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Nuclear reactors, bailers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof

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 (heading No. 7017); machinery, appliances or other articles for technical uses or parts thereof, of glass (heading No. 70.19 or 7010);
(d) Articles of heading No. 73.21 or 73.22 or similar articles of other base metals (Chapters 74 to 76 or 78 to 81);
(e) Electro-mechanical tools for working in the hand, of heading No. 85.08 or electro-mechanical domestic appliances of heading No. 85.09; or
(f) Hand-operated mechanical floor sweepers, not motorised (heading No. 96.03).

2. Subject to the operation of Note 3 to Section XVI, a machine or appliance which answers to a description in one or more of the heading Nos. 84.01 to 84.24 and at the same time to a description in one or other of the heading Nos. 84.25 to 84.80 is to be classified under the appropriate heading of the former group and not the latter.

Heading No. 84.19 does not, however, cover:

(a) Germination plant, incubators or brooders (heading No. 84.36);
(b) Grain dampening machines (heading No. 84.37);
(c) Diffusing apparatus for sugar juice extraction (heading No. 84.38);
(d) Machinery for the heat-treatment of textile yarns, fabrics or made up textile articles (heading No. 84.51); or
(e) Machinery or plant, designed for mechanical operation, in which a change of temperature, even if necessary, is subsidiary.

Heading No. 84.22 does not cover:

(a) Sewing machines for closing bags or similar containers (heading No. 84.52);or
(b) Office machinery of heading No. 84.72.

Heading No. 84.24 does not cover:
Ink-jet printing machines (heading No. 84.43 or 84.71).

3. A machine-tool for working any material which answers to a description in heading No. 84.56 and at the same time to a description in heading No. 84.57, 84.58,84.59,84.60, 84.61, 84.64 or 84.65 is to-be classified in heading No. 84.56.

4: Heading No. 84.57 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. (A) For the purposes of heading No. 84.71, the expression "automatic data processing machines" means:

(a) Digital machines, capable of

(1) storing the processing programme or programmes and at least the data immediately necessary for the execution of the programme;
(2) being freely programmed in accordance with the requirements of the user;
(3) performing arithmetical computations specified by the user; and (
4) executing, without human intervention, a processing programme which requires them to modify their execution, by logical decision during the processing run;

(b) Analogue machines capable of simulating mathematical models and, comprising at least : analogue elements, control elements and programming elements;

(c) Hybrid machines consisting of either a digital machine with analogue elements or an analogue machine with digital elements.

(B) Automatic data processing machines may be in the form of systems consisting of a variable number of separate units. Subject to paragraph (E) below, a unit is to be regarded as being a part of a complete system if it meets all of the following conditions:

(a) It is of a kind solely or principally used in an automatic data processing system;
(b) It is connectable to the central processing unit either directly or through one or more other units; and
(c) It is able to accept or deliver data in a form (codes or signals) which can be used by the system.

(C) Separately presented units of an automatic data processing machine are to be classified in heading No. 84.71.

(D) Printers, keyboards, X-Y co-ordinate input devices and disk storage units which satisfy the conditions of paragraphs (B)(b) and (B)(c) above, are in all cases to be classified as units of heading No. 84.71.

(E) Machines performing a specific function other than data processing and incorporating or working in conjunction with an automatic data processing machine are to be classified in the headings appropriate to their respective functions or, failing that, in residual headings.

6. Heading No. 84.82 applies, inter alia, to polished steel balls, the maximum and minimum diametres of which do not differ from the nominal diameter by more than 1 per cent or by more than 0.05 mm, whichever is less. Other steel balls are to be classified in heading No. 73.26.

7. A machine which is used for more than one purpose is, for the purposes of classification, to be treated as if its principal purpose were its sole purpose.

Subject to Note 2 to this Chapter and Note 3 to Section XVI, a machine the principal purpose of which is not described in any heading or for which no one purpose is the principal purpose is, unless the context otherwise requires, to be classified in heading No. 84.79. Heading No. 84.79 also covers machines for making rope or cable (for example, stranding, twisting or cabling machines) from metal wire, textile yarn or any other material or from a combination of such materials.

8. For the purposes of heading No. 84.70, the term "pocket-size" applies only to machines the dimensions of which do not exceed 170 mm. x 100 mm. x 45 mm.

SUB-HEADING NOTES
1. For the purposes of sub-heading No. 8471.49, the term "systems" means automatic data processing machines whose units satisfy the conditions laid down in NOTE 5(B) to Chapter 84 and which comprise at least a central processing unit, one input unit (for example, a keyboard or a scanner), and one output unit (for example, a visual display unit or a printer).

2. Sub-heading No. 8482.40 applies only to bearings with cylindrical rollers of a uniform diameter not exceeding 5 mm and having a length which is at least three times the diameter. The ends of the rollers may be rounded.

Heading No.	Sub-heading No.	Description of articles	Rate of duty
			Standard	Preferential Areas
(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)
84.01		Nuclear reactors; fuel elements (cartridges), non-irradiated, for nuclear reactors; machinery and apparatus for isotopic separation
	8401.10	- Nuclear reactors	25%
	8401.20	- Machinery and apparatus for isotopic separation, and parts thereof	25%
	8401.30	- Fuel elements (cartridges), non- irradiated	25%
	8401.40	- Parts of nuclear reactors	25%
84.02		Steam or other vapour generating boilers (other than central heating hot water boilers capable also of producing low pressure steam); super-heated water boilers
		- Steam or other vapour generating boilers :
	8402.11	-- Watertube boilers with a steam production exceeding 45 t per hour	25%
	8402.12	-- Watertube boilers with a steam production not exceeding 45 t per hour	25%
	8402.19	-- Other vapour generating boilers, including hybrid boilers	25%
	8402.20	- Super-heated water boilers	25%
	8402.90	- Parts	25%
84.03		Central heating boilers other than those of heading No. 84.02
	8403.10	- Boilers	25%
	8403.90	- Parts	25%
84.04		Auxiliary plant for use with boilers of headings No. 84.02 or 84.03 (for example, economisers, super-heaters, soot removers, gas recoverers); condensers for steam or other vapour power units
	8404.10	- Auxiliary plant for use with boilers of heading No. 84.02 or 84.03	25%
	8404.20	- Condensers for steam or other vapour power units	25%
	8404.90	-Parts	25%
84.05		Producer gas or water gas generators, with or without their purifiers; acetylene gas generators and similar water process gas generators, with or without their purifiers
	8405.10	- Producer gas or water gas generators, with or without their purifiers; acetylene gas generators and similar water process gas generators, with or without their purifiers	25%
	8405.90	-Parts	25%
84.06		Steam turbines and other vapour turbines
	8406.10	- Turbines for marine propulsion	25%	..
		- Other turbines:
	8406.81	-- Of an output exceeding 40 MW	25%
	8406.82	-- Of an output not exceeding 40 MW	25%
	8406.90	-Parts	25%
84.07		Spark-ignition reciprocating rotary internal combustion piston engines
	8407.10	- Aircraft engines	25%
		- Marine propulsion engines:
	8407.21	-- Outboard motors	5%
	8407.29	-- Other	25%
		- Reciprocating piston engines of kind used for the propulsion of vehicles of Chapter 87:
	8407.31	-- Of a cylinder capacity not exceeding 50cc	35%
	8407.32	-- Of a cylinder capacity exceeding 50 cc but not exceeding 250 cc	35%
	8407.33	-- Of a cylinder capacity exceeding 250 cc but not exceeding 1,000 cc	35%
	8407.34	-- Of a cylinder capacity exceeding 1/000 cc	35%
	8407.90	- Other engines	25%
84.08		Compression-ignition internal combustion piston engines (diesel or semi-diesel engines)
	8408.10	-Marine propulsion engines	25%
	8408.20	- Engines of a kind used for the propulsion of vehicles of Chapter 87	35%
	8408.90	- Other engines	25%
84.09		Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the engines of heading No. 84.07 or 84.08
	8409.10	- For aircraft engines	25%
		-Other:
	8409.91	-- Suitable for use solely or principally with spark-ignition internal combustion, piston engines	35%
	8409.99	-- Other	35%
84.10		Hydraulic turbines, water wheels, and regulators therefor
		- Hydraulic turbines and water wheels:
	8410.11	-- Of a power not exceeding 1,000 kW	25%
	8410.12	-- Of a power exceeding 1,000 kW but not exceeding 10,000 kW	25%
	8410.13	-- Of a power exceeding 10,000 kW	25%
	8410.90	- Parts, including regulators	25%
84.11		Turbo-jets, turbo-propellers and other gas turbines
		- Turbo-jets:
	8411.11	-- Of a thrust not exceeding 25 kN	25%
	8411.12	-- Of a thrust exceeding 25 kN	25%
		- Turbo-propellers:
	8411.21	-- Of a power not exceeding 1,100 kW	25%
	8411.22	-- Of a power exceeding 1,100 kW	25%
		- Other gas turbines:
	8411.81	-- Of a power not exceeding 5,000 kW	25%
	8411.82	-- Of a power exceeding 5,000 kW	25%
		- Parts:
	8411.91	-- Of turbo-jets or turbo-propellers	25%
	8411.99	--Other	25%
84.12		Other engines and motors :
	8412.10	- Reaction engines other than turbo-jets	25%
		- Hydraulic power engines and motors :
	8412.21	-- Linear acting (cylinders)	25%
	8412.29	-- Other	25%
		-Pneumatic power engines and motors:
	8412.31	-- Linear acting (cylinders)	25%
	8412.39	-- Other	25%
	8412.80	- Other	25%
	8412.90	- Parts	25%
84.13		Pumps for liquids, whether or not fitted with a measuring device; liquid elevators
		- Pumps fitted or designed to befitted with a measuring device:
	8413.11	-- Pumps for dispensing fuel or lubricants, of the type used in filling-stations or in garages	25%
	8413.19	-- Other	25%
	8413.20	- Hand pumps, other than those of sub-heading No. 8413.11 or 8413.19	25%
	8413.30	- Fuel, lubricating or cooling medium pumps for internal combustion piston engines	25%
	8413.40	- Concrete pumps	25%
	8413.50	- Other reciprocating positive displacement pumps	25%
	8413.60	- Other rotary positive displacement pumps	25%
	8413.70	- Other centrifugal pumps	25%
		- Other pumps; liquid elevators:
	8413.81	-- Pumps	25%
	8413.82	-- Liquid elevators	25%
		- Parts:
	8413.91	-- Of pumps	25%
	8413.92	-- Of liquid elevators	25%
84.14		Air or vacuum pumps, air or other gas compressors and fans; ventilating or recycling hoods incorporating a fan, whether or not fitted with filters
	8414.10	- Vacuum pumps	25%
	8414.20	- Hand- or foot-operated air pumps	25%
	8414.30	- Compressors of a kind used in refrigerating equipment	35%
	8414.40	- Air compressors mounted on a wheeled chassis for towing	25%
		- Fans:
	8414.51	-- Table, floor, wall, window, ceiling or roof fans, with a self-contained electric motor of an output not exceeding 125 W	35%
	8414.59	-- Other	35%
	8414.60	- Hoods having a maximum horizontal side not exceeding 120 cm	25%
	8414.80	- Other	35%
	8414.90	- Parts	35%
84.15		Airconditioning machines, comprising a motor-driven fan and elements for changing the temperature and humidity, including those machines in which the humidity cannot be separately regulated
	8415.10	- Window or wall types, self-contained	35%
	8415.20	- Of a kind used for persons, in motor vehicles	35%
		- Other:
	8415.81	-- Incorporating a refrigerating unit and a valve for reversal of the cooling/heat cycle	35%
	8415.82	-- Other, incorporating a refrigerating unit	35%
	8415.83	-- Not incorporating a refrigerating unit	35%
	8415.90	-Parts	35%
84.16		Furnace burners for liquid fuel, for pulverised solid fuel or for gas; mechanical stokers, including their mechanical grates, mechanical ash dischargers and similar appliances
	8416.10	- Furnace burners for liquid fuel	25%
	8416.20	- Other furnace burners, including combination burners	25%
	8416.30	- Mechanical stokers, mechanical grates, mechanical ash dischargers and similar appliances	25%
	8416.90	- Parts	25%
84.17		Industrial or laboratory furnaces and ovens, including incinerators, non-electric
	8417.10	- Furnaces and ovens for the roasting, melting or other heat-treatment of ores, pyrites or of metals	25%
	8417.20	- Bakery ovens, including biscuit ovens	25%
	8417.80	-Other	25%
	8417.90	- Parts	25%
84.18		Refrigerators, freezers and other refrigerating or freezing equipment, electric or other; heat pumps other than airconditioning machines of heading No. 84.15
	8418.10	- Combined refrigerator-freezers, fitted with separate external doors	25%
		- Refrigerators, household type:
	8418.21	-- Compression-type	35%
	8418.22	-- Absorption-type, electrical	35%
	8418.29	--Other	35%
	8418.30	- Freezers of the chest type,not exceeding 800 L capacity	25%
	8418.40	- Freezers of the upright type, not exceeding 900 L capacity	25%
	8418.50	- Other refrigerating or freezing chests, cabinets, display counters, show-cases and similar refrigerating or freezing furniture	25%
		- Other refrigerating or freezing equipment; heat pumps:
	8418.61	-- Compression type units whose condensers are heat exchangers	25%
	8418.69	-- Other	25%
		- Parts:
	8418.91	-- Furniture designed to receive refrigerating or freezing equipment	35%
	8418.99	-- Other	35%
84.19		Machinery, plant or laboratory equipment, whether or not electrically heated, for the treatment of materials by a process involving a change of temperature such as heating, cooking, roasting, distilling, rectifying, sterilising, pasteurising, steaming, drying, evaporating, vaporising, condensing or cooling, other than machinery or plant of a kind used for domestic purposes; instantaneous or storage water heaters, non-electric
		- Instantaneous or storage water heaters, non-electric:
	8419.11	-- Instantaneous gas water heaters	25%
	8419.19	--Other	25%
	8419.20	- Medical, surgical or laboratory sterilisers	25%
		- Dryers:
	8419.31	-- For agricultural products	25%
	8419.32	-- For wood, paper pulp, paper or paperboard	25%
	8419.39	-- Other	25%
	8419.40	- Distilling or rectifying plant	25%
	8419.50	- Heat exchange units	25%
	8419.60	- Machinery for liquefying air or other gases	25%
		- Other machinery, plant and equipment:
	8419.81	-- For making hot drinks or for cooking or heating food	25%
	8419.89	-- Other	25%
	8419.90.	- Parts	25%
84.20		Calendering or other rolling machines other than for metals or glass, and cylinders therefor
	8420.10	- Calendering or other rolling machines	25%
		- Parts :
	8420.91	-- Cylinders	25%
	8420.99	-- Other	25%
84.21		Centrifuges, including centrifugal dryers; filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus, for liquids or gases
		- Centrifuges, including centrifugal dryers:
	8421.11	-- Cream separators	25%
	8421.12	-- Clothes-dryers	25%
	8421.19	--Other	25%
		- Filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for liquids:
	8421.21	-- For filtering or purifying water	25%
	8421.22	-- For filtering or purifying beverages other than water	25%
	8421.23	-- Oil or petrol-filters for internal combustion engines	25%
	8421.29	-- Other	25%
		- Filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for gases:
	8421.31	-- Intake air filters for internal combustion engines	25%
	8421.39	-- Other	25%
		- Parts:
	8421.91	-- Of centrifuges, including centrifugal dryers	25%
	8421.99	-- Other	25%
84.22		Dish washing machines; machinery for cleaning or drying bottles or other containers; machinery for filling, closing, sealing or labelling bottles, cans, boxes, bags or other containers; machinery for capsuling bottles, jars, tubes and similar containers; other packing or wrapping machinery (including heat-shrink wrapping machinery); machinery for aerating beverages
		- Dish washing machines :
	8422.11	-- Of the household type	35%
	8422.19	--Other	35%
	8422.20	-Machinery for cleaning or drying bottles or other containers	25%
	8422.30	- Machinery for filling, closing, sealing, or labelling bottles, cans, boxes, bags or other containers; machinery for capsuling bottles, jars, tubes and similar containers; machinery for aerating beverages	25%
	8422.40	- Other packing or wrapping machinery (including heat-shrink wrapping machinery)	25%
	8422.90	-Parts	35%
84.23		Weighing machinery (excluding balances of a sensitivity of 5 cg or better), including weight operated counting or checking machines; weighing machine weights of all kinds
	8423.10	- Personal weighing machines, including baby scales; household scales	35%
	8423.20	- Scales for continuous weighing of goods on conveyors	25%
	8423.30	- Constant weight scales and scales for discharging a predetermined weight of material into a bag or container, including hopper scales	25%
		- Other weighing machinery :
	8423.81	-- Having a maximum weighing capacity not exceeding 30 kg	25%
	8423.82	-- Having a maximum weighing capacity exceeding 30 kg but not exceeding 5,000 kg	25%
	8423.89	-- Other	25%
	8423.90	- Weighing machine weights of all kinds; parts of weighing machinery	25%
84.24		Mechanical appliances (whether or not hand-operated) for projecting, dispersing or spraying liquids or powders; fire extinguishers, whether or not charged; spray guns and similar appliances; steam or sand blasting machines and similar jet projecting machines
	8424.10	- Fire extinguishers, whether or not charged	25%
	8424.20	- Spray guns and similar appliances	25%
	8424.30	- Steam or sand blasting machines and similar jet projecting machines	25%.
		- Other appliances:
	8424.81	-- Agricultural or horticultural	25%
	8424.89	-- Other	25%
	8424.90	- Parts	25%
84.25		Pulley tackle and hoists other than skip hoists; winches and capstans; jacks
		- Pulley tackle and hoists other than skip hoists or hoists of a kind used for raising vehicles :
	8425.11	-- Powered by electric motor	25%
	8425.19	-- Other	25%
	8425.20	- Pit-head winding gear; winches specially designed for use underground	25%
		- Other winches; capstans :
	8425.31	-- Powered by electric motor	25%
	8425.39	-- Other	25%
		Jacks; hoists of a kind used for raising vehicles
	8425.41	-- Built-in jacking systems of a type used in garages	25%
	8425.42	-- Other jacks and hoists, hydraulic	25%
	8425.49	--Other	25%
84.26		Ships' derricks; cranes including cable cranes; mobile lifting frames, straddle carriers and works trucks fitted with a crane
		- Overhead travelling cranes, transporter cranes, gantry cranes, bridge cranes, mobile lifting frames and straddle carriers :
	8426.11	-- Overhead travelling cranes on fixed support	25%
	8426.12	-- Mobile lifting frames on tyres and straddle carriers	25%
	8426.19	-- Other	25%
	8426.20	- Tower cranes	25%
	8426.30	- Portal or pedestal jib cranes	25%
		- Other machinery, self-propelled:
	8426.41	-- On tyres	25%
	8426.49	-- Other	25%
		- Other machinery :
	8426.91	-- Designed for mounting on road vehicles	25%
	8426.99	-- Other	25%
84.27		Fork-lift trucks; other works trucks fitted with lifting or handling equipment
	8427.10	- Self-propelled trucks powered by an electric motor	25%
	8427.20	- Other self-propelled trucks	25%
	8427.90	- Other trucks	25%
84.28		Other lifting, handling, loading or unloading machinery (for example, lifts, escalators, conveyors, teleferics)
	8428.10	- Lifts and skip hoists	25%
	8428.20	- Pneumatic elevators and conveyors	25%
		- Other continuous-action elevators and conveyors, for goods or materials:
	8428.31	-- Specially designed for underground use	25%
	8428.32	-- Other, bucket type	25%