9201 10 — Upright pianos

9201 Piano, including automatic; harpsichords and other keystring instruments (+): 9201 10 – piano 9201 20 – piano 9201 90 – other

This heading covers (1) pianos with keyboards and strings struck by hammers, whether or not equipped with an electric pickup and amplifier, i.e.: (a) pianos having a deck on which the strings are vertically mounted, the bass strings being placed across the rest; (b) pianos (concert and cabinet) having strings mounted horizontally in an elongated body. This category of goods includes automatic pianos, whether or not containing a keyboard, played, for example, with perforated rollers of paper or cardboard; they may have a mechanical, pneumatic or electric drive. However, "electronic pianos" and electronic musical instruments which may be mounted on the piano to produce the sound of other instruments while playing the piano are classified in heading 9207 (see general provisions for this chapter). (2) Harpsichords and other keystring instruments such as spinets and clavichords. Explanation of subheadings. Subheadings 9201 10 and 9201 20 These subheadings also cover automatic pianos.

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) parts of general use, as defined in note 2 to Section XV, of base metal (Section XV), or similar goods of plastics (Chapter 39);

(b) microphones, amplifiers, loudspeakers, headphones, switches, stroboscopes and other accessory instruments, apparatus or equipment of Chapter 85 or 90, for use with but not incorporated in or housed in the same cabinet as instruments of this chapter;

(c) toy instruments and apparatus (heading 9503);

(d) brushes for cleaning musical instruments (heading 9603), or monopods, bipods, tripods and similar articles (heading 9620); or

(e) collectors' pieces or antiques (heading 9705 or 9706).

2. Bows and sticks and similar devices used in playing the musical instruments of headings 9202 or 9206 presented with such instruments in numbers normal thereto and clearly intended for use therewith, are to be classified in the same heading as the relative instruments. Cards, discs and rolls of heading 9209 presented with an instrument are to be treated as separate articles and not as forming a part of such instrument.