Information for ruling 600006180
This section is Advance Tariff Ruling
- Start date
- 18 Apr 2023
- Expiry date
- 17 Apr 2026
- Commodity code
- 8517610000 (opens in new tab)
- Description
- A GNSS receiver and transmitter kit comprising of a set of components, the main one being a base station, also in the kit is a tripod, a number of cables, connectors and a purpose built case. The main function of the base station is to provide real time kinematic corrections to one or more differential enabled GNSS receivers via radio modem. Correction data can also be logged to a PC when connected. The GPS-Base calculates and then transmits differential corrections to local GNSS receivers. Differential corrections are used by the GNSS receiver in INS+GNSS products to achieve centimetre level accuracy.
- Keywords
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- WIRELESS
- DATA COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT
- MODEMS
- FOR SYNCHRONOUS SIGNALS
- GOODS PUT UP IN SETS
- Justification
- Classification has been determined in accordance with the following: For the purposes of determining the commodity codes within which goods most appropriately fall, reg 3 (1) of The Customs Tariff (Establishment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 sets out that the rules of interpretation contained in the following have effect – a. Part Two (Goods Classification Table Rules of Interpretation) of the Tariff of the United Kingdom (Reg 3(1)(a)); and b. Notes to a section or chapter of the Goods Classification Table (Reg 3(1)(b)) GIR 1 has been used to classify this product by the terms of heading 8517 - Telephone sets, including smartphones and other telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks; other apparatus for the transmission or reception of voice, images or other data, including apparatus for communication in a wired or wireless network (such as a local or wide area network), other than transmission or reception apparatus of heading 8443, 8525, 8527 or 8528 GIR 3 (b) has been used as the base station is considered to be the essential character. GIR 5 (a) has been used to identify specific packaging as a hard case designed to be reusable and presented with the item to be classified and it’s accessories GIR 6 has been used to classify the goods to sub-heading 8517 61 – Base stations Also classified in accordance with :- Harmonised Standard Explanatory Notes (HSENs) to heading – 8517 Part (II) (A) refers