Information for ruling 600014698
This section is Advance Tariff Ruling
- Start date
- 23 Apr 2026
- Expiry date
- 22 Apr 2029
- Commodity code
- 7326909290 (opens in new tab)
- Description
- The product is a stainless steel mechanical seal face and is one of the two seal faces in a mechanical seal assembly. The stainless steel seal faces are machined from commercially available steel alloys using CNC or manual machining processes and undergo electropolishing. The seal is open - die forged and each seal face is custom made to precise specifications and combined with other mechanical seal elements and used solely for specific mechanical seals in industrial rotary applications, to prevent leakage between rotating and stationary elements.
- Keywords
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- OF BASE METALS
- AS ROUND FORM
- RINGS, FORMS
- SEALS
- OF STAINLESS STEEL
- ALLOY STEELS
- OF OPEN-DIE FORGED STEEL
- 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 (GIRs): GIR 1 - Has been used to classify this product by the terms of heading 7326 - Other articles of iron or steel. GIR 6 - Has been used to classify the goods to subheading level 732690 - Other than forged or stamped, but not further worked; other than articles of iron or steel wire. 8 Digit Code 73269092 - Other articles of iron or steel; open-die forged. 10 Digit Code 7326909290 - Other than elsewhere specified. Also classified in accordance with: Section notes 3 to section XV. Harmonised System Explanatory Notes (HSENs) to Heading 7326. Harmonized System Explanatory Notes (HSEN's) notes parts to heading 8413.