8465 96 — Splitting, slicing or paring machines, for working wood (excl. machining centres)

8465 Machine-tools (including machines for nailing, stapling, glueing or otherwise assembling) for working wood, cork, bone, hard rubber, hard plastics or similar hard materials: 8465 10 – Machines which can carry out different types of machining operations without tool change between such operations 8465 20 – Machining centres

- Other: 8465 91 - - - mechanical saws 8465 92 - - - planer, milling or planer-wheeling machines 8465 93 - - grinding machines, sand grinding or polishing machines 8465 94 - - flexible or assembly machines 8465 95 - - drilling or bobbing machines 8465 96 - cutting, crushing or shelling machines 8465 99 - other

This heading covers machines for shaping or surface working (including cutting, shaping and assembling) wood (and materials obtained from wood), cork, bone, hardened rubber, hard plastics and similar hard materials (horn, "vegetable ivory" palm wood, mother-of-pearl, ivory, etc.). The heading excludes machines for working materials which, although mentioned in the heading text, do not have the characteristics of hard materials at the moment when their working begins. For this reason, machines for cutting soft plastics or unhardened rubber are excluded (heading 8477). Furthermore, the heading excludes machines for making articles from granules or powder, e.g., machines for moulding plastic materials (heading 8477), machines for agglomerating or moulding particles or fibres of wood or other ligneous material (heading 8479) or other similar machines. Although they may be regarded as machines for working the materials mentioned in the heading text, the heading also excludes machines and appliances the function of which is in general not to work the material or its surface, e.g., machines for drying wood or seasoning it by drying (heading 8419), machines for expanding cork (heading 8419) or machines for pressing, agglomerating or impregnating wood (heading 8479). The machines are generally power-operated, but similar hand- or pedal-operated machines also fall in this heading. The latter can be distinguished from the hand tools of heading 8205 and from the tools for working in the hand of heading 8467 in that they are usually designed for mounting on the floor, a bench, a wall or on another machine, and are therefore provided with a base plate, mounting frame, bed, etc. (A) MACHINES NOT GENERALLY DESIGNED FOR A PARTICULAR INDUSTRY This category includes: (1) Mechanical saws of all types. These work by means of blades or chains, usually provided with teeth. They include: (a) Mechanical saws with a reciprocating tool, e.g., mechanical saws with straight-toothed blades for cross-cutting logs, fret saws, sawing machines with a vertical or horizontal frame for cutting timber into boards. (b) Mechanical saws in which the tool rotates. These include chain saws and band saws, e.g., vertical and horizontal band saws, ripping and edging saws, carriage and table band saws, and also various specialised machines, e.g., multiple band sawing machines for making blocks, strips, friezes, etc., for wooden flooring, and band sawing machines for the paper industry;

(c) mechanical saws in which the tool performs a rotary motion. This large category includes all machines which cut by means of one or more toothed blades moving in a circular motion. It includes, for example, pendulum saws, cut-off saws with straight-line travel of the tool, radial arm saws, block-travel saws for cutting in the longitudinal direction, circular saws for cutting logs, circular cross-cut saws, table saws, sliding table saws, circular saws for cutting panels. (2) Planing-moulding machines and planing machines, which prepare the surface of the workpiece using blades that remove chips from the material. They include machines which work on one or two faces, as well as planing machines which can work up to four faces. (3) Shaping and milling machines, which give the required shape to the workpiece using a profiled rotating tool that removes chips from the material. They include, for example, spindle moulders, single-end tenoning machines, dovetailing machines, slot mortising machines, countersinking machines, milling machines for pattern cutting and for recessing, copying machines (other than lathes), 1-, 2-, 3- or 4-sided moulding machines, profiling machines, rotating-workpiece machines, grooving machines and log milling machines. This category also includes numerically controlled milling machines. (4) Machining centres (see Subheading Note 1 to this Chapter), also known as numerically controlled machining centres. These machines carry out several machining operations and provide automatic tool change from a magazine or other similar device in accordance with a machining programme. This category therefore includes machine-tools which carry out two or more machining operations by automatic tool change from a magazine or other similar device, whereas machine-tools which carry out a single operation with a single tool or with several tools working simultaneously or successively (e.g., multi-spindle drilling machines or multi-tool milling machines) fall in the appropriate subheadings as drilling or milling machines. (5) Grinding, sanding and polishing machines. Grinding machines, which use grinding stones, are used mainly for working articles of hard material, e.g., wood of the "vegetable ivory" palm, hard rubber, horn and ivory. Sanding machines use abrasives to improve the surface finish and also to increase the dimensional accuracy of the work. This category includes oscillating machines, belt sanders using sandpaper, disc sanders using sandpaper, bobbin and drum sanders using sandpaper. This category also includes machines known as finishing machines. Polishing machines impart a lustre by means of belts, drums or flexible rollers and are designed for working workpieces which have previously undergone finishing.

(6) Bending machines, which mechanically change the shape or physical characteristics of the workpiece by acting on its structure. (7) Assembling machines. These include: (a) machines which assemble two or more parts by means of binding agents, adhesives or gummed paper. This category includes veneer splicing machines, assembly machines for gluing strips, panel forming machines, frame clamps, carcass clamps, plywood and laminated wood presses, veneering presses. These machines may also incorporate devices for spreading the adhesive over the surface of the wood; (b) machines which join by means of nails, staples, wire, etc.; (c) machines for joining without binding agents or fasteners, e.g., crimping presses. (8) Drilling machines. They are used exclusively for drilling a round hole by means of a rotating tool (drill or bit). The centre of the tool and that of the hole being drilled lie on a common axis. This category includes single- and multi-spindle drilling machines, knot-boring machines, dowel-hole drilling machines. This category also includes numerically controlled drilling machines. (9) Mortising machines. These machines cut holes of non-cylindrical shape using a chisel, a mortising chain or a bit moved along a set path, e.g., slot mortisers, chisel or chain mortisers. (10) Splitting, punching, chipping, peeling and slicing machines. All these machines work the workpiece mechanically without removing chips from the wood. They include: (a) splitting machines, which break the bond between the fibres by the action of a wedge. They include firewood splitting machines, log splitting machines, root splitting machines, osier, bamboo and rattan splitting machines; (b) punching machines, which obtain the required shape by impact punching, e.g., veneer punching machines; (c) chipping machines, by means of which small pieces of wood of the same size and shape are obtained. They include machines for cutting wood chips, machines for producing small pieces of wood, wood wool machines, as well as firewood splitting and edge trimming machines. However, the heading excludes defibrators for the production of wood pulp (heading 8439); (d) peeling and slicing machines, which use a straight cutting edge to produce thin sheets either by peeling (machines for making thin boards) or by slicing (machines for producing veneers or thin sheets for the manufacture of plywood). This category of equipment also includes veneer peeling machines using straight blades, mitre-cutting machines and core-cutting machines.

(11) Lathes, which are used for shaping the workpiece by rotating it about its own axis, the tool itself not rotating. This category includes lathes of all kinds, including copying lathes. (12) Machines for lopping branches from felled trees or for sawing logs. (13) Barking machines (log decorticators, barking machines for making poles, etc.), other than water-jet barking machines of heading 8424 and barking drums of heading 8479. (14) Knot-boring machines used in working logs (e.g., for use in the preparation of wood pulp). This heading also includes machine-tools which can carry out different types of machining operations without tool change between such operations. Examples are: (1) Combined woodworking machines, combining in one unit several machines performing different functions, used independently of one another. In machines of this type manual handling of the workpiece is required in passing from one operation to another. These machines include surface planing machines combined with devices for performing one or more further operations, and also saw-moulding-mortising machines. (2) Multi-purpose machines in which, unlike the preceding class, no auxiliary manual operation is required once the workpiece has been placed in the machine. These machines include: single-ended tenoning machines with several spindles, double-ended tenoning machines; machines for fitting hardware, for drilling dowel holes, etc.; machines for assembling operations using adhesives and for finishing operations (for producing veneer strips or for making panels from battens). (B) MACHINES SPECIALLY DESIGNED FOR A PARTICULAR INDUSTRY This category of machines includes: (1) Cooperage machines (e.g., stave jointing machines, stave planing machines, stave bending machines, crozing machines for cutting the groove into which the head of the barrel is fitted, or chiming and crozing machines, barrel assembling machines, barrel hooping machines). But the heading excludes appliances for steaming barrels or staves (heading 8419). (2) Machines used in the pencil industry. (3) Machines for mortising or boring railway sleepers. (4) Wood-carving machines, engraving machines, including copying machines. (5) Machines for grinding wood flour. However, the heading excludes defibrators used in the pulp and paper industry (heading 8439). (6) Machines for nailing, stapling, glueing and for otherwise assembling crates, baskets, boxes, barrels, etc. (7) Machines for making wooden buttons.

(8) Machines for making shoes on wooden soles, wooden soles or heels for shoes or boots. (9) Machines for the processing of willow, reed, etc. (peeling, splitting, rounding, etc.), with the exception of machines for the manufacture of baskets or wicker products (heading 8479). This heading covers machines used for processing cork (e.g. sawing, pruning, cutting, polishing), bone, hard rubber, solid plastics and similar solid materials. These machines are constructed according to the same principles as wood processing machines.

PARTS AND ACCESSORIES Subject to the general provisions regarding the classification of parts (see the General Explanatory Note to Section XVI), parts and accessories (other than tools of Chapter 82) of the machines of this heading fall in heading 8466. The heading also excludes: (a) Bamboo crushers, chipping machines for producing wood chips and defibrators used in the manufacture of wood pulp (heading 8439). (b) Machine-tools for working any material by removal of material, by laser or other light or photon beam, ultrasonic or plasma arc processes and other machines of heading 8456. (c) Tools for working in the hand, pneumatic, hydraulic or with self-contained electric or non-electric motor (heading 8467). (d) Machines for cleaning and removing contaminants from the metal leads of semiconductor packages (heading 8486).

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.