Code 8479 81 · Heading 8479

Metal-treatment machines, including electrical-coil winders, not elsewhere specified, excluding robots, ovens, dryers, spray equipment, jet cleaners, rolling machines, machine tools and rope, twine or cable-making machines

This code covers machines, apparatus and mechanical tools for treating metal, including electrical-coil winding apparatus and similar equipment, when they are not elsewhere specified. It does not cover industrial robots, ovens, drying apparatus, spray guns or similar apparatus, high-pressure cleaners or other jet cleaning machines, rolling machines, machine tools, or rope, twine and cable-making machines.

For example

Electrical-coil winding apparatus for treating metal, not an industrial robot, oven, drying apparatus, spray gun or similar apparatus, jet cleaning machine, rolling machine, machine tool, or rope, twine or cable-making machine

See the official tariff text

Official tariff text

Machinery for treating metal, incl. electric wire coil-winders, n.e.s. (excl. industrial robots, furnaces, dryers, spray guns and the like, high-pressure cleaning equipment and other jet cleaners, rolling millls or machines, machine tools and rope or cable-making machines)

How we got to this code

XVI
84
8479
8479 81

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Step 1 · Section XVI Machinery and mechanical appliances; electrical equ…
Is the product a machine, apparatus or mechanical tool, or is it electrical equipment, a sound recorder or player, or a television image and sound recorder or player?
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Step 2 · Chapter 84 Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical… 1 of 2 chapters in section XVI
What is the machine, appliance or part specifically designed to do?
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Step 3 · Heading 8479 Machines and mechanical appliances having individua… 78 of 86 headings under chapter 84
What is the machine, appliance, mechanical tool or part specifically for: construction work, extracting or preparing fats or oils, treating wood or cork, making ropes or cables, industrial robotics, evaporative air cooling, airport or other passenger bridges, treating metal, mixing or processing materials, cold isostatic pressing, another unspecified function, or is it a part?
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Step 4 · Subheading 8479 81 Machinery for treating metal, incl. electric wire c… 9 of 13 subheadings under heading 8479
Is the machine for construction work; extracting or preparing fats or oils; treating wood or cork; making rope, twine or cables; an industrial robot; an evaporative air cooler; an airport or other passenger or boarding bridge; mixing, kneading, crushing, grinding, screening, filtering, homogenising, emulsifying or stirring; a cold isostatic press; or a part—or is it a metal-treatment machine of the type described here?

Pick the 8-digit code

Import duty on the codes below: 1.7%

Only one code below

8479 81 00

1.7%

This subheading has one 8-digit code, so that is the code to use.

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This is the catch-all under 8479: it covers what the sibling codes below do not.

This is where metal-treatment machines with an independent function in the parent group go when no sibling names their specific class, including electrical-coil winding apparatus and similar equipment, subject to the stated exclusions.

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8479 10 Machinery for public works, building or the like, n.e.s. 0.0%
8479 20 Machinery for the extraction or preparation of animal or fixed vegetable or microbial fats or oils (other than centrifuges, filters and heating appliances) 1.7%
8479 30 Presses for the manufacture of particle board or fibre building board of wood or other ligneous materials and other machinery for treating wood or cork (excl. dryers, spray guns and the like and machine tools) 1.7%
8479 40 Rope or cable-making machines (excl. twisting machines of the type used in spinning mills) 1.7%
8479 50 Industrial robots, n.e.s. 1.7%
8479 60 Evaporative air coolers, n.e.s. 1.7%
8479 71 Passenger boarding bridges, of a kind used in airports 1.7%
8479 79 Passenger boarding bridges (excl. of a kind used in airports) 1.7%
8479 81 Machinery for treating metal, incl. electric wire coil-winders, n.e.s. (excl. industrial robots, furnaces, dryers, spray guns and the like, high-pressure cleaning equipment and other jet cleaners, rolling millls or machines, machine tools and rope or cable-making machines) you are here 1.7%
8479 82 Mixing, kneading, crushing, grinding, screening, sifting, homogenising, emulsifying or stirring machines, n.e.s. (excl. industrial robots) 1.7%
8479 83 Cold isostatic presses 1.7%
8479 89 Machines and mechanical appliances, n.e.s. 0.0–1.7%
8479 90 Parts of machines and mechanical appliances, n.e.s. 0.0–1.7%

Selling to Norway, Great Britain and the United States

What they charge on arrival.

Norway, Great Britain and the United States use their own tariff lines under the 6-digit HS code. The rates below are what their customs charge on goods arriving from the EU. Match the goods against each country's own wording before you rely on a rate.

Norway

Duty free

Their lines1 Norwegian line

84.79.8100 For treating metal, including electric wire coil-winders

Norwegian tariff data checked Sept. 13, 2026.

Great Britain

Duty free

Their lines1 British line

8479 81 00 00 For treating metal, including electric wire coil-winders

Northern Ireland follows other rules.

UK tariff data checked Sept. 13, 2026.

United States

10.0%

Estimated from published US measures

Their lines1 US line
Entry dateSept. 17, 2026

8479.81.00.00 Machines and mechanical appliances having individual functions, not specified or included

The US importer of record files the entry.

US tariff data checked Sept. 16, 2026.

See the 1 Norwegian line

Selling to Norway

Norway splits the 6-digit category its own way, so these are Norway's own lines under it, not this EU code. Check your product against their wording; what Norwegian customs charges is shown per line.

84.79.8100

For treating metal, including electric wire coil-winders

Ordinary duty

Duty free

Norwegian tariff data version 1.5/1.2, last checked Sept. 13, 2026.

Contains data from Norwegian Customs (data.toll.no), licensed under CC BY 4.0, adapted for display.

See the 1 British line

Selling to Great Britain

What UK customs charges when goods like these arrive in Great Britain.

8479 81 00 00

For treating metal, including electric wire coil-winders

Ordinary duty

Duty free

These rates apply in Great Britain. Different rules may apply for goods entering Northern Ireland.

UK tariff data version v4.0.1599, last checked Sept. 13, 2026.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Source: UK Department for Business and Trade (data.api.trade.gov.uk).

See the 1 US line

Selling to the United States

What US customs charges when goods like these arrive from the EU. The US importer of record files the entry and pays the duty.

8479.81.00.00

Machines and mechanical appliances having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter; parts thereof, Other machines and mechanical appliances, For treating metal, including electric wire coil-winders

General rate

Free

From the EU

10.0% Estimated from published US measures US headings applied: 9903.05.39 Section 301 forced-labour action, 91 FR 47318 (memorandum 91 FR 47717), U.S. note 52 to subchapter III of chapter 99

Worked out for an entry on Sept. 17, 2026.

US tariff schedule 2026HTSRev19, last checked Sept. 16, 2026.

Last change we recorded: Revision 19 (2026), Sept. 16, 2026.

Anti-dumping and countervailing duties, US import taxes and customs fees are not included.

The descriptions above are the US tariff texts, which the United States publishes in English only.

Source: the US International Trade Commission's Harmonized Tariff Schedule (hts.usitc.gov), public domain, and the measures published in the Federal Register.

This is a planning estimate from the US Harmonized Tariff Schedule (revision shown) and the published Federal Register measures as of the date shown, for a shipment of EU origin. It is not a customs entry, legal advice or a broker's opinion, and tariffs.help is not a US-licensed customs broker. The US importer of record or their broker confirms the classification, origin, value and the duty due before filing.

Duty rates shown here are estimates, read from official EU / Danish, Norwegian and UK tariff data for orientation only. Confirm the current rate with Toldstyrelsen, TARIC, Norwegian Customs or the UK Online Trade Tariff before you file. The rate you pay can also depend on the country of origin. These are base customs duties only: import VAT, excise duties, anti-dumping duties and safeguard or quota measures are not included.