9304 00 00 — Other arms (for example, spring, air or gas guns and pistols, truncheons), excluding those of heading 9307

9304 Other weapons (e.g. spring, air or gas guns and pistols, batons) other than those specified in heading 9307

This heading covers arms other than the firearms of headings 9301 to 9303 and the arms of heading 9307. The heading includes: (1) Truncheons, lead-loaded canes, weighted sticks and similar articles intended for the police or militia, and also weighted walking-sticks. (2) Knuckle-dusters, being metal articles shaped to fit the clenched fist, used for striking a blow. (3) Catapults designed for shooting birds or vermin. They may be made in the form of a walking-stick. Toy catapults are excluded (heading 9503). (4) Air guns, air rifles and air pistols. These resemble ordinary rifles, pistols, etc., but are fitted with a device for compressing a charge of air which is released into the barrel of the weapon when the trigger is pulled, thereby firing the projectile. Also included are guns, rifles and pistols operating on the same principle but in which a gas other than air is used in its place. (5) Similar weapons operated by the release of a powerful spring mechanism. (6) Guns and pistols operated by compressed carbon dioxide gas, designed to fire at unrestrained animals an automatic syringe containing an anaesthetic or a medicament (antiserum, vaccine, etc.). (7) Tear gas canisters.

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.