EU tariff chapter 92
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; PARTS AND ACCESSORIES OF SUCH ARTICLES. 7 headings and 30 eight-digit codes, with conventional duty rates from 1.7 per cent to 4 per cent.
Notes
1. This chapter does not cover:
(a) parts of general use, as defined in note 2 to Section XV, of base metal (Section XV), or similar goods of plastics (Chapter 39);
(b) microphones, amplifiers, loudspeakers, headphones, switches, stroboscopes and other accessory instruments, apparatus or equipment of Chapter 85 or 90, for use with but not incorporated in or housed in the same cabinet as instruments of this chapter;
(c) toy instruments and apparatus (heading 9503);
(d) brushes for cleaning musical instruments (heading 9603), or monopods, bipods, tripods and similar articles (heading 9620); or
(e) collectors' pieces or antiques (heading 9705 or 9706).
2. Bows and sticks and similar devices used in playing the musical instruments of headings 9202 or 9206 presented with such instruments in numbers normal thereto and clearly intended for use therewith, are to be classified in the same heading as the relative instruments.
Cards, discs and rolls of heading 9209 presented with an instrument are to be treated as separate articles and not as forming a part of such instrument.
Headings and duty rates
Heading 9201
Pianos, including automatic pianos; harpsichords and other keyboard stringed instruments:
| CN code | Description | Conventional duty | Supplementary unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9201 10 | Upright pianos: | ||
| 9201 10 10 | New | 4 % | p/st |
| 9201 10 90 | Used | 4 % | p/st |
| 9201 20 00 | Grand pianos | 4 % | p/st |
| 9201 90 00 | Other | 4 % |
Heading 9202
Other string musical instruments (for example, guitars, violins, harps):
| CN code | Description | Conventional duty | Supplementary unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9202 10 | Played with a bow: | ||
| 9202 10 10 | Violins | 3.2 % | p/st |
| 9202 10 90 | Other | 3.2 % | p/st |
| 9202 90 | Other: | ||
| 9202 90 30 | Guitars | 3.2 % | p/st |
| 9202 90 80 | Other | 3.2 % | p/st |
Heading 9205
Wind musical instruments (for example, keyboard pipe organs, accordions, clarinets, trumpets, bagpipes), other than fairground organs and mechanical street organs:
| CN code | Description | Conventional duty | Supplementary unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9205 10 00 | Brass-wind instruments | 3.2 % | p/st |
| 9205 90 | Other: | ||
| 9205 90 10 | Accordions and similar instruments | 3.7 % | p/st |
| 9205 90 30 | Mouth organs | 3.7 % | p/st |
| 9205 90 50 | Keyboard pipe organs; harmoniums and similar keyboard instruments with free metal reeds | 3.2 % | |
| 9205 90 90 | Other | 3.2 % |
Heading 9206 00 00
| CN code | Description | Conventional duty | Supplementary unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9206 00 00 | Percussion musical instruments (for example, drums, xylophones, cymbals, castanets, maracas) | 3.2 % |
Heading 9207
Musical instruments, the sound of which is produced, or must be amplified, electrically (for example, organs, guitars, accordions):
| CN code | Description | Conventional duty | Supplementary unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9207 10 | Keyboard instruments, other than accordions: | ||
| 9207 10 10 | Organs | 3.2 % | p/st |
| 9207 10 30 | Digital pianos | 3.2 % | p/st |
| 9207 10 50 | Synthesisers | 3.2 % | p/st |
| 9207 10 80 | Other | 3.2 % | |
| 9207 90 | Other: | ||
| 9207 90 10 | Guitars | 3.7 % | p/st |
| 9207 90 90 | Other | 3.7 % |
Heading 9208
Musical boxes, fairground organs, mechanical street organs, mechanical singing birds, musical saws and other musical instruments not falling within any other heading of this chapter; decoy calls of all kinds; whistles, call horns and other mouth-blown sound signalling instruments:
| CN code | Description | Conventional duty | Supplementary unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9208 10 00 | Musical boxes | 2.7 % | |
| 9208 90 00 | Other | 3.2 % |
Heading 9209
Parts (for example, mechanisms for musical boxes) and accessories (for example, cards, discs and rolls for mechanical instruments) of musical instruments; metronomes, tuning forks and pitch pipes of all kinds:
| CN code | Description | Conventional duty | Supplementary unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9209 30 00 | Musical instrument strings | 2.7 % | |
| Other: | |||
| 9209 91 00 | Parts and accessories for pianos | 2.7 % | |
| 9209 92 00 | Parts and accessories for the musical instruments of heading 9202 | 2.7 % | |
| 9209 94 00 | Parts and accessories for the musical instruments of heading 9207 | 2.7 % | |
| 9209 99 | Other: | ||
| 9209 99 20 | Parts and accessories for the musical instruments of heading 9205 | 2.7 % | |
| Other: | |||
| 9209 99 40 | Metronomes, tuning forks and pitch pipes | 3.2 % | |
| 9209 99 50 | Mechanisms for musical boxes | 1.7 % | |
| 9209 99 70 | Other | 2.7 % |
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