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Information for ruling 600011692

This section is Advance Tariff Ruling

Start date
23 Oct 2024
Expiry date
22 Oct 2027
Description
The Solid State Cockpit Flight Data Recorder (FDR) is a Flight Data Recorder (FDR) - device used to record specific aircraft performance parameters. The purpose of an FDR is to collect and record data from a variety of aircraft sensors onto a medium designed to survive an accident. It records 64/128/256/512/1024 wps flight data for a minimum of 25 hours. This Flight Data Recorder (FDR) is digital. It contains a stainless steel crash survivable memory unit (CSMU). It also contains an Underwater Acoustic Beacon, which is designed to help the flight data recorder be located in the event of an aircraft crash into water.
Keywords
  • OF STAINLESS STEEL
  • UNDERWATER
  • FLIGHT RECORDERS
  • FOR AIRCRAFT
  • DIGITAL
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 6 - has been used to classify the goods to subheading level 854370 - Other machines and apparatus. 8 Digit Code - 85437004 - Digital flight-data recorders. Also classified in accordance with: Harmonised system explanatory notes (HSENs) Note (18) to Heading 8543