8428 60 00 — Other lifting, handling, loading or unloading machinery (for example, lifts, escalators, conveyors, teleferics): passenger and goods ropeways, ski lifts; traction mechanisms for funiculars

8428 Other lifting, handling, loading or unloading machinery (e.g., lifts, escalators, conveyors, teleferics): 8428 10 – Lifts and skip hoists 8428 20 – Pneumatic elevators and conveyors – Other continuous-action elevators and conveyors, for goods or materials: 8428 31 – – Specially designed for underground use 8428 32 – – Other, bucket type 8428 33 – – Other, belt type 8428 39 – – Other 8428 40 – Escalators and moving walkways 8428 60 – Teleferics, chair-lifts, ski-draglines; traction mechanisms for funiculars 8428 90 – Other machinery

With the exception of lifting and handling machinery of headings 8425 to 8427, this heading covers a wide range of machinery for the mechanical movement of materials, goods, etc. (lifting, conveying, loading, unloading, etc.). They are included in this heading even if they are specifically intended for use in a separate branch of industry, such as agriculture, metallurgy, etc. This heading includes loading -

handling equipment not only for solid materials but also similar equipment for liquids or gases. However, the heading excludes liquid elevators of heading 8413, and also floating docks, caissons and similar marine lifting and salvage appliances working solely on the principle of hydrostatic buoyancy (heading 8905 or 8907). The provisions of the Explanatory Note to heading 8426 apply, mutatis mutandis, to the machinery of this heading as regards self-propelled and other mobile machines, multi-function machines, and lifting, loading, handling, etc., machines designed for use as part of other machines or for mounting on the transport equipment or vessels of Section XVII. The heading covers lifting or handling machines usually employing systems of pulleys, winches or jacks, which often incorporate a large amount of static steel structures, etc. These static structural elements (e.g., pylons specially designed for aerial ropeways, etc.) are classified in this heading when they are presented as parts of a more or less complete handling machine. When presented separately, they fall in heading 8431 provided they are fitted with, or designed to be fitted with, the mechanical elements necessary for the working of the moving parts of the whole installation (wheels, rollers, pulleys, running or guide rails and other parts). Otherwise these structural elements fall in heading 7308. These most complex machines include: (I) MACHINES OF THE DISCONTINUOUS-ACTION TYPE (A) Lifts are usually operated by winch and cable or by a plunger actuated by water, air or oil. They are used for raising or lowering a passenger cage or goods platform between vertical guides and are usually fitted with counterweights. Control, stopping, safety and other equipment, whether or not electrical, is also classified in this heading provided it is presented with the lift. The heading also covers hand-operated lifts. Lifts or hoists driven by rack and pinion also fall in this category. These lifts and hoists consist of a lift car fitted with a motor driving the pinion, and a mast fitted with a toothed rack. On engaging with the pinion, the rack guides the movement of the lift car along the mast downwards or upwards at a controlled speed. This category includes so-called "ship lifts", i.e., very powerful installations using hydraulic systems or jacks to raise a water-filled lock chamber containing a vessel from one canal level to another (replacing conventional locks). (B) Skip hoists are a kind of lift for raising containers of bulk materials along an inclined or vertical shaft. They are used for raising coal from pits, for delivering ore, limestone, fuel, etc., to blast furnaces, lime kilns and other installations. The heading also covers skips for skip hoists, i.e., large metal containers or hoppers, often fitted with automatic

opening bottom. Mine skips are usually equipped with a cab for miners, which is installed on top of the cargo bunker. (B) Certain lifting machines: (1) Lifting mechanisms such as a lifting gate, consisting of a winch mounted on a bipedal or tripod support. (2) Drilling derricks for the lifting of drilling pipes, etc., in the drilling of oil and other wells (other than those installed on trucks, etc., see the HS Explanatory Note to heading 8426). (3) Telfers operate on a principle similar to bridge cranes or bridge overloaders. Lifting trolleys move (sometimes for a considerable distance) on rails fixed on pylons at a certain height. (G) Cable cars are large winch-powered installations designed mainly for the delivery of passengers or goods in the mountains. They consist of load-bearing and traction ropes fixed on pylons, and two cabins (or buckets, containers, etc.) that rise and fall along the load-bearing rope. (D) Funiculars operate on the same principle as cable cars, only their trailers move on rails. In this case, the heading covers only the traction mechanism and the winch and excludes the trailers (heading 8605) and the rail track (heading 7302 or 8608, depending on the type). (E) Wagon rollers are platforms equipped with guide rails or grooves in such a way that the wagon can be placed in the desired position, fixed in this position and then empty it by tilting, overturning or rotating the entire rolling mechanism by means of jacks or other lifting system. This heading also includes wagon-shaking mechanisms which facilitate emptying of bunker-type wagons. (A) Elevators are used to continuously lift the flow of goods or people in a vertical or inclined direction. They consist mainly of a number of carriers of various types, attached at intervals to the connecting device, which rotates as a b infinite circuit. Elevators include: bucket lifts for bulk or granular materials, platform lifts for boxes, parcels, etc., noria for lifting bags, barrels, straw bundles, sheaves and other loads, as well as multi-cab continuous lifts for passengers, etc. (B) Escalators and moving tracks. Conveyors are used to transport goods usually in a horizontal direction, sometimes over very long distances (in mines, quarries and other facilities). They include: (1) Conveyors that move goods continuously by moving load-bearing or pushing elements, for example, bucket, tray, plate conveyors; scraper or screw conveyors (in which materials are fed through the trough, respectively, by a pushing plate or worm); belt, plate, chain and other conveyors. (2) Conveyors consisting of a group of rollers with a drive engine (for example, conveyors that are used to supply steel to a crimping mill). In this

The heading also includes roller conveyors without drive, which are usually installed on bearings (for example, horizontal roller tracks for the transport of boxes and other containers, and gravity roller conveyors). However, this heading does not cover similar equipment not fitted with rollers, such as straight, curved or spiral gutters (heading 7308, 7325 or 7326, depending on the species). (3) Vibrational or swinging conveyors, driven by the oscillating or reciprocating movement of the tray that carries the goods. (D) Pneumatic lifts and conveyors (e.g. pneumatic tube conveyors) in which small containers (for documents, small parts or other articles) or bulk materials (grain, straw, hay, sawdust, pulverized coal, etc.) are transported through the pipe by air (including similar machines for transporting and cleaning grain). (E) Roller supports (with roller wheels for furniture), similar to roller conveyors. They consist of a series of tubular racks, reinforced in the floor of the production room. The top of each support consists of a roller on bearings rotating freely in all directions, so that all supports are a roller table system (for example, to move sheet metal in rolling mills). (F) Cable lifting or towing machines, including endless towing ropes or chains that are in continuous motion. These machines are designed for rolling back wagons (e.g. mine trolleys and rollover trolleys), for towing barges, sledges, etc., for transporting passengers (ski lifts), etc. (III) OTHER SPECIAL OR TRANSPORT MACHINES (A) Mechanisms for moving locomotives or wagons, designed to transfer locomotives, trolleys, etc. from one path to another. (B) Pushers of various types of wagons, e.g.: (1) Apparatus fitted between the rails, usually consisting of two pistons operated by a mechanical actuator, which make reciprocal movement, engage with the axles and push the wagon trolleys forward. (2) Hydraulic plunger or piston machines for pushing mine trolleys into mine cages, etc. (3) Self-propelled single-wheeled cars moving on one rail of the railway track. They should be held by a walking worker in the same way as wheelbarrows. They are driven by small gasoline engines. It should be noted that small tractors, sometimes referred to as “wagon pushers” and used for this purpose, are not included in this heading (heading 8701). (C) Mechanical loaders used for loading coal, ore, excavated earth, pebbles, sand and other bulk materials. These machines are usually used in conjunction with a conveyor or elevator (swinging conveyor-reloader, lift conveyor-reloader and other mechanisms). (D) Auxiliary mechanical devices for manipulating pneumatic, hydraulic or electrical hand tools

(drills, pneumatic hammers and others). These appliances serve to hold the tool or to feed it during work. For example, pneumatic pushers and pneumatic tool feeds; boring and drilling appliances, drill carriages; mechanical balancing devices for suspending the tool during work. However, the heading excludes simple static supports and the like. (E) Industrial robots specially designed for lifting, moving, loading or unloading. (F) Mechanical ladders consisting of extending sections, operated by some mechanism (e.g., a pulley tackle or a winch). (G) Mechanically propelled wheeled platforms (of the dolly type) for mounting and manoeuvring cinematographic cameras. (H) Remote-controlled mechanical manipulators, whether stationary or mobile, for handling radioactive products, consisting of a lever mechanism located outside the protective cell and operated by the hand of the operator, and a lever mechanism located inside the cell which reproduces the movements of the operator. The movement is transmitted by mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic or electrical devices. Manipulators held in the hands during work (as hand tools) fall in heading 8203, 8204 or 8205. (IJ) Self-propelled or non-self-propelled platforms for container or pallet operations, used at airports for loading and unloading aircraft. This equipment consists essentially of a lifting platform supported by two diagonal crossed beams. The platform is fitted with a moving belt for conveying loads. This equipment is not designed for transporting containers or pallets even over short distances. It is positioned unloaded beside the aircraft and is used only directly at the aircraft. (K) Automatic bottle palletisers – electrically driven machines designed for automatically aligning empty bottles in rows of a given length (using powered or roller conveyors) and then moving the aligned rows onto a pallet for layer stacking. These palletisers, which do not perform filling, closing or sealing operations on bottles, nor the affixing of labels or stickers to bottles, may be used either separately or as part of production lines in combination with other machines performing such functions as filling or packing bottles in heat-shrinkable packing material. (L) Patient lifts. These are devices with a supporting structure and a seat for raising and lowering a seated person, e.g., into a bath or onto a bed. The movable seat is fixed to the supporting structure by means of ropes or chains. (M) Stair lifts. These are lifting devices fitted with a load platform, fixed to the handrail, to the wall or to the steps of a staircase and used for moving disabled persons or wheelchairs with disabled persons down or up the staircase. Lifting or handling devices are often used for furnaces, converters, rolling mills and other installations. For example, machines for charging, positioning or discharging the workpieces; for operating doors, lids, fireboxes and other devices; tipping or tilting machines. When these machines form separate constructionally distinct units which can be clearly identified

from furnaces and other installations, they fall in this heading even if presented together with the furnaces and other installations. The following machines may serve as examples: (1) Coke-oven discharging machines, which move backwards and forwards behind a row of ovens. They are equipped with a mechanical ram which opens the doors and discharges the oven. (2) Ram or piston charging machines for converters of the "Siemens-Martin" type and other units. (3) Special lifting machines for opening the lids of metallurgical roasting or soaking pits or for unloading ingots. (4) Manipulators, tilters and other devices for performing movement operations on ingots, forgings and other articles. (5) Machines used in certain types of furnaces for charging or discharging materials during process operations by means of cylinders fitted with mechanical pushers or rams. It should, however, be noted that this heading excludes lifting or handling machines designed to be fitted in furnaces, converters, etc., or to form a single unit with such installations, provided that they are presented together with the furnaces and other installations, etc. (see headings 8417, 8454, 8455 and others). When presented separately, these machines fall in this heading. It should be noted that this heading also excludes mechanical stokers, mechanical grates and similar appliances (heading 8416). PARTS Subject to the general provisions regarding the classification of parts (see the General Explanatory Note to Section XVI), parts of the machines of this heading fall in heading 8431. This heading also excludes: (a) liquid elevators of the bucket, chain, screw, band or similar types (heading 8413); (b) machinery for sorting, screening, separating or washing earth, stone, ores or other mineral substances in solid form (heading 8474); (c) passenger boarding bridges (heading 8479); (d) machines and apparatus used solely or principally for lifting, handling, loading or unloading boules, wafers, semiconductor devices, electronic integrated circuits or flat panel displays (heading 8486); (e) turntables of heading 8608; (f) dumpers (heading 8704).

Notes

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.

1. This group does not include:

(a) millstones, grinding stones or other articles of Chapter 68;

(b) equipment or devices (e.g. pumps) of ceramic materials and ceramic parts of machinery or devices of any material (Chapter 69);

(c) laboratory glassware (heading 7017); equipment, devices or other articles for technical purposes or parts thereof of glass (heading 7019 or 7020);

(d) articles of heading 7321 or 7322 or similar articles of other base metals (Chapters 74 to 76 or 78 to 81);

(e) vacuum cleaners of heading 8508;

(f) electromechanical household appliances of heading 8509; digital cameras of heading 8525;

(g) radiators for articles of Section XVII; or

(h) manual mechanical brushes for floor cleaning, without engine (heading 9603).

2. Subject to the provisions of Note 3 to Section XVI and Note 11 to this Chapter, a machine or device which meets the description in one or more of headings 8401 to 8424 or heading 8486 and at the same time the description in one or more headings 8425 to 8480 is included in the relevant heading of the first series of headings or in heading 8486 as the case may be, and not in the second series.

(A) However, heading 8419 does not cover:

(i) seed germination equipment, incubators or brooders (heading 8436);

(ii) machinery for wetting grains (heading 8437);

(iii) diffusion apparatus for the extraction of sugary juice (heading 8438);

(iv) equipment for the heat treatment of textile yarn, textile materials or finished textile articles (heading 8451); or

machining equipment, assemblies or laboratory equipment in which temperature change, even if necessary, is an auxiliary process.

(B) Heading 8422 does not cover:

(i) sewing machines for sewing bags or similar packagings (heading 8452); or

(ii) office equipment of heading 8472.

(C) Heading 8424 does not cover:

(i) paint-blasting printing presses (heading 8443); or

(ii) water jet cutting machines (heading 8456).

3. A machine for processing any material which corresponds to the description of heading 8456 and simultaneously to the description of heading 8457 to 8461, 8464 or 8465 is classified in heading 8456.

4. Heading 8457 covers only metalworking machines other than lathes (including multipurpose lathes) which may perform different types of machining operations by:

(a) the automatic replacement of tools from a tool store or similar device in accordance with the processing program(s);

(b) the automatic application simultaneously or sequentially of different processing heads operating at a fixed workpiece (assembly single-position machines); or

(c) automatic movement of the workpiece to various processing heads (multi-position machines).

5. For the purposes of heading 8462, the term “longitudinal cutting line” for flat products means a process line consisting of a winder, a correct device, a longitudinal cutting device and a winder. The term “cross-cutting line” for flat products means a process line consisting of a unwinder, a correct device and a cutting device.

6. (A) For the purposes of heading 8471, the term “computers” means machines capable of:

(i) store the processing program or programs and at least the information currently necessary to execute the program;

(ii) be freely reprogrammable according to user requirements;

(iii) perform user-defined arithmetic calculations; and

(iv) perform, without human intervention, a processing program requiring the computer to modify its actions by making logical decisions during processing.

(B) Computing machines can be made in the form of systems consisting of a different number of individual blocks.

(C) Subject to the provisions of Notes (D) and (E) below, a block shall be treated as part of a computing system if it satisfies all of the following conditions:

(i) exclusively or principally used in a computing system;

(ii) is capable of being connected to the central processing unit either directly or through one or more other units; and

(iii) is capable of receiving or presenting information in such form (codes or signals) as may be used by the system.

Separately presented computer units are classified in heading 8471.

However, keyboards, X-Y-coordinate input devices and disk storage units which satisfy the conditions laid down in Notes (B) (ii) and (B) (iii) above are in all cases to be regarded as blocks of heading 8471.

(D) Heading 8471 does not cover the following devices, presented separately, even if they meet all the conditions of Note 6(C) above:

(i) printers, copiers, facsimile machines, combined or not;

(ii) apparatus for receiving or transmitting voice, images or other data, including apparatus for providing communications over a wired or wireless communication network (for example, on a local or wide area network);

(iii) loudspeakers and microphones;

(iv) television cameras, digital cameras and video recording cameras;

(v) monitors and projectors not combined with television reception equipment.

(E) Machines containing or working in conjunction with a computer and performing specific functions other than information processing are classified in the headings according to their specific functions or, if this is not possible, in the residual headings.

7. Heading 8482, inter alia, covers polished steel balls whose maximum and minimum diameter does not differ from the nominal diameter by more than 1% or by more than 0.05 mm, whichever is smaller. Other steel balls are classified in heading 7326.

8. A machine which is used for more than one purpose shall be classified as if its primary purpose were the only one.

Subject to the provisions of Note 2 to this Chapter and Note 3 to Section XVI, a machine whose primary purpose is not described in any heading or a machine in which none of its functions is primary is classified in heading 8479, unless the context otherwise provides. Heading 8479 also includes machinery for the manufacture of ropes or ropes (e.g. knitting machines) from metal wire, textile yarn or other materials or from a combination of such materials.

9. For the purposes of heading 8470, the term “pocket” applies only to devices not exceeding 170 x 100 x 45 mm.

10. For the purposes of heading 8485, the term additive manufacturing (also referred to as 3D printing) means the formation of physical objects based on a digital model by successively adding and layering, sealing and curing a material (e.g., metal, plastics or ceramics).

Subject to the provisions of Note 1 to Section XVI and Note 1 to Chapter 84, machines as described in heading 8485 are classified in that heading and no other heading of the Nomenclature.

11. (A) Notes 12(a) and 12(b) to Chapter 85 also apply to the terms “semiconductor devices” and “electronic integrated circuits”, respectively, as used in this note and in heading 8486. However, in this note and in heading 8486, the term "semiconductor devices" also applies to photosensitive semiconductor devices and LEDs.

(B) In this note and in heading 8486, the term “plane display panel production” covers the fabrication of a flat panel of substrates. It does not cover the production of glass or the installation of printed circuit boards or other electronic components on flat panels. The term "flat display panel" does not apply to cathode ray tube technology.

(C) Heading 8486 also includes machinery and apparatus used exclusively or principally for:

(i) producing or eliminating defects in masks and patterns;

assemblies of semiconductor devices or electronic integrated circuits;

(iii) lifting, manipulating, loading or unloading boules, plates, semiconductor devices, electronic integrated circuits and flat display panels.

(D) Subject to the provisions of Note 1 to Section XVI and Note 1 to Chapter 84, machinery meeting the description in heading 8486 is classified in this heading and in no other heading of the Nomenclature.

Subheading 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. For the purposes of subheading 8465 20, the term ‘machining centres’ applies only to machine-tools for working wood, cork, bone, hard rubber, hard plastics or similar hard materials, which can carry out different types of machining operations by automatic tool change from a magazine or the like in conformity with a machining programme.

2. For the purposes of subheading 8471 49, the term ‘systems’ means automatic data-processing machines whose units satisfy the conditions laid down in note 6(C) to Chapter 84 and which comprise at least a central processing unit, one input unit (for example, a keyboard or a scanner), and one output unit (for example, a visual display unit or a printer).

3. For the purposes of subheading 8481 20, the expression ‘valves for oleohydraulic or pneumatic transmissions’ means valves which are used specifically in the transmission of ‘fluid power’ in a hydraulic or pneumatic system, where the energy source is supplied in the form of pressurized fluids (liquid or gas). These valves may be of any type (for example, pressure-reducing type, check type). Subheading 8481 20 takes precedence over all other subheadings of heading 8481.

4. Subheading 8482 40 applies only to bearings with cylindrical rollers of a uniform diameter not exceeding 5 mm and having a length which is at least three times the diameter. The ends of the rollers may be rounded.

Additional notes

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.

1. For the purposes of subheadings 8407 10 and 8409 10, the term “aviation engines” shall apply only to engines intended for assembly with an air or rotor.

2. В подсубпозицию 8471 70 300 0 также включаются устройства считывания компакт-дисков, являющиеся запоминающими устройствами вычислительных машин, которые предназначены для считывания сигналов с CD-ROM, аудиокомпакт-дисков и фотокомпакт-дисков и снабжены разъемом для наушников, регулятором громкости или кнопкой пуск/стоп.

Additional notes of the Eurasian Economic Union

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.

1. For the purposes of subheading 8482 10 900 1, the term “gross mass” means the total mass of the goods with all kinds of packaging materials and packagings ensuring their safety during storage and transport. The total weight of the goods does not include the mass of packaging materials or containers that are clearly suitable for reuse.

2. For the purposes of subheading 8415 81 001 0, the term “special production facilities” means premises in which the maintenance of precise values of temperature and humidity is due to the operational requirements of the equipment installed therein, such as machines, computers, switching equipment, surgical equipment, etc., or to the operations performed therein.

3. In subheadings 8427 20 190 1, 8427 90 000 1 and 8436 80 100 1, the date of manufacture shall be determined on the basis of the technical documentation of the manufacturer (technical passport, instruction manual) and the manufacturer's plate, which shall be fixed in a conspicuous, easily accessible place of the machinery and shall not be replaced during operation. If the manufacturer's technical documentation and the manufacturer's plate contain conflicting information about the date of manufacture or there is no information about the manufacturer of the equipment on the date of manufacture, then this technique is considered a technique, since the release of which more than 3 years have passed.

If the manufacturer's information indicates only the year of manufacture, then the date of manufacture of the equipment is considered 1 July of the year of manufacture; if the month and year of manufacture are indicated, the date of manufacture is the 15th day of the month specified in the manufacturer's information.

4. For the purpose of classification of goods in subheading 8482 10 900 1 in the states, whose territories constitute the customs territory of the Eurasian Economic Union, when applying the term "French border of the country of importation", the country of import is understood as the customs territory of the Eurasian Economic Union.

5. For the purpose of subheading 8407 10 000 3, the term “take-off power” means the maximum power developed by an aircraft piston engine.

“Take-off power” is specified in the technical documentation and (or) accompanying documents, measured in kilowatts or horsepower (1 kW corresponds to 1.35962 hp).

6. В подсубпозиции 8421 99 000 5 термин «элементы мембранные рулонного типа для фильтрования или очистки жидкостей» означает устройства цилиндрической формы, состоящие из:

- internal plastic perforated tube on which spirally wound membrane bags;

- drainage material located between membrane bags and glued to them on three sides.

The membrane package consists of a twice folded band of membrane containing an extruded grid inside.

At the ends of the membrane roll-type element, fixing discs and sealing cuffs can be installed.

7. For the purposes of subheading 8415 20 000 2, the term “in a single enclosure” refers to air conditioning units (air conditioners) in which all the elements are combined in a single enclosure, frame or platform.

The term "in a single housing" also applies to air conditioning units (air conditioners) in which the refrigeration compressor, which is part of a given air conditioning unit (air conditioner), is located separately, that is, not combined with the rest of the elements in one housing, on one frame or on one platform.