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Information for ruling 600008518

This section is Advance Tariff Ruling

Start date
31 Aug 2023
Expiry date
30 Aug 2026
Description
An aluminium seat post connecting the seat to the frame of a folding electric bicycle. The post has a diameter of between Φ 30.9 and Φ31.6. The product is a Seat Post for an electric Bicycle. The e-bicycle goods are parts and are NOT being consigned in a shipment with other containers that together could make up a E-BICYCLE under heading 8712, using GIR 2(a).
Keywords
  • FOR BICYCLES
  • OF ALUMINIUM
  • SECTIONS
  • SEAT PARTS
  • SEAT POSTS
  • E-BICYCLES
  • CYCLE PARTS
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 8714 - Parts and accessories of vehicles of headings 8711 to 8713. GIR 2 (a) - Has been used as the goods are unassembled. GIR 6 - Has been used to classify the goods to subheading level 8714 99 - Other than elsewhere specified within this subheading. 8 - Digit Code 871499 90 - Other; parts. 10 - Digit Code 87149990 30 - Seat posts, for use in the manufacture of bicycles (including electric bicycles). Also Classified in Accordance with: General Note (III) (B) (2) to Section XVII Chapter 87 - General Notes. Harmonized System Explanatory Notes (HSENs) (11) to Heading 8714