Information for ruling 600007363
This section is Advance Tariff Ruling
- Start date
- 22 Jun 2023
- Expiry date
- 21 Jun 2026
- Commodity code
- 9017801000 (opens in new tab)
- Description
- Retractable measuring tape made of polypropylene plastic housing and an iron measuring tape for measuring length. These are ideal to use for indoor and outdoor measurements. Often used for construction work, office use and much more. Product dimensions are 7.5m x 24mm and weighs approx. 0.24kg. Available in 3 colours
- Keywords
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- TAPE MEASURE
- FOR MEASURING SIZE
- CARRY STRAP
- OF PLASTIC
- FOR WORKING IN THE HAND
- MEASURING TAPES
- OF IRON
- 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 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 6 has been used to classify the goods to Subheading Level 901780 – Other instruments 8 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.