Classification Challenge solution: This is how you classify car wiring kits for motor vehicles
- Arne Mielken
- Dec 3, 2023
- 4 min read
We challenged you to classify this product. Now we provide you the correct customs classification for this product. Compare your results with the official answer. How did you do?
The UK has classified this product recently. We are going through their answers in detail and providing additional information to help you understand the classification argument.
Description of goods
An article consisting of different insulated electric wires made of copper, bundled together, specially designed for installation of a fixed hands-free, voice-controlled, touchscreen device (referred to as a car kit) in a motor vehicle.
The article includes two fuses and different connectors, including bullet connectors. The exact composition of the article (the number of wires and specific connectors) depends on the specific model of the motor vehicle.
Upon installation, the article interconnects the existing cabling of the car radio system with the car kit (which enables operation of a Bluetooth connected mobile phone).
This allows for the transmission of electric signals from the car kit to the car radio system (also to mute other sounds during phone calls) and provides a power supply.
The classification
HS Code: 8544 30
CN Code (EU): 8544 30 00
The reasons
1. Classification is determined by general rules 1 and 6 for the interpretation of the Combined Nomenclature. These are the General Interpretative Rules
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2. Classification is also determined by wording of CN codes 8544 and 8544 30 00.
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3. The article consists of wires of heading 8544 made up in a set (see also the Harmonised System Explanatory Notes to heading 8544, eighth paragraph, last sentence).
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4. The article is also specially designed for installation in a motor vehicle to create an interconnection between various apparatuses of the motor vehicle and to conduct electricity and electric signals.
The article has therefore the objective characteristics of ‘other wiring sets of a kind used in vehicles’ of CN code 8544 30 00.
Classification under subheading 8544 42 as ‘other electric conductors, for a voltage not exceeding 1 000 V, fitted with connectors’ is consequently excluded.
Conclusion:
The article is therefore to be classified under CN code 8544 30 00 as ‘other wiring sets of a kind used in vehicles, aircraft or ships’.
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