8437 80 — Machinery used in the milling industry or for the working of cereals or dried leguminous vegetables (excl. farm-type machinery, heat treatment equipment, centrifugal dryers, air filters and machines for cleaning, sorting or grading seed, grain or dried leguminous vegetables)

8437 Machinery for the purification, sorting or calibration of seeds, grains or dry legumes; fencing for the milling industry or for the processing of cereals or dry legumes, other than equipment used on agricultural farms: 8437 10 – machines for the cleaning, sorting or calibration of seeds, grains or dry legumes 8437 80 – equipment other 8437 90 – parts

(i) Machines for cleaning, cropping or calibration of seeds, grains or dry legumes This heading includes machinery for agricultural, horticultural or industrial applications used for the cleaning, sorting or calibration of cereals, dry legumes, seeds, etc., under the influence of processes of brewing, purging, roaring, etc. Such machines include: (1) Fans consisting of a feed tray, blower and rumble a (usually of vibration type). (2) Flowers, rotating fanboards and separators for seeds or grains, more complex machines that clean by airflow and sort seeds or grain according to weight, p azmer or shape. Some seed separators, etc., have additional devices designed to coat seeds with insecticidal powders, etc.

(3) Belt-type screens, often used for cleaning beet seed. These devices consist of a series of rollers by means of which an endless inclined conveyor belt is driven beneath a feed hopper. The seeds roll freely to the lower part of the belt, but the lighter ones adhere to the velvety surface of the belt. (4) Special machines for selecting and grading seeds intended for sowing. This heading also covers machines used in the flour-milling industry, designed for cleaning, sorting or grading grain before milling. The operating principle of some of these machines is the same as that of the winnowers, sorting installations or machines for separating and sorting mentioned above; however, they have a greater output and are specially adapted for use in the flour-milling industry, e.g.: (1) Cyclone separators for cleaning grain. (2) Machines for cleaning and grading by means of rotating perforated drums or indented (pocket) drums. (3) Separators with a suction fan and with vibrating-type sieves (vibrating screens). (4) Separators and graders of the magnetic or electromagnetic type. (5) Washing machines, stoners and "whizzers", with or without additional drying columns. (6) Grain cleaners. (7) Machines for moistening grain, whether or not incorporating heating or weighing equipment. This heading also covers combined machines which simultaneously clean, sort and grade, including machines fitted with devices for electromagnetic separation. (II) MACHINERY FOR THE FLOUR-MILLING INDUSTRY In addition to machinery for cleaning, sorting or grading grain before milling (see Part (I) above), the following machines are included in the heading as being used in the flour-milling industry: (A) Machines for blending or conditioning grain for milling, namely: (1) Grain blenders in pre-set proportions. (2) Scouring machines consisting of drums with spikes and rubber-covered cylinders rotating in the opposite direction, thus removing softened grains. However, this heading excludes: (a) equipment operating on the principle of a change of temperature (heading 8419). For example, drying or cooling columns fall in heading 8419, but machines with heating equipment which moisten grain are included in this heading; (b) centrifugal driers (heading 8421); (c) conveyors and elevators (e.g., of the bucket type, belt type or pneumatic conveyors) (heading 8428). (B) Equipment used for crushing or grinding, namely: (1) Grinding machines.

(2) Roller crushers, or roller mills, consisting of several sets of fluted rolls, sometimes cooled, which grind grain into semolina, durum wheat semolina and flour. (3) Reducing machines, or roller mills with smoother rolls for grinding semolina, durum wheat semolina, etc., into flour. (4) Disintegrators, or impact crushers, used for reducing to flour the milling products obtained by grinding or crushing in the preceding processes, e.g., meal, etc. (5) Feeders – machines specially designed to ensure an uninterrupted supply of an even flow of grain to the roller crusher. This heading excludes small mills used on farms (heading 8436). (C) Machines for sorting or separating flour from middlings or semolina. This category includes machines designed for separating flour, meal, semolina, middlings and other milling products. This separation is carried out by a series of operations performed on machines of the following types, which are often used in combination with one another: (1) Sifting machines (sifters) for separating flour from groats and meal. Centrifugals (or reels), consisting of a drum inside which there is a beater, covered on the outside with meshes of different sizes. Vibrating sifters or plansifters, consisting of sets of freely oscillating sieves arranged one above the other, and collecting trays. (2) Sifting machines, or purifiers. In these devices, by means of vibrating sieves and a current of air blown through them, semolina, etc., is graded and the bran is blown off. (3) Beater machines for bran finishing. (4) Mixing machines for flour, bran, etc., and machines for enriching flour with vitamins. However, this heading excludes: (a) flour driers (heading 8419); (b) air filters and cyclones used for extracting dust from the exhaust-fan stream coming from sorting or sifting machines (heading 8421); (c) flour-yield recorders and other measuring or checking instruments for flour of Chapter 90. (III) MACHINERY USED FOR WORKING CEREALS OR DRIED LEGUMINOUS VEGETABLES The working carried out by the machines considered here is usually preceded by preliminary cleaning, sorting or grading (see Part (I) above). This category includes: (1) Hulling machines for cereals or dried leguminous vegetables. (2) Husking or polishing machines for rice. (3) Shelling machines for dried peas, lentils or beans.

(4) Grain-flaking machines for producing oat flakes, etc., whether or not with additional heating devices. (5) Special grinding machines for milling cereals (other than bread grain, see Part (II) (B) above) or dried leguminous vegetables into flour. (6) Awners and scourers, designed for removing the awns or sharp tips from grains of oats or barley. This part of the heading excludes: (a) machines or plant operating on the heat-exchange principle (e.g., steamers, driers or roasters for producing puffed or toasted grain; malting apparatus and plant for roasting flour, etc.) (heading 8419); (b) machines for processing following the flour-production stage (e.g., bread-baking, preserving or macaroni-making) (heading 8438). PARTS Subject to the general provisions regarding the classification of parts (see the General Explanatory Note to Section XVI), parts of the goods of this heading are also classified in this heading, e.g.: sieves and sieve frames for the flour-milling industry (other than bolting cloth, made up or not – heading 5911); mixing or separating drums; rolls for grinding machines or reducing machines, etc. However, this heading excludes millstones (heading 6804).

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.