9301 20 000 0 — Military weapons, other than revolvers, pistols and the arms of heading 9307: rocket launchers; flame-throwers; grenade launchers; torpedo tubes and similar projectors

9301 Military-style weapons other than revolvers, pistols and weapons of heading 9307: 9301 10 – artillery weapons (e.g. cannons, howitzers and mortars) 9301 20 – missile launchers; flamethrowers; grenade launchers; torpedo tubes and similar launchers 9301 90 – other

This heading covers all military weapons, other than revolvers and pistols of heading 9302 and arms of heading 9307. The heading covers separately presented weapons and combat firearms designed as part of the armament of ships, armoured trains, aircraft, tanks or armoured cars. The heading includes: (1) Artillery weapons and infantry support weapons, i.e., all types of cannon and guns (whether stationary or on wheels, tracks, etc.), such as field, medium, heavy and super-heavy artillery, long-range guns, anti-aircraft guns, anti-tank guns, howitzers and mortars. Long-range guns mounted on railway flat wagons also fall in this heading (and not in Chapter 86). Mobile and self-propelled artillery mounts, which are to be distinguished from tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles of heading 8710, also fall in this heading. (2) Weapons capable of continuous and very rapid fire; some types are designed for use by one man. This category includes machine-guns, sub-machine-guns firing pistol cartridges (machine pistols) and other types of automatic small arms for continuous fire. (3) Military firearms, such as rifles and carbines. (4) Other types of special military launchers, e.g., military rocket launchers and other launching installations, and grenade launchers, other than those of heading 930 3;

Depth bomb-dropping apparatus; torpedo tubes; flamethrowers (apparatus for throwing a lighted volatile liquid at the enemy), other than flame dispensers specially used for the destruction of weeds (heading 8424).

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) goods of Chapter 36 (for example, percussion caps, detonators, signalling flares);

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

(c) armoured fighting vehicles (heading 8710);

(d) telescopic sights or other optical devices suitable for use with arms, unless mounted on a firearm or presented with the firearm on which they are designed to be mounted (Chapter 90);

(e) bows, arrows, fencing foils or toys (Chapter 95); or

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

2. In heading 9306, the reference to ‘parts thereof’ does not include radio or radar apparatus of heading 8526.

Additional note of the Eurasian Economic Union

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. In subheading 9305 20 000 1 the following shall be taken into account in determining the number of barrels in additional units of measurement:

(a) a barrel having one channel for throwing is considered as one barrel;

(b) non-separable barrels, e.g. soldered or solid, having multiple channels for throwing, are considered as a single barrel.