HS 8421 · Machinery and mechanical appliances
Centrifuges and filters
Data last updated 18 October 2026 · schedule data 2026.10.2
In short
The EU already charges no duty on Mercosur centrifuges and filters; Brazil's duty on EU centrifuges and filters is up to 16.8% today and reaches zero by 2041 (2 of 26 lines are excluded).
Rates at a glance
Into the EU from Mercosur
14 tariff linesPreferential duty 2026
0%
Duty-free on all phased lines by
No phase-out
Agreement base rate
0–2.7%
Applied MFN rate today
0–2.7%
Into Brazil from the EU
26 tariff linesPreferential duty 2026
0–20%
Duty-free on all phased lines by
2041
Agreement base rate
0–20%
Applied MFN rate today
7.2–20%
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About this product
Centrifuges and filtering machines, including cream separators and oil filters, enter the EU duty-free from Mercosur from the start. Mercosur phases out most of its duties over long schedules and excludes a couple of lines. Food and dairy plants are big users.
How the duty falls, year by year
Highest and lowest ad valorem duty each year over the lines on a path to zero. Excluded and quota-only lines keep their duty and aren't included.
Into the EU from Mercosur
Nothing to phase out in this direction: every line is already duty-free, excluded or only covered by a quota.
Into Brazil from the EU
| Year | Ad valorem duty | Lines duty-free |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 0–16.8% | 7 / 26 |
| 2027 | 0–15.7% | 7 / 26 |
| 2028 | 0–14.6% | 7 / 26 |
| 2029 | 0–13.5% | 7 / 26 |
| 2030 | 0–12.3% | 7 / 26 |
| 2031 | 0–11.2% | 7 / 26 |
| 2032 | 0–10.1% | 7 / 26 |
| 2033 | 0–9% | 7 / 26 |
| 2034 | 0–7.8% | 7 / 26 |
| 2035 | 0–6.7% | 7 / 26 |
| 2036 | 0–5.6% | 14 / 26 |
| 2037 | 0–4.5% | 14 / 26 |
| 2038 | 0–3.3% | 14 / 26 |
| 2039 | 0–2.2% | 14 / 26 |
| 2040 | 0–1.1% | 14 / 26 |
| 2041 | 0% | 24 / 26 |
Lines by staging category
The staging category sets the speed of the cut: 0 is duty-free from entry into force, 4 to 15 are the years to zero, E is excluded and letter codes are quotas or special treatments.
Mercosur → EU
- 0× 14
EU → Mercosur
- 15× 10
- 0× 7
- 10× 7
- E× 2
Tariff-rate quotas
No tariff-rate quota applies to this heading.
Rates in each Mercosur country
Each member has its own base rate and applied MFN rate. The preference is cut from the base rate, or from the applied rate where that's lower (Art. 2.4(7) of the agreement), so the current rate can differ by country.
| Country | Base rate | Applied MFN | Preferential 2026 | Zero by | Applied-rate source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 0–20% | 7.2–20%1 line has no single published rate | 0–20% | 2041 | Brazil applied import duty, Res. Gecex 272/2021 Annexes II, V, VI, IX (MDIC), as of 5 October 2026 |
| Argentina | 0–35% | 0–20%1 line has no single published rate | 0–18.7% | 2041 | Argentina applied import duty (DIE), ARCA Arancel Integrado, as of 18 October 2026 |
| Uruguay | 0–20% | 0–18%1 line has no single published rate | 0–16.8% | 2041 | Uruguay applied import duty (Arancel Nacional, MEF), as of 10 February 2025Manual snapshotOlder than 180 days |
| Paraguay | 0–20% | 0–18%1 line has no single published rate | 0–16.8% | 2041 | Paraguay applied import duty (Arancel Nacional Vigente, MEF), as of 4 November 2025Manual snapshotOlder than 180 days |
All tariff lines
Line descriptions are the English text of the schedules (CN 2013 for the EU, NCM 2012 for Mercosur).
Into the EU from Mercosur: 14 lines
| Code | Description | Staging | Base | Applied MFN | 2026 | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8421 11 00 | Centrifugal cream separators | 0 | 2.2% | 2.2% | Free | Free |
| 8421 12 00 | Centrifugal clothes-dryers | 0 | 2.7% | 2.7% | Free | Free |
| 8421 19 20 | Centrifuges of a kind used in laboratories | 0 | 1.5% | 1.5% | Free | Free |
| 8421 19 70 | Centrifuges, incl. centrifugal dryers (excl. apparatus for isotope separation, cream separators, clothes-dryers, and centrifuges of a kind used in laboratories and in the manufacture of semiconductor wafers) | 0 | Free | Free | Free | Free |
| 8421 21 00 | Machinery and apparatus for filtering or purifying water | 0 | 1.7% | 1.7% | Free | Free |
| 8421 22 00 | Machinery and apparatus for filtering or purifying beverages (excl.water) | 0 | 1.7% | 1.7% | Free | Free |
| 8421 23 00 | Oil or petrol-filters for internal combustion engines | 0 | 1.7% | 1.7% | Free | Free |
| 8421 29 00 | Machinery and apparatus for filtering or purifying liquids (excl. such machinery and apparatus for water and other beverages, oil or petrol-filters for internal combustion engines and artificial kidneys) | 0 | 1.7% | 0 % / 1.7 % | Free | Free |
| 8421 31 00 | Intake air filters for internal combustion engines | 0 | 1.7% | 1.7% | Free | Free |
| 8421 39 20 | Machinery and apparatus for filtering or purifying air (excl. isotope separators and intake air filters for internal combustion engines) | 0 | 1.7% | – | Free | Free |
| 8421 39 60 | Machinery and apparatus for filtering or purifying gases (other than air), by a catalytic process (excl. isotope separators) | 0 | 1.7% | – | Free | Free |
| 8421 39 80 | Machinery and apparatus for filtering and purifying gases (other than air and excl. those which operate using a catalytic process, and isotope separators) | 0 | 1.7% | – | Free | Free |
| 8421 91 00 | Parts of centrifuges, incl. centrifugal dryers, n.e.s. | 0 | 1.7% | 1.7% | Free | Free |
| 8421 99 00 | Parts of machinery and apparatus for filtering or purifying liquids or gases, n.e.s. | 0 | 1.7% | 0 % / 1.7 % | Free | Free |
Into Brazil from the EU: 26 lines
| Code | Description | Staging | Base | Applied MFN | 2026 | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8421 11 10 | Centrifuges for cream separation, capacity of milk production > 30 000 l/hour | 0 | Free | 7.2% | Free | Free |
| 8421 11 90 | Other centrifuges for cream separation | 15 | 14% | 15% | 13.1% | Freefrom 2041 |
| 8421 12 10 | Clothes-dryers, centrifuge, capacity of drying clothes ≤ 6kg | 15 | 20% | 18% | 16.8% | Freefrom 2041 |
| 8421 12 90 | Other clothes-dryers, centrifuges | 15 | 14% | 20% | 13.1% | Freefrom 2041 |
| 8421 19 10 | Laboratory centrifuges, for analysis/scientific research | 15 | 14% | 20% | 13.1% | Freefrom 2041 |
| 8421 19 90 | Other centrifuges | 15 | 14% | 20% | 13.1% | Freefrom 2041 |
| 8421 21 00 | Devices for filtering or purifying water | 15 | 14% | 20% | 13.1% | Freefrom 2041 |
| 8421 22 00 | Machinery for filtering or purifying beverages, excluding water | E | 14% | 20% | 20% | 20% |
| 8421 23 00 | Devices for filtering mineral oils in spark-ignition or compression-ignition engines | E | 16% | 16% | 16% | 16% |
| 8421 29 11 | Dialysers capillary type | 0 | Free | 7.2% | Free | Free |
| 8421 29 19 | Other dialysers | 0 | Free | 7.2% | Free | Free |
| 8421 29 20 | Reverse osmosis modules | 10 | 14% | 20% | 12.7% | Freefrom 2036 |
| 8421 29 30 | Filter presses for liquid | 15 | 14% | 20% | 13.1% | Freefrom 2041 |
| 8421 29 90 | Other devices for filtering or purifying liquid | 10 | 14% | 12.6% | 11.4% | Freefrom 2036 |
| 8421 31 00 | Intake air filters, for internal combustion engines/diesel | 10 | 16% | 16% | 14.5% | Freefrom 2036 |
| 8421 39 10 | Electrostatic filters for gases | 10 | 14% | 20% | 12.7% | Freefrom 2036 |
| 8421 39 20 | Catalytic conversion scrubbers for vehicle exhaust gases | 10 | 18% | – | 16.3% | Freefrom 2036 |
| 8421 39 30 | Oxygen concentrators for purifying air, capacity ≤ 6 l/min | 0 | Free | 7.2% | Free | Free |
| 8421 39 90 | Other devices for filtering or purifying gases | 15 | 14% | 12.6% | 11.8% | Freefrom 2041 |
| 8421 91 10 | Parts of clothes-dryers, centrifuges, clothes capacity ≤ 6 kg | 15 | 16% | 14.4% | 13.4% | Freefrom 2041 |
| 8421 91 91 | Rotative drums with plates/disks, weight > 300 kg | 0 | Free | 7.2% | Free | Free |
| 8421 91 99 | Other parts of centrifuges | 10 | 14% | 20% | 12.7% | Freefrom 2036 |
| 8421 99 10 | Parts of devices for filtering or purifying gases | 15 | 14% | 12.6% | 11.8% | Freefrom 2041 |
| 8421 99 20 | Equipment parts for blood, etc. for hemodialysis | 0 | Free | 7.2% | Free | Free |
| 8421 99 91 | Membrane cartridges for reverse osmosis machinery | 0 | Free | 7.2% | Free | Free |
| 8421 99 99 | Other device parts for filtering or purifying liquid, etc. | 10 | 14% | 12.6% | 11.4% | Freefrom 2036 |
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All headings in chapter 84: Machinery and mechanical appliances
Data and method
Worked out with the calculator's engine from the agreement schedules (Annex 2-A) and the applied-rate files, for agreement year 2026. Mercosur → EU figures assume Brazilian origin, which only matters for the few origin-specific quotas; EU → Mercosur figures are for Brazil unless the country table says otherwise.
- EU TARIC via Swedish Customs Tariff File Distribution (TF), 16 October 2026
- Brazil applied import duty, Res. Gecex 272/2021 Annexes II, V, VI, IX (MDIC), 5 October 2026
- Argentina applied import duty (DIE), ARCA Arancel Integrado, 18 October 2026
- Uruguay applied import duty (Arancel Nacional, MEF), 10 February 2025 · Manual snapshot · Older than 180 days
- Paraguay applied import duty (Arancel Nacional Vigente, MEF), 4 November 2025 · Manual snapshot · Older than 180 days
Estimates only, not legal or customs advice. Check the official schedules before relying on a rate.