90Chapter
Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories
Section XVIII — Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; clocks and watches; musical instruments; parts and accessories thereof
| Code | Description |
|---|---|
| 90.01 | 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 |
| 90.02 | 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 |
| 90.03 | Frames and mountings; for spectacles, goggles or the like, and parts |
| 90.04 | Spectacles, goggles and the like; corrective, protective or other |
| 90.05 | Binoculars, monoculars, other optical telescopes, mountings therefore; other astronomical instruments, mountings therefore, but not including instruments for radio-astronomy |
| 90.06 | Cameras, photographic (excluding cinematographic); photographic flashlight apparatus and flashbulbs other than discharge lamps of heading no. 8539 |
| 90.07 | Cinematographic cameras and projectors, whether or not incorporating sound recording or reproducing apparatus |
| 90.08 | Image projectors, other than cinematographic; photographic (other than cinematographic) enlargers and reducers |
| 90.10 | Photographic (including cinematographic) laboratory apparatus and equipment, n.e.c. in chapter 90; negatoscopes; projection screens |
| 90.11 | Microscopes, compound optical; including those for photomicrography, cinephotomicrography or microprojection |
| 90.12 | Microscopes (excluding optical microscopes); diffraction apparatus |
| 90.13 | Lasers, other than laser diodes; other optical appliances and instruments n.e.c. in this chapter |
| 90.14 | Navigational instruments and appliances; direction finding compasses |
| 90.15 | Surveying (including photogrammetrical surveying), hydrographic, oceanographic, hydrological, meteorological or geophysical instruments and appliances, excluding compasses, rangefinders |
| 90.16 | Balances; of a sensitivity of 5cg or better, with or without weights |
| 90.17 | 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. |
| 90.18 | Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other electro-medical apparatus and sight testing instruments |
| 90.19 | Mechano-therapy, massage appliances; psychological aptitude testing apparatus; ozone, oxygen, aerosol therapy, artificial respiration or other therapeutic respiration apparatus |
| 90.20 | Breathing appliances and gas masks; excluding protective masks having neither mechanical parts nor replaceable filters and excluding apparatus of item no. 9019.20 |
| 90.21 | 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 |
| 90.22 | 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 |
| 90.23 | Instruments, apparatus and models, designed for demonstrational purposes (in education or exhibitions), unsuitable for other uses |
| 90.24 | Machines and appliances for testing the hardness, strength, compressibility, elasticity of other mechanical properties of materials (e.g. metals, wood, textiles, paper, plastics) |
| 90.25 | Hydrometers and similar floating instruments, thermometers, pyrometers, barometers, hygrometers and psychrometers, recording or not |
| 90.26 | 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 |
| 90.27 | 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 |
| 90.28 | Gas, liquid or electricity supply or production meters, including calibrating meters therefor |
| 90.29 | Revolution counter, production counters, taximeters, mileometers, pedometers and the like, speed indicators and tachometers, other than those of heading no. 9015, stroboscopes |
| 90.30 | 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 |
| 90.31 | Measuring or checking instruments, appliances and machines, n.e.c. or included in this chapter; profile projectors |
| 90.32 | Regulating or controlling instruments and apparatus; automatic type |
| 90.33 | Machines and appliances, instruments or apparatus of chapter 90; parts and accessories n.e.c. in chapter 90 |