CELEX: 31986D0178
Language: en
Date: 1986-02-28 00:00:00
Title: 86/178/EEC: Commission Decision adopting the list of products in respect of which Portugal may maintain exemption from customs duties on import

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                                       (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                              COMMISSION
                                              COMMISSION DECISION
           adopting the list of products in respect of which Portugal may maintain exemption from customs
                                                     duties on import
                                           (Only the Portuguese text is authentic)
                                                       (86/ 178/EEC)
           THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
           Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal, and in particular Protocol
           No 16 thereto,
           Whereas the provisions of Article 197 of the Act of Accession concerning the alignment of
           the Portuguese customs tariff duties on those of the Common Customs Tariff and the ECSC
           unified tariff, and also the provisions of Article 190 of the Act of Accession concerning the
           progressive abolition of customs duties between the Community as constituted on
           31 December 1985 and Portugal, do not prevent the maintenance, in respect of the six firms
           indicated below, of measures exempting imports of capital goods from customs duties until
           the expiry of the agreements concluded between the firms concerned and the Portuguese
           Government :
           — ISOPOR — Companhia Portuguesa de Isocianetos, Lda,
           — RENAULT Portuguesa —Sociedade Comercial e Industrial, Lda,
           — DEA Portuguesa — Sociedade de Equipamentos Automóveis, Lda,
           — SOMINCOR — Sociedade Mineira Neves-Corvo, Lda,
           — TEXAS Instruments,
           — FUNFRAP — Sociedade de Fundição Franco-Portuguesa, SARL ;
           Whereas Protocol No 16 to the Act of Accession provides that the said date of expiry and the
           respective total amounts of investment in capital equipment for the firms concerned shall be
           as follows :
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                                                                                  Total amount of
                                                      Date of expiry               investment in
                           Company                     of contract
                                                                                 capital equipment
            ISOPOR —
            Companhia Portuguesa de
            Isocianetos, Lda                       25 July 1990              USD 37 000 000
            RENAULT Portuguesa —
            Sociedade Comercial et
            Industrial, Lda                         13 February 1990         Esc 9 000 million ( 1978)
            DEA Portuguesa —
            Sociedade de Equipamentos
            Automoveis, Lda                        28 July 1991              FF 35 000 000
            SOMINCOR —
            Sociedade Mineira
            Neves-Corvo, Lda                       31 December 1989          Esc 13 000 million
            TEXAS Instruments                      31 December 1993          USD 30 000 000
            FUNFRAP —
            Sociedade de Fundi9ao
            Franco-Portuguesa, SARL                30 November 1993          Esc 2 300 million
            Whereas Portugal has supplied all the information necessary for this purpose ;
            Whereas the Commission is to adopt as from accession the list of imported products which
            are to be exempt from customs duties,
            HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
                                                        Article 1
            The list of products imported into Portugal which are exempt from customs duties pursuant
            to Protocol No 16 to the Act of Accession shall be as set out in the Annex hereto.
                                                        Article 2
            This Decision is addressed to the Portuguese Republic.
            Done at Brussels, 28 February 1986.
                                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                                           COCKFIELD
                                                                                           Vice-President
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                                                     ANNEX
           LIST OF PRODUCTS IMPORTED INTO PORTUGAL WHICH ARE EXEMPT FROM CUSTOMS
                    DUTIES PURSUANT TO PROTOCOL NO 16 TO THE ACT OF ACCESSION
                                                                              Page
           1.  Isopor                                                            4
           2.  Renault Portuguesa      .                                         7
           3.  DEA Portuguesa                                                   11
           4.  Somincor                                                         16
           5.  Texas Instruments                                               32
           6.  Funfrap                                                         34
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                                               1 . ISOPOR
             CCT
            heading                                     Description
            number
              73.11 Angles, shapes and sections, of iron or steel, hot-rolled, forged, extruded, cold­
                    formed or cold-finished ; sheet piling of iron or steel, whether or not drilled,
                    punched or made from assembled elements :
                    A. Angles, shapes and sections
              73.18 Tubes and pipes and blanks therefor, of iron (other than of cast iron) or steel,
                    excluding high-pressure hydro-electric conduits :
                    B. Other :
                            L Straight and of uniform wall-thickness, unworked, seamless, of circular
                               cross-section, solely for the manufacture of tubes and pipes with other
                               cross-sections and wall-thicknesses
                       ex III. Other :
                               — Tubes answering to the description in subheading B II but of a length
                                   of more than 4,50 m
                               — Seamless or welded tubes, of circular cross-section, more than
                                   406,4 mm in external diameter
                               — Seamless or welded tubes, of circular cross-section, not more than
                                   406,4 mm in external diameter
              84.11 Air pumps, vacuum pumps and air or gas compressors (including motor and turbo
                    pumps and compressors, and free-piston generators for gas turbines); fans, blowers
                    and the like :
                    A. Pumps and compressors :
                       II. Other­
                           ex b) Other pumps and compressors :
                                   — Vacuum pumps
                                   — Compressors for refrigerating equipment
                                   — Other pumps and compressors :
                                      — Other than those mounted on chassis, for towing :
                                         — Reciprocating piston pumps and compressors
                                         — Rotary displacement pumps and compressors
                                         — Other than turbo-compressors
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            CCT
           heading                                       Description
           number
             84.17  Machinery, plant and similar laboratory equipment, whether or not electrically
                    heated, for the treatment of materials by a process involving a change of tempera­
                    ture such as heating, cooking, roasting, distilling, rectifying, sterilizing, pasteu­
                    rizing, steaming, drying, evaporating, vapourizing, condensing or cooling, not
                    being machinery or plant of a kind used for domestic purposes ; instantaneous or
                    storage water heaters, non-electrical :
                    F. Other :
                        ex II. Other :
                               — Machinery, plant and similar laboratory equipment other than stoves,
                                  ranges and similar appliances for catering, dryers, machinery for
                                  liquefying air or gases and cooling towers and similar plant for direct
                                  cooling (without a separating wall) by means of recirculated water :
                                  — For the chemical industry
              84.59 Machines and mechanical appliances, having individual functions, not falling
                    within any other heading of this Chapter:
                    E. Other :
                        ex II. Other :
                               — Machines and mechanical appliances :
                                  — Machines and mechanical appliances other than mobile hydraulic
                                       powered mine roof supports :
                                       — Other than those for processing tea and coffee, for the animal
                                          or vegetable fats and oil industries or for the tobacco
                                          industry :
                                          — Other than those for the food, drink or vinegar manufac­
                                             turing industries, for the rubber and artificial plastic mate­
                                             rials industries, for treating wood or metals or for building
                                             and public works
              84.61 Taps, cocks, valves and similar appliances, for pipes, boiler shells, tanks, vats and
                    the like, including pressure reducing valves and thermostatically controlled
                    valves :
                        A. Pressure reducing valves
                    ex B. Other:
                           — Other than valves for the control of hydraulic or pneumatic power trans­
                               mission and valves for pneumatic tyres and inner tubes :
                               — Other than taps, cocks and valves for sinks, wash basins, bidets, water
                                  cisterns, baths and similar fixtures and central heating radiator
                                  valves
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            CCT
           heading                                     Description
           number
             85.19 Electrical apparatus for making and breaking electrical circuits, for the protection
                   of electrical circuits, or for making connections to or in electrical circuits (for
                   example, switches, relays, fuses, lightning arresters, surge suppressors, plugs,
                   lampholders and junction boxes); resistors, fixed or variable (including potentio­
                   meters), other than heating resistors, printed circuits, switchboards (other than tele­
                   phone switchboards) and control panels :
                   ex D. Switchboards and control panels :
                          — Bare (not fitted with apparatus and instruments)
                          — Other :
                             — Other than for telecommunication and instrument applications :
                                 — For industrial applications
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                                               2. RENAULT
              CCT
             heading                                     Description
             number
               84.11 Air pumps, vacuum pumps and air or gas compressors (including motor and turbo
                     pumps and compressors, and free-piston generators for gas turbines); fans, blowers
                     and the like :
                     A. Pumps and compressors :
           '
                         II. Other :
                              b) Other pumps and compressors :
                                 — Air pumps
               84.15 Refrigerators and refrigerating equipment (electrical and other):
                     C. Other :
                         ex II. Other :
                                 — Refrigerating equipment, excluding parts
               84.17 Machinery, plant and similar laboratory equipment, whether or not electrically
                     heated, for the treatment of materials by a process involving a change of tempera­
                     ture such as heating, cooking, roasting, distilling, rectifying, sterilizing, pasteu­
                     rizing, steaming, drying, evaporating, vapourizing, condensing or cooling, not
                     being machinery or plant of a kind used for domestic purposes ; instantaneous or
                     storage water heaters, non-electrical :
                     F. Other :
                         ex II . Other :
                                 — Heating appliances, exlcuding parts
               84.18 Centrifuges ; filtering and purifying machinery and apparatus (other than filter
                     tunnels, milk strainers and the like), for liquids or gases :
                     C. Other :
                         II . Other :
                              a) Centrifuges :
                                 ex 2. Other :
                                       — Centrifuges, excluding parts
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                CCT
              heading                                      Description
              number
             ex 84.20  Weighing machinery (excluding balances of a sensitivity of S eg or better) including
                       weight-operated counting and checking machines ; weighing machine weights of all
                       kinds :
                       — Weighing machines, excluding parts and accessories
                 84.22 Lifting, handling, loading or unloading machinery, telphers and conveyors (for
                       example, lifts, hoists, winches, cranes, transporter cranes, jacks, pulley tackle, belt
                       conveyors and teleferics), not being machinery falling within heading No 84.23 :
                        B. Other :
                           ex II. Self-propelled cranes on wheels, not capable of running on rails :
                                  — Excluding parts
                           ex IV. Other :
                                  — Excluding parts
             ex 84.43  Converters, ladles, ingot moulds and casting machines, of a kind used in metal­
                       lurgy and in metal foundries :
                       — Converters of a kind used in steelworks, excluding parts
                 84.45 Machine-tools for working metal or metal carbides, not being machines falling
                       within heading No 84.49 or 84.S0 :
                       B. Machine-tools operating by electro-erosion or other electrical processes ; ultra­
                           sonic machine-tools
                       C. Other machine-tools
             ex 84.60  Moulding boxes for metal foundry ; moulds of a type used for metal (other than
                       ingot moulds), for metal carbides, for glass, for mineral materials (for example,
                       ceramic pastes, concrete or cement) or for rubber or artificial plastic materials :
                       — Moulds of a type used for metal
                 84.61 Taps, cocks, valves and similar appliances, for pipes, boiler shells, tanks, vats and
                       the like, including pressure reducing valves and thermostatically controlled
                       valves :
                       ex B. Other :
                              — Taps, cocks and valves
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              CCT
            heading                                         Description
            number
               85.01  Electrical goods of the following descriptions : generators, motors, converters
                      (rotary or static), transformers, rectifiers and rectifying apparatus, inductors :
                      B. Other machines and apparatus :
                          I. Generators, motors, (whether or not equipped with speed reducing, changing
                             or step-up gear) and rotary converters :
                                 a) Synchronous motors of an output of not more than 18 watts
                             exb) Other :
                                    — Motors
               85.1 1 Industrial and laboratory electric furnaces, ovens and induction and dielectric
                      heating equipment ; electric or laser-operated welding, brazing, soldering or cutting
                      machines and apparatus :
                      A. Furnaces, ovens, induction and dielectric heating equipment :
                          ex II . Other :
                                  — Electric furnaces and ovens, excluding parts
               85.19  Electrical apparatus for making and breaking electrical circuits, for the protection
                      of electrical circuits, or for making connections to or in electrical circuits (for
                      example, switches, relays, fuses, lightning arresters, surge suppressors, plugs,
                      lampholders and junction boxes); resistors, fixed or variable (including potentio­
                      meters), other than heating resistors ; printed circuits ; switchboards (other than tele­
                      phone switchboards) and control panels :.
                      A. Electrical apparatus for making and breaking electrical circuits, for the protec­
                          tion of electrical circuits or for making connections to or in electrical circuits :
                          — Make-and-break switches, excluding parts
               85.22  Electrical appliances and apparatus, having individual functions, not falling within
                      any other heading of this Chapter :
                      C. Other :
                          II. Other appliances and apparatus
           ex 90.22   Machines and appliances for testing mechanically the hardness, strength, compres­
                      sibility, elasticity and the like properties of industrial materials (for example,
                      metals, wood, textiles, paper or plastics):
                      — Excluding parts
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                CCT
               heading                                    Description
               number
              ex 90.25 Instruments and apparatus for physical or chemical analysis (such as polarimeters,
                       refractometers, spectrometers, gas analysis apparatus); instruments and apparatus
                       for measuring or checking viscosity, porosity, expansion, surface tension or the like
                       (such as viscometers, porosimeters, expansion meters); instruments and apparatus
                       for measuring or checking quantities of heat, light or sound (such as photometers
                       [including exposure meters], calorimeters); microtomes :
                       — Excluding parts
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                                           3 . DEA PORTUGUESA
             CCT
            heading                                         Description
            number
           ex 82.04  Hand tools, including glaziers' diamonds, not falling within any other heading of
                     this Chapter ; blow lamps, anvils ; vices and clamps, other than accessories for, and
                     parts of, machine tools ; portable forges ; grinding wheels with frameworks (hand or
                     pedal operated):
                     — Vices, clamps and the like
               84.10 Pumps (including motor pumps and turbo pumps) for liquids, whether or not fitted
                     with measuring devices ; liquid elevators of bucket, chain, screw, band and similar
                     kinds :
                     B. Other pumps :
                         II . Other :
                              ex a) Pumps :
                                    — Other than hand pumps, pumps for internal combustion engines
                                        and dosing and proportioning pumps :
                                        — pumps
               84.17 Machinery, plant and similar laboratory equipment, whether or not electrically
                     heated, for the treatment of materials by a process involving a change of tempera­
                     ture such as heating, cooking, roasting, distilling, rectifying, sterilizing, pasteu­
                     rizing, steaming, drying, evaporating, vapourizing, condensing or cooling, not
                     being machinery or plant of a kind used for domestic purposes ; instantaneous or
                     storage water heaters, non-electrical :
                     F. Other :
                         ex II . Other, excluding :
                                 — Stoves, ranges and similar appliances for catering
                                 — Dryers
                                 — Machinery for liquefying air or gases
                                 — Machinery and plant for the dairy industry, the edible fats and oils
                                     industry, the sugar industry, the chocolate and confectionery in­
                                     dustries, for processing other products of the food, drink and tobacco
                                     industries, for the chemical industry, the rubber and artificial plastic
                                     industries and for public works, building and the like
                                 — Parts
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                CCT
               heading                                      Description
               number
              ex 84.20  Weighing machinery (excluding balances of a sensitivity of 5 eg or better) including
                        weight-operated counting and checking machines ; weighing machine weights of all
                        kinds :
                        — Weighing machines of a capacity of more than 30 kg, excluding :
                            — Personal scales
                           — Kitchen scales
                            — Continuous totalizing weighing machines of the belt conveyor type
                            — Dosers, sack filling weighers and other machines discharging pre-deter­
                                mined weights of material
                            — Check weighers and automatic control machines operating by reference to a
                                pre-determined weight
                            — Machines for weighing and labelling pre-packaged goods
                            — Weighing machinery with non-automatic balancing
                            — Shop scales
                  84.21 Mechanical appliances (whether or not hand operated) for projecting, dispersing or
                        spraying liquids or powders ; fire extinguishers (charged or not); spray guns and
                        similar appliances ; steam or sand blasting machines and similar jet projecting
                        machines :
                        ex B. Other :
                                — Other appliances for projecting, dispersing or spraying liquids or
                                  powders, excluding mechanical appliances for projecting insecticides,
                                  fungicides, weed-killers and the like and watering appliances for horticul­
                                  tural, agricultural and similar uses
                  84.22 Lifting, handling, loading or unloading machinery, telphers and conveyors (for
                        example, lifts, hoists, winches, cranes, transporter cranes, jacks, pulley tackle, belt
                        conveyors and teleferics), not being machinery falling within heading No 84.23 :
                        B. Other :
                            ex IV. Other :
                                   — Lifting tables and lifting platforms ; maintenance cradles
                                   — Stripper cranes, furnace charging and other steel-works cranes
                                   — Roller conveyors, non-pneumatic
                                   — Other machines and apparatus, excluding :
                                       — Pulley tackle and hoists, other than skip hoists
                                       — Winches and capstans
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            CCT
           heading                                      Description
           number
             84.22               — Jacks
           (cont'd)
                                 — Ship's derricks ; cranes other than cable cranes ; mobile lifting
                                     frames, other than those mentioned above
                                 — Elevators and conveyors with continuous movement, for goods
                                 — Loaders specially designed for underground use
                                 — Loaders specially designed for use in agriculture
                                 — Other mechanical loaders for bulk material
                                 — Lifts, skip hoists and mine-cage hoists
                                 — Escalators and moving pavements
                                 — Telepherics, chair-lifts, ski draglines ; traction mechanisms for
                                     funiculars ; cable cranes
                                 — Railway wagon handling equipment, locomotive or wagon tra­
                                     versers, wagon pushers and similar railway equipment
                                 — Stacking machines, not self-propelled
                                 — Feeding equipment (excluding cranes) for blast and other in­
                                     dustrial furnaces ; forging manipulators
              84.45 Machine-tools for working metal or metal carbides, not being machines falling
                    within heading Nos 84.49 or 84.50 :
                    C. Other machine-tools :
                       VI. Sharpening, trimming, grinding, honing and lapping, polishing or finishing
                           machines and similar machines operating by means of grinding wheels,
                           abrasives or polishing products :
                           a) Fitted with a micrometric adjusting system within the meaning of Addi­
                              tional Note 2 to this Chapter :
                              ex 1 . Automated by coded information
                                     — Grinding machines
                       IX. Presses, other than those falling within subheadings 84.45 C X and C XI :
                           ex b) Other :
                                 — Other than hydraulic, excluding those for making rivets, bolts and
                                     screws
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              CCT
             heading                                        Description
             number
               84.59  Machines and mechanical appliances, having individual functions, not falling
                     within any other heading of this Chapter :
                      E. Other :
                         ex II . Other :
                                 — Machines and mechanical appliances :
                                     — Machines and mechanical appliances other than mobile hydraulic
                                          powered mine roof supports :
                                         — Other than those for processing tea and coffee, for the animal
                                             or vegetable fats and oil industries or for the tobacco
                                             industry :
                                            — For treating metals :
                                                — Other than presses
                                            — Other than those for the food, drink or vinegar manufac­
                                                turing industries for the rubber and artificial plastic mater­
                                                ials industries, for treating wood or for building and public
                                                works
               85.11 Industrial and laboratory electric furnaces, ovens and induction and dielectric
                     heating equipment ; electric or laser-operated welding, brazing, soldering or cutting
                     machines and apparatus :
                         A. Furnaces, ovens, induction and dielectric heating equipment :
                            ex II . Other :
                                    — Induction and dielectric heating equipment other than microwave
                                         ovens for catering
                     ex B. Electric or laser-operated welding, brazing, soldering or cutting machines
                            and apparatus :
                            — Machines and apparatus for welding or cutting metals, other than fully or
                                 partly automatic welding systems, excluding machines and apparatus for
                                 metal arc-welding or plasma ore-welding or cutting and for resistance
                                 welding
               86.08 Containers specially designed and equipped for carriage by one or more modes of
                     transport :
                     B. Other
                                                                                                                        /
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             CCT
            heading                                       Description
            number
               87.14 Other vehicles (including trailers), not mechanically propelled, and parts thereof:
                     C. Other vehicles :
                         II. Other
               90.16 Drawing, marking-out and mathematical calculating instruments, drafting
                     machines, pantographs, drawing sets, slide rules, disc calculators and the like ;
                     measuring or checking instruments, appliances and machines, not falling within
                     any other heading of this Chapter (for example, micrometers, callipers, gauges,
                     measuring rods, balancing machines); profile projectors :
                     ex B. Measuring or checking instruments, appliances and machines ; profile pro­
                            jectors :
                            — Instruments, appliances and machines other than optical :
                                — Test benches
                                — Linear measuring instruments
           ex 90.25  Instruments and apparatus for physical or chemical analysis (such as polarimeters,
                     refractometers, spectrometers, gas analysis apparatus); instruments and apparatus
                     for measuring or checking viscosity, porosity, expansion, surface tension or the like
                     (such as viscometers, porosimeters, expansion meters); instruments and apparatus
                     for measuring or checking quantities of heat, light or sound (such as photometers
                     [including exposure meters], calorimeters); microtomes :
                     — Other than gas or smoke analysis apparatus, microtomes and viscometers, poro­
                         simeters and expansion meters :
                         — Optical
               90.28 Electrical measuring, checking, analysing or automatically controlling instruments
                     and apparatus :
                     A. Electronic instruments and apparatus :
                         ex II. Other :
                                — Instruments and apparatus for testing equipment and materials
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                                                      4. SOMINCOR
              Heading number
              of the Common                                     Description
              Customs Tariff
                     40.09   Piping and tubing, of unhardened vulcanised rubber :
                             B. Other
                     40.10   Transmission, conveyor or elevator belts or belting, of vulcanised rubber
                     40.11   Rubber tyres, tyre cases, interchangeable tyre treads, inner tubes and tyre flaps, for
                             wheels of all kinds :
                             A. Solid or cushion tyres and interchangeable tyre treads
                             B. Other :
                                ex II. Other :
                                       — Inner tubes :
                                           — Other than of the kind used on bicycle^, with or without auxiliary
                                               motor, motorcycles or motor scooters, motor cars, vans, trucks,
                                               lorries or buses
                                       — Tyre cases and tubeless tyres :
                                           — New :
                                               — Other than of the kind used on bicycles, with or without auxil­
                                                   iary motor, motorcycles or motor scooters, motor cars or
                                                   aircraft
                     40.13   Articles of apparel and clothing accessories (including gloves), for all purposes, of
                             unhardened vulcanised rubber :
                             ex A. Gloves, including mittens :
                                    — Other than household or surgical gloves
                                B. Articles of apparel and clothing accessories
                     40.14   Other articles of unhardened vulcanised rubber :
                             B. Other:
                                ex II. Other :
                                       — other than floor coverings, mats and erasers
                     40.15   Hardened rubber (ebonite and vulcanite), in bulk, plates, sheets, strip, rods, profile
                             shapes or tubes ; scrap, waste and powder, of hardened rubber :
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           Heading number
           of the Common                                          Description
           Customs Tariff
                  40.15   A. In bulk or blocks, in plates, sheets or strip, in rods, profile shapes or tubes
           (continued)
                  40.16   Articles of hardened rubber (ebonite and vulcanite):
                          B. Other
                  42.03   Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, of leather or of composition leather :
                             B. Gloves, including mittens and mitts :
                                    I. Protective, for all trades
                          ex C. Other clothing accessories :
                                       — other than belts and girdles
                  42.04   Articles of leather or of composition leather of a kind used in machinery or
                          mechanical appliances or for other industrial purposes :
                             A. Conveyor or transmission belts or belting
                          ex B. Other :
                                   — other than articles for the textile industry
                  42.05   Other articles of leather or of composition leather
                  73.10   Bars and rods (including wire rod), of iron or steel, hot-rolled, forged, extruded,
                          cold-formed or cold-finished, (including precision-made); hollow mining drill
                          steel :
                          A. Not further worked than hot-rolled or extruded :
                              III. Hollow mining drill steel (ECSQ
                  73.11   Angles, shapes and sections, of iron or steel, hot-rolled, forged, extruded, cold­
                          formed or cold-finished ; sheet piling of iron or steel, whether or not drilled,
                          punched or made from assembled elements :
                          A. Angles, shapes and sections :
                                  I. Not further worked than hot-rolled or extruded (ECSQ
                               II. Not further worked than forged
                              III . Not further worked than cold-formed or cold-finished
                          B. Sheet piling (ECSQ
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              Heading number
              of the Common                                        Description
              Customs Tariff
                     73.12   Hoop and strip, of iron or steel, hot-rolled or cold rolled :
                             ex A. Not further worked than hot-rolled (ECSQ :
                                     — other than 'electrical'
                                B. Not further worked than cold-rolled :
                                     ex II . Other :
                                             — other than 'electrical'
                  -  73.13   Sheets and plates, of iron or steel, hot-rolled or cold-rolled :
                             B. Other sheets and plates :
                                 I. Not further worked than hot-rolled
                                II. Not further worked than cold-rolled
                     73.15   Alloy steel and high carbon steel in the forms mentioned in heading Nos 73.06 to
                             73.14 :
                             A. High carbon steel :
                                     V. Bars and rods (including wire rod) and hollow mining drill steel ; angles,
                                        shapes and sections :
                                        a) Not further worked than forged
                                        b) Not further worked than hot-rolled or extruded
                                        c) Not further worked than cold-formed or cold-finished
                                        d) Clad or surface-worked (for example, polished, coated)
                                   VI. Hoop and strip
                                 VII. Sheets and plates
                                VIII. Wire, whether or not coated, but not insulated
                             B, Alloy steel :
                                     V. Bars and rods (including wire rod) and hollow mining drill steel ; angles,
                                        shapes and sections
                                  VI . Hoop and strip :
                                        ex a) Not further worked than hot-rolled (ECSQ :
                                               — Other than 'electrical '
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           Heading number
           of the Common                                         Description
           Customs Tariff
                  73.15               ex b) Not further worked than cold-rolled :
           (continued)
                                              — Other than 'electrical'
                                         c) Clad, coated or otherwise surface-treated
                                         d) Otherwise shaped or worked (for example, perforated, chamfered,
                                              lap-jointed)
                               VII. Sheets and plates :
                                      b) Other sheets and plates :
                                          1 . Not further worked than hot-rolled (ECSQ
                                         2. Not further worked than cold-rolled, of a thickness of:
                                              ex aa) 3 mm or more :
                                                     — Stainless or heat-resisting
                              VIII. Wire, whether or not coated, but not insulated
                  73.16   Railway and tramway track construction material of iron or steel, the following :
                          rails, check-rails, switch blades, crossings (or frogs), crossing pieces, point rods,
                          rack rails, sleepers, fish-plates, chairs, chair wedges, sole plates (base plates), rail
                          clips, bedplates, ties and other material specialized for joining or fixing rails :
                          A. Rails :
                              II . Other :
                                   a) New ( ECSQ
                          D. Fish-plates and sole plates :
                          E. Other
                  73.17   Tubes and pipes, of cast iron
                  73.18   Tubes and pipes and blanks therefor, of iron (other than of cast iron) or steel,
                          excluding high-pressure hydro-electric conduits :
                          B. Other :
                                    I. Straight and of uniform wall-thickness, unworked, seamless, of circular
                                       cross-section, solely for the manufacture of tubes and pipes with other
                                       cross-sections and wall-thicknesses
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                    73.18           II. Straight and of uniform wall-thickness, other than those falling in B I
             (continued)                 above, of a maximum length of 4,50 m, of alloy steel containing by
                                         weight not less than 0,90% but not more than 1,15% of carbon, not less
                                         than 0,50% but not more than 2% of chromium and not more than 0,50%
                                         of molybdenum
                                ex III . Other :
                                         — Seamless or welded tubes, of circular cross-section, more than
                                            406,4 mm in external diameter
                                         — Seamless or welded tubes, of circular cross-section not more than
                                            406,4 mm in external diameter :
                                            — Other than high pressure petroleum and gas line pipes and
                                                 threaded or threadable tubes (gas pipe)
                                         — Tubes answering to the description in subheading B II but of a length
                                            of more than 4,5 m and electric conduit tubes
                    73.19   High-pressure hydro-electric conduits of steel, whether or not reinforced
                    73.20   Tube and pipe fittings (for example, joints, elbows, unions and flanges), of iron or
                            steel
                ex 73.21    Structures and parts of structures (for example, hangars and other buildings,
                            bridges and bridge-sections, lock-gates, towers, lattice masts, roofs, roofing frame­
                            works, door and window frames, shutters, balustrades, pillars and columns), of
                            iron or steel ; plates, strip, rods, angles, shapes, sections, tubes and the like,
                            prepared for use in structures, of iron or steel :
                            — Excluding weirs, sluices, lock-gates, landing-stages, fixed locks and other mari­
                                time and waterway structures
                    73.25   Stranded wire, cables, cordage, ropes, plaited bands, slings and the like, of iron or
                            steel wire, but excluding insulated electric cables :
                            B. Other
                    73.26   Barbed iron or steel wire ; twisted hoop or single flat wire, barbed or not, and
                            loosely twisted double wire, of kinds used for fencing, of iron or steel
                    73.27   Gauze, cloth, grill, netting, fencing, reinforcing fabric and similar materials, of iron
                            or steel wire ; expanded metal, of iron or steel
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              ex 73.29    Chain and parts thereof, of iron or steel :
                          — Articulated link chain other than for cycles and motorcycles, excluding parts
                          — Other chain, excluding skid chain and parts
                  73.31   Nails, tacks, staples, hook-nails, corrugated nails, spiked cramps, studs, spikes and
                          drawing pins, of iron or steel, whether or not with heads of other materials, but not
                          including such articles with heads of copper :
                          ex B. Other :
                                 — Nails, tacks, staples and similar fastenings other than drawing pins, nails,
                                     tacks, studs and spikes of all kinds, for footwear, decorative studs, staples
                                     for stapling pliers, machines or guns other than office-type and articles
                                     cold-pressed from wire
              ex 73.35    Springs and leaves for springs, of iron or steel :
                          — Excluding upholstery and mattress wire springs
                                                                                                         i
                  73.37   Boilers (excluding boilers of heading No 84.01 ) and radiators, for central heating,
                          not electrically heated, and parts thereof, of iron or steel ; air heaters and hot air
                          distributors (including those which can also distribute cool or conditioned air), not
                          electrically heated, incorporating a motor-driven fan or blower, and parts thereof,
                          of iron or steel
                  73.40   Other articles of iron or steel :
                          ex A. Of cast iron :
                                 — Excluding articles for sewage, water, etc., systems
                          ex B. Other :
                                 — Excluding snuff boxes, cigarette cases, cosmetic and powder boxes and
                                     cases, and similar pocket articles, spools, caps, bobbins and similar
                                     holders for spinning and weaving
                  82.05   Interchangeable tools for hand tools, for machine tools or for power-operated hand
                          tools (for example, for pressing, stamping, drilling, tapping, threading, boring,
                          broaching, milling, cutting, turning, dressing, morticing or screw driving),
                          including dies for wire drawing, extrusion dies for metal, and rock drilling bits with
                          a working part of:
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                    82.05   ex A. Base metal
             (continued)
                                    — Rock drilling and earth boring tools
                    84.06   Internal combustion piston engines :
                            C. Other engines :
                                II. Compression ignition engines :
                                    b) Other :
                                        ex 2 . Other :
                                               — Engines other than for propelling vehicles of Chapter 87 and
                                                  for rail traction
                    84.10   Pumps (including motor pumps and turbo pumps) for liquids, whether or not fitted
                            with measuring devices ; liquid elevators of bucket, chain screw, band and similar
                            kinds :
                            B. Other pumps :
                               II . Other :
                                    ex a) Pumps :
                                           — Hand pumps
                                           — Pumps for internal combustion engines
                                           — Pumps other than dosing and proportioning pumps :
                                               — Centrifugal pumps, excluding those with a discharge outlet
                                                 diameter of 15 mm or less :
                                                 — Submersible pumps
                                                 — Other centrifugal radial flow pumps, excluding glandless
                                                       impeller pumps for heating systems, channel impeller
                                                       pumps and side channel pumps
                                           — Pumps other than rotary or reciprocating displacement pumps
                    84.11   Air pumps, vacuum pumps and air or gas compressors (including motor and turbo
                            pumps and compressors, and free-piston generators for gas turbines); fans, blowers
                            and the like :
                            A. Pumps and compressors :
                               II . Other :
                                    ex b) Other pumps and compressors :
                                           — Excluding compressors for refrigerating equipment
                                       c) Parts
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                  84.12   Air-conditioning machines, self-contained, comprising a motor-driven fan and
                          elements for changing the temperature and humidity of air :
                          B. Other
                  84.14   Industrial and laboratory furnaces and ovens, not being electric furnaces falling
                          within heading No 85.11 :
                          B. Other :
                             — Ovens other than bakery ovens, including biscuit ovens, and parts
                  84.18   Centrifuges ; filtering and purifying machinery and apparatus (other than filter
                          tunnels, milk strainers and the like), for liquids or gases :
                          C. Other :
                              II. Other :
                                  exb) Machinery and apparatus (other than centrifuges) for filtering or
                                        purifying liquids or gases :
                                        — Machinery and apparatus for filtering or purifying liquids, air or
                                            other gases :
                                            — For use with engines
                                        — Parts of machinery and apparatus for filtering or purifying air and
                                            other gases and liquids other than water
              ex 84.20    Weighing machinery (excluding balances of a sensitivity of 5 eg or better) including
                          weight-operated counting and checking machines ; weighing machine .weights of all
                          kinds :
                          — Weighing machinery other than personal scales, kitchen scales, continuous
                              totalizing weighing machines of the belt conveyor type, dosers, sack filling
                              weighers and other machines discharging predetermined weights of material,
                              check weighers and automatic control machines operating by reference to a pre­
                              determined weight and machines for weighing and labelling pre-packaged
                              goods :
                              — Other than weighbridges with a capacity in excess of 5 000 kg :
                              — Other than those with non-automatic balancing :
                                  — Other weighing machines, of a capacity of 30 kg or less
                  84.22   Lifting, handling, loading or unloading machinery, telphers and conveyors (for
                          example, lifts, hoists, winches, cranes, transporter cranes, jacks, pulley tackle, belt
                          conveyors and teleferics), not being machinery falling within heading No 84.23 :
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                     84.22  B. Other
             (continued)
                               ex IV. Other :
                                       — Winches and capstans :
                                            — Pit-head winding gear
                                            — Winches specially designed for use underground in mines
                                       — Conveyors specially designed for underground use, non-pneumatic
                                       — Loaders specially designed for underground use
                                       — Skip hoists and mine-cage hoists
                   \
                                       — Parts, excluding lifting grabs and unit load grips for machinery and
                                            appliances designed for use in mines and other underground use
                     84.23  Excavating, levelling, tamping, boring and extracting machinery, stationary or
                            mobile, for earth, minerals or ores (for example mechanical shovels, coal-cutters,
                            excavators, scrapers, levellers and bulldozers); pile-drivers ; snow-ploughs, not self­
                            propelled (including snow-plough attachments):
                            A. Excavating, levelling, tamping, boring and extracting machinery for earth,
                               minerals or ores :
                                I. Self-propelled, track-laying or wheeled, not capable of running on rails :
                               II . Other :
                                    ex a) Boring and sinking machinery :
                                          — Excluding parts
                                    ex b) Other :
                                          — Other than road rollers designed to be pushed or towed and parts
                     84.45  Machine-tools for working metal or metal carbides, not being machines falling
                            within heading Nos 84.49 or 84.50 :
                            B. Machine-tools operating by electro-erosion or other electrical processes ; ultra­
                               sonic machine tools
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                  84.45   C. Other machine-tools :
           (continued)
                               I. Lathes
                              IV. Shaping machines, sawing machines and cutting-off machines, broaching
                                  machines and slotting machines
                               V. Milling machines and drilling machines
                              VI. Sharpening, trimming, grinding, honing and lapping, polishing or finishing
                                  machines and similar machines operating by means of grinding wheels,
                                  abrasives or polishing products
              ex 84.48    Accessories and parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machines falling
                          within headings Nos 84.45 to 84.47, including work and tool holders, self-operating
                          dieheads, dividing heads and other appliances for machine-tools ; tool holders for
                          any type of tool or machine-tool for working in the hand :
                          — Tool holders and work holders
                             — Arbors, collets and sleeves
                             — Others :
                                  — Tool Holders
                                  — Work holders :
                                    — Jigs and fixtures for specific applications ; sets of standard jig and
                                        fixture components
                  84.49   Tools for working in the hand, pneumatic or with self-contained non-electric
                          motor :
                          — Pneumatic tools :
                             — Other than concrete vibrators
                          — Tools with self-contained non-electric motor :
                             — Other than chain saws
                  84.50   Gas-operated welding, brazing, cutting and surface tempering appliances
                  84.53   Automatic data processing machines and units thereof: magnetic or optical readers,
                          machines for transcribing data onto data media in coded form and machines for
                          processing such data, not elsewhere specified or included:
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                   84.53   B. Others
            (continued)
               ex 84.56    Machinery for sorting, screening, separating, washing, crushing, grinding or mixing
                           earth, stone, ores or other mineral substances, in solid (including powder and paste)
                           form ; machinery for agglomerating, moulding or shaping solid mineral fuels,
                           ceramic paste, unhardened cements, plastering materials or other mineral products
                           in powder or paste form ; machines for forming foundry moulds of sand
                           — Excluding concrete and mortar mixers and parts
                   84.61   Taps, cocks, valves and similar appliances, for pipes, boiler shells, tanks, vats and
                           the like, including pressure reducing valves and thermostatically controlled
                           valves :
                              A. Pressure-reducing valves
                           ex B. Other
                                  — Other than valves for the control of hydraulic or pneumatic power trans­
                                      mission and valves for pneumatic tyres and inner tubes :
                                      — Other than taps, cocks and valves for sinks, wash basins, bidets, water
                                         cisterns, baths and similar fixtures, central-heating radiator valves and
                                         butterfly valves
                   84.62   Ball roller or needle roller bearings
                   84.63   Transmission shafts, cranks, bearing housings, plain shaft bearings, gears and
                           gearing {including friction gears and gear-boxes and other variable speed gears),
                           flywheels, pulleys and pulley blocks, clutches and shaft couplings ;
                           B. Other
                   85.01   Electrical goods of the following descriptions : generators, motors, converters
                           (rotary or static), transformers, rectifiers and rectifying apparatus, inductors :
                           B. Other machines and apparatus
                   85.04   Electric accumulators :
                           B. Other :
                                I. Lead-acid accumulators
                               II. Other accumulators
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              ex 85.05    Tools for working in the hand, with self-contained electric motor :
                          — Tools other than for working textiles :
                              — Other than those capable of operation without an external source of power
                  85.10   Portable electric battery and magneto lamps, other than lamps falling within
                          heading No 85.09
                  85.11   Industrial and laboratory electric furnaces, ovens and induction and dielectric
                          heating equipment ; electric or laser-operated welding, brazing, soldering or cutting
                          machines and apparatus :
                          A. Furnaces, ovens, induction and dielectric heating equipment :
                              ex II . Other :
                                      — Resistance heating furnaces other than bakery and biscuit ovens
                                      — Furnaces other than induction and dielectric furnaces
                  85.13   Electrical line telephonic and telegraphic apparatus (including such apparatus for
                          carrier-current line systems): ,
                          ex A. Apparatus for carrier-current line systems :
                                  — Excluding parts
                          ex B. Other :
                                  — Telephonic apparatus
                                      — Other than telephone sets
                                  — Telegraphic apparatus
                  85.15   Radiotelegraphic and radiotelephonic transmission and reception apparatus ;
                          radio-broadcasting and television transmission and reception apparatus (including
                          receivers incorporating sound recorders or reproducers) and television cameras ;
                          radio navigational aid apparatus, radar apparatus and radio remote control appa­
                          ratus :
                          A. Radiotelegraphic and radiotelephonic transmission and reception apparatus ;
                              radio-broadcasting and television transmission and reception apparatus
                              (including receivers incorporating sound recorders or reproducers) and tele­
                              vision cameras :
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                    85.15       III. Receivers, whether or not incorporating sound recorders or reproducers :
             (continued)
                                     b) Other :
                                           1 . Pocket receivers for calling or paging
                                        ex 2. Other :
                                               — Radio-broadcast receivers, with built-in loudspeakers,
                                                  excluding clock radios and receivers of a kind used in motor
                                                  vehicles
                                               — Other receivers :
                                                  — Without built-in amplifier
                                                  — With built-in amplifier
                                                  — Other than those combined with sound recording or repro­
                                                      ducing apparatus
                                IV. Television cameras
                    85.17   Electric sound or visual signalling apparatus (such as bells, sirens, indicator panels,
                            burglar and fire alarms), other than those of heading No 85.09 or 85.16
                            B. Other
                    85.19   Electrical apparatus for making and breaking electrical circuits, for the protection
                            of electrical circuits, or for making connections to or in electrical circuits (for
                            example, switches, relays, fuses, lightning arresters, surge suppressors, plugs,
                            lampholders and junction boxes); resistors, fixed or variable (including poten­
                            tiometers), other than heating resistors ; printed circuits ; swichtboards (other than
                            telephone switchboards) and control panels
                    85.23   Insulated (including enamelled or anodised) electric wire, cable, bars, strip and the
                            like (including co-axial cable), whether or not fitted with connectors :
                            B. Other :
                                — Other than winding wire
                    85.25   Insulators of any material
                    87.02   Motor vehicles for the transport of persons, goods or materials (including sports
                            motor vehicles, other than those of heading No 87.09):
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               87.02   A. For the transport of persons, including vehicles designed for tlje transport of
        (continued)        both passengers and goods :
                            I. With either a spark ignition or a compression ignition engine
                                   a) Motor coaches and buses :
                                       ex 1 . With either a spark ignition engine of a cylinder of 2 800 cm3 or
                                              more or a compression ignition engine of a cylinder capacity of
                                              2 500 cm3 or more
                                              — New
                                       ex 2. Other:
                                              — New
                                ex b) Other :
                                       — New
                           II. With other engines
                       B. For the transport of goods or materials :
                           II . Other :
                                a) With either a spark ignition or a compression ignition engine :
                                   1 . Motor lorries with either a spark ignition engine of a cylinder capacity
                                       of 2 800 cm3 or more or a compression ignition engine of a cylinder
                                       capacity of 2 500 cm3 or more :
                                       aa) Dumpers of a cylinder capacity :
                                       bb) Other :
                                             — New
                                   2. Other :
                                          aa) Dumpers
                                       ex bb) Other :
                                               — New
                                b) With other engines
               87.03   Special purpose motor lorries and vans (such as breakdown lorries, fire-engines,
                       fire-escapes, road sweeper lorries, snow-ploughs, spraying lorries, crane lorries,
                       searchlight lorries, mobile workshops and mobile radiological units), but not
                       including the motor vehicles of heading No 87.02
               87.07   Works trucks, mechanically propelled, of the types used in factories, warehouses,
                       dock areas or airports for short-distance transport or handling of goods (for
                       example, platform trucks, fork-lift trucks and straddle carriers); tractors of the type
                       used on railway station platforms ; parts of the foregoing vehicles :
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                    87.07   B. Straddle carriers
           (continued)
                            C. Other trucks ; tractors
                    87.14   Other vehicles (including trailers), not mechanically propelled, and parts thereof:
                            B. Trailers and semi-trailers :
                                ex II. Other :                                                            v
                                        — For the transport of goods, excluding self-loading or self-unloading,
                                           for agricultural use
                            G. Other vehicles :
                                    II. Other
                 ex 90.04   Spectacles, pince-nez, lorgnettes, goggles and the like, corrective, protective or
                            other :
                            — Excluding sunglasses
                     90.1 1 Microscopes and diffraction apparatus, electron and proton
                 ex 90.12   Compound optical microscopes, whether or not provided with means for photo­
                            graphing or projecting the image :
                            — Optical microscopes
                    90.14   Surveying (including photogrammetrical surveying), hydrographic, navigational,
                            meteorological, hydrological and geophysical instruments ; compasses ; range­
                            finders :
                            B. Other :
                               ex III . Other :
                                        — Excluding navigational instruments
                ex 90.15    Balances of a sensitivity of 5 eg or better, with or without their weights :
                            — Excluding parts and accessories
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           Customs Tariff
                  90.16   Drawing, marking-out and mathematical calculating instruments, drafting
                          machines, pantographs, drawing sets, slide rules, disc calculators and the like ;
                          measuring or checking instruments, appliances and machines, not falling within
                          any other heading of this Chapter (for example, micrometers, callipers, gauges,
                          measuring rods, balancing machines); profile projectors :
                          ex B. Measuring or checking instruments, appliances and machines ; profile projec­
                                  tors :
                                  — Optical instruments, appliances and machines
                                  — Parts and accessories
              ex 90.22    Machines and appliances for testing mechanically the hardness, strength, compres­
                          sibility, elasticity and the like properties of industrial materials (for example,
                          metals, wood, textiles, paper or plastics):
                          — Excluding machines and appliances for testing textiles, paper or paperboard,
                              and parts and accessories
              ex 90.25    Instruments and apparatus for physical or chemical analysis (such as polarimeters,
                          refractometers, spectrometers, gas analysis apparatus); instruments and apparatus
                          for measuring or checking viscosity, porosity, expansion, surface tension or the like
                          (such as viscometers, porosimeters, expansion meters); instruments land apparatus
                          for measuring or checking quantities of heat, light or sound (such as photometers
                          [including exposure meters], calorimeters); microtomes :
                          — Excluding parts and accessories
                  90.28   Electrical measuring, checking, analysing or automatically controlling instruments
                          and apparatus :
                          A. Electronic instruments and apparatus :
                              II. Other :
                                   exb) Other :
                                         — Excluding instruments and apparatus for balancing mechanical
                                             parts and for marine, river, aeronautical or space navigation
                          B. Other :
                              II . Other
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                                      5 . TEXAS INSTRUMENTS
             CCT
            heading                                      Description
            number
              84.59 Machines and mechanical appliances, having individual functions, not falling
                    within any other heading of this Chapter :
                    E. Other :
                        ex II. Other:
                               — Machines and mechanical appliances :
                                  — Machines and mechanical appliances other than mobile hydraulic
                                      powered mine roof supports :
                                      — Other than those for processing tea and coffee, for the animal
                                           or vegetable fats and oil industries or for the tobacco
                                           industry :
                                           — for the rubber and artifical plastic materials industries
              85.01 Electrical goods of the following descriptions : generators, motors, converters
                    (rotary or static), transformers, rectifiers and rectifying apparatus, inductors :
                    B. Other machines and apparatus :
                        I. Generators, motors, (whether or not equipped with speed-reducing, changing
                           or step-up gear) and rotary converters :
                           exb) Other :
                                 — Other than those specially designed for welding, without welding
                                     equipment, and motors and other generators, the performance of
                                     which is not expressed in kW or kVA (tachometer generators, rotary
                                     phase advancers, magnetic amplifiers, etc.):
                                     — AC motors other than generating sets, traction motors and other
                                          universal (AC/ DC) motors :
                                          — Other than of an output of not more than 0,05 kW :
                                             — Single-phase motors
              85.11 Industrial and laboratory electric furnaces, ovens and induction and dielectric
                    heating equipment ; electric or laser-operated welding, brazing, soldering or cutting
                    machines and apparatus :
                    ex B. Electric or laser-operated welding, brazing, soldering or cutting machines
                           and apparatus :
                           — Excluding parts
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            CCT
           heading                                         Description
           number
             90.28   Electrical measuring, checking, analysing or automatically controlling instruments
                     and apparatus :
                     A. Electronic instruments and apparatus :
                        II . Other :
                             ex a) Telecommunications (cross-talk meters, gain measuring instruments,
                                   nepermeters, distortion factor meters, psophometers and the like);
                                   For measuring or detecting ionizing radiations ;
                                   Other measuring apparatus with self-balancing recording device ;
                                   Other apparatus for measuring electrical quantities :
                                   — Apparatus for measuring electrical quantities other than telecom­
                                      munications (cross-talk meters, gain-measuring instruments, neper­
                                      meters, distortion factor meters, psophometers and the like) or for
                                      measuring or detecting ionizing radiations
                             exb) Other :
                                   — Instruments and apparatus for testing equipment and materials
                                   — Regulators and control units
                                   — Instruments and apparatus for balancing mechanical parts
                                   — Instruments and apparatus other than marine, river, aeronautical
                                      or space navigational or meteorological hydrological and geophy­
                                      sical instruments and apparatus :
                   1
                                      — Instruments and apparatus using optical radiations (ultraviolet,
                                          visible, infra-red):
                                          — Instruments and apparatus for physical or chemical
                                              analyses
                                          — Other than exposure meters and surveying and hydro­
                                              graphic instruments
                                      — Other
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                                                6. FUNFRAP
               CCT
              heading                                      Description
              number
                73.40  Other articles of iron or steel :
                       ex B. Other :
                             — Articles of iron or steel other than snuff boxes, cigarette cases, cosmetic
                                 and powder boxes and cases, and similar pocket articles, reservoir, tanks
                                 and other containers covered by heading No 73.22, of a capacity not
                                 exceeding 300 litres, ladders and steps, conveyor and transition belt
                                 fasteners, swivels and swivel hooks for all purposes, pallets and similar
                                 platforms for handling goods, small cages and aviaries, wire waste-paper
                                 baskets, spools, caps, bobbins and similar holders for spinning and
                                 weaving, ball and other solid shapes, for use in grinding and crushing
                                 mills, non-calibrated steel balls (see Note 4 to Chapter 84) reels for cables,
                                 piping and the like, non-mechanical ventilators, guttering, tile hangers
                                 and like articles used in the building industry :
                                 — Of cast steel :
                                     — Worked
                                 — Of open-die forged iron or steel :
                                     — Worked
                84.12  Air-conditioning machines, self-contained, comprising a motor-driven fan and
                       elements for changing the temperature and humidity of air :
                       ex B. Other :
                             — Air-conditioning machines
             ex 84.13  Furnace burners for liquid fuel (atomisers), for pulverised solid fuel or for gas ;
                       mechanical stokers, mechanical grates, mechanical ash dischargers and similar
                       appliances :
                       — Furnace burners for liquid fuel (atomisers), excluding parts
                 84.14 Industrial and laboratory furnaces and ovens, non-electric :
                       ex B. Other :
                              — Other than, bakery ovens, including biscuit ovens, and parts
             ex 84.20  Weighing machinery (excluding balances of a sensitivity of 5 eg or better) including
                       weight-operated counting and checking machines ; weighing-machine weights of all
                       kinds :
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                CCT
              heading                                       Description
              number
             ex. 84.20 — Weighing machinery other than personal scales, kitchen scales, continuous
           (continued)     totalizing weighing machines of the belt conveyor type, dosers, sack filling
                           weighers and other machines discharging predetermined weights of material,
                           check weighers and automatic control machines operating by reference to a pre­
                           determined weight and machines for weighing and labelling pre-packaged
                           goods :
                           — Other than weighbridges with a capacity in excess of 5 000 kg :
                               — Other than those with non-automatic balancing
                                    — Weighing machinery other than shop scales
                 84.22 Lifting, handling, loading or unloading machinery, telphers and conveyors (for
                       example, lifts, hoists, winches, cranes, transporter cranes, jacks, pulley tackle, belt
                       conveyors and teleferics), not being machinery falling within heading No 84.23 :
                       B. Other :
                            II. Self-propelled cranes on wheels, not capable of running on rails :
                                — Excluding parts
                          III. Rolling-mill machinery : roller tables for feeding and removing products ;
                                tilters and manipulators for ingots, balls, bars and slabs :
                                — Excluding parts
                          IV. Other
                                — Lifting tables and lifting platforms ; maintenance cradles
                                — Pulley tackle and hoists, other than skip hoists
                                — Ship's derricks ; cranes other than cable cranes, mobile lifting frames,
                                     excluding hydraulic cranes designed to be mounted on lorries
                                — Elevators and conveyors with continuous movement for goods :
                                     — Pneumatic :
                                        — Other than those specially designed for use in agriculture :
                                           — For bulk materials
                                     — Non-pneumatic :
                                        — Other than conveyors specially designed for underground use
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                   84.22         — Feeding equipment (excluding cranes) for blast and other industrial
             (continued)            furnaces ; forging manipulators
                                 — Machinery other than winches and capstans, jacks, loaders specially
                                    designed for underground use or for use in agriculture, mechanical
                                    loaders for bulk material, lifts, skip hoists and mine-cage hoists, escala­
                                    tors and moving pavements, teleferics, chair-lifts, ski draglines ; traction
                                    mechanisms for funiculars ; cable cranes, railway wagon-handling equip­
                                    ment, locomotive or wagon traversers, wagon pushers and similar
                                    railway equipment, stacking machines, not self-propelled, and parts
               ex 84.43  Converters, ladles, ingot moulds and casting machines, of a kind used in metal­
                         lurgy and in metal foundries :
                         — Excluding parts
                   84.45  Machine-tools for working metal or metal carbides, not being machines falling
                         within heading No 84.49 or 84.50 :
                         C. Other machine-tools :
                               VI. Sharpening, trimming, grinding, honing and lapping, polishing or
                                   finishing machines and similar machines operating by means of grinding
                                   wheels, abrasives or polishing products
                             XII . Other
               ex 84.47  Machine-tools for working wood, cork, bone, ebonite (vulcanite), hard artificial
                         plastic materials or other hard carving materials, other than machines falling within
                         heading No 84.49 :
                         — Other than machines designed to perform several different operations :
                             — Bending and assembling machines, including presses
               ex 84.56  Machinery for sorting, screening, separating, washing, crushing, grinding or mixing
                         earth, stone, ores or other mineral substances, in solid (including powder and paste)
                         form ; machinery for agglomerating, moulding or shaping solid mineral fuels,
                         ceramic paste, unhardened cements, platering materials or other mineral products
                         in powder or paste form ; machines for forming foundry moulds of sand :
                         — Excluding concrete and mortar mixers and parts
                   84.59 Machines and mechanical appliances, having individual functions, not falling
                         within any other heading of the Chapter :
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                 84.59 E. Other :
           (continued)
                          ex II. Other :
                                  — Machines and mechanical appliances ;
                                    — Machines and mechanical appliances other than mobile hydraulic­
                                          powered mine-roof supports :
                                          — Other than those for processing tea and coffee, for the animal
                                             or vegetable fats and oil industries or for the toabacco
                                             industry :
                                             — For treating metals :
                                                 — Other than presses
                                             — Other than those for the food, drink or vinegar manufac­
                                                 turing industries, for the rubber and artificial plastic mat­
                                                 erials industries, for treating wood or for building and
                                                 public works
                 85.11 Industrial and laboratory electric furnaces, ovens and induction and dielectric
                       heating equipment, electric or laser-operated welding, brazing, soldering or cutting
                       machines and apparatus :
                       A. Furnaces, ovens, induction and dielectric heating equipment :
                          ex II. Other :
                                  — Other than induction and dielectric heating equipment :
                                     — Furnaces other than resistance heating furnaces and induction and
                                          dielectric furnaces
                       B. Electric or laser-operated welding, brazing, soldering or cutting machines and
                          apparatus :
                          — Machines and apparatus for welding or cutting metals
                 87.07 Works, trucks, mechanically propelled, of the types used in factories, warehouses,
                       dock areas or airports for short-distance transport or handling of goods (for
                       example, platform trucks, fork-lift trucks and straddle carriers); tractors of the type
                       used on railway station platforms ; parts of the foregoing vehicles :
                       C. Other trucks ; tractors :
                          ex II . Other :
                                  — With electric motors
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                87.14 Other vehicles (including trailers), not mechanically propelled, and parts thereof:
                      C. Other vehicles :
                          II. Other
                90.16 Drawing, marking-out and mathematical calculating instruments, drafting
                      machines, pantographs, drawing sets, slide rules, disc calculators and the like ;
                      measuring or checking instruments, appliances and machines, not falling within
                      any other heading of this Chapter (for example, micrometers, callipers, gauges,
                      measuring rods, balancing machines); profile projectors :
                      ex B. Measuring or checking instruments, appliances and machines ; profile projec­
                              tors :
                              — Other instruments, appliances and machines :
                                  — Balancing machines
                                  — Test benches
                90.23 Hydrometers and similar instruments ; thermometers, pyrometers, barometers,
                      hygrometers, psychrometers, recording or not ; any combination of these instru­
                      ments :
                      A. Thermometers :
                          II . Other :
                               ex a) Mercury- or other liquid-filled thermometers, for direct reading
                                     — Other than clinical thermometers
                                  b) Other
                      B. Hygrometers and psychrometers
                      C. Hydrometers and similar instruments, with or without thermometers ; optical
                          pyrometers
            ex 90.25  Instruments and apparatus for physical or chemical analysis (such as polarimeters,
                      refractometers, spectrometers, gas analysis apparatus); instruments and apparatus
                      for measuring or checking viscosity, porosity, expansion, surface tension or the like
                      (such as viscometers, porosimeters, expansion meters); instruments and apparatus
                      for measuring or checking quantities of heat, light or sound (such as photometers
                      (including exposure meters), calorimeters); microtomes :
                      — Excluding parts and accessories
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           ex 90.26 Gas, liquid and electricity supply or production meters ; calibrating meters
                    therefor :
                    — Gas meters
              90.28 Electrical measuring, checking, analysing or automatically controlling instruments
                    and apparatus :
                    A. Electronic instruments and apparatus :
                        II . Other :
                             exb) Other :
                                   — Instruments and apparatus for testing equipment and materials
                                   — Regulators and control units
                                   — Instruments and apparatus for balancing mechanical parts
                                   — Instruments and apparatus other than marine, river, aeronautical
                                      or space navigational or meterorological hydrological and geophy­
                                      sical instruments and apparatus :
                                      — Instruments and apparatus using optical radiations (ultraviolet,
                                          visible, infra-red):
                                          — Instruments and apparatus for physical or chemical
                                              analyses :
                                      — Other :
                                          — Other than for measuring geometric quantities
                    B. Other :
                        II Other :
                             — Measuring apparatus for the analysis of gases, liquids or solids
                             — Measuring apparatus for heat and moisture and for process control
                             — Apparatus for testing equipment or materials
                             — Other than oscillographs, self-balancing potentiometers and measuring
                                bridges and regulators and control units