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Information for ruling 600014288

This section is Advance Tariff Ruling

Start date
09 Dec 2025
Expiry date
08 Dec 2028
Description
The item is a circuit card assembly, part of Sonar 2008 Underwater Telephone. It consists of a printed circuit board with components soldered on the surface. The components include resistors, capacitors, transistors, diodes, integrated circuits and connectors. The circuit card assembly is part of the transmission signal chain for the Sonar 2008 Underwater Telephone. The circuit card assembly is located within the Acoustic Link Control Unit (ALCU) of the 2008 Sonar. It controls and processes which types of signal are being transmitted and applies pre-amplification to certain types of signal. It is placed in an Electro-static (ESD) safe bag, wrapped in ESD bubble-wrap and then boxed in trade packaging.
Keywords
  • UNDERWATER
  • DATA COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT
  • PRINTED CIRCUITS
  • CONNECTORS
  • RESISTORS
  • PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS
  • INTEGRATED CIRCUITS
  • TRANSISTORS
  • DIODES
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 8543 - Electrical machines and apparatus, having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter GIR 5 (b) - Has been used to identify the type of packaging GIR 6 - Has been used to classify the goods to subheading level 8543 70 - Other machines and apparatus 8 Digit code 854370 90 - Other than elsewhere specified in this subheading 10 Digit code 85437090 99 - Other than elsewhere specified in this subheading