8481 80 11 — Mixing valves for sinks, washbasins, bidets, water cisterns, baths and similar fixtures

8481 Taps, cocks, valves and similar appliances for pipes, boiler shells, tanks, cisterns, vats or the like, including pressure-reducing valves and thermostatically controlled valves: 8481 10 – Pressure-reducing valves 8481 20 – Valves for oleohydraulic or pneumatic transmissions 8481 30 – Check (non-return) valves 8481 40 – Safety or relief valves 8481 80 – Other appliances 8481 90 – Parts

This heading covers taps, cocks, valves and similar appliances, fitted to the outside or inside of pipes, tanks, vats, etc., for regulating the flow (filling, emptying, etc.) of various fluids (liquid, viscous or gaseous) or in certain cases of solid particles (e.g., sand). The heading covers appliances designed for regulating the pressure or the rate of flow of a liquid or gas. The appliances regulate the flow by opening or closing an aperture (e.g., by means of a gate, disc, ball, plug, needle or diaphragm). They may be operated manually (by a key, wheel, push-button, etc.), by

by means of a motor, an electromagnet, a clockwork mechanism or an automatic device such as, for example, a spring, a counterweight, a float lever, a thermostatic element or a pressure-sensitive capsule. Taps, cocks, valves, etc., incorporating such mechanisms or devices fall in this heading. For example, this heading covers a valve fitted with a thermostatic element (bimetallic strip, bulb, diaphragm). The heading also includes valves, etc., connected to a thermostatic element by means of, for example, a capillary tube. Combinations consisting of a tap, cock, valve, etc., and a thermostat, manostat or other measuring, checking or automatically controlling instrument or apparatus of heading 9026 or 9032 fall in this heading if the instrument or apparatus is mounted, or is designed to be mounted, directly on the tap, cock, valve, etc., and provided that the combined appliance has the character of an article of this heading. If these conditions are not satisfied, such combined apparatus fall in heading 9026 (e.g., a liquid-type pressure gauge fitted with a drain cock) or in heading 9032. In the case of remote-control systems, only the tap, cock, valve, etc., falls in this heading. Taps, cocks, valves, etc., are usually made of base metal or of plastics, but those made of other materials (other than unhardened vulcanised rubber, ceramic materials or glass) also fall in this heading. Taps, cocks, valves, etc., fall in this heading even if their construction has additional distinctive features (e.g., double walls for heating or cooling; short lengths of tubing; spouts ending in a shower rose; small basins with a drinking fountain; locking devices). Taps, cocks, valves, etc., also fall in this heading if they are specially designed for use in the construction of a particular machine or apparatus, or on a land vehicle or aircraft. However, certain parts of machinery which incorporate an entire valve or which regulate the flow of a fluid within the machine, although not forming a complete valve in themselves, are classified as parts of the machines concerned, e.g., inlet or exhaust valves of internal combustion engines (heading 8409), slide valves for steam engines (heading 8412), suction or delivery valves of air or gas compressors (heading 8414), pulsators for milking machines (heading 8434) and nipples for non-automatic lubrication (heading 8487). The heading includes, inter alia: (1) Pressure-reducing valves for reducing the pressure of gases and maintaining this reduced pressure at a constant level by means of a shut-off member whose position is regulated by a pressure-sensitive device (diaphragm, bellows, membrane, etc.) and damped by a spring of adjustable tension. These valves provide direct regulation of the pressure of the gases passing through them; they are fitted, for example, on cylinders of compressed gas, on pressure vessels or on the pipeline supply systems of the appliances they serve.

The heading also covers pressure-reducing valves (sometimes called pressure regulators, pressure reducers or pressure reducer-regulators), which are also fitted at the outlets of pressure vessels or boiler units, on connected fuel-supply piping systems or near the appliances they serve, in order to perform the same function in relation to compressed air, steam, water, hydrocarbons or other fluids. When combined with a pressure gauge, pressure-reducing valves fall either in this heading or in heading 9026, according to whether or not the combined appliance retains the essential character of a tap, valve, etc. (see the fourth paragraph of the Explanatory Note to this heading). (2) Valves for oleohydraulic or pneumatic transmissions (see Subheading Note 3 to this Chapter). These valves, which may be of various types (pressure-reducing, check, etc.), are used, in particular, in the transmission of "fluid power" in hydraulic or pneumatic systems, where the energy source is supplied in the form of a pressurised liquid or gas. (3) Non-return valves (e.g., swing check valves and ball valves). (4) Safety valves, relief valves, etc., whether or not incorporating a warning whistle. In certain cases bursting discs (thin discs of plastics or metal) are used as safety devices instead of valves; they are fitted in piping systems or on pressure vessels by means of a holder and burst at a given pressure. They are classified according to their constituent material (headings 3926, 7115, 7326, 7419, 7508, 7616, etc.). (5) Manifold valves (e.g., three-way valves and "Christmas tree" valves). (6) Control cocks, blow-off cocks, stop valves, etc., for level gauges. (7) Radiator drain cocks. (8) Valves for tyre inner tubes. (9) Float-controlled valves. (10) Steam traps, in which water condensed from steam as it passes through a steam line collects and which empty automatically (e.g., by the action of a float). The heading also covers steam traps whose closing device is actuated by a thermostatic element (bimetallic or diaphragm type) mounted inside the steam trap (thermostatically controlled steam traps). (11) Fire hydrants (standpipes), fire cocks, fire hose nozzles, etc., fitted with taps or valves and designed for producing a jet or spray. The heading excludes mechanical sprinkler heads for fire-fighting installations, mechanical sprinkler heads for watering gardens, etc. (heading 8424). (12) Mixing taps and mixing valves with two or more inlets and a mixing chamber. The heading also covers thermostatically controlled mixing valves incorporating an adjustable thermostatic element. This element acts on the appropriate closing devices, regulating the admission into the mixing chamber of liquid flows of different temperatures.

(13) Drain outlets with plugs (other than simple drain outlets with stoppers inserted by hand, which are classified according to their constituent material). (14) Sea-cocks and other underwater valves, cocks, etc., for ships. (15) Lubricating cocks with flexible or telescopic tubes for lubricating the shafting of steamers, etc. (16) Valves for soda-water siphons. (17) Caps for pressurised spray containers designed to be filled with liquid or gaseous insecticides, disinfectants, etc., under pressure, fitted with a metal head with a push-button which moves a needle opening or closing the ejection orifice. (18) Taps and cocks for fitting in the bung-holes of barrels, tubs, etc. (19) Taps for bottling machines, designed to close automatically when the liquid reaches the top of the bottle. (20) Gas-operated beer-dispensing appliances designed for installation in beer bars. These appliances essentially consist of one or more hand-operated taps to which beer is delivered by the pressure of carbon dioxide fed by pipeline into the beer barrels. PARTS Subject to the general provisions regarding the classification of parts (see the General Explanatory Note to Section XVI), parts of the appliances of this heading also fall in this heading. The heading also excludes: (a) Taps, cocks, valves and similar appliances of unhardened vulcanised rubber (heading 4016), of ceramics (heading 6903 or 6909) or of glass (heading 7017 or 7020). (b) U-bends for waste water from wash-basins, lavatories, bathrooms, etc., and flushing cisterns, whether or not equipped with their mechanisms, which are classified according to their constituent material (e.g., headings 3922, 6910, 7324). (c) Centrifugal governors for steam engines (heading 8412). (d) Steam injectors or ejector pumps (heading 8413). (e) Air sprayers (heading 8424). (f) Pneumatic grease guns (heading 8467). (g) Blow pipes for gas welding (heading 8468). (h) Taps combined with metering devices for dispensing ice cream, spirits, milk, etc. (heading 8479).

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.