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Heading 8428

Other lifting, handling, loading or unloading machinery (for example, lifts, escalators, conveyors, teleferics).

10 subheadings

Subheadings

8428.10

Other lifting, handling, loading or unloading machinery (for example, lifts, escalators, conveyors, teleferics). - Lifts and skip hoists

2 tariff items

8428.20

Other lifting, handling, loading or unloading machinery (for example, lifts, escalators, conveyors, teleferics). - Pneumatic elevators and conveyors

1 tariff items

8428.31

Other lifting, handling, loading or unloading machinery (for example, lifts, escalators, conveyors, teleferics). - Other continuous-action elevators and conveyors, for goods or materials: - Specially designed for underground use

1 tariff items

8428.32

Other lifting, handling, loading or unloading machinery (for example, lifts, escalators, conveyors, teleferics). - Other continuous-action elevators and conveyors, for goods or materials: - Other, bucket type

1 tariff items

8428.33

Other lifting, handling, loading or unloading machinery (for example, lifts, escalators, conveyors, teleferics). - Other continuous-action elevators and conveyors, for goods or materials: - Other, belt type

1 tariff items

8428.39

Other lifting, handling, loading or unloading machinery (for example, lifts, escalators, conveyors, teleferics). - Other continuous-action elevators and conveyors, for goods or materials: - Other

6 tariff items

8428.40

Other lifting, handling, loading or unloading machinery (for example, lifts, escalators, conveyors, teleferics). - Escalators and moving walkways

1 tariff items

8428.60

Other lifting, handling, loading or unloading machinery (for example, lifts, escalators, conveyors, teleferics). - Teleferics, chair-lifts, ski-draglines; traction mechanisms for funiculars

1 tariff items

8428.70

Other lifting, handling, loading or unloading machinery (for example, lifts, escalators, conveyors, teleferics). - Industrial robots

1 tariff items

8428.90

Other lifting, handling, loading or unloading machinery (for example, lifts, escalators, conveyors, teleferics). - Other machinery

3 tariff items

Related Advance Rulings

Explanatory Notes

Consideration was given to heading 84.28. The Explanatory Notes to heading 84.28, Part (II), Item (C) lists the three different sorts of conveyors and their descriptions. The product information identifies the imported product as a chassis with two conveyors (feed and discharge) mounted but not a functionally whole machine until the final part (the cone crusher) is installed after importation...

Source: advance_ruling (C-2015-012359)

28 covers other lifting, handling, loading or unloading machinery (for example, lifts, escalators, conveyors, teleferics). This heading covers a wide range of machinery for the mechanical handling of materials and goods. The Explanatory Notes to heading 84.28 state that these types of goods are classified therein, even if they are specialized for a particular industry. Based on the foregoing,...

Source: advance_ruling (C-2018-000199)

Section 11 of the Customs Tariff states that in interpreting the headings and subheadings, regard shall be had to the World Customs Organization's (WCO) Explanatory Notes to the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System. General Interpretative Rule 1 (GIR 1) directs that titles of Sections, Chapters and sub-Chapters are provided for ease of reference only. For legal purposes,...

Source: advance_ruling (C-2019-003504)

Other lifting, handling, loading or unloading machinery (for example, lifts, escalators, conveyors, teleferics) This heading does not include caterpillar lifts with caterpillar track systems used to move wheelchairs with their occupants up or downstairs, these fall in heading 8714 as accessories for wheelchairs.

Source: eu_cn_en (EUR-Lex 02019XC0329(02)-20250113)

Other This subheading includes: 1.  roller tables or roller conveyors, power-driven or not, intended for feeding the stock into the rolling stand and removing it therefrom or for transporting the stock from one stand to another; 2.  pinch rolls with an analogous function to the above machines, consisting of two series of rollers between which the stock passes; 3.  roller cooling beds which are...

Source: eu_cn_en (EUR-Lex 02019XC0329(02)-20250113)

[31]The CBSA further contended that, in any event, the evidence provided by Bridgestone does not establish that the ASRS should be considered as machinery under heading 84.28. According to the CBSA, the items listed by Bridgestone to describe the ASRS do not form one unit of machinery, nor do they constitute a composite machine, a multi-function machine or a functional unit as contemplated by...

Source: citt_decision (AP-2023-004)

[18]and the Explanatory Notes to the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System,

Source: citt_decision (AP-2010-033 – AP-2010-042)

28. Contech submitted that the goods in issue are “articles”. In this regard, it referred to CBSA Customs Notice N-278, which states that “articles” are “. . . any finished or semi-finished product which is not considered to be a material” and include “. . . items which are classified as parts . . . .”25 29. Contech submitted that the carts, when connected to a tractor or towing vehicle,...

Source: citt_decision (AP-2010-033 – AP-2010-042)

52. Part (II)(C) of theExplanatory Notesto heading No. 84.28, which covers conveyors, also provides further evidence that carts and a tractor do not constitute a conveyor. TheExplanatory Noteslist three types of conveyors that would be classifiable in heading No. 84.28—none of which are akin to carts connected to a tractor. 53. InPrins Greenhouses, the Tribunal determined that certain...

Source: citt_decision (AP-2010-033 – AP-2010-042)

14. The Tribunal notes that section 13 of theOfficial Languages Act, R.S.C. 1985 (4th Supp.), c. 31, provides that the English and French versions of any act of Parliament are equally authoritative. Thus, the Tribunal may examine both the English and French versions of the schedule to theCustoms Tariffin interpreting the tariff nomenclature. 15. S.C. 1997, c. 36, schedule [General...

Source: citt_decision (AP-2010-033 – AP-2010-042)

Chapter 84 Notes (11)
1. 1. This Chapter does not cover: • (a) Millstones, grindstones or other articles of Chapter 68; • (b) Machinery or appliances (for example, pumps) of ceramic material and ceramic parts of machinery or appliances of any material (Chapter 69); • (c) Laboratory glassware (heading 70.17); machinery, appliances or other articles for technical uses or parts thereof, of glass (heading 70.19 or 70.20); • (d) Articles of heading 73.21 or 73.22 or similar articles of other base metals (Chapters...
2. 2. Subject to the operation of Note 3 to Section XVI and subject to Note 11 to this Chapter, a machine or appliance which answers to a description in one or more of the headings 84.01 to 84.24, or heading 84.86 and at the same time to a description in one or more of the headings 84.25 to 84.80 is to be classified under the appropriate heading of the former group or under heading 84.86, as the case may be, and not the latter group. • (A) heading 84.19 does not, however, cover:...
3. 3. A machine-tool for working any material which answers to a description in heading 84.56 and at the same time to a description in heading 84.57, 84.58, 84.59, 84.60, 84.61, 84.64 or 84.65 is to be classified in heading 84.56.
4. 4. Heading 84.57 applies only to machine-tools for working metal, other than lathes (including turning centres), which can carry out different types of machining operations either: • (a) by automatic tool change from a magazine or the like in conformity with a machining programme (machining centres), • (b) by the automatic use, simultaneously or sequentially, of different unit heads working on a fixed position workpiece (unit construction machines, single station), or • (c) by the...
5. 5. For the purposes of heading 84.62, a “slitting line” for flat products is a processing line composed of an uncoiler, a coil flattener, a slitter and a recoiler. A “cut-to-length line” for flat products is a processing line composed of an uncoiler, a coil flattener, and a shear
6. 6.(A) For the purposes of heading 84.71, the expression “automatic data processing machines” means machines capable of: • (i) Storing the processing program or programs and at least the data immediately necessary for the execution of the program; • (ii) Being freely programmed in accordance with the requirements of the user; • (iii) Performing arithmetical computations specified by the user; and, • (iv) Executing, without human intervention, a processing program which requires them to...
7. 7. Heading 84.82 applies, inter alia, to polished steel balls, the maximum and minimum diameters of which do not differ from the nominal diameter by more than 1% or by more than 0.05 mm, whichever is less. Other steel balls are to be classified in heading 73.26.
8. 8. A machine which is used for more than one purpose is, for the purpose of classification, to be treated as if its principal purpose were its sole purpose. Subject to Note 2 to this Chapter and Note 3 to Section XVI, a machine the principal purpose of which is not described in any heading or for which no one purpose is the principal purpose is, unless the context otherwise requires, to be classified in heading 84.79. Heading 84.79 also covers machines for making rope or cable (for...
9. 9. For the purpose of heading 84.70, the term "pocketsize" applies only to machines the dimensions of which do not exceed 170 mm x 100 mm x 45 mm.
10. 10. For the purposes of heading 84.85, the expression “additive manufacturing” (also referred to as 3D printing means the formation of physical objects, based on a digital model, by the successive addition and layering,and consolidation and solidification, of material (for example, metal, plastics or ceramics). Subject to Note 1 to Section XVI and Note 1 to Chapter 84, machines answering to the description in heading 84.85 are to be classified in that heading and in no other heading of the...
11. 11.(A) Notes 12 (a) and 12 (b) to Chapter 85 also apply with respect to the expressions “semiconductor devices” and “electronic integrated circuits”, respectively, as used in this Note and in heading 84.86. However, for the purposes of this Note and of heading 84.86, the expression “semiconductor devices” also covers photosensitive semiconductor devices and light-emitting diodes (LED). (B) For the purposes of this Note and of heading 84.86, the expression "manufacture of flat panel...

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