Information for ruling 600013117
This section is Advance Tariff Ruling
- Start date
- 29 May 2025
- Expiry date
- 28 May 2028
- Commodity code
- 9019109000 (opens in new tab)
- Description
- A massage ball. A small lightweight black plastic ball with a knobbly/bobbly surface. Designed as a self-massage ball after sports activity. The item fits the foot arch, back and calf muscles. Can also be used on the floor for feet, legs or against the wall for the back. Used to alleviate muscle tightness, knots, and trigger points in hard-to-reach areas.
- Keywords
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- BALLS
- FOR MASSAGE
- 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)) General interpretative rules (GIR)s: GIR 1 has been used to classify this product by the terms of heading 9019 - Mechano-therapy appliances; massage apparatus; psychological aptitude-testing apparatus; ozone therapy, oxygen therapy, aerosol therapy, artificial respiration or other therapeutic respiration apparatus. GIR 6 Has been used to classify the goods to subheading level 901910 - Mechano-therapy appliances; massage apparatus; psychological aptitude-testing apparatus. 8 Digit Code 90191090 - Other than electrical vibratory-massage apparatus. Also classified in accordance with: Harmonised System Explanatory Notes (HSENs) to heading 9019 Note (II)