Information for ruling 600013848
This section is Advance Tariff Ruling
- Start date
- 12 Dec 2025
- Expiry date
- 11 Dec 2028
- Commodity code
- 9705100048 (opens in new tab)
- Description
- A fedora hat. The hat was worn by the Indiana Jones character played by Harrison Ford in the classic film Raiders of the Lost Ark. The hat was created by Herbert Johnson Hat Company and was designed by costume designer Deborah Nadoolman, who worked with Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. The hat is made of rabbit felt, with a dark brown ribbon and a leather sweatband. It is imprinted with the Herbert Johnson Hat Company name. The prop was provided new but was distressed to age it to achieve a worn look for filming.
- Keywords
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- AS COLLECTORS ITEM
- HATS
- OF FELT
- OF HISTORIC INTEREST
- 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 9705 - Collections and collectors’ pieces of archaeological, ethnographic, historical, zoological, botanical, mineralogical, anatomical, paleontological or numismatic interest. GIR 6 has been used to classify the goods to subheading level 970510 - Collections and collectors’ pieces of archaeological, ethnographic or historical interest. Ten digit code 9705100048 - Property relating to history, including the history of science and technology and military and social history, to the life of national leaders, thinkers, scientists and artists and to events of national importance; other than more than 200 years old; other than collectors’ pieces of wood and collections and collectors’ items of animal origin. Also classified in accordance with: Harmonised System Explanatory Notes (HSENs) A(3) to Heading 9705.