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851671 Chapter 85 · Electronics Coffee makers / espresso machines
Six-digit subheading in Electronics, chapter 85 of the Harmonized System, priced here for 5 destination markets.
Anatomy of 851671
You will declare against a longer local code that begins 851671: 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 the 5 rates below differ on.
What this code covers
Import duty by country
MFN duty rate · 5 countries| Country | Duty | VAT |
|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺Australia | 0% | 10% |
| 🇩🇪Germany | 2.7% | 19% |
| 🇵🇹Portugal | 2.7% | 23% |
| 🇬🇧United Kingdom | 2% | 20% |
| 🇺🇸United States | 3.7% | 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: 851671 into Australia
An illustrative consignment of 851671 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 851671 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 851671 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 851671 on your own numbers in the duty calculator.
How these rates were verified
Rates last verified 31 August 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.
- 🇦🇺AU
- MFN for 851671 AU, read on 2026-09-01 from https://www.abf.gov.au/importing-exporting-and-manufacturing/tariff-classification/current-tariff/schedule-3/section-xvi/chapter-85 and again on 2026-09-01 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: 8516.71.00 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 851671 DE, read on 2026-08-31 from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/xi/commodities/8516710000 and again on 2026-09-01 from https://trade.ec.europa.eu/access-to-markets/en/results?product=851671&origin=CN&destination=DE. Both returned 2.7%. The two publications are independent of each other and they agree. Retrieved text: 8516710000 2.70 %
- 🇬🇧GB
- Third country duty for 851671 GB, read on 2026-08-31 from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/commodities/8516710000 and again on 2026-09-01 from https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/reference-document-for-the-customs-tariff-establishment-eu-exit-regulations-2020. Both returned 2%. The two publications are independent of each other and they agree. Retrieved text: 8516710000 2.00 %
- 🇺🇸US
- HTS General for 851671 US, read on 2026-08-31 from https://hts.usitc.gov/search?query=8516.71 and again on 2026-09-01 from https://hts.usitc.gov/reststop/exportList?from=85&to=86&format=CSV&styles=false. Both returned 3.7%. 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: 8516.71.00 3.7%
Markets with no figure recorded
Canada: Canada splits 8516.71 into 2 tariff lines and they do not carry the same rate: the schedule returned 8 to 9%. This site served 0%, which is outside that range and matches no line, so the figure was withdrawn rather than replaced: a single percentage cannot represent the split honestly and picking one line to make a number work is not a reading. No Canada figure is recorded and the calculator falls back to its disclosed category average.
Re-check first: Canada splits 8516.71 and the two lines do not agree: 8516.71.10 is 9% and 8516.71.20 is 8%, so no Canadian figure is published and the split is the first thing to re-check. A coffee maker that also grinds, or that brews under pressure as an espresso machine, is the classification most likely to move the line within the subheading.
What falls under 851671
- Filter coffee machines, espresso machines, pod and capsule brewers, and electric tea makers
- Domestic and light-commercial bean-to-cup machines with integral grinders
What's specifically excluded
These look similar but belong under a different code:
Commonly confused with
850940: Coffee grinders
A grinder is a food-processing appliance of 8509.40; a brewer is a heating appliance of 8516.71. A bean-to-cup machine does both, and it stays in 8516.71 because brewing is the principal function, but a grinder sold separately never joins it.
841981: Commercial brewing plant
Scale eventually moves the code. Domestic and small commercial machines are 8516.71 as electrothermic appliances; large catering and industrial brewing equipment is machinery of heading 8419, and the boundary is decided on capacity and construction rather than on who buys it.
Classification & cost note
The EU charges 2.7% on coffee machines and the UK 2%, against 3.7% in the United States, which is small enough that importers rarely check the code and large enough to matter on a container. Canada is the one to look up rather than assume: it splits 8516.71 across two lines charging 9% and 8%, so there is no single Canadian rate and this site publishes none. The classification question that does bite is the pod machine sold as a bundle with a starter pack of capsules: the machine is 8516.71 and the capsules are a coffee preparation of Chapter 9 or 21, and a retail set containing both is not automatically classified as one item. Splitting the declaration is usually cleaner than arguing essential character.
Typical products: Pod and capsule espresso machines · Pump espresso machines with steam wands · Filter and drip coffee makers · Bean-to-cup machines with built-in grinders
What the notes to section XVI say
Chapter 85 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 85 name no heading this site holds a code under, and they are quoted whole on the chapter 85 page, read from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/api/v2/sections/16 on 2026-09-08.
What the nomenclature says about heading 8516
851671 is a subheading of 8516, electric instantaneous or storage water heaters and immersion heaters; electric space-heating apparatus and soil-heating apparatus; electrothermic hairdressing apparatus (for example, hairdryers, hair curlers, curling tong heaters) and hand dryers; electric smoothing irons; other electrothermic appliances of a kind used for domestic purposes; electric heating resistors, other than those of heading 8545 , and this site holds 4 other codes under the same heading, which every rule below governs equally.
No numbered note to chapter 85 takes heading 8516 as its subject, which is what the published notes say rather than a gap on this page: the heading is defined by its own wording above and by the note to the chapter, quoted in full on the chapter 85 page.
One further note to chapter 85 names heading 8516 from elsewhere in its own text, usually to send goods into it or away from it, and the sentence that names it is quoted below.
Note 4 to chapter 85, which is about something else
The heading does not, however, apply to fans or ventilating or recycling hoods incorporating a fan, whether or not fitted with filters (heading 8414), centrifugal clothes-dryers (heading 8421), dishwashing machines (heading 8422), household washing machines (heading 8450), roller or other ironing machines (heading 8420 or 8451), sewing machines (heading 8452), electric scissors (heading 8467) or to electro-thermic appliances (heading 8516).
Read from the notes to chapter 85 published in the UK Trade Tariff by HM Revenue and Customs, at https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/api/v2/chapters/85, with the heading title from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/api/v2/headings/8516, on 2026-09-07, with the whole layer and the reason a heading note is a chapter note set out on the chapter 85 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 851671
Is there duty on imported coffee machines?
The EU applies 2.7%, the UK 2% and the United States 3.7%. Canada and Australia apply zero. Import VAT or GST applies everywhere on top.
How is a bean-to-cup machine classified?
Under 8516.71. Brewing is the principal function even though the machine also grinds, so the integral grinder does not move it to 8509.40.
What about a machine bundled with coffee pods?
The machine and the pods are different chapters, so a bundle needs care. Splitting the declaration between 8516.71 for the machine and the appropriate coffee code for the capsules is usually cleaner than treating the box as a single set.
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