Chapter 85: Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof;...

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1. 1. This Chapter does not cover: • (a) Electrically warmed blankets, bed pads, foot-muffs or the like; electrically warmed clothing, footwear or ear pads or other electrically warmed articles worn on or about the person; • (b) Articles of glass of heading 70.11; • (c) Machines and apparatus of heading 84.86; • (d) Vacuum apparatus of a kind used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences (heading 90.18); or • (e) Electrically heated furniture of Chapter 94.

2. 2. Headings 85.01 to 85.04 do not apply to goods described in heading 85.11, 85.12, 85.40, 85.41 or 85.42. However, metal tank mercury arc rectifiers remain classified in heading 85.04.

3. 3. For the purposes of heading 85.07, the expression "electric accumulators" includes those presented with ancillary components which contribute to the accumulator's function of storing and supplying energy or protect it from damage, such as electrical connectors, temperature control devices (for example, thermistors) and circuit protection devices. They may also include a portion of the protective housing of the goods in which they are to be used.

4. 4. Heading 85.09 covers only the following electro-mechanical machines of the kind commonly used for domestic purposes: • (a) Floor polishers, food grinders and mixers, and fruit or vegetable juice extractors, of any weight; • (b) Other machines provided the weight of such machines does not exceed 20 kg. The heading does not, however, apply to fans or ventilating or recycling hoods incorporating a fan, whether or not fitted with filters (heading 84.14), centrifugal clothes-dryers,...

5. 5. For the purposes of heading 85.17, the term “smartphones” means telephones for cellular networks, equipped with a mobile operating system designed to perform the functions of an automatic data processing machine such as downloading and running multiple applications simultaneously, including third-party applications, and whether or not integrating other features such as digital cameras and navigational aid systems.

6. 6. For the purposes of heading 85.23: • (a) “Solid-state non-volatile storage devices” (for example, “flash memory cards” or “flash electronic storage cards”) are storage devices with a connecting socket, comprising in the same housing one or more flash memories (for example, "FLASH E2 PROM") in the form of integrated circuits mounted on a printed circuit board. They may include a controller in the form of an integrated circuit and discrete passive components such as capacitors and...

7. 7. For the purposes of heading 85.24, “flat panel display modules” refer to devices or apparatus for the display of information, equipped at a minimum with a display screen, which are designed to be incorporated into articles of other headings prior to use. Display screens for flat panel display modules include, but are not limited to, those which are flat, curved, flexible, foldable or stretchable in form. Flat panel display modules may incorporate additional elements, including those...

8. 8. For the purpose of heading 85.34 “printed circuits” are circuits obtained by forming on an insulating base, by any printing process (for example, embossing, plating-up, etching) or by the “film circuit” technique, conductor elements, contacts or other printed components (for example, inductances, resistors, capacitors) alone or interconnected according to a pre-established pattern, other than elements which can produce, rectify, modulate or amplify an electrical signal (for example,...

9. 9. For the purpose of heading 85.36, “connectors for optical fibres, optical fibre bundles or cables” means connectors that simply mechanically align optical fibres end to end in a digital line system. They perform no other function, such as the amplification, regeneration or modification of a signal.

10. 10. Heading 85.37 does not include cordless infrared devices for the remote control of television receivers or other electrical equipment (heading 85.43).

11. 11. For the purposes of heading 85.39, the expression “light-emitting diode (LED) light sources” covers: • (a) “Light-emitting diode (LED) modules” which are electrical light sources based on light-emitting diodes (LED) arranged in electrical circuits and containing further elements like electrical, mechanical, thermal or optical elements. They also contain discrete active elements, discrete passive elements, or articles of heading 85.36 or 85.42 for the purposes of providing power supply or...

12. 12. For the purpose of headings 85.41 and 85.42: (a)(i)“Semiconductor devices” are semiconductor devices the operation of which depends on variations in resistivity on the application of an electric field or semiconductor-based transducers. Semiconductor devices may also include assembly of plural elements, whether or not equipped with active and passive device ancillary functions. “Semiconductor-based transducers” are, for the purposes of this definition, semiconductor-based sensors,...

13. 1. “Components” may be discrete, manufactured independently then assembled onto the rest of the MCO, or integrated into other components.

14. 2. “Silicon based” means built on a silicon substrate, or made of silicon materials, or manufactured onto integrated circuit die.

15. 3. (a) “Silicon-based sensors” consist of microelectronic or mechanical structures that are created in the mass or on the surface of a semiconductor and that have the function of detecting physical or chemical phenomena and transducing these into electric signals, caused by resulting variations in electric properties or displacement of a mechanical structure. “Physical or chemical phenomena” relates to phenomena, such as pressure, acoustic waves, acceleration, vibration, movement,...

8501

Electric motors and generators (excluding generating sets).

17 subheadings · 39 tariff items

8502

Electric generating sets and rotary converters.

7 subheadings · 9 tariff items

8503

Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of heading 85.01 or 85.02. - Stators and rotors of the machines of heading 85.01

1 subheadings · 8 tariff items

8504

Electrical transformers, static converters (for example, rectifiers) and inductors.

11 subheadings · 35 tariff items

8505

Electro-magnets; permanent magnets and articles intended to become permanent magnets after magnetization; electro-magnetic or permanent magnet chucks, clamps and similar holding devices; electro-magnetic couplings, clutches and brakes; electro-magnetic lifting heads.

4 subheadings · 5 tariff items

8506

Primary cells and primary batteries.

7 subheadings · 11 tariff items

8507

Electric accumulators, including separators therefor, whether or not rectangular (including square).

7 subheadings · 19 tariff items

8508

Vacuum cleaners.

4 subheadings · 4 tariff items

8509

Electro-mechanical domestic appliances, with self-contained electric motor, other than vacuum cleaners of heading 85.08.

3 subheadings · 10 tariff items

8510

Shavers, hair clippers and hair-removing appliances, with self-contained electric motor.

4 subheadings · 5 tariff items

8511

Electrical ignition or starting equipment of a kind used for spark-ignition or compression-ignition internal combustion engines (for example, ignition magnetos, magneto-dynamos, ignition coils, sparking plugs and glow plugs, starter motors); generators (for example, dynamos, alternators) and cut-outs of a kind used in conjunction with such engines.

7 subheadings · 10 tariff items

8512

Electrical lighting or signalling equipment (excluding articles of heading 85.39), windscreen wipers, defrosters and demisters, of a kind used for cycles or motor vehicles.

5 subheadings · 9 tariff items

8513

Portable electric lamps designed to function by their own source of energy (for example, dry batteries, accumulators, magnetos), other than lighting equipment of heading 85.12.

2 subheadings · 4 tariff items

8514

Industrial or laboratory electric furnaces and ovens (including those functioning by induction or dielectric loss); other industrial or laboratory equipment for the heat treatment of materials by induction or dielectric loss.

8 subheadings · 8 tariff items

8515

Electric (including electrically heated gas), laser or other light or photon beam, ultrasonic, electron beam, magnetic pulse or plasma arc soldering, brazing or welding machines and apparatus, whether or not capable of cutting; electric machines and apparatus for hot spraying of metals or cermets.

8 subheadings · 13 tariff items

8516

Electric instantaneous or storage water heaters and immersion heaters; electric space heating apparatus and soil heating apparatus; electro-thermic hair-dressing apparatus (for example, hair dryers, hair curlers, curling tong heaters) and hand dryers; electric smoothing irons; other electro-thermic appliances of a kind used for domestic purposes; electric heating resistors, other than those of heading 85.45.

14 subheadings · 45 tariff items

8517

Telephone sets, including smartphones and other telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks; other apparatus for the transmission or reception of voice, images or other data, including apparatus for communication in a wired or wireless network (such as a local or wide area network), other than transmission or reception apparatus of heading 84.43, 85.25, 85.27 or 85.28.

9 subheadings · 17 tariff items

8518

Microphones and stands therefor; loudspeakers, whether or not mounted in their enclosures; headphones and earphones, whether or not combined with a microphone, and sets consisting of a microphone and one or more loudspeakers; audio-frequency electric amplifiers; electric sound amplifier sets.

8 subheadings · 10 tariff items

8519

Sound recording or reproducing apparatus.

4 subheadings · 6 tariff items

8521

Video recording or reproducing apparatus, whether or not incorporating a video tuner.

2 subheadings · 3 tariff items

8522

Parts and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading 85.19 or 85.21.

2 subheadings · 3 tariff items

8523

Discs, tapes, solid-state non-volatile storage devices, "smart cards" and other media for the recording of sound or of other phenomena, whether or not recorded, including matrices and masters for the production of discs, but excluding products of Chapter 37.

8 subheadings · 13 tariff items

8524

Flat panel display modules, whether or not incorporating touch-sensitive screens.

6 subheadings · 18 tariff items

8525

Transmission apparatus for radio-broadcasting or television, whether or not incorporating reception apparatus or sound recording or reproducing apparatus; television cameras, digital cameras and video camera recorders.

6 subheadings · 10 tariff items

8526

Radar apparatus, radio navigational aid apparatus and radio remote control apparatus.

3 subheadings · 8 tariff items

8527

Reception apparatus for radio-broadcasting, whether or not combined, in the same housing, with sound recording or reproducing apparatus or a clock.

8 subheadings · 8 tariff items

8528

Monitors and projectors, not incorporating television reception apparatus; reception apparatus for television, whether or not incorporating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus.

9 subheadings · 32 tariff items

8529

Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of headings 85.24 to 85.28.

2 subheadings · 11 tariff items

8530

Electrical signalling, safety or traffic control equipment for railways, tramways, roads, inland waterways, parking facilities, port installations or airfields (other than those of heading 86.08).

3 subheadings · 5 tariff items

8531

Electric sound or visual signalling apparatus (for example, bells, sirens, indicator panels, burglar or fire alarms), other than those of heading 85.12 or 85.30.

4 subheadings · 10 tariff items

8532

Electrical capacitors, fixed, variable or adjustable (pre-set).

9 subheadings · 11 tariff items

8533

Electrical resistors (including rheostats and potentiometers), other than heating resistors.

7 subheadings · 8 tariff items

8534

Printed circuits.

1 subheadings · 5 tariff items

8535

Electrical apparatus for switching or protecting electrical circuits, or for making connections to or in electrical circuits (for example, switches, fuses, lightning arresters, voltage limiters, surge suppressors, plugs and other connectors, junction boxes), for a voltage exceeding 1,000 volts.

6 subheadings · 11 tariff items

8536

Electrical apparatus for switching or protecting electrical circuits, or for making connections to or in electrical circuits (for example, switches, relays, fuses, surge suppressors, plugs, sockets, lamp-holders and other connectors, junction boxes), for a voltage not exceeding 1,000 volts; connectors for optical fibres, optical fibre bundles or cables.

10 subheadings · 37 tariff items

8537

Boards, panels, consoles, desks, cabinets and other bases, equipped with two or more apparatus of heading 85.35 or 85.36, for electric control or the distribution of electricity, including those incorporating instruments or apparatus of Chapter 90, and numerical control apparatus, other than switching apparatus of heading 85.17.

2 subheadings · 18 tariff items

8538

Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading 85.35, 85.36 or 85.37.

2 subheadings · 9 tariff items

8539

Electric filament or discharge lamps, including sealed beam lamp units and ultra-violet or infra-red lamps; arc-lamps, light-emitting diode (LED) light sources.

12 subheadings · 29 tariff items

8540

Thermionic, cold cathode or photo-cathode valves and tubes (for example, vacuum or vapour or gas filled valves and tubes, mercury arc rectifying valves and tubes, cathode-ray tubes, television camera tubes).

11 subheadings · 20 tariff items

8541

Semiconductor devices (for example, diodes, transistors, semiconductor-based transducers); photosensitive semiconductor devices, including photovoltaic cells whether or not assembled in modules or made up into panels; light-emitting diodes (LED), whether or not assembled with other light-emitting diodes (LED); mounted piezo-electric crystals.

12 subheadings · 17 tariff items

8542

Electronic integrated circuits.

5 subheadings · 9 tariff items

8543

Electrical machines and apparatus, having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter.

6 subheadings · 7 tariff items

8544

Insulated (including enamelled or anodized) wire, cable (including co-axial cable) and other insulated electric conductors, whether or not fitted with connectors; optical fibre cables, made up of individually sheathed fibres, whether or not assembled with electric conductors or fitted with connectors.

8 subheadings · 16 tariff items

8545

Carbon electrodes, carbon brushes, lamp carbons, battery carbons and other articles of graphite or other carbon, with or without metal, of a kind used for electrical purposes.

4 subheadings · 6 tariff items

8546

Electrical insulators of any material.

3 subheadings · 5 tariff items

8547

Insulating fittings for electrical machines, appliances or equipment, being fittings wholly of insulating material apart from any minor components of metal (for example, threaded sockets) incorporated during moulding solely for purposes of assembly, other than insulators of heading 85.46; electrical conduit tubing and joints therefor, of base metal lined with insulating material.

3 subheadings · 6 tariff items

8548

Electrical parts of machinery or apparatus, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter.

1 subheadings · 1 tariff items

8549

Electrical and electronic waste and scrap.

11 subheadings · 11 tariff items

Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles

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