92 Musical instruments; parts and accessories of such articles
The broadest level of the Harmonized System. Pick the heading below that fits your goods, then the six-digit code under it — that last one is what you declare.
Section XVIII, Instruments & Clocks — optical, photographic, measuring and medical instruments, clocks and musical instruments.
- 92 Chapter Musical instruments; parts and accessories of such articles
- —— Heading Pick one of the 7 headings below
- —— Subheading Six digits, the level every country shares
Chapter 92 covers musical instruments; parts and accessories of such articles: from pianos and guitars to electronic instruments and their strings, cases and components. Classification tip: Instruments containing protected woods or materials (certain rosewoods used in guitars, ivory in older pianos) can require CITES documentation alongside the standard HS classification.
7 headings in chapter 92
Four-digit groups. Pick the one that fits, then the six-digit code inside it.
- 92.01 Pianos; including automatic pianos, harpsichords and other keyboard stringed instruments 3 codes
- 92.02 Musical instruments; string, n.e.c. in heading no. 9201, (e.g. guitars, violins, harps) 2 codes
- 92.05 Musical instruments; wind (e.g. keyboard pipe organs, accordions, clarinets, trumpets, bagpipes), other than fairground organs and mechanical street organs 2 codes
- 92.06 Musical instruments; percussion (e.g. drums, xylophones, cymbals, castanets, maracas) 1 code
- 92.07 Musical instruments; the sound of which is produced or must be amplified, electrically (e.g. organs, guitars, accordions) 2 codes
- 92.08 Musical boxes, fairground and mechanical street organs, mechanical singing birds, musical saws and musical instruments n.e.c. in chapter 92; decoy calls of all kinds; whistles; call horns and other mouth-blown sound signalling instruments 2 codes
- 92.09 Musical instrument parts (for example, mechanisms for musical boxes) and accessories (for example, cards, discs and rolls for mechanical instruments); metronomes, tuning forks and pitch pipes 5 codes
Other chapters in Section XVIII
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 from chapter 92? A customs hold shows up as a milestone that stops moving — follow the container or the air waybill from departure to delivery.
Track a shipmentChapter 92 FAQ
Chapter 92 covers musical instruments; parts and accessories of such articles: from pianos and guitars to electronic instruments and their strings, cases and components. Classification tip: Instruments containing protected woods or materials (certain rosewoods used in guitars, ivory in older pianos) can require CITES documentation alongside the standard HS classification.
Pick the heading below that describes the goods, then the six-digit subheading under it. Six digits is the level the Harmonized System defines and the level customs everywhere recognises; anything beyond that is added by the importing country.
The General Rules of Interpretation, read together with the notes to Section XVIII and to chapter 92. 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.