Musical instruments; parts and… (chapter 92): which countries import it

Fact sheet

Code

92

Sector

Technology and Electronics

Headings in this chapter

• Pianos; including automatic pianos, harpsichords and other keyboard stringed instrumentsHeading 9201
• Musical instruments; string, n.e.c. in heading no. 9201, (e.g. guitars, violins, harps)Heading 9202
• Keyboard pipe organs; harmoniums and similar keyboard instruments with free metal reeds.Heading 9203
• Accordions and similar instruments; mouth organs.Heading 9204
• Musical instruments; wind (e.g. keyboard pipe organs, accordions, clarinets, trumpets, bagpipes), other than fairground organs and mechanical street organsHeading 9205
• Musical instruments; percussion (e.g. drums, xylophones, cymbals, castanets, maracas)Heading 9206
• Musical instruments; the sound of which is produced or must be amplified, electrically (e.g. organs, guitars, accordions)Heading 9207
• Musical boxes, fairground and mechanical street organs, mechanical singing birds, musical saws and musical instruments n.e.c. in chapter 92; decoy calls of all kinds; whistles; call horns and other mouth-blown sound signalling instrumentsHeading 9208
• Musical instrument parts (for example, mechanisms for musical boxes) and accessories (for example, cards, discs and rolls for mechanical instruments); metronomes, tuning forks and pitch pipesHeading 9209

Trade fairs in this sector

• CES®
• embedded world Exhibition & Conference
• IFA Berlin
• Light + Building
• MWC Barcelona

What to check before exporting musical instruments

Chapter 92 splits instruments into nine headings, from pianos (9201) and string instruments (9202) to electric or electronically amplified instruments (9207) and parts and accessories (9209). The heading determines both the tariff treatment and, in some cases, whether extra controls apply, so classifying the product correctly is the starting point.

Several of the largest markets on the import table, Germany, France, the Netherlands and Italy, are EU member states. Selling to them from Spain means no customs duties and no import declaration, since trade moves within the single market; VAT rules still apply and depend on whether the buyer is a business or a consumer.

For markets outside the EU, the tariff a Spanish exporter faces depends on the heading and on whether an EU trade agreement covers the destination. The United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, China and South Korea appear among the top importers in the table and each has its own tariff schedule; the applicable rate is checked in Access2Markets using the specific heading.

Instruments made with certain wood species, common in string instruments under heading 9202, can fall under CITES controls on protected timber. Whether a specific shipment needs a CITES permit depends on the wood used and the destination country, and is confirmed with the national CITES authority before export.

Electric and electronically amplified instruments under heading 9207 may also need to meet the destination market's electrical safety and electromagnetic compatibility rules. These requirements are set by each market, not by the HS chapter, and are checked against the destination country's own regulations.