Information for ruling 600008230
This section is Advance Tariff Ruling
- Start date
- 01 Sep 2023
- Expiry date
- 31 Aug 2026
- Commodity code
- 8419899800 (opens in new tab)
- Description
- Fire safety testing kit, designed to test for both smoke and heat. The kit contains a Head unit, 1 capsule, battery and charger, telescopic access poles to 6 metres, detector removal tool and large carry bag. The equipment is used to test smoke, heat and multi-sensor fire detector systems. The equipment delivers controlled levels of stimulus via the head unit which produces heat to test the detectors status using the an LED (light-emitting diode). A sensor system gives feedback to the user to determine whether the fire detector test has been successful. The telescopic access poles allows the detector removal tool to reach up to 6 metres high and the kit includes a large bag to store and carry the equipment. The equipment is constructed from a mixture of technical polymers (33% Polypropylene and 30% ABS by volume), PCBA's and their associated components. Packaged in cardboard shipping carton.
- Keywords
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- FOR TESTING
- DETECTORS
- SMOKE DETECTORS
- POLYMERS
- SAFETY EQUIPMENT
- SETS
- 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 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 shipping carton. GIR 6 has been used to classify this product to subheading level - 841989 - Other machinery, plant and equipment; other than for making hot drinks or for cooking or heating food. 8 Digit Code 84198998 - Other than cooling towers and similar plant for direct cooling (without a separating wall) by means of recirculated water and other than vacuum-vapour plant for the deposition of metal. Also classified in accordance with: Harmonised Standard Explanatory Notes (HSENs) to Heading 8419