9306 21 000 0 — Bombs, grenades, torpedoes, mines, missiles and similar munitions of war and parts thereof; cartridges and other ammunition and projectiles and parts thereof, including shot and cartridge wads: cartridges for smooth-bore weapons and parts thereof; air gun pellets: cartridges

9306 Bombs, grenades, torpedoes, mines, missiles and similar means for conducting combat operations, their parts; cartridges, other ammunition, shells and their parts, including shot and dust for cartridges: - cartridges for smoothbore weapons and parts thereof; bullets for air weapons: 9306 21 - - - cartridges 9306 29 - - other 9306 30 - other cartridges and their parts 9306 90 - other

This heading covers: (A) Ammunition, e.g.: (1) Projectiles (fragmentation, shrapnel, armour-piercing, illuminating, signal, tracer, incendiary, smoke, etc.) and all other kinds of ammunition for guns and mortars. (2) Cartridges of all kinds: blank (including blank cartridges for riveting tools or for starting compression-ignition internal combustion piston engines), ball, tracer, incendiary, armour-piercing, cartridges with spherical bullets and shot for sporting guns, etc. (3) Bullets, pellets (hollow, spherical, grooved, etc.) and darts for air, gas or spring guns, carbines or pistols, other than those used in toys of heading 9503. (B) Ballistic missiles, the warheads of which return to the Earth's surface after reaching their apogee and which impart to the payload a terminal velocity not exceeding 7000 m/s. (C) Ammunition of the self-propelled types, e.g., torpedoes, flying bombs (aircraft-like missiles), guided aerial missiles and rockets. (D) Other munitions of war, e.g., land and sea mines, depth charges, hand and rifle grenades, aerial bombs. (E) Harpoons, with or without explosive heads, for harpoon guns, etc. (F) Parts of ammunition and munitions of war, e.g.: (1) Bodies of grenades, mines, bombs, projectiles and torpedoes. (2) Cartridge cases and other parts of cartridges, e.g., bases (of brass), inner cups and inner bases and cases (of metal or paperboard), wads (of felt or fur felt, paper or cork, etc.). (3) Bullets and lead shot as ammunition components. (4) Fuzes (nose and base), delay, percussion or proximity (electronically controlled), for projectiles, torpedoes, etc.; parts of fuzes, including protective caps. (5) Mechanical parts for certain types of ammunition, such as special propulsion units and gyroscopes for torpedoes. (6) Warheads and buoyancy chambers for torpedoes. (7) Strikers, safety pins, levers and other parts of grenades. (8) Stabilisers for bombs. The heading excludes: (a) propellent powders and prepared explosives, even if put up in a form ready for incorporation in ammunition (headings 3601 and 3602); safety fuses, detonating fuses, percussion or detonating caps, igniters and electric detonators, including detonator caps for projectiles (heading 3603); (b) signalling flares and anti-hail rockets (heading 3604); (c) charges for fire-extinguishers and charged fire-extinguishing grenades (heading 3813);

(d) engines of heading 8411 or 8412 for rockets, torpedoes and similar devices; (e) radio and radar equipment of heading 8526 (see note 2 to this chapter); (f) watch movements for watches of all kinds and parts thereof for ammunition or for parts of ammunition (e.g. fuses) (headings 9108 to 9110 and 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) 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.