Code 8472 30 00 · Subheading 8472 30
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This is a complete 8-digit customs code. There is no further code choice to make below it.
This code covers machines for processing letters, including sorting, folding, enveloping, band-wrapping, opening, closing or sealing letters, and affixing or stamping postage stamps. The relevant function must be one of the listed letter-processing functions.
For example
Official tariff text
Machines for sorting or folding mail or for inserting mail in envelopes or bands, machines for opening, closing or sealing mail and machines for affixing or cancelling postage stamps
Classification complete
8472 30 00
The spaces only make the code easier to read. Customs declarations normally use the unspaced form, 84723000.
Besides the ordinary duty, the EU records these kinds of measure against this code. They are listed as signals only: whether one applies to your goods can depend on where they come from, who produced them, the exact product and the documents you present. No amounts are worked out here.
Preferential rates exist for goods originating in Andorra; San Marino; Türkiye; European Union; Economic Partnership Agreements; CARIFORUM except Haiti; Comoros (excluding Mayotte), Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles and dependencies and Zimbabwe; Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Mozambique and Namibia; 52 more origins. Whether you can use one depends on the origin rules for the goods and on the documentation you can show.
Check this code in the official EU TARIC databaseImport restrictions are recorded for goods originating in North Korea (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) and Ukraine.
Document or certificate conditions are recorded. Customs may ask for:
What Norwegian customs charges when goods like these are imported into Norway.
84.72.3000
Machines for sorting or folding mail or for inserting mail in envelopes or bands, machines for opening, closing or sealing mail and machines for affixing or cancelling postage stamps
Contains data from Norwegian Customs (data.toll.no), licensed under CC BY 4.0, adapted for display.
What UK customs charges when goods like these are imported into the UK.
8472 30 00 00
Machines for sorting or folding mail or for inserting mail in envelopes or bands, machines for opening, closing or sealing mail and machines for affixing or cancelling postage stamps
These rates apply in Great Britain. Different rules may apply for goods entering Northern Ireland.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Source: UK Department for Business and Trade (data.api.trade.gov.uk).
Before you use the code
The code can be right while what you pay still changes, because of where the goods come from, when they arrive, or extra EU measures.
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This code is for machines performing two or more of printing, copying or fax transmission and connectable to an automatic data-processing machine or a network, whereas 8472 30 00 is for letter-processing machines.
This code is for printers connectable to an automatic data-processing machine or a network, whereas 8472 30 00 is for machines performing the listed letter-processing functions.
This code is for printers, copying machines and fax machines, also combined, whereas 8472 30 00 is for machines performing the listed letter-processing functions.
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.
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