8456 — Machine tools for working any material by removal of material, by laser or other light or photon beam, ultrasonic, electrodischarge, electrochemical, electron beam, ionic-beam or plasma arc processes; water-jet cutting machines

Description

Machine tools for working any material by removal of material, by laser or other light or photon beam, ultrasonic, electrodischarge, electrochemical, electron beam, ionic-beam or plasma arc processes; water-jet cutting machines

Subheadings

• 845611Operated by laser or other light or photon beam processes — Operated by laser
• 845612Operated by laser or other light or photon beam processes — Operated by other light or photon beam processes
• 845620Operated by ultrasonic processes
• 845630Operated by electrodischarge processes
• 845640Operated by plasma arc processes
• 845650Water-jet cutting machines
• 845690Other

Common questions

What is HS code 8456?

Machine tools for working any material by removal of material, by laser or other light or photon beam, ultrasonic, electrodischarge, electrochemical, electron beam, ionic-beam or plasma arc processes; water-jet cutting machines

What does 8456 include?

It covers 7 subheadings: 845611 Operated by laser or other light or photon beam processes — Operated by laser; 845612 Operated by laser or other light or photon beam processes — Operated by other light or photon beam processes; 845620 Operated by ultrasonic processes; 845630 Operated by electrodischarge processes; 845640 Operated by plasma arc processes; 845650 Water-jet cutting machines; 845690 Other.

Other headings in Chapter 84

• 8426Ships' derricks; cranes, including cable cranes; mobile lifting frames, straddle carriers and works trucks fitted with a crane
• 8427Fork-lift trucks; other works trucks fitted with lifting or handling equipment
• 8428Other lifting, handling, loading or unloading machinery (for example, lifts, escalators, conveyors, teleferics)
• 8429Self-propelled bulldozers, angledozers, graders, levellers, scrapers, mechanical shovels, excavators, shovel loaders, tamping machines and roadrollers
• 8430Other moving, grading, levelling, scraping, excavating, tamping, compacting, extracting or boring machinery, for earth, minerals or ores; piledrivers and pile extractors; snowploughs and snowblowers
• 8431Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machinery of headings 8425 to 8430
• 8432Agricultural, horticultural or forestry machinery for soil preparation or cultivation; lawn or sports-ground rollers
• 8433Harvesting or threshing machinery, including straw or fodder balers; grass or hay mowers; machines for cleaning, sorting or grading eggs, fruit or other agricultural produce, other than machinery of heading 8437
• 8434Milking machines and dairy machinery
• 8435Presses, crushers and similar machinery used in the manufacture of wine, cider, fruit juices or similar beverages
• 8436Other agricultural, horticultural, forestry, poultry-keeping or bee-keeping machinery, including germination plant fitted with mechanical or thermal equipment; poultry incubators and brooders
• 8437Machines for cleaning, sorting or grading seed, grain or dried leguminous vegetables; machinery used in the milling industry or for the working of cereals or dried leguminous vegetables, other than farm-type machinery
• 8438Machinery, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter, for the industrial preparation or manufacture of food or drink, other than machinery for the extraction or preparation of animal or fixed vegetable or microbial fats or oils
• 8439Machinery for making pulp of fibrous cellulosic material or for making or finishing paper or paperboard
• 8440Bookbinding machinery, including book-sewing machines
• 8441Other machinery for making up paper pulp, paper or paperboard, including cutting machines of all kinds
• 8442Machinery, apparatus and equipment (other than the machines of headings 8456 to 8465) for preparing or making plates, cylinders or other printing components; plates, cylinders and other printing components; plates, cylinders and lithographic stones, prepared for printing purposes (for example, planed, grained or polished)
• 8443Printing machinery used for printing by means of plates, cylinders and other printing components of heading 8442; other printers, copying machines and facsimile machines, whether or not combined; parts and accessories thereof
• 8444Machines for extruding, drawing, texturing or cutting man-made textile materials
• 8445Machines for preparing textile fibres; spinning, doubling or twisting machines and other machinery for producing textile yarns; textile reeling or winding (including weft-winding) machines and machines for preparing textile yarns for use on the machines of heading 8446 or 8447
• 8446Weaving machines (looms)
• 8447Knitting machines, stitch-bonding machines and machines for making gimped yarn, tulle, lace, embroidery, trimmings, braid or net and machines for tufting
• 8448Auxiliary machinery for use with machines of heading 8444, 8445, 8446 or 8447 (for example, dobbies, jacquards, automatic stop motions, shuttle changing mechanisms); parts and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of this heading or of heading 8444, 8445, 8446 or 8447 (for example, spindles and spindle flyers, card clothing, combs, extruding nipples, shuttles, healds and heald-frames, hosiery needles)
• 8449Machinery for the manufacture or finishing of felt or nonwovens in the piece or in shapes, including machinery for making felt hats; blocks for making hats
• 8450Household or laundry-type washing machines, including machines which both wash and dry
• 8451Machinery (other than machines of heading 8450) for washing, cleaning, wringing, drying, ironing, pressing (including fusing presses), bleaching, dyeing, dressing, finishing, coating or impregnating textile yarns, fabrics or made-up textile articles and machines for applying the paste to the base fabric or other support used in the manufacture of floor coverings such as linoleum; machines for reeling, unreeling, folding, cutting or pinking textile fabrics
• 8452Sewing machines, other than book-sewing machines of heading 8440; furniture, bases and covers specially designed for sewing machines; sewing machine needles
• 8453Machinery for preparing, tanning or working hides, skins or leather or for making or repairing footwear or other articles of hides, skins or leather, other than sewing machines
• 8454Converters, ladles, ingot moulds and casting machines, of a kind used in metallurgy or in metal foundries
• 8455Metal-rolling mills and rolls therefor
• 8457Machining centres, unit construction machines (single station) and multi-station transfer machines, for working metal
• 8458Lathes (including turning centres) for removing metal
• 8459Machine tools (including way-type unit head machines) for drilling, boring, milling, threading or tapping by removing metal, other than lathes (including turning centres) of heading 8458
• 8460Machine tools for deburring, sharpening, grinding, honing, lapping, polishing or otherwise finishing metal or cermets by means of grinding stones, abrasives or polishing products, other than gear cutting, gear grinding or gear finishing machines of heading 8461
• 8461Machine tools for planing, shaping, slotting, broaching, gear cutting, gear grinding or gear finishing, sawing, cutting-off and other machine tools working by removing metal or cermets, not elsewhere specified or included
• 8462Machine tools (including presses) for working metal by forging, hammering or die forging (excluding rolling mills); machine tools (including presses, slitting lines and cut-to-length lines) for working metal by bending, folding, straightening, flattening, shearing, punching, notching or nibbling (excluding draw-benches); presses for working metal or metal carbides, not specified above
• 8463Other machine tools for working metal or cermets, without removing material
• 8464Machine tools for working stone, ceramics, concrete, asbestos-cement or like mineral materials or for cold working glass
• 8465Machine tools (including machines for nailing, stapling, glueing or otherwise assembling) for working wood, cork, bone, hard rubber, hard plastics or similar hard materials
• 8466Parts and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of headings 8456 to 8465, including work or tool holders, self-opening dieheads, dividing heads and other special attachments for the machines; tool holders for any type of tool for working in the hand
• 8467Tools for working in the hand, pneumatic, hydraulic or with self-contained electric or non-electric motor
• 8468Machinery and apparatus for soldering, brazing or welding, whether or not capable of cutting, other than those of heading 8515; gas-operated surface tempering machines and appliances
• 8470Calculating machines and pocket-size data-recording, reproducing and displaying machines with calculating functions; accounting machines, postage-franking machines, ticket-issuing machines and similar machines, incorporating a calculating device; cash registers
• 8471Automatic data-processing machines and units thereof; magnetic or optical readers, machines for transcribing data onto data media in coded form and machines for processing such data, not elsewhere specified or included
• 8472Other office machines (for example, hectograph or stencil duplicating machines, addressing machines, automatic banknote dispensers, coin-sorting machines, coin-counting or -wrapping machines, pencil-sharpening machines, perforating or stapling machines)
• 8473Parts and accessories (other than covers, carrying cases and the like) suitable for use solely or principally with machines of headings 8470 to8472
• 8474Machinery for sorting, screening, separating, washing, crushing, grinding, mixing or kneading earth, stone, ores or other mineral substances, in solid (including powder or paste) form; machinery for agglomerating, shaping or moulding solid mineral fuels, ceramic paste, unhardened cements, plastering materials or other mineral products in powder or paste form; machines for forming foundry moulds of sand
• 8475Machines for assembling electric or electronic lamps, tubes or valves or flashbulbs, in glass envelopes; machines for manufacturing or hot working glass or glassware
• 8476Automatic goods-vending machines (for example, postage stamp, cigarette, food or beverage machines), including money-changing machines
• 8477Machinery for working rubber or plastics or for the manufacture of products from these materials, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter
• 8478Machinery for preparing or making up tobacco, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter
• 8479Machines and mechanical appliances having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter
• 8480Moulding boxes for metal foundry; mould bases; moulding patterns; moulds for metal (other than ingot moulds), metal carbides, glass, mineral materials, rubber or plastics
• 8481Taps, cocks, valves and similar appliances for pipes, boiler shells, tanks, vats or the like, including pressure-reducing valves and thermostatically controlled valves
• 8482Ball or roller bearings
• 8483Transmission shafts (including cam shafts and crank shafts) and cranks; bearing housings and plain shaft bearings; gears and gearing; ball or roller screws; gear boxes and other speed changers, including torque converters; flywheels and pulleys, including pulley blocks; clutches and shaft couplings (including universal joints)
• 8484Gaskets and similar joints of metal sheeting combined with other material or of two or more layers of metal; sets or assortments of gaskets and similar joints, dissimilar in composition, put up in pouches, envelopes or similar packings; mechanical seals
• 8485Machines for additive manufacturing
• 8486Machines and apparatus of a kind used solely or principally for the manufacture of semiconductor boules or wafers, semiconductor devices, electronic integrated circuits or flat panel displays; machines and apparatus specified in note 11(C) to this chapter; parts and accessories
• 8487Machinery parts, not containing electrical connectors, insulators, coils, contacts or other electrical features, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter