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G/IT/W/40/Add.1
12 May 2015
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Committee of Participants on the Expansion of Trade in 
Information Technology Products  Original: English
 
 DIVERGENCES OF CLASSIFICATION: POSSIBLE HS2007 CLASSIFICATION  
FOR THE REMAINING 37 "ATTACHMENT B" ITEMS 
SUBMISSION BY NORWAY 
Addendum 
The following communication, dated 8 May 2015, is being circulated at the request of the 
delegation of Norway. 
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Norway has the following comments to document G/IT/W/40. The numbering below reflects the 
numbering of the product lines in the annex to the document. For the lines without comments 
Norway supports the classification stated in column 8 of the annex. 
 
No. Norwegian Comments 
 
1 Norway can agree to classify the products under subheading 8486.20. 
The products described combined with the subheading description, and also the 
Explanatory Notes to HS Heading 84.86, support this conclusion. 
6 The products described are found in the Explanatory Notes to HS Heading 84.86. 
According to these notes the classification  of the equipment should be classified 
within subheading 8486.40. 
Therefore the reference to subheading 8486.20 (in column 9) is in our view 
redundant. 
8 Norway agrees to classify the products under subheading 8486.40.  
See item D.3 of the Explanatory Notes to HS Heading 84.86. 
9 We agree to add a reference to subheading 8486.10 is relevant.  
18 We question the use of 853690.  
We have found wafer probers to be complex apparatus of a kind classifiable within HS Heading 90.30 (subheading 9030.82).  
21 We support that the reference to subheading 9011.10 is relevant in the cases 
that the microscope is the part of the product that gives it the essential character 
(ref General Interpretative Rules of the HS), i.e. probably when presented 
without the handling and transport equipment referred to in column 4.  
22 We support that the reference to subheading 9011.20 is relevant in the cases 
that the microscope is the part of the product that gives it the essential character (ref General Interpretative Rules of the HS), i.e. probably when presented 
without the handling and transport equipment referred to in column 4. 
23 We support that the reference to subheading 9011.90 is relevant in the cases 
that the microscope is the part of the product that gives it the essential character 
(ref General Interpretative Rules of the HS), i.e. probably when presented without the handling and transport equipment referred to in column 4. 
24 We support that the reference to subheading 9011.90 is relevant in the cases 
that the microscope is the part of the product that gives it the essential character 
(ref General Interpretative Rules of the HS), i.e. probably when presented 
without the handling and transport equipment referred to in column 4. G/IT/W/40/Add.1 
 
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  No. Norwegian Comments 
 
25 We support that the reference to subheading 9012.10 is relevant in the cases 
that the microscope is the part of the product that gives it the essential character (ref General Interpretative Rules of the HS), i.e. probably when presented without the handling and transport equipment referred to in column 4. 
26 We support that the reference to subheading 9012.90 is relevant in the cases 
that the microscope is the part of the product that gives it the essential character 
(ref General Interpretative Rules of the HS), i.e. probably when presented without the handling and transport equipment referred to in column 4. 
29 Flat panel displays is in our opinion not classifiable within heading 84.71. 
We propose to delete subheading 8471.49 from column 8 and subheading 
8471.60 from column 9. 
We question what kind of equipment covered by the product description in 
column 4 that may be classified within subheadings 8543.70 and 8543.90.  We do not support the inclusion of subheading 8528.69 as a possible 
classification for these products. 
We agree to add the reference to subheadings 8443.99, 8473.30 and 8517.70 to column 8 as possible classifications. 
30 We do not support the addition of subh eading 8471.80 as a possible classification 
of the products described. 
31 We believe that the products described are classifiable in subheading 8517.62, 
and the parts in subheading 8517.70. We propose to delete subheading 8517.69 
from column 8 as in our opinion 8517.62 covers all the products in question. We do not support the inclusion of subheading 8529.10 as a possible classification, as heading 85.17 is not mentioned in the heading text of HS 
Heading 85.29.  
 
 
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