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Information for ruling 600008646

This section is Advance Tariff Ruling

Start date
12 Sep 2023
Expiry date
11 Sep 2026
Description
A High Voltage gas filled ceramic Relay 12Vcoils SPDT Latch used within submerged Repeaters on Optical Fibre submarine cable system. It is Electric and made of metal and circuit coil with gas filled sealed ceramic envelope. The type of relay used SPDT - With the coil energized and de-energized, apply rated “test voltage” voltage between open contacts. Ground the base and connect the normally open contacts to the base. The contracts are sealed in a chamber at the top of the relay with Coils in it and covered with a case/packaged. The Relays work as Switches, voltage limiter packed with metal and plastic chamber. They are working as protector and switch. With a design life: 25 years and Seabed depth: 8000m. Operating temperature range: 0 to 35C, Working voltage: up to 12KV, Line current; 0.7 to 2.1 Amp.
Keywords
  • OF BASE METALS
  • DATA COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT
  • RECEIVERS
  • OF CERAMIC
  • OF PLASTIC
  • DATA TRANSM & RECEPTION APPARATUS
  • ELECTRIC
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 8517 - Telephone sets, including smartphones and other telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks; other apparatus for the transmission or reception of voice, images or other data, including apparatus for communication in a wired or wireless network (such as a local or wide area network), other than transmission or reception apparatus of heading 8443, 8525, 8527 or 8528. GIR 5b - Has been used to identify the type of packaging - These contracts are sealed in a chamber at the top of the relay with Coils in it and covered with a case/packaged. GIR 6 - Has been used to classify the goods to subheading level 8517 79 - For other than elsewhere specified in this subheading; Parts. Classified in Accordance with: Note 2 (b) to Section XVI Harmonized System Explanatory Notes (HSENS) to Heading 8517