8453 80 000 0 — Machinery for preparing, tanning or working hides, skins or leather or for making or repairing footwear or other articles of hides, skins or leather, other than sewing machines: other machinery

8453 Machinery for preparing, tanning or working hides, skins or leather or for making or repairing footwear or other articles of hides, skins or leather, other than sewing machines: 8453 10 – machinery for preparing, tanning or working hides, skins or leather 8453 20 – machinery for making or repairing footwear 8453 80 – other machinery 8453 90 – parts

This heading covers machinery for preparing hides or skins (including furskins) for tanning, machinery for the tanning processes (including the manufacture of parchment), and machinery for subsequent finishing operations. The heading also covers machinery used for making or repairing articles of hides, skins or leather (e.g., for making leather footwear, gloves or travel goods). However, the heading excludes the sewing machines of heading 8452. (I) MACHINERY FOR PREPARING, TANNING OR WORKING HIDES, SKINS OR LEATHER Many machines of this category are in practice used at various stages of the treatment of hides or skins (e.g., in soaking, pre-tanning treatment, dyeing or other finishing processes). Such apparatus includes special vats, drums, washing apparatus, etc., incorporating mechanical features such as agitators, rotating mechanisms or devices for moving the pelts during treatment. This category also includes, inter alia: (1) Dehairing machines, which remove from the raw hide the hair previously loosened by chemical treatment.

(2) Fleshing machines for removing flesh, adhering fat, etc. from raw hides. (3) Breaking machines and drum beating machines, in which beaters or a ribbed rotating drum work the pelts or leather during soaking, tanning, fatliquoring or impregnation. (4) Setting-out machines for smoothing pelts or leather to open the pores, remove wrinkles or spread out the edges; machines used for scraping and smoothing the flesh side and removing foreign matter; staking-softening machines in which the leather is acted upon by rollers covered with cork or rubber. (5) Beating machines which work the surface of the leather with small beaters to remove dirt, dust and excess moisture and to restore its structure. (6) Hammers used for compacting, strengthening or levelling leather (e.g., for shoe soles or technical belting). (7) Shaving or band-knife splitting machines which by means of knives level the thickness of the whole leather or split it through its thickness into layers. (8) Buffing machines, e.g., for roughening the surface of leather to obtain a velvety effect. (9) Brushing machines for cleaning the surface of leather and enhancing the velvety effect after buffing. (10) Machines for glazing leather by working it with polishing agate stones or small rollers of agate or glass. (11) Machines for pressing and for cutting the grain pattern. This category also includes machines for treating furskins. Such skins are usually treated by tanning, preceded by preliminary tanning, in apparatus similar to that described above, but this heading also covers machines for treating fur (e.g., shearing fur to obtain a uniform length of hair, depilating, combing, producing an artificial curl, brushing or dyeing fur). The heading also excludes: (a) Drying machines of heading 8419. (b) Calenders (e.g., for ironing, glazing or pressing or for cutting the grain pattern) (heading 8420). (c) Centrifugal driers (heading 8421). (d) Spraying machines for dyeing, lacquering, etc. (heading 8424). (e) Bristle-removing machines used in slaughterhouses (heading 8438). (f) General-purpose presses (heading 8479). (g) Machines for measuring hides or skins (heading 9031). (II) MACHINERY FOR MAKING OR REPAIRING FOOTWEAR OR OTHER ARTICLES OF SKINS OR LEATHER This heading covers machinery for making or repairing articles of skins (including furskins) or leather (e.g., footwear, gloves, jackets and other articles of apparel, saddlery, book bindings, handbags, travel goods, etc.).

This category of goods includes, inter alia: (A) Machines for thin-layer alignment or for lowering edges or certain other parts of skin before stitching or bonding. (B) Skin cutting machines (e.g., for the top of shoes, gloves, belts, etc.). The two most common types are the strip knife cutting machine and the cutting press (which uses cutters). (C) Perforation machines for decorating parts of shoes, gloves, etc. (D) Equipment for the production of shoes, for example, the following: (1) Machines for cutting grooves and slots in which a seam can be placed (for example, along the edge of the sole), as well as machines for opening or closing such slots before or after stitching. (2) Tight or protracted machines for putting the top of the shoe on the shoe and attaching the insoles with nails or glue. (3) Machines for finishing and sealing the edges of the workpiece of the top of the shoe and insole after their combination on the shoe. (4) Machines for gluing the sole to the insole and preparation of the top of the shoe, for example, machines for gluing soles, machines for attaching soles. (5) Machines for attaching heels to the sole. (6) Machines for milling, grinding or finishing the cut of the sole and side surface of the heel. (7) Wooling machines which, by means of a wire brush or grinding tape, remove polish from the top of the shoe to increase adhesion when glued to the sole (8) Polishing and finishing machines consisting of rows of grinding stones, polishing brushes and felt, and used to give an attractive appearance to the top of shoes; this heading includes similar machines used after the repair of shoes. (9) Shoe stretching machines. It should be noted that some of the machines of this heading, e.g., machines for pressing and cutting measure, cutting, perforating, piercing, and some machines for making shoes, may be used for the treatment of materials other than leather (e.g., cardboard, artificial leather or plastics); however, they are included in this heading provided that they are clearly designed for use mainly for the treatment of skins or leather. However, this heading does not cover: (a) shoe pads (they are classified according to the materials of which they are made; usually heading 4417); (b) woodworking machines for the manufacture of wooden shoes, wooden soles, heels, etc. (heading 8465); (c) automatic machines for cleaning shoes and fixing pistons to shoes (heading 8479). Subject to the general provisions relating to the classification of parts (see the general provisions of Section XVI), this heading also includes parts,

cutters and other interchangeable devices of machinery and equipment of this heading.

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.