9019 10 — Mechano-therapy appliances; massage apparatus; psychological aptitude-testing apparatus

9019 Mechano-therapy appliances; massage apparatus; psychological aptitude-testing apparatus; ozone therapy, oxygen therapy, aerosol therapy, artificial respiration or other therapeutic respiration apparatus: 9019 10 – mechano-therapy appliances; massage apparatus; psychological aptitude-testing apparatus 9019 20 – ozone therapy, oxygen therapy, aerosol therapy, artificial respiration or other therapeutic respiration apparatus

(i) Mechanotherapy devices These devices are used primarily for the treatment of diseases of the joints or muscles by mechanical reproduction of various movements. It should be noted that such treatment is usually performed under medical supervision; apparatus of this heading should therefore be distinguished from ordinary equipment for physical or medical exercise intended for use before ma or in specially equipped rooms (heading 9506) (for example, elastic cords or devices for exercise; spring grippers of various kinds; rowing simulators for the reproduction of rowing movements; stationary single-coloured bicycles for training purposes or for the development of leg muscles). Since mechanotherapy covers only treatment involving joint movement, etc., this heading does not cover fully stationary appliances (e.g., staircases, Swedish walls, bars), even if they are intended for use in the rehabilitation of limbs; such articles fall within the relevant headings. In this heading, however, apparatuses may be regarded as mechanical even if they contain only comparatively simple mechanical devices such as springs, wheels, pulleys, etc. Subject to the above provisions, this heading includes:

(1) Apparatus for rotational exercises of the wrist. (2) Finger rehabilitation devices. (3) Apparatus for rotational foot exercises. Most of the devices of these three types consist mainly of grippers associated with levers, adjustable balances, devices for holding limbs, and all generally installed on the base. They're manual. (4) Apparatus for simultaneous bending and stretching of the knee and thigh. (5) Body exercises apparatus. (6) Apparatus for walking exercises consisting of a frame with forked supports and hand grippers resting on a series of wheels. (7) Apparatus for improving circulation, strengthening the heart muscles and rehabilitation of the lower extremities, consisting of a type of wheelless bicycle mounted on a frame, the pedals of which can be rotated when the patient is sitting on top or lying down. (8) Universal power-driven devices, which, through the use of interchangeable accessories, can be used for numerous mechanotherapeutic purposes (for example, for the treatment of diseases of the joints or muscles of the neck, shoulder, elbow, wrist, fingers, thigh, knee, etc.). Massage devices for the massage of body parts (abdomen, feet, legs, back, hands from hand to shoulder, hands, face, etc.) usually work by friction, vibration, etc. They can have a manual or power drive or belong to the e-lectromechanical type with the motor built into the working device (vibromassage devices). Especially the latter type may contain replaceable additional devices (usually rubber), allowing the use of different methods of exposure (brushes, sponges, flat or geared discs, etc.). This category of devices includes simple rubber rollers or similar massage devices. It also includes hydromassage devices for general or partial body massage under the influence of water or a mixture of water and air under pressure. Examples of such devices are complete massage baths equipped with pumps, turbines or blowers, pipelines, control devices and all necessary fittings; devices for massage of the breast under the action of water distributed through a series of small tips, installed inside a shape located above the chest and rotating from a jet of water introduced through a flexible tube. The following apparatuses are also considered to be massage machines within the scope of this heading: mattresses intended for the prevention or treatment of pressure sores by continually changing the places on which the patient's body rests, and by performing surface massage effects on tissues prone to death. (iii) apparatus for psychological tests for the determination of abilities These apparatuses are used by physicians, etc., to investigate the rate of reflex actions, coordination of movements and other physical or psychological reactions. They are used to test people whose occupations require special abilities (pilots, drivers, etc.), or to test the educational or professional inclinations and abilities of children.

This heading covers various types of such apparatus (e.g., devices for testing motor skills or dexterity; revolving seats designed for variable speed and sudden stopping, for testing the reactions of aircraft pilots). It should be noted, however, that this heading excludes apparatus normally used for the medical diagnosis of sight, hearing, the heart, etc. (heading 9018). Similarly, articles having the character of construction or building sets and equally suitable for use as amusements and for aptitude testing are classified as games or toys (Chapter 95). (IV) OZONE THERAPY APPARATUS This apparatus is designed for treating the respiratory organs by using the therapeutic properties of ozone (chemical formula O3), e.g., by inhalation. (V) OXYGEN THERAPY, ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION OR OTHER THERAPEUTIC RESPIRATION APPARATUS This is used in rescuing drowning persons, in cases of electric shock, acute poisoning (e.g., by carbon monoxide), for weak newborn infants, in cases of post-operative shock, infantile paralysis (poliomyelitis), acute asthma, underdeveloped lungs, etc. These appliances include: (A) Appliances used instead of manual methods of artificial respiration, e.g., mechanical appliances which work by applying pressure to the patient's chest by means of an oscillating movement, forced inhalation, etc. (B) Oxygen therapy apparatus proper. These operate by the inhalation of oxygen or of a mixture of oxygen and carbon dioxide through a mask, or by supplying oxygen into a respiratory chamber consisting of a transparent plastic tent placed over the patient's bed. (C) Appliances known as "iron lungs", and similar appliances. These consist essentially of the following elements: (1) A chamber, made of metal, wood or glass fibre, to enclose the patient's body (the head remaining outside), or a smaller chamber of transparent plastics covering only the chest. (2) An independent unit containing an air-aspiration system and an emergency blower, which may be power-operated or hand-operated. (3) A thick airtight tube connecting the blower system to the chamber. Some of the oxygen therapy appliances described above (particularly oxygen tents) may also be used for administering aerosols, the patient simultaneously inhaling oxygen and a medicament dispersed by a micro-sprayer (see item VI below). This heading excludes hyperbaric chambers or decompression chambers (heading 9018). (VI) AEROSOL THERAPY APPARATUS This is used for administering a therapeutic agent in treating pulmonary, skin, gynaecological and ear, nose and throat diseases, etc., by dispersing (spraying) various medicinal solutions (hormones, vitamins, antibiotics, bronchodilators, essential oils, etc.) in the form of a mist.

Some of these appliances are individual (atomisers) and are designed for connection to cylinders of oxygen or compressed air, or for fitting in the oxygen tents described in item (V) above. Others are of the aerosol-generator type for doctors' consulting rooms or hospitals; these consist of a cabinet containing a motor-compressor unit, measuring instruments, the generator proper and various fittings (masks, nasal, buccal, gynaecological and other nozzles). This heading covers hand-held aerosol-type sprayers for irrigating the teeth or gums, operated by a compressed gas contained in a screw-on container; the action of the medicinal preparation used cleans the oral cavity and cures diseases such as periodontitis. 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 and appliances of this heading are classified in this heading. Such parts and accessories include oxygen tents and their fixing devices for oxygen therapy apparatus.

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.