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HS 2022 subheading

HS code 8528.71: Set-top boxes

HS code 8528.71 covers: Reception apparatus for television, whether or not incorporating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus; not designed to incorporate a video display or screen. It is a subheading of heading 8528, in chapter 85.

Where 8528.71 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

    8528Monitors and projectors, not incorporating television reception apparatus; reception apparatus for television, whether or not incorporating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus

  3. Subheading

    8528.71 Reception apparatus for television, whether or not incorporating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus; not designed to incorporate a video display or screen

Other subheadings under heading 8528

  • 8528.42Monitors; cathode-ray tube, capable of directly connecting to and designed for use with an automatic data processing machine of heading 84.71
  • 8528.49Monitors; cathode-ray tube, n.e.c. in subheading 8528.42, whether or not colour
  • 8528.52Monitors; other than cathode-ray tube; capable of directly connecting to and designed for use with an automatic data processing machine of heading 84.71
  • 8528.59Monitors other than cathode-ray tube; n.e.c. in subheading 8528.52, whether or not colour
  • 8528.62Projectors; capable of directly connecting to and designed for use with an automatic data processing machine of heading 84.71
  • 8528.69Projectors; n.e.c. in subheading 8528.62, whether or not colour
  • 8528.71Reception apparatus for television, whether or not incorporating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus; not designed to incorporate a video display or screenThis page
  • 8528.72Reception apparatus for television, whether or not incorporating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus; incorporating a colour video display or screen
  • 8528.73Reception apparatus for television, whether or not incorporating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus; incorporating a monochrome video display or screen

How tariffs divide 8528.71 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 8528.71 in this language, in each publisher's own wording.

TariffApplies inLines
EU Combined Nomenclature (CN8)European Union1
US Harmonized Tariff ScheduleUnited States5
UK Global Tariff commodity codesUnited Kingdom1
GCC integrated customs tariff (12-digit)Gulf Cooperation Council, UAE schedule3
EAC Common External TariffEast African Community1
Brazil NCMBrazil and Mercosur3
Turkey GTIPTürkiye2
Egypt customs tariff (10-digit)Egypt4
ECOWAS Common External TariffWest Africa2
Lines in total22

EU Combined Nomenclature (CN8)

European Union — 1 line

CodeDescription
8528 71 00Reception apparatus for television, whether or not incorporating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus – Not designed to incorporate a video display or screen

US Harmonized Tariff Schedule

United States — 5 lines

CodeDescription
8528 71 10 00Reception apparatus for television, whether or not incorporating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus – Not designed to incorporate a video display or screen – Incorporating video recording or reproducing apparatus
8528 71 20 00Reception apparatus for television, whether or not incorporating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus – Not designed to incorporate a video display or screen – Other – Set top boxes which have a communications function
8528 71 30 00Reception apparatus for television, whether or not incorporating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus – Not designed to incorporate a video display or screen – Other – Printed circuit assemblies incorporating a tuner, of a kind used with data processing machines of heading 8471
8528 71 40 00Reception apparatus for television, whether or not incorporating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus – Not designed to incorporate a video display or screen – Other – Other – Color
8528 71 45 00Reception apparatus for television, whether or not incorporating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus – Not designed to incorporate a video display or screen – Other – Other – Black and white or other monochrome

UK Global Tariff commodity codes

United Kingdom — 1 line

CodeDescription
8528 71 00 00Reception apparatus for television, whether or not incorporating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus – Not designed to incorporate a video display or screen

GCC integrated customs tariff (12-digit)

Gulf Cooperation Council, UAE schedule — 3 lines

CodeDescription
8528 71 10 00 00Not designed to incorporate a video display or screen
8528 71 20 00 00Apparatus for reception of television transmision via satellites (receivers)
8528 71 90 00 00Other Reception apparatus for television not desingned to incorporate a video display or screen, whether or not incorporating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus

EAC Common External Tariff

East African Community — 1 line

CodeDescription
8528 71 00Reception apparatus for television, whether or not incorporating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus – Not designed to incorporate a video display or screen

Brazil NCM

Brazil and Mercosur — 3 lines

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

CodeDescription
8528 71 11Television reception apparatus, whether or not incorporating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus: – Not designed to incorporate a display device or screen, of video – Integrated receiver-decoder (IRD) for digitised coded video signals – Without modulated radio frequency (RF) output on channels 3 or 4, with balanced audio outputs with 600 Ohm impedance, suitable for rack mounting and with video output with BNC connector
8528 71 19Television reception apparatus, whether or not incorporating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus: – Not designed to incorporate a display device or screen, of video – Integrated receiver-decoder (IRD) for digitised coded video signals – Other
8528 71 90Television reception apparatus, whether or not incorporating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus: – Not designed to incorporate a display device or screen, of video – Other

Turkey GTIP

Türkiye — 2 lines

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

CodeDescription
8528 71 00 00 11Television reception apparatus (whether or not incorporating radio broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus): – Not designed to incorporate a video display or screen: – Reception apparatus for satellite television broadcasting
8528 71 00 00 18Television reception apparatus (whether or not incorporating radio broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus): – Not designed to incorporate a video display or screen: – Other

Egypt customs tariff (10-digit)

Egypt — 4 lines

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

CodeDescription
8528 71 10 10Receivers, incorporating sound or sound-and-image recording or reproducing apparatus, whether or not incorporating a decoder.
8528 71 10 90Other receivers, whether or not incorporating a decoder.
8528 71 90 10Other television reception apparatus, complete, not designed to incorporate a video display.
8528 71 90 90Other television reception apparatus, unassembled, not designed to incorporate a video display.

ECOWAS Common External Tariff

West Africa — 2 lines

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

CodeDescription
8528 71 10 00Television reception apparatus, whether or not incorporating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus – Not designed to incorporate a display device or video screen – Presented entirely disassembled or unassembled, imported for the assembly industry
8528 71 90 00Television reception apparatus, whether or not incorporating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus – Not designed to incorporate a display device or video screen – Other

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  • CBIC (India)
  • Dubai Customs
  • Siscomex (Brazil)
  • Resmî Gazete (Türkiye)
  • Egyptian Customs
  • ECOWAS
  • EAC
  • World Bank WITS
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