. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/IT/W/30  
11 March 2009 
 (09-1209) 
Committee of Participants on the Expansion of Trade in 
Information Technology Products  
 
 
 
CLASSIFICATION DIVERGENCES 
 
Note by the Secretariat  
 
 
 
 
  
 
  In order to proceed with work on Classifi cation Divergences, it was requested at the 
Chairman's informal consultations on 2 March 2 009 that the Secretariat reproduce and circulate 
List I (A): Items where divergences were narrowe d to one classification option, as contained in 
document G/IT/W/6/Rev.3 of 20 December 2004, fo r participants' consideration and eventual 
endorsement by the Committee.    
   
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 This document has been prepa red under the Secretariat's own 
responsibility and without prejudice to the positions of Members 
and to their rights and obligations under the WTO G/IT/W/30 
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I (A).  DIVERGENCES WERE NARROWED TO ONE CLASSIFICATION OPTION 
 
1. 113- Quartz reactor tubes and holders d esigned for insertion into  diffusion and oxidation 
furnaces for production of  semiconductor wafers (702000) 
 
2. 114- Chemical vapour deposition appara tus for semiconductor production (841989) 
 3. 115- Parts of chemical vapour deposition apparatus for semiconductor production (841990) 
 4. 125- Lasercutters for cutting contacting tr acks in semiconductor production by laser beam 
(845610) 
 5. 126- Machines for sawing monocrystal semiconduc tor boules into slices, or wafers into chips 
(846410) 
 
6.  141- Apparatus for physical deposition by  sputtering on semiconductor wafers (854389) 
 7. 147- Physical deposition apparatu s for semiconductor production (854389) 
 8. 148- Spinners for coating photographic emulsions on semiconductor wafers (847989) 
 
9. 149- Part of apparatus for physical de position by sputtering on semiconductor wafers 
(854390) 
 10. 151- Parts for spinners for coating phot ographic emulsions on semiconductor wafers (847990) 
 
11. 158- Parts of physical deposition appa ratus for semiconductor production (854390) 
 12. 162- Apparatus for rapid heati ng of semiconductor wafers (851430)  
 13. 164- Parts of apparatus for rapid heating of wafers (851490) 
 
14. 181- Pattern generating apparatus of a kind used for producing masks or reticles from 
photoresist coated substrates (901720) 
 15. 182- Parts and accessories for pattern generati ng apparatus of a kind used for producing 
masks or reticles from photoresist coated substrates (901790) 
 
16. 183- Parts of such pattern  generating apparatus (901790) 
 17. 195- Monitors : display units of automatic data processing machines with a cathode ray tube 
with a dot screen pitch smaller than 0,4 mm not capable of receiving and processing television signals or other analogue or digitally processed  audio or video signals without assistance of a 
central processing unit of a computer as define d in this agreement.  The agreement does not, 
therefore, cover televisions, including  high definition televisions. (847160) 
 18. 196- Optical disc storage units, for automatic  data processing machines (including CD drives 
and DVD-drives),  whether or not having the capability of writing/recording as well as 
reading, whether or not in their own housings. (847170) 
   
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