8523 51 99 — Discs, tapes, solid-state non-volatile storage devices, "smart cards" and other media for the recording of sound or of other phenomena, whether or not recorded, including matrices and masters for the production of discs, but excluding products of Chapter 37: semiconductor media: solid-state non-volatile storage devices: other: other

8523 Discs, tapes, solid-state non-volatile storage devices, "smart cards" and other media for the recording of sound or of other phenomena, whether or not recorded, including matrices and masters for the production of discs, but excluding products of Chapter 37: – Magnetic media: 8523 21 – – Cards incorporating a magnetic stripe 8523 29 – – Other – Optical media: 8523 41 – – Unrecorded 8523 49 – – Other – Semiconductor media: 8523 51 – – Solid-state non-volatile storage devices 8523 52 – – "Smart cards" 8523 59 – – Other 8523 80 – Other

This heading covers various types of media, whether recorded or not, for recording sound or other phenomena (e.g. digital data; text; images, video or graphic data; software). Such media as

as a rule, connected to or removed from the recording or reading apparatus and may be transferred from one recording or reading apparatus to another. The media of this heading may be recorded, unrecorded, or have some pre-recorded information but be capable of further recording of additional information. The heading covers intermediate forms of media (e.g., matrices, masters, "mothers", stampers) for use in the mass production of finished recorded media. However, the heading excludes devices which record information onto a medium or retrieve information from a medium. In particular, the heading includes: (A) MAGNETIC MEDIA Articles of this category are usually in the form of discs, cards or tapes. They are made of various materials (in most cases plastics, paper or paperboard, or metal), either magnetic in themselves, or coated or covered with a magnetic material. This category includes, for example, cassette tapes and other tapes for tape recorders, tapes for video camera recorders and other video recording apparatus (e.g., VHS, Hi-8™, mini-DV), diskettes and cards incorporating a magnetic stripe. This category does not include magneto-optical media. (B) OPTICAL MEDIA Articles of this category are generally in the form of discs made of glass, metal or plastic with one or more light-reflecting layers. Any information (sound or other data) contained on such discs is read by means of a laser beam. The category includes recorded discs and unrecorded discs, whether or not rewritable. This category includes, for example, compact discs (e.g., CD, V-CD, CD-ROM, CD-RAM), digital versatile discs (DVD). This category also includes magneto-optical media. (C) SEMICONDUCTOR MEDIA Articles of this category incorporate one or more electronic integrated circuits. This category includes: (1) Solid-state non-volatile storage devices for recording data from an external source (see Note 5 (a) to this Chapter). These devices (also known as "flash memory cards" or "flash electronic storage cards") are used for recording data from external sources, or for transferring information to devices such as navigation and global positioning systems, data collection terminals, portable scanners, medical monitoring devices, sound recording apparatus, personal communication devices, mobile telephones, digital cameras and automatic data processing machines. Generally, the data are stored in the device and read from it after the device is connected to a particular apparatus, but they may also be loaded into or from an automatic data processing machine by means of a special adapter.

These devices are powered only by the devices to which they are connected, and they do not require a battery. These non-volatile storage devices contain in the same housing one or more flash memories ("flash electrically erasable PROM/EEPROM") in the form of integrated circuits mounted on a printed circuit board, and have a connector for connection to the host device. They may incorporate capacitors, resistors and a microcontroller in the form of an integrated circuit. USB flash memory cards are an example of solid-state non-volatile storage devices. (2) "Smart cards" (see Note 5 (b) to this Chapter), which have one or more electronic integrated circuits (a microprocessor, random access memory (RAM) or read-only memory (ROM)) in the form of chips. "Smart cards" may bear contacts, a magnetic stripe or an embedded antenna, but they do not contain any other active or passive elements. These "smart cards" also include certain articles known as "proximity cards or tags bearing special marks", provided they meet the terms of Note 5 (b) to this Chapter. Proximity cards/tags bearing special marks generally consist of an integrated circuit with read-only memory, attached to a printed antenna to which that read-only memory is connected. The card/tag operates by creating a field interference (the nature of which is determined by the code contained in the read-only memory) on the antenna in order to affect the signal transmitted to it and reflected back to the reader. This type of card/tag does not transmit data. (D) OTHER This category covers recording gramophones. The heading excludes: (a) photographic or cinematographic film with one or more sound tracks (Chapter 37); (b) sensitised film for photoelectric recording (heading 3702); (c) articles intended for use as media for the recording of sound or of other phenomena, but not yet prepared as such for these purposes; they are classified in their appropriate headings (e.g., in Chapter 39 or 48, or in Section XV); (d) data media in the form of paper tapes or punched cards, recorded usually by perforation (Chapter 48); (e) certain electronic memory modules (e.g., SIMMs (single in-line memory modules) and DIMMs (dual in-line memory modules)), which are to be classified by application of Note 2 to Section XVI (see the General Explanatory Note to this Chapter); (f) cartridges for video game machines (heading 9504).

Transmission apparatus for radio-broadcasting or television, whether or not incorporating reception apparatus or sound recording or reproducing apparatus; television cameras, digital cameras and video camera recorders: 8525 50 – Transmission apparatus

8525 60 – Transmission apparatus incorporating reception apparatus 8525 80 – Television cameras, digital cameras and video camera recorders

(A) A broadcasting apparatus for radio broadcasting or television, including or not including in its composition a receiving, sound recording or sound reproduction apparatus for radio broadcasting belonging to this category, shall be intended for transmission by means of an etheric signal, which shall be transmitted by means of an etheric signal. On the other hand, television equipment is included here if the transmission takes place through electromagnetic waves or along a line. This category includes: (1) Transmitters for broadcasting or television. (2) Radio relay equipment used to receive radio transmissions and relay them in such a way as to increase the broadcast range (including television radio relay equipment for installation on aircraft). (3) Television radio relay transmitters for transmitting a parabolic antenna from a studio or non-studio broadcasting site to the main transmitter. (4) Television transmitters for industrial applications (e.g. for reading instrument readings at a distance or for surveillance in dangerous locations). With this equipment, transmission is often carried out over a wired communication line. (b) Television cameras, digital cameras and video recording cameras This category of equipment includes television cameras that capture images and convert them into an electronic signal that: (1) is transmitted as a video image to a specific location outside the camera for viewing or remote recording (for example, television cameras); or (2) is recorded on the camera as a frame-by-frame image or motion picture (i.e., digital cameras and video recording cameras). Many cameras of this heading may physically resemble cameras of heading 9006 or film cameras of heading 9007. Cameras of heading 8525 and cameras of group 90 generally include optical lenses for focusing the image on a light-sensitive medium and means of tuning to change the amount of light penetrating the camera. However, the cameras and film cameras of Chapter 90 exhibit the image on a photosensitive film of Chapter 37, while the cameras of this heading record the images in the form of analog or digital data. The cameras of this heading capture the image by focusing it on a light-sensitive device such as a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) or charge-coupled device (CCD). The light-sensitive device sends an electrical representation of images to be further processed to an analog or digital image recording device.

Television cameras may or may not incorporate a device for remote control of the lens and diaphragm as well as a device for remote control of the horizontal and vertical movement of the camera (e.g., studio and outside broadcast television cameras, cameras used for industrial or scientific purposes, in closed-circuit television systems (for surveillance) or for traffic control). These cameras do not have built-in means of recording images. Some of these cameras may also be used with automatic data processing machines (e.g., web cameras). "Travelling" mobile mechanical equipment for television cameras, whether presented with the television cameras or separately, is excluded from this heading (heading 8428). The heading also excludes electrical equipment for the remote control and for the focusing of television cameras, presented separately (heading 8537). In digital cameras and video camera recorders, images are recorded on an internal storage device or on a medium (e.g., magnetic tape, optical media, semiconductor media or other media of heading 8523). They may incorporate an analogue-to-digital converter (ADC) and an output terminal which provides the means of transferring images to automatic data processing units, printers, television sets or other display devices. Some digital cameras and video camera recorders incorporate input terminals, so that they can internally record analogue or digital image files from such external devices. Generally, cameras of this category are equipped with an optical viewfinder or a liquid crystal display (LCD), or both. Many cameras with an LCD allow the display to be used as a viewfinder when capturing images and also as a screen for reproducing images obtained from other sources or for reproducing images already recorded. PARTS Subject to the general provisions regarding the classification of parts (see the General Explanatory Note to Section XVI), parts of the apparatus of this heading fall in heading 8529. The heading also excludes: (a) apparatus of heading 8517; (b) broadcast radio receiving apparatus for fitting in relay apparatus, presented separately (heading 8527); (c) satellite television receivers and satellite television reception systems (heading 8528); (d) special purpose vehicles permanently equipped with broadcast radio receivers and television transmitters or other equipment of this heading (usually heading 8705); (e) communications satellites (heading 8802).

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) blankets, mattresses, pillows, foot warmers, electrically heated or similar articles; clothing, shoes or headphones or other electrically heated articles used by a person;

(b) glass articles of heading 7011;

(c) machinery and apparatus of heading 8486;

(d) vacuum apparatus used in the medical, surgical, dental or veterinary fields of science (heading 9018); or

(e) Electrically heated furniture of Chapter 94.

2. Headings 8501 to 8504 do not cover the goods of heading 8511, 8512, 8540, 8541 or 8542.

However, mercury arc rectifiers with metal reservoirs are classified in heading 8504.

3. For the purposes of heading 8507, the term “electrical accumulators” applies to electric accumulators presented with additional components that contribute to the storage and supply of energy to the battery or protect it from damage, such as electrical connectors, thermostats (e.g., thermistors) and protective devices. They may also include a portion of the protective casing of the goods in which they will be used.

4. Heading 8509 covers only the following types of electromechanical machinery commonly used in household use:

(a) canvases, food grinders, mixers and juicers for fruits or vegetables of any mass;

(b) other machines weighing not more than 20 kg.

Однако данная товарная позиция не включает вентиляторы или вентиляционные или рециркуляционные вытяжные колпаки или шкафы с вентилятором, с фильтрами или без фильтров (товарная позиция 8414), центробежные сушилки для белья (товарная позиция 8421), посудомоечные машины (товарная позиция 8422), бытовые стиральные машины (товарная позиция 8450), валковые или другие гладильные машины (товарная позиция 8420 или 8451), швейные машины (товарная позиция 8452), электрические ножницы (товарная позиция 8467) или электронагревательные приборы (товарная позиция 8516).

5. For the purposes of heading 8517, the term “smartphones” means telephones for cellular communication networks equipped with a mobile operating system designed to perform computer functions, such as the downloading and simultaneous operation of several applications, including third-party applications, whether or not other components, such as digital cameras and navigation systems, are embedded therein.

6. In heading 8523:

(a) “solid state-of-the-art non-volatile storage devices” (e.g., “flash memory cards” or “electronic flash memory cards”) mean connector storage devices comprising one or more flash memory devices (e.g., “Flash ES ROMs”) in the form of integrated circuits installed on a printed circuit board. They may include an integrated circuit controller and discrete passive components such as capacitors and resistors.

(b) the term “smart cards” means cards that have one or more electronic integrated circuits (a microprocessor, randomly sampled memory (ROM) or permanent memory (ROM)) in the form of crystals. These cards may have contacts, a magnetic strip, or a built-in antenna, but they do not contain any other active or passive elements.

7. For the purposes of heading 8524, the expression “flat display panel modules” refers to display devices or apparatus equipped with at least a display screen which are designed to be incorporated into the articles of other headings before use. In shape, the display screens of such modules can be flat, curved, flexible, folding, stretching or other shapes. Flat display panel modules may include additional components, including those necessary for receiving video signals and distributing them across screen pixels. Heading 8524, however, does not include display modules equipped with components for converting video signals (e.g., a video format conversion integrated circuit, a decoder integrated circuit or an application processor) or otherwise having assumed the character of articles of other headings.

In classifying the flat panel modules referred to in this note, heading 8524 takes precedence over any other heading of the Nomenclature.

8. For the purposes of heading 8534, the term “printed circuits” means circuits made by forming on an insulating substrate by any printing process (e.g., electroplating, etching) or by “film” technology of conductors, contacts, or other printed elements (e.g., inductances, resistors, capacitors) individually or in a particular order, with the exception of elements which are capable of producing, straightening, modulating, or amplifying an electrical signal (e.g., semiconductor elements).

The term "printed circuits" does not include circuits combined with elements other than those obtained in the printing process, as well as individual discrete resistors, capacitors or inductors. Printed circuits, however, may be equipped with connecting elements manufactured by a technology other than printing.

Thin or thick-film circuits employing passive and active elements obtained in the same process are classified in heading 8542.

9. For the purposes of heading 8536, the term “connectors for fibers of optical, fiber-optic harnesses or cables” means connectors which simply mechanically connect the ends of optical fibers in a digital link system. They do not perform any other function, such as amplifying, restoring, or changing a signal.

10. Heading 8537 excludes wireless infrared devices for remote control of television receivers or other electrical equipment (heading 8543).

11. For the purposes of heading 8539, the expression “LED light sources” covers:

(a) "LED modules" are electric light sources based on LEDs connected in electrical circuits and containing additional components such as electrical, mechanical, thermal or optical elements. For supply or control of power, these modules also contain discrete active elements, discrete passive elements or articles of heading 8536 or 8542. LED modules (LED) are not equipped with a cap, facilitating installation or replacement in the lamp, and providing mechanical and electrical contact;

(b) "LED lamps" are electrical light sources containing one or more LED modules containing additional components such as electrical, mechanical, thermal or optical elements. The difference between LED modules (LED) and LED lamps (LED) is that the latter have a cap that facilitates installation or replacement in the lamp, and provides mechanical and electrical contact.

12. In headings 8541 and 8542:

(a) (i) “semiconductor devices” means semiconductor devices whose operation is based on a change in their resistance under the action of an electric field or semiconductor-based transducers.

Semiconductor devices may also comprise an assembly of multiple elements, regardless of whether the devices are provided with active and passive auxiliary functions or not.

For the purposes of this definition, “semiconductor-based transducers” are semiconductor-based sensors, semiconductor-based actuators, semiconductor-based resonators, and semiconductor-based generators that are varieties of discrete semiconductor-based devices that perform a given function and are capable of converting any physical or chemical phenomenon or effect into an electrical signal, or an electrical signal into some physical phenomenon or action.

All elements of transducers based on semiconductors are inextricably combined with each other, and can contain inseparably attached to them materials necessary for their design or functioning.

The following expressions have the following meanings:

(1) “semiconductor-based” means created or manufactured on a semiconductor substrate or made of semiconductor materials, in a semiconductor technology in which a semiconductor substrate or material plays an essential and irreplaceable role in the performance by a converter of its function, the operation of which is based on the properties of the semiconductor, including physical, electrical, chemical and optical properties;

(2) “physical or chemical phenomena” refers to phenomena such as pressure, acoustic waves, acceleration, vibration, motion, orientation, stress, magnetic field strength, electric field strength, light, radioactivity, humidity, flow rate, concentration of chemicals, etc.;

(3) "semiconductor-based sensor" is a type of semiconductor device consisting of microelectronic or mechanical structures that are created in the mass or on the surface of the semiconductor and having the function of determining the values of physical or chemical action and their conversion into electrical signals caused by a change in electrical properties or displacement of the mechanical structure.

(4) "semiconductor-based drive" is a type of semiconductor device consisting of microelectronic or mechanical structures that are created in the mass or on the surface of the semiconductor and having the function of converting electrical signals into physical motion;

(5) "semiconductor-based resonator" is a type of semiconductor device consisting of microelectronic or mechanical structures that are created in the mass or on the surface of the semiconductor, and having the function of generating mechanical or electrical oscillations of a given frequency, depending on the physical geometry of these structures responding to an external input signal;

(6) "semiconductor-based generator" is a type of semiconductor device consisting of microelectronic or mechanical structures that are created in the mass or on the surface of the semiconductor and having the function of generating mechanical or electrical oscillations of a given frequency, depending on the physical geometry of these structures;

(ii) "LEDs (LEDs)" are semiconductor devices based on semiconductor materials that convert electrical energy into visible, infrared or ultraviolet radiation, whether electrically connected or unconnected, combined with protective diodes or not combined. The LEDs of heading 8541 do not contain components intended to provide power supply or control power supply.

(b) "electronic integrated circuits":

(i) monolithic integrated circuits in which circuit elements (diodes, transistors, resistors, capacitors, inductances, etc.) are carried out in mass (mainly) and on the surface of a semiconductor or complex semiconductor material (for example, doped silicon, gallium arsenide, silicohermanium, indium phosphide) and are inseparably linked;

(ii) hybrid integrated circuits in which passive elements (resistors, capacitors, inductances, etc.) made by thin- or thick-film technology processes and active elements (diodes, transistors, monolithic integrated circuits, etc.) obtained by semiconductor technology processes are connected into a single inseparable whole by interconnections or connecting cables on a single insulating substrate (glass, ceramics, etc.). Such circuits may also contain discrete components;

(iii) multi-crystal integrated circuits consisting of two or more interconnected monolithic integrated circuits, inseparably combined into a single whole, located or not located on one or more insulating substrates, having or not having a frame with terminals, but containing no other active or passive elements;

(iv) multi-component integrated circuits consisting of one or more monolithic, hybrid or multi-crystal integrated circuits combined with at least one of the following components: silicon-based sensors, silicon-based actuators, silicon-based generators, silicon-based resonators or combinations thereof, or components performing the functions of articles classified in headings 8532, 8533, 8541, or inductors classified in heading 8504, inseparably combined in a single integrative form of a single integrated circuit, carried by means of a connection with a printed terminal or other terminal.

In this definition:

(1) “Components” may be discrete, produced independently, then installed on the rest of the multi-component integrated circuit, or integrated into other components;

(2) “Silicon-based” means that they are made on a silicon substrate, or are made of silicon, or are made on an integrated circuit chip;

(3)(a) “silicon-based sensors” consist of microelectronic or mechanical structures that are created in the mass or on the surface of the semiconductor and have the function of detecting physical or chemical phenomena and converting them into electrical signals caused by a change in electrical properties or displacement of the mechanical structure. “Physical or chemical phenomena” refer to phenomena such as pressure, acoustic waves, acceleration, vibration, motion, orientation, stress, magnetic field strength, electric field strength, light, radioactivity, humidity, flow rate, concentration of chemicals, etc.;

(b) “silicon-based actuators” consist of microelectronic and mechanical structures that are created in the mass or on the surface of the semiconductor and that have the function of converting electrical signals into physical motion;

(c) “silicon-based resonators” are components that consist of microelectronic or mechanical structures that are created in the mass or on the surface of a semiconductor and that have the function of generating mechanical or electrical oscillations of a given frequency depending on the physical geometry of these structures responding to an external input signal;

(d) “silicon-based generators” are active components that consist of microelectronic or mechanical structures that are created in the mass or on the surface of a semiconductor and that have the function of generating mechanical or electrical oscillations of a given frequency depending on the physical geometry of those structures.

In classifying the articles referred to in this note, headings 8541 and 8542 shall take precedence over any other heading of the Nomenclature which may include those articles in accordance with, in particular, their function, with the exception of heading 8523.

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. Subheading 8525 81 covers only high-speed television cameras, digital cameras and video camera recorders having one or more of the following characteristics: - writing speed exceeding 0,5 mm per microsecond; - time resolution 50 nanoseconds or less; - frame rate exceeding 225 000 frames per second.

2. In respect of subheading 8525 82, radiation-hardened or radiation-tolerant television cameras, digital cameras and video camera recorders are designed or shielded to enable operation in a high-radiation environment. These cameras are designed to withstand a total radiation dose of at least 50 × 103 Gy(silicon) (5 × 106 RAD (silicon)), without operational degradation.

3. Subheading 8525 83 covers night vision television cameras, digital cameras and video camera recorders which use a photocathode to convert available light to electrons, which can be amplified and converted to yield a visible image. This subheading excludes thermal imaging cameras (generally subheading 8525 89).

4. Subheading 8527 12 covers only cassette-players with built-in amplifier, without built-in loudspeaker, capable of operating without an external source of electric power and the dimensions of which do not exceed 170 mm × 100 mm × 45 mm.

5. For the purposes of subheadings 8549 11 to 8549 19, ‘spent primary cells, spent primary batteries and spent electric accumulators’ are those which are neither usable as such because of breakage, cutting-up, wear or other reasons, nor capable of being recharged.

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. Subheadings 8519 20 100 0, 8519 30 000 0 and 8519 89 110 0 do not include sound-reproducing apparatus with a laser reading system.

2. Примечание к субпозиции 4 применимо при внесении соответствующих изменений к подсубпозициям 8519 81 150 0 и 8519 81 650.

3. For the purposes of subheadings 8528 71 150 0 and 8528 71 910 0 only, the term “modem” means devices or equipment which modulate outgoing and demodulate incoming signals, such as V.90 modems or cable modems and other devices which use similar technologies to access the Internet via WLAN, ISDN and Ethernet. Access to the Internet may be limited by the service provider.

The apparatus of these subheadings shall provide for a bidirectional communication process or a bidirectional flow of information in order to facilitate the interactive exchange of information.

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 8542 31 100 1, the term “process not exceeding 32 nanometers” means a process for the manufacture of electronic integrated circuits in accordance with the technological standards of which the gates of the logical transistors of a microprocessor do not exceed 32 nanometers. Logical transistors are the main computational elements of a microprocessor that implement all arithmetic and logical operations. The gate is the control element of the transistor. Data on the technological process of manufacturing microprocessors are given in the manufacturer's technical documentation, which may be submitted by its authorized representative in the member states of the Eurasian Economic Union.

2. For the purposes of subheading 8535 90 000 1, the term “passage insulators” means devices attached to the flanges of the compartments of modules forming part of a complete switchgear of an elegasic unit (CSG) and intended to separate gas volumes between these compartments or to combine the various CSG modules into a single gas volume, as well as connections through the electrodes of conductors of the CSGM modules built into the passage insulators among themselves during the assembly of the CSGM. Passage insulators are gas dense and non-gas dense. With the help of gas-dense insulators, the gas volumes of KREE are separated. With the help of non-gas-dense insulators, various CSRE modules are combined into one gas volume. Passage insulators consist of a flange ring, a cast insulator and electrodes poured into the insulator.