Information for ruling 600011667
This section is Advance Tariff Ruling
- Start date
- 19 Nov 2024
- Expiry date
- 18 Nov 2027
- Commodity code
- 9018908400 (opens in new tab)
- Description
- The product is a small butterfly shaped aluminium clip with an acrylic adhesive foam covering. It is a sterile, single use, inert device attached to the exposed end of the Kirschner wires (K-wires), and lies external, and without contact to the skin. The intended purpose of this item is to minimise the risk of re-injury and discomfort to the patient by preventing snagging on clothing or other objects from the exposed end of a K-wire. The product will be used by surgeons in the operating theatre. The K-wires are stiff, straight wires that are sometimes needed to repair a fracture (broken bone). K-wires are also commonly called 'pins'. If a fracture that requires surgery, they may need K-wires to help hold the bones in place until they heal. This clip will be used by surgeons in the operating theatre and on K-wire typically from 0.5mm to 4mm. K-wire is not included in this ATaR. Package with 2 units, box with 25 packages.
- Keywords
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- FOR MEDICAL USE
- CLIPS
- SURGICAL EQUIPMENT
- STERILE
- ALUMINIUM
- FOR SURGICAL USE
- 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: GIR1 has been used to classify the product by the terms of heading 9018 Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other electromedical apparatus and sight-testing instruments. GIR 5b has been used to identify the type of packaging: cardboard box. GIR 6 has been used to classify the goods to subheading level 901890 Other instruments and appliances. 8 digit code 90189084- other than elsewhere specified in this subheading. Also Classified in Accordance: Harmonised System Explanatory Notes (HSENs) to heading 9018 refers.