9013 80 — Liquid crystal devices, n.e.s. and other optical appliances and instruments not elsewhere specified in chapter 90

9013 Liquid crystal devices not constituting articles provided for more specifically in other headings; lasers, other than laser diodes; other optical appliances and instruments, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter: 9013 10 – telescopic sights for fitting to arms; periscopes; telescopes designed to form parts of machines, appliances, instruments or apparatus of this Chapter or Section XVI 9013 20 – lasers, other than laser diodes 9013 80 – other devices, appliances and instruments 9013 90 – parts and accessories

In accordance with Note 5 to this Chapter, optical measuring or checking instruments, appliances and machines are excluded from this heading and fall in heading 9031. Nevertheless, in accordance with Note 4 to this Chapter, certain reflecting telescopes fall in this heading rather than in heading 9005. Moreover, it should be noted that optical instruments and appliances may fall not only in headings 9001 to 9012 but also in other headings of this Chapter (in particular heading 9015, 9018 or 9027). This heading covers: (1) Liquid crystal devices consisting of a layer of liquid crystal sandwiched between two sheets or plates of glass or plastics, whether or not fitted with electrical connections, presented in the piece or cut to special shapes, and not constituting articles described more specifically in other headings of the Nomenclature. (2) Lasers. These emit or amplify electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range from 1 nm to 1 mm (ultraviolet, visible light and infrared regions of the spectrum) by the process of controlled stimulated emission. When the medium generating coherent optical radiation (e.g., crystals, gases, liquids, chemical products) is excited by light from an electrical source or by a reaction from another energy source, the light rays arising within the generating medium are repeatedly reflected and amplified so that a coherent light beam (visible or invisible) is emitted from one end, which is partially transparent. In addition to the generating medium, the energy source (pumping system) and the optical resonator (reflecting system), i.e., the basic elements combined in the laser head (possibly with Fabry-Perot interferometers, interference filters and spectroscopes), lasers usually also contain certain auxiliary components (e.g., a power supply unit, a cooling system, a control unit and, in the case of a gas laser, a gas supply system, or, in the case of liquid lasers, a container fitted with a pump for dye solutions). Some of these auxiliary components may be contained in the same housing as the laser head (compact laser), or may take the form of separate units connected to the laser head by cables, etc. (laser system). In the latter case these units fall in this heading provided they are presented together. Lasers fall in this heading not only when they are intended for incorporation in machines or appliances, but also when they can be used independently as compact lasers or laser systems for

various purposes, such as research, teaching or laboratory work, e.g., laser pointers. However, this heading excludes lasers which have been adapted to perform quite specific functions by the addition of supplementary equipment consisting of special devices (e.g., work tables, work holders, means for feeding and positioning the workpieces, means for observing and checking the progress of the work, etc.), and which are therefore identifiable as machine-tools, medical apparatus, control apparatus, measuring apparatus, etc. Machines and appliances incorporating lasers are also excluded from this heading. If their classification is not specified in the Nomenclature, they are to be classified with the machines or appliances having a similar function. Examples: (i) machine-tools for working any material by removal of material by laser (e.g., metal, glass, ceramics or plastics) (heading 8456); (ii) machines and apparatus for laser soldering, brazing or welding, whether or not capable of cutting operations (heading 8515); (iii) instruments for aligning pipes by means of a laser beam (heading 9015); (iv) laser apparatus specially used for medical purposes (e.g., in ophthalmic surgery) (heading 9018). Subject to the provisions of Notes 1 and 2 to this Chapter, parts and accessories of lasers, e.g., laser tubes, also fall in this heading. However, this heading excludes electric flash lamps used for pumping, such as xenon lamps, iodine lamps, mercury vapour lamps (heading 8539), laser diodes (heading 8541) and laser crystals (e.g., rubies), laser mirrors and lenses (heading 9001 or 9002). (3) Hand magnifying glasses and magnifiers (e.g., of the pocket type or for office use) and thread counters (these magnifiers may be fitted with or combined with a lighting bulb; they fall in this heading if the bulb improves the use of the magnifier); binocular magnifiers (usually on stands) which, unlike the stereoscopic microscopes of heading 9011, are fitted with eyepieces but have no objective. (4) "Door eyes" for looking through a door; also similar articles fitted with an optical system. (5) Telescopic sights for fitting to arms, lens or mirror type, presented separately; optical devices suitable for use with arms and mounted on them, or presented with the firearms on which they are to be mounted, are classified with the arms, see Note 1 (d) to Chapter 93. (6) Telescopes designed to form parts of instruments of other headings of this Chapter (e.g., telescopes forming parts of surveying instruments) or of machines of Section XVI. (7) Fibrescopes for industrial use. Fibrescopes for medical purposes (endoscopes) are excluded (heading 9018). (8) Stereoscopes, including hand-operated stereoscopes, for three-dimensional viewing of colour photographic transparencies, consisting of a plastic housing containing two fixed lenses and a lever-operated rotating mechanism (for changing the pictures, which are mounted in sets on each of the interchangeable rotating discs). (9) Kaleidoscopes, other than toy kaleidoscopes (Chapter 95).

(10) Magnifying periscopes for submarines or tanks; and non-magnifying periscopes (e.g., for trenches). (11) Framed glass mirrors, optically worked, which are not suitable for fitting in instruments or apparatus (e.g., certain rear-view mirrors, those for inspecting chimneys or drains, and special mirrors for observation in wind tunnels). Rear-view mirrors or other mirrors not optically worked (including shaving mirrors, whether or not magnifying) are excluded (heading 7009 or 8306). (12) Optical signalling apparatus using light beams, designed for transmitting optical signals over long distances (e.g., by Morse code). (13) Transparency viewers fitted with a single magnifying lens and used for examining photographic transparencies. PARTS AND ACCESSORIES Subject to the provisions of Notes 1 and 2 to this Chapter (see the General Explanatory Note), parts and accessories of the apparatus or appliances of this heading are also classified in this heading.

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.