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Information for ruling 600010045

This section is Advance Tariff Ruling

Start date
29 Mar 2024
Expiry date
28 Mar 2027
Description
A test head used for checking the operation of smoke, carbon monoxide and heat detectors. The devise works by releasing heat, carbon monoxide and/or smoke into a sealed cup. This is then placed over the device under test which would then trigger the alarm notifying the user the detector is working correctly or not.
Keywords
DETECTORS OF PLASTIC FOR TESTING WITH HEATING DEVICE WITH MOTOR
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 8419 - Machinery, plant or laboratory equipment, whether or not electrically heated (excluding furnaces, ovens and other equipment of heading 8514), for the treatment of materials by a process involving a change of temperature such as heating, cooking, roasting, distilling, rectifying, sterilising, pasteurising, steaming, drying, evaporating, vaporising, condensing or cooling, other than machinery or plant of a kind used for domestic purposes; instantaneous or storage water heaters, non-electric GIR 6 - has been used to classify the goods to subheading level 841989 - Other machinery, plant and equipment: Other than for making hot drinks or for cooking or heating food 8 Digit code 84198998 - Other than elsewhere specified within this heading Also classified in accordance with: Note 4 and 5 to Section XVI Harmonized System Explanatory Notes (HSEN) to heading 8419