Information for ruling 600006452
This section is Advance Tariff Ruling
- Start date
- 14 Apr 2023
- Expiry date
- 13 Apr 2026
- Commodity code
- 9017801000 (opens in new tab)
- Description
- The product is a 4 piece measuring tape made from polypropylene. Packaged in a blister card.
- Keywords
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- MEASURING TAPES
- TAPE MEASURE
- SCIENTIFIC AND MEASURING EQUIPMENT
- 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)). General interpretative rules (GIR)s: GIR 1 Has been used to classify this product by the terms of heading 9017 - Drawing, marking-out or mathematical calculating instruments (for example, drafting machines, pantographs, protractors, drawing sets, slide rules, disc calculators); instruments for measuring length, for use in the hand (for example, measuring rods and tapes, micrometers, callipers), not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter. GIR 5B Has been used to identify to types of packaging - Packaged in a blister card. GIR 6 Has been used to classify the goods to subheading level 901780 - Other instruments. Eight Digit Code - 90178010 - Measuring rods and tapes and divided scales. Also classified in accordance with: Harmonised System Explanatory Notes (HSENs) (D) (5) to heading 9017