HEADING 85.23 - PREPARED UNRECORDED MEDIA FOR SOUND RECORDING OR SIMILAR RECORDING OF OTHER PHENOMENA OTHER THAN PRODUCTS OF CHAPTER37.

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- Magnetic tapes :

8523.11 - - Of a width not exceeding 4 mm

8523.12 - - Of a width exceeding 4 mm but not exceeding 6.5 mm

8523.13 - - Of a width exceeding 6.5 mm

8523.20 - Magnetic discs

8523.30 -Cards incorporating a magnetic stripe

8523.90 - Other

The heading includes :

(1) Wax blanks (discs approximately 3 cm thick made of a composition containing waxes stearic acid stearates etc.) on which the original recording is to be made.

(2) Discs generally of plastics paperboard glass or metal etc. coated with a film of lacquer or wax to be impressed with sound.

(3) Strips or films for mechanical sound recording made of plastics (usually polyvinyl acetate or chloride) coated with a special wax.

(4) Media for magnetic recording e.g. discs or cards (of plastics or paper) tapes strips or films (of plastics or metal) or metal wire either capable of being magnetised or so rendered by coating with a lacquer containing dispersions of magnetic powder or by electrolytic deposit of a ferromagnetic coating (e.g. for magnetic wire). These media may also be used for recording phenomena other than sound previously converted into electric impulses such as the light intensity of an image (television signals facsimile transmission) data furnished by measuring apparatus such as recording thermometers or pyrometers (variations of temperature) by electro-diagnosis instruments (heartbeats encephalographs etc.) by radar by spectral analysis apparatus by apparatus for testing metals or other materials or by meteorological instruments. The media may also be used for recording machine tool work programmes data for opening magnetic locks data for machines of headings 84.69 to 84.72 railway signal systems mock enemy attack devices etc.

(5) Unrecorded discs or " blanks " prepared for laser-beam recording. These discs generally made of glass are coated with a layer in which signals representing sounds images or similar phenomena can be recorded by means of a laser beam. These discs are used for the recording of data for automatic data processing machines for the recording of images or to make masters for " compact discs ".Unrecorded media for sound recording or similar recording whether or not presented together with the apparatus for which they are intended or assembled with constituent parts of machines of headings 84.69 to 84.72 (e.g. disc packs) are in all cases to be classified in this heading.

The heading excludes :

(a)Articles intended for use as media for recording sound or other phenomena but not yet prepared as such; these are classified in their respective headings (for example in CHAPTER39 or 48 or Section XV).

(b)Sensitised film for photoelectric recording (heading 37.02).

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