HS code 8481: Taps, cocks, valves and similar appliances for pipes, boiler shells…

Subheadings of 8481 (6 digits)

• 8481.10 Valves; pressure reducing, for pipes, boiler shells, tanks, vats or the like
• 8481.20 Valves; for oleohydraulic or pneumatic transmissions
• 8481.30 Valves; check (nonreturn) valves, for pipes, boiler shells, tanks, vats or the like
• 8481.40 Valves; safety or relief valves, for pipes, boiler shells, tanks, vats or the like
• 8481.80 Taps, cocks, valves and similar appliances; for pipes, boiler shells, tanks, vats or the like, including thermostatically controlled valves
• 8481.90 Taps, cocks, valves and similar appliances; parts thereof

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• European Union (TARIC)
• United Kingdom
• China
• India (ICEGATE)
• Vietnam
• Korea (Republic of)
• Japan
• Brazil
• Canada
• Australia
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Other headings in chapter 84

• 8401 Nuclear reactors; fuel elements (cartridges), non-irradiated, for nuclear reactors, machinery and apparatus…
• 8402 Boilers; steam or other vapour generating (other than central heating hot water boilers, capable also of…
• 8403 Central heating boilers; excluding those of heading no. 8402
• 8404 Auxiliary plant for use with boilers of heading no. 8402 or 8403; e.g. economisers, super-heaters, soot…
• 8405 Generators for producer or water gas with or without their purifiers acetylene gas generators and similar…
• 8406 Turbines; steam and other vapour turbines
• 8407 Reciprocating or rotary internal combustion piston engines
• 8408 Compression-ignition internal combustion piston engines (diesel or semi-diesel engines)
• 8409 Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the engines of heading no. 8407 or 8408
• 8410 Turbines; hydraulic water wheels and regulators therefor
• 8411 Turbo-jets, turbo-propellers and other gas turbines
• 8412 Engines and motors; n.e.c. (e.g. reaction engines, hydraulic power engines, pneumatic power engines)
• 8413 Pumps; for liquids, whether or not fitted with measuring device, liquid elevators
• 8414 Air or vacuum pumps, air or other gas compressors and fans; ventilating or recycling hoods incorporating a…
• 8415 Air conditioning machines; comprising a motor driven fan and elements for changing the temperature and…
• 8416 Furnace burners for liquid fuel, for pulverised solid fuel or for gas; mechanical grates, mechanical ash…
• 8417 Furnaces and ovens; industrial or laboratory, including incinerators, non-electric
• 8418 Refrigerators, freezers and other refrigerating or freezing equipment, electric or other; heat pumps other…
• 8419 Machinery, plant (not domestic), or laboratory equipment; electrically heated or not, (excluding items in…
• 8420 Machines; calendering or other rolling machines, for other than metal or glass and cylinders therefor
• 8421 Centrifuges, including centrifugal dryers; filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for liquids or gases
• 8422 Dish washing machines; machinery for cleaning, drying, filling, closing, sealing, capsuling or labelling…
• 8423 Weighing machines; excluding balances of a sensitivity of 5cg or better, including weight operated counting…
• 8424 Mechanical appliances for projecting, dispersing or spraying liquids or powders; fire extinguishers, spray…
• 8425 Pulley tackle and hoists other than skip hoists; winches and capstans; jacks
• 8426 Derricks, cranes, including cable cranes, mobile lifting frames, straddle carriers and works trucks fitted…
• 8427 Fork-lift and other works trucks; fitted with lifting or handling equipment
• 8428 Lifting, handling, loading or unloading machinery; n.e.c. in heading no. 8425, 8426 or 8427 (e.g. lifts…
• 8429 Bulldozers, graders, levellers, scrapers, angledozers, mechanical shovels, excavators, shovel loaders…
• 8430 Moving, grading, levelling, scraping, excavating, tamping, compacting, extracting or boring machinery, for…
• 8431 Machinery parts; used solely or principally with the machinery of heading no. 8425 to 8430
• 8432 Agricultural, horticultural or forestry machinery for soil preparation or cultivation; lawn or sports-ground…
• 8433 Harvesting and threshing machinery, straw and fodder balers, grass or hay mowers; machines for cleaning…
• 8434 Milking machines and dairy machinery
• 8435 Presses, crushers and similar machinery; used in the manufacture of wine, cider, fruit juices or similar…
• 8436 Agricultural, horticultural, forestry, poultry-keeping, bee-keeping machinery; including germination plant…
• 8437 Machines for cleaning, sorting, grading seed, grain, dried leguminous vegetables; machinery used in the…
• 8438 Machinery n.e.c. in this chapter, for the industrial preparation or manufacture of food or drink; other than…
• 8439 Machinery; for making pulp of fibrous cellulosic material, or for making or finishing paper or paperboard
• 8440 Book-binding machinery; including book-sewing machines
• 8441 Machines; for making up paper pulp, paper or paperboard, including cutting machines of all kinds
• 8442 Machinery, apparatus and equipment (excluding machines of headings 8456 to 8465) for preparing or making…
• 8443 Printing machinery; used for printing by means of plates, cylinders and other printing components of heading…
• 8444 Textile machinery; for extruding, drawing, texturing or cutting man-made textile materials
• 8445 Textile machinery; spinning, doubling, twisting machines, textile reeling or winding machines and machines…
• 8446 Weaving machines (looms)
• 8447 Knitting machines, stitch-bonding machines and machines for making gimped yarn, tulle, lace, embroidery…
• 8448 Machinery, auxiliary; for use with machines of heading no. 8444 to 8447 (e.g. dobbies, jacquards, automatic…
• 8449 Machinery; for manufacture or finishing felt or non-wovens in the piece or in shapes, including machinery for…
• 8450 Household or laundry-type washing machines; including machines which both wash and dry
• 8451 Machinery (not of heading no. 8450) for washing, cleaning, wringing, drying, ironing, pressing, bleaching…
• 8452 Sewing machines; other than book-sewing machines of heading no. 8440; furniture, bases and covers specially…
• 8453 Machinery for preparing, tanning or working hides, skins or leather or for making or repairing footwear or…
• 8454 Converters, ladles, ingot moulds and casting machines; of a kind used metallurgy or in metal foundries
• 8455 Metal-rolling mills and rolls therefor
• 8456 Machine-tools; for working any material by removal of material, by laser or other light or photon beam…
• 8457 Machining centres, unit construction machines (single station) and multi-station transfer machines for…
• 8458 Lathes for removing metal
• 8459 Machine-tools; (including way-type unit head machines) for drilling, boring, milling, threading or tapping by…
• 8460 Machine-tools; for deburring, sharpening, grinding, honing, lapping, polishing or otherwise finishing metal…
• 8461 Machine-tools; for planing, shaping, slotting, broaching, gear cutting and grinding, finishing, sawing…
• 8462 Machine-tools (including presses) for working metal by forging, hammering or die forging (excluding rolling…
• 8463 Machine-tools; n.e.c. for working metal, sintered metal carbides or cermets without removing material
• 8464 Machine-tools; for working stone, ceramics, concrete, asbestos-cement or like mineral materials or for cold…
• 8465 Machine-tools; (including machines for nailing, stapling, glueing or otherwise assembling) for working wood…
• 8466 Parts & accessories suited for use only/mainly with machines of headings 8456-8465, including work/tool…
• 8467 Tools; for working in the hand, pneumatic, hydraulic or with self-contained electric or non-electric motor
• 8468 Machinery and apparatus for soldering, brazing, welding, whether or not capable of cutting, other than those…
• 8470 Calculating machines and pocket-size data recording, reproducing and displaying machines with calculating…
• 8471 Automatic data processing machines and units thereof, magnetic or optical readers, machines for transcribing…
• 8472 Office machines; not elsewhere classified
• 8473 Machinery; parts and accessories (other than covers, carrying cases and the like) suitable for use solely or…
• 8474 Machinery for sorting, screening, separating, washing, crushing, grinding, mixing or kneading earth, stone…
• 8475 Machines; for assembling electric or electronic lamps, tubes, valves, flashbulbs, in glass envelopes…
• 8476 Automatic goods-vending machines (e.g. postage stamp, cigarette, food or beverage machines), including…
• 8477 Machinery; for working rubber or plastics or for the manufacture of products from these materials, n.e.c. in…
• 8478 Machinery; for preparing or making up tobacco, n.e.c. in this chapter
• 8479 Machinery and mechanical appliances; having individual functions, n.e.c. in this chapter
• 8480 Moulding boxes for metal foundry, moulding patterns, moulds for metals (excluding ingot moulds), metal…
• 8482 Ball or roller bearings
• 8483 Transmission shafts (including cam and crank) and cranks; bearing housings and plain shaft bearings; gears…
• 8484 Gaskets and similar joints of metal sheeting combined with other material or of two or more layers of metal…
• 8485 Machines for additive manufacturing
• 8486 Machines and apparatus of a kind used solely or principally for the manufacture of semiconductor boules or…
• 8487 Machinery parts; not containing electrical connectors, insulators, coils, contacts or other electrical…