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950430 Chapter 95 · Toys & Sports Coin-operated and arcade game machines
Six-digit subheading in Toys & Sports, chapter 95 of the Harmonized System, priced here for 5 destination markets.
Anatomy of 950430
You will declare against a longer local code that begins 950430: 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 5 destinations below charge the same, 0%.
What this code covers
Import duty by country
MFN duty rate · 5 countries| Country | Duty | VAT |
|---|---|---|
| 🇨🇦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: 950430 into United Kingdom
An illustrative consignment of 950430 invoiced at GBP 2,000.00, priced in GBP because a threshold is set in the destination's currency and nothing here is converted.
| Goods value on the invoice | GBP 2,000.00 |
| International freight | GBP 120.00 |
| Cargo insurance | GBP 30.00 |
| Value the duty is charged on, CIF basis | GBP 2,150.00 |
| Duty at 0% | GBP 0.00 |
| United Kingdom tax at 20%, charged on the value plus the duty | GBP 430.00 |
| Total, before commercial charges | GBP 2,580.00 |
And if the consignment were small
United Kingdom relieves customs duty on consignments at or under GBP 135. The 950430 shipment above is over that, so its duty is charged in full. The same code invoiced at exactly GBP 135 with no freight would be charged GBP 0.00 of duty and GBP 27.00 of tax, a total of GBP 162.00. The rate on the 950430 row has not changed; only the charge is relieved. The tax is not simply absent at that value: United Kingdom 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? GBP 2,580.00 is what your buyer in United Kingdom pays to take delivery of this consignment, yours to pay if you quote DDP and theirs if you quote DAP: Exporting to United Kingdom 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 950430 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 950430 US, read on 2026-09-07 from https://hts.usitc.gov/search?query=9504.30 and again on 2026-09-07 from https://hts.usitc.gov/reststop/exportList?from=95&to=96&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: 9504.30.00 Free
- 🇬🇧GB
- Third country duty for 950430 GB, read on 2026-09-07 from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/commodities/9504301000 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: 9504301000 0.00 %; 9504302000 0.00 %; 9504309000 0.00 %
- 🇨🇦CA
- MFN for 950430 CA, read on 2026-09-07 from https://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/trade-commerce/tariff-tarif/2026/html/00/ch95-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: 9504.30.00 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 950430 DE, read on 2026-09-07 from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/xi/commodities/9504301000 and again on 2026-09-07 from https://trade.ec.europa.eu/access-to-markets/en/results?product=950430&origin=CN&destination=DE. Both returned 0%. The two publications are independent of each other and they agree. Retrieved text: 9504301000 0.00 %; 9504302000 0.00 %; 9504309000 0.00 %
Markets with no figure recorded
Australia: Australia splits 9504.30 into 2 tariff lines and they do not carry the same rate: the schedule returned 0 to 5%. A single percentage cannot represent that honestly, so no Australia figure is recorded and the calculator falls back to its disclosed category average.
Re-check first: The United States line turns on the payment mechanism, coins, banknotes, cards, tokens or any other means, rather than on the game itself. A video game console is 950450 and other games are 950490, neither of them covered by this figure.
What falls under 950430
- Games operated by coins, banknotes, bank cards, tokens or any other means of payment, other than automatic bowling alley equipment
- Arcade cabinets, pinball machines and amusement machines fitted with a payment mechanism
- The same machines whether the payment is taken by coin slot, note acceptor, card reader or token
What's specifically excluded
These look similar but belong under a different code:
Commonly confused with
950450: Video game consoles and arcade machines without a payment mechanism
Payment is the whole test. A machine that takes a coin, a note, a card or a token to start a game is here even when it is a video game, and the same cabinet without the mechanism is a video game machine of the following subheading. Identical hardware therefore ships under two codes depending on whether the acceptor is fitted, which is a decision made on the production line rather than by the tariff.
950420: Coin operated pool tables
The billiards line comes first in the subheading order and takes articles and accessories for billiards of all kinds, so a coin operated pool table is dealt with there rather than under the payment operated line. Subheading order decides it, not the coin slot.
Classification & cost note
One question decides this subheading and it has nothing to do with what the game is: does the machine take a payment to start a play. Coin, banknote, bank card and token are all named, and any other means of payment is named too, so a contactless reader counts. That makes the classification depend on a component rather than on the article, and identical cabinets genuinely do ship under two codes according to whether the acceptor was fitted before export. Two carve outs sit around it. Automatic bowling alley equipment is excluded by the subheading's own words even where it is coin operated, and articles for billiards are taken earlier in the subheading order, so a coin operated pool table is a billiards article. Beyond the tariff, this is one of the few consumer product families where the import itself can be restricted rather than merely charged: machines that pay out money or money's worth fall under gambling licensing in most markets, and a machine held at the border for a gaming licence is not a customs problem that a broker can solve. Electrical safety approval, radio approval for any wireless module and, increasingly, payment terminal certification for card readers are the other conditions that arrive with the goods.
Typical products: Coin operated arcade video cabinets · Pinball machines · Crane and claw prize machines · Redemption ticket machines · Card operated amusement machines · Token operated air hockey tables · Coin operated darts machines · Note acceptor amusement with prizes machines
What the notes to section XX say
Chapter 95 sits in section XX, miscellaneous manufactured articles, and the nomenclature publishes no note to that section at all, so the note to chapter 95 is the highest rule over this code; that is the published position rather than a gap here, and the chapter 95 page says the same, read from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/api/v2/sections/20 on 2026-09-08.
What the nomenclature says about heading 9504
950430 is a subheading of 9504, video game consoles and machines, table or parlour games, including pintables, billiards, special tables for casino games and automatic bowling equipment, amusement machines operated by coins, banknotes, bank cards, tokens or by any other means of payment , and this site holds 2 other codes under the same heading, which every rule below governs equally.
No numbered note to chapter 95 takes heading 9504 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 95 page.
One further note to chapter 95 names heading 9504 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 6 to chapter 95, which is about something else
Fairground amusements do not include equipment of heading 9504.
Read from the notes to chapter 95 published in the UK Trade Tariff by HM Revenue and Customs, at https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/api/v2/chapters/95, with the heading title from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/api/v2/headings/9504, on 2026-09-07, with the whole layer and the reason a heading note is a chapter note set out on the chapter 95 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 950430
What decides between 9504.30 and 9504.50?
Whether the machine is operated by a payment. A coin, note, card or token mechanism puts the machine here; the same cabinet without one is a video game machine of 9504.50.
Is a card reader a means of payment for this subheading?
Yes. The text names coins, banknotes, bank cards and tokens and then covers any other means of payment, so a contactless or account based reader qualifies.
Where does a coin operated pool table go?
To the billiards line, which comes earlier in the subheading order and takes articles and accessories for billiards of all kinds regardless of the coin mechanism.
Does the import need anything beyond a customs entry?
Frequently. Machines that pay out money or money's worth attract gambling licensing in most markets, and electrical and radio approvals apply to the cabinet whatever the game is.
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