Cells and batteries; primary

HS v2022 Code: 8506

Chapter	Heading	Sub-heading
85	06	n/a

Code	8506
Version	HS v2022
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: Cells and batteries; primary

Child Codes: Cells and batteries; primary, silver oxide; Cells and batteries; primary, manganese dioxide; Cells and batteries; primary, (other than manganese dioxide, mercuric oxide, silver oxide, lithium or air-zinc); Cells and batteries; primary, parts thereof; Cells and batteries; primary, air-zinc; Cells and batteries; primary, lithium; Cells and batteries; primary, mercuric oxide

Sibling Codes (Nearest 5): Electric motors and generators; parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of heading no. 8501 or 8502; Electric transformers, static converters (e.g. rectifiers) and inductors; Electro-magnets; permanent magnets, intended permanent magnets; electro-magnetic, permanent magnet chucks, clamps, similar; electromagnetic couplings, clutches, brakes; electro-magnetic lifting heads; Electric accumulators, including separators therefor; whether or not rectangular (including square); Vacuum cleaners

About cells and batteries; primary

HS code 8506 covers primary cells and batteries, which are essential components in a wide range of electronic devices and appliances. These power sources are crucial for powering everything from remote controls and flashlights to medical equipment and industrial machinery. The primary battery industry plays a vital role in the broader electronics and electrical equipment sectors, enabling the functionality of countless products that are integral to modern life and the global economy.

Production process

The production of primary cells and batteries typically involves several key steps. First, the active materials, such as zinc, manganese dioxide, and lithium, are prepared and combined. These materials are then formed into the cell's electrodes and separator. The cell is then sealed, often in a metal or plastic casing, and filled with the appropriate electrolyte solution. Finally, the cells are tested, sorted, and packaged for distribution.

Production inputs

The primary inputs for the 8506 industry include the raw materials used to produce the cell components, such as metals, chemicals, and plastics. Additionally, specialized manufacturing equipment, including cell assembly lines and testing apparatus, are essential inputs. The industry also relies on a skilled workforce capable of operating the production equipment and ensuring quality control.

Production outputs

The primary outputs of HS code 8506 are the various types of primary cells and batteries, which are then consumed by a wide range of other industries. These include the 8507 (Accumulators, electric, incl. separators therefor, whether or not rectangular (incl. square)) industry, which uses primary batteries as components in larger power systems, as well as the 8525 Transmission apparatus for radio-broadcasting or television, television cameras, digital cameras and video camera recorders and 8527 Reception apparatus for radio-broadcasting, whether or not combined, in the same housing, with sound recording or reproducing apparatus or a clock industries, which incorporate primary batteries into their end products.

Family tree for cells and batteries; primary

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    A["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/85'>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/v2022/8506'>8506: Cells and batteries; primary</a>"]

    A --> C["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8501'>8501: Electric motors and generators (excluding generating sets)</a>"]
A --> D["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8502'>8502: Electric generating sets and rotary converters</a>"]
A --> E["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8503'>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/v2022/8504'>8504: Electric transformers, static converters (e.g. rectifiers) and inductors</a>"]
A --> G["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8505'>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/v2022/8507'>8507: Electric accumulators, including separators therefor; whether or not rectangular (including square)</a>"]
A --> I["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8508'>8508: Vacuum cleaners</a>"]
A --> J["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8509'>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/v2022/8510'>8510: Shavers, hair clippers and hair removing appliances, with self-contained electric motor</a>"]
A --> L["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8511'>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/v2022/8512'>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/v2022/8513'>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/v2022/8514'>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/v2022/8515'>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/v2022/8516'>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/v2022/8517'>8517: Telephone sets, including smartphones and other telephones for cellular/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/v2022/8518'>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/v2022/8519'>8519: Sound recording or reproducing apparatus</a>"]
A --> U["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8521'>8521: Video recording or reproducing apparatus</a>"]
A --> V["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8522'>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/v2022/8523'>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/v2022/8524'>8524: Flat panel display modules, whether or not incorporating touch-sensitive screens</a>"]
A --> Y["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8525'>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 --> Z["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8526'>8526: Radar apparatus, radio navigational aid apparatus and radio remote control apparatus</a>"]
A --> BA["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8527'>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 --> BB["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8528'>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 --> BC["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8529'>8529: Transmission apparatus; parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading no. 8524 to 8528</a>"]
A --> BD["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8530'>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 --> BE["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8531'>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 --> BF["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8532'>8532: Electrical capacitors; fixed, variable or adjustable (pre-set)</a>"]
A --> BG["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8533'>8533: Electrical resistors (including rheostats and potentiometers), excluding heating resistors</a>"]
A --> BH["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8534'>8534: Circuits; printed</a>"]
A --> BI["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8535'>8535: Electrical apparatus for switching, protecting electrical circuits, for making connections to or in electrical circuits; for a voltage exceeding 1000 volts</a>"]
A --> BJ["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8536'>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 --> BK["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8537'>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 --> BL["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8538'>8538: Electrical apparatus; parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading no. 8535, 8536 and 8537</a>"]
A --> BM["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8539'>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) light sources</a>"]
A --> BN["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8540'>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 --> BO["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8541'>8541: Semiconductor devices (e.g. diodes, transistors, semiconductor based transducers); including photovoltaic cells assembled or not in modules or panels, light-emitting diodes (LED) assembled with other LEDs or not, mounted piezo-electric crystals</a>"]
A --> BP["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8542'>8542: Electronic integrated circuits</a>"]
A --> BQ["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8543'>8543: Electrical machines and apparatus; having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter</a>"]
A --> BR["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8544'>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 --> BS["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8545'>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 --> BT["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8546'>8546: Electrical insulators of any material</a>"]
A --> BU["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8547'>8547: Insulating fittings; for electrical machines, appliances, equipment, excluding insulators of heading no. 8546, electrical conduit tubing and joints therefore</a>"]
A --> BV["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8548'>8548: Electrical parts of machinery or apparatus; not specified or elsewhere included in this chapter</a>"]
A --> BW["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8549'>8549: Electrical and electronic waste and scrap</a>"]

    B --> BX["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/850610'>850610: Cells and batteries; primary, manganese dioxide</a>"]
B --> BY["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/850630'>850630: Cells and batteries; primary, mercuric oxide</a>"]
B --> BZ["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/850640'>850640: Cells and batteries; primary, silver oxide</a>"]
B --> CA["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/850650'>850650: Cells and batteries; primary, lithium</a>"]
B --> CB["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/850660'>850660: Cells and batteries; primary, air-zinc</a>"]
B --> CC["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/850680'>850680: Cells and batteries; primary, (other than manganese dioxide, mercuric oxide, silver oxide, lithium or air-zinc)</a>"]
B --> CD["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/850690'>850690: Cells and batteries; primary, parts thereof</a>"]


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