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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)

HS code

8442.50.00 Printing type, blocks, plates, cylinders... other printing components

Applicable taxes: Customs TaxCID, PAL, SSCL, VAT
Last Verified Date - 1 October 2026
Common commodities
Lithographic stone for offset printingGravure cylinder for rotogravure processPhoto-type set block for screen printingElectrotype for electrolytic engravingImaged CTP plate for digital offset printingPlanned and grained printing blockPolished lithographic stone for letterpress printingEngraved stereotype for relief printingPrepared printing plates for flexographyReady-to-use gravure components carrying the print image