8474 — Machinery for sorting, screening, separating, washing, crushing, grinding, mixing or kneading earth, stone, ores or other mineral substances, in solid, incl. powder or paste, form; machinery for agglomerating, shaping or moulding solid mineral fuels, ceramic paste, unhardened cements, plastering materials or other mineral products in powder or paste form; machines for forming foundry moulds of sand; parts thereof

8474 Machinery for sorting, screening, separating, washing, crushing, grinding, mixing or kneading earth, stone, ores or other mineral substances, in solid (including powder or paste) form; machinery for agglomerating, shaping or moulding solid mineral fuels, ceramic paste, unhardened cements, plastering materials or other mineral products in powder or paste form; machines for forming foundry moulds of sand: 8474 10 – Sorting, screening, separating or washing machines 8474 20 – Crushing or grinding machines – Mixing or kneading machines: 8474 31 – – Concrete or mortar mixers 8474 32 – – Machines for mixing mineral substances with bitumen 8474 39 – – Other 8474 80 – Other machinery 8474 90 – Parts

This heading covers: (I) Machinery, used mainly in the extractive industries, for treating (sorting, screening, separating, washing, crushing, grinding, mixing or kneading) solid mineral substances (in general, products classified in Section V of the Nomenclature), e.g., earth (including mineral colours), clay, stone, ores, mineral fuels, mineral fertilisers, slag cement or concrete. (II) Machinery for agglomerating, shaping or moulding solid mineral products in powder or paste form (e.g., agglomerating solid mineral fuels; moulding ceramic pastes, unhardened cements, plastering materials, etc., with or without the addition of a binder or filler). (III) Machines for forming foundry moulds of sand. Many machines of this heading combine two or more of the above functions (e.g., machines for hydraulic sorting and washing, for crushing and sorting, for crushing and mixing, for mixing and shaping). Certain machines of this type normally used for treating mineral products may also be used for treating non-mineral products (e.g., wood or bones); such machines remain in this heading. However, the heading excludes machines specially designed for similar operations on non-mineral materials (e.g., for sorting or sifting wood chips; for grinding wood flour; for grinding or mixing chemicals or organic colouring matter; for grinding bones into meal, crushing ivory, etc.; for agglomerating or pressing cork flour). (I) MACHINERY REFERRED TO IN CATEGORY I ABOVE (MACHINES MAINLY FOR THE EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES) This category includes:

(A) Sorting, screening, separating or washing machines, for separating materials, generally according to the size or weight of the lumps or particles, or for washing impurities out of materials. These include: (1) Roll sorters. These consist of a number of parallel rollers rotating in the same direction, more or less close to one another. Each roller has a series of grooves, so that together with the adjacent roller it forms a channel through which material passing over the rollers can fall if it is small enough. The cross-section of these channels increases along the length of the machine, so that the material passes through the channels and collects in receiving hoppers beneath them according to particle size. (2) Screens with wire meshes or perforated plates. The material passes over an inclined screen, the size of the meshes or perforations of which increases towards the lower end. These machines are of two types: in machines of the first type the wire mesh or perforated sheet is formed into a rotating inclined drum, usually cylindrical or hexagonal in shape (trommels); in machines of the second type a flat inclined screen or grid vibrates or oscillates. (3) Grizzlies. The material is sorted by mechanical rakes arranged in succession, the teeth of which are spaced at appropriate intervals. (4) Special machines of various types for removing stones, etc., from mined coal. (5) Washing machines, hydraulic separators or concentrating machines. Some machines merely wash off impurities; others separate or concentrate the heavier part of the material, which is not suspended in the water. (6) Flotation machines, mainly for the concentration of ores. The crushed ore is mixed with water and certain surface-active additives (oil or various chemicals). A film forms on certain particles of the mineral which carries them to the surface, where they are removed; in certain cases this process is accelerated by aerating the mixture. The heading also covers sorting machines and separators incorporating magnetic or electrical systems (e.g., electrostatic separators), and machines using electronic or photoelectronic detectors, e.g., sorting equipment for uranium or thorium ores operating on the principle of measuring the intensity of radioactivity. The heading excludes centrifugal sorting machines, i.e., machines in which the separation of materials is based entirely on centrifugal force, by which solid particles of materials of different densities collect at different distances from a rapidly rotating centre (heading 8421). However, machines in which centrifugal force is used to throw the material onto a wire screen are covered by this heading. Belt conveyors used in conjunction with sorting devices or screens remain in their appropriate headings, unless they form an integral part of the sorting machine or screening unit, or unless the belt conveyor itself is a sorting or sifting device (e.g., has perforations for these purposes). (B) Crushing or grinding machines. These include:

(1) Gyratory crushers. These consist essentially of a casing in which a cone rotates, sometimes with an eccentric motion; the material is crushed in the gap between the cone and the walls of the casing. (2) Jaw crushers of various types. The material to be crushed falls into the gap between two vertical ribbed jaws, one of which is fixed and the other movable. (3) Tumbling crushers. The material is lifted to the top of the drum and is broken as it falls to the bottom. (4) Roll crushers or grinders. The material is crushed as it passes into the gap between parallel rollers rotating in opposite directions; the distance between the rollers is adjusted according to the fineness of crushing required. In many cases the machine contains several pairs of such rollers. (5) Impact grinders. The material is forcibly thrown (e.g., by the blades of a rapidly rotating rotor) against the walls of the machine casing. (6) Hammer mills. (7) Ball or rod mills. These consist essentially of a rotating drum containing a large number of balls or short rods (e.g., of steel or earthenware). The material is fed into the rotating drum and is crushed or ground by the balls or rods. (8) Millstone-type grinders. (9) Stamp mills with falling pestles (known as stamp batteries), used mainly for crushing ore minerals. A series of cam-operated falling pestles, often arranged in several stages, breaks the material down to the required particle size. (10) Machines for breaking up and mixing lumps of clay before further processing in the ceramic industry. (C) Mixing or kneading machines. These consist essentially of a container fitted with blades or other stirring devices; in this container two or more materials are mixed by the action of the stirring devices or agitators. These include: (1) Concrete or mortar mixers. However, concrete mixers permanently mounted on a railway wagon or on a lorry chassis are excluded from this heading (heading 8604 or 8705). (2) Machines for mixing mineral substances (broken or crushed stone, gravel, limestone, etc.) with bitumen for the preparation of bituminous road-surfacing materials. They may take the form, e.g., of plants consisting of a group of separate units (feed hopper, drying unit, dust extractor, mixer, elevator, etc.) mounted on a common chassis, or of functional blocks in which these units are simply placed side by side (stationary or mobile asphalt plants). (3) Ore mixers. (4) Machines for mixing coal dust, etc., with binders to make briquetted fuel.

(5) Machines used in the ceramic industry (for example, for mixing clay with coloring substances or for rubbing ceramic composition). (6) Mixing machines used in preparing the molding mixture. (ii) EQUIPMENT FOR AGLOMERATION, MUSTING OR COLLING These machines generally belong to one of the following three types: (i) various presses working with forms in which the pre-prepared material is agglomerated and pressed to give it the desired shape; (ii) large cylinders, the surfaces of which have a series of indentations or shapes in which the material is pressed and takes the desired shape; or (iii) extruder machines. This category of machines includes: (A) Machines for agglomeration of solid mineral fuels (coal dust, peat fibers, etc.) giving it a prismatic, spherical, ovoid or other shape. (B) Machines for agglomeration or molding of ceramic compositions. This includes: (1) Machines for the preparation of bricks by pressing or squeezing, including machines for cutting extruded raw timber into bricks. (2) Presses for tiles, including machines for cutting edges. (3) Machines for molding or extruding ceramic pipes. (4) Bricanyon mesh machines . . . in these machines the wire mesh passes through the rollers and is covered with clay at the intersections of the wires. (5) Pottery circles and similar machines on which the ceramic mass is rotated and molded by hand or with tools. (6) Machines for molding porcelain artificial teeth. (B) Machines for agglomeration of abrasives in the production of grinding circles. (D) Machines for the manufacture of various finished concrete products (e.g. pavement stones, pillars, balustrades, supports), including machines for centrifugal pipe molding. (D) Machines for molding plaster products, plaster mortars for exterior, interior work, etc. (for example, toys, figurines, decorative elements of ceilings). (E) Machines for molding asbestos cement products (e.g. tanks, gutters, chimneys) and machines for making asbestos cement pipes or tubes by rolling on mandrels. Machines for molding graphite electrodes. (H) Extruders for squeezing graphite pencil rods. (i) Machines for molding writing school chalks. (iii) Molding machines for the manufacture of casting molds from sand

These machines may be of various types and are designed for packing previously prepared moulding sand either into a mould to form a foundry core, or into the space around a pattern placed in a moulding box to form a sand mould. These machines often incorporate a jolting mechanism which helps to compact the sand in the moulding box. The heading covers numerous types of machines in which compressed air acts either on a piston or directly on the surface of the sand; but it excludes machines in which the sand is projected in a stream of compressed air (heading 8424). The heading also excludes drying ovens for cores or foundry moulds (heading 8419). PARTS Subject to the general provisions regarding the classification of parts (see the General Explanatory Note to Section XVI), parts of the machines of this heading also fall in this heading. However, balls for ball mills are classified according to their constituent material. The heading also excludes: (a) Burners for pulverised fuel; mechanical stokers incorporating equipment for pulverising or grinding the fuel (heading 8416). (b) Calenders or other rolling machines (heading 8420). (c) Filter presses (heading 8421). (d) Machine-tools for working stone or other mineral materials or for cold working glass (heading 8464). (e) Concrete vibrators (heading 8467 or 8479, as the case may be). (f) Glass moulding or pressing machines (heading 8475). (g) Machines for moulding plastics (heading 8477). (h) General purpose presses (heading 8479). (ij) Concrete spreaders (heading 8479 or Chapter 87). (k) Moulding boxes for metal foundry; moulds for use in the machines of this heading (heading 8480).

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.