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                                                        CHAPTER 85
ELECTRICAL MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT AND PARTS THEREOF; 
SOUND RECORDERS AND REPRODUCERS, TELEVISION IMAGE AND 
SOUND RECORDERS AND REPRODUCERS, AND PARTS AND ACCESSORIES
OF SUCH ARTICLES.
1.   This Chapter does not cover:
     (a)  Electrically warmed blankets, bed pads, foot
          muffs or the like; electrically warmed clothing,
          footwear or ear pads or other electrically
          warmed articles worn on or about the person;
     (b)  Articles of glass of heading 70.11; 
     (c)  Machines and apparatus of heading 84.86;
     (d)  Vacuum apparatus of a kind used in medical,
          surgical, dental or veterinary purposes (Chapter
          90); or
     (e)  Electrically heated furniture of Chapter 94.
2.   Headings 85.01 to 85.04 do not apply to goods         
     described in heading 85.11, 85.12, 85.40, 85.41 or
     85.42.
     However, metal tank mercury arc rectifiers remain
     classified in heading  85.04.
3.   Heading 85.09 covers only the following               
     electro-mechanical machines of the kind commonly used
     for domestic purposes:
     (a)  Floor polishers, food grinders and mixers, and
          fruit or vegetable juice extractors, of any
          weight;
     (b)  Other machines provided the weight of such
          machines does not exceed 20 kg.
	  The heading does not, however, apply to fans or
     ventilating or recycling hoods incorporating a fan,
     whether or not fitted with  filters (heading 84.14),
     centrifugal clothes dryers (heading 84.21), dish
     washing machines (heading  84.22), household washing
     machines (heading 84.50), roller or other ironing
     machines (heading 84.20 or 84.51), sewing machines
     (heading 84.52), electric scissors (heading 84.67) or
     to electro-thermic appliances (heading 85.16).
4.   For the purposes of heading 85.23 :
     (a)  "Solid-state non-volatile storage devices" (for
          example, "flash memory cards" or "flash
          electronic storage cards") are storage devices
          with a connecting socket, comprising in the same
          housing one or more flash memories (for example,
          "FLASH E2 PROM") in the form of integrated
          circuits mounted on a printed circuit board. 
          They may include a controller in the form of an
          integrated circuit and discrete passive
          components, such as capacitors and resistors;
     (b)  The term "smart cards" means cards which have
          embedded in them one or more electronic
          integrated circuits (a microprocessor, random
          access memory (RAM) or read-only memory (ROM))
          in the form of chips.  These cards may contain
          contacts, a magnetic stripe or an embedded
          antenna but do not contain any other active or
          passive circuit elements.
5.   For the purposes of heading 8534.00.00 "printed
     circuits" are circuits obtained by forming on an
     insulating base, by any  printing  process (for
     example, embossing, plating up, etching) or by the
     "film circuit" technique, conductor elements,
     contacts or other printed components (for example,
     inductances, resistors, capacitors) alone or
     interconnected according to a pre-established
     pattern, other than elements which can produce,
     rectify, modulate or amplify an electrical signal
     (for example, semiconductor elements).
	The expression "printed circuits" does not cover
     circuits combined with elements other than those
     obtained during the printing process, nor does it
     cover individual, discrete resistors, capacitors or
     inductances.  Printed circuits may, however, be
     fitted with non-printed connecting elements.
     Thin- or thick-film circuits comprising passive and
     active elements obtained during the same
     technological process are to be classifie