Electrical and electronic waste and scrap
HS heading 85.49 covers Electrical and electronic waste and scrap. 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 85.49 can be sourced from India across a range of clusters and price points. Use this page to understand where Electrical and electronic waste and scrap sits in the tariff schedule, then explore the Indian sectors and products that supply it.
How to read this code
85.49 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 85.49
The Harmonised System breaks Electrical and electronic waste and scrap into these 11 subheadings. Drill down to the exact classification for your goods.
Waste and scrap of lead-acid accumulators; spent lead-acid accumulators
Waste and scrap; of primary cells, primary batteries and electric accumulators, spent or not, containing lead, cadmium or mercury, other than lead-acid accumulators
Waste and scrap; of primary cells, primary batteries and electric accumulators, spent or not, sorted by chemical type and not containing lead, cadmium or mercury
Waste and scrap; of primary cells, primary batteries and electric accumulators, spent or not, unsorted and not containing lead, cadmium or mercury
Waste and scrap; of primary cells, primary batteries and electric accumulators, n.e.c. in item no 8549.1
Electrical and electronic waste and scrap; of a kind used principally for the recovery of precious metal, containing primary cells and batteries, electric accumulators, mercury-switches, glass from cathode ray tubes or other activated glass, or electrical
Waste and scrap; of a kind used principally for the recovery of precious metal n.e.c. in item no 8549.21
Electrical and electronic waste and scrap; electrical and electronic assemblies and printed circuit boards, other than those used principally for the recovery of precious metal, containing primary cells and batteries, electric accumulators, mercury-switch
Waste and scrap; electrical and electronic assemblies and printed circuit boards, other than those used principally for the recovery of precious metal n.e.c. in item no 8549.31
Waste and scrap; n.e.c. in heading no 8549
Waste and scrap; n.e.c. in item no 8549.91
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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