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(120) 8523.52.00 Proximity cards and tags (121) 8525.50.10, 8528.71.20 Set top boxes which have a communication function: a microprocessor-based device incorporating a modem for gaining access to the internet, and having a function of interactive information exchange
(122) 8525.80.40 Digital still image video cameras
(123) 8528.42.00 Monitors: display units of automatic data processing machines with a cathode ray tube with a dot screen pitch smaller than 0.4 mm, not capable of receiving and processing television signals or other analogue or digitally processed audio or video signals without assistance of a central processing unit of a computer as defined in this agreement. The agreement does not, therefore, cover televisions, including high definition televisions.
(124) 8528.52, 8528.62.00 Projection type flat panel display units used with automatic data processing machines which can display digital information generated by the central processing unit (125) 8531.20.00 Indicator panels incorporating liquid crystal devices (LCD) or light emitting diodes (LED)
(126) 8531.90.15, 8531.90.75 Parts of apparatus of subheading 8531.20
(127) 8532 Electrical capacitors, fixed, variable or adjustable (pre-set); parts thereof
(128) 8533 Electrical resistors (including theostats and potentiometers), other than heating resistors; parts thereof
(129) 8534 Printed circuits
(130) 8536.50.70 Electronic AC switches consisting of optically coupled input and output circuits (Insulated thyristor AC switches) (131) 8536.50.70 Electronic switches, including temperature protected electronic switches, consisting of a transistor and a logic chip (chip-on-chip technology) for a voltage not exceeding 1000 volts (132) 8536.50.70 Electromechanical snap-action switches for a current not exceeding 11 amps (133) 8536.69.40 Plugs and sockets for co-axial cables and printed circuits
(134) 8536.90.40 Connection and contact elements for wires and cables
(135) 8536.90.40, 9030.82 Wafer probers
(136) 8541 Diodes, transistors and similar semiconductor devices; photosensitive semiconductor devices, including photovoltaic cells whether or not assembled in modules or made up into panels; light-emitting diodes; mounted piezoelectric crystals; parts thereof
(137) 8543.70.87 Electrical machines with translation or dictionary functions (138) 8544.42.20 Other electric conductors, for a voltage not exceeding 80 V, fitted with connectors, of a kind used for telecommunications
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(139) 8544.42.20 Other electric conductors, for a voltage exceeding 80 V but not exceeding 1000 V, fitted with connectors, of a kind used for telecommunications (140) 8544.49.10 Other electric conductors, for a voltage not exceeding 80 V, not fitted with connectors, of a kind used for telecommunication (141) 8544.70.00 Optical fiber cables
(142) 9018 Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other electro-medical apparatus and sight testing instruments; parts and accessories thereof (143) 9019 Mechano-therapy appliances; massage apparatus; psychological aptitude-testing apparatus; ozone therapy, oxygen therapy, aerosol therapy, artificial respiration or other therapeutic respiration apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
(144) 9021 Orthopedic 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; parts and accessories thereof
(145) 9026 Instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking the flow, level, 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; parts and accessories thereof
(146) 9027.20 Chromatographs and electrophoresis instruments
(147) 9027.30 Spectrometers, spectrophotometers and spectrographs using optical radiations (UV, visible, IR)
(148) 9027.50.40, 9027.50.80 Other instruments and apparatus using optical radiations (UV, visible, IR) of heading 9027
(149) 9027.80 Other instruments and apparatus of heading 9027 (other than those of heading 9027.10)
(150) 9027.90.45, 9027.90.54, 9027.90.64, Parts and accessories of products of heading 9027, other than 9027.90.84 for gas or smoke analyst apparatus and microtomes
(151) 9030.40 Instruments and apparatus for measuring and checking, specially designed for telecommunications (for example, cross-talk meters, gain measuring instruments, distortion factor meters, psophometers)
(152) 9031.41.00 Optical stereoscopic microscopes fitted with equipment specifically designed for the handling and transport of semiconductor wafer or reticles (153) 9031.41.00 Photomicrographic microscopes fitted with equipment specifically designed for the handling and transport of semiconductor wafers or reticles
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(154) 9031.90.54 Parts and accessories of optical stereoscopic microscopes fitted with equipment specifically designed for the handling and transport of semiconductor wafers or reticles (155) 9031.90.54 Parts and accessories of photomicrographic microscopes fitted with equipment specifically designed for the handling and transport of semiconductor wafers or reticles (156) 9031.80.40 Electron beam microscopes fitted with equipment specifically designed for the handling and transport of semiconductor wafers or reticles (157) 9030.82 Instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking semiconductor wafers or devices (158) 9030.90.66 Parts and accessories of instruments and apparatus of subheading 9030.82 (159) 9031.90.70 Electron beam microscopes fitted with equipment specifically designed for the handling and transport of semiconductor wafers or reticles
(160) 9030.90.84 Parts of instruments and appliances for measuring or checking semiconductor wafers or devices (161) 9031.41.00, 9031.49.70 Optical instruments and appliances for inspecting semiconductor wafers or devices or for inspecting masks, photomasks or reticles used in manufacturing semiconductor devices (162) 9031.49.70 Optical instruments and appliances for measuring surface particulate contamination on semiconductor wafers (163) 9031.90.54 Parts and accessories of optical instruments and appliances for inspecting semiconductor wafers or devices or for inspecting masks, photomasks or reticles used in manufacturing semiconductor devices (164) 9031.90.54 Parts and accessories of optical instruments and appliances for measuring surface particulate contamination on semiconductor wafers
(n) Interpretation of rules of origin.
(i) Unless otherwise specified, and except for goods whose origin is determined under subdivision (m) of this note, a rule in subdivision (o) of this note that is set out adjacent and is applicable to an 8-digit tariff item shall take precedence over a rule applicable to a 6-digit subheading superior thereto and covering the goods of such tariff item, and a rule set out adjacent and applicable to a subheading shall take precedence over a rule applicable to a 4-digit heading superior thereto and covering the goods of such subheading. For purposes of this subdivision and subdivision (o) of this note, a tariff provision is a “heading” if its article description is not indented; a provision is a “subheading” if no subordinate 8-digit rate lines appear below it.
(ii) References to weight in the rules set forth in subdivision (o) of this note for goods provided for in chapters 1 through 24 of the tariff schedule mean dry weight, unless otherwise specified in the tariff schedule.
(iii) Except as provided herein, a requirement of a change in tariff classification in subdivision (o) of this note applies only to nonoriginating materials except as follows:
(A) agricultural and horticultural goods grown in the territory of a SFTA country shall be treated as originating in the territory of that country even if they are grown from seed, bulbs, rootstock, cuttings, slips or other live parts of plants imported from a country other than a SFTA country; and
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(B) goods of the provisions listed below which are exported from the territory of a SFTA country shall be treated as nonoriginating:
(I) heading 1202, if the goods were not harvested in the territory of a SFTA country;
(II) subheading 2008.11, if any material provided for in heading 1202 used in the production of such goods was not harvested in the territory of a SFTA country; or
(III) subheading 1806.10, if such goods contain 90 percent or more by dry weight of sugar and sugar syrups of subheading 2106.90, if any material provided for in subheading 1701.99 used in the production of such goods is not an originating good.
(iv) A good of chapters 1 through 40, inclusive, shall not be considered to be originating solely by reason of mere dilution with water or another substance that does not materially alter the characteristics of the good.
(v) For purposes of applying this note to goods of chapters 27 through 40, inclusive, of the tariff schedule, a “chemical reaction” is a process (including a biochemical process) which results in a molecule with a new structure by breaking intramolecular bonds and by forming new intramolecular bonds, or by altering the spatial arrangement of atoms in a molecule. The following are not considered to be chemical reactions for purposes of this note:
(A) dissolving in water or other solvents;
(B) the eliminating of solvents including solvent water; or
(C) the addition or elimination of water of crystallization.
A chemical reaction as defined above is considered to result in an originating good for purposes of this note. Notwithstanding any of the change of tariff classification rules of subdivision (o) of this note, this “chemical reaction rule” may be applied to any good classified in chapters 28 through 40, inclusive.
(o) Change in tariff classification rules. [NOTE: Not updated for Pres.Proc. 8771, effective Feb. 3, 2012.]
Chapter 1.
1. A change to headings 0101 through 0106 from any other chapter.
Chapter 2.
1. A change to headings 0201 through 0210 from any other chapter.
Chapter 3.
1. A change to heading 0301 from any other chapter.
2. A change to subheadings 0301.11 through 0301.19 from any other chapter, or the raising of goods of such subheading from fry, including fingerlings.
3. A change to heading 0302 from any other chapter.
4. Producing goods of subheadings 0303.23 through 0303.29 by a combination of 3 or more processes, including freezing, cleaning, gutting, removing of gills, scaling and de-heading.
5. Producing goods of subheading 0303.41 by a combination of 3 or more processes, including freezing, cleaning, gutting, removing of gills, scaling and de-heading.
6. Producing goods of subheading 0303.42 by a combination of 3 or more processes, including freezing, cleaning, gutting, removing of gills, scaling and de-heading.
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6A, (A) A change to Pacific Bluefin tuna of subheading 0303.45 by a combination of 3 or more processes, including freezing, cleaning, gutting, removing of gills, scaling and de-heading; or
(B) A change to any other good of subheading 0303.45 from any other chapter.
7. Producing goods of subheading 0303.49 by a combination of 3 or more processes, including freezing, cleaning, gutting, removing of gills, scaling and de-heading.
7A, Producing goods of subheadings 0303.55 through 0303.59 by a combination of 3 or more process including freezing, cleaning, gutting, removing of gills, scaling and de-heading.
8. A change to subheading 0303.89 from any other chapter, or the raising of goods of such subheading from fry, including fingerlings.
9. A change to headings 0304 through 0308 from any other chapter.
Chapter 4.
1. A change to headings 0401 through 0410 from any other chapter, except from dairy preparations containing over 10 percent by weight of milk solids of subheading 1901.90 and products containing over 10 percent by weight of milk solids of subheading 2106.90.
Chapter 5.
1. A change to headings 0501 through 0511 from any other chapter.
Chapter 6.
1. A change to headings 0601 through 0604 from any other chapter.
Chapter 7.
1. A change to headings 0701 through 0714 from any other chapter.
Chapter 8.
1. A change to headings 0801 through 0814 from any other chapter.
Chapter 9.
1. A change to subheadings 0901.11 through 0901.90 from any other subheading, including another subheading within that group.
2. A change to headings 0902 through 0910 from any other chapter.
3. A change to subheading 0904.12 from any other subheading.
4. A change to subheading 0906.20 from any other subheading.
5. A change to subheading 0910.99 from any other heading.
Chapter 10.
1. A change to headings 1001 through 1008 from any other chapter.
Chapter 11.
1. A change to headings 1101 through 1109 from any other chapter.
Chapter 12.
1. A change to headings 1201 through 1214 from any other chapter.