84.62 Machine-tools (including presses) for working metal by forging, hammering or die forging (excluding rolling mills); machine-tools (including presses, slitting lines and cut-to-length lines) for working metal by bending, folding, straightening, flattening,
One level above the number you declare. Pick one of the six-digit codes below.
Section XVI, Machinery & Electrical — machinery, mechanical appliances, electrical and electronic equipment.
- 84 Chapter Machinery and mechanical appliances, boilers, nuclear reactors; parts thereof
- 62 Heading Machine-tools (including presses) for working metal by forging, hammering or die forging (excluding rolling mills); machine-tools (including presses, slitting lines and cut-to-length lines) for working metal by bending, folding, straightening, flattening,
- —— Subheading Pick one of the 20 six-digit codes below
Chapter 84 covers machinery and mechanical appliances, boilers, nuclear reactors; parts thereof: industrial machinery, engines, pumps, computers and other non-electrical mechanical equipment. With 86 headings and 538 six-digit codes, it's the largest chapter in the Harmonized System and covers most industrial and computing equipment. Classification tip: Machines are usually classified by function (what the machine does) rather than the industry that uses it, and parts generally follow the classification of the finished machine they belong to: check both rules before assigning a code.
All of chapter 84The 20 six-digit codes under 84.62
One of these is the number you declare.
- 8462.11 Machine-tools; forging and die-forging machines (including presses), closed die forging machines, for working metal
- 8462.19 Machine-tools; hot forming machines, hot hammers, for working metal
- 8462.22 Machine-tools; bending, folding, straightening or flattening machines (including press brakes) for flat products, for working metal, numerically controlled
- 8462.23 Machine-tools; bending, folding, straightening or flattening machines (including presses), for working metal, numerically controlled press brakes
- 8462.24 Machine-tools; bending, folding, straightening or flattening machines (including presses), for working metal, numerically controlled panel benders
- 8462.25 Machine-tools; bending, folding, straightening or flattening machines (including presses), for working metal, numerically controlled roll forming machines
- 8462.26 Machine-tools; bending, folding, straightening or flattening machines (including presses), for working metal, numerically controlled bending, folding, straightening or fattening machines (not press brakes, panel benders or roll forming machines)
- 8462.29 Machine-tools; bending, folding, straightening or flattening machines (including press brakes), for working metal, numerically controlled n.e.c. in item 84.62.2
- 8462.32 Machine-tools; slitting lines and cut-to-length lines, for working metal
- 8462.33 Machine-tools; shearing machines (excluding presses) for flat products, numerically controlled, other than combined punching and shearing machines, for working metal
- 8462.39 Machine-tools; shearing machines (excluding presses) for flat products, other than numerically controlled, other than combined punching and shearing machines, for working metal
- 8462.42 Machine-tools; punching, notching or nibbling machines (excluding presses) for flat products including combined punching and shearing machines, numerically controlled, for working metal
- 8462.49 Machine-tools; punching, notching or nibbling machines (excluding presses) for flat products including combined punching and shearing machines, other than numerically controlled, for working metal
- 8462.51 Machine-tools; for working tube, pipe, hollow section and bar (excluding presses), for working metal, numerically controlled
- 8462.59 Machine-tools; for working tube, pipe, hollow section and bar (excluding presses), for working metal, not numerically controlled
- 8462.61 Machine-tools; cold metal working presses, hydraulic presses
- 8462.62 Machine-tools; cold metal working presses, mechanical presses
- 8462.63 Machine-tools; cold metal working presses, servo-presses
- 8462.69 Machine-tools; cold metal working presses, other than hydraulic, mechanical or servo-presses
- 8462.90 Machine-tools; (including presses) for working metal by forging, hammering or die-forging, for bending, folding, straightening, flattening, shearing, punching, notching or nibbling metal, n.e.c. in heading 8462
Other headings in chapter 84
The wording above is the Harmonized System nomenclature as published by the World Customs Organization, HS 2022 edition. It is a classification reference, not a tariff: it carries no duty rates, and it stops at six digits — the importing country adds its own beyond that.
Classification is decided by the General Rules of Interpretation and the section and chapter notes, and it is the importing country’s customs authority that makes it binding.
Shipping goods under 84.62? A customs hold shows up as a milestone that stops moving — follow the container or the air waybill from departure to delivery.
Track a shipment84.62 FAQ
Heading 84.62 covers machine-tools (including presses) for working metal by forging, hammering or die forging (excluding rolling mills); machine-tools (including presses, slitting lines and cut-to-length lines) for working metal by bending, folding, straightening, flattening,. It is part of chapter 84 (machinery and mechanical appliances, boilers, nuclear reactors; parts thereof), and it is subdivided into 20 six-digit subheadings — the level you actually declare.
Pick one of the 20 subheadings below. Those six digits are what customs recognises internationally; the importing country may extend them to eight or ten in its own tariff schedule.
The General Rules of Interpretation, read together with the notes to Section XVI and to chapter 84. A description that reads right is not enough on its own — the notes routinely pull goods out of the chapter they obviously belong to and put them somewhere else. Where duty or licensing turns on the answer, ask the importing country’s customs authority for a binding ruling.
A wrong or missing code is one of the common reasons customs holds a container, and a hold shows up as a milestone that stops moving. Watch for it in the container tracking app, on the air waybill in the air cargo tracker, or through the tracking API.