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Information for ruling 600012166

This section is Advance Tariff Ruling

Start date
20 Jan 2025
Expiry date
19 Jan 2028
Description
A low profile miniaturised acoustic array suitable for low speed towed or static applications. It has a high-sensitivity wideband hydrophone with an integrated low-noise pre-amplifier. Each microneedle array (MNAS) provides bearing, temperature, pitch and depth. It has an easy digital configuration, allows up to 8 MNAS to be installed, providing more accurate metadata. There is a miniature data acquisition system embedded in the connector. It can be integrated into a range of sensor systems. It digitises up to 32 acoustic channels and 8 non-acoustic channels on a single ethernet data interface. It has a wide input voltage and low power consumption. It is configured to customer requirement.
Keywords
  • DIGITAL
  • FOR MEASURING SOUND
  • FOR ANALYSIS
  • SENSORS
  • HYDROPHONES
  • WITH ETHERNET INTERFACE
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 9027 - Instruments and apparatus for physical or chemical analysis (for example, polarimeters, refractometers, spectrometers, gas or smoke analysis apparatus); instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking viscosity, porosity, expansion, surface tension or the like; instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking quantities of heat, sound or light (including exposure meters); microtomes. GIR 6 - has been used to classify the goods to subheading level 902789 - Other instruments and apparatus, Other than Mass spectrometers. Code 90278990 - Other than elsewhere specified. Also classified in accordance with: Harmonised system explanatory notes (HSENs) to 9027 refers