8802.12
Of an unladen weight exceeding 2,000 kg
Other aircraft (for example, helicopters, airplanes, except unmanned aircraft of heading 8806); spacecraft (including satellites) and suborbital and spacecraft launch vehicles > Helicopters
Where this code sits
- Section XVII · Chapter88 — AIRCRAFT, SPACECRAFT, AND PARTS THEREOFVEHICLES, AIRCRAFT, VESSELS AND ASSOCIATED TRANSPORT EQUIPMENT
- Heading8802 — Other aircraft (for example, helicopters, airplanes, except unmanned aircraft of heading 8806); spacecraft (including satellites) and suborbital and spacecraft launch vehicles
- Subheading8802.12 — Of an unladen weight exceeding 2,000 kg
Six digits is as far as the international nomenclature goes, and it is the same six digits in every country that applies the Harmonized System. Your destination adds further digits of its own, and the rate lives on that national line — which is why the US lines below run to eight and ten digits, and why the lookups go to each authority's own tariff.
Duty rate
USITC Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States, Revision 18 (2026) · retrieved 13/09/2026
Measures in force on top of this rate
- Antidumping/countervailing duties not checked — they are administered separately, keyed to the exporter, and can exceed the tariff rate. Check for an order in force before relying on this total.
Paste 8802.12 into the lookup and follow it down to your national line.
US national lines under 8802.12
The United States subdivides this subheading into 5 lines. They share a duty rate, so the classification below the subheading affects reporting rather than the amount.
| Line | Description | General | Preferential |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8802.12.01 | Of an unladen weight exceeding 2,000 kg | Free | — |
| 8802.12.01.20 | Military | Free stated on 88021201 | — |
| 8802.12.01.40 | Other | Free stated on 88021201 | — |
| 8802.12.01.60 | Military | Free stated on 88021201 | — |
| 8802.12.01.80 | Other | Free stated on 88021201 | — |
A blank General cell means the line states no rate of its own and takes the one above it — the line it is stated on is named, so the figure can be checked where it actually appears. Preferential rates are listed with the programme codes that grant them; the schedule offering a rate is not the same as your goods qualifying for it.
Preferential rates for 8802.12
No preference programme applies to these lines for any origin — the general rate is the rate, wherever the goods come from. That is worth knowing: there is nothing to claim here, so no certificate of origin will reduce the duty.
What chapter 88 excludes
A subheading's wording does not decide a classification — the legal notes do. These are the notes that push goods out of this chapter even when the description seems to fit.
The expression “unmanned aircraft”, however, does not cover flying toys, designed solely for amusement purposes (heading 9503).
Legal notes that govern this code
Reproduced from the published tariff schedule. Section and chapter notes are binding and are part of the nomenclature itself; statistical notes are US reporting rules and are not classification law.
Section XVII notes VEHICLES, AIRCRAFT, VESSELS AND ASSOCIATED TRANSPORT EQUIPMENT
1. This section does not cover articles of heading 9503 or 9508, or sleds, bobsleds, toboggans or the like of heading 9506.
2. The expressions "parts"and"parts and accessories" do not apply to the following articles, whether or not they are identifiable as for the goods of this section:
(a) Joints, washers or the like of any material (classified according to their constituent material or in heading 8484) or other articles of vulcanized rubber other than hard rubber (heading 4016);
(b) Parts of general use, as defined in note 2 to section XV, of base metal (section XV) or similar goods of plastics (chapter 39);
(c) Articles of chapter 82 (tools);
(d) Articles of heading 8306;
(e) Machines or apparatus of headings 8401 to 8479, or parts thereof, other than the radiators for the articles of this section; articles of heading 8481 or 8482 or, provided they constitute integral parts of engines or motors, articles of heading 8483;
(f) Electrical machinery or equipment (chapter 85);
(g) Articles of chapter 90;
(h) Articles of chapter 91;
(ij) Arms (chapter 93);
(k) Luminaires and lighting fittings and parts thereof of heading 9405; or
(l) Brushes of a kind used as parts of vehicles (heading 9603).
3. References in chapters 86 to 88 to "parts"or"accessories" do not apply to parts or accessories which are not suitable for use solely or principally with the articles of those chapters. A part or accessory which answers to a description in two or more of the headings of those chapters is to be classified under that heading which corresponds to the principal use of that part or accessory.
4. For the purposes of this section:
(a) Vehicles specially constructed to travel on both road and rail are classified under the appropriate heading of chapter 87;
(b) Amphibious motor vehicles are classified under the appropriate heading of chapter 87;
(c) Aircraft specially constructed so that they can also be used as road vehicles are classified under the appropriate heading of chapter 88.
5. Air-cushion vehicles are to be classified within this section with the vehicles to which they are most akin as follows:
(a) In chapter 86 if designed to travel on a guide-track (hovertrains);
(b) In chapter 87 if designed to travel over land or over both land and water;
(c) In chapter 89 if designed to travel over water, whether or not able to land on beaches or landing-stages or also able to travel over ice.
Parts and accessories of air-cushion vehicles are to be classified in the same way as those of vehicles of the heading in which the air-cushion vehicles are classified under the above provisions.
Hovertrain track fixtures and fittings are to be classified as railway track fixtures and fittings, and signaling, safety or traffic control equipment for hovertrain transport systems as signaling, safety or traffic control equipment for railways.
Chapter 88 — Notes
Legal Notes of the Harmonized System. Binding, and part of the international nomenclature.
1. For the purposes of this chapter, the expression “unmanned aircraft” means any aircraft, other than those of heading 8801, designed to be flown without a pilot on board. They may be designed to carry a payload or equipped with permanently integrated digital cameras or other equipment which would enable them to perform utilitarian functions during their flight.
The expression “unmanned aircraft”, however, does not cover flying toys, designed solely for amusement purposes (heading 9503).
Chapter 88 — Subheading Notes
Subheading Notes. Binding, scoped to subheadings.
1. For the purposes of subheadings 8802.11 to 8802.40, the expression "unladen weight" means the weight of the machine in normal flying order, excluding the weight of the crew and of fuel and equipment other than permanently fitted items of equipment.
2. For the purposes of subheadings 8806.21 to 8806.24 and 8806.91 to 8806.94, the expression “maximum take-off weight” means the maximum weight of the machine in normal flying order, at take-off, including the weight of payload, equipment and fuel.
Notes are reproduced from the published tariff schedule. They govern classification, but reading them is not the same as applying them to your goods — that is what a broker or a binding ruling is for.
Other chapters that mention heading 8802
An exclusion pointing into this heading from another chapter is as decisive as one in your own, and it is the one nobody finds by reading their own chapter.
1. For the purposes of subheadings 8802.11 to 8802.40, the expression "unladen weight" means the weight of the machine in normal flying order, excluding the weight of the crew and of fuel and equipment other than permanently fitted items of equipment.
Other subheadings under 8802
Elsewhere in chapter 88
Importing 8802.12 into
Each guide covers how duty and tax are assessed there, the authority with jurisdiction, and what catches importers out.
Common questions
What is HS code 8802.12?
8802.12 covers Of an unladen weight exceeding 2,000 kg. It sits under heading 8802 (Other aircraft (for example, helicopters, airplanes, except unmanned aircraft of heading 8806); spacecraft (including satellites) and suborbital and spacecraft launch vehicles) in chapter 88, aircraft, spacecraft, and parts thereof.
What is the US duty rate for 8802.12?
The Column 1 General rate is Free, from US national line 8802.12.01. That is the rate before any preference you can claim, and it does not include antidumping or countervailing duties, which are administered separately and can exceed it.
What is excluded from chapter 88?
The expression “unmanned aircraft”, however, does not cover flying toys, designed solely for amusement purposes (heading 9503).