Information for ruling 600011677
This section is Advance Tariff Ruling
- Start date
- 01 Nov 2024
- Expiry date
- 31 Oct 2027
- Commodity code
- 8543709099 (opens in new tab)
- Description
- A 10kHz sonar transducer for a submarine underwater telephone. The transducer is designed specifically only for underwater communication, and it is used as part of an underwater telephone system for communication with other vessels. The apparatus communicates in the marine environment i.e. seawater, it is not part of a telecommunication network as such (there would generally only be one or two other transmitter/receivers in direct communication). Also, the transducer converts electrical signals from a transmitter/receiver into pressure waves in the water and vice-versa (as a microphone/speaker would in air). The product can receive, transmit and does the conversion both ways. It differs from a microphone in its receiving function it is a hydrophone (designed to work in water) whereas a microphone is designed to work in air. Also, it functions as a transmitter, as a speaker would do in air. The apparatus is part of a communication system and cannot be operated without signal generating and amplification equipment. It is made from multiple components, including urethane resin dome, mounting plate, housing, transformer, transducer stalk, cable gland and stainless-steel fasteners. It is packaged in dedicated SPIS packaging (wooden crate).
- Keywords
-
- TRANSDUCERS
- SOUND APPARATUS
- HYDROPHONES
- COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT
- WITH INDIVIDUAL FUNCTION
- FOR DATA TRANSMISSION
- 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 8543 - Electrical machines and apparatus, having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter GIR 5 (b) - Has been used to identify the type of packaging GIR 6 - Has been used to classify the goods to sub-heading 8543 70 - Other machines and apparatus 8 Digit Code 854370 90 - Other than elsewhere specified in this subheading 10 Digit Code 85437090 99 - Other than elsewhere specified Also Classified in Accordance with :- Harmonized System Explanatory Notes (HSENs) to Chapter 8543