Information for ruling 600010804
This section is Advance Tariff Ruling
- Start date
- 02 Aug 2024
- Expiry date
- 01 Aug 2027
- Commodity code
- 8479899790 (opens in new tab)
- Description
- An Underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) An unoccupied underwater robot that is connected to a vessel by a series of cables. These cables transmit command and control signals between the operator and the ROV, allowing remote navigation of the vehicle. The ROV is a submersible robot capable of operating at depths of up to 3,000m. It moves using thrusters activated by humans from a surface control system through a connection with electrical and fibre optic elements. The ROV is usually fed with electric power which it converts to hydraulic power through a Hydraulic Poser Unit fitted within its frame. Hydraulics then power the thrusters, manipulators and tooling to enable operations. Sensors are fed with electrical power through transformers fitted within the frame. A means of carrying out operations subsea without divers, by using cameras and mechanical manipulators on the ROV. The ROV feeds back its position through a variety of sensors, lights and cameras to the operator on a vessel or rig to enable it to perform survey, inspection and construction operations. Capable of carrying additional sensors (for survey operations) and manipulators (for manipulating valves on subsea structures). The use of manipulators installed on the ROV in order to operate subsea tooling to install items of subsea infrastructure, such as pipelines, XMTs, rigging and derigging. The ROV is used in the oil and gas industry. The frame is aluminium and the buoyancy is a syntactic material.
- Keywords
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- REMOTE OPERATED
- UNDERWATER
- ROBOTS
- UNDERWATER CAMERAS
- USED IN CONSTRUCTION
- WITH CAMERA
- SURVEYING EQUIPMENT
- SUBMERSIBLE
- 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)). GIR 1 has been used to classify this product by the terms of heading 8479: Machines and mechanical appliances having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter GIR 3b has been used as the principal function is the ROV equipment which is considered to be the essential character. GIR 6 has been used to classify the goods to subheading level 847989: Other machines and mechanical appliances; Other than Other than elsewhere specified within this subheading 8 Digit code 84798997: Other than elsewhere specified within this subheading 10 Digit code 8479899790: Other than elsewhere specified Also classified in accordance with: Harmonized System Explanatory Note (HSEN's) to heading 84.79