HEADING 84.72 - OTHER OFFICE MACHINES (FOR EXAMPLE HECTOGRAPH OR STENCIL DUPLICATING MACHINES ADDRESSING MACHINES AUTOMATIC BANKNOTE DISPENSERS COIN-SORTING MACHINES COIN-COUNTING OR WRAPPING MACHINES PENCIL-SHARPENING MACHINES PERFORATING OR STAPLING MACHINES).

106 COMMODITIES8472.10 - Duplicating machines

8472.20 - Addressing machines and address plate embossing machines

8472.30 - Machines for sorting or folding mail or for inserting mail in envelopes or bands machines for opening closing or sealing mail and machines for affixing or cancelling  postage stamps

8472.90 - Other

This heading covers all office machines not covered by the preceding three headings or more specifically by any other heading of the Nomenclature. The term " office machines " is to be taken in a wide general sense to include all machines used in offices shops factories workshops schools railway stations hotels etc. for doing " office work " (i.e. work concerning the writing recording sorting filing etc. of correspondence documents forms records accounts etc.). Office machines are classified here only if they have a base for fixing or for placing on a table desk etc. The heading does not cover the hand tools not having such a base of CHAPTER82.

The machines of this heading may be hand-operated mechanically operated or electrically operated (including electro-magnetic relay or electronic operated machines).

The heading includes inter alia :

(1) Duplicating machines of the hectograph type (e.g. gelatin or spirit duplicators) and stencil duplicating machines which operate with waxed  paper stencils previously cut by a stylus or on a typewriter. The heading includes small presses designed for use with hectographic apparatus.

But it excludes small printing machines (e.g. letterpress lithographic or offset printing machines) even if intended for office use and duplicators using embossed plastic or metal sheets (including such machines which can also operate with stencils) (heading 84.43) and photocopying or thermocopying apparatus and microfilm apparatus (CHAPTER90).

(2) Addressing machines. These rapidly print addresses on invoices letters envelopes etc.; they usually operate by means of a series of small card or metal stencils or embossed metal plates. The heading also covers special machines used for cutting the stencils or embossing the metal plates and machines for selecting certain out of a number of address plates or stencils.

(3) Ticket-issuing machines (other than those incorporating a calculating device (heading 84.70) and coin-operated machines (heading 84.76)). This heading includes small portable machines for punched tickets or which issue and print the ticket from a roll of paper (e.g. as used by bus or tram conductors); it also covers machines for date stamping tickets.

(4) Coin-sorting or coin-counting machines (including banknote counting and paying-out machines). This heading covers such machines whether or not they are fitted with a device for wrapping the coins or banknotes or in some cases for printing the amount on the wrapping.

Coin-counting machines operating by weighing fall in heading 84.23 or heading 90.16.

(5) Automatic banknote dispensers operating in conjunction with an automatic data processing machine whether on-line or off-line.

(6) Pencil-sharpening machines including hand-operated machines.

The heading excludes non-mechanical pencil sharpeners; these fall in heading 82.14 or if they have the character of toys in CHAPTER95.

(7) Punching machines used for punching holes in paper cards or documents (e.g. for loose leaf filing purposes or for simple indexing or sorting).

The heading excludes machines for perforating lines of small holes (as in sheets of postage stamps) (heading 84.41) and card or tape punching machines of heading 84.71.

(8) Machines for perforating paper bands so that they can be used in automatic typewriting machines.

Punching machines used in printing for the typesetting of texts fall in heading 84.42.

(9) Perforated band operated machines which do not themselves contain any typewriting mechanism but constitute separate units used in conjunction with ordinary typewriters for automatic typing. Certain of these machines can select

parts from the perforated band as required for a particular letter or document.

(10) Stapling machines (used to fix documents together with a staple) and de- stapling machines.

But the heading excludes :

(a) Stapling pistols (heading 82.05).

(b) Stapling machines of a kind used in bookbinding (heading 84.40).

(c) Stapling machines of a kind used in cardboard box manufacture (heading 84.41).

(11) Letter folding machines sometimes combined with a device for inserting the letter in an envelope or wrapping it with a paper band.

(12) Letter opening machines and letter closing or sealing machines.

(13) Stamp cancelling machines.

(14) Letter sorting machines used in post offices including those consisting essentially of groups of coding desks pre-sorting channel systems intermediate sorters and final sorters the whole being controlled by an automatic data processing machine and constituting a functional unit within the meaning of Note 4 to Section XVI (see also the General Explanatory Note to

Section XVI).

(15) Machines for delivering wrapping paper or gummed paper.

(16) Machines for moistening gummed paper or stamps (including the simple roller type).

(17) Paper shredders of a kind used in offices for destroying confidential documents.

(18) Cheque-writing machines; these are usually small machines specially designed for the purpose. In addition to typing letter by letter they can often type a whole word or group of words simultaneously (e.g. when inserting in words a sum of money). They usually employ special indelible and penetrating inks and sometimes also perforations or embossing.

(19) Cheque-signing machines; these automatically write in the signature on   cheques in an indelible fashion and usually also reproduce an elaborate background difficult to copy.

The machines referred to in Items (18) and (19) above can be also used for filling in and signing other documents.

PARTS AND ACCESSORIES

Subject to the general provisions regarding the classification of parts (see the General Explanatory Note to Section XVI) parts and accessories of the machines of this heading are classified in heading 84.73.

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This heading also excludes :

(a)Dictating machines and other sound recording or sound reproducing apparatus (heading 85.19 or 85.20).

(b)X-ray apparatus for the examination of banknotes or other documents (heading 90.22).

(c)Time recorders (heading 91.06).

(d)Hand-operated date sealing or similar stamps (heading 96.11).

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