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9004 90 90 — Spectacles, goggles and the like, corrective, protective or other (other than with lenses of plastics and excl. spectacles for testing eyesight, sunglasses, contact lenses, spectacle lenses and frames and mountings for spectacles)

Spectacles, goggles and the like, corrective, protective or other (other than with lenses of plastics and excl. spectacles for testing eyesight, sunglasses, contact lenses, spectacle lenses and frames and mountings for spectacles)

Names come in English where the EU Combined Nomenclature publishes them — chapters, headings and subheadings, whose first six digits are the same Harmonized System; deeper EAEU detail is a machine translation, marked as such. Official texts — tariff notes, measures, lists and classification rulings — are the original: customs and your broker go by that wording. Where we show a machine translation of them, it is marked; where our quality check rejected one, the Russian stays.

Where it sits in the nomenclature

Section XVIII. Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; clocks and watches; musical instruments; parts and accessories thereof

  1. 90Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
  2. 9004Spectacles, goggles and the like, corrective, protective or other (excl. spectacles for testing eyesight, contact lenses, spectacle lenses and frames and mountings for spectacles)
  3. 9004 90Spectacles, goggles and the like, corrective, protective or other (excl. spectacles for testing eyesight, sunglasses, contact lenses, spectacle lenses and frames and mountings for spectacles)
  4. 9004 90 90you are here

Explanatory notes to heading 9004 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.

9004 Glasses, safety glasses and similar optical devices, corrective, protective or other: 9004 10 – sunglasses 9004 90 – Other

This heading covers articles (usually containing a frame or holder with lenses or shields of glass or other material) for use before the eyes, usually intended either to correct certain defects in vision, or to protect the eyes from dust, smoke, gas, etc. or the dazzling effects of strong light; it also includes glasses for viewing stereoscopic (three-dimensional) images. Glasses, pencene, lornets, monocles, etc., used to correct vision, usually have optically treated lenses. Protective goggles and sunglasses shield glasses usually consist of flat or curved discs made of ordinary glass (optically treated or untreated or shaded), of fragmentless glass, of plastic (polymethylmethacrylate, polystyrene, etc.), of mica sludge and of metal (wire fabric or plates with slots). These products include sunglasses, goggles used in mountaineering or winter sports, safety goggles for pilots, motorists, motorcyclists, chemists, welders, foundry workers, molders, sandblasters, electricians, road workers, quarry workers, etc. This heading also includes safety glasses for use under water; removable glasses (for example, sunglasses) for installation on other glasses (usually corrective), used either as protective filters or in some cases as additional corrective lenses; polarizing glasses equipped with plastic lenses for viewing three-dimensional films (with cardboard frames or other). Frames and fittings for glasses or similar articles and parts thereof fall in heading 9003. Glass oculars are classified in heading 7015 if they are not optically treated or in heading 9001 if they are optically treated; eyepieces of materials other than glass are classified in heading 9001 if they form optical elements; otherwise they are classified in this heading. Insofar as this heading covers only those glasses, etc., which are intended to protect the eyes, it does not include articles intended to cover or protect a large part of the face (for example, masks for welders, shields or dark shields for motorcyclists, face masks for scuba diving).

The heading also excludes: (a) contact lenses of heading 9001; (b) opera glasses or binoculars for sporting events and similar articles made with spectacle mountings (heading 9005); (c) toy spectacles (heading 9503); (d) carnival articles (heading 9505).

Official text adopted by a Recommendation of the EEC Board

Notes to chapter 90 — Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof 8 items

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.

How it is done in practice

Valid documents in the EAEU unified register for subheading 9004 90: certificates 164, declarations 1,150.

By technical regulation
ТР ТС 019/20111,241ТР ТС 020/201158ТР ЕАЭС 037/201621ТР ТС 004/20119ТР ТС 010/20112
Schemes
1д4353д4294д2351с1222д51The letter after the scheme number shows the form: certification or declaration of conformity.
Most active certification bodies
ТОО «КАЗЭКСПОАУДИТ»ОС Сертификат ПлюсОрган по подтверждению соответствия продукции и услуг ТОО «КАЗЭКСПОАУДИТ»
Manufacturers outside the EAEU
China379Taiwan57United States30Germany22United Kingdom14Italy11

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Codes inside

Only the ten-digit code carries a duty rate

CodeNameUnitDuty
9004 90 900 0Spectacles, goggles and the like, corrective, protective or other (other than with lenses of plastics and excl. spectacles for testing eyesight, sunglasses, contact lenses, spectacle lenses and frames and mountings for spectacles)шт5%

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