Information for ruling 600008587
This section is Advance Tariff Ruling
- Start date
- 30 Aug 2023
- Expiry date
- 29 Aug 2026
- Commodity code
- 8543709099 (opens in new tab)
- Description
- A 27kHZ UWT Transducer is used for a submarine underwater telephone. It converts electrical signals from a transmitter/receiver into pressure waves in the water and vice-versa (as a microphone/speaker would in air). The transducer is used as part of an underwater telephone system for communication with other vessels. Multiple components, including; urethane resin dome, mounting plate, housing, transformer, transducer stalk, cable gland and stainless steel fasteners. The product is packaged in a dedicated wooden crate.
- Keywords
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- FOR DATA TRANSMISSION
- SOUND APPARATUS
- TRANSDUCERS
- COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT
- WITH INDIVIDUAL FUNCTION
- WITH FASTENING
- 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 8543 - Electrical machines and apparatus, having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter GIR 5 (b) - Has been used to identify the type of packaging GIR 6 - Has been used to classify the goods to subheading level 8543 70 - Other machines and apparatus 8-digit code 854370 90 - Other than electrical machines with translation or dictionary functions, aerial amplifiers, sunbeds, sunlamps and similar suntanning equipment or electric fence energisers 10-digit code 85437090 99 - Other than elsewhere specified Classified in accordance with: Harmonised System Explanatory Notes (HSENs) to 8543