4910 00 000 0 — Calendars of any kind, printed, including calendar blocks

4910 Printed calendars of all kinds, including detachable calendars

This heading covers calendars of any kind printed on paper, cardboard, cloth or any other material, provided that the printed material gives the product its essential property. They may contain, in addition to the usual sequence of dates, days of the week, etc., other diverse information, such as reports of important events, festivals, astronomical and other information, poems and proverbs. They may also contain visual or advertising material. Some publications, sometimes inaccurately called calendars, which, although dated, are published essentially to give information about public or private events, etc., are classified in heading 4901 (unless they fall in heading 4911 as advertising material). This heading also covers “perpetual” calendars or interchangeable blocks fitted on a stand of materials other than paper or cardboard (e.g. wood, plastic or metal). This heading includes calendar blocks. They consist of a certain number of sheets of paper, on each of which the features of a particular day of the year are printed and which are collected in chronological order in the form of a block from which individual sheets are removed every day. These blocks are usually used attached to the base of cardboard or, in the case of annual calendar replacement, to the bases of stronger materials. This heading, however, does not include articles whose essential property is not determined by the presence of a calendar. This heading does not also include:

(a) Notebooks for aide-memoirs containing calendars and diaries (including so-called “to-do calendars”) (heading 4820); (b) printed calendar bases not including calendar blocks (heading 4911).

Notes

Machine translation. The original is the Russian text of the EAEU tariff, and customs goes by it; this translation is for understanding only and has no legal force.

1. This group does not include:

(a) photographic negatives or positives on a transparent basis (Chapter 37);

(b) relief geographical maps, plans or globes, whether printed or unprinted (heading 9023);

(c) playing cards or other goods of Chapter 95; or

(d) the originals of engravings, prints or lithographs (heading 9702), postage or duty stamps, postage stamps including the first day of cancellation, post office supplies or similar items of heading 9704, antiques over 100 years old or other articles of Chapter 97.

2. In Chapter 49, the term “printed” also applies to materials reproduced on multiplication machines obtained by a computer, as well as by embossing, photographing, photocopying, thermal copying or typing.

3. Newspapers, magazines and other periodicals in bounds other than paper and the filing of newspapers, magazines or other periodicals of more than one copy under a single cover are classified in heading 4901 regardless of whether they contain advertising material.

4. Heading 4901 also includes:

(a) collections of printed reproductions, such as works of art or drawings with explanatory text, with numbered pages in a form suitable for brochure in one or more volumes;

(b) illustrated appendices accompanying and supplementing the intertwined volumes; and

(c) printed parts of books or pamphlets in the form of selected or separate sheets or signatures constituting all or part of the work and intended for binding.

However, reproductions of paintings or illustrations without explanatory text in the form of signatures or separate sheets are classified in heading 4911.

5. Subject to note 3 to this chapter, heading 4901 does not include publications which are essentially devoted to advertising (e.g. brochures, brochures, leaflets, trade catalogues, yearbooks published by trade associations, tourist brochures). Such publications are classified in heading 4911.

6. For the purpose of heading 4903, the term “picture books” means children’s books in which pictures are of primary interest and the text is auxiliary.