# C_2018305EN.01000401.xml

| 30.8.2018 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 305/4 |
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30.8.2018

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 305/4

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Explanatory Notes to the Combined Nomenclature of the European Union

(2018/C 305/05)

Pursuant to Article 9(1)(a) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 (1), the Explanatory Notes to the Combined Nomenclature of the European Union (2) are hereby amended as follows:

On page 379

| 9403 | Other furniture and parts thereof |
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9403

Other furniture and parts thereof

The following text shall be added after the existing text:

‘This heading does not include “information displays” such as “street boards” and “roll-ups”.

They are to be classified in other headings of the Nomenclature under which they are more specifically included (for example, street boards with writing or drawing surfaces corresponding to products of heading 9610) or according to their constituent material:

| (a) | under a heading specifically covering these articles (for example, plates of base metal corresponding to products of heading 8310 are classified under this heading), or |
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(a)

under a heading specifically covering these articles (for example, plates of base metal corresponding to products of heading 8310 are classified under this heading), or

| (b) | under a heading covering various articles of this material (for example, heading 3926 or heading 7616). |
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(b)

under a heading covering various articles of this material (for example, heading 3926 or heading 7616).

Example of a street board to be classified in heading 9610:

Street board with a blackboard surface.

Example of a street board to be classified in heading 8310:

Street board made solely of base metal.

Examples of “information displays” which are to be classified according to their constituent material, under a heading covering various articles of this material:

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| A base of hard plastics, a top of an aluminium frame with a plastic sheet in the middle covered by transparent PVC foils from both sides. | A base and a frame of aluminium with rubber attachments and transparent PVC foils covering a sheet of paper. |
| Heading 7616 (the essential character is provided by the aluminium frame). | Heading 7616 (the essential character is provided by the aluminium frame). |
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| A central plastic plate attached to five plastic rods (bars) of almost equal length, all of which can be tilted in different directions. Four of them have a plastic hook at the end and a plastic cap is mounted on the fifth rod. | |
| Heading 3926 (the article is made solely of plastics).’ | |

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A base of hard plastics, a top of an aluminium frame with a plastic sheet in the middle covered by transparent PVC foils from both sides.

A base and a frame of aluminium with rubber attachments and transparent PVC foils covering a sheet of paper.

Heading 7616 (the essential character is provided by the aluminium frame).

Heading 7616 (the essential character is provided by the aluminium frame).

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A central plastic plate attached to five plastic rods (bars) of almost equal length, all of which can be tilted in different directions. Four of them have a plastic hook at the end and a plastic cap is mounted on the fifth rod.

Heading 3926 (the article is made solely of plastics).’

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(1)  Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July 1987 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff (OJ L 256, 7.9.1987, p. 1).

(2)  OJ C 76, 4.3.2015, p. 1.

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