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Section XVIII

OPTICAL, PHOTOGRAPHIC, CINEMATOGRAPHIC, MEASURING, CHECKING, PRECISION, MEDICAL OR SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS AND APPARATUS; CLOCKS AND WATCHES; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; PARTS AND ACCESSORIES THEREOF

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Chapter 90

Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof

Notes.

1.‑  This Chapter does not coverĀ :

Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  (a)Ā Ā Ā  Articles of a kind used in machines, appliances or for other technical uses, of vulcanised rubber other than hard rubber (headingĀ 40.16), of leather or of composition leather (headingĀ 42.05) or of textile material (headingĀ 59.11);

Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  (b)Ā Ā Ā  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 bandages, abdominal support bandages, supports for joints or muscles) (SectionĀ XI);

Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  (c)Ā Ā Ā  Refractory goods of headingĀ 69.03; ceramic wares for laboratory, chemical or other technical uses, of headingĀ 69.09;

Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  (d)Ā Ā Ā  Glass mirrors, not optically worked, of headingĀ 70.09, or mirrors of base metal or of precious metal, not being optical elements (headingĀ 83.06 or ChapterĀ 71);

Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  (e)Ā Ā Ā  Goods of headingĀ 70.07, 70.08, 70.11, 70.14, 70.15 or 70.17;

Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  (f)Ā Ā Ā Ā  Parts of general use, as defined in NoteĀ 2 to SectionĀ XV, of base metal (SectionĀ XV) or similar goods of plastics (ChapterĀ 39);

Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  (g)Ā Ā Ā  Pumps incorporating measuring devices, of headingĀ 84.13; weight‑operated counting or checking machinery, or separately presented weights for balances (headingĀ 84.23); lifting or handling machinery (headings 84.25 to 84.28); paper or paperboard cutting machines of all kinds (headingĀ 84.41); fittings for adjusting work or tools on machine-tools or water-jet cutting machines, of headingĀ 84.66, including fittings with optical devices for reading the scale (for example, ā€œopticalā€ dividing heads) but not those which are in themselves essentially optical instruments (for example, alignment telescopes); calculating machines (headingĀ 84.70); valves or other appliances of headingĀ 84.81; machines and apparatus (including apparatus for the projection or drawing of circuit patterns on sensitised semiconductor materials) of headingĀ 84.86;

Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  (h)Ā Ā Ā  Searchlights or spotlights of a kind used for cycles or motor vehicles (headingĀ 85.12); portable electric lamps of headingĀ 85.13; cinematographic sound recording, reproducing or re‑recording apparatus (headingĀ 85.19); sound‑heads (headingĀ 85.22); television cameras, digital cameras and video camera recorders (headingĀ 85.25); radar apparatus, radio navigational aid apparatus or radio remote control apparatus (headingĀ 85.26); connectors for optical fibres, optical fibre bundles or cables (headingĀ 85.36); numerical control apparatus of headingĀ 85.37; sealed beam lamp units of headingĀ 85.39; optical fibre cables of headingĀ 85.44;

Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  (ij)Ā Ā Ā  Searchlights or spotlights of headingĀ 94.05;

Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  (k)Ā Ā Ā  Articles of ChapterĀ 95;

Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  (l)Ā Ā Ā Ā  Monopods, bipods, tripods and similar articles, of headingĀ 96.20;

Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  (m)Ā Ā  Capacity measures, which are to be classified according to their constituent material; or

Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  (n)Ā Ā  Spools, reels or similar supports (which are to be classified according to their constituent material, for example, in headingĀ 39.23 or SectionĀ XV).

2.‑  Subject to NoteĀ 1 above, parts and accessories for machines, apparatus, instruments or articles of this Chapter are to be classified according to the following rulesĀ :

Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  (a)Ā Ā Ā  Parts and accessories which are goods included in any of the headings of this Chapter or of ChapterĀ 84, 85 or 91 (other than headingĀ 84.87, 85.48 or 90.33) are in all cases to be classified in their respective headings;

Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  (b)Ā Ā Ā  Other parts and accessories, if suitable for use solely or principally with a particular kind of machine, instrument or apparatus, or with a number of machines, instruments or apparatus of the same heading (including a machine, instrument or apparatus of headingĀ 90.10, 90.13 or 90.31) are to be classified with the machines, instruments or apparatus of that kind;

Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  (c)Ā Ā Ā  All other parts and accessories are to be classified in headingĀ 90.33.

3.‑  The provisions of NotesĀ 3 and 4 to SectionĀ XVI apply also to this Chapter.

4.‑  HeadingĀ 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 SectionĀ XVI; such telescopic sights and telescopes are to be classified in headingĀ 90.13.

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

6.‑  For the purposes of headingĀ 90.21, the expression ā€œorthopaedic appliancesā€ means appliances forĀ :

Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  -Ā Ā Ā Ā  Preventing or correcting bodily deformities; or

Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  -Ā Ā Ā Ā  Supporting or holding parts of the body following an illness, operation or injury.

Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  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.-Ā  HeadingĀ 90.32 applies only toĀ :

Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  (a)Ā Ā Ā  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 measuring its actual value; and

Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  (b)Ā Ā Ā  Automatic regulators of electrical quantities, and instruments or apparatus for automatically controlling non‑electrical quantities the operation of which depends on an electrical phenomenon varying according to the factor to be controlled, which are designed to bring this factor to, and maintain it at, a desired value, stabilised against disturbances, by constantly or periodically measuring its actual value.

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Heading 9032

Automatic regulating or controlling instruments and apparatus.

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9032.10

- Thermostats

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9032.20

- Manostats

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9032.8

- Other instruments and apparatusĀ  :

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-- Hydraulic or pneumatic

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-- Other

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- Parts and accessories

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