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Section XVI — Machinery and mechanical appliances; electrical equipment; parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles

Chapter 84 — Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof

Heading 8442 — Machinery, apparatus and equipment (other than the machines of headings 84.56 to 84.65) for preparing or making plates, cylinders or other printing components; plates, cylinders and other printing components; plates, cylinders and lithographic stones, prepared for printing purposes (for example, planed, grained or polished).

Subheading

8442.50 Plates, cylinders and other printing components; plates, cylinders and lithographic stones, prepared for printing purposes (for example, planed, grained or polished)

Common commodities
Prepared offset printing platesPolished lithographic stones for printingGrained print cylinders for rotogravureEtched engraving plates for letterpressPlaned woodcut blocks for relief printingPrepared stone lithography platesSmooth intaglio plates for etchingPrepared gravure cylinders for flexographic printingPolished silkscreen mesh for screen printingPrepared cliché plates for collotype process

HS codes

CodeDescriptionTaxes
8442.50.00Printing type, blocks, plates, cylinders... other printing componentsCustoms TaxCID, PAL, SSCL, VAT