Information for ruling 600006865
This section is Advance Tariff Ruling
- Start date
- 20 Jun 2023
- Expiry date
- 19 Jun 2026
- Commodity code
- 8419908590 (opens in new tab)
- Description
- A silicone cover which forms a tight, soft seal around the fire detector. It is used to block out external light sources for aiding the sensor's fire detection performance. It is press fitted and secured with designated tongue and groove slots into the fire detector. The product is packaged into cardboard.
- Keywords
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- COVERS
- OF SILICONE
- SENSORS
- THERMAL SENSORS
- SMOKE DETECTORS
- FIRE ALARMS
- 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 (GIRS): GIR 1 has been used to classify this product by the terms of Heading 8419 - Machinery, plant or laboratory equipment, whether or not electrically heated (excluding furnaces, ovens and other equipment of heading 8514), for the treatment of materials by a process involving a change of temperature such as heating, cooking, roasting, distilling, rectifying, sterilising, pasteurising, steaming, drying, evaporating, vaporising, condensing or cooling, other than machinery or plant of a kind used for domestic purposes; instantaneous or storage water heaters, non-electric. GIR 5b has been used to identify the type of packaging – cardboard box GIR 6 has been used to classify the goods to Subheading Level 841990 - Parts 8 Digit Code: 84199085 - Other than Of sterilisers of subheading 84192000 10 Digit Code: 8419908590 - Other than Of heat exchange units, for use in civil aircraft and Silicone or plastic keyboards, comprising: -parts of common metal, and -whether or not comprising parts of plastic, -epoxy resin reinforced with fiberglass or wood, -whether or not printed or surface-treated, -with or without electrical conductors -with or without a membrane bonded to the keyboard, -with or without mono or multilayer protective film Also classified in accordance with: Section Note 2b to Section XVI Harmonised System Explanatory Notes (HSEN)s to Heading 8419