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Information for ruling 600015767
This section is Advance Tariff Ruling
- Start date
- 19 Jun 2026
- Expiry date
- 18 Jun 2029
- Commodity code
- 9401710000 (opens in new tab)
- Description
- A riser recliner chair with a metal frame, wooden parts and a fabric upholstery, designed to assist elderly or disabled users by providing reclining and powered lift functionality to help the user sit down and rise safely. The chair incorporates a USB port in the armrest; however, this is an ancillary convenience feature and does not alter the essential character of the article as an upholstered seat with a metal frame. what the chair has: Simple hand control / remote, with two buttons and contrast symbols/colours. USB port / USB charger for charging a phone or tablet. Lockable swivel function. Base/socket plate for stability during rising from the chair. Adjustable lift type — supplied with angled lift, but can be adjusted to straight lift. Height-adjustable chair, adjustable upper back, adjustable seat width, lowerable armrests and depth-adjustable seat. The chair is to be placed on the floor
- Keywords
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- WITH ELECTRIC MOTOR
- OF WOOD
- FABRIC
- MECHANICAL
- UPHOLSTERED
- OF METAL
- REMOTE CONTROL
- CHAIRS
- RECLINERS
- 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 9401 - seats (other than those of heading 94.02), whether convertible into beds, and parts thereof. GIR 6 - Has been used to classify to subheading level 940171 - other seats with metal frames - upholstered. Also classified in accordance with: Chapter 94 Note 2. Harmonised System Explanatory Notes (HSEN) heading 9402 note (B). Harmonised System Explanatory Notes (HSEN) heading 9401.