9028 30 — Electricity supply or production meters, incl. calibrating meters therefor

9028 Meters of supply or production of gas, liquid or electricity, including calibration: 9028 10 – gas meters 9028 20 – liquid meters

9028 30 – electricity meters 9028 90 – parts and accessories

These meters are usually equipped with a device driven at a speed proportional to the flow rate of the liquid or the measured electrical value. They are often mounted in a shunt or branch of a highway or network, or connected to measuring transformers so that only a fraction of the flow passes through them, but are calibrated to show the full amount of O passing through the feed pipe or network. Meters for the supply or production of gas, liquid or electricity are classified in this heading, whether or not they are equipped with a clockwork recording device or a simple mechanical or electrical device for the actuation of control, signal, etc. devices. (I) Feed counts or production of gas or liquid These meters are used to measure, in units of volume, the amount of liquid passing through the pipe. Flowmeters which measure flow rates are not included in this heading (heading 9026). This heading includes household feed counters, factory feed or production counters and reference counters (to verify the accuracy of conventional counters). In addition to simple meters, this heading also includes special meters, such as maximum load meters, prepaid meters, price meters, etc. The supply or production counters consist of a measuring device (turbine, piston, diaphragm, etc.), a mechanism for adjusting the fluid intake (usually valves), a transmission (infinite screw, camshaft, gears or other systems) and a recorder or indicator (shooter or drum type) or both. (A) Gas supply or production meters. (1) Liquid counters. The measuring device usually consists of a drum or wheel broken into sections; it rotates in a cylindrical casing more than half filled with liquid (water, oil, etc.). The drum is rotated by gas, which, when entering the meter, fills the sections immersed in the liquid and raises them thus above the water level. The number of revolutions of the drum shall be indicated on the counting machine. A counter of another type (a counter with a vibrating bell) consists of a bell in which the gas passes successively a series of chambers; a bell having a central guide begins as a result to oscillate around an inclined axis that captures the shoulder of a crank connected to the driving spindle of the counting mechanism. (2) Dry meters. These counters come in several types. The measuring device may consist of pistons, membranes or fan wheels driven by pressure g as and connected to the counting mechanism. A conventional counter consists of a box divided into two sections by a partition. Each section, in turn, is divided

the median membrane; gas enters and exits these four sections sequentially. The variable motion of the membrane makes the counting mechanism work. (B) Meters for the supply or production of liquids (cold or hot water, oil, alcohol, beer, wine, milk, etc.), but not including pumps for liquids (even if equipped with measuring devices) of heading 8413. These meters include: (1) Counters with impeller or fan wheel. These meters are also called meters with the output of the result, since the volume of liquid is determined from their speed. The measuring device consists of a fan or impeller wheel that rotates at a speed proportional to the fluid flow. This rotation makes the counting mechanism work. (2) Diaphragm counters. These meters are similar to the dry gasometers described above. The cast iron cylinder is divided into two sections by a flexible membrane, which is stretched or compressed when the sections are alternately filled and empty. This movement makes the counting mechanism work. (3) Counters with reciprocating motion of the piston. These counters may consist of one or more pistons that make reciprocal movement inside the cylinders. As in a steam engine, the spool system alternately directs the measured liquid to the top and bottom of the piston and opens or closes the shut-off valves. The movement of the pistons sets in motion the counting mechanism. (4) Disk counters. In these counters, the piston is replaced by a rotating disk that divides the spherical chamber into two equal sections alternately filled and empty. The resulting oscillatory movement of the disc drives the meter mechanism. (5) Revolving piston counters. Such counters of the first type consist of a cylindrical working chamber equipped with a radial partition, which partially protrudes across the chamber. The measuring device is a cylindrical piston, the wall of which is divided according to the protrusion on the partition. Filling and emptying the section informs the cylinder oscillatory (semi-rotating) movement, and this movement is transmitted to the meter mechanism. In counters of another type, there is no partition in the working chamber, and a true rotational movement of the elliptical piston is obtained. In some cases, the counter consists of a oscillating bell in a fenced spherical chamber. The counters referred to in paragraphs (2) to (5) above are known as positive volumetric type. These meters measure the amount of electricity consumed (in ampere-hours or multiples of units) (quantity meters) or the amount of energy consumed (in watt-hours or multiples of units) (energy meters). If the voltage is constant, the meters

quantities may be calibrated in watt-hours (or in multiples of watt-hours). Some meters are designed for use with direct current, others with alternating current. This heading excludes apparatus such as voltmeters, ammeters, wattmeters, etc., which merely measure electrical quantities and are not designed to record the total quantity of energy or electricity consumed (heading 9030). This heading covers the following main types of electricity meters: (A) Meters with a moving measuring mechanism. These meters consist of one or more inductance coils, a rotating element (armature) whose speed of rotation is proportional to the quantity of electricity or energy consumed, a counting mechanism and a pointer or drum indicator (or a combination of both). Such meters are usually fitted with an "electric brake" using the eddy-current principle – a disc in which eddy currents are generated as it rotates between the poles of one or more permanent magnets. (B) Static meters. These meters consist of electronic static units, such as multipliers or quantifiers, fitted with an indicating device. They produce an electric current or resistance directly proportional to the quantity of electrical energy consumed. The indicating device may be mechanical (fitted with a pointer or drum indicator) or electronic. They include: (1) prepayment meters; (2) multi-rate meters (registering electrical energy supplied at two or more different rates); (3) maximum demand meters (indicating the maximum value of the average load over a given period); (4) peak meters (indicating consumption above a certain peak value); (5) excess meters (similar to peak meters, but also indicating the total energy used); (6) impulse meters (fitted with an impulse sensor); (7) reactive power meters; (8) demonstration meters; (9) direct-current meters (volt-hour meters (V·h), ampere-hour meters (A·h), watt-hour meters (W·h)); (10) impulse-input meters for connection to impulse meters, fitted with a consumption register and a totalising device or a maximum device (indicating or recording) or a device for counting excess over maximum consumption, etc.; (11) standard meters for checking and calibrating other meters.

Subject to the provisions of Notes 1 and 2 to this Chapter (see General Provisions), separately presented parts and affiliations to counters of this heading are also included 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.