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8540Chapter 85

HS code 8540: Thermionic

Covers:
Thermionic, cold cathode or photocathode valves and tubes (for example, vacuum or vapour… (11 subcodes below).

Official description

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)

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What 8540 covers and what it doesn’t

Official text: 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).

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Common questions

What is HS code 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, cathode ray tubes, television camera tubes)
What does 8540 include?
It covers 11 subheadings: 854011 Cathode ray television picture tubes, including video monitor cathode ray tubes — Colour; 854012 Cathode ray television picture tubes, including video monitor cathode ray tubes — Monochrome; 854020 Television camera tubes; image converters and intensifiers; other photocathode tubes; 854040 Data/graphic display tubes, monochrome; data/graphic display tubes, colour, with a phosphor dot screen pitch smaller than 0,4 mm; 854060 Other cathode ray tubes; 854071 Microwave tubes (for example, magnetrons, klystrons, travelling-wave tubes, carcinotrons), excluding grid-controlled tubes — Magnetrons; 854079 Microwave tubes (for example, magnetrons, klystrons, travelling-wave tubes, carcinotrons), excluding grid-controlled tubes — Other; 854081 Other valves and tubes — Receiver or amplifier valves and tubes; 854089 Other valves and tubes — Other; 854091 Parts — Of cathode ray tubes; 854099 Parts — Other.

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