Optical, photo, cine, meas, checking, precision, etc

HS v1996 Code: 90

Chapter	Heading	Sub-heading
90	n/a	n/a

Code	90
Version	HS v1996
Hierarchy Level	2
Datasource	WCO

This Code: Optical, photo, cine, meas, checking, precision, etc

Child Codes: Cinematographic cameras and projectors, whether or not incorporating sound recording or reproducing apparatus.; Instruments, apparatus and models, designed for demonstrational purposes (for example, in education or exhibitions), unsuitable for other uses.; Binoculars, monoculars, other optical telescopes, and mountings therefor; other astronomical instruments and mountings therefor, but not including instruments for radio-astronomy.; Instruments + apparatus for measuring or checking the flow,level,pressure or other variables of liquids or gases(e.g.,flow meters,level gauges,manometers,heat meters),excluding instrument+apparatus of heading No.90.14,90.15,90.28,90.32; Photo-copying apparatus incorporating an optical system or of the contact type and thermo-copying apparatus.; Measuring or checking instruments, appliances and machines, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter; profile projectors.; Spectacles, goggles and the like, corrective, protective or other.; 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 t; Apparatus and equipment for photographic (including cinematographic) laboratories (including apparatus for the projection or drawing of circuit patterns on sensitised semiconductor materials), not specified or included elsewhere in this; 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.; Microscopes other than optical microscopes; diffraction apparatus.; Oscilloscopes, spectrum analysers and other instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking electrical quantities, excluding meters of heading No.90.28; instruments and apparatus for measuring or detecting alpha, beta, gamma, X-ray,; 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 compe; Balances of a sensitivity of 5 cg or better, with or without weights.; Direction finding compasses; other navigational instruments and appliances.; Automatic regulating or controlling instruments and apparatus.; Optical fibres and optical fibre bundles; optical fibre cables other than those of heading No.85.44; sheets and plates of polarising material; lenses (including contact lenses), prisms, mirrors and other optical elements, of any materia; 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 Chapt; Parts and accessories (not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter) for machines, appliances, instruments or apparatus of Chapter 90.; Mechano-therapy appliances; massage apparatus; psychological aptitude-testing apparatus; ozone therapy, oxygen therapy, aerosol therapy, artificial respiration or other therapeutic respiration apparatus.; Other breathing appliances and gas masks, excluding protective masks having neither mechanical parts nor replaceable filters.; Frames and mountings for spectacles, goggles or the like, and parts thereof.; Compound optical microscopes, including those for photomicrography, cinephotomicrography or microprojection.; Instruments + apparatus for physical or chemical analysis (e.g., polarimeters, refractometers, spectrometers, gas or smoke analysis apparatus); instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking viscosity, porosity, expansion, surface; Gas, liquid or electricity supply or production meters, including calibrating meters therefor.; Drawing, marking-out or mathematical calculating instruments (e.g., drafting machines, pantographs, protractors, drawing sets, slide rules, disc calculators); instruments for measuring length, for use in the hand (e.g., measuringrods a; Revolution counters, production counters, taximeters, mileometers, pedometers and the like; speed indicators and tachometers, other than those of heading No. 90.14 or 90.15; stroboscopes.; Photographic (other than cinematographic) cameras; photographic flashlight apparatus and flashbulbs other than discharge lamps of heading No. 85.39.; Hydrometers and similar floating instruments, thermometers, pyrometers, barometers, hygrometers and psychrometers, recording or not, and any combination of these instruments.; Image projectors, other than cinematographic; photographic (other than cinematographic) enlargers and reducers.; Machines and appliances for testing the hardness, strength, compressibility, elasticity or other mechanical properties of materials (for example, metals, wood, textiles, paper, plastics).; Surveying (including photogrammetrical surveying), hydrographic, oceanographic, hydrological, meteorological or geophysical instruments and appliances, excluding compasses; rangefinders.; Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other electro-medical apparatus and sight-testing instruments.

Family tree for optical, photo, cine, meas, checking, precision, etc

    graph LR
    A["<a href='/classifications/hs/v1996/90'>90: Optical, photo, cine, meas, checking,  precision, etc</a>"]

    
    A --> B["<a href='/classifications/hs/v1996/9001'>9001: Optical fibres and optical fibre bundles; optical fibre cables other than those of heading No.85.44; sheets and plates of polarising material; lenses (including contact lenses), prisms, mirrors and other optical elements, of any materia</a>"]
A --> C["<a href='/classifications/hs/v1996/9002'>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.</a>"]
A --> D["<a href='/classifications/hs/v1996/9003'>9003: Frames and mountings for spectacles, goggles or the like, and parts thereof.</a>"]
A --> E["<a href='/classifications/hs/v1996/9004'>9004: Spectacles, goggles and the like, corrective, protective or other.</a>"]
A --> F["<a href='/classifications/hs/v1996/9005'>9005: Binoculars, monoculars, other optical telescopes, and mountings therefor; other astronomical instruments and mountings therefor, but not including instruments for radio-astronomy.</a>"]
A --> G["<a href='/classifications/hs/v1996/9006'>9006: Photographic (other than cinematographic) cameras; photographic flashlight apparatus and flashbulbs other than discharge lamps of heading No. 85.39.</a>"]
A --> H["<a href='/classifications/hs/v1996/9007'>9007: Cinematographic cameras and projectors, whether or not incorporating sound recording or reproducing apparatus.</a>"]
A --> I["<a href='/classifications/hs/v1996/9008'>9008: Image projectors, other than cinematographic; photographic (other than cinematographic) enlargers and reducers.</a>"]
A --> J["<a href='/classifications/hs/v1996/9009'>9009: Photo-copying apparatus incorporating an optical system or of the contact type and thermo-copying apparatus.</a>"]
A --> K["<a href='/classifications/hs/v1996/9010'>9010: Apparatus and equipment for photographic (including cinematographic) laboratories (including apparatus for the projection or drawing of circuit patterns on sensitised semiconductor materials), not specified or included elsewhere in this</a>"]
A --> L["<a href='/classifications/hs/v1996/9011'>9011: Compound optical microscopes, including those for photomicrography, cinephotomicrography or microprojection.</a>"]
A --> M["<a href='/classifications/hs/v1996/9012'>9012: Microscopes other than optical microscopes; diffraction apparatus.</a>"]
A --> N["<a href='/classifications/hs/v1996/9013'>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 Chapt</a>"]
A --> O["<a href='/classifications/hs/v1996/9014'>9014: Direction finding compasses; other navigational instruments and appliances.</a>"]
A --> P["<a href='/classifications/hs/v1996/9015'>9015: Surveying (including photogrammetrical surveying), hydrographic, oceanographic, hydrological, meteorological or geophysical instruments and appliances, excluding compasses; rangefinders.</a>"]
A --> Q["<a href='/classifications/hs/v1996/9016'>9016: Balances of a sensitivity of 5 cg or better, with or without weights.</a>"]
A --> R["<a href='/classifications/hs/v1996/9017'>9017: Drawing, marking-out or mathematical calculating instruments (e.g., drafting machines, pantographs, protractors, drawing sets, slide rules, disc calculators); instruments for measuring length, for use in the hand (e.g., measuringrods a</a>"]
A --> S["<a href='/classifications/hs/v1996/9018'>9018: Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other electro-medical apparatus and sight-testing instruments.</a>"]
A --> T["<a href='/classifications/hs/v1996/9019'>9019: Mechano-therapy appliances; massage apparatus; psychological aptitude-testing apparatus; ozone therapy, oxygen therapy, aerosol therapy, artificial respiration or other therapeutic respiration apparatus.</a>"]
A --> U["<a href='/classifications/hs/v1996/9020'>9020: Other breathing appliances and gas masks, excluding protective masks having neither mechanical parts nor replaceable filters.</a>"]
A --> V["<a href='/classifications/hs/v1996/9021'>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 compe</a>"]
A --> W["<a href='/classifications/hs/v1996/9022'>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 t</a>"]
A --> X["<a href='/classifications/hs/v1996/9023'>9023: Instruments, apparatus and models, designed for demonstrational purposes (for example, in education or exhibitions), unsuitable for other uses.</a>"]
A --> Y["<a href='/classifications/hs/v1996/9024'>9024: Machines and appliances for testing the hardness, strength, compressibility, elasticity or other mechanical properties of materials (for example, metals, wood, textiles, paper, plastics).</a>"]
A --> Z["<a href='/classifications/hs/v1996/9025'>9025: Hydrometers and similar floating instruments, thermometers, pyrometers, barometers, hygrometers and psychrometers, recording or not, and any combination of these instruments.</a>"]
A --> BA["<a href='/classifications/hs/v1996/9026'>9026: Instruments + apparatus for measuring or checking the flow,level,pressure or other variables of liquids or gases(e.g.,flow meters,level gauges,manometers,heat meters),excluding instrument+apparatus of heading No.90.14,90.15,90.28,90.32</a>"]
A --> BB["<a href='/classifications/hs/v1996/9027'>9027: Instruments + apparatus for physical or chemical analysis (e.g., polarimeters, refractometers, spectrometers, gas or smoke analysis apparatus); instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking viscosity, porosity, expansion, surface</a>"]
A --> BC["<a href='/classifications/hs/v1996/9028'>9028: Gas, liquid or electricity supply or production meters, including calibrating meters therefor.</a>"]
A --> BD["<a href='/classifications/hs/v1996/9029'>9029: Revolution counters, production counters, taximeters, mileometers, pedometers and the like; speed indicators and tachometers, other than those of heading No. 90.14 or 90.15; stroboscopes.</a>"]
A --> BE["<a href='/classifications/hs/v1996/9030'>9030: Oscilloscopes, spectrum analysers and other instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking electrical quantities, excluding meters of heading No.90.28; instruments and apparatus for measuring or detecting alpha, beta, gamma, X-ray,</a>"]
A --> BF["<a href='/classifications/hs/v1996/9031'>9031: Measuring or checking instruments, appliances and machines, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter; profile projectors.</a>"]
A --> BG["<a href='/classifications/hs/v1996/9032'>9032: Automatic regulating or controlling instruments and apparatus.</a>"]
A --> BH["<a href='/classifications/hs/v1996/9033'>9033: Parts and accessories (not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter) for machines, appliances, instruments or apparatus of Chapter 90.</a>"]


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