Information for ruling 600012356
This section is Advance Tariff Ruling
- Start date
- 06 Feb 2025
- Expiry date
- 05 Feb 2028
- Commodity code
- 8517620000 (opens in new tab)
- Description
- L-Band Frequency Converter (Applique) Electronic components and circuit boards in a Billet casing. The Frequency Converter forms part of a telecommunications system which allows in-service government and military radios to operate over commercial L-Band satellites. The system provides voice and data connectivity to radio networks. The telecommunications system comprises of a frequency converter (Applique), an antenna, cabling and a power source connection. The L-Band Frequency Converter converts UHF and VHF radio frequencies to L-Band frequency, and back to UHF/VHF. Connectors: DC Power: LEMO, RF Input: TNC and RF Output: TNC. Electro-mechanical assembly. Electronic components and circuit boards in a Billet casing. Packaged in disposable cardboard box with foam inserts.
- Keywords
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- FOR RECEPTION VIA SATELLITE
- FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS
- FOR TRANSMISSION VIA SATELLITE
- FREQUENCY CONVERTERS
- 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 (GIRs): GIR 1 has been used to classify this product by the terms of heading 8517 - Telephone sets, including smartphones and other telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks; other apparatus for the transmission or reception of voice, images or other data, including apparatus for communication in a wired or wireless network (such as a local or wide area network), other than transmission or reception apparatus of heading 8443, 8525, 8527 or 8528 GIR 5 (b) - has been used to identify the type of packaging. GIR 6 has been used to classify the goods to sub-heading – 851762 - Machines for the reception, conversion and transmission or regeneration of voice, images or other data, including switching and routing apparatus Also classified in accordance with: Harmonised Standard Explanatory Notes (HSENs) 8517 (II) (G)