HS chapter 85
Electrical machinery and electronics
Chapter 85 has 46 headings with 500 EU tariff lines and 654 Mercosur tariff lines. Duty-free from entry into force: 452 EU and 89 Mercosur lines. Ten years or more, a quota or excluded: 14 EU and 514 Mercosur lines.
Official chapter title: Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers; television image and sound recorders and reproducers, parts and accessories of such articles · Data last updated 18 October 2026
How fast duties fall
Tariff lines of the chapter by staging category, in each schedule.
| Treatment | EU lines | Mercosur lines |
|---|---|---|
| Duty-free from entry into force (0) | 452 | 89 |
| Phased out over 4 to 8 years | 34 | 51 |
| Phased out over 10 years | 14 | 383 |
| Phased out over 15 years (15, 15V) | 0 | 90 |
| Excluded (E) | 0 | 41 |
Headings in this chapter
Headings with a product page are linked. For the others, open the calculator. Heading descriptions are the English HS nomenclature.
| Heading | Description | Into the EU | Into Brazil | Calculate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8501 | Electric motors and generatorsExcluded lines | base 2.7–4.7%zero by 2030 | base 0–18%zero by 2041 | Calculate |
| 8502 | Electric generating sets and rotary convertersExcluded lines | base 2.7% | base 0–14%zero by 2041 | Calculate |
| 8503 | Electric motors and generators; parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of heading no. 8501 or 8502Excluded lines | base 2.7% | base 14%zero by 2036 | Calculate |
| 8504 | Transformers and power suppliesExcluded lines | base 0–3.7% | base 0–20%zero by 2041 | Calculate |
| 8505 | Electro-magnets; permanent magnets, intended permanent magnets; electro-magnetic, permanent magnet chucks, clamps, similar; electromagnetic couplings, clutches, brakes; electro-magnetic lifting heads | base 1.8–2.2% | base 0–16%zero by 2036 | Calculate |
| 8506 | Cells and batteries; primary | base 0–4.7%zero by 2030 | base 0–16%zero by 2041 | Calculate |
| 8507 | Electric accumulators, including separators therefor; whether or not rectangular (including square) | base 2.6–3.7% | base 16–18%zero by 2041 | Calculate |
| 8508 | Vacuum cleanersExcluded lines | base 1.7–2.2% | base 14–20%zero by 2036 | Calculate |
| 8509 | Electro-mechanical domestic appliances; with self-contained electric motor, other than vacuum cleaners of heading 85.08.Excluded lines | base 2.2% | base 16–20%zero by 2036 | Calculate |
| 8510 | Shavers, hair clippers and hair removing appliances, with self-contained electric motor | base 2.2% | base 0–20%zero by 2041 | Calculate |
| 8511 | Ignition or starting equipment; used for spark-ignition or compression-ignition internal combustion engines; generators and cut outs used in conjunction with such engines | base 3.2% | base 16–18%zero by 2036 | Calculate |
| 8512 | Lighting or visual signalling equipment (excluding articles of heading no. 8539), windscreen wipers, defrosters and demisters; electrical, of a kind used for cycles or motor vehiclesExcluded lines | base 2.2–2.7% | base 16–18%zero by 2036 | Calculate |
| 8513 | Lamps; portable, electric, designed to function by their own source of energy (e.g. dry batteries, accumulators, magnetos), excluding lighting equipment of heading no. 8512 | base 5.7%zero by 2030 | base 16–18%zero by 2041 | Calculate |
| 8514 | Industrial or laboratory electric furnaces and ovens (including those functioning by induction or dielectric loss); other industrial or laboratory equipment for the heat treatment of materials by induction or dielectric lossExcluded lines | base 2.2% | base 14%zero by 2041 | Calculate |
| 8515 | Electric (electrically heated gas) soldering, brazing, welding machines and apparatus, capable or not of cutting, electric machines and apparatus for hot spraying of metals or sintered carbides | base 2.7% | base 0–14%zero by 2041 | Calculate |
| 8516 | Electric water, space, soil heaters; electro-thermic hair-dressing apparatus; hand dryers, irons; electro-thermic appliances for domestic purposes; electro heating resistors, not of heading no. 8545Excluded lines | base 2.7–5%zero by 2030 | base 16–20%zero by 2041 | Calculate |
| 8517 | Telephones and network equipmentExcluded lines | base 0–9.3% | base 0–25%zero by 2041 | Calculate |
| 8518 | Microphones and their stands; loudspeakers, mounted or not in their enclosures; headphones and earphones, combined or not with a microphone, and sets of a microphone and one or more loudspeakers; audio-frequency and electric sound amplifiers and sets | base 0–4.5% | base 0–20%zero by 2036 | Calculate |
| 8519 | Sound recording or reproducing apparatus | base 0–9.5%zero by 2033 | base 0–20%zero by 2036 | Calculate |
| 8521 | Video recording or reproducing apparatus | base 8–14%zero by 2033 | base 0–20%zero by 2036 | Calculate |
| 8522 | Sound or video recording apparatus; parts and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading 8519 or 8521 | base 0–4% | base 16–18%zero by 2036 | Calculate |
| 8523 | Discs, 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, excluding products of Chapter 37Excluded lines | base 0–3.7% | base 0–16%zero by 2041 | Calculate |
| 8525 | Transmission apparatus for radio-broadcasting or television, whether or not incorporating reception apparatus or sound recording or reproducing apparatus; television cameras, digital cameras and video camera recordersExcluded lines | base 0–14%zero by 2030 | base 0–20%zero by 2041 | Calculate |
| 8526 | Radar apparatus, radio navigational aid apparatus and radio remote control apparatus | base 3.7% | base 0–18%zero by 2036 | Calculate |
| 8527 | Reception apparatus for radio-broadcasting, whether or not combined, in the same housing, with sound recording or reproducing apparatus or a clock. | base 0–14%zero by 2036 | base 20%zero by 2036 | Calculate |
| 8528 | Monitors and projectors, not incorporating television reception apparatus; reception apparatus for television, whether or not incorporating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatusExcluded lines | base 0–14%zero by 2036 | base 0–20%zero by 2036 | Calculate |
| 8529 | Transmission apparatus; parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading no. 8524 to 8528Excluded lines | base 0–5%zero by 2030 | base 0–16%zero by 2041 | Calculate |
| 8530 | Signalling, safety or traffic control equipment; for railways, tramways, roads, inland waterways, parking facilities, port installations, airfields, excluding those of heading no. 8608Excluded lines | base 1.7% | base 14%zero by 2036 | Calculate |
| 8531 | Signalling apparatus; electric sound or visual (e.g. bells, sirens, indicator panels, burglar or fire alarms), excluding those of heading no. 8512 or 8530 | base 0–2.2% | base 12–18%zero by 2041 | Calculate |
| 8532 | Electrical capacitors; fixed, variable or adjustable (pre-set) | base 0% | base 0–16%zero by 2036 | Calculate |
| 8533 | Electrical resistors (including rheostats and potentiometers), excluding heating resistors | base 0% | base 0–16%zero by 2041 | Calculate |
| 8534 | Circuits; printed | base 0% | base 10–12%zero by 2036 | Calculate |
| 8535 | Electrical apparatus for switching, protecting electrical circuits, for making connections to or in electrical circuits; for a voltage exceeding 1000 voltsExcluded lines | base 2.7% | base 2–16%zero by 2041 | Calculate |
| 8536 | Switches, plugs and connectorsExcluded lines | base 0–3% | base 0–18%zero by 2041 | Calculate |
| 8537 | Boards, panels, consoles, desks, cabinets, bases with apparatus of heading no. 8535, 8536 for electricity control and distribution, (other than switching apparatus of heading no. 8517)Excluded lines | base 2.1% | base 0–18%zero by 2041 | Calculate |
| 8538 | Electrical apparatus; parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading no. 8535, 8536 and 8537Excluded lines | base 1.7–3.2% | base 2–16%zero by 2036 | Calculate |
| 8539 | Lamps; electric filament or discharge lamps, including sealed beam lamp units and ultra-violet or infra-red lamps, arc lamps, light-emitting diode (LED) light sourcesExcluded lines | base 2.7% | base 2–18%zero by 2041 | Calculate |
| 8540 | Thermionic, cold cathode or photo-cathode valves and tubes (e.g. vacuum, vapour, gas filled valves and tubes, mercury arc rectifying valves and tubes, cathode-ray and television camera tubes) | base 2.6–14%zero by 2036 | base 0–18%zero by 2041 | Calculate |
| 8541 | Semiconductor devices (e.g. diodes, transistors, semiconductor based transducers); including photovoltaic cells assembled or not in modules or panels, light-emitting diodes (LED) assembled with other LEDs or not, mounted piezo-electric crystals | base 0% | base 0–12%zero by 2041 | Calculate |
| 8542 | Electronic integrated circuits | base 0% | base 0–12%zero by 2041 | Calculate |
| 8543 | Electrical machines and apparatus; having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter | base 0–4% | base 0–18%zero by 2041 | Calculate |
| 8544 | Insulated wire and cableExcluded lines | base 0–3.7% | base 0–16%zero by 2041 | Calculate |
| 8545 | Carbon 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 purposes | base 1.7–2.7% | base 2–12%zero by 2036 | Calculate |
| 8546 | Electrical insulators of any material | base 3.7–4.7%zero by 2030 | base 16%zero by 2036 | Calculate |
| 8547 | Insulating fittings; for electrical machines, appliances, equipment, excluding insulators of heading no. 8546, electrical conduit tubing and joints therefore | base 3.7–4.7%zero by 2030 | base 2–16%zero by 2036 | Calculate |
| 8548 | Electrical parts of machinery or apparatus; not specified or elsewhere included in this chapter | base 0–4.7%zero by 2030 | base 4–18%zero by 2041 | Calculate |