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Information for ruling 600011044

This section is Advance Tariff Ruling

Start date
09 Aug 2024
Expiry date
08 Aug 2027
Description
Handheld gardening trowel to dig up soil. It has an Ash wooden handle and stainless steel trowel with a thin leather strap tied to the handle. Packaged on cardboard backing and a plastic blister cover.
Keywords
  • OF BASE METALS
  • HAND TOOLS
  • OF WOOD
  • OF STAINLESS STEEL
  • GARDEN TOOLS
  • TROWELS
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 8201 - Hand tools, the following: spades, shovels, mattocks, picks, hoes, forks and rakes; axes, billhooks and similar hewing tools; secateurs and pruners of any kind; scythes, sickles, hay knives, hedge shears, timber wedges and other tools of a kind used in agriculture, horticulture or forestry. GIR 5 (b) - has been used to identify the type of packaging - cardboard backing and a plastic blister cover. GIR 6 has been used to classify the goods to subheading level 820190 - Other hand tools of a kind used in agriculture, horticulture or forestry. Also classified in accordance with: Section Note 3 to Section XV Chapter Notes 1a to Chapter 82 Harmonized System Explanatory Notes (HSENs) Notes 7 to heading 8201