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84.77 - Machinery for working rubber or plastics or for the manufacture of products from these materials, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter. 8477.10 - Injection-moulding machines 8477.20 - Extruders 8477.30 - Blow moulding machines 8477.40 - Vacuum moulding machines and other thennoforming machines - Other machinery for moulding or otherwise forming : 8477.5 1 - - For moulding or retreading pneumatic tyres or for moulding or otherwise forming inner tubes - - Other 8477.80 - Other machinery 8477.59 8477.90 - Parts The heading covers machinery for working rubber or plastics or for the manufacture of products from these materials, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter. This heading incIudes : (1) Moulding machines for tyres or other articles of rubber or plastics excluding moulds as such (headings 68.15,69.03 and 84.80 in particular). (2) Inner-tube valve-hole cutting machines. (3) Special rubber-thread cutting machines and appliances. (4) Forming presses for rubber or plastics. (5) Special presses for moulding thermoplastic powders. (6) Presses for making gramophone records. (7) Machinery for the manufacture of vulcanised fibre. (8) Extruders. PARTS Sub'ect to the general provisions regardin the classification of arts (see the General Exp anatory Note to Section XVI), the heackg also covers parts o the machinery of this heading. P However, the heading does not cover machinery for encapsulation in the assembly of semiconductors (heading 84.86).
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);