Information for ruling 600011660
This section is Advance Tariff Ruling
- Start date
- 23 Oct 2024
- Expiry date
- 22 Oct 2027
- Commodity code
- 8517790000 (opens in new tab)
- Description
- An external casing for an optical switch product. Made from sheet metal fabrication and metal extrusion. The panels of the casing and extrusion are made from aluminium. The handles, inserts, tapped strips and fixings are made of steel and the EMC fingers are copper. This assembly is used as the external housing for an optical switch and allows internal mounting of all the components and assemblies for an optical switch. The optical switch is not included with this casing.
- Keywords
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- PROTECTIVE CASINGS
- OF COPPER
- CASINGS
- HOUSINGS
- OF STEEL
- SWITCHING APPARATUS PARTS
- ALUMINIUM
- 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 (GIR)s: GIR 1 has been used to classify this product by the terms of heading - Heading 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 8443, 8525, 8527 or 8528. GIR 6 has been used to classify the goods to subheading level 851779 - Parts; other than aerials and aerial reflectors of all kinds; parts suitable for use therewith. Also classified in accordance with: Section Notes to Section XVI Notes 2(b) Harmonized system explanatory notes (HSEN’s) (B) parts (ii) to Chapter 85 Harmonized system explanatory notes (HSEN’s) to 8517