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Information for ruling 600009394

This section is Advance Tariff Ruling

Start date
03 Jan 2024
Expiry date
02 Jan 2027
Description
A pack of 10 2-way mains socket adaptors. Each one comprises cube-shaped block, featuring 2 standard UK mains sockets. combined with a standard 3-pin UK mains plug. They function by splitting a single supply into 2 individual supplies – one for each socket, allowing up to 2 separate mains powered devices to be plugged into it. The units are each fitted with a 13 amp fuse and designed for home or office use, to be plugged into a 240v supply, the sockets are not switched and there is no cable between the mains plug and the sockets. Items are put up in a cardboard box for packaging , approximate weight per unit is 100 grams
Keywords
  • HOUSEHOLD ITEMS
  • FOR VOLTAGE NOT > 1000 V
  • FOR ELECTRICAL CIRCUITS
  • CONNECTORS
  • MAINS ADAPTERS
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 8536 - Electrical apparatus for switching or protecting electrical circuits, or for making connections to or in electrical circuits (for example, switches, relays, fuses, surge suppressors, plugs, sockets, lamp holders and other connectors, junction boxes), for a voltage not exceeding 1,000 v; connectors for optical fibres, optical fibre bundles or cables GIR 5 (b) has been used to identify normal packaging for transport GIR 6 has been used to classify the goods to sub-heading 8536 69 – Lamp holders, plugs and sockets; other than lamp holders Code to 8 digits - 8536 6990 Other than for coaxial cables; other than for printed circuits Code to 10 digits - 8536 6990 99 – Other than elsewhere specified in this subheading Also classified in accordance with :- Harmonised Standard Explanatory Notes (HSENs) to heading – 8536 WCO Opinion to subheading 8536.69