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83.11 - Wire, rods, tubes, plates, electrodes and similar products, of base metal or of metal carbides, coated or cored with flux material, of a kind used for solderin brazing, welding or deposition of metal or of metal carbides; wire and rods, of agg omerated base metal powder, used for metal spraying. t 8311.10 - Coated electrodes of base metal, for electric arc-welding 8311.20 - Cored wire of base metal, for electric arc-welding 8311.30 - Coated rods and cored wire, of base metal, for soldering, brazing or welding by flame This headin covers wire, rods, tubes, plates, electrodes and similar products, of base metal or of metal car ides, of a kind used for soldering, brazin welding or de osition of metal or of metal carbides, provided they are coated or cored with ux matenal; in e latter case, the outer part is usually composed of a tube or sometimes of a spirally wrap ed strip. Wire, rods, tubes, plates, electrodes, etc., of base metal not coated or cored with ux material are excluded (Chapters 72 to 76 and 78 to 81). % R R L The materials used for coatin or coring are the flux (e.g., zinc chloride, ammonium chloride, borax, quartz, resin or lanolin? which would otherwise have to be added sepasately during the soldering, brazing, welding or deposition process. The electrodes, etc., may also contain the additive metal in powder form. In electric welding, the coating may also contain some heat-resistant material (asbestos, etc.) to direct the electric arc onto the part to be welded. For electric arc-welding, coated electrodes or cored wire are used. The former consists of a metal core and a coating of non-metal material which may be of various thiclcnesses and compositions. Cored wire is a hollow product filled with material similar to that used for the coabng of electrodes. This wire is presented in coils or on spools. Prepared metal brazin plates are inserted between the arts to be joined (usually for iron or steel). They consist o a metal strip, wire cloth or grill', coated with the flux; they may be specxally shaped for use, or in strip form suitable for cutting as required. f The headin also includes wire and rods obtained by extruding base metal powder (usually nickel) agg omerated with an excipient based on plastics, and used for spraying metal onto various materials (e.g., metals or cement). f' The heading does not cover wire and rods of cored solder where, apart from flux material, the solder consists of an alloy contaiqing 2 % or more by weight of any one precious metal (Chapter 71). XVI SECTION XVI MACHINERY AND MECHANICAL APPLIANCES; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; PARTS THEREOF; SOUND RECORDERS AND REPRODUCERS, TELEVISION IMAGE AND SOUND RECORDERS AND REPRODUCERS, AND PARTS AND ACCESSORIES OF SUCH ARTICLES Notes. 1. This Section does not cover: (a) Transmission or conveyor belts or belting, of plastics of Chapter 39, or of vulcanised rubber (headmg 40.1 O), or other articles of a kind used in machine or mechanical or electrical appliances or for otha technical uses, of vulcanised rubber other than hard mTbm (heading 40.16); (b) Articles of leather or of composition leather (heading 42.05) or of furskin (heading 43.03), of a kind used in machinery or mechanical appliances or for other technical uses; Bobbins, spools, cops, cones, cores, reels Chapter 39,40,44 or 48 or Section XV); similar material (for example, (d) Perforated cards for Jacquard or similar machines (for example, Chapter 39 or 48 or Section XV); (e) Transmission or conveyor belts or belting of textile material (heading 59.10) or other articles of textile material for technical uses (heading 59.1 1); (9 Precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed) of headings 71-02 to 71-04, or articles wholly of such stones of headlng 71.16, except unmounted worked sapphires and diamonds for sty11(heading 85.22); (g) Parts of general use, as defined in Note 2 to Section XV, of base metal (Section XV), or similar goods of plastics (Chapter 39); (h) Drill pipe (heading 73.04); (ij) Endless belts of metal wire or strip (Section XV); (k) Articles of Chapter 82 or 83; (1) Articles of Section XVII; (m) Articles of Chapter 90; (n) Clocks, watches or other arlicles of Chapter 91; (0) Interchan eable tools of heading 82.07 or brushes of a kind used as parts of machines (headin 86.03) similar interchangeable tools are to be classified according m the constiiment materigof the= working part (for example, in Chapter 40, 42, 43, 45 or 59 or heading 68.04 or 69.09); (p)Articles of Chapter 95 or (q) Typewriter or similar ribbons, whether or not on spools or in cartridges (classified according to thetr constituent material, or in heading 96.12 if inked or otherwise prepared for giving impressions). 2. Subject to Note 1 to this Section, Note 1 to Chapter 84 and Note 1 to Chapter 85, parts of machines (not being parts of the articles of heading 84.84, 85.44, 85.45, 85.46 or 85.47) are to be class~fied according to the following rules : Q (a) Parts which are goods included in an of the headings of Cha ter 84 or 85 other than headings 84.09, 84.31, 84.48,84.66, 84.7g, 84.87, 85.03, 85.22,85.2{ 85.38 and 85.4 ) are in all cases to be classified in their respective headings; (b) Other parts, if suitable for use solely or principally with a particular kind of machine, or with a number of machines of the same heading including a rnach~neof heading 84.79 or 85.43) are to be classified with the machines of that kin or in heading 84.09, 84.3 1, 84,48, 84.66, 84.73, 85.03, 85.22, 85.29 or 85.38 as ap ro riate. However, parts which are equally sultable for use principally with the goods of headings and 85.25 to 85.28 an to be classified in heading 85.17. 151'7 (c) All other parts are to be classified in heading 84.09, 84.31, 84.48, 84.66, 84.73, 85.03, 85.22, 85.29 or 85.38 as appropriate or, failing that, in heading 84.87 or 85.48. 3.- Unless the context otherwise requires, composite machines consisting of two or more machines fitted together to form a whole and other machlnes designed for the purpose of performing two or more complementary or alternative functions are to be classified as if consisting only of that component or as being that machine which performs the principal function. 4.- Where a machine (includin a combination of machines) consists of individual com onents (whether separate or interconnected y piping, by transrmssion devices, by electric cables or y other devices) intended to contribute to ether to a clearly defined function covered by one of the headings in Chapter 84 or Chapter 8f then the whole falls to be classified in the heading appropriate to that function. E % 5.- For the purposes of these Notes, the expression " machine " means any machine, machinery, plant, equipment, apparatus or appliance cited in the headings of Chapter 84 or 85. GENERAL (I) GENERAL CONTENT OF THE SECTION (A) Subject to certain exclusions provided for in the Notes to this Section and to Chapters 84 and 85 and apart from goods covered more specifically in other Sections, this Section covers all mechanical or electrical machinery, plant, equipment, apparatus and appliances and parts thereof, together with certain apparatus and plant which is neither mechanical nor electrical (such as boilers and boiler house plant, filtering apparatus, etc.) and parts of such apparatus and plant. The main exclusions from the Section are : (a) Spools, co s, bobbins, reels, etc., of any material classified according to their constituent material). owever, wa beams should not be regar ed as bobbms, spools or similar supports and fall m heading 84.4x m, of general use as &fined in Note 2 to Section XV, such as +mins, bolts, screws and s, of iron or steel (headin 73.12, 73.15, 73.18 or 7320) and smlar articles of other base z z s (Chapters 74 to 76 and 7! to 8 , locks of heading 83.01, fi!h and mountings for doors, window, etc., of heading 83.02. Sirmlar gmds of plastics an also e x c l x d h m this Section and $I1 in Chapter 39. (b) Pa* (c) Interchangeable tools of heading 82.07; other similar interchangeable tools are classified according to the constituent material of their working part (e. ., in Chapter 40 (rubber), Cha ter 42 (leather), 43 (fur), Chapter 45 (cork) or Chapter f 9 (textde) or in heading 68.04 &rasive, etc.), or 69.09 (ceramics), etc.). (d) Other articles of Chapter 82 (e.g., tools, tool-tips, knives and cutting blades, non-electrical hair clippas, and certain mechanical domestic appliances) and articles of Chapter 83. (e) Articles of Section XVLX. (f) Articles of Section XVm. (g) Arms and ammunition (Chapter 93). (h) Machinery and apparatus having the character of toys,games or sports requisites and identifiable arts and accessones thereof (includq non-electric motors and engines but excluding urn s for machinery for liquids or gases, which fall in heading 84.lg a L.21 &uids and filtering or puri electric motors, electric transformers and radio remote con& respectively, and also ex&% apparatus, which fall in heading 5.01,85.04 or 85.26, respectively) which are suitable for use solely or principally with toys, games or sports requisites (Chapter 95). (ij) Brushes of a kind used as parts of machines (heading 96.03). (B) In general, the goods of this Section may be of any material. In the great majority of cases they are of base metal, but the Section also covers certain machinery of other materials (e.g., pumps wholly of plastics) and parts of plastics, of wood, precious metals, etc. The Section does not, however, cover : (a) Transmission or conveyor belts or beltin rubber (e.g., haasmission or mnveyortelts or (headings 40.11 to 40.13) and washers, etc. articles of unhardened vulcanised 40.10), lubber tyxes, tubes, etc. (b) Articles of leather or composition. leather (e.g., pickers for textile looms) (heading 42.05), or of h k i n (heading 43.03). (c) Textile articles, e.g., transmission or conveyor beIts (heading 59.10), felt pads and polishmg discs (heading 59.11). (d) Certain ceramic goods of Chapter 69 (see General ExplanatoryNotes to Chapters 84 and 85). (e) Certain glass articles of Chapter 70 (see GeneralExplanatory Notes to Chapters 84 and 85). (f) Articles wholly of precious or semimipreciousstones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed) heading 71.02, 71.03, 71.04 or 71-16), except unmounted worked sapphires or diamonds for styli heading 85.22). (g) Endless belts of metal wire or strip (Section XV). @I)PARTS (Section Note 2) In general, parts which are suitable for use solely or princi ally with particular machines or apparatns including those of heading 84.79 or heading 85.48, or with a group of machines or apparatus alling in the same heading, are classified in the same heading as those machines or apparatus subject, of course, to the exclusions mentioned in Part (I) above. Separate headings are, however, provided for : $ (A) Parts of the engines of heading 84.07 or 84.08 (heading 84.09). (B) Parts of the machinery of headings 84.25 to 84.30 (heading 84.3 1). (C) Parts of the textile machines of headings 84.44 to 84.47 (heading 84.48). (D) Parts of the machines of headings 84.56 to 84.65 (heading 84.66). (E) Parts of the office machines of headings 84.69 to 84.72 (heading 84.73). (I?) Parts of the machines of heading 85.01 or 85.02 (heading 85.03). (G) Parts of apparatus of headings 85.19 or 85.21 (heading 85.22). (H) Parts of apparatus of headings 85.25 to 85.28 (heading 85-29). (W) Parts of apparatus ofheading 85.35, 85.36 or 85.37 (heading 85.38). The above rules do not a ly to parts which in themselves constitute an.article covered b a heading of this Section (ot er than headings 84.87 and 85.48); these are m all cases classi ed in their own appropriate heading even if specially designed to work as part of a specific machine. This applies in particular to : h PR (1) Pumps and compressors (headings 84.13 and 84.14). (2) Filtering machinery and apparatus of heading 84.21. (3) Lifting and handling machinery (heading 84.25,84.26,84.28 or 84.86). (4) Taps, cocks, valves, etc. (heading 84.81). (5) Ball or roller bearings, and polished steel balls of a tolerance not exceeding 1 % or 0.05 mm,whichever is less (heading 84.82). (6) Transmission shafts, cranks, bearing housings, plain shaft bearin s ears and gearin (including friction ears and gear-boxes and other speed changers), yw eels, pulleys an pulley blocks, clutc es and shaft couplings (heading 84.83). % 8,% f (7) Gaskets and similar joints of heading 84.84. (8) Electric motors of heading 85.01. (9) Electrical transformers and other machines and apparatus of heading 85.04. (10) Electric accumulators assembled into battery packs (heading 85.07). (1 1) Electric heating resistors (heading 85.16). (12) Electrical capacitors (heading 85.32). (13) Electrical apparatus for switching, protectin , etc., electrical circuits (switches, fuses, junction boxes, etc.) (headings 85.35 and 85.34. (14) Boards, panels, consoles, desks, cabinets and other apparatus for electric control or the distribubon of electricity (heading 85.37). (15) Lamps of heading 85.39. (16) Valves and tubes of heading 85.40 and diodes, transistors, etc., of heading 85.41. (17) Electrical carbons (e.g., arc lamp carbons, carbon electrodes and carbon brushes) (heading 85.45). (18) Insulators of any material (heading 85.46). (19) Insulating fittings for electrical machines, etc., of heading 85.47. Other parts which are recognisable as such, but are not suitable for use solely or rinci ally with a articular machine or class of machine (i.e., which may be common to a num! t er o machines f&ing in different headings), are classified in heading 84.87 (if not electrical) or in heading 85.48 (if electrical), unless they are excluded by the provisions set out above. ? The above revisions for the classification of arts do not heading 8f.84 (gaskets, etc.), 85.44 (insu ated wire), (insulators or 85.47 (conduit tubing); in general, such materials hapter. f' arts of the goods falling in carbons), 85.46 the appropriate Machinery parts remain classified in this Section whether or not finished ready for use. However, rough forgings of iron or steel are classified in heading 72.07. (111) ACCESSORY APPARATUS (See General Interpretative Rules 2 (a) and 3 (b) and Section Notes 3 and 4) Accessory instruments and apparatus (e.g., manometers, thermometers, level gauges or other measuring or checking instruments, output counters, clockwork switches, control anels, automatic re lators) presented with the machine or apparatus with which they normally elong are classifie with that machine or apparatus, if the are designed to measure, check, control or regulate one specific machine or a paratus (whic ma be a combination of machines (see Part VI below) or a functional unit gee Part W below){ However, access0 instruments and a paratus des~gnedto measure, check, control or regulate several machines G e t h a or not of t e same type) fall in their own appropriate heading. r g r~ g (IV)INCOMPLETE MACHINES (See General Interpretative Rule 2 (a)) Throughout the Section any reference to a machine or apparatus covers not on1 the complete machine, but also an incom lete machine (i.e., an assembly of arts so far a vanced that it already has the main essentia features of the complete machine). ;%us a machine lacking only a flywheel, a bed plate, calender rolls, tool holders, etc., is classified in the same heading as the machine, and not in any separate heading provided for parts. Similarly a machine or apparatus hand tools of heading 84.67) normally incorporating an electric motor (e.g., ele~tro~rnechanical is classified in the same headng as the correspondmg complete machine even if presented without that motor P B (V' UNASSEMBLED MACHINES ( ee General Interpretative Rule 2 (a)) For convenience of trans ort many machines and apparatus are transported in an unassembled state. Although in effect e goods are then a collection of arts, they are classified as being the machine in question and not in any separate heading or parts. The same a plies to an incomplete machine having the feahlns of the complete machine (see Part fIV) above), presented unassembled (see also in this connection the General Explanatory Notes to Chapters 84 and 85). However, unassembled components in excess of the number required for a complete machine or for an incomplete machine having the characteristics of a complete machine, are classified in their own appropriate heading. 5, f (Vy) MULTI-FUNCTION MACHINES AND COMPOSITE MACHINES (Section Note 3) In general, multi-function machines are classified according to the principal function of the machine. Multi-function machines are, for example, machine-tools for working metal using interchangeable tools, which enable them to carry out different machining operations (e.g., milling, boring, lapping). Where it is not ossible to determine the rincipal function, and where, as provided in Note 3 to the Section, tfe context does not ot erwise require, it is necessy to apply General Interpretative Rule 3 (c); such is the case, for example, in res ect of mu ti-function machines otentiall classifiable m several of the headings 84.25 to 86730, in several of the headings L.58 to 8b.63 or in several of the headings 84.69 to 84.72. !i different kinds, fitted Corn osite machines consisting of two or arate functions which togetfler to form a whole, consecutively or Secbon XVI, are also are generally complementary and are described in classified according to the principal function of the composite machine. The followin are examples of such composite machines: printing machines with a subsidiary machine for olding the pa er (heading 84.43); a cardboard box &g machine combined with an auxiliary mac.hine. or printing a name or simple design heading 84.41 ; industrial furnaces combined wxth lifting or handling machinery (heading 4.17 or 85.1 ); cigarette making machinery combined wth subsidiary packaging machinery (heading 84.78). % P \ a For the purposes of the above provisions, machines of different kinds are taken to be fitted together to form a whole when incorporated one in the other or mounted one on the other, or mounted on a common base or frame or in a common housing. Assemblies of machines should not be taken to be fitted together to form a whole unless the machines are designed to be permanently attached either to each other or to a common base, frame, housing, etc. This excludes assemblies which are of a temporary nature or are not normally built as a composite machine. The bases, frames or be moved about as article (e.g., a be provided with wheels so that the composite machine can provided it does not thereby acquire the character of an covered by a particular heading of the Nomenclature. Floors, concrete bases, walls, partitions, ceilin s, etc., even if specially fitted out to accommodate machines or appliances, should not e regarded as a common base joining such machines or appliances to form a whole. % Note 3 to Section XVI need not be invoked when the composite machine is covered as such by a particular heading, for example, some types of air conditioning machines (heading 84.15). It should be noted that multi-purpose machines (e.g., machine-tools capable of working metals and other materials or eyeletting machines used equally well in the aper, textile, leather, plastics, etc., industries) are to be classified according to the provisions o Note 7 to Chapter 84. ? (VII) FUNCTIONAL UNITS (Section Note 4) This Note applies when a machine (including a combination of machines consists of separate components which are intended to contribute together to a clear1 define .function covered by one of the headin s in Chapter 84 or, more frequently, Chapter 5. The whole then falls to be classified in the eading appropriate to that hction, whether the various corn onents (for convenience or other reasons) remain separate or are interconnected by pipin compressed gas, oil, etc.), by devices used to transmit power, by electric cab es or y other airy devices. !i ! d f f.Tg For the purposes of this Note, the expression" intended to contribute together to a clearly defined function" covers only machines and combinations of machines essential to the performance of the function specific to the functional unit as a whole, and thus excludes machines or appliances Mfilling auxiliary functions and which do not contribute to the function of the whole. The following are examples of functional units of this type within the meaning of Note 4 to this Section : (1) Hydraulic s stems consisting of a h draulic power unit (corn rising essentially a h draulic pump, an e ectric motor, control va ves and an oil tank), hy aulic c linders and e pipes or hoses needed to connect the cylinders to the hydraulic power unit &eading 84.12). b: (2) Refrigerating equipment consisting of components which are not fitted together to form a whole and are interconnected by means of piping through which the coolant circulates (heading 84.18). (3) Irrigation systems consisting of a control station corn rising filters, injectors, meterin valves, etc., underground distribution and branchP, ' es, and a surface networ (heading 84.24). .f (4) Milking machines with separate component arts (vacuum pump, pulsator, teat-cups and pails) interconnected by hoses or piping (head?ng 84.34). (5) Brewhouse machinery comprising, inter alia, sproutin or emination machines, malt crushing machines, mashing vats, straining vats (he&g h.38). Auxiliary appl~mces (e.g., bottling machines, label-printing rnachlnes), are however not included and should be classified in their own appropnate heading. (6) Letter sorting systems consisting essentially of coding desks, pre-sorting channel systems, intermediate sorters and final sorters, the whole being controlled by an automatic data processing machine (heading 84.72). XVI (7) Asphalt plant consisting of separate components, such as feed hoppers, conve ors, dryers, vibrating screens, mxers, storage bins and control units, placed si e by side (heading 84.74). B (8) Machinery for assembling electric filament lamps, of which the component parts are interconnected by conveyors, and which include equipment for the heat-treatment of glass, pumps and lamp-testing units (heading 84.75). (9) Weldin equipment consisting of the welding head or tongs, with a transformer, generator or recti er to supply the current (heading 85.15). I (10) Portable radiotelephone transmitters and their associated hand microphone (heading 85.17). (1 1) Radar apparatus with the associated power packs, amplifiers, etc. (heading 85.26). (12) Satellite television rece tion systems consistin of a receiver, a parabolic aerial reflector dish, a control rotator or the reflector dish, a eed horn (wave guide), a polarizer, a lownoise-block (LNB) down converter and an infia-red remote control (heading 85.28). f (13) Burglar alarms, comprising, e.g., an infra-red lamp, a photoelectric cell and a bell (heading 85.31). It should be noted that component parts not complying with the terms of Note 4 to Section XVI fall in their own ap ropriate headings. This a plies, for example, to closed circuit video-suyeillance systems, consisting o a combination of a variab e number of television cameras and video mon$ors c0nnected.b~ coaxial cables to a controller, switchers, audio boardlreceivers and possibly automattc data processing machines (for saving data) and/or video recorders (for recording pictures). P P (VIII) MOBILE MACHINERY As regards self-propelled or other mobile machines, reference should be made to the Explanatory Notes to the headings for the machines (e. , lifting and handlin machinery, headings 84.25 to 84.28, and excavating machinery, hea 'ngs 84.29 and 84.307, and to the Explanatory Notes to the Chapters and headings of Section X W . L (IX)MACHINERY AND APPARATUS FOR USE IN LABORATORIES Machinery and apparatus of a kind covered by this Section remain classified in the Section even if specialised for use in laboratories or in connection with scientific and measurine instruments, provided they do not constitute non-industrial demonstrational ap aratus of headlng 90.23 nor measuring, checking, etc., instruments of Cha ter 90. For examp e, small furnaces, distillation apparatus, grinders, mixers, electrical trans ormers and capacitors, for use in laboratories, remain classified in this Section. P P