Customs Declare
HS 2022 subheading

HS code 8481.40: Safety valves

HS code 8481.40 covers: Valves; safety or relief valves, for pipes, boiler shells, tanks, vats or the like. It is a subheading of heading 8481, in chapter 84.

Where 8481.40 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

    8481.40 Valves; safety or relief valves, for pipes, boiler shells, tanks, vats or the like

Other subheadings under heading 8481

How tariffs divide 8481.40 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 8481.40 in this language, in each publisher's own wording.

TariffApplies inLines
EU Combined Nomenclature (CN8)European Union2
US Harmonized Tariff ScheduleUnited States1
UK Global Tariff commodity codesUnited Kingdom4
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 GTIPTürkiye3
Egypt customs tariff (10-digit)Egypt3
ECOWAS Common External TariffWest Africa1
Lines in total18

EU Combined Nomenclature (CN8)

European Union — 2 lines

CodeDescription
8481 40 10Safety or relief valves – Of cast iron or of steel
8481 40 90Safety or relief valves – Other

US Harmonized Tariff Schedule

United States — 1 line

CodeDescription
8481 40 00 00Safety or relief valves

UK Global Tariff commodity codes

United Kingdom — 4 lines

CodeDescription
8481 40 10 50Safety or relief valves – Of cast iron or of steel – For use in certain types of aircraft
8481 40 10 90Safety or relief valves – Of cast iron or of steel – Other
8481 40 90 10Safety or relief valves – Other – For use in certain types of aircraft
8481 40 90 90Safety or relief valves – Other – Other

India ITC-HS (8-digit)

India — 1 line

CodeDescription
8481 40 00Safety or relief valves

GCC integrated customs tariff (12-digit)

Gulf Cooperation Council, UAE schedule — 1 line

CodeDescription
8481 40 00 00 00Safety or relief valves.

EAC Common External Tariff

East African Community — 1 line

CodeDescription
8481 40 00Safety or relief valves

Brazil NCM

Brazil and Mercosur — 1 line

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

CodeDescription
8481 40 00Safety or relief valves

Turkey GTIP

Türkiye — 3 lines

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

CodeDescription
8481 40 10 00 00Safety or relief valves: – Of cast iron or cast steel
8481 40 90 00 11Safety or relief valves: – Other: – Gas safety valves (magnetic)
8481 40 90 00 19s - Other

Egypt customs tariff (10-digit)

Egypt — 3 lines

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

CodeDescription
8481 40 00 10Safety or relief valves.
8481 40 00 20Hand-operated valves for liquefied petroleum gas cylinders, for safety or relief.
8481 40 00 90Safety or relief 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 40 00 00Safety or relief valves

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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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