Information for ruling 600014697
This section is Advance Tariff Ruling
- Start date
- 04 Mar 2026
- Expiry date
- 03 Mar 2029
- Commodity code
- 6909120000 (opens in new tab)
- Description
- The product is an alumina ceramic mechanical seal face and is one of the two seal faces in a mechanical seal assembly. Manufactured from pressed and sintered alumina ceramic powder, the seal face has a Mohs hardness value of 9, and can withstand temperatures above 1700ºC. Features a lapped sealing surface essential to mechanical seals performance. Each seal face is custom made to precise specifications and combined with other mechanical seal elements and intended solely for specific mechanical seals used in industrial rotary applications, to prevent leakage between rotating and stationary elements.
- Keywords
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- OF CERAMIC
- SEALS
- MECHANICAL
- CERAMICS
- FOR TECHNICAL USE
- PARTS
- ALUMINIUM OXIDES
- 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 6909 - Ceramic wares for laboratory, chemical or other technical uses; ceramic troughs, tubs and similar receptacles of a kind used in agriculture; ceramic pots, jars and similar articles of a kind used for the conveyance or packing of goods. GIR 6 - Has been used to classify the goods to subheading level - 6909 12 Ceramic wares for laboratory, chemical or other technical uses; other than of porcelain china; articles having a hardness equivalent to 9 or more on the mohs scale. Also classified in accordance with: Chapter Notes 1b to chapter 84. Harmonized System Explanatory Notes (HSEN's) General Notes (iv) to Chapter 69. Harmonized System Explanatory Notes (HSEN's) Sub-chapter 1 General notes (B) to heading 6901. Harmonized System Explanatory Notes (HSEN's) Notes (2) to heading 6909 and notes to subheading 6909.12.