8303 00 40 — Armoured or reinforced safes, strongboxes and doors and safe deposit lockers for strongrooms, of base metal

8303 Fire-free cabinets, safes and doors and locking boxes for the safe storage of valuables in bank vaults, boxes specially designed for the storage of money and documents, and similar articles, armored or reinforced, of base metals

This heading includes containers and lockable boxes of bank vaults intended for the storage of valuables, jewelry, documents, etc. from theft and fire. Incombustible cabinets and safes of this heading are steel containers whose walls are armored (i.e. made of high-strength alloy steel) or consist of sheet steel reinforced, for example, with reinforced concrete. They are used in banks, offices, hotels, etc. Equipped with very reliable locks and often sealed doors and double walls; intermediate spaces are usually filled with heat-resistant materials. This heading covers the doors of bank vaults (with and without door frames) and the safes of bank vaults used in banks, vaults, factories, etc., where large storage space is required. This heading also includes metal boxes for cash or securities (with or without internal branches). They are portable boxes (with a lock acting with a key or with a code lock), sometimes with double walls, which, by virtue of their design, their material, etc., guarantee sufficient protection against theft and fire. Boxes for collections, piggy banks, etc., are also included in this heading, provided that they meet the same requirements for reliability; otherwise they are classified according to their constituent metal or as toys. This heading does not cover: (a) steel doors for all types of dwellings (heading 7308); (b) containers specially designed to resist fire, impact and crushing, the walls of which in particular do not have any serious resistance to opening by drilling or cutting (heading 9403).

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. In this Chapter, parts of articles made of base metals shall be classified in the same headings as the articles to which they belong. However, articles of ferrous metals of heading 7312, 7315, 7317, 7318 or 7320 or similar articles of other base metals (Chapters 74 to 76 and 78 to 81) are not to be regarded as parts of articles of this Chapter.

2. For the purposes of heading 8302, the term “furniture wheels” means furniture wheels or rollers of a diameter (including, where appropriate, a tyre) not exceeding 75 mm or the same wheels or rollers of a diameter (including, where applicable, a tyre) greater than 75 mm, provided that the width of the wheel or tyre mounted on it is less than 30 mm.