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Information for ruling 600009805

This section is Advance Tariff Ruling

Start date
07 Feb 2024
Expiry date
06 Feb 2027
Description
The product is Echo Sounder which is a general purpose echo sounder set for shallow and deep water used on surface and submarine vessels. The item is made from multiple components including: stainless steel housing, printed circuit boards, electrical relays, mechanical drive components, thermal stylus, stainless steel fixings (screws, washers etc), wiring and electrical connectors. This product is used to measure the depth of seawater below the vessel and record to electro-sensitive plotter paper. The Echo Sounder generates a sonar waveform that is sent and received through the water using an external sonar transducer. The time taken for the signal to bounce back is then converted to sea depth and plotted in a straight-line format on dry electro-sensitive paper. It is packaged in dedicated SPIS packaging.
Keywords
  • ECHO SOUNDER
  • UNDERWATER
  • FOR EXTERNAL USE
  • TRANSDUCERS
  • ELECTRO SENSITIVE PAPER
  • SEA DEPTH
  • SUBMARINES
  • SONAR WAVEFORM
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 9014 - Direction finding compasses; other navigational instruments and appliances. GIR 6 Has been used to classify the goods to subheading level 901480 - Other instruments and appliances. Also classified in accordance with: - Harmonised System Explanatory Notes (HSENs) to Heading 9014 (II) (B) (6) and (7)