Heading No.

Sub- Heading No.

Description of article

Rate of duty

Standard

Preferential Areas

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

85.01

Electric motors and generators (excluding generating sets).

8501.10

- Motors of an output not exceeding 37.5 W

25%

8501.20

- Universal AC/DC Motors of an output exceeding 37.5 W

25%

- Other DC motors; DC generators:

8501.31

-- Of an output not exceeding 750W

25%

8501.32

-- Of an output exceeding 750W but not exceeding 75 KW

25%

8501.33

-- Of an output exceeding 75KW but not exceeding 375 KW

25%

8501.34

-- Of an output exceeding 375 KW

25%

8501.40

- Other AC motors, single-phase

25%

- Other AC motors, multi-phase:

8501.51

-- Of an ouput exceeding 750 KW

25%

8501.52

-- Of an output exceeding 750 W but not exceeding 75 KW

25%

8501.53

-- Of an ouput exceeding 75 KW

25%

- AC generators (alternators):

8501.61

-- Of an output not exceeding 75 KVA

25%

8501.62

-- Of an output exceeding 75 KVA but not exceeding 375 KVA

25%

8501.63

-- Of an output exceeding 375 KVA but not exceeding 750 KVA

25%

8501.64

-- Of an output exceeding 750 KVA

25%

85.02

Electric generating sets and rotary converters.

- Generating sets with compression ignition internal combustion piston engines (diesel or semi-diesel engines)):

8502.11

-- Of an output exceeding 75 KVA

25%

8502.12

-- Of an output exceeding 75 KVA but not exceeding 375 KVA

25%

8502.13

-- Of an output exceeding 375 KVA

25%

8502.20

- Generating sets with spark-ignition internal combustion piston engines

25%

- Other generating sets:

8502.31

-- Wind-powered

25%

8502.39

-- Other

25%

8502.40

- Electric rotary converters

25%

85.03

8503.00

Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of heading 85.01 or 85.02

25%

85.04

Electrical transformers, static converters (for example, rectifiers) and inductors.

8504.10

- Ballasts for discharge lamps or tubes

30%

- Liquid dielectric transformers:

8504.21

-- Having a power handling capacity not exceeding 650 KVA

25%

8504.22

-- Having a power handling capacity exceeding 650 KVA but not exceeding 10,000KVA

25%

8504.23

-- Having a power handling capacity exceeding 10,000 KVA

25%

- Other transformers:

8504.31

-- Having a power handling capacity not exceeding 1 KVA

25%

8504.32

-- Having a power handling capacity exceeding 1 KVA but not exceeding 16 KVA

25%

8504.33

-- Having a power handling capcity exceeding 16 KVA but not exceeding 500 KVA

25%

8504.34

-- Having a power handling capacity exceeding 500 KVA

25%

8504.40

- Static converters

25%

8504.50

- Other inductors

25%

8504.90

- Parts

25%

85.05

Electro-magnets; permanent magnets and articles intended to become permanent magnets after magnetisation; electromagnetic or permanent magnet chucks, clamps and similar holding devices; electro-magnetic couplings, clutches and brakes; electro-magnetic lifting heads.

- Permanent magnets and articles intended to become permanent magnets after magnetisation:

8505.11

-- Of metal

25%

8505.19

-- Other

25%

8505.20

- Electro-magnetic couplings, clutches and brakes

25%

8505.30

- Electro-magnetic lifting heads

25%

8505.90

- Other, including parts

25%

85.06

Primary cells and primary batteries.

8506.10

- Manganese dioxide

30%

8506.30

- Mercuric oxide

30%

8506.40

- Silver oxide

30%

8506.50

- Lithium

30%

8506.60

- Air-zinc

30%

8506.80

- Other primary cells and primary batteries

30%

8506.90

- Parts

30%

85.07

Electric accumulators, including separators therefor, whether or not rectangular (including square).

8507.10

- Lead-acid, of a kind used for starting piston engines

30%

8507.20

- Other lead-acid accumulators

30%

8507.30

- Nickel-cadmium

30%

8507.40

- Nickel-iron

30%

8507.80

- Other accumulators

30%

8507.90

- Parts

30%

85.08

Electro-mechanical tools for working in the hand, with self-contained electric motor.

8508.10

- Omitted

8508.20

- Omitted

8508.80

- Omitted

8508.90

- Omitted

85.09

Electro-mechanical domestic applicances, with self-contained electric motor.

8509.10

- Vacuum cleaners, including dry and wet vacuum cleaners

30%

8509.20

- Floor polishers

30%

8509.30

- Kitchen waste disposers

30%

8509.40

- Food grinders and mixers; fruit or vegetable juice extractors

30%

8509.80

- Other appliances

30%

8509.90

- Parts

30%

85.10

"Shavers, hair clippers and hair-removing appliances, with self-contained electric motor".

8510.10

- Shavers

30%

8510.20

- Hair clippers

30%

8510.30

- Hair-removing appliances

30%

8510.90

- Parts

30%

85.11

Electrical 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, sparking plugs and glow plugs, starter motors); generators (for example, dynamos, alternators) and cut-outs of a kind used in conjunction with such engines.

8511.10

- Sparking plugs

30%

8511.20

- Ignition magnetos; magneto-dynamos; magnetic flywheels

30%

8511.30

- Distributors; ignition coils

30%

8511.40

- Starter motors and dual purpose starter-generators

30%

8511.50

- Other generators

30%

8511.80

- Other equipment

30%

8511.90

- Parts

30%

85.12

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.

8512.10

- Lighting or visual signalling equipment of a kind used on bicycles

30%

8512.20

- Other lighting or visual signalling equipment

30%

8512.30

- Sound signalling equipment

30%

8512.40

- Windscreen wipers, defrosters and demisters

30%

8512.90

- Parts

30%

85.13

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.

8513.10

- Lamps

30%

8513.90

- Parts

30%

85.14

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;

8514.10

- Resistance heated furnaces and ovens

25%

8514.20

- Furnaces and ovens functioning by induction or dielectric loss

25%

8514.30

- Other furnaces and ovens

25%

8514.40

- Other equipment for the heat treatment of materials by induction or dielectric loss

25%

8514.90

- Parts

25%

85.15

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 apparatus for hot spraying of metals or cements.

- Bracing or soldering machines and apparatus:

8515.11

-- Soldering irons and guns

25%

8515.19

-- Other

25%

- Machines and apparatus for resistance welding of metal:

8515.21

-- Fully or partly automatic

25%

8515.29

-- Other

25%

- Machines and apparatus for arc (including plasma arc) welding of metals:

8515.31

-- Fully or partly automatic

25%

8515.39

-- Other

25%

8515.80

- Other machines and apparatus

25%

8515.90

- Parts

25%

85.16

Electric instantaneous or storage water heaters and immersion heaters; electric space heating apparatus and soil heating apparatus; electro-thermic hair-dressing apparatus (for example, hair dryers, hair curiers, curling tong heaters) and hand dryers; electric smoothing irons; other electro-thermic appliances of a kind used for domestic purposes; electric heating resistors, other than those of heading 85.45.

8516.10

- Electric instantaneous or storage water heaters and immersion heaters

30%

- Electric space heating apparatus and electric soil heating apparatus:

8516.21

-- Storage heating radiators

30%

8516.29

-- Other

30%

- Electro-thermic hair-dressing or hand-drying apparatus:

8516.31

-- Hair dryers

30%

8516.32

-- Other hair-dressing apparatus

30%

8516.33

-- Hand-drying apparatus

30%

8516.40

- electric smoothing irons

30%

8516.50

- Microwave ovens

30%

8516.60

- Other ovens; cookers, cooking plates, boiling rings, grillers and roasters

30%

- Other electro-thermic appliances:

8516.71

-- Coffee or tea makers

30%

8516.72

-- Toasters

30%

8516.79

-- Other

30%

8516.80

- Electric heating resistors

30%

8516.90

- Parts

25%

85.17

Electrical apparatus for line telephony or line telegraphy, including line telephone sets with cordless handsets and telecommunication apparatus for carrier-current line systems or for digital line systems; videophones

- Telephone sets; videophones:

8517.11

-- Line telephone sets with cordless handsets

15%

8517.19

-- Other

15%

- Facsimile machines and teleprinters:

8517.21

-- Facsimile machines

15%

8517.22

-- Teleprinters

15%

8517.30

- Telephonic or telegraphic switching apparatus

15%

8517.50

- Other apparatus, for carrier-current line systems or for digital line systems

15%

8517.80

- Other apparatus

15%

8517.90

- Parts

15%

85.18

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 amplifiers; electric sound amplifier sets

8518.10

- Microphones and stands therefor

30%

- Loudspeakers, whether or not mounted in their enclosures:

8518.21

-- Single loundspeakers, mounted in their enclosures

30%

8518.22

-- Multiple loudspeakers, mounted in the same enclosure

30%

8518.29

-- Other

30%

8518.30

- Headphones and earphones, whether or not combined with a microphone, and sets consisting of a microphone and one or more loudspeakers

30%

8518.40

- Audio-frequency electric amplifiers

30%

8518.50

- Electric sound amplifier sets

30%

8518.90

- Parts

25%

85.19

Turntables (record-decks), record-players, cassette-players and other sound reproducing apparatus, not incorporating a sound recording device.

8519.10

- Coin or disc-operated record-players

30%

- Other record-players:

8519.21

-- Without loudspeaker

30%

8519.29

-- Other

30%

- Turntables (record-decks):

8519.31

-- With automatic record changing mechanism

30%

8519.39

-- Other

30%

8519.40

- Transcribing machines

30%

- Other sound reproducing apparatus:

8519.92

-- Pocket-size cassette-players

30%

8519.93

-- Other, cassette-type

30%

8519.99

-- Other

30%

85.20

Magnetic tape recorders and other sound recording apparatus, whether or not incorporating a sound reproducing device.

8520.10

- Dictating machines not capable of operating without an external source of power

30%

8520.20

- Telephone answering machines

15%

- Other magnetic tape recorders incorporating sound reproducing apparatus:

8520.32

-- Digital audio type

30%

8520.33

-- Other, cassette-type

30%

8520.39

-- Other

30%

8520.90

- Other

30%

85.21

Video recording or reproducing apparatus, whether or not incorporating a video tuner

8521.10

- Magnetic tape-type

30%

8521.90

- Other

30%

85.22

Parts and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of headings 85.19 to 85.21

8522.10

- Pick-up cartridges

30%

8522.90

- Other

30%

85.23

Prepared unrecorded media for sound recording or similar recording of other phenomena, other than products of Chapter 37.

- Magnetic tapes:

8523.11

-- Of a width not exceeding 4 mm

10%

8523.12

-- Of a width exceeding 4 mm but not exceeding 6.5 mm

10%

8523.13

-- Of a width exceeding 6.5. mm

10%

8523.20

- Magnetic discs

10%

8523.30

- Cards incorporating a magnetic stripe

30%

8523.90

- Other

10%

85.24

Records, tapes and other recorded media for sound or other similarly recorded phenomena, including matrices and masters for the production of records, but excluding products of Chapter 37.

8524.10

- Gramophone records

30%

- Discs for laser reading systems:

8524.31

-- For reproducing phenomena other than sound or image

10%

8524.32

-- For reproducing sound only

30%

8524.39

-- Other

30%

8524.40

- Magnetic tapes for reproducing phenomena other than sound or image

10%

- Other magnetic tapes:

8524.51

-- Of a width not exceeding 4 mm

30%

8524.52

-- Of a width exceeding 4 mm but not exceeding 6.5 mm

30%

8524.53

-- Of a width exceeding 6.5 mm

30%

8524.60

- Cards incorporating a magnetic strips

30%

- Other:

8524.91

-- For reproducing phenomena other than sound or image

10%

8524.99

-- Other

30%

85.25

Transmission apparatus for radio-telephony, radio-telegraphy, radio-broadcasting or television, whether or not incorporating reception apparatus or sound recording or reproducing apparatus; television cameras; still image video cameras and other video camera recorders; digital cameras

8525.10

- Transmission apparatus

25%

8525.20

- Transmission apparatus incorporating reception apparatus

15%

8525.30

- Television cameras

30%

8525.40

- Still image video cameras and other video camera recorders; digital cameras

30%

85.26

Radar apparatus, radio navigational aid apparatus and radio remote control apparatus.

8526.10

- Radar apparatus

30%

- Other :

8526.91

-- Radio navigational aid apparatus

30%

8526.92

-- Radio remote control apparatus

30%

85.27

Reception apparatus for radio-telephony, radio-telegraphy or radio-broadcasting, whether or not combined, in the same housing, with sound recording or reproducing apparatus or a clock.

- Radio-broadcast receivers capable of operating without an external source of power, including apparatus capable of receiving also radio-telephony or radio-telegraphy:

8527.12

-- Pocket-size radio cassette-players

30%

8527.13

-- Other apparatus combined with sound recording or reproducing apparatus

30%

8527.19

-- Other

30%

- Radio-broadcast receivers not capable of operating without an external source of power, of a kind used in motor vehicles, including apparatus capable of receiving also radio-telephony or radio-telegraphy:

8527.21

-- Combined with sound recording or reproducing apparatus

30%

8527.29

-- Other

30%

- Other radio-broadcast receivers, including apparatus capable of receiving also radio-telephony or radio telegraphy:

8527.31

-- Combined with sound recording or reproducing apparatus

30%

8527.32

-- Not combined with sound recording or reproducing apparatus but combined with a clock

30%

8527.39

-- Other

30%

8527.90

- Other apparatus

30%

85.28

Reception apparatus for television, whether or not incorporating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus; video monitors and video projectors

-- Reception apparatus for television, whether or not incorporating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus:

8528.12

--Colour

30%

8528.13

-- Black and white or other monochrome

30%

- Video monitors:

8528.21

-- Colour

30%

8528.22

-- Black and white or other monochrome

30%

8528.30

- Video projectors

30%

85.29

Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of headings 85.25 to 85.28.

8529.10

- Aerials and aerial reflectors of all kinds; parts suitable for use therewith

25%

8529.90

- Other

25%

85.30

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).

8530.10

- Equipment for railways or tramways

25%

8530.80

- Other equipment

25%

8530.90

- Parts

25%

85.31

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.

8531.10

- Burglar or fire alarms and similar apparatus

30%

8531.20

- Indicator panels incorporating liquid crystal devices (LCD)or light emitting diodes (LED)

15%

8531.80

- Other apparatus

30%

8531.90

- Parts

30%

85.32

Electrical capacitors, fixed, variable or adjustable (pre-set)

8532.10

- Fixed capacitors designed for use in 50/60 Hz circuits and having a reactive power handling capacity of not less than 0.5 Kvar (power capacitors)

15%

- Other fixed capacitors:

8532.21

-- Tantalum

Free

8532.22

-- Aluminium electrolytic

15%

8532.23

-- Ceramic dielectric, single layer

15%

8532.24

-- Ceramic dielectric, multilayer

Free

8532.25

-- Dielectric of paper or plastics

15%

8532.29

-- Other

15%

8532.30

- Variable or adjustable (pre-set) capacitors

15%

8532.90

- Parts

Free

85.33

Electrical resistors (including rheostats and potentiometers), other than heating resistors.

8533.10

- Fixed carbon resistors, composition or film types

15%

- Other fixed resistors:

8533.21

-- For a power handling capacity not exceeding 20 W

15%

8533.29

-- Other

15%

- Wirewound variable resistors, including rheostats and potentiometers:

8533.31

-- For a power handling capacity not exceeding 20 W

15%

8533.39

-- Other

15%

8533.40

- Other variable resistors, including rheostats and potentiometers

15%

8533.90

- Parts

Free

85.34

8534.00

Printed circuits.

15%

85.35

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, junction boxes), for a voltage exceeding 1,000 volts.

8535.10

- Fuses

25%

- Automatic circuit breakers:

8535.21

-- For a voltage of less than 72.5 kv

25%

8535.29

-- Other

25%

8535.30

- Isolating switches and make-and-break switches

25%

8535.40

- Lightning arresters, voltage limiters and surge suppressors

25%

8535.90

- Other

25%

85.36

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, lamp-holders, junction boxes), for a voltage not exceeding 1,000 volts.

8536.10

- Fuses

30%

8536.20

- Automatic circuit breakers:

30%

8536.30

- Other apparatus for protecting electrical circuits

30%

- Relays:

8536.41

-- For a voltage not exceeding 60 V

30%

8536.49

-- Other

30%

8536.50

- Other switches

30%

- Lamp-holders, plugs and sockets:

8536.61

-- Lamp-holders

30%

8536.69

-- Other

30%

8536.90

- Other apparatus

30%

85.37

Boards, panels (including numerical control 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 instrumets or apparatus of Chapter 90, other than switching apparatus of heading 85.17.

8537.10

- For a voltage not exceeding 1,000 V

30%

8537.20

- For a voltage exceeding 1,000 V

25%

85.38

"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 numerical control apparatus, other than switching apparatus of heading 85.17"

8538.10

- Boards, panels, consoles, desks, cabinets and other bases for the goods of heading No. 85.37, not equipped with their apparatus

30%

8538.90

- Other

30%

85.39

Electric filament or discharge lamps, including sealed beam lamp units and ultra-violet or infra-redlamps; arc-lamps.

8539.10

- Sealed beam lamp units

30%

- Other filament lamps, excluding ultraviolet or infra-red lamps:

8539.21

-- Tungsten halogen

30%

8539.22

-- Other, of a power not exceeding 200 W and for a voltage exceeding 100 V

30%

8539.29

-- Other

30%

- Discharge lamps, other than ultra-violet lamps:

8539.31

-- Fluorescent, hot cathode

30%

8539.32

-- Mercury or sodium vapour lamps; metal halide lamps

30%

8539.39

-- Other

30%

- Ultra-violet or infra-red lamps; rod-lamps Arc lamps:

8539.41

-- Arc-lamps

30%

8539.49

-- Other

30%

8539.90

- Parts

30%

85.40

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, cathode-ray tubes, television camera tubes).

- Cathode-ray television picture tubes, including video monitor cathode ray tubes:

8540.11

-- Colour

30%

8540.12

-- Black and white or other monochrome

25%

8540.20

- Television camera tubes; image converters and intensifiers; other photocathode tubes

25%

8540.40

- Data/graphic display tubes, colour, with a phosphor dot screen pitch smaller than 0.4 mm.

Free

8540.50

- Data/graphic display tubes, black and white or other monochrome

25%

8540.60

- Other cathode-ray tubes

25%

- Microwave tubes (for example, magnetrons, klystrons, travelling wave tubes, carcinotrons), excluding gridcontrolled tubes:

8540.71

-- Magnetrons

25%

8540.72

-- Klystrons

25%

8540.79

-- Other

25%

- Other valves and tubes:

8540.81

-- Receiver or amplifier valves and tubes

25%

8540.89

-- Other

25%

- Parts:

8540.91

-- Of cathode-ray tubes

30%

8540.99

-- Other

25%

85.41

Diodes, transistors and similar semi-conductor devices; photosensitive semi-conductor devices, including photovoltaic cells whether or not assembled in modules or made up into panels; light emitting diodes; mounted piezo-electric crystals.

8541.10

- Diodes, other than photosensitive or light emitting diodes

15%

- Transistors, other than photosensitive transistors:

8541.21

-- With a dissipation rate of less than 1 W

15%

8541.29

-- Other

15%

8541.30

- Thyristors, diacs and triacs, other than photosensitive devices

15%

8541.40

- Photosensitive semiconductor devices, including photovoltaic cells whether or not assembled in modules or made up into panels; light emitting diodes

15%

8541.50

- Other semiconductor devices

15%

8541.60

- Mounted piezo-electric crystals

15%

8541.90

- Parts

Free

85.42

Electronic integrated circuits and mi-croassemblies.

8542.10

-- Cards incorporating an electronic integrated circuit ("smart" cards)

Free

- Monolithic integrated circuits:

8542.21

-- Digital

Free

8542.29

-- Other

Free

8542.60

-- Hybrid integrated circuits

Free

8542.70

- Electronic microassemblies

Free

8542.90

- Parts

Free

85.43

Electrical machines and apparatus, having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter.

- Particle accelerators:

8543.11

-- lon implanters for doping semiconductor materials

Free

8543.19

-- Other

25%

8543.20

- Signal generators

25%

8543.30

- Machines and apparatus for electroplating, electrolysis or electrophoresis

25%

8543.40

- Electric fence energisers

30%

- Other machines and apparatus:

8543.81

-- Proximity cards and tags

15%

8543.89

-- Other

30%

8543.90

- Parts

25%

85.44

Insulated (including enamelled or anodised) wire, cable (including co-axial 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 electric conductors or fitted with connectors.

- Winding wire:

8544.11

-- Of copper

30%

8544.19

-- Other

30%

8544.20

- Co-axial cable and other co-axial electric conductors

30%

8544.30

- lgnition wiring sets and other wiring sets of a kind used in vehicles, aircraft or ships

30%

- Other electric conductors, for a voltage not exceeding 80 V:

8544.41