Customs Declare
HS 2022 subheading

HS code 8481.30: Check valves

HS code 8481.30 covers: Valves; check (nonreturn) valves, for pipes, boiler shells, tanks, vats or the like. It is a subheading of heading 8481, in chapter 84.

Where 8481.30 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

    8481Taps, cocks, valves and similar appliances for pipes, boiler shells, tanks, vats or the like, including pressure-reducing valves and thermostatically controlled valves

  3. Subheading

    8481.30 Valves; check (nonreturn) valves, for pipes, boiler shells, tanks, vats or the like

Other subheadings under heading 8481

How tariffs divide 8481.30 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 8481.30 in this language, in each publisher's own wording.

TariffApplies inLines
EU Combined Nomenclature (CN8)European Union2
US Harmonized Tariff ScheduleUnited States5
UK Global Tariff commodity codesUnited Kingdom7
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)Egypt3
ECOWAS Common External TariffWest Africa1
Lines in total24

EU Combined Nomenclature (CN8)

European Union — 2 lines

CodeDescription
8481 30 91Check (non-return) valves – Of cast iron or of steel
8481 30 99Check (non-return) valves – Other

US Harmonized Tariff Schedule

United States — 5 lines

CodeDescription
8481 30 10 10Check (nonreturn) valves – Of copper – Having a pressure rating under 850 kPa
8481 30 10 90Check (nonreturn) valves – Of copper – Having a pressure rating of 850 kPa or over
8481 30 20 10Check (nonreturn) valves – Of iron or steel – Of iron
8481 30 20 90Check (nonreturn) valves – Of iron or steel – Of steel
8481 30 90 00Check (nonreturn) valves – Other

UK Global Tariff commodity codes

United Kingdom — 7 lines

CodeDescription
8481 30 91 20Check (non-return) valves – Of cast iron or of steel – For use in certain types of aircraft
8481 30 91 30Check (non-return) valves – Of cast iron or of steel – Other – Mechanical check (non-return) valve for opening and closing of the flow of fuel:-with an operating pressure of not more than 250 MPa,-with a flow rate of 45 cm³/minute or more, but not more than 55 cm³/minute,-with 4 input holes, each of them with a diameter of 1,2 mm or more, but not more than 1,6 mm,-made of steel
8481 30 91 91Check (non-return) valves – Of cast iron or of steel – Other – Steel check (non-return) valves with:- an opening pressure of not more than 800 kPa- an external diameter not more than 37 mm
8481 30 91 99Check (non-return) valves – Of cast iron or of steel – Other – Other
8481 30 99 20Check (non-return) valves – Other – For use in certain types of aircraft
8481 30 99 50Check (non-return) valves – Other – Mechanical check (non-return) valve for opening and closing of the flow of fuel:-with an operating pressure of not more than 250 MPa,-with a flow rate of 45 cm³/minute or more, but not more than 55 cm³/minute,-with 4 input holes, each of them with a diameter of 1,2 mm or more, but not more than 1,6 mm,-made of steel
8481 30 99 90Check (non-return) valves – Other – Other

India ITC-HS (8-digit)

India — 1 line

CodeDescription
8481 30 00transmissions

GCC integrated customs tariff (12-digit)

Gulf Cooperation Council, UAE schedule — 1 line

CodeDescription
8481 30 00 00 00Check (nonreturn) valves.

EAC Common External Tariff

East African Community — 1 line

CodeDescription
8481 30 00Check (nonreturn) valves

Brazil NCM

Brazil and Mercosur — 1 line

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

CodeDescription
8481 30 00Check (non-return) valves

Turkey GTIP

Türkiye — 2 lines

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

CodeDescription
8481 30 91 00 00Check (non-return) valves: – Of cast iron or cast steel
8481 30 99 00 00Check (non-return) valves: – Other

Egypt customs tariff (10-digit)

Egypt — 3 lines

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

CodeDescription
8481 30 00 10Check (nonreturn) valves.
8481 30 00 20Hand-operated valves for liquefied petroleum gas cylinders, whether or not check valves.
8481 30 00 90Check (nonreturn) valves for gas cylinder manufacture, other than those mentioned above.

ECOWAS Common External Tariff

West Africa — 1 line

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

CodeDescription
8481 30 00 00Check (non-return) valves

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  • WCO
  • UN Comtrade
  • 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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