Customs - Tariff Book
Notes
1.
This Chapter does not cover the following:
(a)
goods of Chapter 36 (for example, percussion caps, detonators, signalling flares);
(b)
part of general use, as defined in Note 2 to Section XV, of base metal (Section XV), or similar goods of plastics (Chapter 39);
(c)
armoured fighting vehicles (heading 87.10);
(d)
telescopic sights or other optical devices suitable for use with arms, unless mounted on a firearm or presented with the firearm on which they are designed to be mounted (Chapter 90);
(e)
bows, arrows, fencing foils or toys (Chapter 95); or
(f)
collectors' pieces or antiques (heading 97.05 or 97.06).
2.
In heading 93.06, the reference to "parts thereof" does not include radio or radar apparatus of heading 85.26.
| Heading | Description | General |
|---|---|---|
| 93.01 | Military weapons (excluding revolvers, pistols and the arms of heading 93.07): | |
| 9301.10 | Artillery weapons (for example, guns, howitzers and mortars) | 15% |
| 9301.20 | Rocket launchers; flame-throwers; grenade launchers; torpedo tubes and similar projectors | 15% |
| 9301.90.22 | Semi-automatic | 15% |
| 9301.90.21 | Bolt action | 15% |
| 9301.90.10 | Fully automatic shotguns | 15% |
| 9301.90.23 | Fully automatic | 15% |
| 9301.90.24 | Other | 15% |
| 9301.90.30 | Machine-guns | 15% |
| 9301.90.41 | Fully automatic pistols | 15% |
| 9301.90.42 | Other | 15% |
| 9301.90.2 | Rifles: | |
| 9301.90.4 | Sub-machine-guns: | |
| 9301.90 | Other: | |
| 9302.00.39 | Other | 15% |
| 9302.00.31 | Target shooting pistols of 5,6 mm calibre | 15% |
| 9302.00.29 | Other | 15% |
| 9302.00.25 | Other, semi-automatic | 15% |
| 9302.00.23 | Target shooting pistols of 5,6 mm calibre | 15% |
| 9302.00.10 | Revolvers | 15% |
| 9302.00 | Revolvers and pistols (excluding those of heading 93.03 or 93.04): | |
| 9302.00.3 | Pistols, multiple barrel: | |
| 9302.00.2 | Pistols, single barrel: | |
| 93.03 | Other firearms and similar devices which operate by the firing of an explosive charge (for example, sporting shotguns and rifles, muzzle-loading firearms, very pistols and other devices designed to project only signal flares, pistols and revolvers for firing blank ammunition, captive-bolt humane killers, line-throwing guns): | |
| 9303.10 | Muzzle-loading firearms | 15% |
| 9303.20 | Other sporting, hunting or target-shooting shotguns, including combination shotgun-rifles: | |
| 9303.20.13 | Other | 15% |
| 9303.20.1 | Shotguns, single barrel: | |
| 9303.20.20 | Shotguns, multiple barrel, including combination guns | 15% |
| 9303.20.11 | Pump-action | 15% |
| 9303.20.12 | Semi-automatic | 15% |
| 9303.30.20 | Semi-automatic | 15% |
| 9303.30.10 | Single-shot | 15% |
| 9303.30 | Other sporting, hunting or target-shooting rifles: | |
| 9303.30.90 | Other | 15% |
| 9303.90.25 | Captive-bolt humane killers or stunners and line-throwing guns; anti- hail devices | free |
| 9303.90 | Other: | |
| 9303.90.90 | Other | 15% |
| 9304.00.20 | Other spring, air or gas guns or pistols | free |
| 9304.00.10 | Spring, air or gas-powered guns or pistols, designed to project a missile suitable for the injection of animals | free |
| 9304.00 | Other arms (for example, spring, air or gas guns and pistols, truncheons) (excluding those of heading 93.07): | |
| 9304.00.90 | Other | 15% |
| 93.05 | Parts and accessories of articles of headings 93.01 to 93.04: | |
| 9305.10.10 | Firing mechanisms | 15% |
| 9305.10 | Of revolvers or pistols: | |
| 9305.10.20 | Frames and receivers | 15% |
| 9305.10.30 | Barrels | 15% |
| 9305.10.40 | Pistons, locking lugs and gas buffers | 15% |
| 9305.10.90 | Other | 15% |
| 9305.10.50 | Magazines and parts thereof | 15% |
| 9305.10.60 | Silencers (sound moderators) and parts thereof | 15% |
| 9305.10.70 | Butts, grips and plates | 15% |
| 9305.10.80 | Slides (for pistols) and cylinders (for revolvers) | 15% |
| 9305.20.05 | Shotgun barrels | 15% |
| 9305.20 | Of shotguns or rifles of heading 93.03: | |
| 9305.20.45 | Breeches, bolts (gunlocks) and bolt carriers | 15% |
| 9305.20.40 | Flash eliminators and parts thereof | 15% |
| 9305.20.35 | Silencers (sound moderators) and parts thereof | 15% |
| 9305.20.30 | Magazines and parts thereof | 15% |
| 9305.20.25 | Pistons, locking lugs and gas buffers | 15% |
| 9305.20.20 | Rifle barrels | 15% |
| 9305.20.15 | Frames and receivers | 15% |
| 9305.20.10 | Firing mechanisms | 15% |
| 9305.20.90 | Other | 15% |
| 9305.9 | Other: | |
| 9305.91.18 | Breeches, bolts (gunlocks) and bolt carriers | 15% |
| 9305.91.11 | Firing mechanisms | 15% |
| 9305.91.1 | Of machine-guns, sub-machine-guns, shotguns or rifles: | |
| 9305.91 | Of military weapons of heading 93.01: | |
| 9305.91.15 | Magazines and parts thereof | 15% |
| 9305.91.16 | Silencers (sound moderators) and parts thereof | 15% |
| 9305.91.12 | Frames and receivers | 15% |
| 9305.91.13 | Barrels | 15% |
| 9305.91.17 | Flash eliminators and parts thereof | 15% |
| 9305.91.14 | Pistons, locking lugs and gas buffers | 15% |
| 9305.91.90 | Other | 15% |
| 9305.99.10 | Parts of spring, air or gas guns and pistols | free |
| 9305.99 | Other: | |
| 93.06 | Bombs, grenades, torpedoes, mines, missiles, and similar munitions of war and parts thereof; cartridges and other ammunition and projectiles and parts thereof, including shot and cartridge wads: | |
| 9305.99.90 | Other | 15% |
| 9306.2 | Shotgun cartridges and parts thereof; air gun pellets: | |
| 9306.21 | Cartridges | free |
| 9306.29 | Other | 15% |
| 9306.30 | Other cartridges and parts thereof: | |
| 9306.30.10 | For riveting tools with a calibre not exceeding 6,35 mm, rimfire type | free |
| 9306.30.20 | For captive-bolt humane killers or stunners | free |
| 9306.30.90 | Other | 15% |
| 9306.90 | Other | 15% |
| 9307.00 | Swords, cutlasses, bayonets, lances and similar arms and parts thereof and scabbards and sheaths therefor | 15% |
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