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)
HS heading 85.40 covers 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). It sits within Chapter 85 and breaks down into 11 six-digit subheadings at the border.
Sourcing this category from India
Products classified under HS 85.40 can be sourced from India across a range of clusters and price points. Use this page to understand where 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) sits in the tariff schedule, then explore the Indian sectors and products that supply it.
How to read this code
85.40 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 85.40
The Harmonised System breaks 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) into these 11 subheadings. Drill down to the exact classification for your goods.
Tubes; cathode-ray television picture tubes, including video monitor cathode-ray tubes, colour
Tubes; cathode-ray television picture tubes, including video monitor cathode-ray tubes, monochrome
Tubes; television camera tubes, image converters and intensifiers, other photo-cathode tubes
Tubes; data/graphic display tubes, monochrome; data/graphic display tubes, colour, with a phosphor dot screen pitch smaller than 0.4mm
Tubes; cathode ray, n.e.c. in heading no. 8540
Tubes; microwave, magnetrons, excluding grid-controlled tubes
Tubes; microwave (for example klystrons, travelling wave tubes, carlinotrons), excluding magnetrons and grid-controlled tubes
Valves and tubes; receiver or amplifier
Valves and tubes; n.e.c. in heading no. 8540
Tubes; parts of cathode-ray tubes
Valves and tubes; parts of the valves and tubes of heading no. 8540, excluding parts of cathode-ray tubes
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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