Chapter 8445 — Customs Tariff Headings

8445.20.00Textile spinning machines

8445.30.00Textile doubling or twisting machines

8445.40.00Textile winding (including weft-winding) or reeling machines

8445.90.00Other

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Products classified under Tariff item 84.45

Cotton Carding Machine Model TC-1200

The Cotton Carding Machine Model TC-1200 is a high-speed machine designed to process raw cotton fibers into uniform slivers by separating, cleaning, and aligning individual fibers. It features a large main cylinder and flats with clothing, which are essential for achieving the parallelization required for subsequent spinning processes. This machine falls under tariff item 8445.11.00 as it is specifically a carding machine for preparing textile fibers.

High-Speed Synthetic Carding Machine HSC-1500

The High-Speed Synthetic Carding Machine HSC-1500 is engineered for processing polyester and viscose staple fibers at speeds up to 800m/min, using stationary flats to achieve superior fiber parallelization. It outputs condensed slivers ready for spinning, making it a carding machine under tariff item 8445.11.00. Its design is optimized for synthetic fibers, which are within the scope of textile fibers covered by this heading.

Mini Cotton Carding Machine MC-500

The Mini Cotton Carding Machine MC-500 is a compact carding machine with a 500mm cylinder, designed for small-scale cotton processing in labs or boutique yarn production. It aligns and cleans fibers into sliver cans, performing the core carding function. Despite its small size, it is a carding machine for preparing textile fibers, falling under tariff item 8445.11.00.

Revolutionary Flat-Top Carding Machine FTC-3000

The Revolutionary Flat-Top Carding Machine FTC-3000 uses modern flat-top technology with automated cleaning and electronic doffing to produce consistent cotton slivers at industrial scales, processing up to 100kg/hour. It is a carding machine designed for preparing textile fibers, specifically cotton, and falls under tariff item 8445.11.00. Its advanced features do not change its classification as a carding machine.

Universal Fiber Carding Machine UCM-2000

The Universal Fiber Carding Machine UCM-2000 is a versatile carding machine that handles cotton, wool, and short synthetic fibers through interchangeable clothing and speed controls, producing parallel slivers for drawing frames. It is a carding machine for preparing textile fibers, falling under tariff item 8445.11.00. Its versatility does not affect its classification as a carding machine.

Wool Carding Machine Model WC-800F

The Wool Carding Machine Model WC-800F is a fine wool carding machine optimized for delicate wool fibers, featuring adjustable flats and slow-speed cylinders to minimize fiber damage while producing high-quality slivers. It includes a doffing system and is specifically designed for carding wool, a textile fiber. This machine falls under tariff item 8445.11.00 as a carding machine for preparing textile fibers.

Lakshmi LR 9 Combing Machine

> The Lakshmi LR 9 Combing Machine is a high-efficiency textile machine designed to process cotton slivers, aligning fibers and removing short fibers and impurities through a combing action. With a 12-head configuration, it is built for large-scale production in spinning mills. It falls under tariff item 8445.12.00 as a dedicated combing machine for preparing textile fibers.

Noble Combing Machine

> The Noble Combing Machine is a specialized device used in textile preparation to process long staple cotton fibers, aligning them and removing short fibers and impurities. It operates through a combing mechanism that ensures high-quality fiber for subsequent spinning. This machine is classified under tariff item 8445.12.00 as a dedicated combing machine for textile fibers.

Rieter E86 Combing Installation

> The Rieter E86 Combing Installation is a high-speed modular system designed for worsted combing of cotton and synthetic blends, featuring automatic noil removal for efficient operation. It is a complete installation that prepares fibers by combing, aligning them for spinning. It qualifies under tariff item 8445.12.00 as a combing machine for textile fiber preparation.

Santoni SC 11 Combing Machine

> The Santoni SC 11 Combing Machine is an Italian-made device optimized for medium-count cotton yarns, featuring precision nip rollers and automatic piecing for consistent output. It performs the combing process to remove short fibers and impurities, preparing the fiber for spinning. This machine falls under tariff item 8445.12.00 as specialized combing equipment.

Toyoda FC 700 Combing Machine

> The Toyoda FC 700 Combing Machine is a Japanese-engineered device for combing long staple cotton, featuring advanced servo controls and minimal noil loss. It aligns fibers and removes short fibers and impurities through a combing process, preparing the material for spinning. It is classified under tariff item 8445.12.00 as a dedicated combing machine.

Trützschler TC 10 Combing Machine

> The Trützschler TC 10 Combing Machine is a German-engineered device with integrated quality monitoring for consistent fiber preparation in textile production. It performs combing to align fibers and remove short fibers and impurities, preparing them for spinning. This machine falls under tariff item 8445.12.00 as a dedicated combing machine.

Cotton Fiber Drawing Frame

A cotton fiber drawing frame that drafts and aligns cotton fibers into a continuous sliver. This machine is essential in the textile preparation process, ensuring fibers are parallel and uniform before spinning. It falls under tariff item 8445.13.00 as a drawing machine used in preparing textile fibres.

Lakshmi LF 1400A Roving Frame

The Lakshmi LF 1400A roving frame converts drawn slivers into lightly twisted bobbins for ring spinning. It features 144 spindles and is designed for high-efficiency yarn production. This machine is classified under tariff item 8445.13.00 as a roving machine used in preparing textile fibres for spinning.

Rieter Draw Frame RSB-D 50

The Rieter RSB-D 50 is a precision draw frame that drafts cotton or blend slivers with electronic control for optimal fiber leveling. It ensures high-quality sliver preparation for subsequent spinning processes. This machine qualifies under tariff item 8445.13.00 as a drawing machine in textile fibre preparation.

Saurer Roving Frame SZ 8

The Saurer SZ 8 roving frame processes staple fibers into rovings with servo-driven drafting for precise control. It is ideal for producing yarns for denim and shirting applications. This machine is classified under tariff item 8445.13.00 as a roving machine for textile yarn preparation.

Toyota RD-360 Roving Machine

The Toyota RD-360 roving machine delivers high-speed drafting for cotton blend fibers with precision flyer control. It prepares rovings for weft and spinning equipment, ensuring consistent quality. This machine falls under tariff item 8445.13.00 as a roving machine for textile fibre preparation.

Trützschler IDF 4 Draw Frame

The Trützschler IDF 4 draw frame excels in processing long-staple cotton and synthetics through a 4-over-4 drafting configuration. It is specialized drawing equipment for textile sliver preparation, ensuring uniform fiber alignment. This machine is classified under tariff item 8445.13.00 as a drawing machine.

Wool Roving Machine DF-400

The DF-400 roving machine processes wool slivers through multiple drafting stages to produce uniform rovings ready for spinning. It is a dedicated drawing or roving machine for textile fibre preparation. This machine falls under tariff item 8445.13.00 as a roving machine.

Automatic Fiber Feeder System

An automatic fiber feeder system that pneumatically meters and transports loose textile fibers to carding or blending equipment. This machinery is integral to the continuous preparation of fibers for textile production, falling under the 'other' category of machines for preparing textile fibers.

Automatic Fiber Sampling Device

A precision machine that extracts representative fiber samples from bulk lots for quality testing using pneumatic or mechanical methods. This auxiliary fiber preparation equipment is classified under the 'other' category of this tariff item.

BAKER-Rullman Multi-Stand Cotton Gin Line

A multi-stand cotton gin line that integrates multiple gin stands with feeders, condensers and lint cleaners for complete seed cotton processing. Each line handles over 20 bales per hour, making it a comprehensive system for preparing textile fibres.

Bale Breaker and Opener Machine

An automated bale opener that breaks down compressed textile fiber bales and opens fibers using spiked lattices and beaters. This machine performs the initial fiber preparation stage, removing contaminants before carding, and is classified under the 'other' category of fiber preparation machinery.

Bast Fiber Decorticator

A mechanical decorticator that crushes and separates bast fibers (flax, hemp, jute) from woody stalks using rollers and scutchers. Industrial models for textile preparation are classified under this item as machinery for preparing textile fibers.

Carbon Fiber Tow Opener

A precision opener for spreading and individualizing carbon fiber tows into spread tow for textile composite prepreg production. Even advanced fibers are classified under this item when prepared for textile yarn or weaving processes.

Continental Eagle Disc Type Cotton Gin

A disc-type cotton gin that uses rotating discs instead of saws for gentle seed separation, ideal for long-staple cotton varieties. This design minimizes fiber damage during ginning, making it a specialized machine for preparing textile fibres.

Cotton Carding Machine

An industrial machine that passes raw cotton fibers through cylinders covered with fine wires to align and clean them, removing short fibers and impurities. This process prepares cotton for subsequent spinning into yarn, falling under machines for preparing textile fibres.

Cotton Gin Stand

A saw-type cotton gin stand that separates cotton fibers from seeds using rotating saw blades and ribbed grids. While ginning often occurs pre-factory, industrial-scale gin stands for seed cotton processing are classified here as machines for preparing textile fibres.

Crompton & Knowles Carding Machine

An industrial carding machine that processes raw cotton or wool fibers into aligned slivers by passing them through rotating cylinders with wire teeth. This machinery is specifically designed for preparing textile fibers and falls under the 'other' category of this tariff item.

Electronic Fiber Metering Device

A servo-controlled fiber metering device that precisely weighs and feeds exact fiber quantities to preparation machinery. This advanced electronic control is integral to modern fiber preparation lines and is classified under this item as other fiber preparation machinery.

Fiber Blending Line Machine

An automated blending line that proportionally mixes different textile fibers (cotton, synthetic, wool) using air flow and chute feeds. This machinery prepares homogeneous fiber blends before carding or combing, falling under the 'other' category of fiber preparation machines.

Fiber Opening and Cleaning Machine

A high-production fiber opener with beaters and grids that individualizes clumped textile fibers and removes trash and dust. This preliminary cleaning stage is essential in staple fiber processing and is classified under the 'other' category of fiber preparation machinery.

Fiber Waste Reclaiming Machine

Equipment that processes textile waste and production scraps back into usable fibers through tearing, cleaning, and blending. It reduces waste while providing an economical fiber source, classifying it as machinery for preparing textile fibres.

High-Capacity Fiber Mixing Feeder

A large-scale automated feeder that precisely meters and mixes multiple fiber types before delivery to carding machines. It ensures recipe accuracy for premium yarn production, classifying it as machinery for preparing textile fibres.

John Deere CS115 Cotton Gin Stand

A cotton gin stand that uses rotating saw cylinders to extract lint from seed cotton, a core component in modern ginning facilities. It includes pneumatic conveying systems for efficient fiber transport, all part of preparing textile fibres for spinning.

Lummus G8000 Cotton Gin

An industrial cotton gin designed specifically for separating cotton fibers from seeds in ginned cotton processing. It features high-capacity cleaning and ginning cylinders that efficiently handle raw seed cotton, classifying it as machinery for preparing textile fibres.

Miniature Laboratory Carding Machine

A compact lab-scale carding machine for R&D fiber testing, producing small sliver samples from textile fibers. Despite its smaller scale, it qualifies as fiber preparation machinery under this item, used by yarn research facilities.

Multi-Fiber Preparation Station

A modular preparation station handling cotton, wool, and synthetics with interchangeable beaters and cleaning grids. This versatile machinery serves multiple textile fiber preparation functions and is classified under the 'other' category of this tariff item.

Nitta Delta Roller Cotton Gin

A roller cotton gin that uses opposing rollers to strip seeds from Pima and other extra-long staple cotton with minimal fiber damage. It is optimized for high-value upland cotton processing, making it a specialized machine for preparing textile fibres.

Polyester Fiber Opening and Cleaning Line

A complete production line combining opening, cleaning, and dedusting stations for polyester staple fibers. It removes contaminants and achieves uniform fiber length distribution, classifying it as machinery for preparing textile fibres.

Recycled Fiber Processing Line

A complete line for opening, cleaning, and blending recycled textile fibers from garment waste for new yarn production. This machinery prepares reclaimed staple fibers in the same way as virgin fibers, falling under the 'other' category of fiber preparation machines.

Rieter L5/80 Combing Machine

A Rieter combing machine that eliminates short fibers and aligns long staple cotton through noil extraction and combing heads. This specialized equipment prepares textile fibers for high-quality yarn production and falls under the 'other' category of this tariff item.

Synthetic Fiber Bale Opener

An automated machine that opens compressed bales of polyester or nylon fibers and gently separates them into loose form. It prevents fiber damage while initiating the preparation process before carding, classifying it as machinery for preparing textile fibres.

Trützschler DK 803 Carding Machine

A high-speed carding machine from Trützschler that converts staple fibers into carded sliver for worsted or woolen spinning systems. This machine plays a key role in textile fiber preparation through parallelization and is classified under the 'other' category.

Wool Blend Fiber Blending Machine

A machine that evenly mixes wool with synthetic fibers through mechanical agitation and air currents. It creates uniform fiber blends essential for consistent yarn quality, classifying it as machinery for preparing textile fibres.

Wool Scouring Line Machine

A continuous wool scouring machine that washes raw wool in detergent baths, squeezes water, and dries fibers to remove lanolin and dirt. This essential preparation step for clean wool fibers entering the textile process falls under the 'other' category of fiber preparation machinery.

Hitachi Air-Jet Spinning Machine

An air-jet spinning machine that produces fancy yarns from synthetic fibers using compressed air eddies for twisting. It falls under tariff item 8445.20.00 as a textile spinning machine because it performs the yarn-forming function through aerodynamic twisting, which is a type of spinning.

Lakshmi Ringing Frame Spinning Machine

A ring spinning frame that converts drafted roving into ring-spun yarn using flyers and spindles, ideal for high-quality cotton spinning mills. It is classified under 8445.20.00 as a textile spinning machine because it performs the core spinning operation of twisting fibers into yarn.

Murata Vortex Spinning Machine

A vortex spinning machine that uses air-jet technology to produce strong, uniform yarns from staple fibers like cotton or polyester blends. It spins directly from sliver, making it a textile spinning machine under 8445.20.00 because it forms yarn through aerodynamic twisting.

Oerlikon Compact Spinning System

A compact spinning system that uses pneumatic compacting to produce lean yarns with minimal hairiness, suited for denim production. It is classified under 8445.20.00 as a textile spinning machine because it integrates yarn-forming compacting spindles into the spinning process.

Rieter Air Jet Compact Spinning

An air-jet compact spinning system that integrates spinning and compaction for superior polyester-cotton yarns. It falls under 8445.20.00 as advanced textile spinning machinery producing yarn through combined air-jet and ring processes, with the spinning function being primary.

Rieter G 38 Ring Spinning Machine

A high-speed ring spinning machine designed for producing fine to medium count cotton yarns from prepared roving. It features automatic doffing and individual spindle monitoring, classifying under 8445.20.00 as a textile spinning machine because it performs the ring spinning operation.

Saurer Autocoro Air Spinning Machine

A rotor spinning machine that produces coarse yarns from cotton waste or synthetics at high speeds. It is classified under 8445.20.00 as a textile spinning machine because rotor spinning is a recognized spinning method for yarn production.

Toyota Compact Spinning Machine

A compact spinning machine that enhances yarn strength through elite nozzles on ring spindles, producing premium cotton yarns. It qualifies under 8445.20.00 for its specialized textile spinning mechanism that improves yarn quality during the spinning process.

Truetzschler Ring Spinning Machine

A ring spinning machine featuring intelligent drafting for consistent medium-count yarns from cotton sliver. It is a textile spinning machine under 8445.20.00, focused on the core yarn twisting and winding on spindles.

Zinser 351 Ring Spinning Frame

A versatile ring spinning frame for worsted yarns from wool or blends, with electronic draft control. It falls under 8445.20.00 as a textile spinning machine dedicated to producing continuous filament yarns through ring spinning.

Compact Yarn Twister CYT-200

The Compact Yarn Twister CYT-200 is a compact twisting machine designed for small-batch production of fancy yarns such as slub or bouclé from cotton blends. It features servo-controlled twist insertion, making it suitable for boutique mills. This machine falls under tariff item 8445.30.00 as a textile doubling or twisting machine.

Demco Textile Twisting Doubler TD-400

The Demco Textile Twisting Doubler TD-400 is a dedicated machine that performs preliminary doubling of textile yarns before ring twisting, optimizing yarn balloon control. It is classified under tariff item 8445.30.00 as a textile doubling machine, essential for preparing yarns for subsequent twisting operations.

Digital Twist Multiplier DTM-1000

The Digital Twist Multiplier DTM-1000 is a computerized machine for variable twist insertion in viscose rayon yarns, primarily used for tire fabric production. It features real-time monitoring via a touchscreen interface. This machine is classified under tariff item 8445.30.00 as a textile doubling or twisting machine.