Information for ruling 600014069
This section is Advance Tariff Ruling
- Start date
- 29 Sep 2025
- Expiry date
- 28 Sep 2028
- Commodity code
- 7013990090 (opens in new tab)
- Description
- The product is a vivarium to house reptiles, as a closed in environment to live in. The vivarium is made from a sheet glass of approx. 2-4 mm in thickness forming a glass box, three sides of the glass box are static the fourth side is usually for a pair of glass doors. This box would then have a plastic hood housing a light and heat source which could be an LED light and a specialist UV lamp. Sheet glass panes are glued together with silicon along the edges to form a glass box which is called an vivarium with a glass door on the forth side, a plastic hood is then placed on top of the vivarium which is separate and removable from the vivarium to house any light source. The vivarium will have a light source and heat source to emit both light and specific UV spectrum to ensure the reptile can live. Decorations can be added for the benefit of the reptile. The doors are used to access the vivarium to maintain the reptiles’ requirements for food, water, and other items. It is normally, but not exclusively, packaged in a consumer-friendly box as a kit for the hobbyist.
- Keywords
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- REPTILES
- FOR INDOOOR USE
- OF GLASS
- PUT UP FOR RETAIL SALE
- TANKS, CONTAINERS
- 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 7013 - Glassware of a kind used for table, kitchen, toilet, office, indoor decoration or similar purposes (other than that of heading 7010 or 7018). GIR 3b - has been used as the glass is considered to be the essential character. GIR 5b - has been used to identify the type of packaging a cardboard box. GIR 6 - has been used to classify the goods to subheading level 701399 - Other glassware; Other than of lead crystal. 10 digit code 7013990090 - Other than gathered by hand. Also classified in accordance with: Harmonized System Explanatory Notes (HSEN) to heading 7013 - Note (4).