8436 10 — Machinery for preparing animal feedingstuffs in agricultural holdings and similar undertakings (excl. machinery for the feedingstuff industry, forage harvesters and autoclaves for cooking fodder)

8436 Other agricultural, horticultural, forestry, poultry-keeping or bee-keeping machinery, including germination plant fitted with mechanical or thermal equipment; poultry incubators and brooders: 8436 10 – Machinery for preparing animal feeding stuffs – Poultry-keeping machinery; poultry incubators and brooders: 8436 21 – – Poultry incubators and brooders 8436 29 – – Other 8436 80 – Other machinery – Parts: 8436 91 – – Of poultry-keeping machinery or poultry incubators and brooders 8436 99 – – Other This heading covers machinery, not falling in headings 8432 to 8435, of a kind used on farms (including agricultural schools, co-operatives or experimental stations), in forestry, horticulture, poultry-keeping or bee-keeping or the like. The heading does not, however, cover machines clearly designed for industrial use. (I) OTHER AGRICULTURAL, HORTICULTURAL OR FORESTRY MACHINERY; GERMINATION PLANT This group includes: (A) Seed dressing machines, generally consisting of one or more feed hoppers and a revolving metal drum in which the seeds are coated with insecticides or fungicides. The heading does not, however, cover powder dusting machines (heading 8424). (B) Fertiliser crushers or mixers. (C) Machines for cutting branches of fruit trees, vines, etc.

(D) Hedge-trimmers. (E) Machinery and appliances for preparing fodder, etc., for example: (1) Oil-cake crushers. (2) Cabbage choppers and other machines for cutting green-leaved vegetable crops. (3) Root-cutters, or shredders for beet, turnips, carrots, cattle fodder, etc. (4) Straw-cutters, hay-choppers or silage-cutters, whether or not combined with a conveyor for feeding the silage. (5) Grain-crushers for oats, barley, etc. (6) Mills for crushing or grinding wheat, maize, barley and other fodder materials, used on farms; floor-type flour-milling machines used on farms. (7) Machines for preparing mixed fodder. (F) Automatic drinking bowls for cattle, horses, pigs, etc., consisting of a metal receptacle fitted with a hinged plate which, when pressed by the animal's muzzle, allows water to flow in. (G) Mechanical animal clippers. Simple hand shears for shearing wool are excluded from this heading (heading 8214 or 8510). (H) Machinery used in forestry, such as: (1) Stump-grubbers fitted with clamping devices by means of which the trunk is gripped and pulled out under the action of hydraulic jacks. (2) Tree-felling machines with hydraulic blades or saws, whether or not fitted with devices for delimbing or cross-cutting into logs or with grabs for transporting and stacking the trunks, and also tree-felling machines designed for mounting on a tractor, operating by means of a coulter for cutting the roots and having a telescopic boom which increases the operating capacity of the machine. (3) Tree-transplanting machines, fitted with spades for balling the roots and capable, where necessary, of carrying trees over short distances. (4) Stump-destroying appliances, having disc cutters which cut into the stump to a certain depth below the soil surface. (5) Machines for trimming branches, boughs, etc., which come into operation after the trees have been felled and laid down, using knives to produce chips. The chips are removed by a blower. (IJ) Germination plant (e.g., "germinators"), provided they are equipped with mechanical devices (e.g., pumps, motors or fans) or thermal equipment. Simple unequipped chambers are excluded from this heading (classified according to their constituent material). This heading excludes:

(a) Cutting blades and knives for root cutters, chaff cutters, etc. (heading 8208). (b) Machinery and plant involving a change of temperature (heading 8419). For example, heading 84 19 covers hay driers, steamers for potatoes, green fodder, etc.; however, germination plant, incubators and brooders with thermal equipment are covered by this heading. (c) Mechanical appliances for projecting, spraying or dispersing liquids or powders (heading 8424). (d) Pneumatic elevators or "blower" elevators; winches for uprooting, skidding or loading trees, logs, etc.; other lifting, handling, loading or unloading machinery (heading 8425, 8426 or 8428). (e) Post-hole diggers for tree planting; bulldozers and angledozers for felling trees or clearing felling areas (heading 8429 or 8430). (f) Industrial-type beet slicers for sugar beet (heading 8438). (g) Trimming machines for producing wood chips, of heading 8439. (h) Water-jet debarking machines (heading 8424) and bark-stripping machines (heading 8465 or 8479). (ij) Woodworking machines (heading 8465 or 8467). (k) Vacuum-cleaner type appliances for grooming horses or cattle (heading 8508). (l) Tractors specially designed for skidding (skidders) (heading 8701). (m) Mechanical calving aids (heading 9018). (n) Anti-hail guns (heading 9303). (II) POULTRY-KEEPING MACHINERY, POULTRY INCUBATORS AND BROODERS This group includes: (A) Incubators. These machines are equipped with devices for automatically turning eggs placed on trays, in an environment in which temperature, air flow and air humidity can be precisely regulated. They may operate together with a control system which may be connected to a personal computer in order to optimise the results of incubation. Certain incubators, known as all-purpose incubators, also perform the functions of a hatcher. (B) Hatchers. In these machines, which incorporate devices for controlled heating and air circulation, the eggs are placed in baskets or special trays for hatching the chicks. (C) Brooders – larger units, heated in a similar way, used for rearing chicks. (D) Laying and chick-rearing units or "batteries" – large units with automatic devices for filling feeders, cleaning the floor and collecting eggs. (E) Egg candling (or inspecting) apparatus with mechanical devices (including photo-electric inspecting devices), other than static inspection lamps. Apparatus fitted with sorting or grading devices is not covered by this heading (heading 8433). (F) Sexing and vaccinating machines, which enable chicks to be separated according to sex and vaccinated. These machines are not intended for use by veterinary surgeons.

This heading does not include machines known as counting and packing systems for the automatic counting and placement of chickens in boxes (heading 8422); the distribution of chickens is the primary function, while counting is only a secondary function, allowing a certain number of chickens to be placed in a box according to the size of the box.

(III) HURAL EQUIPMENT This equipment includes: (A) Honey extraction presses. (B) Machines for forming artificial cells. This heading does not cover: (a) hives classified according to the material of which they are made (usually heading 4421); (b) hot water baths for softening honeycombs, including tubs equipped with pressure screws (heading 8419); (c) centrifuges for extracting honey (heading 8421); (d) devices for spraying liquid or powder or smokers of heading 8424. Subject to the general provisions concerning the classification of parts (see the general provisions of Section XVI), this heading also includes parts of the machinery mentioned above.

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.