Modifying the Nomenclature and Rates of Import Duty on Information Technology Products

October 18, 1999 EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 163 MODIFYING THENOMENCLATURE AND THE RATES OF IMPORT DUTY ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (IT) PRODUCTS UNDER SECTION 104 OF THE TARIFF AND CUSTOMSCODE OF 1978 (PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO.1464, AS AMENDED) WHEREAS, during the APEC meeting held in Manila in November 1996, the 18 APEC leaders called for the conclusion of the Information Technology Agreement (ITA) by the first WTO Ministerial Conference in a move to eliminate tariffs by the year 2000, with flexibility in the time frame for the elimination of tariffs; WHEREAS, on 13 December 1996, fourteen (14) economies signed in Singapore a Ministerial Declaration on Trade in Information Technology Products, providing for the elimination/binding of tariffs on IT products beginning 1 July 1997 and ending on 1 January 2000 with extended staging of tariff reductions up to the year 2005 for developing countries; WHEREAS, the Philippines formally signed the Information Technology Agreement (ITA) on 1 April 1997; WHEREAS, with the Philippine Senate ratification of ITA 1 on 3 December 1998, the Philippines can now implement its commitments under the said Agreement. NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH EJERCITO ESTRADA, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby order: SECTION 1. The articles specifically listed in "Annex A" hereof, as classified under Section 104 of the Tariff and Customs Code of 1978, as amended, shall be subject to the rates of import duty in accordance with the schedule indicated opposite each article. SECTION 2. The nomenclature and the rates of import duty on tariff headings not enumerated and those listed but represented by the symbol xxx shall remain in force and effect. SECTION 3. Upon the effectivity of this Executive Order, the articles specifically listed in the aforesaid "Annex" which are entered in or withdrawn from warehouses in the Philippines for consumption shall be levied the rates of duty herein presented. SECTION 4. All other Presidential issuances, administrative rules and regulations, or parts thereof, which are inconsistent with this Executive Order are hereby revoked or modified accordingly. SECTION 5. This Executive Order shall take effect on 1 January 2000 following the complete publication in two (2) newspapers of general circulation in the Philippines. DONE in the City of Manila, this 18th day of October, in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-Nine. "Annex A" RATE OF DUTY (%) HDG. H.S. DESCRIPTION 1 January NO. CODE 2000 70.17 Laboratory, hygienic or pharmaceutical glassware, whether or not graduated or calibrated. 7017.10 - Of fused quartz or other fused silica: 7017.10 10 --- Quartz reactor tubes and holders designed for insertion into diffusion and oxidation furnaces for production of semiconductor wafers 7017.10 90 --- Other 3 7017.20 00 - xxx 7017.90 00 - xxx 84.19 Machinery, plant or laboratory equipment, whether or not electrically heated, for the treatment of materials by a process involving a change of temperature such as heating, cooking, roasting, distilling, rectifying, sterilising, pasteurising, steaming, drying, evaporating, vaporising, condensing or cooling, other than machinery or plant of a kind used for domestic purposes; instantaneous or storage water heaters, non-electric. - xxx 8419.11 00 -- xxx 8419.19 00 -- xxx 8419.20 00 - xxx - xxx 8419.31 00 -- xxx 8419.32 00 -- xxx 8419.39 00 -- xxx 8419.40 00 - xxx 8419.50 - xxx 8419.50 10 --- xxx 8419.50 90 --- xxx 8419.60 00 - xxx - Other machinery, plant or equipment: 8419.81 00 -- xxx 8419.89 -- Other: 8419.89 10 --- xxx 8419.89 20 --- Chemical vapor deposition apparatus for semiconductor production Free 8419.89 90 --- xxx 8419.90 00 - Parts: 8419.90 10 --- Parts of chemical vapor deposition apparatus for semiconductor production 8419.90 90 --- Other 3 84.21 Centrifuges, including centrifugal dryers; filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus, for liquids or gases. - Centrifuges, including centrifugal dryers: 8421.11 00 -- xxx 8421.12 00 -- xxx 8421.19 -- Other: 8421.19 10 --- Spin dryers for semiconductor wafer processing Free 8421.19 90 --- Other 3 - xxx 8421.21 00 -- xxx 8421.22 00 -- xxx 8421.23 00 -- xxx 8421.29 00 -- xxx - xxx 8421.31 00 -- xxx 8421.39 00 -- xxx - Parts: 8421.91 -- Of centrifuges, including centrifugal dryers: 8421.91 10 --- Parts of spin dryers for semiconductor wafer processing Free 8421.91 90 --- Other 3 8421.99 00 -- xxx 84.24 Mechanical appliances (whether or not hand- operated) for projecting, dispersing or spraying liquids or powders; fire extinguishers, whether or not charged; spray guns and similar appliances; steam or sand blasting machines and similar jet projecting machines. 8424.10 - xxx 8424.10 10 --- xxx 8424.10 90 --- xxx 8424.20 00 - xxx 8424.30 00 - xxx - Other appliances: 8424.81 -- xxx 8424.81 10 --- xxx 8424.81 90 --- xxx 8424.89 - Other: 8424.89 10 --- xxx 8424.89 11 ---- xxx 8424.89 19 ---- xxx 8424.89 20 --- Deflash machines for cleaning and removing contaminants from the metal leads of semiconductor packages prior to the electroplating process; spraying appliances for etching, stripping or cleaning semiconductor wafers 8424.89 90 --- xxx 8424.90 - Parts: 8424.90 10 --- xxx 8424.90 20 --- Parts of deflash machines for cleaning and removing contaminants from the metal leads of semiconductor packages prior to the electroplating process; parts of spraying appliances for etching, stripping or cleaning semiconductor wafers Free 8424.90 90 --- xxx 84.28 Other lifting, handling, loading or unloading machinery (for example, lifts, escalators, conveyors, teleferics). 8428.10 00 - xxx 8428.20 00 - xxx - Other continuous-action elevators and conveyors, for goods or materials: 8428.31 00 -- xxx 8428.32 00 -- xxx 8428.33 -- Other, belt type: 8428.33 10 --- Automated machines for transport, handling and storage of semiconductor wafers, wafer cassettes, wafer boxes and other materials for semiconductor devices Free 8428.33 90 --- Other 3 8428.39 -- Other: 8428.39 10 --- Automated machines for transport, handling and storage of semiconductor wafers, wafer cassettes, wafer boxes and other materials for semiconductor devices Free 8428.39 90 --- Other 3 8428.40 00 - xxx 8428.50 00 - xxx 8428.60 00 - xxx 8428.90 - Other machinery: 8428.90 10 --- Automated machines for transport, handling and storage of semiconductor wafers, wafer cassettes, wafer boxes and other materials for semiconductor devices Free 8428.90 90 --- Other 3 84.31 Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machinery of headings Nos. 84.25 to 84.30. 8431.10 00 - xxx 8431.20 00 - xxx - Of machinery of heading No. 84.28: 8431.31 00 -- xxx 8431.39 -- Other: 8431.39 10 --- Parts for automated machines for transport, handling and storage of semiconductor wafers, wafer cassettes, wafer boxes and other materials for semiconductor devices Free 8431.39 90 --- Other 3 - xxx 8431.41 00 -- xxx 8431.42 -- xxx 8431.42 10 --- xxx 8431.42 90 --- xxx 8431.43 00 -- xxx 8431.49 -- xxx 8431.49 10 --- xxx 8431.49 90 --- xxx 84.56 Machine-tools for working any material by removal of material, by laser or other light or photon beam, ultrasonic, electro-discharge, electro-chemical, electron beam, ionic beam or plasma arc processes. 8456.10 - Operated by laser or other light or photon beam processes: 8456.10 10 --- Machines for working any material by removal of material, by laser or other light or photon beam in the production of semiconductor wafers 8456.10 90 --- Other 3 8456.20 00 -xxx 8456.30 00 -xxx - Other: 8456.91 00 -- For dry-etching patterns on semiconductor materials Free 8456.99 -- Other: 8456.99 10 --- Focused ion beam milling machines to produce or repair masks and reticles for patterns on semiconductor devices; lasercutters for cutting contacting tracks in semiconductor production by laser beam Free 8456.99 90 --- Other 84.64 Machine-tools for working stone, ceramics, concrete, asbestos-cement or like mineral materials or for cold working glass. 8464.10 - Sawing machines: 8464.10 10 --- Machines for sawing monocrystal semiconductor boules into slices, or wafers into chips Free 8464.10 90 --- Other 3 8464.20 - Grinding or polishing machines: 8464.20 10 --- Grinding, polishing and lapping machines for processing of semiconductor wafers Free 8464.20 90 --- Other 3 8464.90 - Other: 8464.90 10 --- Dicing machines for scribing or scoring semiconductor wafers Free 8464.90 90 --- Other 3 84.66 Parts and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of headings Nos. 84.56 to 84.65, including work or tool holders, self-opening dieheads, dividing heads and other special attachments for machine-tools; tool holders for any type of tool for working in the hand. 8466.10 00 - xxx 8466.20 00 - xxx 8466.30 00 - xxx - Other 8466.91 -- For machines of heading No. 84.64: 8466.91 10 --- Parts for machines of subheading Nos. 8464.10 10, 8464.20 10 and 8464.90 10 Free 8466.91 90 --- Other 3 8466.92 00 -- xxx 8466.93 -- For machines of heading Nos. 84.56 to 84.61: 8466.93 10 --- Parts for machines of subheading Nos. 8456.10 10, 8456.91 00 and 8456.99 10 Free 8466.93 90 --- Other 3 8466.94 00 -- xxx 84.69 Typewriters other than printers of heading No. 84.71; word-processing machines. - Automatic typewriters and word-processing machines: 8469.11 00 -- Word-processing machines Free 8469.12 00 -- xxx 8469.20 00 - xxx 8469.30 00 - xxx 84.70 Calculating machines and pocket-size data recording, reproducing and displaying machines with calculating functions; accounting machines, postage-franking machines, ticket-issuing machines and similar machines, incorporating a calculating device; cash registers. 8470.10 00 - Electronic calculators capable of operation without an external source of electric power and pocket-size data recording, reproducing and displaying machines with calculating functions - Other electronic calculating machines: 8470.21 00 -- Incorporating a printing device Free 8470.29 00 -- Other Free 8470.30 00 - Other calculating machines Free 8470.40 00 - Accounting machines Free 8470.50 00 - Cash registers Free 8470.90 00 - Other Free 84.71 Automatic data processing machines and units thereof; magnetic or optical readers, machines for transcribing data onto data media in coded form and machines for processing such data, not elsewhere specified or included. 8471.10 00 - Analogue or hybrid automatic data processing machines Free 8471.30 00 - Portable digital automatic data processing machines, weighing not more than 10 kg, consisting of at least a central processing unit, a keyboard and a display - Other digital automatic data processing machines: 8471.41 00 -- Comprising in the same housing at least a central processing unit and an input and output unit, whether or not combined Free 8471.49 00 -- Other, presented in the form of systems Free 8471.50 00 - Digital processing units other than those of subheadings 8471.41 and 8471.49, whether or not containing in the same housing one or two of the following types of unit: storage units, input units, output units Free 8471.60 00 - Input or output units, whether or not containing storage units in the same housing Free 8471.70 00 - Storage units Free 8471.80 00 - Other units of automatic data processing machines Free 8471.90 00 - Other Free 84.72 Other office machines (for example, hectograph or stencil duplicating machines, addressing machines, automatic banknote dispensers, coin-sorting machines, coin-counting or wrapping machines, pencil-sharpening machines, perforating or stapling machines) 8472.10 00 - xxx 8472.20 00 - xxx 8472.30 00 - xxx 8472.90 - xxx 8472.90 10 --- xxx 8472.90 20 --- Automatic banknote dispensers or automatic teller machines Free 8472.90 90 --- xxx 84.73 Parts and accessories (other than covers, carrying cases and the like) suitable for use solely or principally with machines of headings Nos. 84.69 to 84.72. 8473.10 00 - xxx - Parts and accessories of the machines of heading No. 84.70: 8473.21 00 -- Of the electronic calculating machines of subheading Nos. 8470.10, 8470.21 or 8470.29 Free 8473.29 00 -- Other Free 8473.30 00 - Parts and accessories of the machines of heading No. 84.71 Free 8473.40 00 - xxx 8473.50 00 - Parts and accessories equally suitable for use with machines of two or more of the headings Nos. 84.69 to 84.72 Free 84.77 Machinery for working rubber or plastics or for the manufacture of products from these materials, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter. 8477.10 - Injection-moulding machines: 8477.10 10 --- Encapsulation equipment for assembly of semiconductors Free 8477.10 90 --- Other 3 8477.20 00 - xxx 8477.30 00 - xxx 8477.40 00 - xxx - xxx 8477.51 00 -- xxx 8477.59 00 -- xxx 8477.80 00 - xxx 8477.90 - Parts: 8477.90 10 --- Parts of encapsulation equipment for assembly of semiconductors Free 8477.90 90 --- Other 3 84.79 Machines and mechanical appliances having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter. 8479.10 00 - xxx 8479.20 00 - xxx 8479.30 00 - xxx 8479.40 00 - xxx 8479.50 - Industrial robots, not elsewhere specified or included: 8479.50 10 --- Automated machines for transport, handling and storage of semiconductor wafers, wafer cassettes, wafer boxes and other materials for semiconductor devices Free 8479.50 90 --- Other 3 8479.60 00 - xxx - Other machines and mechanical appliances: 8479.81 00 -- xxx 8479.82 00 -- xxx 8479.89 -- Other 8479.89 10 --- Apparatus for growing or pulling monocrystal semiconductor boules; apparatus for physical deposition by sputtering on semiconductor wafers; apparatus for wet etching, developing, stripping or cleaning semiconductor wafers and flat panel displays; die attach apparatus, tape automated bonders, wire bonders and encapsulation equipment for assembly of semiconductors; epitaxial deposition machines for semiconductor wafers; machines for bending, folding and straightening semiconductor leads; physical deposition apparatus for semiconductor production; spinners for coating photographic emulsions on semiconductor wafers; automated machines for transport, handling and storage of semiconductor wafers, wafer cassettes, wafer boxes and other materials for semiconductor devices Free 8479.89 90 --- Other 3 8479.90 - Parts: 8479.90 10 --- Part of the apparatus and machines of subheading No. 8479.89 10 Free 8479.90 90 --- Other 3 84.80 Moulding boxes for metal foundry; mould bases; moulding patterns; moulds for metal (other than ingot moulds), metal carbides, glass, mineral materials, rubber or plastics. 8480.10 00 - xxx 8480.20 00 - xxx 8480.30 00 - xxx - xxx 8480.41 00 -- xxx 8480.49 00 -- xxx 8480.50 00 - xxx 8480.60 00 - xxx - Moulds for rubber or plastics: 8480.71 -- Injection or compression types: 8480.71 10 --- Injection and compression moulds for the manufacture semiconductor devices Free 8480.71 90 --- Other 3 8480.79 00 -- xxx 85.04 Electric transformers, static converters (for example, rectifiers) and inductors. 8504.10 00 - xxx - xxx 8504.21 -- xxx 8504.21 10 --- xxx 8504.21 90 --- xxx 8504.22 -- xxx 8504.22 10 --- xxx 8504.22 90 --- xxx 8504.23 -- xxx 8504.23 10 --- xxx 8504.23 90 --- xxx - xxx 8504.31 -- xxx 8504.31 10 --- xxx 8504.31 20 --- xxx 8504.31 30 --- xxx 8504.31 40 --- xxx 8504.31 90 --- xxx 8504.32 -- xxx 8504.32 10 --- xxx 8504.32 90 --- xxx 8504.33 00 -- xxx 8504.34 -- xxx 8504.34 10 --- xxx 8504.34 90 --- xxx 8504.40 - Static converters: 8504.40 10 --- Static converters for automatic data processing machines and units thereof, and telecommunications apparatus Free 8504.40 90 --- Other 10 8504.50 - Other inductors: 8504.50 10 --- Other inductors for power supplies for automatic data processing machines and units thereof, and telecommunication apparatus Free 8504.50 90 --- Other 10 8504.90 00 - xxx 85.14 Industrial or laboratory electric (including induction or dielectric) furnaces and ovens; other industrial or laboratory induction or dielectric heating equipment. 8514.10 - Resistance heated furnaces and ovens: 8514.10 10 --- Resistance heated furnaces and ovens for the manufacture of semiconductor devices on semiconductor wafers Free 8514.10 90 --- Other 3 8514.20 - Induction or dielectric furnaces and ovens: 8514.20 10 -- Inductance or dielectric furnaces and ovens for the manufacture of semiconductor devices on semiconductor wafers Free 8514.20 90 --- Other 3 8514.30 - Other furnaces and ovens: 8514.30 10 --- Apparatus for rapid heating of semiconductor wafers Free 8514.30 90 --- Other 3 8514.40 00 - xxx 8514.90 - Parts: 8514.90 10 --- Parts of furnaces and ovens of subheading Nos. 8514.10 10, 8514.20 10 and 8514.30 10 Free 8514.90 90 --- Other 3 85.18 Microphones and stands therefor; loudspeakers, whether or not mounted in their enclosures; headphones, earphones and combined microphone/speaker sets; audio-frequency electric amplifiers; electric sound amplifier sets. 8518.10 - xxx 8518.10 10 --- xxx 8518.10 90 --- xxx - xxx 8518.21 00 -- xxx 8518.22 00 -- xxx 8518.29 -- xxx 8518.29 10 --- xxx 8518.29 20 --- xxx 8518.29 90 --- xxx 8518.30 - xxx 8518.30 10 --- xxx 8518.30 90 --- xxx 8518.40 - xxx 8518.40 10 --- xxx 8518.40 90 --- xxx 8518.50 00 - xxx 8518.90 - Parts: 8518.90 10 --- Parts including printed circuit assemblies of subheading Nos. 8518.10 10, 8518.29 20, 8518.30 10 and 8518.40 10 Free 8518.90 90 --- xxx 85.22 Parts and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of headings Nos. 85.19 to 85.21. 8522.10 00 - xxx 8522.90 - Other: 8522.90 10 --- xxx 8522.90 20 --- xxx 8522.90 30 --- Parts including printed circuit assemblies of telephone answering machines Free 8522.90 90 --- xxx 85.23 Prepared unrecorded media for sound recording or similar recording of other phenomena, other than products of Chapter 37. - xxx 8523.11 -- xxx 8523.11 10 --- xxx 8523.11 90 --- xxx 8523.12 -- xxx 8523.12 10 --- xxx 8523.12 90 --- xxx 8523.13 -- xxx 8523.13 10 --- xxx 8523.13 20 --- xxx 8523.13 90 --- xxx 8523.20 - xxx 8523.20 10 --- xxx 8523.20 90 --- xxx 8523.30 00 - xxx 8523.90 - Other: 8523.90 10 --- Compact discs (CD) media and other unrecorded media for automatic data processing machines Free 8523.90 90 --- xxx 85.31 Electric sound or visual signaling apparatus (for example, bells, sirens, indicator panels, burglar or fire alarms), other than those of heading No. 85.12 or 85.30. 8531.10 00 - xxx 8531.20 00 - Indicator panels incorporating liquid crystal devices (LCD) or light emitting diodes (LED) Free 8531.80 - Other apparatus: 8531.80 10 --- Flat panel displays (including Electro Luminescence, Plasma and other technologies) for products falling within the Information Technology Agreement (ITA); paging alert devices Free 8531.80 90 --- Other 3 8531.90 - Parts: 8531.90 10 --- Parts including printed circuit assemblies of the apparatus of subheading Nos. 8531.20 00 and 8531.80 10 Free 8531.90 90 --- Other 3 85.34 8534.00 00 Printed circuits. Free 85.36 Electrical apparatus for switching or protecting electric circuits, or for making connections to or in electric circuits (for example, switches, relays, fuses, surge suppressors, plugs, sockets, lamp- holders, junction boxes), for a voltage not exceeding 1,000 volts. 8536.10 - xxx 8536.10 10 --- xxx 8536.10 20 --- xxx 8536.10 90 --- xxx 8536.20 00 - xxx 8536.30 00 - xxx 8536.41 00 -- xxx 8536.49 00 -- xxx 8536.50 - xxx 8536.50 10 --- xxx 8536.50 20 --- xxx 8536.50 30 --- xxx 8536.50 40 --- xxx 8536.50 90 --- xxx - Lamp-holders, plugs and sockets: 8536.61 00 -- xxx 8536.69 -- Other: 8536.69 10 --- Telephone plugs Free 8536.69 20 --- xxx 8536.69 90 --- xxx 8536.90 - Other apparatus: 8536.90 10 --- Connection and contact elements for wires and cables; wafer probers Free 8536.90 90 --- Other 85.38 Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading No. 85.35, 85.36 or 85.37. 8538.10 00 - xxx 8538.90 - Other: 8538.90 10 --- Parts including printed circuit assemblies of the apparatus of subheading Nos. 8536.69 10 and 8536.90 10 Free 8538.90 90 --- Other 3 85.42 Electronic integrated circuits and microassemblies. - Monolithic digital integrated circuits: 8542.12 00 -- xxx 8542.13 00 -- Metal oxide semiconductors (MOS technology) Free 8542.14 00 -- Circuits obtained by bipolar technology Free 8542.19 00 -- xxx 8542.30 00 - Other monolithic integrated circuits Free 8542.40 00 - xxx 8542.50 00 - Electronic microassemblies Free 8542.90 00 - xxx 85.43 Electrical machines and apparatus, having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter. - Particle accelerators: 8543.11 00 -- Ion implanters for doping semiconductor materials Free 8543.19 00 -- xxx 8543.20 00 - xxx 8543.30 - Machines and apparatus for electroplating, electrolysis or electrophoresis: 8543.30 10 --- Apparatus for wet etching, developing, stripping or cleaning semiconductor wafers and flat panel displays Free 8543.30 90 --- Other 3 8543.40 00 - xxx - Other machines and apparatus: 8543.81 00 -- Proximity cards and tags 8543.89 -- Other: 8543.89 10 --- xxx 8543.89 20 --- Electrical machines with translation or dictionary functions; flat panel displays (including LCD, Electro- Luminescence, Plasma and other technologies falling within the Information Technology Agreement (ITA); projection type flat panel display units used with automatic data processing machines which can display digital information generated by the central processing unit Free 8543.89 90 --- xxx 8543.90 - Parts: 8543.90 10 --- xxx 8543.90 20 --- Parts including printed circuit assemblies of apparatus of subheading Nos. 8543.11 00, 8543.30 10, 8543.81 00 and 8543.89 20 Free 8543.90 90 --- xxx 90.09 Photo-copying apparatus incorporating an optical system or of the contact type and thermo-copying apparatus. - Electrostatic photo-copying apparatus: 9009.11 00 -- Operating by reproducing the original image directly onto the copy (direct process) Free 9009.12 00 -- xxx - Other photo-copying apparatus: 9009.21 00 -- Incorporating an optical system Free 9009.22 00 -- xxx 9009.30 00 - xxx 9009.90 00 - Parts and accessories Free 90.10 Apparatus and equipment for photographic (including cinematographic) laboratories (including apparatus for the projection or drawing of circuit patterns on sensitised semi-conductor materials), not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter; negatoscopes; projection screens. 9010.10 00 - xxx - Apparatus for the projection or drawing of circuit patterns on sensitised semiconductor materials: 9010.41 00 -- Direct write-on-wafer apparatus Free 9010.42 00 -- Step and repeat aligners Free 9010.49 00 -- Other Free 9010.50 00 - xxx 9010.60 00 - xxx 9010.90 - Parts and accessories: 9010.90 10 --- Parts and accessories of the apparatus of subheading Nos. 9010.41 00, 9010.42 00 and 9010.49 00 Free 9010.90 90 --- Other 3 90.11 Compound optical microscopes, including those for microphotography, cinephotomicrography or microprojection. 9011.10 - Stereoscopic microscopes: 9011.10 10 --- Optical stereoscopic microscopes fitted with equipment specifically designed for the handling and transport of semiconductor wafers or reticles Free 9011.10 90 --- Other 3 9011.20 - Other microscopes, for microphotography, cinephotomicrography or microprojection: 9011.20 10 --- Photomicrographic microscopes fitted with equipment specifically designed for the handling and transport of semiconductor wafers or reticles Free 9011.20 90 --- Other 3 9011.80 00 - xxx 9011.90 - Parts and accessories: 9011.90 10 --- Parts and accessories of optical stereoscopic and photomicrographic microscopes fitted with equipment specifically designed for the handling and transport of semiconductor wafers or reticles Free 9011.90 90 --- Other 3 90.12 Microscopes other than optical microscopes; diffraction apparatus. 9012.10 - Microscopes other than optical microscopes and diffraction apparatus: 9012.10 10 --- Electron beam microscopes fitted with equipment specifically designed for the handling and transport of semiconductor wafers or reticles Free 9012.10 90 --- Other 3 9012.90 - Parts and accessories: 9012.90 10 --- Parts and accessories of electron beam microscopes fitted with equipment specifically designed for the handling and transport of semiconductor wafers or reticles Free 9012.90 90 --- Other 3 90.17 Drawing, marking-out or mathematical calculating instruments (for example, drafting machines, pantographs, protractors, drawing sets, slide rules, disc calculators); instruments for measuring length, for use in the hand (for example, measuring rods and tapes, micrometers, callipers), not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter. 9017.10 00 - xxx 9017.20 - Other drawing, marking-out or mathematical calculating instruments: 9017.20 10 --- xxx 9017.20 20 --- Pattern generating apparatus of a kind used for producing masks or reticles from photoresist coated substrates Free 9017.20 90 --- xxx 9017.30 00 - xxx 9017.80 00 - xxx 9017.90 - Parts and accessories: 9017.90 10 --- Parts and accessories including printed circuit assemblies for pattern generating apparatus of a kind used for producing masks or reticles from photoresist coated substrates Free 9017.90 90 --- Other 3 90.26 Instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking the flow, level, pressure or other variables of liquids or gases (for example, flow meters, level gauges, manometers, heat meters), excluding instruments and apparatus of heading No. 90.14, 90.15, 90.28 or 90.32. 9026.10 - xxx 9026.10 10 --- xxx 9026.10 90 --- xxx 9026.20 - xxx 9026.20 10 --- xxx 9026.20 90 --- xxx 9026.80 00 - Other instruments or apparatus Free 9026.90 00 - Parts and accessories Free 90.27 Instruments and apparatus for physical or chemical analysis (for example, polarimeters, refractometers, spectro-meters, gas or smoke analysis apparatus); instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking viscosity, porosity, expansion, surface tension or the like; instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking quantities of heat, sound or light (including exposure meters); microtomes. 9027.10 00 - xxx 9027.20 00 - Chromatographs and electrophoresis instruments Free 9027.30 00 - Spectrometers, spectrophotometers and spectrographs using optical radiations (UV, visible, IR) Free 9027.40 00 - xxx 9027.50 00 - Other instruments and apparatus using optical radiations (UV, visible, IR) Free 9027.80 00 - Other instruments and apparatus Free 9027.90 - Microtomes; parts and accessories: 9027.90 10 --- Parts and accessories including printed circuit assemblies of products of heading 90.27, other than for gas or smoke analysis apparatus and microtomes Free 9027.90 90 --- Other 3 90.30 Oscilloscopes, spectrum analysers and other instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking electrical quantities, excluding meters of heading No. 90.28; instruments and apparatus for measuring or detecting alpha, beta, gamma, X-ray, cosmic or other ionising radiations. 9030.10 00 - xxx 9030.20 00 - xxx - xxx 9030.31 00 -- xxx 9030.39 -- xxx 9030.39 10 --- xxx 9030.39 90 --- xxx 9030.40 00 - Other instruments and apparatus, specially designed for telecommunications (for example, cross-talk meters, gain measuring instruments, distortion factor meters, psophometers) Free - Other instruments and apparatus: 9030.82 00 -- For measuring or checking semiconductor wafers or devices 9030.83 00 -- xxx 9030.89 00 -- xxx 9030.90 - Parts and accessories: 9030.90 10 --- Parts and accessories including printed circuit assemblies of instruments and apparatus of subheading Nos. 9030.40 00 and 9030.82 00 Free 9030.90 90 --- Other 3 90.31 Measuring or checking instruments, appliances and machines, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter, profile projectors. 9031.10 00 - xxx 9031.20 00 - xxx 9031.30 00 - xxx - Other optical instruments and appliances: 9031.41 00 -- For inspecting semiconductor wafers or devices or for inspecting photomasks or reticles used in manufacturing semiconductor devices Free 9031.49 -- Other: 9031.49 10 --- Optical instruments and appliances for measuring surface particulate contamination on semiconductor wafers Free 9031.49 90 --- Other 3 9031.80 00 - xxx 9031.90 - Parts and accessories: 9031.90 10 --- Parts and accessories including printed circuit assemblies of optical instruments and appliances of subheading Nos. 9031.41 00 and 9031.49 10 Free 9031.90 90 --- Other 3