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Electrical Machinery and Equipment and Parts Thereof; Sound Recorders and Reproducers, Television Image and Sound Recorders and Reproducers, and Parts and Accessories of Such Articles

Select the heading below that best describes what type of Machinery & Appliances product is being shipped.

Note: Machinery & Appliances shipments under 150 lbs. may be shipped as parcels by common carrier such as UPS, Canpar Express and FedEx Express (over 150 lbs. use ShipNerd LTL Freight service).

Code	Description
8501	Electric motors and generators (excluding generating sets).
8502	Electric generating sets and rotary converters.
8503	Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of heading 85.01 or 85.02.
8504	Electrical transformers, static converters (for example, rectifiers) and inductors.
8505	Electromagnets; permanent magnets and articles intended to become permanent magnets after magnetisation; electro magnetic or permanent magnet chucks, clamps and similar holding devices; electromagnetic couplings, clutches and brakes; electromagnetic l
8506	Primary cells and primary batteries.
8507	Electric accumulators, including separators therefor, whether or not rectangular (including square).
8508	Vacuum cleaners.
8509	Electromechanical domestic appliances, with selfcontained electric motor, other than vacuum cleaners of heading 85.08.
8510	Shavers, hair clippers and hairremoving appliances, with self contained electric motor.
8511	Electrical ignition or starting equipment of a kind used for sparkignition or compressionignition internal combustion engines (for example, ignition magnetos, magnetodynamos, ignition coils, sparking plugs and glow plugs, starter motors); generators (f
8512	Electrical lighting or signalling equipment (excluding articles of heading 85.39), windscreen wipers, defrosters and demisters, of a kind used for cycles or motor vehicles.
8513	Portable electric lamps designed to function by their own source of energy (for example, dry batteries, accumulators, magnetos), other than lighting equipment of heading 85.12.
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 loss.
8515	Electric (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 cutting; electric machines and appar
8516	Electric instantaneous or storage water heaters and immersion heaters; electric space heating apparatus and soil heating apparatus; electrothermic hairdressing apparatus (for example, hair dryers, hair curlers, curling tong heaters) and hand dryers; ele
8517	Telephone sets, including telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks; other apparatus for the transmission or reception of voice, images or other data, including apparatus for communication in a wired or wireless network (such as a lo
8518	Microphones and stands therefor; loudspeakers, whether or not mounted in their enclosures; headphones and earphones, whether or not combined with a microphone, and sets consisting of a microphone and one or more loudspeakers; audio frequency electric amp
8519	Sound recording or reproducing apparatus.
8521	Video recording or reproducing apparatus, whether or not incorporating a video tuner.
8522	Parts and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of headings 85.19 or 85.21.
8523	Discs, tapes, solidstate nonvolatile 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
8525	Transmission apparatus for radiobroadcasting or television, whether or not incorporating reception apparatus or sound recording or reproducing apparatus; television cameras, digital cameras and video camera recorders.
8526	Radar apparatus, radio navigational aid apparatus and radio remote control apparatus.
8527	Reception apparatus for radiobroadcasting, whether or not combined, in the same housing, with sound recording or reproducing apparatus or a clock.
8528	Monitors and projectors, not incorporating television reception apparatus; reception apparatus for television, whether or not incorporating radiobroadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus.
8529	Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of headings 85.25 to 85.28.
8530	Electrical signalling, safety or traffic control equipment for railways, tramways, roads, inland waterways, parking facilities, port installations or airfields (other than those of heading 86.08).
8531	Electric sound or visual signalling apparatus (for example, bells, sirens, indicator panels, burglar or fire alarms), other than those of heading 85.12 or 85.30.
8532	Electrical capacitors, fixed, variable or adjustable (preset).
8533	Electrical resistors (including rheostats and potentiometers), other than heating resistors.
8534	Printed circuits.
8535	Electrical 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 boxe
8536	Electrical 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, lampholders and other connectors, junction boxes), for
8537	Boards, panels, consoles, desks, cabinets and other bases, equipped with two or more apparatus of heading 85.35 or 85.36, for electric control or the distribution of electricity, including those incorporating instruments or apparatus of Chapter 90, and nu
8538	Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading 85.35, 85.36 or 85.37.
8539	Electric filament or discharge lamps, including sealed beam lamp units and ultraviolet or infrared lamps; arclamps.
8540	Thermionic, cold cathode or photocathode valves and tubes (for example, vacuum or vapour or gas filled valves and tubes, mercury arc rectifying valves and tubes, cathoderay tubes, television camera tubes).
8541	Diodes, transistors and similar semiconductor devices; photosensitive semiconductor devices, including photovoltaic cells whether or not assembled in modules or made up into panels; light emitting diodes; mounted piezoelectric crystals.
8542	Electronic integrated circuits.
8543	Electrical machines and apparatus, having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter.
8544	Insulated (including enamelled or anodised) wire, cable (including coaxial cable) and other insulated electric conductors, whether or not fitted with connectors; optical fibre cables, made up of individually sheathed fibres, whether or not assembled with
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.
8546	Electrical insulators of any material.
8547	Insulating 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 moulding solely for purposes of assembly, other
8548	Waste and scrap of primary cells, primary batteries and electric accumulators; spent primary cells, spent primary batteries and spent electric accumulators; electrical parts of machinery or apparatus, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter.