Harmonized System Code Classification

85
Electronic devices and electrical equipment

8523
Discs, tapes, solid non-volatile storage devices, "smart cards", and other media for recording sound or other phenomena, whether or not recorded, including masters and matrices for the production of discs

8523.49
Discs, tapes, solid non-volatile storage devices, "smart cards", and other media for recording sound or other phenomena, whether or not recorded, including masters and matrices for the production of discs, but excluding those of Chapter 37

8523494000
Optical media, other, other
Used for the reproduction of machine-readable binary form records of instructions, data, sounds, and images, and for use with automatic data processing machines to enable operation or interaction with users, and recorded in proprietary formats on optical discs

Examples of products:
- CD-ROMs
- DVD-ROMs
- Blu-ray discs
- Data storage discs
- Optical discs with proprietary software
- Read-only optical media for data storage
- Interactive optical discs for multimedia applications