Information for ruling 600011873
This section is Advance Tariff Ruling
- Start date
- 31 Jul 2025
- Expiry date
- 30 Jul 2028
- Commodity code
- 8537101090 (opens in new tab)
- Description
- The product is a flight control unit that controls the autopilot system on an aircraft using software that is programmable onto the unit using the appropriate test equipment (not part of this ATaR application). The unit appears as a black box containing switches on it’s exterior front panel. Flight control unit operates at under 1000v . The unit is an essential part of the autopilot system which cannot operate independently from this flight control unit.
- Keywords
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- FOR AUTOMATIC CONTROL
- FOR AIRCRAFT
- PROGRAMMABLE
- COMPUTERS
- INPUT UNITS
- INPUT AND OUTPUT INTERFACES
- 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 8537 - Boards, panels, consoles, desks, cabinets and other bases, equipped with two or more apparatus of heading 8535 or 8536, for electric control or the distribution of electricity, including those incorporating instruments or apparatus of chapter 90, and numerical control apparatus, other than switching apparatus of heading 8517. GIR 6 - has been used to classify the goods to subheading level 853710 - For a voltage not exceeding 1 000 v 8 Digit Code 85371010 - Numerical control panels with built-in automatic data-processing machine. 10 Digit Code 8537101090 - Other than for use in certain types of aircraft. Also classified in accordance with: Note 6 (E) to Chapter 84 Harmonised System Explanatory Notes (HSENs) to Heading 8537