Chapter notes
Notes.
1. This Chapter does not cover:
(a) Millstones, grindstones or other articles of
Chapter 68;
(b) Machinery or appliances (for example, pumps) of
ceramic material and ceramic parts of machinery or
appliances of any material (Chapter 69);
(c) Laboratory glassware (heading 70.17); machinery,
appliances or other articles for technical uses or
parts thereof, of glass (heading 70.19 or 7020.00);
(d) Articles of heading 73.21 or 73.22 or similar
articles of other base metals (Chapters 74 to 76 or
78 to 81);
(e) Vacuum cleaners of heading 85.08;
(f) Electro mechanical domestic appliances of heading
85.09; digital cameras of heading 85.25; or
(g) Hand operated mechanical floor sweepers, not
motorised (heading 96.03).
2. Subject to the operation of Note 3 to Section XVI, and
subject to Note 9 to this Chapter, a machine or
appliance which answers to a description in one or more
of the headings 84.01 to 84.24 or heading 84.86 and at
the same time to a description in one or other of the
headings 84.25 to 84.80 is to be classified under the
appropriate heading of the former group or under 84.86,
as the case may be, and not the latter group.
Heading 84.19 does not, however, cover:
(a) Germination plant, incubators or brooders (heading
84.36);
(b) Grain dampening machines (heading 84.37);
(c) Diffusing apparatus for sugar juice extraction
(heading 84.38);
(d) Machinery for the heat-treatment of textile yarns,
fabrics or made up textile articles (heading 84.51)
; or
(e) Machinery or plant, designed for mechanical
operation, in which a change of temperature, even if
necessary, is subsidiary.
Heading 84.22 does not cover:
(a) Sewing machines for closing bags or similar
containers (heading 84.52); or
(b) Office machinery of heading 84.72.
Heading 84.24 does not cover:
Ink-jet printing machines (heading 84.43 ).
3. A machine tool for working any material which answers
to a description in heading 84.56 and at the same time
to a description in heading 84.57, 84.58, 84.59, 84.60,
84.61, 84.64 or 84.65 is to be classified in heading
84.56.
4. Heading 84.57 applies only to machine tools for working
metal, other than lathes (including turning centres),
which can carry out different types of machining
operations either:
(a) by automatic tool change from a magazine or the like
in conformity with a machining programme (machining
centres),
(b) by the automatic use, simultaneously or sequentially
, of different unit heads working on a fixed
position workpiece (unit construction machines,
single station), or
(c) by the automatic transfer of the workpiece to
different unit heads (multi station transfer
machines).
5. (A) For the purposes of heading 84.71, the expression
"automatic data processing machines" means machines
capable of:
(i) Storing the processing program or programs and
at least the data immediately necessary for
the execution of the program;
(ii) Being freely programmed in accordance with the
requirements of the user;
(iii) Performing arithmetical computations specified
by the user; and
(iv) Executing, without human intervention, a
processing program which requires them to
modify their execution, by logical decision
during the processing run.
(B) Automatic data processing machines may be in the
form of systems consisting of a variable number of
separate units.
(C) Subject to para