9005 90 — Parts and accessories, incl. mountings, for binoculars, monoculars, astronomical and other optical telescopes, and other astronomical instruments, n.e.s.

9005 Binoculars, monoculars, other spectral tubes and their fittings; other astronomical instruments and their fittings, except radio astronomy instruments: 9005 10 – binoculars 9005 80 – other 9005 90 – parts and accessories (including fittings)

This heading covers: (1) Binoculars, such as opera glasses, touring or hunting binoculars, military binoculars (including night-vision binoculars and certain periscopic binoculars) and binoculars made in the form of spectacles. (2) Monocular telescopes for hunting, touring, marine use, for shooting ranges, holiday resorts (for viewing scenery or the sky), etc. They may be of one piece (pocket or other telescopes) or with draw-tubes for focusing; they may also be designed for mounting on a stand. Some telescopes may incorporate a device allowing them to be used only after inserting a coin. (3) Astronomical refracting telescopes. Unlike reflecting telescopes, which have a mirror as objective, refracting telescopes have objectives consisting of a system of lenses, some of which may be of large diameter. They are not fitted with a draw-tube eyepiece, which could cause loss of light. The heading covers refracting telescopes designed for visual observation, for combined visual and photographic observation, or exclusively for photographic observation. If they are fitted with a camera which forms an integral part of the instrument as a whole, they are classified in this heading; however, a camera which is not an integral part of the instrument as a whole falls in heading 9006. (4) Reflecting telescopes, or reflectors. These are the main general-purpose astronomical instruments. The objective, which forms the primary image, consists of a concave parabolic mirror, which may be of considerable diameter; the reflecting surface is coated with silver or aluminium. Reflecting telescopes are usually designed for mounting on stands, which are often large structures with considerable ancillary equipment. If they are fitted with a camera which forms an integral part of the instrument as a whole, they are classified in this heading; however, a camera which is not an integral part of the instrument as a whole is classified in heading 9006. This heading also covers the Schmidt reflecting telescope, often called the Schmidt camera. It is used exclusively in astronomy for photographic observation. It employs a spherical mirror and

corrective plate, which is located parallel to the mirror in the center of its arc. The image is recorded in focus on the convex film. (5) Astronomical telescopes equipped with photomultipliers or electron-optical transducers. In this type of telescope, the energy of incident light is used to emit electrons from a photovoltaic surface placed where the eyepiece would otherwise be. These electrons can be multiplied and measured to show the amount of light initially received by the telescope, or can be focused (e.g., using magnetic lenses) to form an image on a photographic plate or fluorescent screen. (6) Meridian instruments used to observe the apparent passage (associated with the rotation of the Earth) of celestial bodies over the meridian line at the observation point. They consist of a telescope mounted on a horizontal east-west axis and able to move in the meridional plane. (7) Equatorials. They are mounted on an equatorial rack that allows the telescope to move around an axis parallel to the Earth’s axis (the polar axis) and around another axis perpendicular to the previous one (the magnetic declination axis). (8) Zenith telescopes, which are telescopes installed so that they can move around horizontal and vertical axes. (9) Altazimuths, or azimuth circles. These are telescopes that move around a horizontal axis while their frames move around a vertical axis. These instruments are designed to measure both height and azimuth. Theodolites, which are instruments of smaller dimensions, constructed on the same principle but used for surveying, are not included in this heading (heading 9015). (10) Celostats, which are instruments designed to facilitate astronomical observations, especially by reflecting a given part of the sky into a vertical or horizontal stationary instrument (telescope, spectroheliograph). They consist essentially of two flat mirrors, one of which is controlled by a clockwork mechanism and completes a revolution in 48 hours. Heliostats and siderostates are special types of coelostats used for astronomical purposes. Some instruments, also called heliostats, are used for surveying; they do not fall under this heading (heading 9015). (11) Spectroheliographs and spectrohelioscopes, which are instruments used in the study of the Sun. The spectroheliograph is used to take photos of the Sun in light of any desired wavelength. It consists of a spectroscope with a slit in place of the eyepiece so that only light of the required wavelength can pass through it onto the photographic plate. The spectrohelioscope works on the same principle as the spectroheliograph, but it uses a rapidly oscillating slit so that the Sun can be observed with the naked eye. Other methods are used to obtain the same result (e.g., a rotating glass prism with a fixed slit). (12) Heliometers consisting of a telescope whose lens is divided along the diameter and the two halves can move; they are used to measure the angular diameter of the Sun and the angular distance between two celestial bodies. (13) Coronographers and similar instruments used to observe the corona of the Sun during periods other than total solar eclipses.

The heading also covers telescopes, and in particular binoculars, which use infra-red radiation and incorporate electronic image converters for converting the magnified infra-red image into an image visible to the human eye; these infra-red instruments are used at night, mainly by the armed forces. Also covered are telescopes, binoculars and the like which incorporate light intensifiers (also known as image intensifiers) to increase the brightness of an image below the threshold of visibility to a level at which the image can be seen. However, in accordance with Note 4 to this Chapter, the heading excludes telescopic sights for fitting to arms, periscopic telescopes for submarines or tanks, and telescopes for machines, appliances, instruments or apparatus of this Chapter (e.g., telescopes for fitting to theodolites, levels and other surveying instruments) or of Section XVI (heading 9013). PARTS AND ACCESSORIES Subject to the provisions of Notes 1 and 2 to this Chapter (see the General Explanatory Note), this heading also covers parts and accessories of the articles of this heading. Such parts and accessories include: mountings, bodies, tubes and fittings; filar micrometers used with equatorials for measuring the diameters of planets (these devices consist of a graduated disc fitted to the eyepiece of the telescope and provided with two fixed wires and one movable one); Gerrish drives used with a motor for driving astronomical instruments. The heading further excludes: (a) the superstructures of buildings used for housing instruments or facilitating access to them (domes, platforms, control desks, etc.); they fall in their appropriate headings (e.g., in Section XV); (b) optical elements such as mirrors, lenses and prisms presented separately (heading 9001 or 9002, as the case may be); (c) blink microscopes used in astronomy for detecting new stars by comparing photographs of the sky (heading 9011); (d) "door viewers" or devices for viewing through doors (heading 9013); (e) instruments used for determining terrestrial position by reference to the stars, e.g., sextants (heading 9014); (f) microphotometers or microdensitometers for the study of spectrograms (heading 9027); (g) astronomical clocks (Chapter 91).

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.