Files, rasps, pliers (including cutting pliers), pincers, tweezers, metal-cutting shears, pipe-cutters, bolt croppers, perforating punches and similar hand tools

Heading 8203Pick a subheading

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This code in Finnish Customs' Fintaric ↗Duties, taxes and other measures in the EU's TARIC service ↗

Place in the nomenclature

8200 00 00 00Tools, implements, cutlery, spoons and forks, of base metal; parts thereof of base metal
8203 00 00 00Files, rasps, pliers (including cutting pliers), pincers, tweezers, metal-cutting shears, pipe-cutters, bolt croppers, perforating punches and similar hand tools

Subheadings 4

8203 10 00 00Files, rasps and similar tools
8203 20 00 00Pliers (including cutting pliers), pincers, tweezers and similar tools
8203 30 00 00Metal-cutting shears and similar tools
8203 40 00 00Pipe-cutters, bolt croppers, perforating punches and similar tools

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On the same level

8201 00 00 00Hand tools, the following: spades, shovels, mattocks, picks, hoes, forks and rakes; axes, billhooks and similar hewing tools; secateurs and pruners of any kind; scythes, sickles, hay knives, hedge shears, timber wedges and other tools of a kind used in agriculture, horticulture or forestry
8202 00 00 00Handsaws; blades for saws of all kinds (including slitting, slotting or toothless saw blades)
8203 00 00 00Files, rasps, pliers (including cutting pliers), pincers, tweezers, metal-cutting shears, pipe-cutters, bolt croppers, perforating punches and similar hand tools
8204 00 00 00Hand-operated spanners and wrenches (including torque meter wrenches but not including tap wrenches); interchangeable spanner sockets, with or without handles
8205 00 00 00Hand tools (including glaziers' diamonds), not elsewhere specified or included; blowlamps; vices, clamps and the like, other than accessories for and parts of machine-tools or water-jet cutting machines; anvils; portable forges; hand- or pedal-operated grinding wheels with frameworks
8206 00 00 00Tools of two or more of headings 8202 to 8205, put up in sets for retail sale
8207 00 00 00Interchangeable tools for hand tools, whether or not power-operated, or for machine tools (for example, for pressing, stamping, punching, tapping, threading, drilling, boring, broaching, milling, turning or screw driving), including dies for drawing or extruding metal, and rock-drilling or earth-boring tools
8208 00 00 00Knives and cutting blades, for machines or for mechanical appliances
8209 00 00 00Plates, sticks, tips and the like for tools, unmounted, of cermets
8210 00 00 00Hand-operated mechanical appliances, weighing 10 kg or less, used in the preparation, conditioning or serving of food or drink
8211 00 00 00Knives with cutting blades, serrated or not (including pruning knives), other than knives of heading 8208, and blades therefor
8212 00 00 00Razors and razor blades (including razor blade blanks in strips)
8213 00 00 00Scissors, tailors' shears and similar shears, and blades therefor
8214 00 00 00Other articles of cutlery (for example, hair clippers, butchers' or kitchen cleavers, choppers and mincing knives, paperknives); manicure or pedicure sets and instruments (including nail files)
8215 00 00 00Spoons, forks, ladles, skimmers, cake-servers, fish-knives, butter-knives, sugar tongs and similar kitchen or tableware

What is the code used for?

Heading 8203 is a four-digit heading in chapter 82. The first four digits are the same in every country that uses the worldwide Harmonized System (HS).

The code has subheadings, so it cannot be declared as it is: pick the subheading below that describes the goods most precisely.

Duties, VAT, import restrictions and the other measures that apply to the code are in the EU's TARIC service. The search is a guide only; Finnish Customs gives binding decisions on classification (Binding Tariff Information).