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84.50 Household or laundry-type washing machines, including machines which both wash and dry (+). - Machines, each of a dry linen capacity not exceeding 10 kg : - - Fully-automatic machines 8450.12 - - Other machines, with built-in centrifugal drier 8450.19 - - Other 8450.11 8450.20 - Machines, each of a dry linen capacity exceeding 10 kg 8450.90 - Parts The heading covers household or laundry- e washin machines (whether or not electric and whatever the weight), which are normal y used in t e household, commercial laundries, hospitals, etc., to clean linens, finished goods, ek. They usually include paddles or rotating cylinders for kee ing the liquid circulating through the contents, or sometimes a device to give high frequency vl7 3rations to the liquid. 1" h The heading also covers machines which both wash and dry. However, dry-cleaning machinery falls in heading 84.51. PARTS Sub'ect to the general provisions regardin the ~l~assification of parts (see the General Exp anatory Note to Section XVI), the h e A g also covers parts of the machines of this heading.
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 70.17); machinery, appliances or other articles for technical uses or parts thereof, of glass (heading 70.19 or 70.20); (d) Articles of heading 73.21 or 73.22 or similar articles of other base metals (Chapters 74 to 76 or 78 to 81); (e) Vacuum cleaners of heading 85.08; (f) Electro-mechanical domestic appliances of heading 85.09; digital cameras of heading 85.25; (g) Radiators for the articles of Section XVII; or (h) Hand-operated mechanical floor sweepers, not motorised (heading 96.03). 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 the headings 84.01 to 84.24, or heading 84.86 and at the same time to a description in one or more of the headings 84.25 to 84.80 is to be classified under the appropriate heading of the former group or under heading 84.86, as the case may be, and not the latter group. (A) Heading 84.19 does not, however, cover : (i) Germination plant, incubators or brooders (heading 84.36); (ii) Grain dampening machines (heading 84.37); (iii) Diffusing apparatus for sugar juice extraction (heading 84.38);