CA
Canada
Key rules
- National tariff line
- 8479.50.00
- Import duty (MFN/third-country)
- Free
- What the cited document adds
- Listed preferential tariffs all Free; Free is the only rate value in the retrieved row.
The Robotics Sourcing Beacon world
Two ways in, one hub. Travel the domains — territories sized by how much verified content lives there — or travel the places, from region to country to its rules. Everything you open is a real, sourced page.
Tip: drag to pan, ⌘/Ctrl + scroll to zoom.
Each territory is a domain of the hub. Its size is how much verified content lives there, its shade how mature that content is. Pick one to go inside.
46 pages · 44 sources cited
certification
- 18 pages
- 18 terms
- 53% of demand covered
72% maturity
Terms 18
- BIS certification Product certification by the Bureau of Indian Standards is voluntary by default; it turns compulsory only where the Central Government issues a
- BSMI inspection mark Commodities that have passed Taiwanese commodity inspection must carry an inspection mark, and which mark applies follows from the regime the goods
- CE marking CE marking is the manufacturer's own declaration that a product meets the requirements of the harmonised EU rules that apply to it, allowing the
- EAC marking The EAC mark is the single circulation mark whose rules were approved by Commission Decision No. 711 of 15 July 2011, as amended by Decision No.
- EMC Directive The EMC Directive 2014/30/EU is the EU rule ensuring that electrical and electronic equipment neither generates nor is disturbed by electromagnetic interference.
- FCC Part 15 Part 15 of the United States communications rules sets the conditions under which a radio-frequency device may be operated without an individual
- ISO 10218 ISO 10218-1 is the international standard setting safety requirements for industrial robots taken as partly completed machinery — inherently safe
- ISO/TS 15066 ISO/TS 15066 is a technical specification, not a full standard: it sets safety requirements for collaborative industrial robot systems and their work
- KC certification Korea's Electrical Appliances and Consumer Products Safety Control Act sorts regulated goods into three regimes: safety certification, the heaviest,
- Machinery Regulation The Machinery Regulation is the EU text that sets the mandatory essential health and safety requirements machinery must meet before being placed on
- NRTL listing NRTL listing is certification of a product by a Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory, a private-sector organisation recognised under a programme
- PSE marking Japan's Electrical Appliances and Materials Safety Act regulates the manufacture, import and sale of electrical appliances and materials in order to
- RCM marking The Regulatory Compliance Mark, or RCM, is the compliance label showing that a regulated product meets the rules for supply to the Australian market.
- RoHS RoHS is the EU directive restricting hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment, adopted to cut the risks that such equipment poses
- SASO certificate of conformity The Saudi standards, metrology and quality organisation issues conformity certificates of several distinct kinds, so what an exporter needs follows
- SCC-accredited certification mark In Canada, electrical equipment is accepted on the strength of a certification agency's own mark rather than a state mark, and accreditation of those
- Singapore SAFETY Mark Singapore's Consumer Protection (Safety Requirements) Regulations designate 33 categories of household electrical, electronic and gas appliances and
- UKCA marking UKCA marking is the product marking used for goods placed on the market in Great Britain, meaning England, Scotland and Wales.
reglementation-import
- 11 pages
- 11 terms
- 14% of demand covered
72% maturity
Terms 11
- Anti-dumping duty An anti-dumping duty is a charge a WTO member may impose on imports from a particular source, above its bound tariff rates, when a product enters its
- ATA carnet An ATA carnet is the single document that covers goods for temporary admission into a Customs territory with relief from duties and taxes, secured by
- Bonded warehouse A Customs bonded warehouse is a building or other secured area in which imported dutiable merchandise may be stored, manipulated, or undergo
- Commodity code A commodity code is an internationally recognised reference number that describes a specific product when goods are imported or exported, and it must
- Customs declaration A customs declaration is the official document setting out the details of goods entering or leaving EU customs territory, and the legal act by which
- Customs valuation Customs valuation is the customs procedure used to determine the customs value of imported goods. When the duty rate is ad valorem, that value determines the duty payable.
- EORI number An EORI number is the single identifier an economic operator must hold to clear any customs operation in EU customs territory, whether import, export or transit.
- Import VAT Import VAT is the value-added tax due when goods enter Great Britain from outside the UK, or Northern Ireland from outside the EU, and it is normally
- Inward processing relief Inward processing is the procedure under which non-EU goods are imported into the EU customs territory to undergo one or more processing operations
- Rules of origin Rules of origin are the criteria that fix the national source of a product, and they matter because duties and restrictions frequently depend on where goods come from.
- UKCA transition For the Great Britain market, UKCA and CE are two routes to the same statement — that the manufacturer believes the product meets the applicable
logistique
- 7 pages
- 7 terms
- 35% of demand covered
72% maturity
Terms 7
- Bill of lading A bill of lading is the contract between the owner of the goods and the carrier moving them.
- Customs broker A customs broker, in the United States regime described by the cited source, is an individual, partnership, association or corporation licensed,
- Dangerous goods Class 9 Class 9, in the United States hazardous materials regulations, is the residual category: a miscellaneous hazardous material that presents a hazard
- DDP Under DDP the seller delivers when the goods are at the buyer's disposal at the agreed point in the named destination, ready for unloading from the
- Freight forwarder The cited source defines the regulated United States ocean role rather than freight forwarding at large: an Ocean Freight Forwarder is an individual
- Incoterms Incoterms rules are a set of eleven three-letter trade terms that allocate the tasks, costs and risks of delivering goods between seller and buyer in
- UN 38.3 UN 38.3 is the subsection of the UN Manual of Tests and Criteria under which every lithium cell and battery design must pass up to eight transport
composants
- 6 pages
- 6 terms
- 13% of demand covered
72% maturity
Terms 6
- Collaborative robot A collaborative robot is an industrial robot designed to perform tasks in collaboration with human workers rather than behind the separation of a
- End effector The end effector is the tool at the wrist of the robot arm, also called end-of-arm tooling, and it is a distinct part of the industrial robot system
- Harmonic drive The cited page is the manufacturer's own technical documentation, and it states that Harmonic Drive is a registered trademark of that company; the
- Industrial robot An industrial robot is a machine used in place of a worker for dangerous or repetitive tasks demanding accuracy, and it is only one part of an
- LiDAR Lidar, or light detection and ranging, is a remote sensing method that fires pulsed laser light to measure varying distances to a surface; combined
- Teach pendant A teach pendant is the portable control device used to program a robot in manual mode, and it is how most robot systems are set up for an application:
fournisseurs
- 2 pages
- 2 terms
- 3% of demand covered
72% maturity
Terms 2
- Escrow payment Escrow, in international trade, is a service in which a trusted third party holds the buyer's funds until agreed conditions are met.
- Letter of credit A letter of credit is a contractual commitment by the buyer's bank to pay once the goods have been shipped and the required documents are presented to
amr-vendors
- 0 pages
- 7 vendors
0% maturity
Suppliers 7
- AgileX Robotics Chinese maker of modular mobile robot platforms (UGVs) for research, industry and agriculture, ROS/ROS2 compatible.
- Geek+ Chinese maker (Beijing, listed in Hong Kong) of AMRs for warehouse and logistics automation.
- Hikrobot Chinese maker of mobile robots and machine vision systems, a Hikvision group subsidiary.
- Locus Robotics US maker (Wilmington, MA) of autonomous mobile robots for warehouse order picking, sold on a RaaS model.
- MiR — Mobile Industrial Robots Danish maker (Odense) of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) for internal transport and intralogistics.
- Omron Robotics Robotics arm of the Japanese Omron group: autonomous mobile robots and mobile manipulators for industry.
- Standard Robots Chinese maker (Shenzhen) of AMRs — lifting, transport, forklift and tractor units — for flexible intralogistics.
arm-oems
- 0 pages
- 10 vendors
0% maturity
Suppliers 10
- ABB Robotics Robotics division of the Swiss ABB group: articulated robots, cobots, SCARA, paint robots and AMRs for industry.
- AUBO Chinese maker of collaborative robots (R&D in Beijing, plants in Shandong and Jiangsu); AUBO Robotics USA operates as its North American distributor.
- Doosan Robotics South Korean maker of collaborative robots, notably for palletising and food-and-beverage applications.
- FANUC Japanese maker of industrial robots, CNC systems and factory automation; over one million robots installed worldwide.
- JAKA Chinese maker (Shanghai) of collaborative robots for packaging, palletising, machine tending and welding.
- Kassow Robots Danish maker (Copenhagen) of seven-axis cobots for industrial automation.
- KUKA German maker of industrial robots and factory automation systems (KUKA AG group).
- Techman Robot Taiwanese maker of collaborative robots with built-in vision, a Quanta group subsidiary.
- Universal Robots Danish maker of six-axis collaborative robot arms (cobots) aimed at SME automation; a Teradyne subsidiary.
- Yaskawa Motoman Industrial robot brand (welding, handling, palletising) of Yaskawa Electric Corporation, Japanese maker of servo motors and drives.
eoat-suppliers
- 0 pages
- 5 vendors
0% maturity
Suppliers 5
- OnRobot Danish maker (Odense) of end-of-arm tooling: grippers, force-torque sensors and tool changers for collaborative robots.
- Piab Swedish maker of vacuum gripping and lifting solutions (suction cups, vacuum generators) for automation.
- Robotiq Canadian maker (Québec) of adaptive grippers and force-torque sensors for cobots.
- SCHUNK German maker of grippers (pneumatic, electric, magnetic), clamping technology and end-of-arm tooling for robot arms.
- Zimmer Group German family-owned maker (Rheinau) of mechanical and vacuum grippers, tool changers and handling components; unrelated to the medical firm Zimmer Biomet.
sensor-suppliers
- 0 pages
- 6 vendors
0% maturity
Suppliers 6
- Cognex US maker (Natick, MA) of machine vision systems and barcode readers for inspection and robot guidance.
- Hesai Chinese maker (Shanghai) of lidar sensors for autonomous driving, robotics and ADAS applications.
- Keyence Japanese fabless maker of sensors, vision systems, measuring instruments and code readers for industrial automation.
- Ouster US maker (San Francisco) of high-resolution digital 3D lidar sensors for autonomous vehicles, robotics and industry.
- Pilz German maker (Ostfildern) of safety automation: safety sensors, relays and programmable safety controllers.
- SICK German maker (Waldkirch) of industrial sensors, machine safety, auto-identification and vision for factory and logistics automation.
Shade = maturity of the domain (breadth of page types, human-signed pages, pages citing sources).
Tip: drag to pan, ⌘/Ctrl + scroll to zoom.
Pick a region to go in, then a country for its key rules, its country guide and the matrices it appears in.
15 countries
North America
- 3 countries
MX
Mexico
Key rules
- National tariff line
- 8479.50.01
- Import duty (MFN/third-country)
- Ex.
- What the cited document adds
- LIGIE edition of 17 May 2021; later amendments not verified. The neighbouring line 8428.70.01 (Robots industriales) carries 15 at import.
US
United States
Key rules
- National tariff line
- 8479.50.00
- Import duty (MFN/third-country)
- 2.5% · Free (A, AU, BH, CL, CO, D, E, IL, JO, KR, MA, OM, P, PA, PE, S, SG) · 35%
- What the cited document adds
- The retrieved text shows the three rate values without their column headers; their attribution to General / Special / Column 2 is not readable on the piece itself.
Europe
- 7 countries
Europe 7
North America 3
Asia 3
Oceania 1
Lax / no LEZ Sticker · Euro 4–5 Strict · Euro 6
FR
France
Key rules
- National tariff line
- 8479 50 00 (Combined Nomenclature)
- Import duty (MFN/third-country)
- 1.7%
- What the cited document adds
- Single EU TARIC regime (erga omnes / third-country duty). Access2Markets (latest update 04 August 2026) states 1.70% under R2261/98 for CN code 8479 50. Applies identically to DE/FR/IT/ES/PL/NL.
DE
Germany
Key rules
- National tariff line
- 8479 50 00 (Combined Nomenclature)
- Import duty (MFN/third-country)
- 1.7%
- What the cited document adds
- Single EU TARIC regime (erga omnes / third-country duty). Access2Markets (latest update 04 August 2026) states 1.70% under R2261/98 for CN code 8479 50. Applies identically to DE/FR/IT/ES/PL/NL.
IT
Italy
Key rules
- National tariff line
- 8479 50 00 (Combined Nomenclature)
- Import duty (MFN/third-country)
- 1.7%
- What the cited document adds
- Single EU TARIC regime (erga omnes / third-country duty). Access2Markets (latest update 04 August 2026) states 1.70% under R2261/98 for CN code 8479 50. Applies identically to DE/FR/IT/ES/PL/NL.
NL
Netherlands
Key rules
- National tariff line
- 8479 50 00 (Combined Nomenclature)
- Import duty (MFN/third-country)
- 1.7%
- What the cited document adds
- Single EU TARIC regime (erga omnes / third-country duty). Access2Markets (latest update 04 August 2026) states 1.70% under R2261/98 for CN code 8479 50. Applies identically to DE/FR/IT/ES/PL/NL.
PL
Poland
Key rules
- National tariff line
- 8479 50 00 (Combined Nomenclature)
- Import duty (MFN/third-country)
- 1.7%
- What the cited document adds
- Single EU TARIC regime (erga omnes / third-country duty). Access2Markets (latest update 04 August 2026) states 1.70% under R2261/98 for CN code 8479 50. Applies identically to DE/FR/IT/ES/PL/NL.
ES
Spain
Key rules
- National tariff line
- 8479 50 00 (Combined Nomenclature)
- Import duty (MFN/third-country)
- 1.7%
- What the cited document adds
- Single EU TARIC regime (erga omnes / third-country duty). Access2Markets (latest update 04 August 2026) states 1.70% under R2261/98 for CN code 8479 50. Applies identically to DE/FR/IT/ES/PL/NL.
GB
United Kingdom
Key rules
- National tariff line
- 8479500000
- Import duty (MFN/third-country)
- 0.00% (third-country duty)
- What the cited document adds
- Import VAT 20.00%; additional duties of 35.00% on Russia and Belarus; many tariff preferences at 0.00%.
Asia
- 4 countries
IN
India
Key rules
- National tariff line
- 8479 50 00
- Import duty (MFN/third-country)
- 7.5% (standard rate)
- What the cited document adds
- Rate as printed in the First Schedule of the Customs Tariff Act; surcharges and IGST are not covered by the cited schedule. Heading 8428 70 00 (Industrial robots) also carries 7.5%.
JP
Japan
Key rules
- National tariff line
- 8479.50 000
- Import duty (MFN/third-country)
- Free
- What the cited document adds
- Every rate cell of the retrieved row reads Free; column headers are not in the retrieved piece. Heading 8428.70 (Industrial robots) also reads Free.
SG
Singapore
Key rules
- Conformity mark
- SAFETY Mark
- What it covers
- 33 categories of controlled household electrical, electronic and gas appliances
- How conformity is shown
- Registration based on a Certificate of Conformity from a designated third-party body, or a Supplier's Declaration of Conformity
KR
South Korea
Key rules
- National tariff line
- Not established — check official source
- Import duty (MFN/third-country)
- Not established — check official source
- What the cited document adds
- An antidumping measure targets vertical articulated industrial robots (4+ axes, payload 6–600 kg) from Japan and China: provisional duties of 21.17–43.6% in force since 21 Nov 2025; final duties of 17.45–18.64% (Japan) and 15.96–19.85% (China) recommended by the Trade Commission on 26 March 2026. The release cites no tariff code; the MFN rate could not be read on an official base.
Oceania
- 1 country
AU
Australia
Key rules
- National tariff line
- 8479.50.10 / 8479.50.20 / 8479.50.90
- Import duty (MFN/third-country)
- Free (8479.50.10 and .20) · 5% (8479.50.90 — Other)
- What the cited document adds
- The subheading is split into three national lines: a robot outside the two Free carve-outs falls in 8479.50.90 at 5%. Heading 8428.70.00 (Industrial robots) also carries 5%.