Appendix II — Preferential import tariff

Clocks and watches and parts thereof

Notes.

1. This Chapter does not cover:

(a) Clock or watch glasses or clock weights (classified according to their constituent material);

(b) Watch straps (classified in heading 71.13 or 71.17, as the case may be);

(c) Parts of general use as defined in Note 2 to Section XV, of base metal (Section XV), or similar goods of plastics (Chapter 39) or of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal (generally heading 71.15); watch or clock springs, however, are to be classified as parts of such clocks or watches (heading 91.14);

(d) Balls for ball bearings (heading 73.26 or 84.82, as the case may be);

(e) Articles of heading 84.12 constructed to work without a regulating device;

(f) Ball bearings (heading 84.82); or

(g) Articles of Chapter 85, not yet assembled together or with other component parts into watch or clock movements or into articles suitable for use solely or principally as parts of clock or watch movements (Chapter 85).

2. Heading 91.01 covers only watches with case wholly of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal, or of the same materials combined with natural or cultured pearls, or with precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed) of headings 71.01 to 71.04. Watches with case of base metal inlaid with precious metal fall in heading 91.02.

3. In this Chapter, the expression "watch movements" means devices regulated by a balance wheel and hairspring, quartz crystal or any other system capable of determining intervals of time, with a display or a system to which a mechanical display can be incorporated. Such watch movements shall not exceed 12 mm in thickness, and 50 mm in width, length or diameter.

4. Except as provided in Note 1, movements and other parts suitable for use both in clocks or watches and in other articles (for example, precision instruments) are to be classified in this Chapter.