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8203 40 000 0 — Files, rasps, pliers (including cutting pliers), pincers, tweezers, metal-cutting shears, pipe-cutters, bolt croppers, perforating punches and similar hand tools: pipe-cutters, bolt croppers, perforating punches and similar tools

Files, rasps, pliers (including cutting pliers), pincers, tweezers, metal-cutting shears, pipe-cutters, bolt croppers, perforating punches and similar hand tools: pipe-cutters, bolt croppers, perforating punches and similar tools

Names come in English where the EU Combined Nomenclature publishes them — chapters, headings and subheadings, whose first six digits are the same Harmonized System; deeper EAEU detail is a machine translation, marked as such. Official texts — tariff notes, measures, lists and classification rulings — are the original: customs and your broker go by that wording. Where we show a machine translation of them, it is marked; where our quality check rejected one, the Russian stays.

Machine translation. The original is the Russian text of the EAEU tariff, and customs goes by it; this translation is for understanding only and has no legal force.

Duty rate
9%

This is the base rate. A tariff quota, a preference for the country of origin and a tariff exemption lower it; anti-dumping and special duties are paid on top of it

EEC Council Decision No. 80 of 14.09.2021

Supplementary unit
Not applicable
Requirements and measures
3

None: russian bans and restrictions, dual use, EAEU non-tariff regulation, trade defence measures — duty on top of the tariff, tariff quota.

Whether a measure applies to your goods depends on their characteristics and the shipping documents

VAT
VAT-exempt or 22%

Exempt if it is a medical device on the exemption list. Otherwise 22%.

Where it sits in the nomenclature

Section XV. Base metals and articles of base metal

  1. 82Tools, implements, cutlery, spoons and forks, of base metal; parts thereof of base metal
  2. 8203Files, rasps, pliers, incl. cutting pliers, pincers and tweezers for non-medical use, metal-cutting shears, pipe-cutters, bolt croppers, perforating punches and similar hand tools, of base metal
  3. 8203 40Pipe-cutters, bolt croppers, perforating punches and similar hand tools, of base metal
  4. 8203 40 00Pipe-cutters, bolt croppers, perforating punches and similar tools
  5. 8203 40 000 0you are here

Explanatory notes to heading 8203 3 paragraphs

Machine translation from Russian. The original is the EEC explanatory note, and that is what a classification dispute is argued from; the translation is for understanding and has no legal force.

8203 Files, needle files, rasps, pincers (including cutting pliers), flat-nose pliers, combination pliers, tweezers, nippers, metal-cutting shears, pipe-cutters, bolt croppers, perforating punches and similar hand tools: 8203 10 – files, needle files, rasps and similar tools 8203 20 – pincers (including cutting pliers), flat-nose pliers, combination pliers, tweezers, nippers and similar tools 8203 30 – metal-cutting shears and similar tools 8203 40 – pipe-cutters, bolt croppers, perforating punches and similar tools

This heading covers the following hand tools: (A) Fillers, rasps and similar tools (including combined rasps) of all shapes (flat, round, semicircular, square, triangular, oval, etc.), of all sizes, for metal, wood or other materials. (B) Ticks (including cutters), pliers, passages, tweezers, pincers and similar tools, including:

(1) Pincers (e.g., sealing pincers, ear-marking pincers for sheep and other animals, gas pipe pincers, split-pin driving or extracting pincers, eyelet punching and closing pincers; sets of pincer-type saws). (2) Tongs (e.g., veterinary and blacksmiths' tongs). (3) Tweezers (e.g., for watchmakers, florists, philatelists, depilation). (4) Nail extractors (of the jaw type, working on the double-grip principle). (C) Metal-cutting shears and similar tools, including tinmen's snips and other shears for cutting sheet metal or wire. (D) Pipe-cutters, bolt croppers, perforating punches and similar tools, including: (1) Pipe-cutters with cutting wheels, bolt croppers and nippers, and pincer-type chain cutting tools. (2) Perforating punches, e.g., eyelet punches for clothing; ticket punches (other than punches for dating or similar distinctive marks on tickets – heading 9611); saddlers' punches, mattress punches, etc., for perforating leather, felt or fur felt, etc., in the form of pincers or for use with a hammer (but not ordinary nail punches or similar punches). The heading excludes: (a) punches and files (including rotary files) for machine-tools (heading 8207); (b) nail files, nail scissors and nail clippers (heading 8214); (c) sugar tongs (heading 8215); (d) power-operated metal-cutting shears (heading 8462) and office perforating machines with bases for fixing or standing on a table, etc. (heading 8472); (e) perforating devices for marking dates or any other particulars on tickets (heading 9611).

Official text adopted by a Recommendation of the EEC Board

Notes to chapter 82 — Tools, implements, cutlery, spoons and forks, of base metal; parts thereof of base metal 3 items

Notes

English text as published in Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2021/1832 (Combined Nomenclature). The EAEU tariff and the EU nomenclature copy these notes from the same convention. For a Russian declaration the binding version is the Russian one: Annex to Decision No 80 of the EEC Council of 14 September 2021.

1. Apart from blowlamps, portable forges, grinding wheels with frameworks, manicure and pedicure sets, and goods of heading 8209, this chapter covers only articles with a blade, working edge, working surface or other working part of:

(a) base metal;

(b) metal carbides or cermets;

(c) precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed) on a support of base metal, metal carbide or cermet; or

(d) abrasive materials on a support of base metal, provided that the articles have cutting teeth, flutes, grooves, or the like, of base metal, which retain their identity and function after the application of the abrasive.

2. Parts of base metal of the articles of this chapter are to be classified with the articles of which they are parts, except parts separately specified as such and tool-holders for hand tools (heading 8466). However, parts of general use as defined in note 2 to Section XV are in all cases excluded from this chapter. Heads, blades and cutting plates for electric shavers or electric hair clippers are to be classified in heading 8510.

3. Sets consisting of one or more knives of heading 8211 and at least an equal number of articles of heading 8215 are to be classified in heading 8215.

What import requires

Veterinary and sanitary control

Goods fall under supervision by their type and characteristics

  • Sanitary and epidemiological supervision (control)

    rule for the whole chapter 82
    Материалы для изделий (изделия), контактирующих с кожей человека, одежда, обувь; Материалы, изделия и оборудование, контактирующие с пищевыми продуктами; Иная продукция (товары), в отношении которой одним из государств – членов Евразийского экономического союза введены временные санитарные меры

    Решение Коллегии Евразийской экономической комиссии от 17.09.2019 № 154

Conformity assessment

May apply

Whether the goods fall under a regulation depends on their name and characteristics. Check them against the list

  • Постановление № 2425Единый перечень продукции: сертификация и декларирование в РФ
    • Приборы столовые и принадлежности кухонные из коррозионностойкой стали (кроме изделий для детей) — declaration of conformity (part of the heading) · ГОСТ Р 51687-2021, ГОСТ 32583-2013

    С 1 сентября 2022 г. декларация о соответствии такой продукции принимается при наличии у изготовителя (продавца) протокола исследований (испытаний) и измерений, проведенных аккредитованной в национальной системе аккредитации испытательной лабораторией (центром).

  • ТР ЕАЭС 050/2021About safety of products intended for civil defense and protection from emergency situations of natural and man-made character
    • ножницы механизированные для резки металлоконструкций — certificate of conformity

Checked: the consolidated list of Government Decree No. 2425 and the lists of 42 technical regulations out of 52 adopted. The others have no list by HS code, so see the full list of regulations.

How it is done in practice

Valid documents in the EAEU unified register for subheading 8203 40: certificates 7, declarations 96.

By technical regulation
ТР ТС 010/201192ТР ТС 020/20117ТР ТС 012/20116ТР ТС 004/20112ТР ЕАЭС 037/20161
Schemes
1д811с73д64д52д4The letter after the scheme number shows the form: certification or declaration of conformity.
Most active certification bodies
ООО «ПРОММАШ ТЕСТ»ОС «Бишкек Стандарт»«Шайкештикти баалоо борбору» жоопкерчилиги чектелген коому
Manufacturers outside the EAEU
China127Germany33Taiwan10Poland4Türkiye4France3

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Payments on import

Duty for this code: 9%. On top of the duty, on import into Russia you pay VAT of 22% (unless the goods are VAT-exempt) of the customs value including the duty (Article 160 of the Tax Code) and the customs processing fee — a fixed amount by value band. Customs value: the price of the goods, delivery to the border, local costs.

Import VAT in EAEU countries

  • Russia22%
  • Kazakhstan16%
  • Belarus20%
  • Armenia20%
  • Kyrgyzstan12%

Standard rate; each country has reduced rates and exemptions for some goods. The duty for the code above is the union one, the same for all

May be VAT-exempt

The exemption under list No. 1042 applies if the goods match the description and are registered as a medical device:

  • 8203 — Специальные технические средства для обучения инвалидов и осуществления ими трудовой деятельности, которые могут быть использованы только для профилактики инвалидности или реабилитации инвалидов (в том числе адаптированные для инвалидов швейные, вязальные машины, рамки для плетения и вязания, приспособления портновские с укрупненными цифрами и рельефными делениями, принадлежности для глажения, приспособления для уборки помещения, приспособления для занятия гончарными, скорняжными и садово-огородными работами, обработкой камня и кости, чеканкой, музыкой, живописью, спортом, охотой, ловлей рыбы)
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