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
HS heading 85.17 covers 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. It sits within Chapter 85 and breaks down into 9 six-digit subheadings at the border.
Sourcing this category from India
Products classified under HS 85.17 can be sourced from India across a range of clusters and price points. Use this page to understand where 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 sits in the tariff schedule, then explore the Indian sectors and products that supply it.
How to read this code
85.17 is the four-digit HS heading. 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.
Subheadings under HS 85.17
The Harmonised System breaks 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 into these 9 subheadings. Drill down to the exact classification for your goods.
Line telephone sets with cordless handsets
Telephone sets; smartphones for cellular or other wireless networks
Telephone sets; other than smartphones, for cellular or other wireless networks
Telephone sets n.e.c. in item no. 8517.1
Base stations
Communication apparatus (excluding telephone sets or base stations); machines for the reception, conversion and transmission or regeneration of voice, images or other data, including switching and routing apparatus
Communication apparatus (excluding telephone sets or base stations); machines for the transmission or reception of voice, images or other data (including wired/wireless networks), n.e.c. in item no. 8517.6
Communication apparatus; parts, aerials and aerial reflectors of all kinds, part suitable for use therewith
Communication apparatus; parts, other than aerials and aerial reflectors of all kinds
Related codes in Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers; television image and sound recorders and reproducers, parts and accessories of such articles
Electric motors and generators (excluding generating sets)
85.02Electric generating sets and rotary converters
85.03Electric motors and generators; parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of heading no. 8501 or 8502
85.04Electric transformers, static converters (e.g. rectifiers) and inductors
85.05Electro-magnets; permanent magnets, intended permanent magnets; electro-magnetic, permanent magnet chucks, clamps, similar; electromagnetic couplings, clutches, brakes; electro-magnetic lifting heads
85.06Cells and batteries; primary
85.07Electric accumulators, including separators therefor; whether or not rectangular (including square)
85.08Vacuum cleaners
85.09Electro-mechanical domestic appliances; with self-contained electric motor, other than vacuum cleaners of heading 85.08.
85.10Shavers, hair clippers and hair removing appliances, with self-contained electric motor
85.11Ignition or starting equipment; used for spark-ignition or compression-ignition internal combustion engines; generators and cut outs used in conjunction with such engines
85.12Lighting 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
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