BTKI Chapter 85: Electrical machinery and equipment and p...

Published: 2026-03-19 Reviewed: 2026-03-19 Authority: Official Indonesian source cross-check required

Field	Value
Chapter	85
Section	Machinery, boilers, and electrical equipment
WCO headings loaded	49
6-digit subheadings loaded	296
Indonesian tariff lines live	0

Chapter summary

This chapter is now linked to the live WCO 2022 heading tree. Use it to move from the official chapter title into the 4-digit heading and then the 6-digit subheading before validating the final Indonesian tariff line.

Headings loaded from this chapter

Heading	Title	6-digit codes
8501	Electric motors and generators (excluding generating sets)	17
8502	Electric generating sets and rotary converters	7
8503	Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of heading 85.01 or 85.02	1
8504	Electrical transformers, static converters (for example, rectifiers) and inductors	11
8505	Electro-magnets; permanent magnets and articles intended to become permanent magnets after magnetisation; electro-magnetic or permanent magnet chucks, clamps and similar holding devices; electro-magnetic couplings, clutches and brakes; electro-magnetic lifting heads	4
8506	Primary cells and primary batteries	7
8507	Electric accumulators, including separators therefor, whether or not rectangular (including square)	7
8508	Vacuum cleaners	4
8509	Electro-mechanical domestic appliances, with self-contained electric motor, other than vacuum cleaners of heading 85.08	3
8510	Shavers, hair clippers and hair-removing appliances, with self-contained electric motor	4
8511	Electrical ignition or starting equipment of a kind used for spark-ignition or compression-ignition internal combustion engines (for example, ignition magnetos, magneto-dynamos, ignition coils, sparking plugs and glow plugs, starter motors); generators (for example, dynamos, alternators) and cut-outs of a kind used in conjunction with such engines	7
8512	Electrical lighting or signalling equipment (excluding articles of heading 85.39), windscreen wipers, defrosters and demisters, of a kind used for cycles or motor vehicles	5
8513	Portable electric lamps designed to function by their own source of energy (for example, dry batteries, accumulators, magnetos), other than lighting equipment of heading 85.12	2
8514	Industrial or laboratory electric furnaces and ovens (including those functioning by induction or dielectric loss); other industrial or laboratory equipment for the heat treatment of materials by induction or dielectric loss	8
8515	Electric (including electrically heated gas), laser or other light or photon beam, ultrasonic, electron beam, magnetic pulse or plasma arc soldering, brazing or welding machines and apparatus, whether or not capable of cutting; electric machines and apparatus for hot spraying of metals or cermets	8
8516	Electric instantaneous or storage water heaters and immersion heaters; electric space heating apparatus and soil heating apparatus; electro-thermic hair-dressing apparatus (for example, hair dryers, hair curlers, curling tong heaters) and hand dryers; electric smoothing irons; other electro-thermic appliances of a kind used for domestic purposes; electric heating resistors, other than those of heading 85.45	14
8517	Telephone 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 84.43, 85.25, 85.27 or 85.28	9
8518	Microphones and stands therefor; loudspeakers, whether or not mounted in their enclosures; headphones and earphones, whether or not combined with a microphone, and sets consisting of a microphone and one or more loudspeakers; audio-frequency electric amplifiers; electric sound amplifier sets	8
8519	Sound recording or reproducing apparatus	4
8520	[deleted]	0
8521	Video recording or reproducing apparatus, whether or not incorporating a video tuner	2
8522	Parts and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading 85.19 or 85.21	2
8523	Discs, tapes, solid-state non-volatile storage devices, «smart cards» and other media for the recording of sound or of other phenomena, whether or not recorded, including matrices and masters for the production of discs, but excluding products of Chapter 37	8
8524	Flat panel display modules, whether or not incorporating touch-sensitive screens	6
8525	Transmission apparatus for radio-broadcasting or television, whether or not incorporating reception apparatus or sound recording or reproducing apparatus; television cameras, digital cameras and video camera recorders	6
8526	Radar apparatus, radio navigational aid apparatus and radio remote control apparatus	3
8527	Reception apparatus for radio-broadcasting, whether or not combined, in the same housing, with sound recording or reproducing apparatus or a clock	8
8528	Monitors 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	9
8529	Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of headings 85.24 to 85.28	2
8530	Electrical signalling, safety or traffic control equipment for railways, tramways, roads, inland waterways, parking facilities, port installations or airfields (other than those of heading 86.08)	3
8531	Electric sound or visual signalling apparatus (for example, bells, sirens, indicator panels, burglar or fire alarms), other than those of heading 85.12 or 85.30	4
8532	Electrical capacitors, fixed, variable or adjustable (pre-set)	9
8533	Electrical resistors (including rheostats and potentiometers), other than heating resistors	7
8534	Printed circuits	1
8535	Electrical apparatus for switching or protecting electrical circuits, or for making connections to or in electrical circuits (for example, switches, fuses, lightning arresters, voltage limiters, surge suppressors, plugs and other connectors, junction boxes), for a voltage exceeding 1,000 volts	6
8536	Electrical apparatus for switching or protecting electrical circuits, or for making connections to or in electrical circuits (for example, switches, relays, fuses, surge suppressors, plugs, sockets, lamp-holders and other connectors, junction boxes), for a voltage not exceeding 1,000 volts; connectors for optical fibres, optical fibre bundles or cables	10
8537	Boards, panels, consoles, desks, cabinets and other bases, equipped with two or more apparatus of heading 85.35 or 85.36, for electric control or the distribution of electricity, including those incorporating instruments or apparatus of Chapter 90, and numerical control apparatus, other than switching apparatus of heading 85.17	2
8538	Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading 85.35, 85.36 or 85.37	2
8539	Electric filament or discharge lamps, including sealed beam lamp units and ultra-violet or infra-red lamps; arc-lamps; light-emitting diode (LED) light sources	12
8540	Thermionic, cold cathode or photo-cathode valves and tubes (for example, vacuum or vapour or gas filled valves and tubes, mercury arc rectifying valves and tubes, cathode-ray tubes, television camera tubes)	11
8541	Semiconductor devices (for example, diodes, transistors, semiconductor-based transducers); photosensitive semiconductor devices, including photovoltaic cells whether or not assembled in modules or made up into panels; light-emitting diodes (LED), whether or not assembled with other light-emitting diodes (LED); mounted piezo-electric crystals	12
8542	Electronic integrated circuits	5
8543	Electrical machines and apparatus, having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter	6
8544	Insulated (including enamelled or anodised) wire, cable (including co-axial cable) and other insulated electric conductors, whether or not fitted with connectors; optical fibre cables, made up of individually sheathed fibres, whether or not assembled with electric conductors or fitted with connectors	8
8545	Carbon electrodes, carbon brushes, lamp carbons, battery carbons and other articles of graphite or other carbon, with or without metal, of a kind used for electrical purposes	4
8546	Electrical insulators of any material	3
8547	Insulating fittings for electrical machines, appliances or equipment, being fittings wholly of insulating material apart from any minor components of metal (for example, threaded sockets) incorporated during moulding solely for purposes of assembly, other than insulators of heading 85.46; electrical conduit tubing and joints therefor, of base metal lined with insulating material	3
8548	Electrical parts of machinery or apparatus, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter	1
8549	Electrical and electronic waste and scrap	11

Sources

Source	URL	Coverage	Tier
WCO HS 2022	https://www.wcotradetools.org/en/harmonized-system/search/2022/en	4-digit headings and 6-digit subheadings	official
DJBC BTKI	https://www.beacukai.go.id/btki-dan-tarif	Indonesia chapter mapping and BTKI context	official
INSW tariff lookup	https://insw.go.id/intr	Existing Indonesian tariff-line examples	official

Changelog

2026-03-19 - The HS page was published with tariff basics, chapter linkage, and import checkpoints.
2026-03-19 - Lartas notes, the duty calculator link, and chapter navigation were updated.

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