8451 21 — Drying machines, of a dry linen capacity <= 10 kg (excl. centrifugal driers)

8451 Machinery (other than machines of heading 8450) for washing, cleaning, wringing, drying, ironing, pressing (including fusing presses), bleaching, dyeing, dressing, finishing, coating or impregnating textile yarns, fabrics or made up textile articles and machines for applying the paste to the woven or other base used in the manufacture of floor coverings such as linoleum; machines for reeling, unreeling, folding, cutting or pinking textile fabrics: 8451 10 – Dry-cleaning machines – Drying machines: 8451 21 – – Each of a dry linen capacity not exceeding 10 kg 8451 29 – – Other 8451 30 – Ironing machines and presses (including fusing presses) 8451 40 – Washing, bleaching or dyeing machines 8451 50 – Machines for reeling, unreeling, folding, cutting or pinking textile fabrics 8451 80 – Other machinery 8451 90 – Parts

This heading covers a wide range of machinery used for the functions indicated below: (I) For washing, bleaching, wringing, cleaning, ironing, dyeing, drying or similar operations on textile yarns, fabrics or made up textile articles, but excluding household or laundry-type washing machines (heading 8450). (II) For dressing or finishing yarn or fabric after spinning or weaving respectively, to impart certain properties or to improve the appearance (e.g., shearing, fulling, glazing) or to impart special new qualities (e.g., by impregnation or coating), but excluding machines for finishing felt or fur felt (heading 8449). (III) For reeling, unreeling, folding, cutting or piercing textile fabrics. Many of the machines and appliances of this heading consist simply of baths, tanks, vats or other vessels fitted with simple mechanical devices such as rollers for feeding the yarn or fabric or for squeezing out surplus moisture, agitating paddles, etc. Such equipment is used for various washing, bleaching, dyeing, cleaning, etc., operations or for finishing operations involving coating or impregnation (e.g., with size or with preparations for rendering waterproof, crease-resistant, fire-resistant, moth-proof, rot-proof, etc.). For equipment to be classified in this heading, it must have the mechanical features referred to above and must be clearly intended for the treatment of textile materials. (A) WASHING, WRINGING, IRONING OR PRESSING MACHINES, WITH OR WITHOUT HEATING DEVICES This category includes:

(1) Industrial washing or scouring machines, other than the washing machines of heading 8450, for yarn or fabrics or made up textile articles. The heading includes, for example, tunnel washing machines through which hanks of yarn pass to be successively washed by jets and dried, and batch-type festoon washing machines for textile articles. The heading covers industrial washing machines used in the process of manufacturing fabrics and textiles, the equipment of which is used for finishing or desizing the articles produced. (2) Wringing machines and mangles. (3) Vibratory and shaking machines, used in laundries for disentangling damp articles and spreading them out for ironing. (4) Ironing machines and steam presses for garments (including fusing presses), but excluding calendering-type ironing machines for domestic or other use, of heading 8420.

(B) WHITE OR DRESSING MACHINES These include jay boxes used in bleaching or other liquid finishing operations; they consist mainly of a vertically arranged two-sleeved J-shaped bath equipped with internal steam nozzles and rollers to feed the cloth. The fabric, pre-impregnated, when passing through the bath with a bleaching solution, enters a longer sleeve, where it is in the time required to ensure whitening, after which it comes out of the shorter sleeve. Other machines of this category are mainly machines of the type of bathtubs already mentioned earlier, which are adapted for the processing of certain types of textile products (for example, yarn in rolls or tangles, or on reels, etc., pieces of canvas or articles). This category also includes machines for dyeing or appreting piece textiles in a straightened state; a necessary feature of such machines is the presence of a number of rollers for pressing excess moisture. (C) Machines for dry cleaning These machines clean with solvents such as gasoline, carbon tetrachloride, etc., instead of water. They are usually complex machines, including, for example, washing devices for circulating fluid through processed products, centrifugal extractors, filters, cleaners and liquid storage tanks. Due to the flammability of many liquids used, these machines usually have an electric motor to drive the washing device and the circulating pump in an explosion-proof design. (D) Drying machines are classified in this heading only if they are designed specifically for drying textile yarn, fabrics or articles. These machines are represented by two main types: machines consisting mainly of a closed chamber in which products are exposed to hot air, and machines in which fabrics pass through heated rollers.

The heading excludes driers which are not designed for treating textile articles (heading 8419), and centrifugal driers (heading 8421). (E) DRESSING OR FINISHING MACHINES This category includes: (1) Mercerising machines, in which the yarn or fabric is treated with a solution of caustic soda. (2) Beetling machines, in which rows of hammers with wooden or cast-steel heads, mounted spirally on a shaft, compact the fabric by pounding; they reduce the spaces between the threads of the fabric and improve its lustre. (3) Rotary fulling machines. These machines compact the warp and weft threads of the fabric and produce a partial felting effect on the surface. Hammer machines, used mainly in the manufacture of felt or fur felt, are excluded from this heading (heading 8449). (4) Burling machines used for removing defects or burr particles remaining in the fabric. (5) Raising machines used for raising a nap on the surface of the fabric. Such machines consist essentially of a large drum fitted with bars or frames in which teasels are mounted, or of smaller drums covered with fine needles. (6) Machines for beating the reverse side of the fabric in order to raise a nap on its surface. (7) Shearing machines for levelling the height of the nap after raising; similar machines are used in finishing velvet. A patterned effect may be obtained by using notched supporting plates or rollers. (8) Ratining machines or ribbed-fabric machines, used for creating waves or ribs on napped fabric by rolling and twisting tufts of fibres. They consist of a plush-covered table above which another table (covered with rubber, felt or emery cloth) oscillates with a small amplitude and rotates. (9) Brushing machines, containing rotating cylindrical brushes for cleaning the fabric after raising or shearing. (10) Singeing machines for removing fuzz from yarn or fabric. This is achieved by passing the fabric rapidly over heated cylinders or curved plates, or over gas burners. (11) Machines for polishing or glazing cords, and for polishing silk yarn in hanks or silk fabric. (12) Emerizing machines for obtaining a smooth and even fabric surface. (13) Cylinder presses working on a flat or semicircular bed, for imparting a surface lustre or gloss. Calenders (heading 84 20) and general-purpose hydraulic presses (heading 8479) are also used for this purpose. (14) Decatising machines, in which the fabric is treated with steam in order to shrink it and fix the final finish; similar machines for conditioning yarn or fabric by steaming.

(15) Shifting machines for fabric alignment in width. (16) Shrinking machines, which provide a denser arrangement of the duck threads to obtain a denser structure of tissue, which thereafter is little susceptible to shrinkage. (17) Machines for coating or impregnation, ensuring the application of special surface coatings on yarn or cloth or impregnating them with special preparations (for example, resins, starch, mud, waxes, plastics, rubber or waterproof preparations). This heading covers machines for coating fabrics, cardboard, etc., in the manufacture of floor coverings such as linoleum, as well as apprette machines described in (B) above. (18) Machines for the manufacture of shaped yarn, in which special effects are obtained after spinning and rotting yarn (for example, machines for decorating yarn with small drops of gelatin or wax).

(F) MACHINES FOR REELING, UNREELING, FOLDING, CUTTING OR PINKING FABRICS This category includes: (1) Folding or rolling machines, which fold the fabric lengthwise or widthwise or wind it on a roller; and also inspection machines incorporating folding or winding devices, for checking fabrics for defects. Any of these machines may be combined with measuring equipment. (2) Machines for cutting or pinking fabrics, including machines for cutting out patterns or garment parts, etc. This heading also covers the following equipment: (1) Steaming apparatus (steam-air dummies, busts for steam pressing) for outer garments. (2) Equipment and apparatus (tables, etc.) for folding ironed articles (e.g., handkerchiefs, sheets, tablecloths). (3) Machines and equipment for boiling and washing woollen fabrics to clean them before bleaching or dyeing. (4) Machines for desizing fabrics before bleaching or dyeing. (5) * Machines for treating fabrics with sodium or potassium lye before bleaching or dyeing. (6) Steaming machines for damping yarn, fabric and other textile articles. (7) Forming and stabilising machines (heat-setting), including forming and finishing machines for treating socks or stockings. (8) Machines for impregnating and stretching fabrics for pneumatic tyres. (9) Machines for impregnating textile ribbons for typewriters and similar articles with ink paste.

(10) Machines for removing finishing preparations from fabrics. (11) Tissue flocculating machines (e.g. electrostatic flocating machines). (12) Plipping machines for fabrics. (13) Devices for cleaning carpets where they are located by injecting liquid cleaning agent into the carpet and then extracting it by suction, intended for use in establishments (other than residential areas) such as hotels, motels, hospitals, offices, restaurants and schools. Subject to the general provisions concerning the classification of parts (see the general provisions of Section XVI), this heading also includes parts for machinery and equipment of the heading. This heading also excludes: (a) autoclaves enclosed in a steam jacket of tanks and other heating appliances which cannot be identified as being intended for the heat treatment of textile materials (heading 8419); (b) calenders (for glossing, ravine, ironing, embossing, moire effect, etc.) and their shafts (heading 8420); (c) centrifugal dryers and other centrifuges (heading 8421).

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.