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Information for ruling 600012618

This section is Advance Tariff Ruling

Start date
26 Mar 2025
Expiry date
25 Mar 2028
Description
This is a broadband DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) Router. It provides network connectivity, broadband internet services and support for an analogue telephone connected via VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol). It is used with an external power supply and has 4x 10/100/1000 MB Ethernet Ports.
Keywords
  • DATA COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT
  • FOR INTERNET
  • FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS
  • WIRELESS
  • ROUTERS
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 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 sub-heading 8517.62 - Machines for the reception, conversion and transmission or regeneration of voice, images or other data, including switching and routing apparatus Also classified in accordance with :- Harmonised Standard Explanatory Notes (HSENs) to heading – 8517