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HS Chapter 85 Electrical machinery and equipment; sound and television apparatus

HS chapter 85 (Electrical machinery and equipment; sound and television apparatus) covers 262 product categories in U.S. import records, with 4,331,426 bill-of-lading shipments. The most imported headings are Electric instantaneous or storage water heaters and immersion heaters, Electrical lighting or signaling equipment (excluding articles of heading 8539), windshield wipers, defrosters and demisters, of a kind used for cycles or motor vehicles, and Electrical filament or discharge lamps, including sealed beam lamp units and ultraviolet or infrared lamps.

Sourced from U.S. Customs bill of lading data · Updated monthly · Data through May 2026 · Chapter → heading → product, drill in for importers and suppliers

Headings in this chapter

HSHeadingProductsShipments
8516Electric instantaneous or storage water heaters and immersion heaters14675,411
8512Electrical lighting or signaling equipment (excluding articles of heading 8539), windshield wipers, defrosters and demisters, of a kind used for cycles or motor vehicles5318,414
8539Electrical filament or discharge lamps, including sealed beam lamp units and ultraviolet or infrared lamps11271,399
8518Microphones and stands therefor8256,216
8541Semiconductor devices (for example, diodes, transistors, semiconductor-based transducers)9217,394
8536Electrical apparatus for switching or protecting electrical circuits, or for making connections to or in electrical circuits (for example, switches, relays, fuses, surge suppressors, plugs, sockets, lamp-holders and other connectors, junction boxes), for a voltage not exceeding 1,000 V10187,858
8504Electrical transformers, static converters (for example, rectifiers) and inductors11184,394
8540Thermionic, cold cathode or photocathode tubes (for example, vacuum or vapor or gas filled tubes, mercury arc rectifying tubes, cathode-ray tubes, television camera tubes)10169,007
8514Industrial or laboratory electric furnaces and ovens (including those functioning by induction or dielectric loss)5166,117
8544Insulated (including enameled or anodized) wire, cable (including coaxial cable) and other insulated electric conductors, whether or not fitted with connectors8155,304
8501Electric motors and generators (excluding generating sets)14145,026
8506Primary cells and primary batteries6130,913
8509Electromechanical domestic appliances, with self-contained electric motor, other than vacuum cleaners of heading 85083123,968
8507Electric storage batteries, including separators therefor, whether or not rectangular (including square)7102,229
8532Electrical capacitors, fixed, variable or adjustable (pre-set)9101,589
8543Electrical machines and apparatus, having individual functions596,022
8511Electrical ignition or starting equipment of a kind used for spark-ignition or compression-ignition internal combustion engines (for example, ignition magnetos, magneto-dynamos, ignition coils, spark plugs and glow plugs, starter motors)792,881
8526Radar apparatus, radio navigational aid apparatus and radio remote control apparatus387,350
8538Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading 8535, 8536 or 8537276,710
8510Shavers, hair clippers and hair-removing appliances, with self-contained electric motor472,162
8515Electric (including electrically heated gas), laser or other light or photon beam, ultrasonic, electron beam, magnetic pulse or plasma arc soldering, brazing or welding machines and apparatus, whether or not capable of cutting871,719
8517Telephone sets, including smartphones and other telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks962,123
8529Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of headings 8524 to 8528260,244
8503HS 8503148,459
8505Electromagnets447,370
8535Electrical apparatus for switching or protecting electrical circuits, or for making connections to or in electrical circuits (for example, switches, fuses, lightning arresters, voltage limiters, surge suppressors, plugs and other connectors, junction boxes), for a voltage exceeding 1,000 V642,584
8533Electrical resistors (including rheostats and potentiometers), other than heating resistors736,145
8537Boards, panels, consoles, desks, cabinets and other bases, equipped with two or more apparatus of heading 8535 or 8536, for electric control or the distribution of electricity, including those incorporating instruments or apparatus of chapter 90, and numerical control apparatus, other than switching apparatus of heading 8517235,898
8528Monitors and projectors, not incorporating television reception apparatus633,291
8547Insulating fittings for electrical machines, appliances or equipment, being fittings wholly of insulating material apart from any minor components of metal (for example, threaded sockets) incorporated during molding solely for the purposes of assembly, other than insulators of heading 8546332,197
8534HS 8534131,655
8502Electric generating sets and rotary converters727,956
8531Electric sound or visual signaling apparatus (for example, bells, sirens, indicator panels, burglar or fire alarms), other than those of heading 8512 or 8530425,090
8530Electrical signaling, safety or traffic control equipment for railways, streetcar lines, subways, roads, inland waterways, parking facilities, port installations or airfields (other than those of heading 8608)322,018
8527Reception apparatus for radiobroadcasting, whether or not combined, in the same housing, with sound recording or reproducing apparatus or a clock820,932
8546Electrical insulators of any material318,307
8513Portable electric lamps designed to function by their own source of energy (for example, dry batteries, storage batteries, magnetos), other than lighting equipment of heading 8512215,651
8542Electronic integrated circuits313,451
8545Carbon electrodes, carbon brushes, lamp carbons, battery carbons and other articles of graphite or other carbon, with or without metal, of a kind used for electrical purposes412,762
8508Vacuum cleaners412,186
8525Transmission apparatus for radio-broadcasting or television, whether or not incorporating reception apparatus or sound recording or reproducing apparatus48,685
8523Discs, tapes, solid-state non-volatile storage devices, "smart cards" and other media for the recording of sound or of other phenomena, whether or not recorded, including matrices and masters for the production of discs, but excluding products of Chapter 3785,447
8522Parts and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading 8519 or 852125,355
8519Sound recording or reproducing apparatus35,353
8524Flat panel display modules, whether or not incorporating touch-sensitive screens32,845
8521Video recording or reproducing apparatus, whether or not incorporating a video tuner22,843
8548HS 85481342
8549Electrical and electronic waste and scrap1154
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