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Information for ruling 600006606

This section is Advance Tariff Ruling

Start date
26 May 2023
Expiry date
25 May 2026
Description
Product is a brass channel with a rubber piece. It is designed to be used, with a handle (sold separately) as a squeegee to clean windows. To attach product to the handle, two screws on the handle are loosened, allowing the channel to be slid into place. These screws are then tightened to hold the channel in place. It will come in a variety of lengths: 15cm, 25cm, 30cm, 35cm, 40cm and 45cm. Sold to retail and janitorial markets. Packaged individually in plastic bags and then 25 items are packaged in a cardboard box.
Keywords
  • FOR CLEANING
  • OF RUBBER
  • OF BRASS
  • RANGE OF SIZES
  • OF METAL
  • SQUEEGEE
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 of 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 9603 - Brooms, brushes (including brushes constituting parts of machines, appliances or vehicles), hand-operated mechanical floor sweepers, not motorised, mops and feather dusters; prepared knots and tufts for broom or brush making; paint pads and rollers; squeegees (other than roller squeegees) GIR 2A - has been used as the goods are incomplete but still hold the essential character of a squeegee. GIR 5b - has been used to identify the type of packaging as individually packed in a plastic bag and then 25 items packaged in a cardboard box. GIR 6 - has been used to classify the goods to subheading level 960390 Other than elsewhere specified 8 Digit Code 9603909900 Other than hand-operated mechanical floor sweepers, not motorised; Other than road-sweeping brushes; household type brooms and brushes, including shoe brushes and clothes brushes; brushes for grooming animals. Also classified in accordance with: The Harmonized System Explanatory Notes (HSENs)to heading 9603 including note (F)