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HS 2022 subheading

HS code 8517.13: Smartphones

HS code 8517.13 covers: Telephone sets; smartphones for cellular or other wireless networks. It is a subheading of heading 8517, in chapter 85.

Where 8517.13 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

    85 Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers; television image and sound recorders and reproducers, parts and accessories of such articles

  2. Heading

    8517Telephone sets, including smartphones and other telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks; other apparatus for the transmission or reception of voice, images or other data, including apparatus for communication in a wired or wireless network (such as a local or wide area network), other than transmission or reception apparatus of heading 8443, 8525, 8527 or 8528

  3. Subheading

    8517.13 Telephone sets; smartphones for cellular or other wireless networks

Other subheadings under heading 8517

  • 8517.11Line telephone sets with cordless handsets
  • 8517.13Telephone sets; smartphones for cellular or other wireless networksThis page
  • 8517.14Telephone sets; other than smartphones, for cellular or other wireless networks
  • 8517.18Telephone sets n.e.c. in item no. 8517.1
  • 8517.61Base stations
  • 8517.62Communication apparatus (excluding telephone sets or base stations); machines for the reception, conversion and transmission or regeneration of voice, images or other data, including switching and routing apparatus
  • 8517.69Communication apparatus (excluding telephone sets or base stations); machines for the transmission or reception of voice, images or other data (including wired/wireless networks), n.e.c. in item no. 8517.6
  • 8517.71Communication apparatus; parts, aerials and aerial reflectors of all kinds, part suitable for use therewith
  • 8517.79Communication apparatus; parts, other than aerials and aerial reflectors of all kinds

How tariffs divide 8517.13 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 8517.13 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 Kingdom1
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 total11

EU Combined Nomenclature (CN8)

European Union — 1 line

CodeDescription
8517 13 00Telephone sets, including smartphones and other telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks – Smartphones

US Harmonized Tariff Schedule

United States — 1 line

CodeDescription
8517 13 00 00Telephone sets, including smartphones and other telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks – Smartphones

UK Global Tariff commodity codes

United Kingdom — 1 line

CodeDescription
8517 13 00 00Telephone sets, including smartphones and other telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks – Smartphones

India ITC-HS (8-digit)

India — 1 line

CodeDescription
8517 13 00Telephone sets, including smartphones and other telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks: – Smartphones

GCC integrated customs tariff (12-digit)

Gulf Cooperation Council, UAE schedule — 1 line

CodeDescription
8517 13 00 00 00Smartphones

EAC Common External Tariff

East African Community — 1 line

CodeDescription
8517 13 00Telephone sets, including smartphones and other telephones, including telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks – Smartphones

Brazil NCM

Brazil and Mercosur — 1 line

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

CodeDescription
8517 13 00Telephone sets, including telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks; smartphones and other telephones: – Smartphones

Turkey GTIP

Türkiye — 2 lines

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

CodeDescription
8517 13 00 00 11Telephone sets (including smartphones and other telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks) – Smartphones: – Smartwatches (other than those of subheading 8517.62)
8517 13 00 00 19Telephone sets (including smartphones and other telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks) – Smartphones: – Other

Egypt customs tariff (10-digit)

Egypt — 1 line

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

CodeDescription
8517 13 00 00Smartphones.

ECOWAS Common External Tariff

West Africa — 1 line

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

CodeDescription
8517 13 00 00Telephone sets, including smartphones and other telephones for cellular networks and for other wireless networks – Smartphones

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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
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  • Eurasian Economic Commission
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