Information for ruling 600008222
This section is Advance Tariff Ruling
- Start date
- 19 Sep 2023
- Expiry date
- 18 Sep 2026
- Commodity code
- 9017801000 (opens in new tab)
- Description
- This product is a 3m x 15mm retractable tape measure made of polypropylene plastic housing and an iron measuring tape for measuring length. Dimensions of this product are: 3m x 15mm
- Keywords
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- OF POLYPROPYLENE
- FOR WORKING IN THE HAND
- TAPE MEASURE
- 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