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HS 2022 · Chapter 90

Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories

Chapter 90 of the Harmonized System covers optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories. It holds 143 six-digit codes across 32 headings. Pick a code below for its duty rate and detail, or describe your product to find the right one.

9001 Optical fibres and optical fibre bundles; optical fibre cables not of heading no. 8544; sheets, plates of polarising material; lenses, prisms, mirrors, of any material; unmounted; not non optical glass

9002 Lenses, prisms, mirrors and other optical elements, of any material, mounted, being parts 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

9004 Spectacles, goggles and the like; corrective, protective or other

9005 Binoculars, monoculars, other optical telescopes, mountings therefore; other astronomical instruments, mountings therefore, but not including instruments for radio-astronomy

9006 Cameras, photographic (excluding cinematographic); photographic flashlight apparatus and flashbulbs other than discharge lamps of heading no. 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

9010 Photographic (including cinematographic) laboratory apparatus and equipment, n.e.c. in chapter 90; negatoscopes; projection screens

9011 Microscopes, compound optical; including those for photomicrography, cinephotomicrography or microprojection

9012 Microscopes (excluding optical microscopes); diffraction apparatus

9013 Lasers, other than laser diodes; other optical appliances and instruments n.e.c. in this chapter

9014 Navigational instruments and appliances; direction finding compasses

9015 Surveying (including photogrammetrical surveying), hydrographic, oceanographic, hydrological, meteorological or geophysical instruments and appliances, excluding compasses, rangefinders

9016 Balances; of a sensitivity of 5cg or better, with or without weights

9017 Drawing, marking-out, mathematical calculating instruments (drafting machines, protractors, drawing sets etc); instruments for measuring length (e.g. measuring rods, tapes, micrometers, callipers) n.e.c.

9018 Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other electro-medical apparatus and sight testing instruments

9019 Mechano-therapy, massage appliances; psychological aptitude testing apparatus; ozone, oxygen, aerosol therapy, artificial respiration or other therapeutic respiration apparatus

9020 Breathing appliances and gas masks; excluding protective masks having neither mechanical parts nor replaceable filters and excluding apparatus of item no. 9019.20

9021 Orthopaedic appliances; including crutches, surgical belts and trusses; splints and other fracture appliances; artificial parts of the body; hearing aids and other which are worn, 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, gamma or other ionising 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 tens

9023 Instruments, apparatus and models, designed for demonstrational purposes (in education or exhibitions), unsuitable for other uses

9024 Machines and appliances for testing the hardness, strength, compressibility, elasticity of other mechanical properties of materials (e.g. metals, wood, textiles, paper, plastics)

9025 Hydrometers and similar floating instruments, thermometers, pyrometers, barometers, hygrometers and psychrometers, recording or not

9026 Instruments, apparatus for measuring or checking the flow, level, pressure of liquids, gases (e.g. flow meters, heat meters etc), not instruments and apparatus of heading no. 9014, 9015, 9028 or 9032

9027 Instruments and apparatus; for physical or chemical analysis (e.g. polarimeters, spectrometers), for measuring or checking viscosity, porosity, etc, for measuring quantities of heat, sound or light

9028 Gas, liquid or electricity supply or production meters, including calibrating meters therefor

9029 Revolution counter, production counters, taximeters, mileometers, pedometers and the like, speed indicators and tachometers, other than those of heading no. 9015, stroboscopes

9030 Instruments, apparatus for measuring, checking electrical quantities not meters of heading no. 9028; instruments, apparatus for measuring or detecting alpha, beta, gamma, x-ray, cosmic and other radiations

9031 Measuring or checking instruments, appliances and machines, n.e.c. or included in this chapter; profile projectors

9032 Regulating or controlling instruments and apparatus; automatic type

9033 Machines and appliances, instruments or apparatus of chapter 90; parts and accessories n.e.c. in chapter 90

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