HS Code Detail
851714 Chapter 85 · Electronics Other telephones for cellular networks
Six-digit subheading in Electronics, chapter 85 of the Harmonized System, priced here for 6 destination markets.
Anatomy of 851714
You will declare against a longer local code that begins 851714: 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: 851714 into Portugal
An illustrative consignment of 851714 invoiced at EUR 2,000.00, priced in EUR because a threshold is set in the destination's currency and nothing here is converted.
| Goods value on the invoice | EUR 2,000.00 |
| International freight | EUR 120.00 |
| Cargo insurance | EUR 30.00 |
| Value the duty is charged on, CIF basis | EUR 2,150.00 |
| Duty at 0% | EUR 0.00 |
| Portugal tax at 23%, charged on the value plus the duty | EUR 494.50 |
| Total, before commercial charges | EUR 2,644.50 |
And if the consignment were small
Portugal relieves nothing: the relief was abolished, so the duty above is charged whatever the consignment is worth. A smaller shipment pays less because the value is lower, not because a threshold spared it.
Selling rather than buying? EUR 2,644.50 is what your buyer in Portugal pays to take delivery of this consignment, yours to pay if you quote DDP and theirs if you quote DAP: Exporting to Portugal 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 851714 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 851714 US, read on 2026-09-07 from https://hts.usitc.gov/search?query=8517.14 and again on 2026-09-07 from https://hts.usitc.gov/reststop/exportList?from=85&to=86&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: 8517.14.00 Free
- 🇬🇧GB
- Third country duty for 851714 GB, read on 2026-09-07 from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/commodities/8517140000 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: 8517140000 0.00 %
- 🇨🇦CA
- MFN for 851714 CA, read on 2026-09-07 from https://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/trade-commerce/tariff-tarif/2026/html/00/ch85-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: 8517.14.00 Free
- 🇦🇺AU
- MFN for 851714 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-85 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: 8517.14.00 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 851714 DE, read on 2026-09-07 from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/xi/commodities/8517140000 and again on 2026-09-07 from https://trade.ec.europa.eu/access-to-markets/en/results?product=851714&origin=CN&destination=DE. Both returned 0%. The two publications are independent of each other and they agree. Retrieved text: 8517140000 0.00 %
Re-check first: This subheading is telephones for cellular networks other than smartphones, which are 851713. Both enter the United States free, so getting the split right matters for the entry paperwork rather than for the duty.
What falls under 851714
- Telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks, other than smartphones
- Feature phones, ruggedised handsets and basic mobile telephones
What's specifically excluded
These look similar but belong under a different code:
Commonly confused with
851713: Smartphones
The 2022 edition split cellular telephones into smartphones and everything else. A smartphone runs an operating system capable of running third party applications; a handset with a fixed feature set does not. Where a low cost device runs a stripped operating system the boundary is genuinely argued, and the subheading changes on it.
851762: Network transmission apparatus
A mobile hotspot or data dongle is not a telephone, because it has no voice telephony function. Those devices are transmission apparatus of 8517.62, and a consignment of connectivity hardware commonly needs both codes.
Classification & cost note
This subheading exists because the 2022 edition of the Harmonised System created a dedicated line for smartphones and left everything else in the cellular telephone family here. Getting the split right matters more than the duty usually does, since telephones benefit from the Information Technology Agreement in most participating markets, but the two subheadings feed different statistical series and can attract different trade remedy and standards treatment. The practical test is whether the device runs an operating system that accepts third party applications. Beyond classification, cellular handsets carry a heavier regulatory load than almost anything else of comparable value: radio type approval, specific absorption rate testing, and battery transport rules under the dangerous goods regime, since a handset ships with a lithium cell installed. None of those obligations is discharged by a correct customs entry.
Typical products: Feature phones with numeric keypads · Ruggedised industrial handsets · Basic cellular telephones for voice and text · Senior friendly large button mobile phones
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 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, and this is the one that names heading 8517 by number.
Note 2 to section XVI
However, parts which are equally suitable for use principally with the goods of heading 8517 and 8525 to 8528 are to be classified in heading 8517, and parts which are suitable for use solely or principally with the goods of heading 8524 are to be classified in heading 8529;
What the nomenclature says about heading 8517
851714 is a subheading of 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 8443 , 8525 , 8527 or 8528 , and this site holds 3 other codes under the same heading, which every rule below governs equally.
One numbered note to chapter 85 takes heading 8517 as its own subject, and it is quoted below in full, as published.
Note 5 to chapter 85
For the purposes of heading 8517, the term "smartphones” means telephones for cellular networks, equipped with a mobile operating system designed to perform the functions of an automatic data processing machine such as downloading and running multiple applications simultaneously, including third-party applications, and whether or not integrating other features such as digital cameras and navigational aid systems.
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/8517, 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 851714
What separates a smartphone from an ordinary mobile phone?
Whether the device runs an operating system capable of running third party applications. Smartphones have their own subheading at 8517.13 in the 2022 nomenclature; handsets with a fixed feature set remain here at 8517.14.
Is a mobile hotspot classified as a phone?
No. A device without voice telephony is transmission apparatus and sits in 8517.62, so consignments containing both handsets and data devices need more than one line.
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