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HS 2022 subheading

HS code 8427.20: Forklift trucks

HS code 8427.20 covers: Fork-lift and other works trucks; fitted with lifting or handling equipment, self-propelled by other than electric motor. It is a subheading of heading 8427, in chapter 84.

Where 8427.20 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

    8427Fork-lift trucks; other works trucks fitted with lifting or handling equipment

  3. Subheading

    8427.20 Fork-lift and other works trucks; fitted with lifting or handling equipment, self-propelled by other than electric motor

Other subheadings under heading 8427

How tariffs divide 8427.20 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 8427.20 in this language, in each publisher's own wording.

TariffApplies inLines
EU Combined Nomenclature (CN8)European Union3
US Harmonized Tariff ScheduleUnited States3
UK Global Tariff commodity codesUnited Kingdom4
India ITC-HS (8-digit)India1
GCC integrated customs tariff (12-digit)Gulf Cooperation Council, UAE schedule2
EAC Common External TariffEast African Community1
Brazil NCMBrazil and Mercosur2
Turkey GTIPTürkiye3
Egypt customs tariff (10-digit)Egypt1
ECOWAS Common External TariffWest Africa1
Lines in total21

EU Combined Nomenclature (CN8)

European Union — 3 lines

CodeDescription
8427 20 11Other self-propelled trucks – With a lifting height of 1 m or more – Fork-lift and other stacking trucks, for rough terrain
8427 20 19Other self-propelled trucks – With a lifting height of 1 m or more – Other
8427 20 90Other self-propelled trucks – Other

US Harmonized Tariff Schedule

United States — 3 lines

CodeDescription
8427 20 40 00Other self-propelled trucks – Rider-type, counterbalanced fork-lift trucks
8427 20 80 20Other self-propelled trucks – Other – Aerial work platforms of a kind described in statistical note 5 to this chapter
8427 20 80 90Other self-propelled trucks – Other – Other

UK Global Tariff commodity codes

United Kingdom — 4 lines

CodeDescription
8427 20 11 00Other self-propelled trucks – With a lifting height of 1 m or more – Fork-lift and other stacking trucks, for rough terrain
8427 20 19 10Other self-propelled trucks – With a lifting height of 1 m or more – Other – Mobile access equipment designed for the lifting of persons, with a maximum working height of 6 meters or more
8427 20 19 90Other self-propelled trucks – With a lifting height of 1 m or more – Other – Other
8427 20 90 00Other self-propelled trucks – Other

India ITC-HS (8-digit)

India — 1 line

CodeDescription
8427 20 00Other self-propelled trucks

GCC integrated customs tariff (12-digit)

Gulf Cooperation Council, UAE schedule — 2 lines

CodeDescription
8427 20 00 00 01Fork-lift trucks & other works trucks fitted with lifting or handling equipment, self-propelled, not powered by an electric motor. - other Fork-lifts self-propelled
8427 20 00 99 99Fork-lift trucks & other works trucks fitted with lifting or handling equipment, self-propelled, not powered by an electric motor. - Other works trucks self-propelled trucks

EAC Common External Tariff

East African Community — 1 line

CodeDescription
8427 20 00Other self-propelled trucks

Brazil NCM

Brazil and Mercosur — 2 lines

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

CodeDescription
8427 20 10Other, self-propelled – Forklift trucks with a load capacity exceeding 6.5 t
8427 20 90Other, self-propelled – Other

Turkey GTIP

Türkiye — 3 lines

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

CodeDescription
8427 20 11 00 00Other self-propelled forklift trucks and other works trucks: – Of a lifting height of 1 m or more: – Rough-terrain fork-lift trucks and other works trucks fitted with lifting or handling equipment for stacking
8427 20 19 00 00Other self-propelled forklift trucks and other works trucks: – Of a lifting height of 1 m or more: – Other
8427 20 90 00 00Other self-propelled forklift trucks and other works trucks: – Other

Egypt customs tariff (10-digit)

Egypt — 1 line

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

CodeDescription
8427 20 00 00Works trucks with lifting or handling equipment, self-propelled, not electrically operated.

ECOWAS Common External Tariff

West Africa — 1 line

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

CodeDescription
8427 20 00 00Other self-propelled trucks

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  • Eurostat
  • USITC
  • UK HMRC / DBT
  • State Council Tariff Commission (CN)
  • CBIC (India)
  • Dubai Customs
  • Siscomex (Brazil)
  • Resmî Gazete (Türkiye)
  • Egyptian Customs
  • ECOWAS
  • EAC
  • World Bank WITS
  • UNCTAD TRAINS
  • AfCFTA Secretariat
  • Eurasian Economic Commission
  • CEPII

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