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Chapter 92: Musical instruments; parts and accessories of such articles

Section XVIII — Optical, photographic, medical instruments; clocks; musical instruments

7 headings · 43 total HS codes

Classification Notes for Chapter 92

Notes 1. This Chapter does not cover: a. Parts of general use, as defined in Note 2 to Section XV, of base metal (Note 2 to Section XV), or similar goods of plastics (Chapter 39); b. Microphones, amplifiers, loud-speakers, head-phones, switches, stroboscopes or other accessory instruments, apparatus or equipment of Chapter 85 or Chapter 90, for use with but not incorporated in or housed in the same cabinet as instruments of this Chapter; c. Toy instruments or apparatus (9503); d. Brushes for cleaning musical instruments (9603), or monopods, bipods, tripods and similar articles (9620); or e. Collectors' pieces or antiques (9705 or 9706). 2. Bows and sticks and similar devices used in playing the musical instruments of 9202 or 9206.00.00 presented with such instruments in numbers normal thereto and clearly intended for use therewith, are to be classified in the same heading as the relative instruments. Cards, discs and rolls of 9209 presented with an instrument are to be treated as separate articles and not as forming a part of such instrument.

Heading	Description	General Rate	Sub-codes	FTAs
9201	Pianos, including automatic pianos; harpsichords and other keyboard stringed instruments	0%	3	16 FTAs
9202	Other string musical instruments (for example, guitars, violins, harps)	0%	4	15 FTAs
9205	Wind musical instruments (for example, keyboard pipe organs, accordions, clarinets, trumpets, bagpipes), other than fairground organs and mechanical street organs	0%	6	17 FTAs
9206	Percussion musical instruments (for example, drums, xylophones, cymbals, castanets, maracas)	0%	5	13 FTAs
9207	Musical instruments, the sound of which is produced, or must be amplified, electrically (for example, organs, guitars, accordions)	0%	9	16 FTAs
9208	Musical boxes, fairground organs, mechanical street organs, mechanical singing birds, musical saws and other musical instruments not falling within any other heading of this chapter; decoy calls of all kinds; whistles, call horns and other mouth-blown sound signalling instruments	0%	2	17 FTAs
9209	Parts (for example, mechanisms for musical boxes) and accessories (for example, cards, discs and rolls for mechanical instruments) of musical instruments; metronomes, tuning forks and pitch pipes of all kinds	0%	8	16 FTAs

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