Information for ruling 600012993
This section is Advance Tariff Ruling
- Start date
- 12 Aug 2025
- Expiry date
- 11 Aug 2028
- Commodity code
- 8436801000 (opens in new tab)
- Description
- The product is a tractor mounted machine for use when harvesting Christmas trees. The base of the tree is fed into the machinery where it is then milled and/or dowelled to enable it to be fitted into a stand or clamp. The machinery itself utilises hydraulics and is powered via the power take-off facility of the tractor. It is supplied with a 50mm cutting head. Weight is 65KG
- Keywords
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- CHRISTMAS TREES
- FOR CUTTING
- AGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENT
- FOR TRACTORS
- FORESTRY MACHINERY
- 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 8436 - Other agricultural, horticultural, forestry, poultry-keeping or bee-keeping machinery, including germination plant fitted with mechanical or thermal equipment; poultry incubators and brooders GIR 6 has been used to classify the goods to sub-heading 8436 80 – Other machinery Code to 8 digits - 8436 8010 – Forestry machinery Also classified in accordance with :- Harmonised Standard Explanatory Notes (HSENs) to heading – 8436 Part (I) note (H)