Classification Notes for Chapter 84
Notes
1. This Chapter does not cover:
a. Millstones, grindstones or other articles of Chapter 68;
b. Machinery or appliances (for example, pumps) of ceramic material and ceramic parts of machinery or appliances of any material (Chapter 69);
c. Laboratory glassware (7017); machinery, appliances or other articles for technical uses or parts thereof, of glass (7019 or 7020);
d. Articles of 7321 or 7322 or similar articles of other base metals (Chapter 74 to Chapter 76 or Chapter 78 to 81);
e. Vacuum cleaners of 8508;
f. Electro-mechanical domestic appliances of 8509; digital cameras of 8525;
g. Radiators for the articles of Section XVII; or
h. Hand-operated mechanical floor sweepers, not motorised (9603).
2. Subject to the operation of Note 3 to Section XVI and subject to Note 11 to this Chapter, a machine or appliance which answers to a description in one or more of 8401 to 8424, or 8486 and at the same time to a description in one or other of 8425 to 8480 is to be classified under the appropriate heading of the former group or under 8486, as the case may be, and not the latter group.
a. 8419 does not, however, cover:
b. Germination plant, incubators or brooders (8436);
c. Grain dampening machines (8437);
d. Diffusing apparatus for sugar juice extraction (8438);
e. Machinery for the heat-treatment of textile yarns, fabrics or made up textile articles (8451); or
f. Machinery, plant or laboratory equipment, designed for a mechanical operation, in which a change of temperature, even if necessary, is subsidiary.
g. 8422 does not cover:
h. Sewing machines for closing bags or similar containers (8452); or
i. Office machinery of 8472.
j. 8424 does not cover:
k. Ink-jet printing machines (8443); or
l. Water-jet cutting machines (8456).
3. A machine-tool for working any material which answers to a description in 8456 and at the same time to a description in 8457, 8458, 8459, 8460, 8461, 8464 or 8465 is to be classified in 8456.
4. 8457 applies only to machine-tools for working metal, other than lathes (including turning centres), which can carry out different types of machining operations either:
a. by automatic tool change from a magazine or the like in conformity with a machining programme (machining centres),
b. by the automatic use, simultaneously or sequentially, of different unit heads working on a fixed position workpiece (unit construction machines, single station), or
c. by the automatic transfer of the workpiece to different unit heads (multi-station transfer machines).
5. For the purposes of 8462, a “slitting line” for flat products is a processing line composed of an uncoiler, a coil flattener, a slitter and a recoiler. A “cut‑to‑length line” for flat products is a processing line composed of an uncoiler, a coil flattener, and a shear.
6. (A) For the purposes of 8471, "automatic data processing machines" means machines capable of: (B) Automatic data processing machines may be in the form of systems consisting of a variable number of separate units.(C) Subject to paragraphs (D) and (E) below, a unit is to be regarded as being part of an automatic data processing system if it meets all of the following conditions:Separately presented units of an automatic data processing machine are to be classified in 8471.However, keyboards, X-Y co-ordinate input devices and disk storage units which satisfy the conditions of paragraphs (C)(ii) and (C)(iii) above, are in all cases to be classified as units of 8471.(D) 8471 does not cover the following when presented separately, even if they meet all of the conditions set forth in Note 6(C) above:
a. Storing the processing program or programs and at least the data immediately necessary for the execution of the program;
b. Being freely programmed in accordance with the requirements of the user;
c. Performing arithmetical computations specified by the user; and
d. Executing, without human intervention, a processing program which requires them to modify their execution, by logical decision during the processing run.
e. It is of a kind solely or principally used in an automatic data processing system;
f. It is connectable to the central processing unit either directly or through one or more other units; and
g. It is able to accept or deliver data in a form (codes or signals) which can be used by the system.
h. Printers, copying machines, facsimile machines, whether or not combined;
i. 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);
j. Loud speakers and microphones;
k. Television cameras, digital cameras and video camera recorders;
l. Monitors and projectors, not incorporating television reception apparatus.
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