2015 Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United …

1 Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United states ( 2015 )Annotated for Statistical Reporting PurposesCHAPTER 85 electrical MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT AND PARTS THEREOF; SOUND RECORDERSAND REPRODUCERS, TELEVISION IMAGE AND SOUND RECORDERS AND REPRODUCERS,AND PARTS AND ACCESSORIES OF SUCH ARTICLESXVI85-1 Notes1. This chapter does not cover:(a) Electrically warmed blankets, bed pads, foot-muffs or the like; electrically warmed clothing, footwear or ear pads or otherelectrically warmed articles worn on or about the person;(b)Articles of glass of heading 7011; (c)Machines and apparatus of heading 8486;(d)Vacuum apparatus of a kind used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences (heading 9018); or(e)Electrically heated furniture of chapter Headings 8501 to 8504 do not apply to goods described in heading 8511, 8512, 8540, 8541 or , metal tank mercury arc rectifiers remain classified in heading Heading 8509 covers only the following electromechanical machines of the kind commonly used for domestic purposes:(a)Floor polishers, food grinders and mixers, and fruit or vegetable juice extractors, of any weight.

2 (b)Other machines provided the weight of such machines does not exceed 20 kg, exclusive of extra interchangeable parts ordetachable auxiliary heading does not, however, apply to fans or ventilating or recycling hoods incorporating a fan, whether or not fitted with filters(heading 8414), centrifugal clothes dryers (heading 8421), dishwashing machines (heading 8422), household washing machines (heading 8450), roller or other ironing machines (heading 8420 or 8451), sewing machines (heading 8452), electric scissors(heading 8467) or to electrothermic appliances (heading 8516).4. For the purposes of heading 8523 :(a)"Solid-state non-volatile storage devices" (for example, "flash memory cards" or "flash electronic storage cards") are storagedevices with a connecting socket, comprising in the same housing one or more flash memories (for example, "FLASH E PROM")in the form of integrated circuits mounted on a printed circuit board.

3 They may include a controller in the form of an integratedcircuit and discrete passive components, such as capacitors and resistors;(b)The term "smart cards" means cards which have embedded in them one or more electronic integrated circuits (a microprocessor,random access memory (RAM) or read-only memory (ROM)) in the form of chips. These cards may contain contacts, a magneticstripe or an embedded antenna but do not contain any other active or passive circuit For the purposes of heading 8534 "printed circuits" are circuits obtained by forming on an insulating base, by any printing process (forexample, embossing, plating-up, etching) or by the "film circuit" technique, conductor elements, contacts or other printed components(for example, inductances, resistors, capacitors) alone or interconnected according to a pre-established pattern, other than elementswhich can produce, rectify, modulate or amplify an electrical signal (for example, semiconductor elements).

4 The term "printed circuits" does not cover circuits combined with elements other than those obtained during the printing process, nordoes it cover individual, discrete resistors, capacitors or inductances. Printed circuits may, however, be fitted with non-printedconnecting or thick-film circuits comprising passive and active elements obtained during the same technological process are to be classified inheading For the purpose of heading 8536, "connectors for optical fibres, optical fibre bundles or cables" means connectors that simplymechanically align optical fibres end to end in a digital line system. They perform no other function, such as the amplification,regeneration or modification of a Heading 8537 does not include cordless infrared devices for the remote control of television receivers or other electrical equipment(heading 8543).

5 Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United states ( 2015 )Annotated for Statistical Reporting PurposesXVI85-2 Notes (con.)8. For the purposes of headings 8541 and 8542:(a)"Diodes, transistors and similar semiconductor devices" are semiconductor devices the operation of which depends on variationsin resistivity on the application of an electric field;(b)"Electronic integrated circuits" are:(i)Monolithic integrated circuits in which the circuit elements (diodes, transistors, resistors, capacitors, inductances, etc.) arecreated in the mass (essentially) and on the surface of a semiconductor or compound semiconductor material (for example,doped silicon, gallium arsenide, silicon germanium, iridium phosphide) and are inseparably associated;(ii)Hybrid integrated circuits in which passive elements (resistors, capacitors, inductances, etc.)

6 , obtained by thin- or thick-filmtechnology, and active elements (diodes, transistors, monolithic integrated circuits, etc.), obtained by semiconductortechnology, are combined to all intents and purposes indivisibly, by interconnections of interconnecting cables, on a singleinsulating substrate (glass, ceramic, etc.). These circuits may also include discrete components;(iii)Multichip integrated circuits consisting of two or more interconnected monolithic integrated circuits combined to all intents andpurposes indivisibly, whether or not on one or more insulating substrates, with or without leadframes, but with no other activeor passive circuit the classification of the articles defined in this note, headings 8541 and 8542 shall take precedence over any other heading in theNomenclature, except in the case of heading 8523, which might cover them by reference to, in particular, their For the purposes of heading 8548, "spent primary cells, spent primary batteries and spent electric storage batteries" are those which areneither usable as such because of breakage, cutting up, wear or other reasons, nor capable of being Note1.

7 Subheading covers only cassette players with built-in amplifier, without built-in loudspeaker, capable of operating without anexternal source of electric power and the dimensions of which do not exceed 170 mm x 100 mm x 45 Notes1. For the purposes of headings 8501 and 8503, 746 watts (W) is taken to be equivalent to 1 horsepower (hp).2. For the purposes of subheading , the term "toasters" includes toaster-ovens which are designed essentially for toasting breadbut can also bake small items, such as For the purposes of headings 8517 and 8525 the term "transceivers" refers to combinations of radio transmitting and receivingequipment in a common housing, employing common circuit components for both transmitting and receiving, and which are not capableof simultaneously receiving and For the purposes of , , , , , , and :(a)Each subassembly that contains as a component, or is covered in the same entry with, one or more of the following televisioncomponents, viz.

8 ,tuner, channel selector assembly, antenna, deflection yoke, degaussing coil, picture tube mounting bracket, groundingassembly, parts necessary for fixing the picture tube or tuner in place, consumer-operated controls or speaker,shall be classified in subheading , , or , as appropriate; and(b)Each subassembly shall be counted as a single unit, except that two or more different printed circuit boards or ceramic substratescovered by the same entry and designed for assembly into the same television models shall be counted as one Picture tubes imported in combination with, or incorporated into, other articles are to be classified in subheadings , inclusive, unless they are--(a) incorporated into complete television receivers, as defined in additional note 6 below;(b)incorporated into fully assembled units such as word processors, ADP terminals, or similar articles;(c)put up in kits containing all the parts necessary for assembly into complete television receivers, as defined in additional note 6below; or(d)put up in kits containing all the parts necessary for assembly into fully assembled units such as word processors, ADP terminals, orsimilar Tariff Schedule of the United states ( 2015 )Annotated for Statistical Reporting PurposesXVI85-3 Additional Notes (con.)

9 6. For the purposes of additional note 5 above the term "complete television receivers" means television receivers, fully assembled intheir cabinets, whether or not packaged or tested for distribution to the ultimate purchaser(s).7. For the purposes of this chapter, references to "high definition" as it applies to television receivers and cathode-ray tubes refer to articleshaving:(a)a screen aspect ratio equal to or greater than 16:9; and(b)a viewing screen capable of displaying more than 700 scanning For the purposes of this chapter, the video display diagonal is determined by measuring the maximum straight line dimension across thevisible portion of the faceplate used for displaying Subheadings , , and cover the following parts of television receivers (including videomonitors and video projectors):(a)Video intermediate (IF) amplifying and detecting systems;(b)Video processing and amplification systems;(c)Synchronizing and deflection circuitry;(d)Tuners and tuner control systems.

10 And(e)Audio detection and amplification For the purposes of subheading , the term "front panel assembly" refers to:(a)with respect to a color cathode-ray television picture tube, an assembly which consists of a glass panel and a shadow mask oraperture grille, attached for ultimate use, which is suitable for incorporation into a color cathode-ray television picture tube(including video monitor cathode-ray tube), and which has undergone the necessary chemical and physical processes forimprinting phosphors on the glass panel with sufficient precision to render a video image when excited by a stream of electrons; or(b)with respect to a monochrome cathode-ray picture tube, an assembly which consists of either a glass panel or a glass envelope,which is suitable for incorporation into a monochrome cathode-ray television picture tube (including video monitor or videoprojector cathode-rate tube), and which has undergone the necessary chemical and physical processes for imprinting phosphorson the glass panel or glass envelope with sufficient precision to render a video image when excited by a stream of For the purposes of subheading , the expression "articles described in additional note 11 to chapter 85" means any ofthe following goods: photocopying apparatus of subheading , , or ; word processingmachines of heading 8469; articles of heading 8470 or heading 8471; automatic teller machines of subheading.