Amendments to the Harmonized System Explanatory Notes
The following list contains the decisions taken by the Harmonized System Committee
(26th Session – November 2000) concerning amendments to the Harmonized System
Explanatory Notes. This publication will be updated regularly.
The Harmonized System Explanatory Notes are published by WCO in 4 volumes and
reflect the official interpretation of the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding
System. They also contain the text of the Subheading Explanatory Notes indicating
the scope and content of certain of the Harmonized System Subheadings. The
Explanatory Notes are available in English and French, the two official languages of
the WCO, and can be ordered directly (see “Publications” on this Web site).
The amendments listed below are reproduced in the order of the current pages
concerned and will be incorporated into the aforementioned WCO publication in due
time by replacing the pages affected by the amendments made.
Advice
Parties seeking to import or export merchandise covered by a decision are advised to
verify the implementation of the decision by the importing or exporting country, as the
case may be.
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Page 147. Heading 19.01. Fourth paragraph. New Item (8).
After present Item (7), insert the following new Item :
“(8) Uncooked pizza consisting of a pizza base (dough) covered with various
other ingredients such as cheese, tomato, oil, meat, anchovies. However, pizza
that is pre-cooked or cooked is classified in heading 19.05.”
2.
Page 152. Heading 19.05. Item (A) (14).
Delete and substitute :
“(14) Pizza (pre-cooked or cooked), consisting of a pizza base (dough) covered
with various other ingredients such as cheese, tomato, oil, meat, anchovies.
However, uncooked pizza is classified in heading 19.01.”
3.
Page 177. Heading 22.06. Third paragraph. Second sentence.
Delete and substitute :
“They remain classified in the heading when fortified with added alcohol or when
the alcohol content has been increased by further fermentation, provided that
they retain the character of products falling in the heading."
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4.
Page 188. Heading 23.09. Last paragraph. New exclusion (ij).
Insert the following new exclusion (ij) :
“(ij) Preparations in the nature of antimicrobial disinfectants used in the
manufacture of animal feeds to control undesirable micro-organisms (heading
38.08).”
Reletter the present exclusion (ij) as exclusion (k).
5.
Page 567. Heading 38.08. Item (IV). Second paragraph. Second sentence.
Delete and substitute :
“They are also used in agriculture for disinfecting seeds and in the manufacture
of animal feeds to control undesirable micro-organisms.”
6.
Page 1121. Heading 73.21. First paragraph. Item (ii).
After “fuel,”insert the following :
“or other source of energy (e.g., solar energy),”.
7.
Page 1339. Heading 84.43. Second paragraph. Sub-paragraph (2). Last line.
Delete “heading 84.71” and substitute “heading 84.71 (see the paragraphs
concerning printers in Part (I) (A) of the Explanatory Note to this heading).”
8.
Page 1404. Heading 84.71. Part (I) A.
1. Fourth paragraph.
Delete and substitute :
“In accordance with Note 5 (D) to this Chapter, printers, keyboards, X-Y coordinate input devices and disc storage units which satisfy the conditions of
items (b) and (c) above, are in all cases to be classified as constituent units
of data processing systems.
The foregoing provision is, however to be considered in the overall context
of Note 5 to Chapter 84 and is therefore applicable subject to the provisions
of paragraph (E) of that Note, by virtue of the introductory part of paragraph
(B) thereof. Thus ink-jet printers working in conjunction with an automatic
data processing machine but having, particularly in terms of their size,
technical capabilities and particular applications, the characteristics of a
printing machine designed to perform a specific function in the printing or
graphics industry (production of pre-press colour proofs, for example) are to
be regarded as machines having a specific function classifiable in heading
84.43.”
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2.
Fifth paragraph. First line.
Delete “Appliances such as measuring or checking instruments” and
substitute “Furthermore, appliances such as measuring or checking
instruments”.
9.
Page 1405.
sentence.
Heading 84.71.
Part I (D).
First paragraph.
New second
Add the following new second sentence :
“These may be in the form of units having a separate housing and designed to
be connected, for example, by cables to other machines on a system, or in the
form of units not having a separate housing and designed to be inserted into a
machine (e.g., insertion onto the main board of a central processing unit).”
10.
Page 1406. Heading 84.71. Part I (D). Second paragraph.
1.
Item (2). Second line.
After “magnetic core storages,” insert “tape autoloaders and libraries,
optical disk drive libraries (sometimes referred to as “optical disk
jukeboxes”)”.
2.
Item (2).
Insert the following text at the end of the existing text :
“This group also includes additional data storage devices known as
“proprietary storage formats”, whether for internal installation in an
automatic data processing machine or for external use with such machines.
The devices may be in the form of drives for discs or tapes.”
3.
Item (4). Second paragraph.
Delete and substitute :
“This category includes routers, bridges and hubs used to control and direct
communications between the machines in local area networks (LANs), and
channel to channel adaptors used to connect two digital systems (e.g., two
LANs) to each other.”
4.
Item (5). New second paragraph.
Add the following new second paragraph :
“This category includes optical fibre converters which are used in LANs.”
5.
Item (6). New last paragraphs.
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Insert the following two new last paragraphs :
“This category also covers graphic tablets, which are X–Y co-ordinate input
devices making it possible to capture and trace the co-ordinates of a curve
or any other geometrical form. This apparatus is generally composed of a
rectangular board with an active sensing surface, a pointer or pen used to
create drawings, and a zoom linked to a cross-piece, making it possible to
input data.
This category further covers digitizers, which have similar functions to
graphic tablets. However, while graphic tablets are used for creating original
art and drawings, as well as for application menu selection and on-screen
object control, digitizers are generally used for the capture of existing
drawings that exist only in hard-copy form. Digitizer pointing devices may
assume any shape, but must be small enough to be hand-held and moved
around the (active) sensing region of the digitizer. Cross-hair cursors are
the most common shape.”
11.
Page 1461. Heading 85.12.
Insert the following new Item (14) :
“(14) Electrical apparatus of a kind used in a motor vehicle to warn the driver, by
visual or audio signals, that a speed detection device, such as a radar gun or a
laser gun, is operating in the vicinity.”
12.
Page 1607. Heading 90.17. New third paragraph. Exclusion.
After the second paragraph, insert the following new third paragraph :
“The heading also excludes graphic tablets and digitizers of heading 84.71.”
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