1.- A hull, an unfinished or incomplete vessel, assembled, unassembled or dismantled, or a complete unassembled or dismantled vessel, shall be classified in heading 89.06 if it does not have the essential character of a vessel of a certain type. Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; their parts and accessories Chapter Notes. 4.- Head 90.05 does not apply to telescopic sights for mounting weapons, periscopic telescopes for mounting submarines or tanks, or telescopes for machinery, equipment, instruments or apparatus of this Chapter or Section XVI; such telescopic sights and telescopes are to be classified in heading 90.13.
5.- Optical measuring or checking instruments, apparatus or machines which, without this note, could be classified in either heading 90.13 or 90.31 are to be classified in heading 90.31. Orthopedic devices include footwear and specialty insoles designed to correct orthopedic conditions, provided that they are (1) custom-made or (2) mass-produced, offered individually and not in pairs, and designed to accommodate both feet to fit equally. a) Instruments and apparatus for automatically regulating the flow, level, pressure or other variables of liquids or gases, or for automatically regulating temperature, whether or not their operation is dependent on an electrical phenomenon varying according to the factor to be controlled automatically; designed to bring and maintain this factor at a desired value, stabilized against disturbances, by constantly or periodically measuring its actual value; And.
Binoculars, monoculars, other optical telescopes, and mountings therefor; other astronomical instruments and mountings
Cinematographic cameras and projectors, whether or not incorporating sound recording or reproducing apparatus
Image projectors, other than cinematographic; photographic (other than cinematographic) enlargers and reducers
Apparatus and equipment for photographic (including cinematographic) laboratories, not specified or included
Microscopes other than optical microscopes; diffraction apparatus
Liquid crystal devices not constituting articles provided for more specifically in other headings; lasers, other than laser
Direction finding compasses; other navigational instruments and appliances
Of instruments and apparatus that incorporate or cooperate with an automatic data processing of a kind used.
Drawing, marking-out or mathematical calculating instruments (for example, drafting machines, pantographs, protractors,
A mathematical instrument commonly used in school, in sets containing not more than one protractor, one square, one hexagon, one divider, one ruler not exceeding 15 mm in. Parts and accessories of apparatus for projecting or drawing circuit patterns onto sensitive substrates for production.
Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other
Orthopaedic appliances, including crutches, surgical belts and trusses; splints and other fracture appliances; artificial parts of
Apparatus based on the use of X-rays or of alpha, beta or gamma radiations, whether or not for medical, surgical, dental
Machines and appliances for testing the hardness, strength, compressibility, elasticity or other mechanical properties of
Hydrometers and similar floating instruments, thermometers, pyrometers, barometers, hygrometers and psychrometers,
Instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking the flow, level, pressure or other variables of liquids or gases (for
Instruments and apparatus for physical or chemical analysis (for example, polarimeters, refractometers, spectrometers, gas
Gas, liquid or electricity supply or production meters, including calibrating meters therefor
Revolution counters, production counters, taximeters, mileometers, pedometers and the like; speed indicators and
Oscilloscopes, spectrum analysers and other instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking electrical quantities,
Instruments and apparatus, with a recording device, for measuring or checking electrical quantities on PCBs/PWBs and. Instruments and apparatus, without recording equipment, for measuring or checking electrical quantities on PCBs/PWBs and sand.
Measuring or checking instruments, appliances and machines, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter; profile
Automatic regulating or controlling instruments and apparatus
Parts and accessories (not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter) for machines, appliances, instruments or apparatus of
2.- Heading 91.01 includes only watches with cases entirely of precious metals or of metal coated with precious metals, or of the same materials combined with natural or cultured pearls, or precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed) of headings 71.01 to 71.04. 3. For the purposes of this Chapter, the term "watches" means apparatus controlled by a balance wheel and a spring, quartz crystal or by any other system capable of determining time intervals, having a display or a system incorporating a mechanical display can be built in. Such timepieces may not exceed 12 mm in thickness and 50 mm in width, length or diameter.
4. Except as otherwise provided in note 1, clock movements and other parts suitable for use both in clocks and watches and in other articles (for example, precision instruments) are to be classified in this Chapter.
Wrist-watches, pocket-watches and other watches, including stop-watches, with case of precious metal or of metal clad with
Clocks with watch movements, excluding clocks of heading 91.04
Instrument panel clocks and clocks of a similar type for vehicles, aircraft, spacecraft or vessels
Other clock
Time of day recording apparatus and apparatus for measuring, recording or otherwise indicating intervals of time, with clock or
Watch movements, complete and assembled
Clock movements, complete and assembled
Complete watch or clock movements, unassembled or partly assembled (movement sets); incomplete watch or clock
Watch cases and parts thereof
Clock cases and cases of a similar type for other goods of this Chapter, and parts thereof
Watch straps, watch bands and watch bracelets, and parts thereof
Other clock or watch parts
2. Bows and sticks and similar devices used to play musical instruments belonging to heading 92.02 or 92.06, and which are present with such instruments in numbers normal thereto, and which are clearly intended to be used therewith, are to be classified in the same heading as the associated instruments. Maps, disks and rolls belonging to pos. 92.09 present with an instrument shall be treated as separate items and not as part of such instrument.
Pianos, including automatic pianos; harpsichords and other keyboard stringed instruments
Other string musical instruments (for example, guitars, violins, harps)
Other wind musical instruments (for example, clarinets, trumpets, bagpipes)
Musical instruments, the sound of which is produced, or must be amplified, electrically (for example, organs, guitars,
Musical boxes, fairground organs, mechanical street organs, mechanical singing birds, musical saws and other musical
Parts (for example, mechanisms for musical boxes) and accessories (for example, cards, discs and rolls for mechanical
Military weapons, other than revolvers, pistols and the arms of heading 93.07
Other firearms and similar devices which operate by the the firing of an explosive charge (for example, sporting shotguns and
Other arms (for example, spring, air or gas guns and pistols, truncheons), excluding those of heading 93.07
Parts and accessories of articles of headings 93.01 to 93.04
Bombs, grenades, torpedoes, mines, missiles, and similar munitions of war and parts thereof; cartridges and other
2.- Those in pos. Goods mentioned in 94.01 to 94.03 (other than parts) are to be classified in these headings only if they are intended to be placed on the floor or ground. However, the following must be rated in the above positions, even if they are intended to hang, be attached to the wall or stand on top of each other:. 3.- (A) In pos. 94.01 to 94.03 references to parts of goods do not include references to plates or sheets (whether or not cut to shape but not combined with other parts) of glass (including mirrors), marble or other stone or of any other material referred to in Chapter 68 or 69.
4.- For the purposes of heading 94.06, the expression "prefabricated buildings" means buildings which are finished in the factory or placed as elements, presented together, to be assembled on site, such as accommodation or workplace , offices, schools, shops, sheds, garages or similar buildings.
Medical, surgical, dental or veterinary furniture (for example, operating tables, examination tables, hospital beds with
Other furniture and parts thereof
Mattress supports; articles of bedding and similar furnishing (for example, mattresses, quilts, eiderdowns, cushions, pouffes
Lamps and lighting fittings including searchlights and spotlights and parts thereof, not elsewhere specified or
2.- This chapter covers products containing natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed), precious metals or metals plated with precious metals, only to a lesser extent. 3.- Subject to note 1 above, parts and accessories suitable for use exclusively or mainly with products from this chapter must be classified together with these products. 4.- In accordance with the provisions of Note 1 above, heading 95.03 refers, inter alia, to products of this heading combined with one or more articles which cannot be considered sets within the meaning of General Interpretative Rule 3(b), and which would, if presented separately, be classified under other headings, provided that the articles are put up together for retail sale and that the combinations have the essential character of toys.
5.- Pos. 95.03 does not include articles which, due to their design, shape or material, can be identified as exclusively intended for animals, e.g. "pet toys" (tariffing in their own appropriate position). Numerical, alphabetic or animal blocks or carvings; word builder set; word formation and speech kits; toy printing set; toy.
Articles for funfair, table or parlour games, including pintables, billiards, special tables for casino games and automatic bowling
Festive, carnival or other entertainment articles, including conjuring tricks and novelty jokes
Articles and equipment for general physical exercise, gymnastics, athletics, other sports (including table-tennis) or
Fishing rods, fish-hooks and other line fishing tackle; fish landing nets, butterfly nets and similar nets; decoy “birds”
Roundabouts, swings, shooting galleries and other fairground amusements; travelling circuses and travelling menageries;
3.- In tariff number 96.03, the term "prepared knots and tufts for the manufacture of brooms or brushes" refers only to unassembled knots and tufts made of animal hair, vegetable fibers or other material, which are ready for installation without being divided into brooms or brushes, or which require only further minor operations such as trimming to form the top to be ready for such installation. 4.- Products of this chapter, other than those of tariff headings 96.01 to 96.06 or 96.15, continue to be classified in this chapter, whether or not they consist in whole or in part of precious metal or metal clad with precious metal, of natural or cultured pearls or precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed). However, headings 96.01 to 96.06 and 96.15 include articles containing natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed), precious metals or metals clad with precious metals only to a lesser extent.
Worked vegetable or mineral carving material and articles of these materials; moulded or carved articles of wax, of stearin, of
Brooms, brushes (including brushes constituting parts of machines, appliances or vehicles), hand-operated mechanical
Toothbrushes, shaving brushes, hair brushes, nail brushes, eyelash brushes and other toilet brushes for personal use, including such brushes forming parts of appliances:.
Hand sieves and hand riddles
Travel sets for personal toilet, sewing or shoe or clothes cleaning
Slide fasteners and parts thereof
Ball point pens; felt tipped and other porous-tipped pens and markers; fountain pens, stylograph pens and other pens;
Pencils (other than pencils of heading 96.08), crayons, pencil leads, pastels, drawing charcoals, writing or drawing chalks and
Slates and boards, with writing or drawing surfaces, whether or not framed
Typewriter or similar ribbons, inked or otherwise prepared for giving impressions, whether or not on spools or in cartridges;
Cigarette lighters and other lighters, whether or not mechanical or electrical, and parts thereof other than flints and
Smoking pipes (including pipe bowls) and cigar or cigarette holders, and parts thereof
Scent sprays and similar toilet sprays, and mounts and heads therefor; powder-puffs and pads for the application of cosmetics
Vacuum flasks and other vacuum vessels, complete with cases;
2.- For the purposes of heading 97.02, the expression "original engravings, prints and lithographs" means prints made directly in black and white or color from one or more plates, executed entirely by hand by the artist, regardless of the process or of the material used by him, with the exception of any mechanical or photomechanical process. 3.- Heading 97.03 does not apply to mass-produced reproductions or works of conventional craftsmanship of a commercial character, even if such articles are designed or created by artists. 4.- (A) Subject to notes 1 to 3 above, the articles of this Chapter are to be classified in this Chapter and not in any other Chapter of the Nomenclature. B) Heading 97.06 does not apply to articles of the preceding headings of this Chapter.
5.- Frames surrounding paintings, drawings, pastels, collages or similar decorative plates, engravings, prints or lithographs must be classified with these articles, provided that they are of a type and value normal for those articles. Frames that are not of a type or value normal to the items referred to in this note should be classified separately.
Paintings, drawings and pastels, executed entirely by hand, other than drawings of heading 49.06 and other than
Postage or revenue stamps, stamp postmarks, first day covers, postal stationery (stamped paper), and the like, used or unused,
