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This Chapter does not cover :
(a)
Electrically warmed blankets, bed pads, foot-muffs or the like;
electrically warmed clothing, footwear or ear pads or other electrically
warmed articles worn on or about the person;
(b)
Articles of glass of heading 70.11;
(c)
Machines and apparatus of heading 84.86;
(d)
Vacuum apparatus of a kind used in medical, surgical, dental or
veterinary sciences (heading 90.18); or
(e)
Electrically heated furniture of Chapter 94.
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Headings 85.01 to 85.04 do not apply to goods described in heading
85.11, 85.12, 85.40, 85.41 or 85.42.
However,
metal tank mercury arc rectifiers remain classified in heading 85.04.
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For the purposes of heading 85.07, the expression “electric
accumulators” includes those presented with ancillary components which
contribute to the accumulator’s function of storing
and supplying energy or protect it from damage, such as electrical
connectors, temperature control devices (for example, thermistors) and
circuit protection devices. They may also include a portion of the
protective housing of the goods in which they are to be used.
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Heading 85.09 covers only the following electro-mechanical machines of
the kind commonly used for domestic purposes :
(a)
Floor polishers, food grinders and mixers, and fruit or vegetable juice
extractors, of any weight;
(b)
Other machines provided the weight of such machines does not exceed 20
kg.
The
heading does not, however, apply to fans or ventilating or recycling
hoods incorporating a fan, whether or not fitted with filters (heading
84.14), centrifugal clothes-dryers (heading 84.21), dish washing
machines (heading 84.22), household washing machines (heading 84.50),
roller or other ironing machines (heading 84.20 or 84.51), sewing
machines (heading 84.52), electric scissors (heading 84.67) or to
electro-thermic appliances (heading 85.16).
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For the purposes of heading 85.23 :
(a)
“Solid-state non-volatile storage devices”
(for example, “flash memory cards” or “flash
electronic storage cards”) are storage devices with a connecting socket,
comprising in the same housing one or more flash memories (for example,
“FLASH E2PROM”) in the form of integrated
circuits mounted on a printed circuit board. They may include a
controller in the form of an integrated circuit and discrete passive
components, such as capacitors and resistors;
(b)
The term “smart cards” means cards which have
embedded in them one or more electronic integrated circuits (a
microprocessor, random access memory (RAM) or read-only memory (ROM)) in
the form of chips. These cards may contain contacts, a magnetic stripe
or an embedded antenna but do not contain any other active or passive
circuit elements.
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For the purposes of heading 85.34 “printed circuits” are circuits
obtained by forming on an insulating base, by any printing process (for
example, embossing, plating-up, etching) or by the “film
circuit” technique, conductor elements, contacts or
other printed components (for example, inductances, resistors,
capacitors) alone or interconnected according to a pre-established
pattern, other than elements which can produce, rectify, modulate or
amplify an electrical signal (for example, semiconductor elements).
The expression “printed circuits” does not cover circuits combined with
elements other than those obtained during the printing process, nor does
it cover individual, discrete resistors, capacitors or inductances.
Printed circuits may, however, be fitted with non-printed connecting
elements.
Thin- or thick-film circuits comprising passive and active elements
obtained during the same technological process are to be classified in
heading 85.42.
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For the purpose of heading 85.36, “connectors for optical fibres,
optical fibre bundles or cables” means connectors
that simply mechanically align optical fibres end to end in a digital
line system. They perform no other function, such as the amplification,
regeneration or modification of a signal.
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Heading 85.37 does not include cordless infrared devices for the remote
control of television receivers or other electrical equipment (heading
85.43).
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For the purposes of headings 85.41 and 85.42 :
(a)
“Diodes, transistors and similar semiconductor devices” are
semiconductor devices the operation of which depends on variations in
resistivity on the application of an electric field;
(b)
“Electronic integrated circuits” are :
(i)
Monolithic integrated circuits in which the circuit elements (diodes,
transistors, resistors, capacitors, inductances, etc.) are created in
the mass (essentially) and on the surface of a semiconductor or compound
semiconductor material (for example, doped silicon, gallium arsenide,
silicon germanium, indium phosphide) and are inseparably associated;
(ii) Hybrid integrated circuits in which passive elements
(resistors, capacitors, inductances, etc.), obtained by thin- or
thick-film technology, and active elements (diodes, transistors,
monolithic integrated circuits, etc.), obtained by semiconductor
technology, are combined to all intents and purposes indivisibly, by
interconnections or interconnecting cables, on a single insulating
substrate (glass, ceramic, etc.). These circuits may also include
discrete components;
(iii)
Multichip integrated circuits consisting of two or more interconnected
monolithic integrated circuits combined to all intents and purposes
indivisibly, whether or not on one or more insulating substrates, with
or without leadframes, but with no other active or passive circuit
elements.
(iv)
Multi-component integrated circuits (MCOs) : a combination of one or
more monolithic, hybrid, or multi-chip integrated circuits with at least
one of the following components : silicon-based sensors, actuators,
oscillators, resonators or combinations thereof, or components
performing the functions of articles classifiable under heading 85.32,
85.33, 85.41, or inductors classifiable under heading 85.04, formed to
all intents and purposes indivisibly into a single body like an
integrated circuit, as a component of a kind used for assembly onto a
printed circuit board (PCB) or other carrier, through the connecting of
pins, leads, balls, lands, bumps, or pads.
For
the purpose of this definition :
1.
“Components” may be discrete,
manufactured independently then assembled onto the rest of the MCO, or
integrated into other components.
2.
“Silicon based” means built on a silicon substrate,
or made of silicon materials, or manufactured onto integrated circuit
die.
3.
(a) “Silicon based sensors” consist of
microelectronic or mechanical structures that are created in the mass or
on the surface of a semiconductor and that have the function of
detecting physical or chemical quantities and transducing these into
electric signals, caused by resulting variations in electric properties
or displacement of a mechanical structure. “Physical or chemical
quantities” relates to real world phenomena, such as
pressure, acoustic waves, acceleration, vibration, movement,
orientation, strain, magnetic field strength, electric field strength,
light, radioactivity, humidity, flow, chemicals concentration, etc.
(b)”Silicon based actuators” consist of
microelectronic and mechanical structures that are created in the mass
or on the surface of a semiconductor and that have the function of
converting electrical signals into physical movement.
(c) “Silicon based resonators” are
components that consist of microelectronic or mechanical structures that
are created in the mass or on the surface of a semiconductor and have
the function of generating a mechanical or electrical oscillation of a
predefined frequency that depends on the physical geometry of these
structures in response to an external input.
(d)”Silicon
based oscillators” are active components that consist of microelectronic
or mechanical structures that are created in the mass or on the surface
of a semiconductor and that have the function of generating a mechanical
or electrical oscillation of a predefined frequency that depends on the
physical geometry of these structures.
For the classification of the articles defined in this Note, headings
85.41 and 85.42 shall take precedence over any other heading in the
Nomenclature, except in the case of heading 85.23, which might cover
them by reference to, in particular, their function.
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For the purposes of heading 85.48, “spent primary
cells, spent primary batteries and spent electric accumulators” are
those which are neither usable as such because of breakage, cutting-up,
wear or other reasons, nor capable of being recharged.
Subheading Note.
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Subheading 8527.12 covers only cassette-players with built-in amplifier,
without built-in loudspeaker, capable of operating without an external
source of electric power and the dimensions of which do not exceed 170
mm x 100 mm x 45 mm.