Chapter 92 - Musical instruments
56 tariff codes found in this chapter
| HS Code | Description | MFN Rate |
|---|---|---|
| 9201.10.00 | Pianos, including automatic pianos; harpsichords and other keyboard stringed instruments. - Upright pianos | Free |
| 9201.10.00.10 | Pianos, including automatic pianos; harpsichords and other keyboard stringed instruments. - Upright pianos - New: - New | Free |
| 9201.10.00.20 | Pianos, including automatic pianos; harpsichords and other keyboard stringed instruments. - Upright pianos - Used: - Used | Free |
| 9201.20.00 | Pianos, including automatic pianos; harpsichords and other keyboard stringed instruments. - Grand pianos | 7% |
| 9201.20.00.10 | Pianos, including automatic pianos; harpsichords and other keyboard stringed instruments. - Grand pianos - New | 7% |
| 9201.20.00.20 | Pianos, including automatic pianos; harpsichords and other keyboard stringed instruments. - Grand pianos - Used | 7% |
| 9201.90.10.00 | Pianos, including automatic pianos; harpsichords and other keyboard stringed instruments. - Other - Harpsichords and clavichords | Free |
| 9201.90.90.00 | Pianos, including automatic pianos; harpsichords and other keyboard stringed instruments. - Other - Other | 7% |
| 9202.10.00.00 | Other string musical instruments (for example, guitars, violins, harps). - Played with a bow | Free |
| 9202.90.10.00 | Other string musical instruments (for example, guitars, violins, harps). - Other - Harps, including autoharps | Free |
| 9202.90.90 | Other string musical instruments (for example, guitars, violins, harps). - Other - Other | 6% |
| 9202.90.90.10 | Other string musical instruments (for example, guitars, violins, harps). - Other - Other - Guitars | 6% |
| 9202.90.90.30 | Other string musical instruments (for example, guitars, violins, harps). - Other - Other - Ukuleles and banjos | 6% |
| 9202.90.90.90 | Other string musical instruments (for example, guitars, violins, harps). - Other - Other - Other | 6% |
| 9205.10.00 | Wind musical instruments (for example, keyboard pipe organs, accordions, clarinets, trumpets, bagpipes), other than fairground organs and mechanical street organs. - Brass-wind instruments | Free |
| 9205.10.00.50 | Wind musical instruments (for example, keyboard pipe organs, accordions, clarinets, trumpets, bagpipes), other than fairground organs and mechanical street organs. - Brass-wind instruments - Trumpets, cornets, flugelhorns and french horns | Free |
| 9205.10.00.90 | Wind musical instruments (for example, keyboard pipe organs, accordions, clarinets, trumpets, bagpipes), other than fairground organs and mechanical street organs. - Brass-wind instruments - Other | Free |
| 9205.90.10 | Wind musical instruments (for example, keyboard pipe organs, accordions, clarinets, trumpets, bagpipes), other than fairground organs and mechanical street organs. - Other - Accordions and similar instruments; Bassoons, clarinets, English horns, fifes, flutes, oboes, piccolos, practice chanters, recorders and saxophones; Keyboard pipe organs; Mouth organs | Free |
| 9205.90.10.10 | Wind musical instruments (for example, keyboard pipe organs, accordions, clarinets, trumpets, bagpipes), other than fairground organs and mechanical street organs. - Other - Accordions and similar instruments; Bassoons, clarinets, English horns, fifes, flutes, oboes, piccolos, practice chanters, recorders and saxophones; Keyboard pipe organs; Mouth organs - Clarinets | Free |
| 9205.90.10.20 | Wind musical instruments (for example, keyboard pipe organs, accordions, clarinets, trumpets, bagpipes), other than fairground organs and mechanical street organs. - Other - Accordions and similar instruments; Bassoons, clarinets, English horns, fifes, flutes, oboes, piccolos, practice chanters, recorders and saxophones; Keyboard pipe organs; Mouth organs - Fifes, flutes and piccolos | Free |
| 9205.90.10.40 | Wind musical instruments (for example, keyboard pipe organs, accordions, clarinets, trumpets, bagpipes), other than fairground organs and mechanical street organs. - Other - Accordions and similar instruments; Bassoons, clarinets, English horns, fifes, flutes, oboes, piccolos, practice chanters, recorders and saxophones; Keyboard pipe organs; Mouth organs - Saxophones | Free |
| 9205.90.10.80 | Wind musical instruments (for example, keyboard pipe organs, accordions, clarinets, trumpets, bagpipes), other than fairground organs and mechanical street organs. - Other - Accordions and similar instruments; Bassoons, clarinets, English horns, fifes, flutes, oboes, piccolos, practice chanters, recorders and saxophones; Keyboard pipe organs; Mouth organs - Keyboard pipe organs | Free |
| 9205.90.10.90 | Wind musical instruments (for example, keyboard pipe organs, accordions, clarinets, trumpets, bagpipes), other than fairground organs and mechanical street organs. - Other - Accordions and similar instruments; Bassoons, clarinets, English horns, fifes, flutes, oboes, piccolos, practice chanters, recorders and saxophones; Keyboard pipe organs; Mouth organs - Other: - Other | Free |
| 9205.90.20.00 | Wind musical instruments (for example, keyboard pipe organs, accordions, clarinets, trumpets, bagpipes), other than fairground organs and mechanical street organs. - Other - Harmoniums and similar keyboard instruments with free metal reeds | 7% |
| 9205.90.90.00 | Wind musical instruments (for example, keyboard pipe organs, accordions, clarinets, trumpets, bagpipes), other than fairground organs and mechanical street organs. - Other - Other | 6% |
| 9206.00.10 | Percussion musical instruments (for example, drums, xylophones, cymbals, castanets, maracas). - Carillons to be employed in churches; Drums and drum sets, cymbals, orchestral or concert chimes and bells, vibraharps or vibraphones, marimbas, xylophones and tuned handbells | Free |
| 9206.00.10.10 | Percussion musical instruments (for example, drums, xylophones, cymbals, castanets, maracas). - Carillons to be employed in churches; Drums and drum sets, cymbals, orchestral or concert chimes and bells, vibraharps or vibraphones, marimbas, xylophones and tuned handbells - Cymbals | Free |
| 9206.00.10.80 | Percussion musical instruments (for example, drums, xylophones, cymbals, castanets, maracas). - Carillons to be employed in churches; Drums and drum sets, cymbals, orchestral or concert chimes and bells, vibraharps or vibraphones, marimbas, xylophones and tuned handbells - Other drums and drum sets, acoustic | Free |
| 9206.00.10.90 | Percussion musical instruments (for example, drums, xylophones, cymbals, castanets, maracas). - Carillons to be employed in churches; Drums and drum sets, cymbals, orchestral or concert chimes and bells, vibraharps or vibraphones, marimbas, xylophones and tuned handbells - Other | Free |
| 9206.00.90.00 | Percussion musical instruments (for example, drums, xylophones, cymbals, castanets, maracas). - Other | 6% |
| 9207.10.00 | Musical instruments, the sound of which is produced, or must be amplified, electrically (for example, organs, guitars, accordions). | 6% |
| 9207.10.00.10 | Musical instruments, the sound of which is produced, or must be amplified, electrically (for example, organs, guitars, accordions). - Electric organs: - Electric pianos | 6% |
| 9207.10.00.20 | Musical instruments, the sound of which is produced, or must be amplified, electrically (for example, organs, guitars, accordions). - Synthesizers | 6% |
| 9207.10.00.30 | Musical instruments, the sound of which is produced, or must be amplified, electrically (for example, organs, guitars, accordions). - Portable keyboards | 6% |
| 9207.10.00.90 | Musical instruments, the sound of which is produced, or must be amplified, electrically (for example, organs, guitars, accordions). - Other: - Other | 6% |
| 9207.90.10.00 | Musical instruments, the sound of which is produced, or must be amplified, electrically (for example, organs, guitars, accordions). - Other - Accordions, orchestral or concert chimes and bells, vibraharps or vibraphones, marimbas and xylophones | Free |
| 9207.90.90 | Musical instruments, the sound of which is produced, or must be amplified, electrically (for example, organs, guitars, accordions). - Other - Other | 6% |
| 9207.90.90.10 | Musical instruments, the sound of which is produced, or must be amplified, electrically (for example, organs, guitars, accordions). - Other - Other - Guitars | 6% |
| 9207.90.90.20 | Musical instruments, the sound of which is produced, or must be amplified, electrically (for example, organs, guitars, accordions). - Other - Other - Electronic drums and drum sets, musical instrument digital interface (MIDI) | 6% |
| 9207.90.90.90 | Musical instruments, the sound of which is produced, or must be amplified, electrically (for example, organs, guitars, accordions). - Other - Other - Other | 6% |
| 9208.10.00.00 | Musical boxes, fairground organs, mechanical street organs, mechanical singing birds, musical saws and other musical instruments not falling within any other heading of this Chapter; decoy calls of all kinds; whistles, call horns and other mouth-blown sound signalling instruments. - Musical boxes | 6% |
| 9208.90.00.00 | Musical boxes, fairground organs, mechanical street organs, mechanical singing birds, musical saws and other musical instruments not falling within any other heading of this Chapter; decoy calls of all kinds; whistles, call horns and other mouth-blown sound signalling instruments. - Other | 6% |
| 9209.30.10.00 | Parts (for example, mechanisms for musical boxes) and accessories (for example, cards, discs and rolls for mechanical instruments) of musical instruments; metronomes, tuning forks and pitch pipes of all kinds. - Musical instrument strings - For autoharps, clavichords, harpsichords, harps, viols, violas, violins and violoncellos; For use in the manufacture of guitars, banjos or mandolins | Free |
| 9209.30.90.00 | Parts (for example, mechanisms for musical boxes) and accessories (for example, cards, discs and rolls for mechanical instruments) of musical instruments; metronomes, tuning forks and pitch pipes of all kinds. - Musical instrument strings - Other | 4.5% |
| 9209.91.10.00 | Parts (for example, mechanisms for musical boxes) and accessories (for example, cards, discs and rolls for mechanical instruments) of musical instruments; metronomes, tuning forks and pitch pipes of all kinds. - Other: - Parts and accessories for pianos - Agraffes, bass damper parts, bridle leather and bridle straps, damper sockets, damper rods, uncovered hammer heads and hammer head moulding, key bottoms, piano or organ sharps, tuning pins, hitch pins, bridge pins, key pins, centre brass pins, brass flange plates, pressure bars, paper or felt punchings, rail hooks, spruce sounding boards, spoons, back check wires, bridle wires, damper wires, dowel wires, lifter wires, hammer wires and piano plates | Free |
| 9209.91.90.00 | Parts (for example, mechanisms for musical boxes) and accessories (for example, cards, discs and rolls for mechanical instruments) of musical instruments; metronomes, tuning forks and pitch pipes of all kinds. - Other: - Parts and accessories for pianos - Other | 5% |
| 9209.92.10 | Parts (for example, mechanisms for musical boxes) and accessories (for example, cards, discs and rolls for mechanical instruments) of musical instruments; metronomes, tuning forks and pitch pipes of all kinds. - Other: - Parts and accessories for the musical instruments of heading 92.02 - For harps and instruments played with a bow; For use in the manufacture of guitars, banjos or mandolins | Free |
| 9209.92.10.10 | Parts (for example, mechanisms for musical boxes) and accessories (for example, cards, discs and rolls for mechanical instruments) of musical instruments; metronomes, tuning forks and pitch pipes of all kinds. - Other: - Parts and accessories for the musical instruments of heading 92.02 - For harps and instruments played with a bow; For use in the manufacture of guitars, banjos or mandolins - For harps and instruments played with a bow | Free |
| 9209.92.10.20 | Parts (for example, mechanisms for musical boxes) and accessories (for example, cards, discs and rolls for mechanical instruments) of musical instruments; metronomes, tuning forks and pitch pipes of all kinds. - Other: - Parts and accessories for the musical instruments of heading 92.02 - For harps and instruments played with a bow; For use in the manufacture of guitars, banjos or mandolins - For use in the manufacture of guitars, banjos and mandolins | Free |
| 9209.92.20.00 | Parts (for example, mechanisms for musical boxes) and accessories (for example, cards, discs and rolls for mechanical instruments) of musical instruments; metronomes, tuning forks and pitch pipes of all kinds. - Other: - Parts and accessories for the musical instruments of heading 92.02 - For other string instruments, except keyboard string instruments | 6% |
| 9209.94.10.00 | Parts (for example, mechanisms for musical boxes) and accessories (for example, cards, discs and rolls for mechanical instruments) of musical instruments; metronomes, tuning forks and pitch pipes of all kinds. - Other: - Parts and accessories for the musical instruments of heading 92.07 - For use in the manufacture or repair of pianos or organs; Parts and accessories for use in the manufacture of guitars, banjos or mandolins, the sound of which is produced or must be amplified electrically; Parts of carillons to be employed in churches | Free |
| 9209.94.90.00 | Parts (for example, mechanisms for musical boxes) and accessories (for example, cards, discs and rolls for mechanical instruments) of musical instruments; metronomes, tuning forks and pitch pipes of all kinds. - Other: - Parts and accessories for the musical instruments of heading 92.07 - Other | 5% |
| 9209.99.10.00 | Parts (for example, mechanisms for musical boxes) and accessories (for example, cards, discs and rolls for mechanical instruments) of musical instruments; metronomes, tuning forks and pitch pipes of all kinds. - Other: - Other - For harpischords, clavichords, accordions and similar instruments, brass-wind instruments, bassoons, clarinets, English horns, fifes, flutes, oboes, piccolos, practice chanters, recorders, saxophones, drums and drum sets, cymbals, orchestral or concert chimes and bells, vibraharps or vibraphones, marimbas, xylophones and tuned handbells, and carillons to be employed in churches; Parts and accessories for keyboard pipe organs, harmoniums and similar keyboard instruments with free metal reeds | Free |
| 9209.99.20.00 | Parts (for example, mechanisms for musical boxes) and accessories (for example, cards, discs and rolls for mechanical instruments) of musical instruments; metronomes, tuning forks and pitch pipes of all kinds. - Other: - Other - Mechanisms for musical boxes | 3% |
| 9209.99.30.00 | Parts (for example, mechanisms for musical boxes) and accessories (for example, cards, discs and rolls for mechanical instruments) of musical instruments; metronomes, tuning forks and pitch pipes of all kinds. - Other: - Other - Metronomes, tuning forks and pitch pipes | 5.5% |
| 9209.99.90.00 | Parts (for example, mechanisms for musical boxes) and accessories (for example, cards, discs and rolls for mechanical instruments) of musical instruments; metronomes, tuning forks and pitch pipes of all kinds. - Other: - Other - Other | 5% |
About HS Chapter 92
Chapter 92 of the Canadian customs tariff covers musical instruments. TariffCalc lists 56 10-digit tariff items in this chapter, with MFN (Most Favoured Nation) duty rates ranging from 0.0% to 7.0% (average 3.1%).
27 of 56 items (48%) are duty-free under MFN. Importers from countries with Canadian free trade agreements (CUSMA, CETA, CPTPP, CCFTA, CKFTA, and others) can often import at 0% when rules of origin are met.
Example calculation
| Value for duty (CAD) | $10,000 |
| MFN duty (3.1%) | $305 |
| GST 5% | $515 |
| Total landed (before freight) | $10,820 |
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What is HS Chapter 92 in the Canadian customs tariff?▾
Chapter 92 covers musical instruments. It contains 56 10-digit tariff items in the TariffCalc database, with MFN duty rates ranging from 0.0% to 7.0%.
What is the typical duty rate for Chapter 92 imports?▾
The average MFN rate across Chapter 92 is 3.1%. 27 of 56 items are duty-free under MFN, with the remainder subject to duty. Free trade agreements (CUSMA, CETA, CPTPP) may reduce the rate to 0% for qualifying goods.
Do free trade agreements apply?▾
Yes. Most items in this chapter qualify for preferential rates under CUSMA (US, Mexico), CETA (EU, UK), CPTPP (Japan, Vietnam, etc.), and other Canadian FTAs. See each tariff item’s detail page for the full rate-by-agreement breakdown.
How do I calculate import duties?▾
For a CAD $10,000 shipment in this chapter at the average MFN rate (3.1%), duties would be approximately $305, plus 5% GST ($515), for a total of $10,820 before freight. Use the TariffCalc calculator for a precise calculation by tariff item, country of origin, and province.
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