Vacuum cleaners

HS v2017 Code: 8508

Chapter	Heading	Sub-heading
85	08	n/a

Code	8508
Version	HS v2017
Hierarchy Level	4
Datasource	WCO
Chapter	85

Ancestor Codes: Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers; television image and sound recorders and reproducers, parts and accessories of such articles

This Code: Vacuum cleaners

Child Codes: Vacuum cleaners, other than with a self-contained electric motor; Vacuum cleaners, with self-contained electric motor, of a power not exceeding 1,500 W and having a dust bag or other receptacle capacity not exceeding 20L; Vacuum cleaners, with self-contained electric motor, n.e.c. in item no. 8508.1; Parts of vacuum cleaners

Sibling Codes (Nearest 5): Electro-magnets; permanent magnets, intended permanent magnets; electro-magnetic, permanent magnet chucks, clamps, similar; electromagnetic couplings, clutches, brakes; electro-magnetic lifting heads; Cells and batteries; primary; Electric accumulators, including separators therefor; whether or not rectangular (including square); Electro-mechanical domestic appliances; with self-contained electric motor, other than vacuum cleaners of heading 85.08.; Shavers, hair clippers and hair removing appliances, with self-contained electric motor

About vacuum cleaners

hs code 8508 covers vacuum cleaners, a ubiquitous household appliance that plays a vital role in maintaining cleanliness and hygiene. This industry is an integral part of the broader home appliance sector, which is a significant contributor to the global economy. Vacuum cleaners are essential tools for both residential and commercial cleaning, making them a staple in households, offices, and various other settings.

Production process

The production of vacuum cleaners typically involves a multi-step process. It begins with the manufacturing of the main components, such as the motor, fan, and suction mechanism. These components are then assembled into the vacuum cleaner's body, which may be made of various materials, including plastic, metal, or a combination of both. The final assembly stage often includes the integration of additional features, such as filters, hoses, and attachments, to enhance the vacuum cleaner's functionality and performance.

Production inputs

The production of vacuum cleaners requires a range of inputs, including electric motors, plastic resins, metal components, and various electronic parts. Manufacturers also rely on specialized machinery and tools to assemble the vacuum cleaners efficiently. Additionally, the industry may utilize raw materials like rubber, fabrics, and other materials for the construction of hoses, filters, and other accessories.

Production outputs

The primary output of the vacuum cleaner industry is, of course, the vacuum cleaners themselves. These products are then distributed and sold to consumers, both residential and commercial, through various retail channels, including 4643 Wholesale of electrical household appliances and 4754 Retail sale of electrical household appliances. The vacuum cleaners produced under hs code 8508 may also be used as inputs for other industries, such as 9524 Repair of furniture and home furnishings.

Family tree for vacuum cleaners

    graph LR
    A["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2017/85'>85: Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers; television image and sound recorders and reproducers, parts and accessories of such articles</a>"]
A --> B["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2017/8508'>8508: Vacuum cleaners</a>"]

    A --> C["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2017/8501'>8501: Electric motors and generators (excluding generating sets)</a>"]
A --> D["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2017/8502'>8502: Electric generating sets and rotary converters</a>"]
A --> E["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2017/8503'>8503: Electric motors and generators; parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of heading no. 8501 or 8502</a>"]
A --> F["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2017/8504'>8504: Electric transformers, static converters (e.g. rectifiers) and inductors</a>"]
A --> G["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2017/8505'>8505: Electro-magnets; permanent magnets, intended permanent magnets; electro-magnetic, permanent magnet chucks, clamps, similar; electromagnetic couplings, clutches, brakes; electro-magnetic lifting heads</a>"]
A --> H["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2017/8506'>8506: Cells and batteries; primary</a>"]
A --> I["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2017/8507'>8507: Electric accumulators, including separators therefor; whether or not rectangular (including square)</a>"]
A --> J["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2017/8509'>8509: Electro-mechanical domestic appliances; with self-contained electric motor, other than vacuum cleaners of heading 85.08.</a>"]
A --> K["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2017/8510'>8510: Shavers, hair clippers and hair removing appliances, with self-contained electric motor</a>"]
A --> L["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2017/8511'>8511: Ignition or starting equipment; used for spark-ignition or compression-ignition internal combustion engines; generators and cut outs used in conjunction with such engines</a>"]
A --> M["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2017/8512'>8512: Lighting or visual signalling equipment (excluding articles of heading no. 8539), windscreen wipers, defrosters and demisters; electrical, of a kind used for cycles or motor vehicles</a>"]
A --> N["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2017/8513'>8513: Lamps; portable, electric, designed to function by their own source of energy (e.g. dry batteries, accumulators, magnetos), excluding lighting equipment of heading no. 8512</a>"]
A --> O["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2017/8514'>8514: Industrial or laboratory electric furnaces and ovens (including those functioning by induction or dielectric loss); other industrial or laboratory equipment for the heat treatment of materials by induction or dielectric loss</a>"]
A --> P["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2017/8515'>8515: Electric (electrically heated gas) soldering, brazing, welding machines and apparatus, capable or not of cutting, electric machines and apparatus for hot spraying of metals or sintered carbides</a>"]
A --> Q["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2017/8516'>8516: Electric water, space, soil heaters; electro-thermic hair-dressing apparatus; hand dryers, irons; electro-thermic appliances for domestic purposes; electro heating resistors, not of heading no. 8545</a>"]
A --> R["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2017/8517'>8517: Telephone sets, including telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks; other apparatus for the transmission or reception of voice, images or other data (including wired/wireless networks), excluding items of 8443, 8525, 8527, or 8528</a>"]
A --> S["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2017/8518'>8518: Microphones and their stands; loudspeakers, mounted or not in their enclosures; headphones and earphones, combined or not with a microphone, and sets of a microphone and one or more loudspeakers; audio frequency and electric sound amplifiers and sets</a>"]
A --> T["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2017/8519'>8519: Sound recording or reproducing apparatus</a>"]
A --> U["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2017/8521'>8521: Video recording or reproducing apparatus</a>"]
A --> V["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2017/8522'>8522: Sound or video recording apparatus; parts and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading 8519 or 8521</a>"]
A --> W["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2017/8523'>8523: Discs, tapes, solid-state non-volatile storage devices, smart cards and other media for the recording of sound or of other phenomena, whether or not recorded, including matrices and masters for the production of discs, excluding products of Chapter 37</a>"]
A --> X["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2017/8525'>8525: Transmission apparatus for radio-broadcasting or television, whether or not incorporating reception apparatus or sound recording or reproducing apparatus; television cameras, digital cameras and video camera recorders</a>"]
A --> Y["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2017/8526'>8526: Radar apparatus, radio navigational aid apparatus and radio remote control apparatus</a>"]
A --> Z["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2017/8527'>8527: Reception apparatus for radio-broadcasting, whether or not combined, in the same housing, with sound recording or reproducing apparatus or a clock.</a>"]
A --> BA["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2017/8528'>8528: Monitors and projectors, not incorporating television reception apparatus; reception apparatus for television, whether or not incorporating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus</a>"]
A --> BB["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2017/8529'>8529: Transmission apparatus; parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading no. 8525 to 8528</a>"]
A --> BC["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2017/8530'>8530: Signalling, safety or traffic control equipment; for railways, tramways, roads, inland waterways, parking facilities, port installations, airfields, excluding those of heading no. 8608</a>"]
A --> BD["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2017/8531'>8531: Signalling apparatus; electric sound or visual (e.g. bells, sirens, indicator panels, burglar or fire alarms), excluding those of heading no. 8512 or 8530</a>"]
A --> BE["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2017/8532'>8532: Electrical capacitors; fixed, variable or adjustable (pre-set)</a>"]
A --> BF["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2017/8533'>8533: Electrical resistors (including rheostats and potentiometers), excluding heating resistors</a>"]
A --> BG["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2017/8534'>8534: Circuits; printed</a>"]
A --> BH["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2017/8535'>8535: Electrical apparatus for switching, protecting electrical circuits, for making connections to or in electrical circuits; for a voltage exceeding 1000 volts</a>"]
A --> BI["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2017/8536'>8536: Electrical apparatus for switching, protecting electrical circuits, for making connections to or in electrical circuits, for a voltage not exceeding 1000 volts; connectors for optical fibres, optical fibre bundles or cables</a>"]
A --> BJ["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2017/8537'>8537: Boards, panels, consoles, desks, cabinets, bases with apparatus of heading no. 8535, 8536 for electricity control and distribution, (other than switching apparatus of heading no. 8517)</a>"]
A --> BK["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2017/8538'>8538: Electrical apparatus; parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading no. 8535, 8536 and 8537</a>"]
A --> BL["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2017/8539'>8539: Lamps; electric filament or discharge lamps, including sealed beam lamp units and ultra-violet or infra-red lamps, arc lamps, light-emitting diode (LED) lamps</a>"]
A --> BM["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2017/8540'>8540: Thermionic, cold cathode or photo-cathode valves and tubes (e.g. vacuum, vapour, gas filled valves and tubes, mercury arc rectifying valves and tubes, cathode-ray and television camera tubes)</a>"]
A --> BN["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2017/8541'>8541: Diodes, transistors, similar semiconductor devices; including photovoltaic cells assembled or not in modules or panels, light-emitting diodes (LED), mounted piezo-electric crystals</a>"]
A --> BO["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2017/8542'>8542: Electronic integrated circuits</a>"]
A --> BP["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2017/8543'>8543: Electrical machines and apparatus; having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter</a>"]
A --> BQ["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2017/8544'>8544: Insulated wire, cable and other electric conductors, connector fitted or not; optical fibre cables of individually sheathed fibres, whether or not assembled with electric conductors or fitted with connectors</a>"]
A --> BR["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2017/8545'>8545: Carbon electrodes, carbon brushes, lamp carbons, battery carbons and other articles of graphite or other carbon; with or without metal, of a kind used for electrical purposes</a>"]
A --> BS["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2017/8546'>8546: Electrical insulators of any material</a>"]
A --> BT["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2017/8547'>8547: Insulating fittings; for electrical machines, appliances, equipment, excluding insulators of heading no. 8546, electrical conduit tubing and joints therefore</a>"]
A --> BU["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2017/8548'>8548: Waste and scrap of primary cells, primary batteries and electric accumulators; spent primary cells, spent primary batteries and spent electric accumulators; electrical parts of machinery or apparatus, n.e.c. or included elsewhere in chapter 85</a>"]

    B --> BV["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2017/850811'>850811: Vacuum cleaners, with self-contained electric motor, of a power not exceeding 1,500 W and having a dust bag or other receptacle capacity not exceeding 20L</a>"]
B --> BW["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2017/850819'>850819: Vacuum cleaners, with self-contained electric motor, n.e.c. in item no. 8508.1</a>"]
B --> BX["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2017/850860'>850860: Vacuum cleaners, other than with a self-contained electric motor</a>"]
B --> BY["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2017/850870'>850870: Parts of vacuum cleaners</a>"]


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