9017 20 05 — Plotters as drawing or marking-out instruments

9017 Drawing, marking-out or mathematical calculating instruments (for example, drafting machines, pantographs, protractors, drawing sets, slide rules, disc calculators); instruments for measuring length, for use in the hand (for example, measuring rods and tapes, micrometers, callipers), not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter: 9017 10 – drafting tables and machines, whether or not automatic 9017 20 – other drawing, marking-out or mathematical calculating instruments 9017 30 – micrometers, callipers, vernier callipers and gauges 9017 80 – other instruments 9017 90 – parts and accessories This heading covers drawing, marking-out or mathematical calculating instruments. It also covers hand-held instruments for measuring length. This heading, however, excludes: (a) mitre boxes and instruments used in the printing industry (e.g., chisels, gouges, engraving needles) (Chapter 82); (b) graphics tablets and digitisers (heading 8471); (c) pattern-projection equipment for producing masks and reticles on photoresist-coated substrates (such as equipment using light, electron beam, focused ion beam, X-ray or laser radiation) (heading 8486); (d) coordinatographs used for photogrammetric purposes (heading 9015). These include: (A) Drawing instruments. (1) Pantographs and eidographs for making reduced, enlarged or full-size reproductions of maps, plans, drawings, workpieces to be machined, etc. This heading also covers instruments used for plotting courses in navigation. (2) Drafting machines, usually employing a system of parallelograms, with or without drawing boards or tables. This heading also covers drafting machines incorporating automatic data-processing devices or working in conjunction with such machines. (3) Drawing compasses, dividers, proportional compasses, spring bows, ruling pens, dotting wheels, etc., in cases (e.g., drawing sets) or presented separately. (4) Set squares (standard, hatching, wooden or metal), adjustable set squares, T-squares (standard or hinged), French curves

drawing, rules (flat, square-section, for section-lining (parallel rules), standard, etc.). (5) Protractors, from the ordinary protractors found in drawing sets to the complex protractors used, e.g., in design work. (6) Stencils clearly identifiable as specialised for use as drawing instruments. Stencils not so specialised are classified according to their constituent material. (B) Marking-out instruments. (Marking-out consists of tracing construction lines, etc., on the surface of a workpiece to be machined, sawn, etc.) (1) Trammels (marking-out, carpenters', etc.) with plain or divided beams. (2) Scribers and centre punches. (3) Plates used as reference planes for marking out or for checking flat surfaces, etc. Straight-edges and squares (of cast iron, stone, etc.) with a precision flat surface. (4) Blocks with V-shaped and X-shaped notches for supporting cylindrical workpieces. This heading excludes motorised engraving tools for working in the hand (heading 8467). (C) Mathematical calculating instruments. Slide rules, disc calculators, cylindrical calculators and other calculating instruments based on the slide rule or on another principle of mathematical calculation, including, for example, pocket devices for addition and subtraction which are operated by selecting figures with a stylus according to a set procedure. This category also covers rules and discs for calculating photographic exposure, taking account of the state of the sky, the time of day, the chosen aperture, the type of subject and the emulsion speed. Calculating or accounting machines, however, are excluded (heading 8470). (D) Hand-held instruments for measuring length. These instruments are capable of indicating a length, i.e., the linear dimensions of the object to be measured, e.g., of a line (straight or curved), traced or imaginary, on the object. These instruments are therefore capable of measuring such quantities as diameter, depth, thickness and height, which are indicated in units of length (e.g., millimetres). These instruments must also have characteristics (size, weight, etc.) which allow them to be held in the hand while the measurement is being made. Instruments specially designed to be used, when taking measurements, permanently mounted on a stand or other support or connected to machines or other apparatus by flexible tubes, cables, etc., are excluded from this heading (heading 9031). This category of instruments includes: (1) Micrometers; instruments having a micrometer head, either of the screw type or of the non-screw type (non-screw types being of the sliding kind and generally electronic). They are used, for example, for measuring external and internal diameters, thicknesses, the pitch

of screw threads. The results of the measurement may be read on the screw itself, on a dial or on a digital display. (2) Callipers and slide gauges (vernier slide gauges, dial slide gauges or electronic slide gauges) for measuring, for example, diameter, depth, thickness. (3) Gauges having an adjustable measuring device. Gauges without adjustable devices, used only for gauging parts or for checking angles, shapes, etc. (e.g., plug gauges, ring gauges), are excluded from this heading (heading 9031). (4) Comparators (dial type) used for checking internal or external dimensional tolerances (e.g., checking of reaming or of straightening). They include measuring spindles, magnifying dial verniers and transmission systems (racks, gears, levers, springs, pneumatic, hydraulic, etc.). (5) Measuring rods (plain or graduated, straight or folding) and measuring tapes (e.g., spring rules, tapes wound on drums), including standard rods, measuring sticks and the like. This heading excludes devices specially designed for topographical surveying (land chains, levelling staves, ranging poles, etc.) and winch-type measures for mine shafts (heading 9015). (6) Graduated rules (school rules, etc.), including V-rules for measuring the diameter of convex bodies, and vertical measuring apparatus with movable sliders. (7) Map measurers (curvimeters); small instruments, with or without a dial, used for measuring distances on maps, plans, etc. 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 identifiable as suitable for use solely or principally with the machines, instruments and appliances described above, e.g., extension anvils for micrometers; stands for gauge blocks; micrometer stands; hinges or joints for folding rules.

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.