incorporating touch-sensitive screens

85.25 6 subheadings

Transmission apparatus for radio-broadcasting or television, whether or not incorporating reception apparatus or sound recording or reproducing apparatus; television cameras, digital cameras and video camera recorders

85.26 3 subheadings

Radar apparatus, radio navigational aid apparatus and radio remote control apparatus

85.27 8 subheadings

Reception apparatus for radio-broadcasting, whether or not combined, in the same housing, with sound recording or reproducing apparatus or a clock.

85.28 9 subheadings

Monitors and projectors, not incorporating television reception apparatus; reception apparatus for television, whether or not incorporating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus

85.29 2 subheadings

Transmission apparatus; parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading no. 8524 to 8528

85.30 3 subheadings

Signalling, safety or traffic control equipment; for railways, tramways, roads, inland waterways, parking facilities, port installations, airfields, excluding those of heading no. 8608

85.31 4 subheadings

Signalling apparatus; electric sound or visual (e.g. bells, sirens, indicator panels, burglar or fire alarms), excluding those of heading no. 8512 or 8530

85.32 9 subheadings

Electrical capacitors; fixed, variable or adjustable (pre-set)

85.33 7 subheadings

Electrical resistors (including rheostats and potentiometers), excluding heating resistors

85.34 1 subheadings

Circuits; printed

85.35 6 subheadings

Electrical apparatus for switching, protecting electrical circuits, for making connections to or in electrical circuits; for a voltage exceeding 1000 volts

85.36 10 subheadings

Electrical apparatus for switching, protecting electrical circuits, for making connections to or in electrical circuits, for a voltage not exceeding 1000 volts; connectors for optical fibres, optical fibre bundles or cables

85.37 2 subheadings

Boards, panels, consoles, desks, cabinets, bases with apparatus of heading no. 8535, 8536 for electricity control and distribution, (other than switching apparatus of heading no. 8517)

85.38 2 subheadings

Electrical apparatus; parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading no. 8535, 8536 and 8537

85.39 12 subheadings

Lamps; 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

85.40 11 subheadings

Thermionic, cold cathode or photo-cathode valves and tubes (e.g. vacuum, vapour, gas filled valves and tubes, mercury arc rectifying valves and tubes, cathode-ray and television camera tubes)

85.41 12 subheadings

Semiconductor devices (e.g. diodes, transistors, semiconductor based transducers); including photovoltaic cells assembled or not in modules or panels, light-emitting diodes (LED) assembled with other LEDs or not, mounted piezo-electric crystals

85.42 5 subheadings

Electronic integrated circuits

85.43 6 subheadings

Electrical machines and apparatus; having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter

85.44 8 subheadings

Insulated wire, cable and other electric conductors, connector fitted or not; optical fibre cables of individually sheathed fibres, whether or not assembled with electric conductors or fitted with connectors

85.45 4 subheadings

Carbon electrodes, carbon brushes, lamp carbons, battery carbons and other articles of graphite or other carbon; with or without metal, of a kind used for electrical purposes

85.46 3 subheadings

Electrical insulators of any material

85.47 3 subheadings

Insulating fittings; for electrical machines, appliances, equipment, excluding insulators of heading no. 8546, electrical conduit tubing and joints therefore

85.48 1 subheadings

Electrical parts of machinery or apparatus; not specified or elsewhere included in this chapter

85.49 11 subheadings

Electrical and electronic waste and scrap

Import duty guides by destination

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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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