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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 4,362,711 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 June 2026 · Chapter → heading → product, drill in for importers and suppliers

Headings in this chapter

HSHeadingProductsShipments
8516Electric instantaneous or storage water heaters and immersion heaters14687,960
8512Electrical lighting or signaling equipment (excluding articles of heading 8539), windshield wipers, defrosters and demisters, of a kind used for cycles or motor vehicles5319,961
8539Electrical filament or discharge lamps, including sealed beam lamp units and ultraviolet or infrared lamps11270,968
8518Microphones and stands therefor8257,266
8541Semiconductor devices (for example, diodes, transistors, semiconductor-based transducers)9217,188
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 V10187,909
8504Electrical transformers, static converters (for example, rectifiers) and inductors11184,720
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)10169,733
8514Industrial or laboratory electric furnaces and ovens (including those functioning by induction or dielectric loss)5165,798
8544Insulated (including enameled or anodized) wire, cable (including coaxial cable) and other insulated electric conductors, whether or not fitted with connectors8155,652
8501Electric motors and generators (excluding generating sets)14144,780
8506Primary cells and primary batteries6131,205
8509Electromechanical domestic appliances, with self-contained electric motor, other than vacuum cleaners of heading 85083124,582
8543Electrical machines and apparatus, having individual functions5107,489
8532Electrical capacitors, fixed, variable or adjustable (pre-set)9101,921
8507Electric storage batteries, including separators therefor, whether or not rectangular (including square)7101,822
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)792,876
8526Radar apparatus, radio navigational aid apparatus and radio remote control apparatus387,474
8538Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading 8535, 8536 or 8537276,836
8510Shavers, hair clippers and hair-removing appliances, with self-contained electric motor473,334
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 cutting871,928
8517Telephone sets, including smartphones and other telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks962,010
8529Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of headings 8524 to 8528260,247
8503HS 8503148,581
8505Electromagnets447,489
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 V642,732
8533Electrical resistors (including rheostats and potentiometers), other than heating resistors736,020
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 8517236,001
8528Monitors and projectors, not incorporating television reception apparatus633,132
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 8546333,029
8534HS 8534131,805
8502Electric generating sets and rotary converters728,142
8531Electric sound or visual signaling apparatus (for example, bells, sirens, indicator panels, burglar or fire alarms), other than those of heading 8512 or 8530425,210
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)322,067
8527Reception apparatus for radiobroadcasting, whether or not combined, in the same housing, with sound recording or reproducing apparatus or a clock820,936
8546Electrical insulators of any material318,351
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 8512215,645
8542Electronic integrated circuits313,516
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 purposes412,904
8508Vacuum cleaners412,221
8525Transmission apparatus for radio-broadcasting or television, whether or not incorporating reception apparatus or sound recording or reproducing apparatus48,523
8522Parts and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading 8519 or 852125,709
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 3785,407
8519Sound recording or reproducing apparatus35,338
8524Flat panel display modules, whether or not incorporating touch-sensitive screens32,961
8521Video recording or reproducing apparatus, whether or not incorporating a video tuner22,831
8548HS 85481348
8549Electrical and electronic waste and scrap1154
HS Chapter 85: Electrical machinery and equipment; sound and television apparatus — U.S. Import Data | ImportDoor