Information for ruling 600013737
This section is Advance Tariff Ruling
- Start date
- 03 Nov 2025
- Expiry date
- 02 Nov 2028
- Commodity code
- 8419200000 (opens in new tab)
- Description
- The product is a Biodecontamination unit. It is a low-temperature sterilisation system that uses Hydrogen Peroxide Sterilant under vacuum conditions. The chamber can hold up to 136 litres and is 4.8ft³. The chamber has shelving present to place contaminated instruments (metal and non metal) to be sterilised. The unit has three factory programmable cycles which can be activated using the built in touchscreen display (10.4-inch colour). It is used primarily in laboratory and industrial settings for instruments and devices sensitive to heat and moisture. There are no toxic by-products created, only water vapour and oxygen are produced. Dimensions - Height 1908mm, Width 838mm, Depth 973mm.
- Keywords
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- STERILIZERS
- HYDROGEN PEROXIDE
- FOR HEALTH USE
- FOR LABORATORY USE
- MEDICAL EQUIPMENT
- DECONTAMINATION APPARATUS
- 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 8419 - Machinery, plant or laboratory equipment, whether or not electrically heated (excluding furnaces, ovens and other equipment of heading 8514), for the treatment of materials by a process involving a change of temperature such as heating, cooking, roasting, distilling, rectifying, sterilising, pasteurising, steaming, drying, evaporating, vaporising, condensing or cooling, other than machinery or plant of a kind used for domestic purposes; instantaneous or storage water heaters, non-electric. GIR 6 - Has been used to classify this product by the terms of heading 8419 20 - Medical, surgical or laboratory sterilisers. Also Classified in Accordance with: Harmonized System Explanatory Note (HSENs) (Note VI) to Heading 8419 World Customs Organisation (WCO) opinions to Heading 851920 - Item 1