8605 — Railway or tramway passenger coaches, luggage vans, post office coaches and other special purpose railway or tramway coaches (excl. self-propelled railway or tramway coaches, vans and trucks, railway or tramway maintenance or service vehicles and goods vans and wagons)
Railway or tramway passenger coaches, luggage vans, post office coaches and other special purpose railway or tramway coaches (excl. self-propelled railway or tramway coaches, vans and trucks, railway or tramway maintenance or service vehicles and goods vans and wagons)
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Where it sits in the nomenclature
Section XVII. Vehicles, aircraft, vessels and associated transport equipment
- 86Railway or tramway locomotives, rolling stock and parts thereof; railway or tramway track fixtures and fittings and parts thereof; mechanical (including electromechanical) traffic signalling equipment of all kinds
- 8605you are here
Explanatory notes to heading 8605 3 paragraphs
Machine translation from Russian. The original is the EEC explanatory note, and that is what a classification dispute is argued from; the translation is for understanding and has no legal force.
8605 Railroad or tram cars, passenger non-self-propelled cars; baggage, postal and other special railway or tram cars, non-self-propelled (other than those falling into heading 8604)
This heading covers railway or tramway rolling stock, not self-propelled (including tramway trailer cars and funicular (cable) cars), of the kinds usually made up into passenger trains. The heading includes: (1) Passenger coaches of all kinds, including sleeping cars, restaurant cars, saloon cars, club cars (specially equipped for cultural programmes, dancing, etc.). (2) Cars for funiculars and cableways. (3) Tramway trailer cars. (4) Special cars for the underground transport of miners. (5) Living-accommodation cars for railway staff. (6) Luggage vans and combined passenger-and-luggage coaches. (7) Travelling post office vans. (8) Hospital, X-ray or similar coaches. (9) Prison vans. (10) Armoured coaches. (11) Coaches specially equipped with radio or telegraph apparatus.
(12) Training cars equipped with equipment, machines or models (for example, for training personnel). (13) Exhibition wagons.
Official text adopted by a Recommendation of the EEC Board
Notes to chapter 86 — Railway or tramway locomotives, rolling stock and parts thereof; railway or tramway track fixtures and fittings and parts thereof; mechanical (including electromechanical) traffic signalling equipment of all kinds 3 items
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.
Codes inside
Only the ten-digit code carries a duty rate
| Code | Name |
|---|---|
| 8605 00 | Railway or tramway passenger coaches, luggage vans, post office coaches and other special purpose railway or tramway coaches (excl. self-propelled railway or tramway coaches, vans and trucks, railway or tramway maintenance or service vehicles and goods vans and wagons) |
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