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Harmonized System of Explanatory Notes
The World Customs Organization (WCO) has issued an amending supplement (No. 5, dated February 2004) to the Harmonized System (HS) Explanatory Notes (ENs). (Although not binding by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the ENs are followed by CBP whenever possible.)
(This is Part X of a multi-part series of summaries on this amending supplement. See future issues of ITT for additional summaries.)
The following are short summaries of the amendments made to the ENs by this latest amending supplement:
1. Other Machinery for Making Paper Pulp, Paper or Paperboard, Including Cutting Machines of All Kinds Under HS 84.41
On pages 1500 and 1501, some of the items on the list of items included in HS 84.41 have been reordered as follows: item (6) is now item (2); item (7) is now item (3); item (10) is now item (4); item (11) is now item (6); item (12) is now item (7); item (13) is now item (8); item (14) is now item (9); item (15) is now item (10); item (16) is now item (11); item (2) is now item (12); item (3) is now item (13); item (4) is now item (14); item (8) is now item (15); item (9) is now item (16).
In addition, on page 1501, in the list of items excluded from HS 84.41 has been revised by removing the current items (c), (d), (f), and (h). As a result of these deletions, item (e) is now item (c); item (g) is now item (d); item (ij) is now item (e); and item (k) is now item (f).
2. Machinery, Apparatus and Equipment (Other than the Machine-Tools of HS 84.56 to 84.65), for Type-Founding or Type-Setting, Etc. in HS 84.42
On page 1505, the third paragraph from the bottom of the page has been expanded by adding a new final sentence, which states: "The heading also includes composing machines using a laser beam projected onto photographic film."
In addition on page 1506, the list of examples of items excluded from HS 84.56 has been revised to read:
"(a) vertical or horizontal process cameras mounted on a hanging frame (bed) or a sliding bed, cameras for three colour printing;
(b) photographic enlargers and reducers, reproduction apparatus and printing frames;
(c) light tables used for planning layouts or for contact printing.
Some of these apparatus use half-tone or similar finely cross-lined glass or plastics screens, glass or plastics colour filters for colour printing or screen or filter holders."
(This list of examples had previously read:
(a) Apparatus used for photographic reproduction of drawings, texts, etc. e.g. vertical or horizontal process cameras; enlarging or reducing apparatus; light tables for planning layouts or for contact printing; half tone or similar screens of glass or plastics finely marked with a close series of lines intersecting at right angles; colour screens, and frames for such screens.
(b) Apparatus which photographs blocks of type previously set by hand or by machine (including separately presented supplementary photographic devices which convert a normal lead casting type-setting and composing machines into a machine which operates by photographing the matrices as they are set).)
3. Printing Machinery Used for Printing by Means of the Printing Type, Blocks, Plates, Cylinders, and other Printing Components, Etc. Under HS 84.43
On page 1508, two of the four main categories under heading "(I) Printing Machinery" have been revised as follows:
Item "(A) Printing Presses" has been revised by making paragraph "(1) Ordinary presses" the only paragraph under Item (A) and deleting paragraph "(2) platen presses."
Item "(C) Rotary presses" has been revised to read as follows:
In their simplest form, these presses usually consist of a cylinder with two semi-cylindrical pates (letter press), or of cylinders which may be either engraved (gravure printing) or impressed (offset printing); rotary presses for colour-printing are equipped with several printing cylinders, their inking rollers being placed side by side. Since all the printing, pressing and inking mechanisms are rotary, these presses can be used for both continuous printing and sheet by sheet printing, in black or in colour, on single sides or on both sides of the paper. Rotary presses can be divided into two sub-categories:
(1.) Reel-fed presses, in which some large rotary presses combine several printing units on a single frame, and which enable all the pages of a newspaper or periodical to be printed in one sequence of operations, so that, in the final result, all the pages are delivered, cut, folded, assembled, stapled, and stacked by various ancillary machines working in conjunction with the printing machine.
(2.) Sheet-fed presses, in which the sheets are transported through the printing units by grippers. Sheet-fed presses have a feeder, one or more printing units, and a delivery mechanism. In the feeder the sheets are taken from a pile, aligned, and forwarded to the printing unit. In the delivery mechanism the printed sheets are collected in a pile."
(Item "(C) Rotary presses" previously read: "Here the bed itself is replaced by a cylinder with two semi-cylindrical plates (typographical), or by cylinders which may be either engraved (photogravure or rotogravure) or impressed (offset printing); rotary presses for colour-printing are equipped with several printing cylinders, their inking rollers being placed side by side. Since all the printing, pressing and inking mechanisms are rotary, these presses can be used for both sheet by sheet printing and continuous printing, in black or in colour, on both sides of paper fed by reels. Some large rotary presses which combine several printing units on a single frame, enable all the pages of a newspaper or periodical to be printed in one sequence of operations, so that, in the final result, all the pages are delivered, cut, folded, assembled, stapled, and stacked by various ancillary machines working in conjunction with the printing machine.")
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