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Information for ruling 600007518

This section is Advance Tariff Ruling

Start date
08 Aug 2023
Expiry date
07 Aug 2026
Description
A smart cooling fan controller, intended for use at home while exercising indoors for treadmill, indoor bike and rowing machine etc. This product plugs into a wall power socket , the device varies the power supply to the fan based on input from the user. Internals consist of a printed circuit board and is an assembly of two off the shelf power entry- exit modules. The main function is to adjust the output of voltage and to control the power supply. This also has Bluetooth and can be linked to a smartphone app and to a wireless sensors. Users can customise their settings and pair to sensors which monitors heart rate, speed and body temperature. The housing of this product is two parts and made from plastics. An Array of LEDs is mounted to the top face of the PCBA and these change colour depending on the level of exertion of the user.
Keywords
  • PLASTICS
  • FOR PHYSICAL EXERCISE
  • FOR COOLING
  • PUT UP FOR RETAIL SALE
  • WITH FAN
  • PLUGGED
Justification
Classification has been determined in accordance with the following: - General Interpretative Rules (GIR)s: 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)). GIR 1 - has been used to classify this product by the terms of heading 8504 - Electrical transformers, static converters (for example, rectifiers) and inductors. GIR 6 - has been used to classify the goods to subheading level 850440 - Static converters. 8-digit code 85044095 -Other than accumulator chargers; Other than rectifiers, other than inverters. 10-digit code 8504409590 - Other than for use in civil aircraft. Also classified in accordance with: Harmonized System Explanatory Notes (HSEN) 8504 WCO opinion 3 to 8504.40