EU tariff chapter 91

CLOCKS AND WATCHES AND PARTS THEREOF. 14 headings and 51 eight-digit codes, with conventional duty rates from 2.7 per cent to 6 per cent; 4 lines carry a specific rate.

Notes

1. This chapter does not cover:

(a) clock or watch glasses or weights (classified according to their constituent material);

(b) watch chains (heading 7113 or 7117, as the case may be);

(c) parts of general use defined in note 2 to Section XV, of base metal (Section XV), or similar goods of plastics (Chapter 39) or of precious metal or metal clad with precious metal (generally heading 7115); clock or watch springs are, however, to be classified as clock or watch parts (heading 9114);

(d) bearing balls (heading 7326 or 8482, as the case may be);

(e) articles of heading 8412 constructed to work without an escapement;

(f) ball bearings (heading 8482); or

(g) articles of Chapter 85, not yet assembled together or with other components into watch or clock movements or into articles suitable for use solely or principally as parts of such movements (Chapter 85).

2. Heading 9101 covers only watches with case wholly of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal, or of the same materials combined with natural or cultured pearls, or precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed) of headings 7101 to 7104. Watches with case of base metal inlaid with precious metal fall in heading 9102.

3. For the purposes of this chapter, the expression ‘watch movements’ means devices regulated by a balance-wheel and hairspring, quartz crystal or any other system capable of determining intervals of time, with a display or a system to which a mechanical display can be incorporated. Such watch movements shall not exceed 12 mm in thickness and 50 mm in width, length or diameter.

4. Except as provided in note 1, movements and other parts suitable for use both in clocks or watches and in other articles (for example, precision instruments) are to be classified in this chapter.

Headings and duty rates

Heading 9101

Wristwatches, pocket-watches and other watches, including stopwatches, with case of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal:

CN codeDescriptionConventional dutySupplementary unit
Wristwatches, electrically operated, whether or not incorporating a stopwatch facility:
9101 11 00With mechanical display only4.5 %p/st
9101 19 00Other4.5 %p/st
Other wristwatches, whether or not incorporating a stopwatch facility:
9101 21 00With automatic winding4.5 %p/st
9101 29 00Other4.5 %p/st
Other:
9101 91 00Electrically operated4.5 %p/st
9101 99 00Other4.5 %p/st

Heading 9102

Wristwatches, pocket-watches and other watches, including stopwatches, other than those of heading 9101:

CN codeDescriptionConventional dutySupplementary unit
Wristwatches, electrically operated, whether or not incorporating a stopwatch facility:
9102 11 00With mechanical display only4.5 %p/st
9102 12 00With opto-electronic display only4.5 %p/st
9102 19 00Other4.5 %p/st
Other wristwatches, whether or not incorporating a stopwatch facility:
9102 21 00With automatic winding4.5 %p/st
9102 29 00Other4.5 %p/st
Other:
9102 91 00Electrically operated4.5 %p/st
9102 99 00Other4.5 %p/st

Heading 9103

Clocks with watch movements, excluding clocks of heading 9104:

CN codeDescriptionConventional dutySupplementary unit
9103 10 00Electrically operated4.7 %p/st
9103 90 00Other4.7 %p/st

Heading 9104 00 00

CN codeDescriptionConventional dutySupplementary unit
9104 00 00Instrument panel clocks and clocks of a similar type for vehicles, aircraft, spacecraft or vessels3.7 %p/st

Heading 9105

Other clocks:

CN codeDescriptionConventional dutySupplementary unit
Alarm clocks:
9105 11 00Electrically operated4.7 %p/st
9105 19 00Other3.7 %p/st
Wall clocks:
9105 21 00Electrically operated4.7 %p/st
9105 29 00Other3.7 %p/st
Other:
9105 91 00Electrically operated4.7 %p/st
9105 99 00Other3.7 %p/st

Heading 9106

Time of day recording apparatus and apparatus for measuring, recording or otherwise indicating intervals of time, with clock or watch movement or with synchronous motor (for example, time-registers, time-recorders):

CN codeDescriptionConventional dutySupplementary unit
9106 10 00Time-registers; time-recorders4.7 %p/st
9106 90 00Other4.7 %p/st

Heading 9107 00 00

CN codeDescriptionConventional dutySupplementary unit
9107 00 00Time switches, with clock or watch movement or with synchronous motor4.7 %p/st

Heading 9108

Watch movements, complete and assembled:

CN codeDescriptionConventional dutySupplementary unit
Electrically operated:
9108 11 00With mechanical display only or with a device to which a mechanical display can be incorporated4.7 %p/st
9108 12 00With opto-electronic display only4.7 %p/st
9108 19 00Other4.7 %p/st
9108 20 00With automatic winding5 %p/st
9108 90 00Other5 %p/st

Heading 9109

Clock movements, complete and assembled:

CN codeDescriptionConventional dutySupplementary unit
9109 10 00Electrically operated4.7 %p/st
9109 90 00Other4.7 %p/st

Heading 9110

Complete watch or clock movements, unassembled or partly assembled (movement sets); incomplete watch or clock movements, assembled; rough watch or clock movements:

CN codeDescriptionConventional dutySupplementary unit
Of watches:
9110 11Complete movements, unassembled or partly assembled (movement sets):
9110 11 10With balance wheel and hairspring5 %p/st
9110 11 90Other4.7 %p/st
9110 12 00Incomplete movements, assembled3.7 %
9110 19 00Rough movements4.7 %
9110 90 00Other3.7 %

Heading 9111

Watch cases and parts thereof:

CN codeDescriptionConventional dutySupplementary unit
9111 10 00Cases of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal0,5 € p/st MIN 2,7 MAX 4,6p/st
9111 20 00Cases of base metal, whether or not gold- or silver-plated0,5 € p/st MIN 2,7 MAX 4,6p/st
9111 80 00Other cases0,5 € p/st MIN 2,7 MAX 4,6p/st
9111 90 00Parts(194)0,5 € p/st MIN 2,7 MAX 4,6
  • (194) Upon import into the European Union, the supplementary unit applied for duty purposes is p/st.

Heading 9112

Clock cases and cases of a similar type for other goods of this chapter, and parts thereof:

CN codeDescriptionConventional dutySupplementary unit
9112 20 00Cases2.7 %p/st
9112 90 00Parts2.7 %

Heading 9113

Watch straps, watch bands and watch bracelets, and parts thereof:

CN codeDescriptionConventional dutySupplementary unit
9113 10Of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal:
9113 10 10Of precious metal2.7 %
9113 10 90Of metal clad with precious metal3.7 %
9113 20 00Of base metal, whether or not gold- or silver-plated6 %
9113 90 00Other6 %

Heading 9114

Other clock or watch parts:

CN codeDescriptionConventional dutySupplementary unit
9114 30 00Dials2.7 %
9114 40 00Plates and bridges2.7 %
9114 90Other:
9114 90 10Springs, including hairsprings3.7 %
9114 90 90Other2.7 %

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