Code 8442 40 · Heading 8442

Parts, not elsewhere specified, for machines, apparatus and tools used for type casting or typesetting, and for making or processing printing plates, cylinders and similar items

This code covers parts for machines, apparatus or tools used for type casting or typesetting, and for making or processing clichés, printing plates, printing cylinders and similar items. The goods must be parts, rather than the complete machines, apparatus or tools, or the plates, cylinders and similar items themselves.

For example

A replacement part for a type-casting machine
A replacement part for a typesetting machine
A replacement part for a machine used to make or process printing plates

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Official tariff text

Parts of machinery, apparatus and equipment for preparing or making printing plates, cylinders or other printing components, n.e.s.

The path to this code

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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 8442 Machinery, apparatus and equipment (other than the … 42 of 86 headings under chapter 84
Is the product (1) a machine, apparatus or tool for making or processing printing plates, printing cylinders or similar items, (2) a part for equipment used for type casting or setting or for making or processing printing blocks, plates, cylinders or similar items, or (3) a printing plate, printing cylinder, similar item, or a block, plate, cylinder or lithographic stone treated for graphic use?
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Step 4 · Subheading 8442 40 Parts of machinery, apparatus and equipment for pre… 2 of 3 subheadings under heading 8442
Is the product a part for a machine, apparatus or tool used for type casting or typesetting, or for making or processing clichés, printing plates, printing cylinders or similar items, rather than a complete machine, apparatus or tool or one of those plates, cylinders or similar items?

This is the catch-all under 8442: it covers what the sibling codes below do not.

Within this parent group, this code covers the qualifying parts that are not the machines, apparatus or tools named by the neighbouring code and not the plates, cylinders or similar items named by the other neighbouring code.

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8442 40 00 Parts of machinery, apparatus and equipment for preparing or making printing plates, cylinders or other printing components, n.e.s. Duty free Save

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8442 30 Machinery, apparatus and equipment for preparing or making printing plates, cylinders or other printing components (excl. machines of headings 8456 to 8465) 0.0%
8442 40 Parts of machinery, apparatus and equipment for preparing or making printing plates, cylinders or other printing components, n.e.s. you are here 0.0%
8442 50 Printing plates, cylinders and other printing components; plates, cylinders and lithographic stones, prepared for printing purposes, e.g. planed, grained or polished 0.0%

Export to Norway

What Norwegian customs charges when goods like these are imported into Norway.

84.42.4000

Parts of the foregoing machinery, apparatus or equipment

Ordinary duty

Duty free

Goods of EU origin

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

Norwegian tariff data version 1.5/1.2, last checked Aug. 9, 2026.

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

Export to the United Kingdom

What UK customs charges when goods like these are imported into the UK.

8442 40 00 00

Parts of the foregoing machinery, apparatus or equipment

Ordinary duty

Duty free

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 v4.0.1576, last checked Aug. 3, 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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Duty rates shown here are estimates, read from official EU / Danish, Norwegian and UK tariff data for orientation only. Confirm the current rate with SKAT, 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.