HS Code Detail
847150 Chapter 84 · Machinery Computer processing units / servers
Six-digit subheading in Machinery, chapter 84 of the Harmonized System, priced here for 6 destination markets.
Anatomy of 847150
You will declare against a longer local code that begins 847150: ten digits in the United States and the United Kingdom, eight in the European Union, and the first six the same everywhere. Which trailing digits apply is what a rate can differ on, though on this subheading all 6 destinations below charge the same, 0%.
What this code covers
Import duty by country
MFN duty rate · 6 countries| Country | Duty | VAT |
|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺Australia | 0% | 10% |
| 🇨🇦Canada | 0% | 5% |
| 🇩🇪Germany | 0% | 19% |
| 🇵🇹Portugal | 0% | 23% |
| 🇬🇧United Kingdom | 0% | 20% |
| 🇺🇸United States | 0% | 0% |
Rates shown are MFN (Most Favoured Nation), the default for WTO members. Preferential FTA rates may be lower with valid proof of origin. Section 301 / anti-dumping surcharges on Chinese-origin goods are not included.
What that costs: 847150 into Australia
An illustrative consignment of 847150 invoiced at AUD 2,000.00, priced in AUD because a threshold is set in the destination's currency and nothing here is converted.
| Goods value on the invoice | AUD 2,000.00 |
| International freight | AUD 120.00 |
| Cargo insurance | AUD 30.00 |
| Value the duty is charged on, FOB basis | AUD 2,000.00 |
| Duty at 0% | AUD 0.00 |
| Australia tax at 10%, charged on the value plus the duty | AUD 215.00 |
| Total, before commercial charges | AUD 2,365.00 |
And if the consignment were small
Australia relieves customs duty, GST and the Import Processing Charge on consignments at or under AUD 1,000. The 847150 shipment above is over that, so its duty is charged in full. The same code invoiced at exactly AUD 1,000 with no freight would be charged AUD 0.00 of duty and AUD 0.00 of tax, a total of AUD 1,000.00. The rate on the 847150 row has not changed; only the charge is relieved. The tax is not simply absent at that value: Australia collects it on the sale instead of at the border, so an overseas seller or marketplace above the registration threshold charges it at checkout. What the relief removes is the charge on arrival, not the tax.
Selling rather than buying? AUD 2,365.00 is what your buyer in Australia pays to take delivery of this consignment, yours to pay if you quote DDP and theirs if you quote DAP: Exporting to Australia sets out who collects it and what your invoice has to say.
An illustration, not a quotation: broker fees, handling and any trade remedy on the origin sit outside it. Price 847150 on your own numbers in the duty calculator.
How these rates were verified
Rates last verified 7 September 2026Every figure in the table above was read from the official tariff database of the market that charges it, on the date shown. Nothing here is copied from another aggregator.
- 🇺🇸US
- HTS General for 847150 US, read on 2026-09-07 from https://hts.usitc.gov/search?query=8471.50 and again on 2026-09-07 from https://hts.usitc.gov/reststop/exportList?from=84&to=85&format=CSV&styles=false. Both returned 0%. The United States International Trade Commission is the only body that publishes this schedule. The second reading was taken in a different format to check the reading, not to corroborate the schedule, because there is no second schedule to corroborate it against. Retrieved text: 8471.50.01 Free
- 🇬🇧GB
- Third country duty for 847150 GB, read on 2026-09-07 from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/commodities/8471500000 and again on 2026-09-07 from https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/reference-document-for-the-customs-tariff-establishment-eu-exit-regulations-2020. Both returned 0%. The two publications are independent of each other and they agree. Retrieved text: 8471500000 0.00 %
- 🇨🇦CA
- MFN for 847150 CA, read on 2026-09-07 from https://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/trade-commerce/tariff-tarif/2026/html/00/ch84-eng.html and again on 2026-09-07 from https://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/trade-commerce/tariff-tarif/2026/menu-eng.html. Both returned 0%. The Canada Border Services Agency is the only body that publishes this schedule. The Department of Justice publishes the Act and refers readers to the Agency for the schedule itself, so both readings are the Agency's, taken from two different products. Retrieved text: 8471.50.00 Free
- 🇦🇺AU
- MFN for 847150 AU, read on 2026-09-07 from https://www.abf.gov.au/importing-exporting-and-manufacturing/tariff-classification/current-tariff/schedule-3/section-xvi/chapter-84 and again on 2026-09-07 from https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2004A04997/latest/text. Both returned 0%. The two publications are independent of each other and they agree. Retrieved text: 8471.50.00 Free
- 🇩🇪DE 🇵🇹PT
- One reading covers DE and PT, which are priced from the same schedule: Third country duty (EU, via NI Online Tariff) for 847150 DE, read on 2026-09-07 from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/xi/commodities/8471500000 and again on 2026-09-07 from https://trade.ec.europa.eu/access-to-markets/en/results?product=847150&origin=CN&destination=DE. Both returned 0%. The two publications are independent of each other and they agree. Retrieved text: 8471500000 0.00 %
Re-check first: This line is defined by exclusion: processing units other than those of 8471.41 or 8471.49, so a machine that fits either of those belongs there instead. Free of duty into the United States on the single national line recorded here.
What falls under 847150
- Processing units other than those of 8471.41, whether or not containing storage, input or output units in the same housing
- Desktop tower systems, rack and tower servers, and bare processing units
What's specifically excluded
These look similar but belong under a different code:
Commonly confused with
847141: All in one computers
The two subheadings describe the same technology in different packaging. Where the input and output units are combined with the processor in one housing the code is 8471.41; where they are not, it is 8471.50. A desktop tower is almost always the latter.
847330: Computer parts and accessories
A complete processing unit is a machine of 8471, while a motherboard, a graphics card or a power supply shipped on its own is a part of 8473. A barebones chassis with a board but no processor sits on this line and needs the incomplete goods rule to resolve it.
Classification & cost note
This is where the bulk of business computing hardware actually falls, and it is worth separating three things that importers routinely conflate. A complete processing unit is a machine of this subheading. A component shipped alone is a part and takes 8473.30. A finished system that happens to be shipped in pieces for freight reasons may still be classified as the complete machine where what is presented has the essential character of the finished article. Server consignments add a further wrinkle, because the same physical box can be a general purpose ADP machine or a machine performing a specific function, and only the first is classified in 8471. Storage arrays and networking appliances built on server hardware are the usual candidates for reclassification, and the question turns on what the machine is dedicated to rather than what it is built from.
Typical products: Desktop tower computers without peripherals · Rack mounted and tower servers · Barebones systems supplied for configuration · Workstation processing units
What the notes to section XVI say
Chapter 84 sits in 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, where a section note governs every chapter in the section and applies before the heading notes below; the 6 reaching chapter 84 name no heading this site holds a code under, and they are quoted whole on the chapter 84 page, read from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/api/v2/sections/16 on 2026-09-08.
What the nomenclature says about heading 8471
847150 is a subheading of 8471, automatic data-processing machines and units thereof; magnetic or optical readers, machines for transcribing data onto data media in coded form and machines for processing such data, not elsewhere specified or included , and this site holds 4 other codes under the same heading, which every rule below governs equally.
One numbered note to chapter 84 takes heading 8471 as its own subject, and it is quoted below in full, as published.
Note 6 to chapter 84
(A) For the purposes of heading 8471, the expression 'automatic data-processing machines' means machines, capable of
(1) storing the processing program or programs and at least the data immediately necessary for the execution of the program;
(2) being freely programmed in accordance with the requirements of the user;
(3) performing arithmetical computations specified by the user; and
(4) executing, without human intervention, a processing program which requires them to modify their execution, by logical decision during the processing run.
(B) Automatic data-processing machines may be in the form of systems consisting of a variable number of separate units.
(C) Subject to paragraphs (D) and (E) below, a unit is to be regarded as being a part of an automatic data processing system if it meets all the following conditions:
(1) it is of a kind solely or principally used in an automatic data-processing system;
(2) it is connectable to the central processing unit either directly or through one or more other units; and
(3) it is able to accept or deliver data in a form (codes or signals) which can be used by the system.
Separately presented units of an automatic data-processing machine are to be classified in heading 8471.
However keyboards, X-Y coordinate input devices and disk storage units which satisfy the conditions of paragraphs (C)(2) and (C)(3) above, are in all cases to be classified as units of heading 8471.
(D) Heading 8471 does not cover the following when presented separately, even if they meet all of the conditions set forth in note 6(C) above:
(1) printers, copying machines, facsimile machines, whether or not combined;
(2) 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);
(3) loudspeakers and microphones;
(4) television cameras, digital cameras and video camera recorders;
(5) monitors and projectors, not incorporating television reception apparatus.
(E) Machines incorporating or working in conjunction with an automatic data-processing machine and performing a specific function other than data processing are to be classified in the headings appropriate to their respective functions or, failing that, in residual headings.
Read from the notes to chapter 84 published in the UK Trade Tariff by HM Revenue and Customs, at https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/api/v2/chapters/84, with the heading title from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/api/v2/headings/8471, on 2026-09-07, with the whole layer and the reason a heading note is a chapter note set out on the chapter 84 page. These notes are part of the international text of the Harmonized System, so the rule is the same whichever destination a shipment is going to, and it decides classification and never a rate.
Questions about 847150
Is a server classified as a computer?
A general purpose server is an automatic data processing machine and sits in heading 8471. A machine dedicated to a specific function, such as a storage array or a networking appliance, is classified by that function even when it is built on ordinary server hardware.
What if a system is shipped disassembled?
Goods presented unassembled or incomplete are classified as the finished article where what is presented already has its essential character. Splitting a system across component codes for freight convenience is a common and challengeable error.
Does fitting graphics accelerators change how a server is classified?
Not by itself. A machine populated with accelerator cards remains a general purpose processing unit where it still performs data processing freely under programme control. It leaves heading 8471 only where the hardware is dedicated to a single specific function rather than being programmable for any.
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