Customs Declare
HS 2022 subheading

HS code 8421.31: Engine air filters

HS code 8421.31 covers: Machinery; intake air filters for internal combustion engines. It is a subheading of heading 8421, in chapter 84.

Where 8421.31 sits in the tariff

The first six digits are the same in every country that uses the Harmonized System. Countries and regions add their own digits after them.

  1. Chapter

    84 Machinery and mechanical appliances, boilers, nuclear reactors; parts thereof

  2. Heading

    8421Centrifuges, including centrifugal dryers; filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus, for liquids or gases

  3. Subheading

    8421.31 Machinery; intake air filters for internal combustion engines

Other subheadings under heading 8421

  • 8421.11Centrifuges; cream separators
  • 8421.12Centrifuges; clothes-dryers
  • 8421.19Centrifuges; n.e.c. in heading no. 8421, including centrifugal dryers (but not clothes-dryers)
  • 8421.21Machinery; for filtering or purifying water
  • 8421.22Machinery; for filtering or purifying beverages other than water
  • 8421.23Machinery; filtering or purifying machinery, oil or petrol filters for internal combustion engines
  • 8421.29Machinery; for filtering or purifying liquids, n.e.c. in item no. 8421.2
  • 8421.31Machinery; intake air filters for internal combustion enginesThis page
  • 8421.32Machinery; catalytic converters or particulate filters, whether or not combined, for purifying or filtering exhaust gases from internal combustion engines
  • 8421.39Machinery; for filtering or purifying gases, other than intake air filters, catalytic converters or particulate filters for internal combustion engines
  • 8421.91Centrifuges; parts thereof, including parts for centrifugal dryers
  • 8421.99Machinery; parts for filtering or purifying liquids or gases

How tariffs divide 8421.31 further

National and regional tariffs add digits after the six shared ones, splitting this subheading into more specific lines. The tables list every line we hold for 8421.31 in this language, in each publisher's own wording.

TariffApplies inLines
EU Combined Nomenclature (CN8)European Union1
US Harmonized Tariff ScheduleUnited States1
UK Global Tariff commodity codesUnited Kingdom2
India ITC-HS (8-digit)India1
GCC integrated customs tariff (12-digit)Gulf Cooperation Council, UAE schedule1
EAC Common External TariffEast African Community1
Brazil NCMBrazil and Mercosur1
Turkey GTIPTürkiye2
Egypt customs tariff (10-digit)Egypt1
ECOWAS Common External TariffWest Africa1
Lines in total12

EU Combined Nomenclature (CN8)

European Union — 1 line

CodeDescription
8421 31 00Filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for gases – Intake air filters for internal combustion engines

US Harmonized Tariff Schedule

United States — 1 line

CodeDescription
8421 31 00 00Filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for gases – Intake air filters for internal combustion engines

UK Global Tariff commodity codes

United Kingdom — 2 lines

CodeDescription
8421 31 00 10Filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for gases – Intake air filters for internal combustion engines – For use in civil aircraft
8421 31 00 90Filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for gases – Intake air filters for internal combustion engines – Other

India ITC-HS (8-digit)

India — 1 line

CodeDescription
8421 31 00apparatus for gases: – Intake air filters for internal combustion engines

GCC integrated customs tariff (12-digit)

Gulf Cooperation Council, UAE schedule — 1 line

CodeDescription
8421 31 00 00 00Intake air filters for internal combustion engines.

EAC Common External Tariff

East African Community — 1 line

CodeDescription
8421 31 00Filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for gases – Intake air filters for internal combustion engines

Brazil NCM

Brazil and Mercosur — 1 line

Machine translation by Customs Declare, not the publisher's text.

CodeDescription
8421 31 00Filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for gases: – Air intake filters for spark-ignition or compression-ignition internal combustion engines

Turkey GTIP

Türkiye — 2 lines

Machine translation by Customs Declare, not the publisher's text.

CodeDescription
8421 31 00 10 00Of a kind used on civil aircraft
8421 31 00 90 00Other

Egypt customs tariff (10-digit)

Egypt — 1 line

Machine translation by Customs Declare, not the publisher's text.

CodeDescription
8421 31 00 00Intake air filters for internal combustion engines.

ECOWAS Common External Tariff

West Africa — 1 line

Machine translation by Customs Declare, not the publisher's text.

CodeDescription
8421 31 00 00Filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for gases – Intake air filters for spark-ignition or compression-ignition engines

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  • Egyptian Customs
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  • EAC
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