Section III:  Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes

Chapter 15:  Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes

Notes.

1. This Chapter does not cover:
   1. Pig fat or poultry fat of heading No. 02.09;
   2. Cocoa butter, fat or oil (heading No. 18.04);
   3. Edible preparations containing by weight more than 15% of the products of heading No. 04.05 (generally Chapter 21);
   4. Greaves (heading No. 23.01) or residues of headings Nos. 23.04 to 23.06;
   5. Fatty acids, prepared waxes, medicaments, paints, varnishes, soap, perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations, sulphonated oils or other goods of Section VI; or
   6. Factice derived from oils (heading No. 40.02).
2. Heading No. 15.09 does not apply to oils obtained from olives by solvent extraction (heading No. 15.10).
3. Heading No. 15.18 does not cover fats or oils or their fractions, merely denatured, which are to be classified in the heading appropriate to the corresponding undenatured fats and oils and their fractions.
4. Soap-stocks, oil foots and dregs, stearin pitch, glycerol pitch and wool grease residues fall in heading No. 15.22.

Section II:  Vegetable products

Note.

1. In this Section the term "pellets" means products which have been agglomerated either directly by compression or by the addition of a binder in a proportion not exceeding 3% by weight.

Chapter 06:  Live trees and other plants; bulbs, roots and the like; cut flowers and ornamental foliage

Notes.

1. Subject to the second part of heading No. 06.01, this Chapter covers only live trees and goods (including seedling vegetables) of a kind commonly supplied by nursery gardeners or florists for planting or for ornamental use; nevertheless it does not include potatoes, onions, shallots, garlic or other products of Chapter 7.
2. Any reference in heading No. 06.03 or 06.04 to goods of any kind shall be construed as including a reference to bouquets, floral baskets, wreaths and similar articles made wholly or partly of goods of that kind, account not being taken of accessories of other materials. However, these headings do not include collages or similar decorative plaques of heading No. 97.01.

Chapter 07:  Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers

Notes.

1. This Chapter does not cover forage products of heading No. 12.14.
2. In headings Nos. 07.09, 07.10, 07.11 and 07.12 the word "vegetables" includes edible mushrooms, truffles, olives, capers, marrows, pumpkins, aubergines, sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata) Capsicum or of the genus Pimenta, fennel, parsley, chervil, tarragon, cress and sweet marjoram (Majorana hortensis or Origanum majorana).
3. Heading No. 07.12 covers all dried vegetables of the kinds falling in headings Nos. 07.01 to 07.11, other than:
   1. dried leguminous vegetables, shelled (heading No. 07.13);
   2. sweet corn in the forms specified in headings Nos. 11.02 to 11.04;
   3. flour, meal, powder, flakes, granules and pellets of potatoes (heading No. 11.05);
   4. flour, meal and powder of the dried leguminous vegetables of heading No. 07.13 (heading No. 11.06).
4. However, dried or crushed or ground fruits of the genus Capsicum or of the genus Pimenta are excluded from this Chapter (heading No. 09.04).

Chapter 08:  Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons

Notes.

1. This Chapter does not cover inedible nuts or fruits.
2. Chilled fruits and nuts are to be classified in the same headings as the corresponding fresh fruits and nuts.
3. Dried fruit or dried nuts of this Chapter may be partially rehydrated, or treated for the following purposes:
   1. For additional preservation or stabilisation (e.g., by moderate heat treatment, sulphuring, the addition of sorbic acid or potassium sorbate),
   2. To improve or maintain their appearance (e.g., by the addition of vegetable oil or small quantities of glucose syrup), provided that they retain the character of dried fruit or dried nuts.

Chapter 09:  Coffee, tea, maté and spices

Notes.

1. Mixtures of the products of headings Nos. 09.04 to 09.10 are to be classified as follows:
   1. Mixtures of two or more of the products of the same heading are to be classified in that heading;
   2. Mixtures of two or more of the products of different headings are to be classified in heading No. 09.10.
      
      The addition of other substances to the products of headings Nos. 09.04 to 09.10 (or to the mixtures referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) above) shall not affect their classification provided the resulting mixtures retain the essential character of the goods of those headings. Otherwise such mixtures are not classified in this Chapter; those constituting mixed condiments or mixed seasonings are classified in heading No. 21.03.
2. This Chapter does not cover Cubeb pepper (Piper cubeba) or other products of heading No. 12.11.

Chapter 10:  Cereals

Notes.

1. 1. The products specified in the headings of this Chapter are to be classified in those headings only if grains are present, whether or not in the ear or on the stalk.
   2. The Chapter does not cover grains which have been hulled or otherwise worked. However, rice, husked, milled, polished, glazed, parboiled or broken remains classified in heading No. 10.06.
2. Heading No. 10.05 does not cover sweet corn (Chapter 7).

Subheading Note.

1. The term "durum wheat" means wheat of the Triticum durum species and the hybrids derived from the inter-specific crossing of Triticum durum which have the same number (28) of chromosomes as that species.

Chapter 11:  Products of the milling industry; malt; starches; inulin; wheat gluten

Notes.

1. This Chapter does not cover:
   1. Roasted malt put up as coffee substitutes (heading No. 09.01 or 21.01);
   2. Prepared flours, meals or starches of heading No. 19.01;
   3. Corn flakes or other products of heading No. 19.04;
   4. Vegetables, prepared or preserved, of heading No. 20.01, 20.04 or 20.05;
   5. Pharmaceutical products (Chapter 30); or
   6. Starches having the character of perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations (Chapter 33).
2. 1. Products from the milling of the cereals listed in the table below fall in this Chapter if they have, by weight on the dry product:
      1. a starch content (determined by the modified Ewers polarimetric method) exceeding that indicated in Column (2); and
      2. an ash content (after deduction of any added minerals) not exceeding that indicated in column (3).
      Otherwise, they fall in heading No. 23.02. However, germ of cereals, whole, flattened, in flakes or ground is always classified in heading No. 11.04.
   2. Products falling in this Chapter under the above provisions shall be classified in heading No. 11.01 or 11.02 if the percentage passing through a woven metal wire cloth sieve with the aperture indicated in Column (4) or (5) is not less, by weight, than that shown against the cereal concerned.
      
      Otherwise, they fall in heading No. 11.03 or 11.04.
       

      Products from the milling of the cereals listed in the table below fall in this Chapter if they have, by weight on the dry product

      Cereal (1)	Starch content (2)	Ash content (3)	Rate of passage through a sieve with an aperture of
      			315 micrometres (microns) (4)	500 micrometres (microns) (5)
      Wheat and rye	45%	2.5%	80%	-
      Barley	45%	3%	>80%	-
      Oats	45%	5%	80%	-
      Maize (corn) and grain sorghum	45%	2%	-	90%
      Rice	45%	1.6%	80%	-
      Buckwheat	45%	4%	80%	-

3. For the purposes of heading No. 11.03, the terms "groats" and "meal" mean products obtained by the fragmentation of cereal grains, of which:
   1. in the case of maize (corn) products, at least 95% by weight passes through a woven metal wire cloth sieve with an aperture of 2 mm;
   2. in the case of other cereal products, at least 95% by weight passes through a woven metal wire cloth sieve with an aperture of 1.25 mm.

Chapter 12:  Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder

Notes.

1. Heading No. 12.07 applies, inter alia, to palm nuts and kernels, cotton seeds, castor oil seeds, sesamum seeds, mustard seeds, safflower seeds, poppy seeds and shea nuts (karite nuts). It does not apply to products of heading No. 08.01 or 08.02 or to olives (Chapter 7 or Chapter 20).
2. Heading No. 12.08 applies not only to non-defatted flours and meals but also to flours and meals which have been partially defatted or defatted and wholly or partially refatted with their original oils. It does not, however, apply to residues of headings Nos. 23.04 to 23.06.
3. For the purposes of heading No. 12.09, beet seeds, grass and other herbage seeds, seeds of ornamental flowers, vegetable seeds, seeds of forest trees, seeds of fruit trees, seeds of vetches (other than those of the species Vicia faba ) or of lupines are to be regarded as "seeds of a kind used for sowing".
   
   Heading No. 12.09 does not, however, apply to the following even if for sowing:
   1. Leguminous vegetables or sweet corn (Chapter 7);
   2. Spices or other products of Chapter 9;
   3. Cereals (Chapter 10); or
   4. Products of headings Nos. 12.01 to 12.07 or 12.11.
4. Heading No. 12.11 applies, inter alia, to the following plants or parts thereof: basil, borage, ginseng, hyssop, liquorice, all species of mint, rosemary, rue, sage and wormwood.
   
   Heading No. 12.11 does not, however, apply to:
   1. Medicaments of Chapter 30;
   2. Perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations of Chapter 33; or
   3. Insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, disinfectants or similar products of heading No. 38.08.
5. For the purpose of heading No. 12.12, the term "seaweeds and other algae" does not include:
   1. Dead single-cell micro-organisms of heading No. 21.02;
   2. Cultures of micro-organisms of heading No. 30.02; or
   3. Fertilisers of heading No. 31.01 or 31.05.

Chapter 13:  Lac; gums, resins and other vegetable saps and extracts

Note.

1. Heading No. 13.02 applies, inter alia, to liquorice extract and extract of pyrethrum, extract of hops, extract of aloes and opium.
   
   The heading does not apply to:
   1. Liquorice extract containing more than 10% by weight of sucrose or put up as confectionery (heading No. 17.04);
   2. Malt extract (heading No. 19.01);
   3. Extracts of coffee, tea or maté (heading No. 21.01);
   4. Vegetable saps or extracts constituting alcoholic beverages (Chapter 22);
   5. Camphor, glycyrrhizin or other products of heading No. 29.14 or 29.38;
   6. Medicaments of heading No. 30.03 or 30.04 or blood-grouping reagents (heading No. 30.06);
   7. Tanning or dyeing extracts (heading No. 32.01 or 32.03);
   8. Essential oils, concretes, absolutes, resinoids, extracted oleoresins, aqueous distillates or aqueous solutions of essential oils or preparations based on odoriferous substances of a kind used for the manufacture of beverages (Chapter 33); or
   9. Natural rubber, balata, gutta-percha, guayule, chicle or similar natural gums (heading No. 40.01).

Chapter 14:  Vegetable plaiting materials; vegetable products not elsewhere specified or included

Notes.

1. This Chapter does not cover the following products which are to be classified in Section XI: vegetable materials or fibres of vegetable materials of a kind used primarily in the manufacture of textiles, however prepared, or other vegetable materials which have undergone treatment so as to render them suitable for use only as textile materials.
2. Heading No. 14.01 applies, inter alia, to bamboos (whether or not split, sawn lengthwise, cut to length, rounded at the ends, bleached, rendered non-inflammable, polished or dyed), split osier, reeds and the like, to rattan cores and to drawn or split rattans. The heading does not apply to chipwood (heading No. 44.04).
3. Heading No. 14.02 does not apply to wood wool (heading No. 44.05).
4. Heading No. 14.03 does not apply to prepared knots or tufts for broom or brush making (heading No. 96.03).

Section I:  Live animals; animal products

Notes.

1. Any reference in this Section to a particular genus or species of an animal, except where the context otherwise requires, includes a reference to the young of that genus or species.
2. Except where the context otherwise requires, throughout the Classification any reference to "dried" products also covers products which have been dehydrated, evaporated or freeze-dried.

Chapter 01:  Live animals

Note.

1. This Chapter covers all live animals except:
   1. Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates, of heading No. 03.01, 03.06 or 03.07;
   2. Cultures of micro-organisms and other products of heading No. 30.02; and
   3. Animals of heading No. 95.08.

Chapter 02:  Meat and edible meat offal

Note.

1. This Chapter does not cover:
   1. Products of the kinds described in headings Nos. 02.01 to 02.08 or 02.10, unfit or unsuitable for human consumption;
   2. Guts, bladders or stomachs of animals (heading No. 05.04) or animal blood (heading No. 05.11 or 30.02); or
   3. Animal fat, other than products of heading No. 02.09 (Chapter 15).

Chapter 03:  Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates

Notes.

1. This Chapter does not cover:
   1. Marine mammals (heading No. 01.06) or meat thereof (heading No. 02.08 or 02.10);
   2. Fish (including livers and roes thereof) or crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, dead and unfit or unsuitable for human consumption by reason of either their species or their condition (Chapter 5); flours, meals or pellets of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, unfit for human consumption (heading No. 23.01); or
   3. Caviar or caviar substitutes prepared from fish eggs (heading No. 16.04).
2. In this Chapter the term "pellets" means products which have been agglomerated either directly by compression or by the addition of a small quantity of binder.

Chapter 04:  Dairy produce; birds' eggs; natural honey; edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included

Notes.

1. The expression "milk" means full cream milk or partially or completely skimmed milk.
2. For the purposes of heading No. 04.05:
   1. the term "butter" means natural butter, whey butter or recombined butter (fresh, salted or rancid, including canned butter) derived exclusively from milk, with a milkfat content of 80% or more but not more than 95% by weight, a maximum milk solids-not-fat content of 2% by weight and a maximum water content of 16% by weight. Butter does not contain added emulsifiers, but may contain sodium chloride, food colours, neutralising salts and cultures of harmless lactic-acid-producing bacteria.
   2. the expression "dairy-spread" means a spreadable emulsion of the water-in-oil type, containing milkfat as the only fat in the product, with a milkfat content of 39% or more but less than 80% by weight.
3. Products obtained by the concentration of whey and with the addition of milk or milkfat are to be classified as cheese in heading No. 04.06 provided that they have the three following characteristics:
   1. a milkfat content, by weight of the dry matter, of 5% or more;
   2. a dry matter content, by weight, of at least 70% but not exceeding 85%; and
   3. they are moulded or capable of being moulded.
4. This Chapter does not cover:
   1. Products obtained from whey, containing by weight more than 95% lactose, expressed as anhydrous lactose calculated on the dry matter (heading No. 17.02); or
   2. Albumins (including concentrates of two or more whey proteins, containing by weight more than 80% whey proteins, calculated on the dry matter) (heading No. 35.02) or globulins (heading No. 35.04).

Subheading Notes.

1. For the purposes of subheading No. 0404.10, the expression "modified whey" means products consisting of whey constituents, i.e., whey from which all or part of the lactose, proteins or minerals have been removed, whey to which natural whey constituents have been added, and products obtained by mixing natural whey constituents.
2. For the purposes of subheading No. 0405.10 the term "butter" does not include dehydrated butter or ghee (subheading No. 0405.90).

Chapter 05:  Products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included

Notes.

1. This Chapter does not cover:
   1. Edible products (other than guts, bladders and stomachs of animals, whole and pieces thereof, and animal blood, liquid or dried);
   2. Hides or skins (including furskins) other than goods of heading No. 05.05 and parings and similar waste of raw hides or skins of heading No. 05.11 (Chapter 41 or 43);
   3. Animal textile materials, other than horsehair and horsehair waste (Section XI); or
   4. Prepared knots or tufts for broom or brush making (heading No. 96.03).
2. For the purpose of heading No. 05.01, the sorting of hair by length (provided the root ends and tip ends respectively are not arranged together) shall be deemed not to constitute working.
3. Throughout the Classification, elephant, walrus, narwhal and wild boar tusks, rhinoceros horns and the teeth of all animals are regarded as "ivory".
4. Throughout the Classification, the expression "horsehair" means hair of the manes or tails of equine or bovine animals.

Section notes

Section XXI:  Works of art, collectors' pieces and antiques

Chapter 97:  Works of art, collectors' pieces and antiques

Notes.

1. This Chapter does not cover:
   1. Unused postage or revenue stamps, postal stationery (stamped paper) or the like, of current or new issue in the country to which they are destined (Chapter 49);
   2. Theatrical scenery, studio back-cloths or the like, of painted canvas (heading No. 59.07) except if they may be classified in heading No. 97.06; or
   3. Pearls, natural or cultured, or precious or semi-precious stones (headings Nos. 71.01 to 71.03).
2. For the purposes of heading No. 97.02, the expression "original engravings, prints and lithographs" means impressions produced directly, in black and white or in colour, of one or of several plates wholly executed by hand by the artist, irrespective of the process or of the material employed by him, but not including any mechanical or photomechanical process.
3. Heading No. 97.03 does not apply to mass-produced reproductions or works of conventional craftsmanship of a commercial character, even if these articles are designed or created by artists.
4. 1. Subject to Notes 1 to 3 above, articles of this Chapter are to be classified in this Chapter and not in any other Chapter of the Classification.
   2. Heading No. 97.06 does not apply to articles of the preceding headings of this Chapter.
5. Frames around paintings, drawings, pastels, collages or similar decorative plaques, engravings, prints or lithographs are to be classified with those articles, provided they are of a kind and of a value normal to those articles. Frames which are not of a kind or of a value normal to the articles referred to in this Note are to be classified separately.

Section XX:  Miscellaneous manufactured articles

Chapter 94:  Furniture; bedding, mattresses, mattress supports, cushions and similar stuffed furnishings; lamps and lighting fittings, not elsewhere specified or included; illuminated signs, illuminated name-plates and the like; prefabricated buildings

Notes.

1. This Chapter does not cover:

   a) Pneumatic or water mattresses, pillows or cushions, of Chapter 39, 40 or 63;

   b) Mirrors designed for placing on the floor or ground (for example, cheval-glasses (swing-mirrors)) of heading No. 70.09;

   c) Articles of Chapter 71;

   d) Parts of general use as defined in Note 2 to Section XV, of base metal (section XV), or similar goods of plastics (Chapter 39), or safes of heading No. 83.03;

   e) Furniture specially designed as parts of refrigerating or freezing equipment of heading No. 84.18; furniture specially designed for sewing machines (heading No. 84.52);

   f) Lamps or lighting fittings of Chapter 85;

   g) Furniture specially designed as parts of apparatus of heading No. 85.18 (heading No. 85.18), of headings Nos. 85.19 to 85.21 (heading No. 85.22) or of headings Nos. 85.25 to 85.28 (heading No. 85.29);

   h) Articles of heading No. 87.14;

   ij) Dentists' chairs incorporating dental appliances of heading No. 90.18 or dentists' spittoons (heading No. 90.18);

   k) Articles of Chapter 91 (for example, clocks and clock cases); or

   l) Toy furniture or toy lamps or lighting fittings (heading No. 95.03), billiard tables or other furniture specially constructed for games (heading No. 95.04), furniture for conjuring tricks or decorations (other than electric garlands) such as Chinese lanterns (heading No. 95.05).

2. The articles (other than parts) referred to in headings Nos. 94.01 to 94.03 are to be classified in those headings only if they are designed for placing on the floor or ground.
   
   The following are, however, to be classified in the above-mentioned headings even if they are designed to be hung, to be fixed to the wall or to stand one on the other:
   1. Cupboards, bookcases, other shelved furniture and unit furniture;
   2. Seats and beds.
3. 1. In headings Nos. 94.01 to 94.03 references to parts of goods do not include references to sheets or slabs (whether or not cut to shape but not combined with other parts) of glass (including mirrors), marble or other stone or of any other material referred to in Chapter 68 or 69.
   2. Goods described in heading No. 94.04, presented separately, are not to be classified in heading No. 94.01, 94.02 or 94.03 as parts of goods.
4. For the purposes of heading No. 94.06, the expression "prefabricated buildings" means buildings which are finished in the factory or put up as elements, presented together, to be assembled on site, such as housing or worksite accommodation, offices, schools, shops, sheds, garages or similar buildings.

Chapter 95:  Toys, games and sports requisites; parts and accessories thereof

Notes.

1. This Chapter does not cover:

   a) Christmas tree candles (heading No. 34.06);

   b) Fireworks or other pyrotechnic articles of heading No. 36.04;

   c) Yarns, monofilament, cords or gut and the like for fishing, cut to length but not made up into fishing lines, of Chapter 39, heading No. 42.06 or Section XI;

   d) Sports bags or other containers of heading No. 42.02, 43.03 or 43.04;

   e) Sports clothing or fancy dress, of textiles, of Chapter 61 or 62;

   f) Textile flags or bunting, or sails for boats, sailboards or land craft, of Chapter 63;

   g) Sports footwear (other than skating boots with ice or roller skates attached) of Chapter 64, or sports headgear of Chapter 65;

   h) Walking-sticks, whips, riding-crops or the like (heading No. 66.02), or parts thereof (heading No. 66.03);

   ij) Unmounted glass eyes for dolls or other toys, of heading No. 70.18;

   k) Parts of general use, as defined in Note 2 to Section XV, of base metal (Section XV), or similar goods of plastics (Chapter 39);

   l) Bells, gongs or the like of heading No. 83.06;

   m) Pumps for liquids (heading No. 84.13), filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for liquids or gases (heading No. 84.21), electric motors (heading No. 85.01), electric transformers (heading No. 85.04) or radio remote control apparatus (heading No. 85.26);

   n) Sports vehicles (other than bobsleighs, toboggans and the like) of Section XVII;

   o) Children's bicycles (heading No. 87.12);

   p) Sports craft such as canoes and skiffs (Chapter 89), or their means of propulsion (Chapter 44 for such articles made of wood);

   q) Spectacles, goggles or the like, for sports or outdoor games (heading No. 90.04);

   r) Decoy calls or whistles (heading No. 92.08);

   s) Arms or other articles of Chapter 93;

   t) Electric garlands of all kinds (heading No. 94.05); or

   u) Racket strings, tents or other camping goods, or gloves (classified according to their constituent material).

2. This Chapter includes articles in which natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed), precious metal or metal clad with precious metal constitute only minor constituents.
3. Subject to Note 1 above, parts and accessories which are suitable for use solely or principally with articles of this Chapter are to be classified with those articles.

Chapter 96:  Miscellaneous manufactured articles

Notes.

1. This Chapter does not cover:

   a) Pencils for cosmetic or toilet uses (Chapter 33);

   b) Articles of Chapter 66 (for example, parts of umbrellas or walking-sticks);

   c) Imitation jewellery (heading No. 71.17);

   d) Parts of general use, as defined in Note 2 to Section XV, of base metal (Section XV), or similar goods of plastics (Chapter 39);

   e) Cutlery or other articles of Chapter 82 with handles or other parts of carving or moulding materials; heading No. 96.01 or 96.02 applies, however, to separately presented handles or other parts of such articles;

   f) Articles of Chapter 90 (for example, spectacle frames (heading No. 90.03), mathematical drawing pens (heading No. 90.17), brushes of a kind specialised for use in dentistry or for medical, surgical or veterinary purposes (heading No. 90.18));

   g) Articles of Chapter 91 (for example, clock or watch cases);

   h) Musical instruments or parts or accessories thereof (Chapter 92);

   ij) Articles of Chapter 93 (arms and parts thereof);

   k) Articles of Chapter 94 (for example, furniture, lamps and lighting fittings);

   l) Articles of Chapter 95 (toys, games, sports requisites); or

   m) Works of art, collectors' pieces or antiques (Chapter 97).

2. In heading No. 96.02 the expression "vegetable or mineral carving material" means:
   1. Hard seeds, pips, hulls and nuts and similar vegetable materials of a kind used for carving (for example, corozo and dom);
   2. Amber, meerschaum, agglomerated amber and agglomerated meerschaum, jet and mineral substitutes for jet.
3. In heading No. 96.03 the expression "prepared knots and tufts for broom or brush making" applies only to unmounted knots and tufts of animal hair, vegetable fibre or other material, which are ready for incorporation without division in brooms or brushes, or which require only such further minor processes as trimming to shape at the top, to render them ready for such incorporation.
4. Articles of this Chapter, other than headings Nos. 96.01 to 96.06 or 96.15, remain classified in the Chapter whether or not composed wholly or partly of precious metal or metal clad with precious metal, of natural or cultured pearls, or precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed). However, headings Nos. 96.01 to 96.06 and 96.15 include articles in which natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed), precious metal or metal clad with precious metal constitute only minor constituents.

Section XIX:  Arms and ammunition; parts and accessories thereof

Chapter 93:  Arms and ammunition; parts and accessories thereof

Notes.

1. This Chapter does not cover:
   1. Goods of Chapter 36 (for example, percussion caps, detonators, signalling flares);
   2. Parts of general use, as defined in Note 2 to Section XV, of base metal (Section XV), or similar goods of plastics (Chapter 39);
   3. Armoured fighting vehicles (heading No. 87.10);
   4. Telescopic sights and other optical devices suitable for use with arms, unless mounted on a firearm or presented with the firearm on which they are designed to be mounted (Chapter 90);
   5. Bows, arrows, fencing foils or toys (Chapter 95); or
   6. Collectors' pieces or antiques (heading No. 97.05 or 97.06).
2. In heading No. 93.06, the reference to "parts thereof" does not include radio or radar apparatus of heading No. 85.26.

Section XVIII:  Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; clocks and watches; musical instruments; parts and accessories thereof

Chapter 90:  Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof

Notes.

1. This Chapter does not cover:

   a) Articles of a kind used in machines, appliances or for other technical uses, of vulcanised rubber other than hard rubber (heading No. 40.16), of leather or of composition leather (heading No. 42.04) or of textile material (heading No. 59.11);

   b) Supporting belts or other support articles of textile material, whose intended effect on the organ to be supported or held derives solely from their elasticity (for example, maternity belts, thoracic support bandages, abdominal support bandages, supports for joints or muscles) (Section XI);

   c) Refractory goods of heading No. 69.03; ceramic wares for laboratory, chemical or other technical uses, of heading No. 69.09;

   d) Glass mirrors, not optically worked, of heading No. 70.09, or mirrors of base metal or of precious metal, not being optical elements (heading No. 83.06 or Chapter 71);

   e) Goods of heading No. 70.07, 70.08, 70.11, 70.14, 70.15 or 70.17;

   f) Parts of general use, as defined in Note 2 to Section XV, of base metal (Section XV) or similar goods of plastics (Chapter 39);

   g) Pumps incorporating measuring devices, of heading No. 84.13; weight-operated counting or checking machinery, or separately presented weights for balances (heading No. 84.23); lifting or handling machinery (headings Nos. 84.25 to 84.28); paper or paperboard cutting machines of all kinds (heading No. 84.41); fittings for adjusting work or tools on machine-tools, of heading No. 84.66, including fittings with optical devices for reading the scale (for example, "optical" dividing heads) but not those which are in themselves essentially optical instruments (for example, alignment telescopes); calculating machines (heading No. 84.70); valves or other appliances of heading No. 84.81;

   h) Searchlights or spotlights of a kind used for cycles or motor vehicles (heading No. 85.12); portable electric lamps of heading No. 85.13; cinematographic sound recording, reproducing or re-recording apparatus (heading No. 85.19 or 85.20); sound-heads (heading No. 85.22); still image video cameras and other video camera recorders (heading No. 85.25); radar apparatus, radio navigational aid apparatus or radio remote control apparatus (heading No. 85.26); sealed beam lamp units of heading 85.39; optical fibre cables of heading No. 85.44;

   ij) Searchlights or spotlights of heading No. 94.05;

   k) Articles of Chapter 95;

   l) Capacity measures, which are to be classified according to their constituent material; or

   m) Spools, reels or similar supports (which are to be classified according to their constituent material, for example, in heading No. 39.23 or Section XV).

2. Subject to Note 1 above, parts and accessories for machines, apparatus, instruments or articles of this Chapter are to be classified according to the following rules:
   1. Parts and accessories which are goods included in any of the headings of this Chapter or of Chapter 84, 85 or 91 (other than heading No. 84.85, 85.48 or 90.33) are in all cases to be classified in their respective headings;
   2. Other parts and accessories, if suitable for use solely or principally with a particular kind of machine, instrument or apparatus, or with a number of machines, instruments or apparatus of the same heading (including a machine, instrument or apparatus of heading No. 90.10, 90.13 or 90.31) are to be classified with the machines, instruments or apparatus of that kind;
   3. All other parts and accessories are to be classified in heading No. 90.33.
3. The provisions of Note 4 to Section XVI apply also to this Chapter.
4. Heading No. 90.05 does not apply to telescopic sights for fitting to arms, periscopic telescopes for fitting to submarines or tanks, or to telescopes for machines, appliances, instruments or apparatus of this Chapter or Section XVI; such telescopic sights and telescopes are to be classified in heading No. 90.13.
5. Measuring or checking optical instruments, appliances or machines which, but for this Note, could be classified both in heading No. 90.13 and in heading No. 90.31 are to be classified in heading No. 90.31.
6. Heading No. 90.32 applies only to:
   1. Instruments and apparatus for automatically controlling the flow, level, pressure or other variables of liquids or gases, or for automatically controlling temperature, whether or not their operation depends on an electrical phenomenon which varies according to the factor to be automatically controlled; and
   2. Automatic regulators of electrical quantities, and instruments or apparatus for automatically controlling non-electrical quantities the operation of which depends on an electrical phenomenon varying according to the factor to be controlled.

Chapter 91:  Clocks and watches and parts thereof

Notes.

1. This Chapter does not cover:
   1. Clock or watch glasses or weights (classified according to their constituent material);
   2. Watch chains (heading No. 71.13 or 71.17, as the case may be);
   3. Parts of general use defined in Note 2 to Section XV, of base metal (Section XV), or similar goods of plastics (Chapter 39) or of precious metal or metal clad with precious metal (generally heading No. 71.15); clock or watch springs are, however, to be classified as clock or watch parts (heading No. 91.14);
   4. Bearing balls (heading No. 73.26 or 84.82, as the case may be);
   5. Articles of heading No. 84.12 constructed to work without an escapement;
   6. Ball bearings (heading No. 84.82); or
   7. Articles of Chapter 85, not yet assembled together or with other components into watch or clock movements or into articles suitable for use solely or principally as parts of such movements (Chapter 85).
2. Heading No. 91.01 covers only watches with case wholly of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal, or of the same materials combined with natural or cultured pearls, or precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed) of headings Nos. 71.01 to 71.04. Watches with case of base metal inlaid with precious metal fall in heading No. 91.02.
3. For the purposes of this Chapter, the expression "watch movements" means devices regulated by a balance-wheel and hairspring, quartz crystal or any other system capable of determining intervals of time, with a display or a system to which a mechanical display can be incorporated. Such watch movements shall not exceed 12 mm in thickness and 50 mm in width, length or diameter.
4. Except as provided in Note 1, movements and other parts suitable for use both in clocks or watches and in other articles (for example, precision instruments) are to be classified in this Chapter.

Chapter 92:  Musical instruments; parts and accessories of such articles

Notes.

1. This Chapter does not cover:
   1. Parts of general use, as defined in Note 2 to Section XV, of base metal (Section XV), or similar goods of plastics (Chapter 39);
   2. Microphones, amplifiers, loud-speakers, head-phones, switches, stroboscopes or other accessory instruments, apparatus or equipment of Chapter 85 or 90, for use with but not incorporated in or housed in the same cabinet as instruments of this Chapter;
   3. Toy instruments or apparatus (heading No. 95.03);
   4. Brushes for cleaning musical instruments (heading No. 96.03); or
   5. Collectors' pieces or antiques (heading No. 97.05 or 97.06).
2. Bows and sticks and similar devices used in playing the musical instruments of heading No. 92.02 or 92.06 presented with such instruments in numbers normal thereto and clearly intended for use therewith, are to be classified in the same heading as the relative instruments.
   
   Cards, discs and rolls of heading No. 92.09 presented with an instrument are to be treated as separate articles and not as forming a part of such instrument.

Section XVII:  Vehicles, aircraft, vessels and associated transport equipment

Notes.

1. This Section does not cover articles of heading No. 95.01, 95.03 or 95.08, or bobsleighs, toboggans or the like of heading No. 95.06.
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 No. 84.84) or other articles of vulcanised rubber other than hard rubber (heading No. 40.16);

   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 No. 83.06;

   e) Machines or apparatus of headings Nos. 84.01 to 84.79, or parts thereof; articles of heading No. 84.81 or 84.82 or, provided they constitute integral parts of engines or motors, articles of heading No. 84.83;

   f) Electrical machinery or equipment (Chapter 85);

   g) Articles of Chapter 90;

   h) Articles of Chapter 91;

   ij) Arms (Chapter 93);

   k) Lamps or lighting fittings of heading No. 94.05; or

   l) Brushes of a kind used as parts of vehicles (heading No. 96.03).

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:
   1. Vehicles specially constructed to travel on both road and rail are classified under the appropriate heading of Chapter 87;
   2. Amphibious motor vehicles are classified under the appropriate heading of Chapter 87;
   3. 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:
   1. In Chapter 86 if designed to travel on a guide-track (hovertrains);
   2. In Chapter 87 if designed to travel over land or over both land and water;
   3. 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 signalling, safety or traffic control equipment for hovertrain transport systems as signalling, safety or traffic control equipment for railways.

Chapter 86:  Railway or tramway locomotives, rolling-stock and parts thereof; railway or tramway track fixtures and fittings and parts thereof; mechanical (including electro-mechanical) traffic signalling equipment of all kinds

Notes.

1. This Chapter does not cover:
   1. Railway or tramway sleepers of wood or of concrete, or concrete guide-track sections for hovertrains (heading No. 44.06 or 68.10);
   2. Railway or tramway track construction material of iron or steel of heading No. 73.02; or
   3. Electrical signalling, safety or traffic control equipment of heading No. 85.30.
2. Heading No. 86.07 applies, inter alia, to:
   1. Axles, wheels, wheel sets (running gear), metal tires, hoops and hubs and other parts of wheels;
   2. Frames, underframes, truck assemblies;
   3. Axle boxes; brake gear;
   4. Buffers for rolling-stock; hooks and other coupling gear and corridor connections;
   5. Coachwork.
3. Subject to the provisions of Note 1 above, heading No. 86.08 applies, inter alia, to:
   1. Assembled track, turntables, platform buffers, loading gauges;
   2. Semaphores, mechanical signal discs, level crossing control gear, signal and point controls, and other mechanical (including electro-mechanical) signalling, safety or traffic control equipment, whether or not fitted for electric lighting, for railways, tramways, roads, inland waterways, parking facilities, port installations or airfields.

Chapter 87:  Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling-stock, and parts and accessories thereof

Notes.

1. This Chapter does not cover railway or tramway rolling-stock designed solely for running on rails.
2. For the purposes of this Chapter, "tractors" means vehicles constructed essentially for hauling or pushing another vehicle, appliance or load, whether or not they contain subsidiary provision for the transport, in connection with the main use of the tractor, of tools, seeds, fertilisers or other goods.
   
   Machines and working tools designed for fitting to tractors of heading No. 87.01 as interchangeable equipment remain classified in their respective headings even if presented with the tractor, and whether or not mounted on it.
3. Motor chassis fitted with cabs fall in headings Nos. 87.02 to 87.04, and not in heading No. 87.06.
4. Heading No. 87.12 includes all children's bicycles. Other children's cycles fall in heading No. 95.01.

Chapter 88:  Aircraft, spacecraft and parts thereof

Subheading Note.

1. For the purposes of subheadings Nos. 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.

Chapter 89:  Ships, boats and floating structures

Note.

1. A hull, an unfinished or incomplete vessel, assembled, unassembled or disassembled, or a complete vessel unassembled or disassembled, is to be classified in heading No. 89.06 if it does not have the essential character of a vessel of a particular kind.

Section XVI:  Machinery and mechanical appliances; electrical equipment; parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles

Notes.

1. This Section does not cover:

   a) Transmission or conveyor belts or belting, of plastics of Chapter 39, or of vulcanised rubber (heading No. 40.10); or other articles of a kind used in machinery or mechanical or electrical appliances or for other technical uses, of vulcanised rubber other than hard rubber (heading No. 40.16);

   b) Articles of leather or of composition leather (heading No. 42.04) or of furskin (heading No. 43.03), of a kind used in machinery or mechanical appliances or for other technical uses;

   c) Bobbins, spools, cops, cones, cores, reels or similar supports, of any material (for example, Chapter 39, 40, 44 or 48 or Section XV);

   d) Perforated cards for Jacquard or similar machines (for example, Chapter 39 or 48 or Section XV);

   e) Transmission or conveyor belts of textile material (heading No. 59.10) or other articles of textile material for technical uses (heading No. 59.11);

   f) Precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed) of headings Nos. 71.02 to 71.04, or articles wholly of such stones of heading No. 71.16, except unmounted worked sapphires and diamonds for styli (heading No. 85.22);

   g) Parts of general use, as defined in Note 2 to Section XV, of base metal (Section XV), or similar goods of plastics (Chapter 39);

   h) Drill pipe (heading No. 73.04);

   ij) Endless belts of metal wire or strip (Section XV);

   k) Articles of Chapter 82 or 83;

   l) Articles of Section XVII;

   m) Articles of Chapter 90;

   n) Clocks, watches or other articles of Chapter 91;

   o) Interchangeable tools of heading No. 82.07 or brushes of a kind used as parts of machines (heading No. 96.03);

   p) Articles of Chapter 95.

2. Subject to Note 1 to this Section, Note 1 to Chapter 84 and to Note 1 to Chapter 85, parts of machines (not being parts of the articles of heading No. 84.84, 85.44, 85.45, 85.46 or 85.47) are to be classified according to the following rules:
   1. Parts which are goods included in any of the headings of Chapters 84 or 85 (other than headings Nos. 84.09, 84.31, 84.48, 84.66, 84.73, 84.85, 85.03, 85.22, 85.29, 85.38 and 85.48) are in all cases to be classified in their respective headings;
   2. Other parts, if suitable for use solely or principally with a particular kind of machine, or with a number of machines of the same heading (including a machine of heading No. 84.79 or 85.43) are to be classified with the machines of that kind or in heading No. 84.09, 84.31, 84.48, 84.66, 84.73, 85.03, 85.22, 85.29 or 85.38 as appropriate. However, parts which are equally suitable for use principally with the goods of headings Nos. 85.17 and 85.25 to 85.28 are to be classified in heading No. 85.17;
   3. All other parts are to be classified in headings No. 84.09, 84.31, 84.48, 84.66, 84.73, 85.03, 85.22, 85.29 or 85.38 as appropriate or, failing that, in heading No. 84.85 or 85.48.
3. Unless the context otherwise requires, composite machines consisting of two or more machines fitted together to form a whole and other machines adapted for the purpose of performing two or more complementary or alternative functions are to be classified as if consisting only of that component or as being that machine which performs the principal function.
4. Where a machine (including a combination of machines) consists of individual components (whether separate or interconnected by piping, by transmission devices, by electric cables or by other devices) intended to contribute together to a clearly defined function covered by one of the headings in Chapter 84 or Chapter 85, then the whole falls to be classified in the heading appropriate to that function.
5. For the purposes of these Notes, the expression "machine" means any machine, machinery, plant, equipment, apparatus or appliance cited in the headings of Chapter 84 or 85.

Chapter 84:  Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof

Notes.

1. This Chapter does not cover:
   1. Millstones, grindstones or other articles of Chapter 68;
   2. Machinery or appliances (for example, pumps) of ceramic material and ceramic parts of machinery or appliances of any material (Chapter 69);
   3. Laboratory glassware (heading No. 70.17); machinery, appliances or other articles for technical uses or parts thereof, of glass (heading No. 70.19 or 70.20);
   4. Articles of heading No. 73.21 or 73.22 or similar articles of other base metals (Chapters 74 to 76 or 78 to 81);
   5. Electro-mechanical tools for working in the hand, of heading No. 85.08 or electro-mechanical domestic appliances of heading No. 85.09; or
   6. Hand-operated mechanical floor sweepers, not motorised (heading No. 96.03).
2. Subject to the operation of Note 3 to Section XVI, a machine or appliance which answers to a description in one or more of the headings Nos. 84.01 to 84.24 and at the same time to a description in one or other of the headings Nos. 84.25 to 84.80 is to be classified under the appropriate heading of the former group and not the latter.
   
   Heading No. 84.19 does not, however, cover:
   1. Germination plant, incubators or brooders (heading No. 84.36);
   2. Grain dampening machines (heading No. 84.37);
   3. Diffusing apparatus for sugar juice extraction (heading No. 84.38);
   4. Machinery for the heat-treatment of textile yarns, fabrics or made up textile articles (heading No. 84.51); or
   5. Machinery or plant, designed for mechanical operation, in which a change of temperature, even if necessary, is subsidiary.
   Heading No. 84.22 does not cover:
   1. Sewing machines for closing bags or similar containers (heading No. 84.52); or
   2. Office machinery of heading No. 84.72.
   Heading No. 84.24 does not cover:
   
   Ink jet printing machines (heading No. 84.43 or 84.71).
3. A machine-tool for working any material which answers to a description in heading No. 84.56 and at the same time to a description in heading No. 84.57, 84.58, 84.59, 84.60, 84.61, 84.64 or 84.65 is to be classified in heading No. 84.56.
4. Heading No. 84.57 applies only to machine-tools for working metal, other than lathes (including turning centres), which can carry out different types of machining operations either:
   1. by automatic tool change from a magazine or the like in conformity with a machining programme (machining centres),
   2. by the automatic use, simultaneously or sequentially, of different unit heads working on a fixed position workpiece (unit construction machines, single station), or
   3. by the automatic transfer of the workpiece to different unit heads (multi-station transfer machines).
5. 1. For the purposes of heading No. 84.71, the expression "automatic data processing machines" means:
      1. Digital machines, capable of (1) storing the processing program or programs and at least the data immediately necessary for the execution of the program; (2) being freely programmed in accordance with the requirements of the user; (3) performing arithmetical computations specified by the user; and, (4) executing, without human intervention, a processing program which requires them to modify their execution, by logical decision during the processing run;
      2. Analog machines capable of simulating mathematical models and comprising at least: analog elements, control elements and programming elements;
      3. Hybrid machines consisting of either a digital machine with analog elements or an analog machine with digital elements.
   2. Automatic data processing machines may be in the form of systems consisting of a variable number of separate units. Subject to paragraph E) below, a unit is to be regarded as being a part of the complete system if it meets all of the following conditions:
      1. It is of a kind solely or principally used in an automatic data processing system;
      2. It is connectable to the central processing unit either directly or through one or more other units; and
      3. It is able to accept or deliver data in a form (codes or signals) which can be used by the system.
   3. Separately presented units of an automatic data processing machine are to be classified in heading No. 84.71.
   4. Printers, keyboards, X-Y co-ordinate input devices and disk storage units which satisfy the conditions of paragraphs B) b) and B) c) above, are in all cases to be classified as units of heading No. 84.71.
   5. Machines perforning a specific function other than data processing and incorporating or working in conjunction with an automatic data processing machine are to be classified in the headings appropriate to their respective functions or, failing that, in residual headings.
6. Heading No. 84.82 applies, inter alia, to polished steel balls, the maximum and minimum diameters of which do not differ from the nominal diameter by more than 1% or by more than 0.05 mm, whichever is less. Other steel balls are to be classified in heading No. 73.26.
7. A machine which is used for more than one purpose is, for the purposes of classification, to be treated as if its principal purpose were its sole purpose.
   
   Subject to Note 2 to this Chapter and Note 3 to Section XVI, a machine the principal purpose of which is not described in any heading or for which no one purpose is the principal purpose is, unless the context otherwise requires, to be classified in heading No. 84.79. Heading No. 84.79 also covers machines for making rope or cable (for example, stranding, twisting or cabling machines) from metal wire, textile yarn or any other material or from a combination of such materials.
8. For the purposes of heading No. 84.70, the term "pocket-size" applies only to machines the dimensions of which do not exceed 170 mm x 100 mm x 45 mm.

Subheading Notes.

1. For the purposes of subheading No. 8471.49, the term "systems" means automatic data processing machines whose units satisfy the conditions laid down in Note 5 B) to Chapter 84 and which comprise at least a central processing unit, one input unit (for example, a keyboard or a scanner), and one output unit (for example, a visual display unit or a printer).
2. Subheading No. 8482.40 applies only to bearings with cylindrical rollers of a uniform diameter not exceeding 5 mm and having a length which is at least three times the diameter. The ends of the rollers may be rounded.

Chapter 85:  Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles

Notes.

1. This Chapter does not cover:
   1. Electrically warmed blankets, bed pads, foot-muffs or the like; electrically warmed clothing, footwear or ear pads or other electrically warmed articles worn on or about the person;
   2. Articles of glass of heading No. 70.11; or
   3. Electrically heated furniture of Chapter 94.
2. Headings Nos. 85.01 to 85.04 do not apply to goods described in heading No. 85.11, 85.12, 85.40, 85.41 or 85.42.
   
   However, metal tank mercury arc rectifiers remain classified in heading No. 85.04.
3. Heading No. 85.09 covers only the following electro-mechanical machines of the kind commonly used for domestic purposes:
   1. Vacuum cleaners, floor polishers, food grinders and mixers, and fruit or vegetable juice extractors, of any weight;
   2. Other machines provided the weight of such machines does not exceed 20 kg.
   The heading does not, however, apply to fans or ventilating or recycling hoods incorporating a fan, whether or not fitted with filters (heading No. 84.14), centrifugal clothes-dryers (heading No. 84.21), dish washing machines (heading No. 84.22), household washing machines (heading No. 84.50), roller or other ironing machines (heading No. 84.20 or 84.51), sewing machines (heading No. 84.52), electric scissors (heading No. 85.08) or to electro-thermic appliances (heading No. 85.16).
4. For the purposes of heading No. 85.34 "printed circuits" are circuits obtained by forming on an insulating base, by any printing process (for example, embossing, plating-up, etching) or by the "film circuit" technique, conductor elements, contacts or other printed components (for example, inductances, resistors, capacitors) alone or interconnected according to a pre-established pattern, other than elements which can produce, rectify, modulate or amplify an electrical signal (for example, semiconductor elements).
   
   The expression "printed circuits" does not cover circuits combined with elements other than those obtained during the printing process, nor does it cover individual, discrete resistors, capacitors or inductances. Printed circuits may, however, be fitted with non-printed connecting elements.
   
   Thin- or thick-film circuits comprising passive and active elements obtained during the same technological process are to be classified in heading No. 85.42.
5. For the purposes of headings Nos. 85.41 and 85.42:
   1. "Diodes, transistors and similar semiconductor devices" are semiconductor devices the operation of which depends on variations in resistivity on the application of an electric field;
   2. "Electronic integrated circuits and microassemblies" are:
      1. Monolithic integrated circuits in which the circuit elements (diodes, transistors, resistors, capacitors, interconnections, etc.) are created in the mass (essentially) and on the surface of a semiconductor material (doped silicon, for example) and are inseparably associated;
      2. Hybrid integrated circuits in which passive elements (resistors, capacitors, interconnections, etc.), obtained by thin- or thick-film technology, and active elements (diodes, transistors, monolithic integrated circuits, etc.) obtained by semiconductor technology, are combined to all intents and purposes indivisibly, on a single insulating substrate (glass, ceramic, etc.). These circuits may also include discrete components;
      3. Microassemblies of the moulded module, micromodule or similar types, consisting of discrete, active or both active and passive, components which are combined and interconnected.
      For the classification of the articles defined in this Note, headings Nos. 85.41 and 85.42 shall take precedence over any other heading in the Classification which might cover them by reference to, in particular, their function.
6. Records, tapes and other media of heading No. 85.23 or 85.24 remain classified in those headings, whether or not they are presented with the apparatus for which they are intended.
7. For the purposes of heading No. 85.48, "spent primary cells, spent primary batteries and spent electric accumulators" are those which are neither usable as such because of breakage, cutting-up, wear or other reasons, nor capable of being recharged.

Subheading Note.

1. Subheadings Nos. 8519.92 and 8527.12 cover only cassette-players with built-in amplifier, without built-in loudspeaker, capable of operating without an external source of electric power and the dimensions of which do not exceed 170 mm x 100 mm x 45 mm.