Code 8512 20 · Heading 8512

Electric lighting and visual signalling equipment for motor vehicles, excluding lamps under heading 8539

This code covers electric equipment that provides lighting or visual signals and is designed for motor vehicles. It does not cover lamps classified under heading 8539.

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Official tariff text

Electrical lighting or visual signalling equipment for motor vehicles (excl. lamps of heading 8539)

How we got to this code

XVI
85
8512
8512 20

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The path to this code

Every code is reached through these choices, one level at a time.

Step 4 of 4

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 85 Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereo… 2 of 2 chapters in section XVI
What is the product: an electrical motor, generator or converter; a transformer or electrical converter; a magnet; a primary cell or battery; an accumulator; a household appliance; a shaver or hair-removal appliance; equipment for an internal-combustion engine, vehicle or bicycle; a portable lamp; an industrial or laboratory heating appliance; soldering or welding equipment; another electrical heating appliance; a telephone or other data-communication device; sound equipment; video equipment or recording media; a display module; a radio, television, radar, navigation or remote-control device; electrical control, switching, lighting, semiconductor, circuit, cable or insulation equipment; another electrical machine or apparatus; or electrical and electronic waste or scrap?
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Step 3 · Heading 8512 Electrical lighting or signalling equipment (excl. … 12 of 48 headings under chapter 85
Is it electric lighting or visual signalling equipment for a bicycle, electric lighting or visual signalling equipment for a motor vehicle, electric audible signalling equipment for a bicycle or motor vehicle, an electric windscreen wiper, defroster or demister for a motor vehicle, or a part for one of these products?
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Step 4 · Subheading 8512 20 Electrical lighting or visual signalling equipment … 2 of 5 subheadings under heading 8512
Is it electric lighting or visual signalling equipment for motor vehicles, rather than equipment for bicycles, electric sound signalling equipment, electric wipers or defrosters, or a part?

Pick the 8-digit code

Import duty on the codes below: 2.7%

Only one code below

8512 20 00

Electrical lighting or visual signalling equipment for motor vehicles (excl. lamps of heading 8539)

2.7%

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

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8512 10 Electric lighting or visual signalling equipment of a kind used for bicycles (other than lamps of heading 8539) 2.7%
8512 20 Electrical lighting or visual signalling equipment for motor vehicles (excl. lamps of heading 8539) you are here 2.7%
8512 30 Electrical sound signalling equipment for cycles or motor vehicles 2.2–2.7%
8512 40 Electrical windscreen wipers, defrosters and demisters, for motor vehicles 2.7%
8512 90 Parts of electrical lighting or signalling equipment, windscreen wipers, defrosters and demisters of a kind used for cycles and motor vehicles, n.e.s. 2.2–2.7%

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

85.12.2000 Other lighting or visual signalling equipment

Norwegian tariff data checked Sept. 13, 2026.

Great Britain

2.0%

Their lines6 British lines
EU originDuty free

8512 20 00 25 An electrical component with an integrated LED, in an ABS housing, with: -a voltage of 11

Northern Ireland follows other rules.

UK tariff data checked Sept. 13, 2026.

United States

15.0%

Estimated from published US measures

Their lines4 US lines
Entry dateSept. 17, 2026

8512.20.20.40 Electrical lighting or signaling equipment (excluding articles of heading 8539)

The US importer of record files the entry.

US tariff data checked Sept. 16, 2026.

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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.

85.12.2000

Other lighting or visual signalling equipment

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.

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Selling to Great Britain

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

All 6 UK lines under this code

They all have the same duty rates shown here.

Ordinary duty

2.0%

Goods of EU origin

Duty free You need documentation of EU preferential origin to use this rate.

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).

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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.

8512.20.20.40

Electrical lighting or signaling equipment (excluding articles of heading 8539), windshield wipers, defrosters and demisters, of a kind used for cycles or motor vehicles; parts thereof, Other lighting or visual signaling equipment, Lighting equipment, For vehicles of subheading 8701.21, 8701.22, 8701.23, 8701.24 or 8701.29 or heading 8702, 8703, 8704, 8705 or 8711

General rate

Free

From the EU

15.0% Estimated from published US measures US headings applied: 9903.94.53 Section 232 passenger vehicles and light trucks, Proclamation 10908 as applied to the European Union by the notice at 90 FR 46136 of 25 September 2025 (retroactive to 1 August 2025), headings 9903.94.52 and 9903.94.53 of subchapter III of chapter 99 with U.S. note 33(o) with the line list of subdivision (g): 15% all-in on parts of passenger vehicles and light trucks of the European Union
8512.20.20.80

Electrical lighting or signaling equipment (excluding articles of heading 8539), windshield wipers, defrosters and demisters, of a kind used for cycles or motor vehicles; parts thereof, Other lighting or visual signaling equipment, Lighting equipment, Other

General rate

Free

From the EU

15.0% Estimated from published US measures US headings applied: 9903.94.53 Section 232 passenger vehicles and light trucks, Proclamation 10908 as applied to the European Union by the notice at 90 FR 46136 of 25 September 2025 (retroactive to 1 August 2025), headings 9903.94.52 and 9903.94.53 of subchapter III of chapter 99 with U.S. note 33(o) with the line list of subdivision (g): 15% all-in on parts of passenger vehicles and light trucks of the European Union
8512.20.40.40

Electrical lighting or signaling equipment (excluding articles of heading 8539), windshield wipers, defrosters and demisters, of a kind used for cycles or motor vehicles; parts thereof, Other lighting or visual signaling equipment, Visual signaling equipment, For vehicles of subheading 8701.21, 8701.22, 8701.23, 8701.24 or 8701.29 or heading 8702, 8703, 8704, 8705 or 8711

General rate

2.5%

From the EU

15.0% Estimated from published US measures US headings applied: 9903.94.53 Section 232 passenger vehicles and light trucks, Proclamation 10908 as applied to the European Union by the notice at 90 FR 46136 of 25 September 2025 (retroactive to 1 August 2025), headings 9903.94.52 and 9903.94.53 of subchapter III of chapter 99 with U.S. note 33(o) with the line list of subdivision (g): 15% all-in on parts of passenger vehicles and light trucks of the European Union
8512.20.40.80

Electrical lighting or signaling equipment (excluding articles of heading 8539), windshield wipers, defrosters and demisters, of a kind used for cycles or motor vehicles; parts thereof, Other lighting or visual signaling equipment, Visual signaling equipment, Other

General rate

2.5%

From the EU

15.0% Estimated from published US measures US headings applied: 9903.94.53 Section 232 passenger vehicles and light trucks, Proclamation 10908 as applied to the European Union by the notice at 90 FR 46136 of 25 September 2025 (retroactive to 1 August 2025), headings 9903.94.52 and 9903.94.53 of subchapter III of chapter 99 with U.S. note 33(o) with the line list of subdivision (g): 15% all-in on parts of passenger vehicles and light trucks of the European Union

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.