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Chapter 85Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles

The headings in this chapter of Canada's Customs Tariff. Each one opens on the numbers it contains.

Chapter 85 covers apparatus whose function is electrical: motors and generators, transformers, switchgear, wire and cable, telecommunications apparatus, semiconductors, lamps and batteries. It shares Section XVI with Chapter 84, and its rules for parts.

The boundary with Chapter 90 is the expensive one. An apparatus that measures, checks or analyses belongs to Chapter 90 even when it is wholly electronic. An apparatus that transmits, switches or supplies stays here. Domestic appliances with a self-contained motor stay at 8509 rather than moving to Chapter 84.

48 headings
  • 8501Electric motors and generators (excluding generating sets).
  • 8502Electric generating sets and rotary converters.
    • 8502.1Generating sets with compression-ignition internal combustion piston engines (diesel or semi-diesel engines):
    • 8502.20.00Generating sets with spark-ignition internal combustion piston engines
      • 8502.20.00.10For use on the farm, for farm purposes only; Ground power units, for providing electrical power for aircraft; Of an output not exceeding 35 kW
      • 8502.20.00.90Other
    • 8502.3Other generating sets:
    • 8502.40.00.00Electric rotary converters
  • 8503.00Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of heading 85.01 or 85.02.
  • 8504Electrical transformers, static converters (for example, rectifiers) and inductors.
  • 8505Electro-magnets; permanent magnets and articles intended to become permanent magnets after magnetization; electro-magnetic or permanent magnet chucks, clamps and similar holding devices; electro-magnetic couplings, clutches and brakes; electro-magnetic lifting heads.
  • 8506Primary cells and primary batteries.
    • 8506.10Manganese dioxide
      • 8506.10.10.00Alkaline cells having welded connectors or designed to receive welded connectors, for use in electronic lock systems or in components thereof; Primary batteries, 9 V, for use in the manufacture of smoke detectors
      • 8506.10.90.00Other
    • 8506.30.00.00Mercuric oxide
    • 8506.40.00.00Silver oxide
    • 8506.50Lithium
      • 8506.50.10.00Cells having welded connectors or designed to receive welded connectors, for use in electronic lock systems or in components thereof
      • 8506.50.90Other
    • 8506.60.00.00Air-zinc
    • 8506.80Other primary cells and primary batteries
    • 8506.90.00.00Parts
  • 8507Electric accumulators, including separators therefor, whether or not rectangular (including square).
    • 8507.10.00Lead-acid, of a kind used for starting piston engines
    • 8507.20Other lead-acid accumulators
      • 8507.20.10.00For use as the primary source of electrical power for electrically-powered vehicles of subheading 8703.80 or 8703.90; For use in the initial installation of smoke, fire or gas detection and alarm systems manufactured in Canada, including power supply panels and modules for those systems
      • 8507.20.90Other
    • 8507.30Nickel-cadmium
      • 8507.30.10.00Cells having welded connectors or designed to receive welded connectors, for use in electronic lock systems or in components thereof; For use in miners' safety lamps
      • 8507.30.20.00For use as the primary source of electrical power for electrically-powered vehicles of subheading 8703.80 or 8703.90
      • 8507.30.90.00Other
    • 8507.50Nickel-metal hydride
      • 8507.50.10.00For use as the primary source of electrical power for electrically-powered vehicles of subheading 8703.80 or 8703.90
      • 8507.50.90.00Other
    • 8507.60Lithium-ion
      • 8507.60.10.00For use as the primary source of electrical power for electrically-powered vehicles of subheading 8703.80 or 8703.90
      • 8507.60.20.00For use as the primary source of electrical power for electrically-powered motorcycles of subheading 8711.60 or 8711.90
      • 8507.60.90.00Other
    • 8507.80Other accumulators
      • 8507.80.10.00Alkaline or lithium cells having welded connectors or designed to receive welded connectors, for use in electronic lock systems or in components thereof; Low discharge types, for use in the manufacture, maintenance or repair of buoys or beacons for the Government of Canada
      • 8507.80.20.00For use as the primary source of electrical power for electrically-powered vehicles of subheading 8703.80 or 8703.90
      • 8507.80.90.00Other
    • 8507.90.00.00Parts
  • 8508Vacuum cleaners.
  • 8509Electro-mechanical domestic appliances, with self-contained electric motor, other than vacuum cleaners of heading 85.08.
  • 8510Shavers, hair clippers and hair-removing appliances, with self-contained electric motor.
  • 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, sparking plugs and glow plugs, starter motors); generators (for example, dynamos, alternators) and cut-outs of a kind used in conjunction with such engines.
  • 8512Electrical lighting or signalling equipment (excluding articles of heading 85.39), windscreen wipers, defrosters and demisters, of a kind used for cycles or motor vehicles.
  • 8513Portable 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.
  • 8514Industrial 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.
  • 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 cutting; electric machines and apparatus for hot spraying of metals or cermets.
  • 8516Electric 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 curlers, 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.
  • 8517Telephone sets, including smartphones and other 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 local or wide area network), other than transmission or reception apparatus of heading 84.43, 85.25, 85.27 or 85.28.
    • 8517.1Telephone sets, including smartphones and other telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks:
    • 8517.6Other apparatus for transmission or reception of voice, images or other data, including apparatus for communication in a wired or wireless network (such as a local or wide area network):
    • 8517.7Parts:
  • 8518Microphones 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.
  • 8519Sound recording or reproducing apparatus.
  • 8521Video recording or reproducing apparatus, whether or not incorporating a video tuner.
  • 8522Parts and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading 85.19 or 85.21.
  • 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 37.
  • 8524Flat panel display modules, whether or not incorporating touch-sensitive screens.
    • 8524.1Without drivers or control circuits:
      • 8524.11Of liquid crystals
      • 8524.12Of organic light-emitting diodes (OLED)
      • 8524.19Other
    • 8524.9Other:
      • 8524.91Of liquid crystals
      • 8524.92Of organic light-emitting diodes (OLED)
      • 8524.99Other
  • 8525Transmission 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 recorders.
  • 8526Radar apparatus, radio navigational aid apparatus and radio remote control apparatus.
  • 8527Reception apparatus for radio-broadcasting, whether or not combined, in the same housing, with sound recording or reproducing apparatus or a clock.
    • 8527.1Radio-broadcast receivers capable of operating without an external source of power:
    • 8527.2Radio-broadcast receivers not capable of operating without an external source of power, of a kind used in motor vehicles:
    • 8527.9Other:
  • 8528Monitors 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 apparatus.
    • 8528.4Cathode-ray tube monitors:
      • 8528.42.00.00Capable of directly connecting to and designed for use with an automatic data processing machine of heading 84.71
      • 8528.49.00.00Other
    • 8528.5Other monitors:
      • 8528.52.00.00Capable of directly connecting to and designed for use with an automatic data processing machine of heading 84.71
      • 8528.59Other
        • 8528.59.1For use in the manufacture of lightwave transmission systems:
        • 8528.59.20.00Black and white or other monochrome
        • 8528.59.30.00Incomplete or unfinished colour monitors, including assemblies for monitors consisting of video intermeidate (IF) amplifying and detecting systems, video processing and amplification systems, synchronizing and deflection circuitry and audio detection and amplification systems plus a power supply, but not incorporating a flat panel screen or similar display; Other, having a single picture tube intended for direct viewing (non-projection type); Other, with flat panel screen
        • 8528.59.90.00Other
    • 8528.6Projectors:
      • 8528.62.00.00Capable of directly connecting to and designed for use with an automatic data processing machine of heading 84.71
      • 8528.69Other
        • 8528.69.1Colour, with flat panel screen:
          • 8528.69.11.00Capable of being used with both automatic data processing machines of heading 84.71 and with apparatus which emits television signals
          • 8528.69.19.00Other
        • 8528.69.20.00Incomplete or unfinished colour pojectors, including assemblies for projectors consisting of video intermediate (IF) amplifying and detecting systems, video processing and amplification systems, synchronizing and deflection circuitry and audio detection and amplification systems plus a power supply, but not incorporating a cathode-ray tube, flat panel screen or similar display; Colour, other
        • 8528.69.30.00Black and white or other monochrome
    • 8528.7Reception apparatus for television, whether or not incorporating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus:
      • 8528.71.00Not designed to incorporate a video display or screen
        • 8528.71.00.10Set-top boxes which have a communication function: a microprocessor-based device incorporating a model for gaining access to the Internet, and having a function of interactive information exchange
        • 8528.71.00.90Other
      • 8528.72Other, colour
        • 8528.72.10.00Set-top boxes which have a communication function: a microprocessor-based device incorporating a modem for gaining access to the Internet, and having a function of interactive information exchange
        • 8528.72.20.00Incomplete or unfinished television receivers, including assemblies for television receivers consisting of video intermediate (IF) amplifying and detecting systems, video processing and amplification systems, synchronizing and deflection circuitry, tuners and tuner control systems, and audio detection and amplification systems plus a power supply, but not incorporating a cathode-ray tube, flat panel screen or similar display
        • 8528.72.3High definition:
        • 8528.72.9Other:
          • 8528.72.91.00Having a single picture tube intended for direct viewing (non-projection type), with a video display diagonal not exceeding 35.56 cm
          • 8528.72.92.00Combined in the same housing with video recording or reproducing apparatus (video cassette recorders/players), having a single picture tube intended for direct viewing (non-projection type), with a video display diagonal exceeding 35.56 cm
          • 8528.72.93.00Other non-projection type having a single picture tube intended for direct viewing, with a video display diagonal exceeding 35.56 cm but less than 66.04 cm
          • 8528.72.94.00Other non-projection type having a single picture tube intended for direct viewing, with a video display diagonal of 66.04 cm or more
          • 8528.72.95.00Projection type, with cathode-ray tube
          • 8528.72.96.00Other, with flat panel screen
          • 8528.72.97.00Other, for use in the manufacture of lightwave transmission systems
          • 8528.72.99.00Other
      • 8528.73Other, monochrome
  • 8529Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of headings 85.24 to 85.28.
    • 8529.10.00Aerials and aerial reflectors of all kinds; parts suitable for use therewith
    • 8529.90Other
      • 8529.90.10.00Printed circuit assemblies
      • 8529.90.20.00Transceiver assemblies for the goods of subheading 8526.10, not elsewhere specified or included
      • 8529.90.3The following parts of television receivers (including video monitors and video projectors): video intermediate (IF) amplifying and detecting systems; video processing and amplification systems; synchronizing and deflection circuitry; tuners and tuner control systems; and audio detection and amplification systems:
      • 8529.90.50.00Parts, including face plates and lock latches, for printed circuit assemblies
      • 8529.90.60.00Other parts of goods of heading 85.25 or 85.27, excluding parts of cellular telephones
      • 8529.90.90.00Other
  • 8530Electrical 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).
  • 8531Electric 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.
  • 8532Electrical capacitors, fixed, variable or adjustable (pre-set).
  • 8533Electrical resistors (including rheostats and potentiometers), other than heating resistors.
    • 8533.10.00.00Fixed carbon resistors, composition or film types
    • 8533.2Other fixed resistors:
    • 8533.3Wirewound variable resistors, including rheostats and potentiometers:
    • 8533.40.00.00Other variable resistors, including rheostats and potentiometers
    • 8533.90Parts
      • 8533.90.10.00Of ceramic or metallic materials, electrically or mechanically reactive to changes in temperature, for the goods of tariff item No. 8533.40.00
      • 8533.90.90.00Other
  • 8534.00.00Printed circuits.
  • 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 volts.
  • 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 volts; connectors for optical fibres, optical fibre bundles or cables.
  • 8537Boards, 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.
  • 8538Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading 85.35, 85.36 or 85.37.
    • 8538.10.00.00Boards, panels, consoles, desks, cabinets and other bases for the goods of heading 85.37, not equipped with their apparatus
    • 8538.90Other
      • 8538.90.10.00Of ceramic or metallic materials, electrically or mechanically reactive to changes in temperature, for motor starters and overload protectors
      • 8538.90.20.00Printed circuit assemblies
      • 8538.90.3Moulded parts:
        • 8538.90.31.00For use in the manufacture of relays, microwave, passive infrared, or combination microwave/passive infrared, for a voltage not exceeding 60 V
        • 8538.90.39.00Other
      • 8538.90.90Other
  • 8539Electric filament or discharge lamps, including sealed beam lamp units and ultra-violet or infra-red lamps; arc-lamps, light-emitting diode (LED) light sources.
    • 8539.10Sealed beam lamp units
    • 8539.2Other filament lamps, excluding ultra-violet or infra-red lamps:
    • 8539.3Discharge lamps, other than ultra-violet lamps:
      • 8539.31.00Fluorescent, hot cathode
      • 8539.32Mercury or sodium vapour lamps; metal halide lamps
        • 8539.32.10.00For use in measuring, checking or testing instruments of Chapter 90, or for use in electrically operated apparatus for indicating intervals of time; High pressure (190-200 atmospheres), 100W to 300W mercury discharge lamps with arc gaps from 1.0mm to 1.3mm, mounted within a parabolic or elliptical dichroic glass reflector, and with a luminious efficiency of 60 (+/- 5) lumens per watt, for use in Canadian manufactures
        • 8539.32.90Other
      • 8539.39.00.00Other
    • 8539.4Ultra-violet or infra-red lamps; arc-lamps:
      • 8539.41Arc-lamps
        • 8539.41.10.00For use in measuring, checking or testing instruments of Chapter 90, or for use in electrically operated apparatus for indicating intervals of time; Hollow-cathode lamps, for use in instruments and apparatus for measuring or detecting noxious gases; Xenon arc-lamps
        • 8539.41.90.00Other
      • 8539.49Other
        • 8539.49.10.00For use in measuring, checking or testing instruments of Chapter 90, or for use in electrically operated apparatus for indicating intervals of time; Ultra violet hollow-cathode lamps, for use in instruments and apparatus for measuring or detecting noxious gases; Ultra violet lamps designed for detecting scheelite ore
        • 8539.49.90.00Other
    • 8539.5Light-emitting diode (LED) light sources:
    • 8539.90Parts
      • 8539.90.10.00Filaments, cathodes or electrodes, for use in the manufacture of electric lamps; Of the goods of tariff item No. 8539.10.90, 8539.22.10, 8539.29.10, 8539.32.10, 8539.39.00, 8539.41.10, 8539.49.10, 8543.90.00 or 9405.99.00
      • 8539.90.90.00Other
  • 8540Thermionic, cold cathode or photo-cathode 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).
    • 8540.1Cathode-ray television picture tubes, including video monitor cathode-ray tubes:
      • 8540.11Colour
        • 8540.11.1High definition:
        • 8540.11.2Other, for non-projection television receivers:
        • 8540.11.90.00Other
      • 8540.12Monochrome
        • 8540.12.1High definition:
          • 8540.12.11.00For use in the manufacture of video monitors; For use in the manufacture of high definition colour television receivers, projection type
          • 8540.12.19.00Other
        • 8540.12.9Other:
          • 8540.12.91.00For use in the manufacture of video monitors; For use in the manufacture of other colour television receivers, projection type
          • 8540.12.99.00Other
    • 8540.20.00.00Television camera tubes; image converters and intensifiers; other photo-cathode tubes
    • 8540.40.00.00Data/graphic display tubes, monochrome; data/graphic display tubes, colour, with a phosphor dot screen pitch smaller than 0.4 mm
    • 8540.60.00.00Other cathode-ray tubes
    • 8540.7Microwave tubes (for example, magnetrons, klystrons, travelling wave tubes, carcinotrons), excluding grid-controlled tubes:
    • 8540.8Other valves and tubes:
    • 8540.9Parts:
      • 8540.91Of cathode-ray tubes
        • 8540.91.10.00Front panel assemblies as follows: (a) with respect to colour cathode-ray television picture tube, an assembly that consists of a glass panel to which a shadow mask or aperture grill is attached for ultimate use, that is suitable for incorporation into a colour cathode-ray television picture tube (including a video monitor or video projector cathode-ray tube) and that has undergone the necessary chemical and physical processes for imprinting phosphors on the glass panel with sufficient precision to render a video image when excited by a stream of electrons; or (b) with respect to a monochrome cathode-ray television picture tube, an assembly that consists of either a glass panel or a glass envelope, that is suitable for incorporation into a monochrome cathode-ray television picture tube (including a video monitor or video projector cathode-ray tube) and that has undergone the necessary chemical and physical processes for imprinting phosphors on the glass panel or glass envelope with sufficient precision to render a video image when excited by a stream of electrons
        • 8540.91.90.00Other
      • 8540.99Other
        • 8540.99.10.00Electron guns; Radio frequency (RF) interaction structures for microwave tubes of subheading 8540.71, 8540.72 or 8540.79
        • 8540.99.90.00Other
  • 8541Semiconductor devices (for example, diodes, transistors, semiconductor-based transducers); photosensitive semiconductor devices, including photovoltaic cells whether or not assembled in modules or made up into panels; light-emitting diodes (LED), whether or not assembled with other light-emitting diodes (LED); mounted piezo-electric crystals.
  • 8542Electronic integrated circuits.
  • 8543Electrical machines and apparatus, having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter.
  • 8544Insulated (including enamelled or anodized) 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.
  • 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 purposes.
  • 8546Electrical insulators of any material.
  • 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 moulding solely for purposes of assembly, other than insulators of heading 85.46; electrical conduit tubing and joints therefor, of base metal lined with insulating material.
  • 8548.00.00.00Electrical parts of machinery or apparatus, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter.
  • 8549Electrical and electronic waste and scrap.
    • 8549.1Waste and scrap of primary cells, primary batteries and electric accumulators; spent primary cells, spent primary batteries and spent electric accumulators:
    • 8549.2Of a kind used principally for the recovery of precious metal:
      • 8549.21.00.00Containing primary cells, primary batteries, electric accumulators, mercury-switches, glass from cathode-ray tubes or other activated glass, or electrical or electronic components containing cadmium, mercury, lead or polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)
      • 8549.29.00.00Other
    • 8549.3Other electrical and electronic assemblies and printed circuit boards:
      • 8549.31.00.00Containing primary cells, primary batteries, electric accumulators, mercury-switches, glass from cathode-ray tubes or other activated glass, or electrical or electronic components containing cadmium, mercury, lead or polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)
      • 8549.39.00.00Other
    • 8549.9Other:
      • 8549.91.00.00Containing primary cells, primary batteries, electric accumulators, mercury-switches, glass from cathode-ray tubes or other activated glass, or electrical or electronic components containing cadmium, mercury, lead or polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)
      • 8549.99.00.00Other

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