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Customs Tariff Act 1987
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Chapter 86
Railway or tramway locomotives, rolling-stock and parts thereof; railway or tramway track fixtures and fittings and parts thereof; mechanical (including electro-mechanical) traffic signalling equipment of all kinds
Notes
(a) Railway or tramway sleepers of wood or of concrete, or concrete guide-track sections for hovertrains (4406 or 6810);
(b) Railway or tramway track construction material of iron or steel of 7302; or
(c) Electrical signalling, safety or traffic control equipment of 8530.
2.- 8607 applies, inter alia, to:
(a) Axles, wheels, wheel sets (running gear), metal tyres, hoops and hubs and other parts of wheels;
(b) Frames, underframes, bogies and bissel-bogies;
(c) Axle boxes; brake gear;
(d) Buffers for rolling-stock; hooks and other coupling gear and corridor connections;
(e) Coachwork.
3.- Subject to the provisions of Note 1 above, 8608.00.00 applies, inter alia, to:
(a) Assembled track, turntables, platform buffers, loading gauges;
(b) Semaphores, mechanical signal discs, level crossing control gear, signal and point controls, and other mechanical (including electro-mechanical) signalling, safety or traffic control equipment, whether or not fitted for electric lighting, for railways, tramways, roads, inland waterways, parking facilities, port installations or airfields.
| 8601 | RAIL LOCOMOTIVES POWERED FROM AN EXTERNAL SOURCE OF ELECTRICITY OR BY ELECTRIC ACCUMULATORS: | |
| ---------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------- |
| 8601.10.00 | - Powered from an external source of electricity | 20%DC:15% |
| 8601.20.00 | - Powered by electric accumulators | 20%DC:15% |
| 8602 | OTHER RAIL LOCOMOTIVES; LOCOMOTIVE TENDERS: | |
| 8602.10.00 | - Diesel-electric locomotives | 20%DC:15% |
| 8602.90.00 | - Other | 20%DC:15% |
| | SCHEDULE 3—continued | |
| ---------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------- |
| 8603 | SELF-PROPELLED RAILWAY OR TRAMWAY COACHES, VANS AND TRUCKS, OTHER THAN THOSE OF 8604: | |
| 8603.10.00 | - Powered from an external source of electricity | 20%DC:15% |
| 8603.90.00 | - Other | 20%DC:15% |
| 8604.00.00 | RAILWAY OR TRAMWAY MAINTENANCE OR SERVICE VEHICLES, WHETHER OR NOT SELF-PROPELLED (FOR EXAMPLE, WORKSHOPS, CRANES, BALLAST TAMPERS, TRACKLINERS, TESTING COACHES AND TRACK INSPECTION VEHICLES) | 20%DC:15% |
| 8605.00.00 | RAILWAY OR TRAMWAY PASSENGER COACHES, NOT SELF-PROPELLED; LUGGAGE VANS, POST OFFICE COACHES AND OTHER SPECIAL PURPOSE RAILWAY OR TRAMWAY COACHES, NOT SELF-PROPELLED (EXCLUDING THOSE OF 8604) | 20%DC:15 |
| 8606 | RAILWAY OR TRAMWAY GOODS VANS AND WAGONS, NOT SELF-PROPELLED: | |
| 8606.10.00 | - Tank wagons and the like | 20%DC:15% |
| 8606.20.00 | -Insulated or refrigerated vans and wagons, other than those of 8606.10.00 | 20%DC:15% |
| 8606.30.00 | -Self-discharging vans and wagons, other than those of 8606.10.00 or 8606.20.00 | 20%DC:15% |
| 8606.9 | - Other: | |
| 8606.91.00 | - - Covered and closed | 20%DC:15% |
| 8606.92.00 | - - Open, with non-removable sides of a height exceeding 60 cm | 20%DC:15% |
| 8606.99.00 | - - Other | 20%DC:15% |
| 8607 | PARTS OF RAILWAY OR TRAMWAY LOCOMOTIVES OR ROLLING-STOCK: | |
| 8607.1 | - Bogies, bissel-bogies, axles and wheels, and parts thereof: | |
| 8607.11.00 | - - Driving bogies and bissel-bogies | 20%DC:15% |
| 8607.12.00 | - - Other bogies and bissel-bogies | 20%DC:15% |
| 8607.19.00 | - - Other, including parts | 20%DC:15% |
| 8607.2 | - Brakes and parts thereof: | |
| 8607.21.00 | - - Air brakes and parts thereof | 20%DC:15% |
| 8607.29.00 | - - Other | 20%DC:15% |
| 8607.30.00 | -Hooks and other coupling devices, buffers, and parts thereof | 20%DC:15% |
| 8607.9 | SCHEDULE 3—continued- Other: | |
| ---------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------- |
| 8607.91.00 | - - Of locomotives | 20%DC:15% |
| 8607.99.00 | - - Other | 20%DC:15% |
| 8608.00.00 | RAILWAY OR TRAMWAY TRACK FIXTURES AND FITTINGS; MECHANICAL (INCLUDING ELECTROMECHANICAL) SIGNALLING, SAFETY OR TRAFFIC CONTROL EQUIPMENT FOR RAILWAYS, TRAMWAYS, ROADS, INLAND WATERWAYS, PARKING FACILITIES, PORT INSTALLATIONS OR AIRFIELDS; PARTS OF THE FOREGOING | 20%DC:15% |
| 8609.00.00 | CONTAINERS (INCLUDING CONTAINERS FOR THE TRANSPORT OF FLUIDS) SPECIALLY DESIGNED AND EQUIPPED FOR CARRIAGE BY ONE OR MORE MODES OF TRANSPORT | 30%DC:25%CAN:20% |