8472 30 00 — Other office machines (for example, hectograph or stencil duplicating machines, addressing machines, automatic banknote dispensers, coin-sorting, coin-counting or wrapping machines, pencil-sharpening machines, perforating or stapling machines): machines for sorting or folding mail or for inserting mail in envelopes or bands, machines for opening, closing or sealing mail and machines for affixing or cancelling postage stamps

8472 Other office machines (e.g., hectograph or stencil duplicating machines, addressing machines, automatic banknote dispensers, coin-sorting, coin-counting or coin-wrapping machines, pencil-sharpening machines, perforating or stapling machines): 8472 10 – Duplicating machines 8472 30 – Machines for sorting or folding mail or for inserting mail in envelopes or bands, machines for opening, closing or sealing mail and machines for affixing or cancelling postage stamps 8472 90 – Other

This heading covers all office equipment not included in the preceding two headings or more specifically in another heading of the Nomenclature. The term "office equipment" should be understood broadly as including all machines used in offices, shops, factories, workshops, schools, railway stations, hotels, etc. to perform "office work" (i.e., work related to the recording, registration, typification, filing, etc. correspondence, documents, forms, reports, certificates, invoices, etc.). Office equipment is classified here only if it has grounds for fixing or installing them on a desk, office, etc. This heading does not include hand tools without such a basis in Chapter 82. The machinery of this heading may be operated manually, mechanically or electrically (including machinery powered by electromagnetic relays or electronic devices). This heading covers, inter alia: (1) Hectographic type multipliers (e.g., gelatin or alcohol copiers) and stencil multipliers that operate using wax paper stencils pre-cut by lancet or carved on a typewriter. This heading covers small printing presses intended for use in conjunction with hectographic apparatus. However, this heading does not include small printing presses (e.g. high-pressing machines, lithographic or offset printing machines), even if they are intended for office use, copiers using embossed plastic or metal sheets (including such machines as may also be operated using stencils), photocopiers or thermocopiers (heading 8443) and microfilming machines (Chapter 90). (2) Addressing machines. These machines with a high speed furnace address the bills - textures, letters, envelopes, etc.; when working, they usually use a series of small

cards or metal stencils, or embossed metal plates. In addition, this heading also covers special machines used for cutting stencils or embossing metal plates, as well as machines for selecting particular plates or stencils from a whole series of address plates or stencils. (3) Ticket-issuing machines (other than machines incorporating calculating devices (heading 8470) and coin-operated machines (heading 8476)). This heading includes small portable ticket-punching machines, as well as those which print on a roll of paper and issue tickets (e.g., those used by bus or tram conductors); the heading also covers machines for dating tickets. (4) Coin-sorting or coin-counting machines (including banknote counting and dispensing machines). The heading covers these machines whether or not they are equipped with a device for wrapping the coins or banknotes, or in some cases with devices for printing the quantity on the wrapper. Coin-counting machines operating on the weighing principle fall in heading 8423 or 9016. (5) Automatic banknote dispensers, operating in conjunction with an automatic data processing machine, whether on-line or off-line. (6) Automated teller machines, by means of which customers deposit, withdraw and transfer money and check the balances of their accounts without the involvement of bank staff. (7) Pencil sharpening machines, including hand-operated ones. The heading excludes non-mechanical pencil sharpeners; these fall in heading 8214 or, if they have the character of toys, in Chapter 95. (8) Perforators used for punching holes in paper cards or documents (e.g., for filing loose sheets or simply for indexing or sorting). The heading excludes machines for making rows of small perforations (as in sheets of postage stamps) (heading 8441). (9) Machines for perforating paper tapes which may be used in automatic typewriters. (10) Machines controlled by perforated tape, which do not themselves contain any printing mechanism but are separate devices used in conjunction with ordinary typewriters for automatic typing. Some of these machines are capable of selecting particular parts of the perforated tape required for typing a particular letter or document. (11) Stapling machines (used for fastening documents by means of wire staples) and staple removers. However, the heading excludes: (a) stapling guns (heading 8205); (b) stapling machines used in bookbinding equipment (heading 8440); (c) stapling machines used in the manufacture of cardboard boxes (heading 8441).

(12) Letter-folding machines, sometimes combined with a device for inserting the letter into an envelope or for wrapping it in a paper band. (13) Machines for opening letters and for closing letters or sealing mail. (14) Stamp-cancelling machines. (15) Letter-sorting machines used in post offices, including machines consisting of a series of coding devices, channel pre-sorting systems, intermediate sorting devices and final sorting devices, the whole being controlled by a computer and constituting a functional unit as defined in Note 4 to Section XVI (see also the General Explanatory Note to Section XVI). (16) Machines for dispensing wrapping paper or gummed paper. (17) Machines for moistening gummed paper or stamps (including simple roller-type machines). (18) Paper shredders of the kind used in offices for destroying confidential documents. (19) Cheque-writing machines; these are usually of small size and specially designed for the purpose. In addition to printing letter by letter, they can often print whole words or groups of words at a time (e.g., when writing out the amount of money in words). They usually use special indelible chemical inks which penetrate beneath the surface of the paper, and in some cases these machines also perform perforating or embossing operations. (20) Cheque-signing machines; these machines automatically affix a signature to cheques using indelible chemical inks and usually at the same time also reproduce a background with an intricate pattern which is difficult to copy. (21) Automatic change-giving devices used in conjunction with cash registers for automatically dispensing change to customers. (22) Stand-alone machines used in offices for sorting and collating documents and printed matter. (23) Typewriters (other than printers of heading 8443). Typewriters are in general characterised by a manual keyboard by means of which the corresponding characters are printed directly on paper. In some cases they operate by a series of levers and hammers, the characters being engraved in relief on the faces of the hammers; in other cases the characters are carried on a ball, cylinder, daisy wheel or cylindrical elements (shuttles) which rotate to present the required character to the paper, on which it is then printed. The text is reproduced letter by letter, although in some cases combinations of letters may be used (e.g., for standard designations, words or abbreviations). This heading covers typewriters irrespective of the characters used (e.g., ordinary letters and figures, shorthand symbols, musical notation or Braille characters). Machines for printing in code and for decoding, operating in the same way as ordinary typewriters, are also covered by this heading.

Electric typewriters, whether powered by electric motors or electromagnetic relays or in the case of certain types of automatic typewriters with electronic devices, also fall within this heading. This heading also covers: (i) automatic typewriters. These include: (a) machines in which a pre-perforated paper tape is passed through machines, thereby ensuring the printing of a finished paragraph or a whole finished letter; (b) machines with a limited capacity memory device that are able, using additional functional keys, to memorize, correct and automatically reprint texts; (c) keyboardless machines (printers) that print sequentially sign after sign using interchangeable printing wheels. These machines are designed to be connected via an appropriate interface to other typewriters, word processing machines, computers, etc. Subject to the provisions of Note 5(B)(i) to this Chapter, printers meeting the conditions of Note 5(D)(i) to this Chapter are classified as printers in heading 8443. (ii) machines for printing identification marks (and sometimes also for marking with heated marks) on insulating tubes of electrical wires. (iii) typewriters which do not contain any counting device but are specifically designed to carry out accounting operations (for example, for printing forms on specially prepared forms, in particular invoices, separate sheet accounting registers, daily logs or registration cards). (iv) typewriters containing a device for transmitting the numbers printed on them to a separate counting machine or containing a counting device for use in speed tests. (24) Text processing devices. In addition to the keyboard, they contain one or more storage devices of large capacity (for example, disk, mini-disk or cassette), a visual reproduction device and a printer. Various components can be placed as a single unit or as separate units connected to the combat cables. Word processing devices may be equipped with interfaces that allow, for example, the transmission of messages to other word processing machines, phototype equipment, computers or telecommunications systems. The ability to correct or compose texts is higher than that of automatic typewriters. Their ability to perform arithmetic operations is not comparable to that of computers (as defined in note 5 to this chapter), and they therefore do not lose the characteristics of word-processing machines. They differ from computers of heading 8471 in that they, in particular, cannot make logical decisions in the process of processing to change the course of execution of the program (see note 5 to this chapter).

The machines referred to in Items (19) and (20) above may also be used for filling in and signing other documents. PARTS AND ACCESSORIES Subject to the general provisions regarding the classification of parts (see the General Explanatory Note to Section XVI), parts and accessories of the machines of this heading fall in heading 8473. The heading also excludes: (a) Sorting devices which are parts or accessories of the machines of heading 8443. (b) Accounting machines (heading 8470). (c) Automatic data processing machines (heading 8471). (d) Teleprinters (heading 8517). (e) Dictating machines and other sound recording or reproducing apparatus (heading 8519). (f) X-ray apparatus for examining banknotes or other documents (heading 9022). (g) Time-recording apparatus (heading 9106). (h) Toy typewriters (heading 9503). (ij) Date, sealing or similar stamps designed for operating in the hand (heading 9611).

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.