HEADING 85.47 - INSULATING FITTINGS FOR ELECTRICAL MACHINES APPLIANCES OREQUIPMENT BEING FITTINGS WHOLLY OF INSULATING MATERIAL APART FROM ANY MINOR COMPONENTS OF METAL (FOR EXAMPLE THREADED SOCKETS) INCORPORATED DURING MOULDING SOLELY FOR PURPOSES OF ASSEMBLY OTHER THAN INSULATORS OF HEADING No. 85.46; ELECTRICAL CONDUIT TUBING AND JOINTS THEREFOR OF BASE METAL LINED WITH INSULATING MATERIAL.

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8547.10 - Insulating fittings of ceramics

8547.20 - Insulating fittings of plastics

8547.90 - Other

(A) INSULATING FITTINGS FOR ELECTRICAL MACHINES  APPLIANCES OR EQUIPMENT BEING FITTINGS WHOLLY  OF INSULATING MATERIAL APART FROM ANY MINOR   COMPONENTS OF METAL (FOR EXAMPLE THREADED SOCKETS)  INCORPORATED DURING MOULDING SOLELY FOR PURPOSES OF  ASSEMBLY OTHER THAN INSULATORS OF HEADING No. 85.46

With the exception of insulators as such (heading 85.46) this group covers all fittings for electrical machinery appliances or apparatus provided :

(i) They are wholly of insulating material or are wholly of insulating material (e.g. plastics) apart from any minor components of metal (screws threaded sockets sleeves etc.) incorporated during moulding solely for purposes of assembly. and(ii) They are designed for insulating purposes even though at the same time they have other functions (e.g. protection). In general the fittings of this group are obtained by moulding or casting or by sawing cutting or otherwise working the raw material. They may be drilled threaded filed grooved etc. They may be made of any insulating material (e.g. glass ceramics steatite hardened rubber plastics resin impregnated paper or paperboard asbestos-cement or mica). These fittings may be in various forms. This group includes inter alia covers bases and other parts of switches circuit breakers etc.; bases and supports for fuses; rings and other parts for lamp-holders; formers for resistors or coils; connection strips and dominoes not fitted with their terminals; cores for bobbins and windings of various inds; sparking plug bodies. The heading does not cover fittings which even though made wholly of insulating material (or made wholly of insulating material apart from any minor components of metal incorporated during moulding solely for the purposes of assembly) have not been specially constructed for insulating purposes such as containers covers and separator plates for accumulators (heading 85.07).

(B) ELECTRICAL CONDUIT TUBING AND JOINTS THEREFOR  OF BASE METAL LINED WITH INSULATING MATERIAL

This group covers the metal tubing used in permanent electrical installations (e.g. house wiring) as insulation and protection for the wires provided it has an interior lining of insulating material. Uninsulated metal tubing often used for the same purpose is excluded (Section XV). The tubing of this group consists either of spiralled metal strip wound on to an interior tube of insulating material or of rigid metal tubing (usually iron or steel) coated or lined  on the inside with insulating material. The insulating material may be special electrically insulating varnish paper or paperboard rubber plastics etc. Metal tubing simply coated with varnish to prevent corrosion is excluded (Section XV). This group also covers joints used for connecting the tubing of this heading provided they are also of base metal and coated or lined with insulating material (e.g. straight joints elbows tee joints and cross-overs). Joints such as tee joints cross-overs etc. fitted with terminals for electrical connections are excluded (heading 85.35 or 85.36).

The heading also excludes tubing wholly of insulating material (e.g. of rubber plastics braided textile yarns or glass fibre yarns); this is classified according to the constituent material unless constituting an insulator of heading 85.46.

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