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Information for ruling 600011694

This section is Advance Tariff Ruling

Start date
25 Oct 2024
Expiry date
24 Oct 2027
Description
Nuclear Fuel Element parts. The RFA-2 fuel assembly can provide lower cycle costs. Its advanced features provide increased fretting margin, heat transfer improvements and enhanced debris mitigation meaning customers can feel confident about fuel performance and economics. It provides the following benefits: • Stiff structure for margin against fuel assembly distortion. • High contact-area mid grids for enhanced increased margins-to-fuel-rod fretting. • IFM grids that provide increased additional DNB margin. • High-performance mixing vane grids. • High-burnup advanced materials – ZIRLO® and Optimized ZIRLO. • Multiple layers of defense against debris. • Superior integral fuel burnable absorber for optimum fuel cycle economics.
Keywords
  • PARTS
  • NUCLEAR FUEL ELEMENTS
  • FOR FUEL
  • ASSEMBLIES
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 8401 - Nuclear reactors; fuel elements (cartridges), non-irradiated, for nuclear reactors; machinery and apparatus for isotopic separation GIR 6 has been used to classify this product to subheading level 840140 - Parts of nuclear reactors 10 digit code 8401400090 - Other than stainless steel absorber control rods, filled with neutron absorbing chemical elements Also classified in accordance with: Harmonized System Explanatory Notes (HSENs) to heading 8401 and Note 2 to Section XVI