8603 90 00 — Self-propelled railway or tramway passenger coaches, goods or luggage vans, open platform trucks, other than those of heading 8604: other

8603 Motor rail or tram cars, passenger, freight or luggage, open platforms, other than those of heading 8604: 8603 10 – powered by an external power source 8603 90 – other

Motor passenger rail or tram cars, freight or luggage cars and open platforms differ from locomotives in that they not only have their own power unit, but are also equipped for the transportation of passengers or goods. These vehicles may be designed to be driven either alone or in coupling with one or more vehicles of the same type or with one or more trailer vehicles. The main feature of these cars is that they are equipped with a control cabin either at one or both ends or a raised cabin in the middle (such as a wheelhouse). The various types of motor passenger, freight or luggage wagons and open platforms covered in this heading include: (A) Electrically powered passenger cars to which electricity is supplied from a stationary external source of pithany, for example, through a pantograph or roller current collector in the presence of a contact wire or through contact shoes mounted on the frame of a wheelcart in the presence of a third rail.

Tram passenger cars. Sometimes they use two contact rails located in the groove rail, with electricity coming through a special device known as a "current collector". (B) Motorcars, i.e. individual carriages having their own engine in the form of a diesel or other internal combustion engine, etc. Some railcars have solid or pneumatic tires, others are designed to grip a geared rail. (C) Self-propelled vehicles powered by batteries. This commodity position also includes electrogyroscopic rail vehicles. The principle of this system is the accumulation of kinetic energy in a fast-rotating flywheel. This energy is then converted by an electric generator into electrical energy, which is fed into a traction electric motor. The scope of this system is very limited, but can be used in light cars or trams. It should be noted that this heading does not include buses which may be converted into railcars by a simple change of wheels and locking of steering while retaining the same engine (heading 8702).

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. This chapter does not cover:

(a) railway or tramway sleepers of wood or of concrete, or concrete guide-track sections for hovertrains (heading 4406 or 6810);

(b) railway or tramway track construction material of iron or steel of heading 7302; or

(c) electrical signalling, safety or traffic control equipment of heading 8530.

2. Heading 8607 applies, inter alia, to:

(a) axles, wheels, wheel sets (running gear), metal tyres, hoops and hubs and other parts of wheels;

(b) frames, underframes, bogies and bissel-bogies;

(c) axle-boxes; brake gear;

(d) buffers for rolling-stock; hooks and other coupling gear and corridor connections;

(e) coachwork.

3. Subject to the provisions of note 1 above, heading 8608 applies, inter alia, to:

(a) assembled track, turntables, platform buffers, loading gauges;

(b) semaphores, mechanical signal discs, level-crossing control gear, signal and point controls, and other mechanical (including electro-mechanical) signalling, safety or traffic control equipment, whether or not fitted for electric lighting, for railways, tramways, roads, inland waterways, parking facilities, port installations or airfields.