8471 30 000 0 — 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: portable automatic data-processing machines, of a weight not exceeding 10 kg, consisting of at least a central processing unit, a keyboard and a display

8471 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 (+): 8471 30 – Portable automatic data processing machines, weighing not more than 10 kg, consisting of at least a central processing unit, a keyboard and a display – Other automatic data processing machines: 8471 41 – – Comprising in the same housing at least a central processing unit and an input and output unit, whether or not combined 8471 49 – – Other, presented in the form of systems 8471 50 – Processing units other than those of subheading 8471 41 or 8471 49, whether or not containing in the same housing one or two of the following types of unit: storage units, input units, output units

8471 60 - Input or output devices containing or not containing memory devices 8471 70 - memory devices 8471 80 - computer devices other 8471 90 - other

(I) AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING MACHINES AND UNITS THEREOF Data processing consists of operations of various kinds for handling information in pre-established logical sequences and for a specific purpose or purposes. Automatic data processing machines are devices which, by means of logically related operations performed in accordance with pre-established instructions (program), provide data which may be used as such or as source data for other data processing operations. This heading covers automatic data processing machines in which the logical sequences of operations can be modified from one job to another and whose operation can be carried out automatically, that is to say, without manual intervention throughout the course of the task. In most cases these machines use electronic signals, but they may also use other technologies. They may be in the form of self-contained units with all the elements required for data processing in a single housing, or they may be in the form of systems consisting of a variable number of separate units. In addition, this heading also covers the constituent units of the data processing systems described above, presented separately. However, the heading excludes machines, instruments or apparatus incorporating or working in conjunction with an automatic data processing machine and performing a specific function. Such machines, instruments or apparatus fall in the headings appropriate to their specific functions or, failing that, in residual headings (see Part (E) of the General Explanatory Note to this Chapter). (A) AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING MACHINES Automatic data processing machines of this heading must be capable of simultaneously meeting the conditions laid down in Note 5 (A) to this Chapter. In other words, they must be capable of: (1) storing the processing program or programs and at least the data immediately necessary for the execution of the program; (2) being freely programmed in accordance with the requirements of the user; (3) performing arithmetical computations specified by the user; and (4) executing, without human intervention, a processing program which requires them to modify their execution, by logical decision during the processing run. Accordingly, machines which operate only on fixed programs, i.e., programs which cannot be modified by the user, are not covered here, even though the user may be able to choose between a number of such fixed programs.

These computers have memory devices, as well as programs stored in the memory device, which can be replaced when moving from one type of work to another. Computers process information in coded form. The code consists of a finite number of characters (binary code, standard six-bit code of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), etc.). The input of information is usually carried out automatically using data carriers such as magnetic tapes, as well as by directly reading the original documents, etc. Devices for manual input of information by keyboards may also be used, or information may be entered directly by some instruments (e.g., measuring instruments). The input information is converted by input devices into signals and stored in memory devices. Part of the data and the program or programs may be temporarily stored in auxiliary storage devices, such as those that use magnetic disks or drums, magnetic tapes, etc. But such machines must have a main storage device that is directly accessible for the execution of a particular program and which has a capacity sufficient at least to store those parts of the processing program and the conversion program, as well as data that are immediately necessary during the current processing process. Computing machines may comprise a central processing unit, an input device (e.g., a keyboard or scanner) and an output device (e.g., a visual display device) in a single housing, or may consist of several individual units interconnected. In the latter case, the blocks form a “system” which comprises at least a central processing unit, an input device and an output device (see note to subheadings 2 of this chapter). The connection can be carried out both wired and wirelessly. The complete computing system must contain at least (1) a central processing unit, which typically includes a main memory, arithmetic and logic elements, and control elements; however, in some cases these elements may be executed as separate units. (2) An input device that receives input data and converts it into signals that can be processed by a machine. (3) An output device that converts signals produced by a machine to a perceptible appearance (printed text, graphics, images on reproducing devices, etc.) or presents them in encoded form for further use (processing, control, etc.). Two of these devices (e.g., input and output devices) may be combined in one common device. A complete computing system is classified in this heading even if one or more of the units comprising it may belong to another heading of the Nomenclature if they are presented separately (see paragraph (B) of Separately Submitted Units below).

These systems may include remote input or output devices in the form of terminals. These systems may also include, in addition to input or output devices, units designed to enhance the capabilities of the system, for example, by extending one or more functions of the central device (see paragraph (B) below). Such devices are connected between input or output devices (beginning and end of the system), although pairing devices and converters (communication channel adapters and signal converters) may sometimes be connected before the input device or after the output device. Computing machines and systems have a variety of applications, for example, in industry, trade, research, and public and private management institutions. (See General Clause (D) of Chapter 84 concerning the classification of machines containing or working in conjunction with a computer and performing special ifical functions (Note 5(D) to this Chapter). (B) SELF-Subject to the provisions of Notes 5(D) and (D) to this Chapter, this heading also includes separately presented computer units. They can be made in the form of blocks having separate housings, or in the form of blocks that do not have a separate housing and are intended for installation in the bus machine (for example, installing a central data processing unit on the main board). The constituent units are defined in part (A) above and in the following paragraphs as part of the complete system. An apparatus may be classified in this heading as a computer unit if it: (a) performs an information processing function; (b) satisfies the following criteria listed in Note 5(B) to this Chapter: (i) is exclusively or mainly used in a computer; (ii) is capable of being connected to a central processing unit either directly or through one or more other units; and (iii) is capable of receiving or presenting information in such form (codes or signals) as may be used by the system; (c) is not excluded by the provisions of Notes 5(D) and (D) of this Chapter. In accordance with the last paragraph of Note 5(B) to this Chapter, keyboards, X-Y-coordinate input devices and disk storage units that satisfy the conditions set out in points (b)(ii) and (iii) above shall in all cases be classified as component units of computing systems. If the unit performs a specific function other than information processing, it shall be classified in the heading corresponding to that function or, if this is not possible, in the residual heading (see note 5(D) to this chapter). If a device does not meet the criteria set out in Note 5(B) to this Chapter or does not perform the function of information processing, it shall be classified according to its characteristics on the basis of Basic Interpretation Rule 1 and, if necessary, in conjunction with Basic Interpretation Rule 3(a).

Separately presented devices, such as measuring or checking instruments, modified by the addition of devices (e.g., signal converters) enabling them to be connected directly to an automatic data processing machine, are not to be regarded as units of automatic data processing machines. Such devices are to be classified in their appropriate headings. Apart from central processing units and input and output units, other units include, for example: (1) Additional storage units, external to the central processing unit (magnetic card transport mechanisms, magnetic or optical disk storage units, magnetic tape autoloaders and libraries, optical disk jukeboxes (sometimes called "optical disk drives with automatic disk changing"), etc.). This category also includes additional storage units known as "proprietary format storage devices", either for installation within an automatic data processing machine or for external use with such machines. The units may be in the form of disk drives or tape drives. (2) Additional units which expand the capabilities of the central processing unit (e.g., floating point arithmetic units). (3) Control and adaptor units of the kind which provide the interconnection of the central processing unit with input or output units (e.g., USB port). Nevertheless, control units and adaptors for communication in wired or wireless communication networks (e.g., in a local or wide area network) are excluded (heading 8517). (4) Signal converting units. On input, these units enable external signals to be accepted by the machine, and on output they convert the output signals resulting from the processing carried out by the machine into signals which can be used by external devices. (5) X-Y coordinate input devices, which are devices for entering positional data into automatic data processing machines. Such devices include: the mouse, light pen, joystick, track ball and touch screen. The common feature of these devices is that their input data are data on position relative to some fixed point, or are interpreted as such. They are usually used for controlling the position of the cursor on a visual display unit, as a substitute for or supplement to the cursor control keys on a keyboard. This category also includes graphics tablets, which are X-Y coordinate input devices allowing the coordinates of a curve or any other geometric shape to be captured and traced. These devices usually consist of a rectangular tablet with an active sensitive surface, a pointer or stylus for creating drawings and a crosshair linked to a magnifier, allowing the data to be entered. This category also includes digitisers, which perform functions similar to those of graphics tablets. However, while graphics tablets are used for creating original drawings and diagrams, as well as for selecting application menus and manipulating an object displayed on the screen, digitisers are usually used for entering into the machine drawings which exist only in hard copy form. The pointing devices of digitisers may be of any kind, but must be small enough to be held in the hand and moved across the (active) sensitive area of the digitiser. Crosshair cursors are the most common kind.

(II) Magnetic or Optical Reading Devices, Machines for the Transfer of Data in the Codified Form and Machines for the Processing of Similar Information, in another place not named or included in the Codified Form, and machines for the processing of such Information, which are generally used for electronic accounting or for the execution of many other categories of operations, and which are generally used for electronic accounting or other purposes. This category includes magnetic or optical readers, machines for transferring data to media in encoded form, and machines that process data and decode the result. This category includes only machines not elsewhere specified or included. Thus, this category does not include, for example: (a) computers and their units described above in paragraph I, other than devices for reading bar codes; (b) computers, accounting machines and cash registers of heading 8470, from which machines in this category differ in that they do not have manual input devices, but receive data only in encoded form (on magnetic tape, disks, CD-ROM, etc.). (c) automatic typewriters and word-processing devices (heading 8472). (A) Magnetic or optical reading devices enable the reading of signs normally presented in a special form and their conversion into electrical signals (pulses) which can be directly used by machines to carry or process encoded information. (1) Magnetic readers . . In these types of devices, signs printed with a special "magnetic" printing ink are magnetized and then converted into electrical impulses by the magnetic head of the reader. They are consistently identified either by comparison with data recorded in the machine's memory or by digital code, usually binary. (2) Optical readers. "" They don't require special printing ink. Signs are read directly using a series of photovoltaic elements, and their transformation is carried out on the principle of binary code. This category also includes devices for reading bar code. These machines typically use light-sensitive semiconductor devices, such as laser diodes, and are used as input devices in conjunction with a computer or with other machines, such as cash registers. They are designed to work when held in hands, placed on a table or fixed on a machine. Readers discussed above are classified in this heading only if they are presented separately. When they are combined with other machines (e.g., machines for transferring data to media in coded form and machines for processing such information in coded form), these devices are classified with these machines, provided that they are presented together.

(B) Machines for the transfer of data to information carriers in a codified form: (1) Machines for the transfer of encrypted information from one medium to another. These machines can be used either to transfer encoded information from one type of media to another type, or to transfer information to another medium of the same type. The latter category includes reproduction machines, which are used to reproduce all or only part of the data contained on the main (magnetic) tape, magnetic or optical disk (for example, DVD, CD-ROM) by making a new tape or disk. (2) Machines for entering fixed programs into integrated circuits (programmers). These machines are designed to transfer in encoded form information contained in the internal memory of programmers to integrated circuits. Programmers enter information into one or more integrated circuits using various methods according to the type of integrated circuits used. Some programmers have an additional function (emulator) that allows the user to present graphically or simulate the results of the ramming program before directly writing the program to the integrated circuit. Subject to the general provisions relating to the classification of parts (see general provisions to section XVI), parts and accessories of machinery of this heading are classified in heading 8473. This heading also excludes: (a) power supplies (heading 8504); (b) modulator-demodulator apparatuses (modems) which modulate the information received from a computing machine, presenting it in a form suitable for transmission over a telephone network, and converting it back to digital form (heading 8517); (c) electronic integrated circuits (heading 8542); (d) ground-based flight simulators (for example heading 8805). Explanation of subheadings. Subheading 8471 30 This subheading covers portable computers of a mass not exceeding 10 kg. These flat-screen machines may be able to operate without an external power source and often have a modem for network communication. Subheading 8471 90 This subheading includes, inter alia, optical disk drive systems, which generally include keyboards, displays, optical disk drives, scanners and printers. These systems may include a computing machine as a control device, or may be configured to be accessible to perception by a computing machine or controlled by a computing machine. These systems usually perform the following functions: – image recording by electronic scanning;

- storage; - search, extraction; - visual reproduction; - printing on ordinary paper.

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) millstones, grinding stones or other articles of Chapter 68;

(b) equipment or devices (e.g. pumps) of ceramic materials and ceramic parts of machinery or devices of any material (Chapter 69);

(c) laboratory glassware (heading 7017); equipment, devices or other articles for technical purposes or parts thereof of glass (heading 7019 or 7020);

(d) articles of heading 7321 or 7322 or similar articles of other base metals (Chapters 74 to 76 or 78 to 81);

(e) vacuum cleaners of heading 8508;

(f) electromechanical household appliances of heading 8509; digital cameras of heading 8525;

(g) radiators for articles of Section XVII; or

(h) manual mechanical brushes for floor cleaning, without engine (heading 9603).

2. Subject to the provisions of Note 3 to Section XVI and Note 11 to this Chapter, a machine or device which meets the description in one or more of headings 8401 to 8424 or heading 8486 and at the same time the description in one or more headings 8425 to 8480 is included in the relevant heading of the first series of headings or in heading 8486 as the case may be, and not in the second series.

(A) However, heading 8419 does not cover:

(i) seed germination equipment, incubators or brooders (heading 8436);

(ii) machinery for wetting grains (heading 8437);

(iii) diffusion apparatus for the extraction of sugary juice (heading 8438);

(iv) equipment for the heat treatment of textile yarn, textile materials or finished textile articles (heading 8451); or

machining equipment, assemblies or laboratory equipment in which temperature change, even if necessary, is an auxiliary process.

(B) Heading 8422 does not cover:

(i) sewing machines for sewing bags or similar packagings (heading 8452); or

(ii) office equipment of heading 8472.

(C) Heading 8424 does not cover:

(i) paint-blasting printing presses (heading 8443); or

(ii) water jet cutting machines (heading 8456).

3. A machine for processing any material which corresponds to the description of heading 8456 and simultaneously to the description of heading 8457 to 8461, 8464 or 8465 is classified in heading 8456.

4. Heading 8457 covers only metalworking machines other than lathes (including multipurpose lathes) which may perform different types of machining operations by:

(a) the automatic replacement of tools from a tool store or similar device in accordance with the processing program(s);

(b) the automatic application simultaneously or sequentially of different processing heads operating at a fixed workpiece (assembly single-position machines); or

(c) automatic movement of the workpiece to various processing heads (multi-position machines).

5. For the purposes of heading 8462, the term “longitudinal cutting line” for flat products means a process line consisting of a winder, a correct device, a longitudinal cutting device and a winder. The term “cross-cutting line” for flat products means a process line consisting of a unwinder, a correct device and a cutting device.

6. (A) For the purposes of heading 8471, the term “computers” means machines capable of:

(i) store the processing program or programs and at least the information currently necessary to execute the program;

(ii) be freely reprogrammable according to user requirements;

(iii) perform user-defined arithmetic calculations; and

(iv) perform, without human intervention, a processing program requiring the computer to modify its actions by making logical decisions during processing.

(B) Computing machines can be made in the form of systems consisting of a different number of individual blocks.

(C) Subject to the provisions of Notes (D) and (E) below, a block shall be treated as part of a computing system if it satisfies all of the following conditions:

(i) exclusively or principally used in a computing system;

(ii) is capable of being connected to the central processing unit either directly or through one or more other units; and

(iii) is capable of receiving or presenting information in such form (codes or signals) as may be used by the system.

Separately presented computer units are classified in heading 8471.

However, keyboards, X-Y-coordinate input devices and disk storage units which satisfy the conditions laid down in Notes (B) (ii) and (B) (iii) above are in all cases to be regarded as blocks of heading 8471.

(D) Heading 8471 does not cover the following devices, presented separately, even if they meet all the conditions of Note 6(C) above:

(i) printers, copiers, facsimile machines, combined or not;

(ii) apparatus for receiving or transmitting voice, images or other data, including apparatus for providing communications over a wired or wireless communication network (for example, on a local or wide area network);

(iii) loudspeakers and microphones;

(iv) television cameras, digital cameras and video recording cameras;

(v) monitors and projectors not combined with television reception equipment.

(E) Machines containing or working in conjunction with a computer and performing specific functions other than information processing are classified in the headings according to their specific functions or, if this is not possible, in the residual headings.

7. Heading 8482, inter alia, covers polished steel balls whose maximum and minimum diameter does not differ from the nominal diameter by more than 1% or by more than 0.05 mm, whichever is smaller. Other steel balls are classified in heading 7326.

8. A machine which is used for more than one purpose shall be classified as if its primary purpose were the only one.

Subject to the provisions of Note 2 to this Chapter and Note 3 to Section XVI, a machine whose primary purpose is not described in any heading or a machine in which none of its functions is primary is classified in heading 8479, unless the context otherwise provides. Heading 8479 also includes machinery for the manufacture of ropes or ropes (e.g. knitting machines) from metal wire, textile yarn or other materials or from a combination of such materials.

9. For the purposes of heading 8470, the term “pocket” applies only to devices not exceeding 170 x 100 x 45 mm.

10. For the purposes of heading 8485, the term additive manufacturing (also referred to as 3D printing) means the formation of physical objects based on a digital model by successively adding and layering, sealing and curing a material (e.g., metal, plastics or ceramics).

Subject to the provisions of Note 1 to Section XVI and Note 1 to Chapter 84, machines as described in heading 8485 are classified in that heading and no other heading of the Nomenclature.

11. (A) Notes 12(a) and 12(b) to Chapter 85 also apply to the terms “semiconductor devices” and “electronic integrated circuits”, respectively, as used in this note and in heading 8486. However, in this note and in heading 8486, the term "semiconductor devices" also applies to photosensitive semiconductor devices and LEDs.

(B) In this note and in heading 8486, the term “plane display panel production” covers the fabrication of a flat panel of substrates. It does not cover the production of glass or the installation of printed circuit boards or other electronic components on flat panels. The term "flat display panel" does not apply to cathode ray tube technology.

(C) Heading 8486 also includes machinery and apparatus used exclusively or principally for:

(i) producing or eliminating defects in masks and patterns;

assemblies of semiconductor devices or electronic integrated circuits;

(iii) lifting, manipulating, loading or unloading boules, plates, semiconductor devices, electronic integrated circuits and flat display panels.

(D) Subject to the provisions of Note 1 to Section XVI and Note 1 to Chapter 84, machinery meeting the description in heading 8486 is classified in this heading and in no other heading of the Nomenclature.

Subheading notes

English text as published in Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2021/1832 (Combined Nomenclature). The EAEU tariff and the EU nomenclature copy these notes from the same convention. For a Russian declaration the binding version is the Russian one: Annex to Decision No 80 of the EEC Council of 14 September 2021.

1. For the purposes of subheading 8465 20, the term ‘machining centres’ applies only to machine-tools for working wood, cork, bone, hard rubber, hard plastics or similar hard materials, which can carry out different types of machining operations by automatic tool change from a magazine or the like in conformity with a machining programme.

2. For the purposes of subheading 8471 49, the term ‘systems’ means automatic data-processing machines whose units satisfy the conditions laid down in note 6(C) to Chapter 84 and which comprise at least a central processing unit, one input unit (for example, a keyboard or a scanner), and one output unit (for example, a visual display unit or a printer).

3. For the purposes of subheading 8481 20, the expression ‘valves for oleohydraulic or pneumatic transmissions’ means valves which are used specifically in the transmission of ‘fluid power’ in a hydraulic or pneumatic system, where the energy source is supplied in the form of pressurized fluids (liquid or gas). These valves may be of any type (for example, pressure-reducing type, check type). Subheading 8481 20 takes precedence over all other subheadings of heading 8481.

4. Subheading 8482 40 applies only to bearings with cylindrical rollers of a uniform diameter not exceeding 5 mm and having a length which is at least three times the diameter. The ends of the rollers may be rounded.

Additional 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 8407 10 and 8409 10, the term “aviation engines” shall apply only to engines intended for assembly with an air or rotor.

2. В подсубпозицию 8471 70 300 0 также включаются устройства считывания компакт-дисков, являющиеся запоминающими устройствами вычислительных машин, которые предназначены для считывания сигналов с CD-ROM, аудиокомпакт-дисков и фотокомпакт-дисков и снабжены разъемом для наушников, регулятором громкости или кнопкой пуск/стоп.

Additional notes of the Eurasian Economic Union

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 subheading 8482 10 900 1, the term “gross mass” means the total mass of the goods with all kinds of packaging materials and packagings ensuring their safety during storage and transport. The total weight of the goods does not include the mass of packaging materials or containers that are clearly suitable for reuse.

2. For the purposes of subheading 8415 81 001 0, the term “special production facilities” means premises in which the maintenance of precise values of temperature and humidity is due to the operational requirements of the equipment installed therein, such as machines, computers, switching equipment, surgical equipment, etc., or to the operations performed therein.

3. In subheadings 8427 20 190 1, 8427 90 000 1 and 8436 80 100 1, the date of manufacture shall be determined on the basis of the technical documentation of the manufacturer (technical passport, instruction manual) and the manufacturer's plate, which shall be fixed in a conspicuous, easily accessible place of the machinery and shall not be replaced during operation. If the manufacturer's technical documentation and the manufacturer's plate contain conflicting information about the date of manufacture or there is no information about the manufacturer of the equipment on the date of manufacture, then this technique is considered a technique, since the release of which more than 3 years have passed.

If the manufacturer's information indicates only the year of manufacture, then the date of manufacture of the equipment is considered 1 July of the year of manufacture; if the month and year of manufacture are indicated, the date of manufacture is the 15th day of the month specified in the manufacturer's information.

4. For the purpose of classification of goods in subheading 8482 10 900 1 in the states, whose territories constitute the customs territory of the Eurasian Economic Union, when applying the term "French border of the country of importation", the country of import is understood as the customs territory of the Eurasian Economic Union.

5. For the purpose of subheading 8407 10 000 3, the term “take-off power” means the maximum power developed by an aircraft piston engine.

“Take-off power” is specified in the technical documentation and (or) accompanying documents, measured in kilowatts or horsepower (1 kW corresponds to 1.35962 hp).

6. В подсубпозиции 8421 99 000 5 термин «элементы мембранные рулонного типа для фильтрования или очистки жидкостей» означает устройства цилиндрической формы, состоящие из:

- internal plastic perforated tube on which spirally wound membrane bags;

- drainage material located between membrane bags and glued to them on three sides.

The membrane package consists of a twice folded band of membrane containing an extruded grid inside.

At the ends of the membrane roll-type element, fixing discs and sealing cuffs can be installed.

7. For the purposes of subheading 8415 20 000 2, the term “in a single enclosure” refers to air conditioning units (air conditioners) in which all the elements are combined in a single enclosure, frame or platform.

The term "in a single housing" also applies to air conditioning units (air conditioners) in which the refrigeration compressor, which is part of a given air conditioning unit (air conditioner), is located separately, that is, not combined with the rest of the elements in one housing, on one frame or on one platform.