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Information for ruling 600011241

This section is Advance Tariff Ruling

Start date
09 Sep 2024
Expiry date
08 Sep 2027
Description
Adapter This item is used in a piece of equipment which is used to test smoke, heat and carbon monoxide alarms/detectors. The adapter forms an interface between the pole and a head unit. The aluminium tube is designed to fit over the pole with the plastic element extending into the pole and allowing fixture by means of a plastic button. An adapter made of plastic and aluminium. The adaptor is made from plastic which is the part that forms the junction with the head unit which passes through an aluminium tube. The adapter is individually packaged in a cardboard carton.
Keywords
  • ADAPTERS
  • FOR TESTING
  • OF ALUMINIUM
  • OF PLASTIC
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 7616: Other articles of aluminium GIR 3c has been used as it is considered there is no essential character and therefore has been classified to last in numerical order within the tariff. GIR 5(b) has been used to identify the type of packaging. GIR 6 has been used to classify the goods to subheading level 761699: Other than nails, tacks, staples (other than those of heading 8305), screws, bolts, nuts, screw hooks, rivets, cotters, cotter pins, washers and similar articles; Other than cloth, grill, netting and fencing, of aluminium wire 8 Digit code 76169990: Other than cast 10 Digit code 7616999099: Other than hand-made; Other than elsewhere specified; Other than aluminium radiators and elements or sections of which such radiator is composed, whether or not such elements are assembled in blocks Also classified in accordance with: Section Note 3 to Section XV Harmonized System Explanatory Note (HSEN's) to heading 76.16