2011 Schedule B - Chapter 92

Section XVIII - Chapter 92

Musical Instruments; Parts and Accessories of Such Articles

Notes

1.  This chapter does not cover:

  (a). Parts of general use, as defined in note 2 to section XV, of base metal (section XV), or
        similar goods of plastics (chapter 39);

  (b). Microphones, amplifiers, loudspeakers, headphones, switches, stroboscopes and
        other accessory instruments, apparatus or equipment of chapter 85 or 90, for use
        with but not incorporated in or housed in the same cabinet as instruments of this
        chapter;

  (c). Toy instruments and apparatus (heading 9503);

  (d). Brushes for cleaning musical instruments (heading 9603); or

  (e). Collectors' pieces or antiques (heading 9705 or 9706).

2.  Bows and sticks and similar devices used in playing the musical instruments of headings
     9202 or 9206 exported with such instruments in numbers normal thereto and clearly
     intended for use therewith, are to be classified in the same heading as the relative
     instruments.

    Cards, discs and rolls of heading 9209 exported with an instrument are to be treated as
     separate articles and not as forming a part of such instrument.

 Pianos, including player pianos; harpsichords and other keyboard
              stringed instruments:
   Upright pianos  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .No.
   Grand pianos  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .No.
   Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .No.
 Other string musical instruments (for example, guitars, violins,
              harps):
   Played with a bow . . . . . . . . . . . . . .No.
   Other:
      Guitars  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .No.
      Other  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .No.
 Wind musical instruments (for example, clarinets, trumpets,
              bagpipes):
   Brass-wind instruments  . . . . . . . . . . .No.
   Other:
      Woodwind instruments . . . . . . . . . . .No.
      Keyboard pipe organs; harmoniums and similar keyboard
                   instruments with free metal reeds  . . . .No.
                  Accordions and similar instruments; mouth organs:
        Accordions and similar instruments . . .No.
        Mouth organs . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Doz.
      Other  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .No.
 Percussion musical instruments (for example, drums,
              xylophones, cymbals, castanets, maracas)  . . .No.
 Musical instruments, the sound of which is produced, or must be
              amplified, electrically (for example, organs, guitars, accordions):
   Keyboard instruments, other than accordions:
      Music synthesizers . . . . . . . . . . . .No.
      Other  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .No.
   Other:
      Fretted stringed instruments (including banjos, guitars,
                   mandolins and ukuleles)  . . . . . . . . .No.
      Other  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .No.
 Musical boxes, fairground organs, mechanical street organs,
              mechanical singing birds, musical saws and other musical
              instruments not falling within any other heading of this chapter;
              decoy calls of all kinds; whistles, call horns and other mouth-
              blown sound signaling instruments:
   Music boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .No.
   Other:
      Musical instruments  . . . . . . . . . . .No.
      Other  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .No.
 Parts (for example, mechanisms for music boxes) and accessories
              (for example, cards, discs and rolls for mechanical instruments)
              of musical instruments; metronomes, tuning forks and pitch
              pipes of all kinds:
   Musical instrument strings  . . . . . . . . .No.
               Other:
      Parts and accessories for pianos . . . . . X
      Parts and accessories for the musical instruments of
                   heading 9202 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X
      Parts and accessories for the musical instruments of
                   heading 9207 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X
      Other:
        Metronomes, tuning forks and pitch pipes X
        Mechanisms for music boxes . . . . . . .No.
        Parts and accessories for the musical instruments of
                     9205.90.1300 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X
        Other  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X