9015 10 — Rangefinders

9015 Geodetic or topographical surveying (including photogrammetrical surveying), hydrographic, oceanographic, hydrological, meteorological or geophysical instruments and appliances, excluding compasses; rangefinders: 9015 10 – Rangefinders 9015 20 – Theodolites and tachymeters (tacheometers) 9015 30 – Levels 9015 40 – Photogrammetrical geodetic or topographical surveying instruments and appliances 9015 80 – Other instruments and appliances 9015 90 – Parts and accessories

(I) INSTRUMENTS AND APPLIANCES USED IN GEODESY, TOPOGRAPHY, LAND SURVEYING OR LEVELLING These instruments are mainly designed for use in the field, e.g., in cartography (land or hydrographic maps); in preparing plans; for triangulation measurements; in calculating the areas of plots of land; in determining elevations or depressions relative to a horizontal level; for similar measurements in construction works (building of roads, dams, bridges, etc.), in mining work, military operations, etc. This category includes: (1) Optical or opto-electronic theodolites (vernier, micrometer-microscope, suspended (wall-mounted), universal, mountain, mine and similar types), optical or opto-electronic tachymeters (theodolites with built-in rangefinder), meridian instruments or transits, gyrotheodolites, inclinometers, sighting clinometers for use in surveying or artillery, etc. (2) Optical levels (spirit, self-adjusting, telescopic, collimator, laser, etc.), usually mounted on a tripod. (3) Alidades (with or without telescope), mirror cross-staffs and plain cross-staffs (with or without prisms) and pantometers (with or without telescope), clinometers (with collimator or telescope) used for determining gradients and slopes, miners' dials, graphometers, heliostats for trigonometrical surveying, etc.

(4) Plane tables, surveyors' chains and other special measures for surveying (including tape measures specialised for these purposes, winch-type measures for mine shafts, etc.), survey pegs or ranging rods, whether or not graduated (of metal, wood, etc.), levelling staves (self-reading, telescopic, folding, etc.), reflector prisms and poles for electromagnetic distance-measuring equipment. This heading excludes: (a) global positioning system (GPS) receivers (heading 8526); (b) measuring instruments consisting of steel tape, waterproof tape, etc., and similar unspecialised instruments for measuring length (heading 9017); (c) revolution counters, mileage counters and similar articles (heading 9029); (d) levels (spirit levels with an air bubble, etc.) used in building work (e.g., by masons, carpenters or mechanics), and plumb-lines (heading 9031).

(ii) PHOTOGRAMMETRIC MEASURES AND DEVICES These instruments and devices are mainly used for drawing topographic, archaeological and other maps, but are also used for other purposes (for example, the study of sea tides, bottom waves, etc.). Maps, etc., are drawn from photographs or digital images taken from two different points at a known distance from each other, which must then be "retrieved" (to obtain accurate information about the shape, size and coordinates of the objects in the image or photograph). Such equipment consists mainly of: (1) "Retractable" equipment, including a projector (with a light source), a negative holder, a lens and a projection table. This equipment allows you to change the scale and correct the negatives of aerial photography, which in practice have promising distortions due to variations in the earth's surface. (2) Recovery equipment (stereo-registration equipment or photo goniometers), also called "stereotopographers", "stereoplanographs", "autographs", "stereoplotters", "stereocomparators", etc. This is a complex apparatus used to draw out the planographic details and contour lines that make up the map or plan, this procedure is usually performed continuously and does not require additional calculations. (3) Coordinators used in conjunction with recovery equipment. They support a map that draws a pencil controlled by a stereotopograph or stereoplanograph. (4) Analytical stereo-measuring systems consisting of a photogrammetric optical mechanical apparatus and a programmable calculator. These systems are used for visual analytical interpretation of photographic or digital images. However, this heading does not include photographic cameras for aerial surveying (heading 9006) and co-ordinaters not intended for photogrammetric applications (heading 9017).

Hydrography is the scientific description and graphical construction of water currents, depths, levels of tides, etc. Most of the instruments used for such purposes are therefore included in the preceding paragraphs. (IV) Oceanographic or hydrological devices (1) Special self-descriptive level indicators for recording fluctuations in the level of lakes or rivers; they consist of a float and a recorder. (2) Hydrometric wheels with bladed wheels and hydrometric blade wheels for measuring the speed of currents in rivers, canals, etc. (3) Agitation or tide recorders. Industrial appliances based on the same operating principles as those described in paragraph (IV)(1) and (2) above (e.g., liquid level indicators, flow meters, etc.) are not included in this heading (heading 9026). It should be noted that this category does not include thermometers, barometers, hygrometers and psychrometers and combinations of such devices (heading 9025). This category of goods, however, includes: (1) Wind direction indicators, whether or not equipped with limbs. (2) Anemometers, i.e. meteorological instruments for measuring wind speed. Instruments of the same type consist of a rotor with three cup-shaped blades mounted on a vertical axis, and the readings are given by a counter. The other most common type consists of a type of weather vane equipped with a tube, in which the wind pressure is measured by a differential pressure gauge, graduated in units of speed. This category also includes anemometers in which the generator creates a fluctuating voltage, which is then indicated on a voltmeter calibrated in units of wind speed. It should be noted that special types of anemometers for measuring the velocity of air flows in mines, tunnels, chimneys, furnaces and other air passages consisting of a special type fan and a circular scale are not included in this heading (heading 9026). (3) Vapour measurements (such as writing, evaporative weights, etc.). (4) Instruments for recording the duration of the sunshine (based on a glass sphere, sensitized paper, etc.). (5) Nephoscopes to indicate the velocity and direction of movement of clouds. (6) Cloudmeters for measuring the height of the cloud cover above the ground by indicating the angular elevation of the spot of light formed where a strong beam of light meets the cloud, so that the height can be calculated automatically by triangulation. (7) Visibility meters to measure meteorological visibility or the ability of air to transmit light. (8) Rain gauges and indicators to measure the amount of precipitation at any location. The simplest type of device consists of a funnel of known diameter attached to a receiver to collect rainwater, the amount of which is then measured in a calibrated tube.

(9) Actinometers, solarimeters and pyrheliometers to measure the intensity of sunlight or the total radiation received from the sky. It should be noted, however, that this heading does not include simple or combined thermometers used for the same purpose (heading 9025). (10) Aerological sensing equipment (radioprobes or devices for determining the speed and direction of the wind) launched on balloons or parachutes. Such devices consist of instruments (thermometers, barometers and hygrometers) for high-altitude research work in combination with a wireless transmitter that allows you to automatically record on the ground readings of the device. Balloons and parachutes presented separately are not included (Chapter 88). (11) Theodolites for recording successive positions of balloon probes. (VI) Geophysical devices Many geophysical instruments are not classified in this heading, for example, instruments for the analysis of gas, silt or soil, photoelectric fluorometers and fluoroscopes (devices which use ultraviolet light to detect or identify numerous substances) (heading 9027); electrical or electronic measuring instruments (for example, instruments for measuring resistivity, radioactivity meters, devices with thermocouples) (heading 9030), etc. (1) Seismometers and seismographs for the recording of the times and, duration and intensity of motion of a point on the earth's crust, and seismometers and seismographs used both for the recording of various phenomena occurring during earthquakes and for oil exploration. In these devices, seismic waves generated by an earthquake or a charge explosion are converted into electrical impulses. (2) Magnetic or gravimetric geophysical instruments used in the exploration of ores, oil, etc. These highly sensitive devices include magnetic scales, magnetometers, magnetic theodolites and gravimeters, torsion scales. (3) Electronic magnetic gradiometers (also known as "proton magnetometers") that measure the gradient of the Earth's magnetic field. (4) Surround acoustic scanning devices that create a "picture" of a borehole by measuring the passage time of an ultrasonic signal emitted by a rotating sensor in the head of the device. (5) Equipment for measuring the angle of inclination of a borehole. (VII) DISTRIBUTIONS This class of goods includes all types of optical or about ptoelectronic rangefinders for determining the distance between the device and a given object. They are used for topographic surveying, photography and cinematography, armed forces, etc. Subject to the provisions of Notes 1 and 2 to this Chapter (see general provisions), this heading also includes parts and accessories to the articles of this heading. Such parts and accessories include pegs for earthing chains.

However, monopores, bipeds, tripods and the like, even if specifically designed for tools and accessories of the heading, are not included (heading 9620).

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.