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HS, 2012 - Code 90
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Chapter:
90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories
Breakdown
4-digit heading:
9001 - Optical fibres and optical fibre bundles; optical fibre cables not of heading no. 8544; sheets, plates of polarising material; lenses, prisms, mirrors, of any material; unmounted; not non optical glass
9002 - Lenses, prisms, mirrors and other optical elements, of any material, mounted, being parts or fittings for instruments or apparatus, other than such elements of glass not optically worked
9003 - Frames and mountings; for spectacles, goggles or the like, and parts
9004 - Spectacles, goggles and the like; corrective, protective or other
9005 - Binoculars, monoculars, other optical telescopes, mountings therefore; other astronomical instruments, mountings therefore, but not including instruments for radio-astronomy
9006 - Cameras, photographic (excluding cinematographic); photographic flashlight apparatus and flashbulbs other than discharge lamps of heading no. 8539
9007 - Cinematographic cameras and projectors, whether or not incorporating sound recording or reproducing apparatus
9008 - Image projectors, other than cinematographic; photographic (other than cinematographic) enlargers and reducers
9010 - Photographic (including cinematographic) laboratory apparatus and equipment, n.e.c. in chapter 90; negatoscopes; projection screens
9011 - Microscopes, compound optical; including those for photomicrography, cinephotomicrography or microprojection
9012 - Microscopes (excluding optical microscopes); diffraction apparatus
9013 - Liquid crystal devices not constituting articles provided for more specifically in other headings; lasers, not laser diodes; other optical appliances and instruments n.e.c. in this chapter
9014 - Navigational instruments and appliances; direction finding compasses
9015 - Surveying (including photogrammetrical surveying), hydrographic, oceanographic, hydrological, meteorological or geophysical instruments and appliances, excluding compasses, rangefinders
9016 - Balances; of a sensitivity of 5cg or better, with or without weights
9017 - Drawing, marking-out, mathematical calculating instruments (drafting machines, protractors, drawing sets etc); instruments for measuring length (e.g. measuring rods, tapes, micrometers, callipers) n.e.c.
9018 - Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other electro-medical apparatus and sight testing instruments
9019 - Mechano-therapy, massage appliances; psychological aptitude testing apparatus; ozone, oxygen, aerosol therapy, artificial respiration or other therapeutic respiration apparatus
9020 - Breathing appliances and gas masks; excluding protective masks having neither mechanical parts nor replaceable filters and excluding apparatus of item no. 9019.20
9021 - Orthopaedic appliances; including crutches, surgical belts and trusses; splints and other fracture appliances; artificial parts of the body; hearing aids and other which are worn, carried or implanted in the body to compensate for a defect or disability
9022 - X-ray, alpha, beta, gamma radiation apparatus; x-ray tubes, x-ray generators, high tension generators, control panels and desks, screens, examination or treatment tables, chairs and the like
9023 - Instruments, apparatus and models, designed for demonstrational purposes (in education or exhibitions), unsuitable for other uses
9024 - Machines and appliances for testing the hardness, strength, compressibility, elasticity of other mechanical properties of materials (e.g. metals, wood, textiles, paper, plastics)
9025 - Hydrometers and similar floating instruments, thermometers, pyrometers, barometers, hygrometers and psychrometers, recording or not
9026 - Instruments, apparatus for measuring or checking the flow, level, pressure of liquids, gases (e.g. flow meters, heat meters etc), not instruments and apparatus of heading no. 9014, 9015, 9028 or 9032
9027 - Instruments and apparatus; for physical or chemical analysis (e.g. polarimeters, spectrometers), for measuring or checking viscosity, porosity, etc, for measuring quantities of heat, sound or light
9028 - Gas, liquid or electricity supply or production meters, including calibrating meters therefor
9029 - Revolution counter, production counters, taximeters, mileometers, pedometers and the like, speed indicators and tachometers, other than those of heading no. 9015, stroboscopes
9030 - Instruments, apparatus for measuring, checking electrical quantities not meters of heading no. 9028; instruments, apparatus for measuring or detecting alpha, beta, gamma, x-ray, cosmic and other radiations
9031 - Measuring or checking instruments, appliances and machines, n.e.c. or included in this chapter; profile projectors
9032 - Regulating or controlling instruments and apparatus; automatic type
9033 - Machines and appliances, instruments or apparatus of chapter 90; parts and accessories n.e.c. in chapter 90
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