7017 — Laboratory, hygienic or pharmaceutical glassware, whether or not graduated or calibrated (excl. containers for the conveyance or packing of goods, measuring, checking or medical instruments and apparatus of chapter 90)

7017 Laboratory, hygienic or pharmaceutical glassware, whether or not graduated, whether or not calibrated: 7017 10 – of fused quartz or other fused silica 7017 20 – of other glass having a linear coefficient of expansion not exceeding 5 × 10–6 per Kelvin within a temperature range of 0 °C to 300 °C 7017 90 – other This heading covers glassware of a kind normally used in laboratories (research, pharmaceutical, industrial, etc.), including special bottles (gas-washing bottles, reagent bottles, Wolff bottles, etc.), special tubes (for washing, drying, condensing gas, filtering, burette tubes, test tubes, etc.), stirring rods, distillation flasks, graduated vessels, culture vessels (Kolle, Roux, etc.), burettes of all kinds, evaporating dishes, measuring flasks, funnels and receivers (vacuum, necked, etc.), special droppers (calibrated, etc.), retorts, crystallising dishes, drying cylinders, filter plates and discs, spoons, desiccators, dialysers, adapters, gas coolers, receivers for distillation apparatus, special funnels (with stopcocks, bulb funnels, etc.), cylinders, crucibles, filter crucibles, special flasks (conical, multi-necked, etc.), special spirit lamps, mortars, balance pans, pipettes, vacuum vessels of various special shapes (not falling in heading 9617), washing vessels, stopcocks, spatulas, vessels (filtering, settling, multi-necked, etc.), muffles, crucible stands, microscope slides and glass bell jars, etc. Reference should be made to the Explanatory Note to heading 9027, which sets out the rules for classifying instruments and apparatus for physical or chemical analysis which, although potentially falling in heading 9027, may at the same time be identified as laboratory glassware of this heading. That reference will show that this heading may cover, for example, acidimeters (other than those of heading 9025), galactometers, butyrometers, lactobutyrometers and similar apparatus for testing dairy products; albuminometers and ureometers; eudiometers; volumeters, nitrometers, Kipp's and Kjeldahl apparatus and the like; calcimeters; cryoscopes and ebullioscopes for determining molecular weight, etc. The expression "hygienic or pharmaceutical glassware" means articles of general use whose use does not require the intervention of a doctor. This heading therefore covers, inter alia, douches, nozzles (for syringes, enemas, etc.), urinals, breathing apparatus (whether or not fitted with rubber bulbs), bed-pans, chamber-pots, spittoons, cupping glasses, urine bottles, eye-baths, inhalers and tongue depressors. It also covers reels and bobbins for surgical catgut. The articles covered by this heading may be graduated or calibrated. They may be made of ordinary glass (especially for pharmaceutical or hygienic purposes), but laboratory glassware is often made of borosilicate glass, fused quartz or other fused silica because of their higher chemical resistance and the low linear coefficient of expansion of such glass.

The heading excludes: (a) containers for the conveyance or packing of goods (heading 7010); ordinary curved clock or watch glasses, sometimes used in laboratories (heading 7015, see the Explanatory Note to that heading); special chemical demonstration flasks and glassware used for industrial purposes (heading 7020); (b) glass instruments and apparatus of Chapter 90, e.g., hypodermic syringes, special cannulae and other articles constituting medical, surgical, dental or veterinary instruments or appliances (heading 9018); hydrometers and similar floating instruments, thermometers, pyrometers and barometers of heading 9025; instruments and apparatus of heading 9026 (for measuring or checking the flow of liquids, etc.) and instruments and apparatus for physical or chemical analysis, etc., of heading 9027.

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) the goods of heading 3207 (e.g. vitreous enamels and glazes, vitreous fritta, other glass in powder, granules or flakes);

(b) articles of Chapter 71 (for example, jewelry);

(c) fiber optic cables of heading 8544, electrical insulators (heading 8546) or fittings of insulating materials of heading 8547;

(d) front windshields, rear windows and other framed windows for vehicles of Chapters 86 to 88;

(e) front windshields, rear windows and other windows, whether or not framed, containing heating or other electrical or electronic devices for vehicles of Chapters 86 to 88;

(f) optical fibers, optically processed optical elements, subcutaneous injection syringes, artificial eyes, thermometers, barometers, hydrometers or other articles of Chapter 90;

(g) luminaires and lighting fixtures, light signs, light plates bearing a name or address or similar articles having an integrated light source or parts thereof of heading 9405;

(h) toys, games, sports equipment, Christmas tree decorations or other articles of Chapter 95 (except glass eyes without doll machinery or other articles of Chapter 95); or

(ij) buttons, assembled vacuum receptacles, sprayers or similar sprayers or other articles of Chapter 96.

2. For headings 7003, 7004 and 7005:

(a) the glass is not considered to be “treated” by whatever processes it undergoes prior to annealing;

(b) the cutting of the glass in its shape does not change its classification as sheet glass;

(c) the term “absorbing, reflective or non-reflective layer” means a microscopically thin coating with a metal or chemical compound (e.g., a metal oxide) that absorbs, for example, infrared radiation or improves the reflectivity of the glass while maintaining its degree of transparency or transmittance; or that prevents light from reflecting from the surface of the glass.

3. Articles falling within heading 7006 are also included where they have the character of finished articles.

4. For the purposes of heading 7019, the term “glass” means:

(a) mineral wool with a content of silica (SiO2) not less than 60 wt.%;

(b) mineral wool with a content of silica (SiO2) less than 60 wt.%, alkali metal oxide (K2O or Na2O) more than 5 wt.% or boron oxide (B2O3) more than 2 wt.%.

Other types of mineral wool are classified in heading 6806.

5. Throughout the Nomenclature, the term “glass” means fused quartz and other fused silica.

Subheading 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. For the purposes of subheadings 7013 22, 7013 33, 7013 41 and 7013 91, the term “lead crystal” means only glass having a lead monoxide (PbO) content of at least 24 % by weight.