Information for ruling 600012635
This section is Advance Tariff Ruling
- Start date
- 28 Mar 2025
- Expiry date
- 27 Mar 2028
- Commodity code
- 8519890000 (opens in new tab)
- Description
- Sound masking equipment designed for creating a background ‘white noise’ to improve acoustics in office environments. Components are made from a variety of materials. Within this equipment there is an audio source; The primary network hub contains a sound-generating circuit which includes a digital signal processing IC which generates the white noise signal and an amplifier. The system works by being installed into ceiling voids above suspended ceilings and is tuned and programmed to a specific frequency according to end user requirements. The equipment consists of a series of loudspeakers which are installed in a grid-like pattern in the ceiling, as well as a method of controlling the speaker’s output. The equipment is made up of the following components: Network control panel, loudspeaker, power supplies, cable assemblies and couplers, primary network hub. Packaged in standard branded boxes.
- Keywords
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- WITH LOUDSPEAKER
- SOUND APPARATUS
- WITH SOUND REPRODUCING APPARATUS
- NETWORKS, TELECOMMUNICATIONS
- CONSOLES, CONTROL PANELS
- WITH AMPLIFIER
- 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 8519 - Sound recording or sound reproducing apparatus GIR 6 has been used to classify this product to subheading level 851989 - Other apparatus; Other than using magnetic, optical or semiconductor media Also classified in accordance with: Harmonized System Explanatory Notes (HSENs) to heading 8519