&&The pump down switch, a 1/2 HP float switch (contacts are normally open) is used for emptying in high level alarm applications, and the pump up switch, a 1/2 HP Float...

HS 9032.89.00.23

C-2014-007890

&&The three thermostats in this request are Signature, Home, and Element. The Signature thermostat is a WiFi enabled floor heating thermostat. Its functions include,...

HS 9032.10.10.00

Explanatory Notes

The 1/2 HP float switches, both pump down and up, meet the terms of heading 90.32 which provides for automatic regulating or controlling instruments and apparatus. Guidance is provided by the Explanatory Notes to that heading, which state, in relevant part: “In accordance with Note 7 to the Chapter, this heading covers in part; (A) Instruments and apparatus for automatically controlling the...

Source: advance_ruling (C-2015-012066)

&&Section 10 of the Customs Tariff directs that classification of imported goods shall be determined in accordance with the General Rules for the Interpretation of the Harmonized System. Section 11 of the Customs Tariff states that in interpreting the headings and subheadings, regard shall be had to the World Customs Organization's (WCO) Explanatory Notes to the Harmonized Commodity...

Source: advance_ruling (C-2014-007890)

Chapter 90 Notes (7)

1. 1. This Chapter does not cover: • (a) Articles of a kind used in machines, appliances or for other technical uses, of vulcanised rubber other than hard rubber (heading 40.16), of leather or of composition leather (heading 42.05) or of textile material (heading 59.11); • (b) Supporting belts or other support articles of textile material, whose intended effect on the organ to be supported or held derives solely from their elasticity (for example, maternity belts, thoracic support ...

2. 2. Subject to Note 1 above, parts and accessories for machines, apparatus, instruments or articles of this Chapter are to be classified according to the following rules: • (a) Parts and accessories which are goods included in any of the headings of this Chapter or of Chapter 84, 85 or 91 (other than heading 84.87, 85.48 or 90.33) are in all cases to be classified in their respective headings; • (b) Other parts and accessories, if suitable for use solely or principally with a particular...

3. 3. The provisions of Notes 3 and 4 to Section XVI apply also to this Chapter.

4. 4. Heading 90.05 does not apply to telescopic sights for fitting to arms, periscopic telescopes for fitting to submarines or tanks, or to telescopes for machines, appliances, instruments or apparatus of this Chapter or Section XVI; such telescopic sights and telescopes are to be classified in heading 90.13.

5. 5. Measuring or checking optical instruments, appliances or machines which, but for this Note, could be classified both in heading 90.13 and in heading 90.31 are to be classified in heading 90.31.

6. 6. For the purposes of heading 90.21, the expression "orthopaedic appliances" means appliances for: • Preventing or correcting bodily deformities; or • Supporting or holding parts of the body following an illness, operation or injury. Orthopaedic appliances include footwear and special insoles designed to correct orthopaedic conditions, provided that they are either (1) made to measure or (2) mass-produced, presented singly and not in pairs and designed to fit either foot equally.

7. 7. Heading 90.32 applies only to: • (a) Instruments and apparatus for automatically controlling the flow, level, pressure or other variables of liquids or gases, or for automatically controlling temperature, whether or not their operation depends on an electrical phenomenon which varies according to the factor to be automatically controlled, which are designed to bring this factor to, and maintain it at, a desired value, stabilised against disturbances, by constantly or periodically...

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