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		TARIC   Section XVIII - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; clocks and watches; musical instruments; parts and accessories thereof Chapter 90 - OPTICAL, PHOTOGRAPHIC, CINEMATOGRAPHIC, MEASURING, CHECKING, PRECISION, MEDICAL OR SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS AND APPARATUS; PARTS AND ACCESSORIES THEREOF Simulation date 24/07/2006 TARIC code   Description   Footnote   9001   Optical fibres and optical fibre bundles; optical fibre cables other than those of heading 8544; sheets and plates of polarising material; lenses (including contact lenses), prisms, mirrors and other optical elements, of any material, unmounted, other than such elements of glass not optically worked - 9002   Lenses, prisms, mirrors and other optical elements, of any material, mounted, being parts of 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 thereof - 9004   Spectacles, goggles and the like, corrective, protective or other - 9005   Binoculars, monoculars, other optical telescopes, and mountings therefor; other astronomical instruments and mountings therefor, but not including instruments for radio-astronomy - 9006   Photographic (other than cinematographic) cameras; photographic flashlight apparatus and flashbulbs other than discharge lamps of heading 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 - 9009   Photocopying apparatus incorporating an optical system or of the contact type and thermo-copying apparatus - 9010   Apparatus and equipment for photographic (including cinematographic) laboratories (including apparatus for the projection of drawing of circuit patterns on sensitised semi-conductor materials), not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter; negatoscopes; projection screens - 9011   Compound optical microscopes, including those for photomicrography, cinephotomicrography or microprojection - 9012   Microscopes other than optical microscopes; diffraction apparatus - 9013   Liquid crystal devices not constituting articles provided for more specifically in other headings; lasers, other than laser diodes; other optical appliances and instruments, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter - 9014   Direction finding compasses; other navigational instruments and appliances - 9015   Surveying (including photogrammetrical surveying), hydrographic, oceanographic, hydrological, meteorological or geophysical instruments and appliances, excluding compasses; rangefinders - 9016   Balances of a sensitivity of 5 cg or better, with or without weights - 9017   Drawing, marking-out or mathematical calculating instruments (for example, drafting machines, pantographs, protractors, drawing sets, slide rules, disc calculators); instruments for measuring length, for use in the hand (for example, measuring rods and tapes, micrometers, callipers), not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter - 9018   Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other electro-medical apparatus and sight-testing instruments - - 9018 11   - Electro-diagnostic apparatus (including apparatus for functional exploratory examination or for checking physiological parameters) - - 9018 20   - Ultraviolet or infra-red ray apparatus - - 9018 31   - Syringes, needles, catheters, cannulae and the like - - 9018 41   - Other instruments and appliances, used in dental sciences - - 9018 50   - Other ophthalmic instruments and appliances - - 9018 90   - Other instruments and appliances - 9019   Mechano-therapy appliances; massage apparatus; psychological aptitude-testing apparatus; ozone therapy, oxygen therapy, aerosol therapy, artificial respiration or other therapeutic respiration apparatus - 9020   Other breathing appliances and gas masks, excluding protective masks having neither mechanical parts nor replaceable filters - 9021   Orthopaedic appliances, including crutches, surgical belts and trusses; splints and other fracture appliances; artificial parts of the body; hearing aids and other appliances which are worn or carried, or implanted in the body, to compensate for a defect or disability - 9022   Apparatus based on the use of X-rays or of alpha, beta or gamma radiations, whether or not for medical, surgical, dental or veterinary uses, including radiography or radiotherapy apparatus, X-ray tubes and other 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 (for example, in education or exhibitions), unsuitable for other uses - 9024   Machines and appliances for testing the hardness, strength, compressibility, elasticity or other mechanical properties of materials (for example, metals, wood, textiles, paper, plastics) - 9025   Hydrometers and similar floating instruments, thermometers, pyrometers, barometers, hygrometers and psychrometers, recording or not, and any combination of these instruments - 9026   Instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking the flow, level, pressure or other variables of liquids or gases (for example, flow meters, level gauges, manometers, heat meters), excluding instruments and apparatus of heading 9014, 9015, 9028 or 9032 - 9027   Instruments and apparatus for physical or chemical analysis (for example, polarimeters, refractometers, spectrometers, gas or smoke analysis apparatus); instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking viscosity, porosity, expansion, surface tension or the like; instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking quantities of heat, sound or light (including exposure meters); microtomes - 9028   Gas, liquid or electricity supply or production meters, including calibrating meters therefor - 9029   Revolution counters, production counters, taximeters, mileometers, pedometers and the like; speed indicators and tachometers, other than those of heading 9014 or 9015; stroboscopes - 9030   Oscilloscopes, spectrum analysers and other instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking electrical quantities, excluding meters of heading 9028; instruments and apparatus for measuring or detecting alpha, beta, gamma, X-ray, cosmic or other ionising radiations - 9031   Measuring or checking instruments, appliances and machines, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter; profile projectors - 9032   Automatic regulating or controlling instruments and apparatus - 9033   Parts and accessories (not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter) for machines, appliances, instruments or apparatus of Chapter 90 -

TO UTILIZE THE TARIC DATABASE - DOUBLE CLICK ON THE BASE NUMBER 9018 OR 9018.11 & FOLLOW THE PROMPTS TO OBTAIN THE DUTIES AND FEES.

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