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Section 18

OPTICAL, PHOTOGRAPHIC, CINEMATOGRAPHIC, MEASURING, CHECKING, PRECISION, MEDICAL OR SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS AND APPARATUS; CLOCKS AND WATCHES; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; PARTS AND ACCESSORIES THEREOF

90

OPTICAL, PHOTOGRAGHIC, CINEMATOGRAPHIC, MEASURING, CHECKING, PRECISION, MEDICAL OR SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS AND APPARATUS; CLOCKS AND WATCHES; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; PARTS AND ACCESSORIES THEREOF

90 00: INSTRUMENT; PARTS AND ACCESSORIES THEREOF
90 01: NOT OPTICALLY WORKED.
90 02: OTHER THAN SUCH ELEMENTS OF GLASS NOT OPTICALLY WORKED,.
90 03: FRAMES AND MOUNTING FOR SPECTACLES, GOGGLES OR THE LIKE, AND PARTS THEREOF
90 04: SPECTACLES, GOGGLES AND THE LIKE, CORRECTIVE,PROTECTIVE OR OTHER.
90 05: INSTRUMENTS FOR RADIO-ASTRONOMY.
90 06: PHOTOGRAHIC (OTHER THAN CINEMATOGRAHIC) CAMERAS; PHOTOGRAPHIC FLASHLIGHT
90 07: CINEMATOGRAPHIC CAMERAS AND PROJECTORS, WHETHER OR NOT INCORPORTING
90 08: IMAGE PROJECTORS, OTHER THAN CINEMATOGRAPHIC; PHOTOGRAPHIC (OTHER THAN
90 10: NEGATOSCOPES; PROJECTION SCREENS.
90 11: COMPOUND OPTICAL MICROSCOPES, INCLUDING THOSE FOR PHOTOMICROGRAPHY
90 12: MICROSCOPES OTHER THAN OPTICAL MICROSCOPES; DIFFRACTION APPARATUS
90 13: OPTICAL APPLIANCES AND INSTRUMENTS, NOT SPECIFIED OR INCLUDED ELSEWHERE
90 14: DIRECTION FINDING COMPASSES; OTHER NAVIGATIONAL INSTRUMENTS AND APPLIANCES
90 15: AND APPLIANCES, EXCLUDING COMPASSES; RANGEFINDERS.
90 16: BALANCES OF A SENSITIVITY OF 5 CG OR BETTER, WITH OR WITHOUT WEIGHTS.
90 17: SPECIFIED OR INCLUDED ELSEHWERE IN THIS CHAPTER.
90 18: APPARATUS AND SIGHT-TESTING INSTRUMENTS.
90 19: ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION OR OTHER THERAPEUTIC RESPIRATION APPARATUS.
90 20: OTHER BREATHING APPLIANCES AND GAS MASKS, EXCLUDING PROTECTIVE MASKS
90 21: HEARING AIDS AND OTHER APPLIANCES WHICH ARE WORN OR CARRIED OR IMPLANTED
90 22: USES, INCLUDING RADIOGRAPHY OR RADIOTHERAPHY APPARATUS, X-RAY TUBES AND
90 23: INSTRUMENTS, APPARATUS AND MODELS, DESIGNED FOR DEMONSTRATIONAL PURPOSES
90 24: MACHINES AND APPLIANCES FOR TESTING THE HARDNESS, STRENGTH,
90 25: HYDROMETERS AND SIMILAR FLOATING INSTRUMENTS, THERMOMETRES, PROMETERS,
90 26: LEVEL GAUGES, MANOMETERS, HEAT METERS). EXCLUDING INSTRUMENTS AND
90 27: MEASURING OR CHECKING QUANTITIES OF HEAT, SOUND OR LIGHT (INCLUDING
90 28: GAS, LIQUID OR ELECTRICITY SUPPLY OR PRODUCTION METERS, INCLUDING
90 29: REVOLUTION COUNTERS, PRODUCTION COUNTERS, TAXIMETERS, MILOMETERS, PEDOMETERS AND THE
90 30: HEADING 90.28; INSTRUMENTS AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING OR DECTECTING
90 31: MEASURING OR CHECKING INSTRUMENTS, APPLIANCES AND MACHINES,
90 32: AUTOMATIC REGULATING OR CONTROLLING INSTRUMENTS AND APPARATUS.
90 33: PARTS AND ACESSORIES (NOT SPECIFIED OR INCLUDED ELSEWHERE IN THIS

Chapter notes

CHAPTER 90 OPTICAL, PHOTOGRAPHIC, CINEMATOGRAPHIC, MEASURING, CHECKING, PRECISION, MEDICAL OR SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS AND APPARATUS; PARTS AND ACCESSORIES THEREOF 1. This Chapter does not cover: (a) Articles of a kind used in machines, appliances or for other technical uses, of vulcanised rubber other than hard rubber (heading 40.16), of leather or of composition leather (heading 4205.00) or of textile material (heading 59.11) (b) Supporting belts or other support articles of textile material, whose intended effect on the organ to be supported or held derives solely from their elasticity (for example, maternity belts, thoracic support bandages, abdominal support bandages, supports for joints or muscles) (Section XI); (c) Refractory goods of heading 69.03; ceramic wares for laboratory, chemical or other technical uses, of heading 69.09; (d) Glass mirrors, not optically worked, of heading 70.09, or mirrors of base metal or of precious metal, not being optical elements (heading 83.06 or Chapter 71); (e) Goods of heading 70.07, 7008.00.00, 70.11, 7014.00, 70.15 or 70.17; (f) Parts of general use, as defined in Note 2 to Section XV, of base metal (Section XV) or similar goods of plastics (Chapter 39); (g) Pumps incorporating measuring devices, of heading 84.13; weight-operated counting or checking machinery, or separately presented weights for balances (heading 84.23); lifting or handling machinery (headings 84.25 to 84.28); paper or paperboard cutting machines of all kinds (heading 84.41); fittings for adjusting work or tools on machine tools, of heading 84.66, including fittings with optical devices for reading the scale (for example, "optical" dividing heads) but not those which are in themselves essentially optical instruments (for example, alignment telescopes); calculating machines (heading 84.70); valves or other appliances of heading 84.81; machines and apparatus (including apparatus for the projection or drawing of circuit patterns on sensitized semiconductor materials) of heading 84.86; (h) Searchlights or spotlights of a kind used for cycles or motor vehicles (heading 85.12); portable electric lamps of heading 85.13; cinematographic sound recording, reproducing or re-recording apparatus (heading 85.19 ); sound heads (heading 85.22); television cameras, digital cameras and video camera recorders (heading 85.25); radar apparatus, radio navigational aid apparatus or radio remote control apparatus (heading 85.26); connectors for optical fibres, optical fibre bundles or cables (85.36); numerical control apparatus of heading 85.37; sealed beam lamp units of heading 85.39; optical fibre cables of heading 85.44; (ij) Searchlights or spotlights of heading 94.05; (k) Articles of Chapter 95; (l) Capacity measures, which are to be classified according to their constituent material; or (m) Spools, reels or similar supports (which are to be classified according to their constituent material, for example, in heading 39.23 or Section XV). 2. Subject to Note 1 above, parts and accessories for machines, apparatus, instruments or articles of this Chapter are to be classified according to the following rules: (a) Parts and accessories which are goods included in any of the headings of this Chap