9107 00 000 0 — Time switches with clock or watch movement or with synchronous motor

9107 Temporary switches with any vi or synchronous motor

This heading covers devices which do not have the character of clocks of heading 9105 but which are designed mainly to make or break electric circuits automatically at pre-determined times, generally at times fixed in accordance with a previously set daily or weekly programme. To fall in this heading, these devices must have a clock or watch movement of any kind (including secondary movements or synchronous motor movements) or a synchronous motor, with or without reduction gearing. Time switches are used for controlling lighting networks (for public places, shop windows, staircases, illuminated signs, etc.), heating systems (water heaters, etc.), refrigerating installations, pumps, two-rate electricity meters, etc. They consist of a mechanical or electrically operated clock or watch movement of any type, or a synchronous motor, usually with a dial with or without hands, a time-setting device (levers and pins), together with systems of driving relays, switches and commutators. The whole is enclosed in a case with terminals. The dial is usually graduated in hours, and sometimes also in days and months; the levers or pins on its periphery actuate the contact devices at the required times. Time switches with clock movements may be actuated by

Thermostats, pressure regulators, water level regulators, etc. This heading also includes switches for opening and closing circuits supplying electrical apparatus (television receivers, irons, washing machines, billiard table lights, etc.), which are switched on when coin is introduced and are switched off by a synchronous motor; the interval is determined by the number of coins dropped. The following articles do not fall within this heading if they are presented separately: housings for the devices referred to above (included either in heading 9112 or in the relevant headings, see the HS Explanatory Note to heading 9112), clockworks for watches of all kinds (headings 9108 to 9110) and parts of such clockworks (usually heading 9110 or 9114).

Notes

English text as published in Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2021/1832 (Combined Nomenclature). The EAEU tariff and the EU nomenclature copy these notes from the same convention. For a Russian declaration the binding version is the Russian one: Annex to Decision No 80 of the EEC Council of 14 September 2021.

1. This chapter does not cover:

(a) clock or watch glasses or weights (classified according to their constituent material);

(b) watch chains (heading 7113 or 7117, as the case may be);

(c) parts of general use defined in note 2 to Section XV, of base metal (Section XV), or similar goods of plastics (Chapter 39) or of precious metal or metal clad with precious metal (generally heading 7115); clock or watch springs are, however, to be classified as clock or watch parts (heading 9114);

(d) bearing balls (heading 7326 or 8482, as the case may be);

(e) articles of heading 8412 constructed to work without an escapement;

(f) ball bearings (heading 8482); or

(g) articles of Chapter 85, not yet assembled together or with other components into watch or clock movements or into articles suitable for use solely or principally as parts of such movements (Chapter 85).

2. Heading 9101 covers only watches with case wholly of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal, or of the same materials combined with natural or cultured pearls, or precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed) of headings 7101 to 7104. Watches with case of base metal inlaid with precious metal fall in heading 9102.

3. For the purposes of this chapter, the expression ‘watch movements’ means devices regulated by a balance-wheel and hairspring, quartz crystal or any other system capable of determining intervals of time, with a display or a system to which a mechanical display can be incorporated. Such watch movements shall not exceed 12 mm in thickness and 50 mm in width, length or diameter.

4. Except as provided in note 1, movements and other parts suitable for use both in clocks or watches and in other articles (for example, precision instruments) are to be classified in this chapter.