9001 90 — Lenses, prisms, mirrors and other optical elements, of any material, unmounted (excl. such elements of glass not optically worked, contact lenses and spectacle lenses)

9001 Optical fibres and optical fibre bundles; optical fibre cables other than those of heading 8544; sheets and plates of polarising material; lenses (including contact lenses), prisms, mirrors and other optical elements, of any material, unmounted, other than such elements of glass not optically worked: 9001 10 – optical fibres, optical fibre bundles and cables 9001 20 – sheets and plates of polarising material 9001 30 – contact lenses 9001 40 – spectacle lenses of glass 9001 50 – spectacle lenses of other materials 9001 90 – other

This heading includes: (A) Optical fibres and fiber optic harnesses and fiber optic cables other than those referred to in heading 8544. Optical fibers consist of concentric layers of glass or plastic with different refractive indices. Those that are stretched out of glass have a very thin coating of plastic, invisible to the naked eye, which makes the fibers less prone to fracture. Optical fibers are usually supplied on coils and can be several kilometers long. They are used for the manufacture of fiber-optic harnesses and fiber-optic cables. Fiber-optic harnesses can be rigid – in this case, the fibers are connected by a bandage along their entire length or they can be flexible – in this case, they are bound only at the ends. If they are connected in a kogre beam, they are used to transmit an image, but if they are connected in an incoherent beam, they are only suitable for transmitting a light flux for illumination. Fiber-optic cables of this heading (which may be provided with connectors) consist of a shell containing one or more fiber-optic harnesses, the fibers of which do not have individual shells. Fiber-optic harnesses and cables are used mainly in optical apparatus, especially in endoscopes of heading 9018. (B) A polarizing material in sheets or plates which consists of specially treated plastic sheets or plates or of sheets or plates in which the "active" plastic layer has on one or both sides a substrate of other plastics or glass. This sheet or plate of this material is trimmed in the desired shape for the manufacture of polarizing elements described in paragraph (6) below. (C) Optical elements made of glass, optically processed, not fixed permanently. In order to distinguish optical elements of glass of this heading from those of Chapter 70, it is necessary to determine whether they have been optically processed or not. Optical processing of glass is usually carried out in two steps, namely: the manufacture of surfaces of the desired shape (i.e., the necessary curvature, at the right angle, etc.) and polishing of these surfaces. This treatment consists of grinding surfaces with abrasives, first rough, then gradually thinner, with successive operations being roughing, editing, cleaning and polishing. Finally, the lenses, which should have an exact diameter, are sharpened edges;

this process is known as centring and edging. The heading covers only optical elements the whole or part of whose surface has been polished so as to obtain the required optical properties. It therefore includes elements which have been ground and polished as described above, and also elements which have been polished after moulding. The heading does not cover unpolished elements which have undergone only one or more of the processes preceding polishing. Such elements fall in Chapter 70. (D) Optical elements of any material other than glass, whether or not optically worked, not permanently mounted (e.g., elements of quartz (other than fused quartz), fluorite or fluorspar, plastics or metal; optical elements in the form of cultured crystals of magnesium oxide or of the halides of the alkali or alkaline-earth metals). Optical elements are manufactured so as to produce the desired optical effect. An optical element does more than merely allow light (visible, ultra-violet or infra-red) to pass through it; the passage of the light is to a large extent modified in some way, e.g., by being reflected, attenuated, filtered, refracted, collimated, etc. Optical elements with temporary mountings provided solely for protection during transport are regarded as unmounted. Subject to the provisions set out above concerning optical elements of glass, this heading covers: (1) Prisms and lenses (including compound prisms and lenses assembled with adhesive), whether or not edged. (2) Plates and discs with plane or plane-parallel faces (e.g., optical flats or interferometers for checking the flatness of surfaces). (3) Ophthalmic lenses. These lenses may be aspherical, spherical, sphero-cylindrical, unifocal, bifocal or multifocal. They also include contact lenses. (4) Mirrors constituting optical elements. They are used, for example, in telescopes, projectors, microscopes, medical, dental or surgical instruments and sometimes in vehicles as rear-view mirrors. (5) Colour filters (e.g., for cameras). (6) Polarising elements (for microscopes or other scientific instruments; for sun glasses; for spectacles for viewing three-dimensional films, etc.). (7) Diffraction gratings. These may be: (a) highly polished glass on which parallel lines have been ruled close together at regular intervals (e.g., 100 lines per millimetre); (b) "replica" gratings consisting of a thin film of plastics or gelatin on a support such as a glass plate. This thin film bears an impression of the lines of the original ruled grating. These gratings are used, like prisms, for the study of spectra. (8) Interference filters. They consist of alternate very thin films, e.g., of magnesium fluoride and silver, enclosed between two glass

plates or between two glass prisms each with an angle of 45° (together forming a cube). They are used as colour filters or for splitting a light beam into two components. (9) Screens for half-tone or similar printing, usually circular or rectangular (including square), of carefully polished glass (original screens for photogravure or for the photo-mechanical process of making printing plates), consisting of: (i) two glass plates with very fine parallel lines etched on them and made opaque with a special varnish, which are then pressed together so that the lines are exactly at right angles; or (ii) a single glass plate on which small, usually square, recesses have been etched and made opaque with a special varnish. Some of the optical elements listed above (lenses, prisms, etc.) may be coloured or coated with an anti-reflecting film of cryolite, calcium or magnesium fluoride, etc. This does not affect their classification in this heading. The heading excludes: (a) cultured crystals which are not optical elements (generally heading 3824); (b) mirrors of heading 7009, i.e., glass mirrors not optically worked. Flat or even curved mirrors (e.g., shaving mirrors and compact powder-case mirrors) are therefore classified in heading 7009; (c) optical elements of glass of heading 7014, i.e., elements not optically worked (generally moulded) (see the Explanatory Note to heading 7014); (d) glasses of heading 7015 not optically worked (e.g., blanks for contact lenses or for corrective spectacle lenses, for goggles, for protecting the dials of measuring instruments, etc.); (e) mirrors not constituting optical elements, of precious metal (Chapter 71) or of base metal (heading 8306); (f) connectors for optical fibres, optical fibre bundles or cables (heading 8536); (g) optical fibre cables made up of individually sheathed fibres (heading 8544).

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) articles used in machinery, appliances or for other technical purposes, made of vulcanised rubber other than hard rubber (heading 4016), natural or composite leather (heading 4205) or textile material (heading 5911);

(b) support belts or other supporting articles of textile materials, the purposeful effect of which on the supported or fixed organ is only due to their elasticity (for example, bandages for pregnant women, chest bandages, abdominal bandages, joint or muscle locks) (Section XI);

(c) refractory articles of heading 6903; ceramic articles for laboratory, chemical or other technical purposes of heading 6909;

(d) optically raw glass mirrors of heading 7009 or of base or precious metal mirrors other than optical elements (heading 8306 or Chapter 71);

(e) the goods of heading 7007, 7008, 7011, 7014, 7015 or 7017;

(f) parts of general use referred to in Note 2 to Section XV of base metals (Section XV) or similar products of plastics (Chapter 39); however, articles specifically intended for use exclusively in implants used in medicine, surgery, dentistry or veterinary medicine are to be classified in heading 9021;

(ж) насосы с измерительными приборами товарной позиции 8413; счетное или контрольное оборудование, приводимое в действие силой тяжести взвешиваемого груза, или поставляемые отдельно разновесы для весов (товарная позиция 8423); подъемное или погрузочно-разгрузочное оборудование (товарные позиции 8425 – 8428); машины всех видов для резки бумаги или картона (товарная позиция 8441); приспособления для регулирования положения обрабатываемых деталей или инструмента на станках или водоструйных резательных машинах товарной позиции 8466, включая приспособления с оптическими элементами для считывания показаний приборов (например, «оптические» делительные головки), но за исключением тех устройств, которые сами по себе являются исключительно оптическими приборами (например, юстировочные телескопы); счетные машины (товарная позиция 8470); клапаны и другая арматура товарной позиции 8481; машины и аппаратура (включая аппаратуру для проецирования или нанесения рисунка маски на сенсибилизированные полупроводниковые материалы) товарной позиции 8486;

(з) прожекторы или фары, используемые на велосипедах или моторных транспортных средствах (товарная позиция 8512); портативные электрические фонари товарной позиции 8513; кинематографические аппараты для записи, воспроизведения или повторной записи звука (товарная позиция 8519); звуковые головки (товарная позиция 8522); телевизионные камеры, цифровые камеры и записывающие видеокамеры (товарная позиция 8525); радиолокационная аппаратура, радионавигационная аппаратура или радиоаппаратура дистанционного управления (товарная позиция 8526); соединители для волокон оптических, волоконно-оптических жгутов или кабелей (товарная позиция 8536); цифровые аппараты управления товарной позиции 8537; лампы герметичные направленного света товарной позиции 8539; волоконно-оптические кабели товарной позиции 8544;

(ij) floodlights or headlights of heading 9405;

(k) articles of Chapter 95;

(l) monopores, bipeds, tripods and similar articles of heading 9620;

(m) volume measuring tanks classified by the material from which they are made; or

(n) coils, reels or similar carriers (which are to be classified according to the material of which they are made, for example, in heading 3923 or in section XV).

2. Subject to the provisions of Note 1, parts and accessories to machinery, apparatus, tools or articles in this Chapter shall be classified according to the following rules:

(a) parts and accessories which are goods falling in one of the headings of this Chapter or of Chapter 84, 85 or 91 (other than heading 8487, 8548 or 9033) are in all cases classified in the relevant headings;

(b) other parts and accessories intended to be used exclusively or principally in a particular type of machine, tool or apparatus or in several machines, tools or apparatus falling under the same heading (including machinery, tools or apparatus of heading 9010, 9013 or 9031) are included with those machines, tools or apparatus;

(c) all other parts and accessories fall in heading 9033.

3. Notes 3 and 4 to section XVI also apply to this chapter.

4. Heading 9005 does not include telescopic sights for mounting weapons, telescopic periscopes for submarines or tanks, or sight-tubes fitted to machines, devices, instruments or apparatus of this Chapter or Section XVI; such telescopic sights and sight-tubes are classified in heading 9013.

5. Measuring or control optical devices, devices or machines which, but for this note, could be included in both heading 9013 and heading 9031 are classified in heading 9031.

6. For the purposes of heading 9021, the term “orthopedic devices” means devices for:

prevention or correction of bodily deformities; or

Supporting or fixing body parts after illness, surgery, or injury.

Orthopedic appliances include shoes and special insoles made for the correction of orthopedic conditions, provided that they are either (1) made to order standards, or (2) mass-produced, represented by one object and not in pairs and designed to be equally suitable for any foot.

7. Heading 9032 covers only:

(a) instruments and devices for the automatic control of the flow rate, level, pressure or other variable parameters of liquids or gases, or for the automatic control of temperature, whether or not their action is based on an electrical phenomenon varying according to the parameter to be regulated, which are designed to bring this parameter to the desired value and to keep it stable against disturbances, constantly or periodically measuring the actual value; and

(b) automatic regulators of electrical quantities and devices or devices for the automatic regulation of non-electrical quantities, the operation of which is based on an electrical phenomenon varying depending on the parameter to be regulated, which are designed to bring this parameter to the desired value and keep it stable from disturbances, constantly or periodically measuring the actual value.

Additional note

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. Термин «электронные» в подсубпозициях 9015 10 100 0, 9015 20 100 0, 9015 30 100 0, 9015 40 100 0, 9015 80 110 0, 9015 80 190 0, 9024 10 110 0, 9024 10 130 0, 9024 10 190 0, 9024 80 110 0, 9024 80 190 0, 9025 19 200 0, 9025 80 400 0, 9026 10 210 0, 9026 10 290 0, 9026 20 200 0, 9026 80 200 0, 9027 10 100 0, 9030 20 910 0, 9030 33 100 0, 9030 89 300 0, 9031 80 320 0, 9031 80 340 0, 9031 80 380 0 и 9032 10 200 0 означает приборы и аппараты, которые включают в себя одно или несколько изделий товарной позиции 8540, 8541 или 8542. Однако это не должно относиться к изделиям товарной позиции 8540, 8541 или 8542, функцией которых является исключительно выпрямление тока или которые входят в состав блока питания приборов или аппаратов.