Base metals and articles of base metal. Chapters 78 to 81
cover particular unwrought base metals (lead, zinc, tin and other base metals)
and products of those metals such as bars, rods, wire or sheets, as well as
articles thereof.
Chapters 82 and 83 cover certain specified articles of base
metal which, without regard to the nature of the constituent metal.
In order to classify articles of base metals, one should always check
first if they are covered in chapter 82 or 83, and if not, find the chapter
related to their constituent material.
Machinery and mechanical appliances; electrical
equipment; parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and
sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles.
Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and
mechanical appliances; parts thereof. In general, Chapter 84 covers machinery
and mechanical apparatus and Chapter 85 electrical goods. However, certain
machines are specified in headings of Chapter 85 (e.g., electro-mechanical hand
tools and electro-mechanical domestic appliances) while Chapter 84 on the other
hand covers certain non-mechanical apparatus (e.g., steam generating boilers
and their auxiliary apparatus, and filtering apparatus).
Chapter 85 of Section XVI deals with 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.
Section XVII can be divided into two major
categories: vehicles, aircraft and vessels and associated transport equipment.
The four Chapters of this Section are divided according to their mode of
transport.
Chapter 90 deals with optical, photographic,
cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical
instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof.
This Section covers most vegetable products
that have not undergone processing, or have undergone only limited processing;
these products are arranged in 9 Chapters.
Section I covers, with certain exceptions, all
live animals and products of animal origin which have not undergone any
transformation or have undergone a limited transformation.
Section III contains only one Chapter, Chapter
15. Overall, the contents of Chapter 15 are animal or vegetable fats and oils
and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes.
Section IV generally covers products of animal
or vegetable origin that have been processed to an extent beyond that provided
for in the previous Sections