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Information for ruling 600007469

This section is Advance Tariff Ruling

Start date
27 Jun 2023
Expiry date
26 Jun 2026
Description
This product is pruning shears that are made of steel and with Polypropylene handles. Used for gardening purposes. The pruning shears are packaged in a blister card.
Keywords
  • FOR SHEARING
  • HAND TOOLS
  • OF PLASTIC
  • OF METAL
  • PRUNERS
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 the product to heading 8201 - Hand tools, the following: spades, shovels, mattocks, picks, hoes, forks and rakes; axes, billhooks and similar hewing tools; secateurs and pruners of any kind; scythes, sickles, hay knives, hedge shears, timber wedges and other tools of a kind used in agriculture, horticulture or forestry GIR 5b has been used to identify the type of packaging GIR 6 has been used to classify the goods to subheading level 820150 - Secateurs and similar one-handed pruners and shears (including poultry shears) Also classified in accordance with: Note 3 to Section XVI Harmonised System Explanatory Notes (HSENs) Note 5 to heading 8201