Circular No. 11/2012/TT-BTTT of July 17, 2012, promulgating a list of used information technology products banned from import

• Official number: 11/2012/TT-BTTT
• Legislation Type: Circular
• Organization: The Ministry Of Information And Transmitation
• Signer: Nguyen Bac Son
• Issued Date: 17/07/2012

THE MINISTRY OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS -------	SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM Independence - Freedom - Happiness ----------
No. 11/2012/TT-BTTTT	Hanoi, July 17, 2012

CIRCULAR

PROMULGATING A LIST OF USED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PRODUCTS BANNED FROM IMPORT

Pursuant to the June 29, 2006 Law on Information Technology;

Pursuant to the Government's Decree No. 12/2006/ND-CP of January 23, 2006, detailing the implementation of the Commercial Law regarding international purchase and sale of goods and purchase and sale agency, processing and transit of goods involving foreign parties;

Pursuant to the Government's Decree No. 71/2007/ND-CP of May 3, 2007, detailing and guiding a number of articles of the Law on Information Technology regarding information technology industry;

Pursuant to the Government's Decree No. 187/2007/ND-CP of December 25, 2007, defining the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure of the Ministry of
Information and Communications; the Government’s Decree No. 50/2011/ND-CP, of June 24, 2011, supplementing and amending a number of articles of the Decree No. 187/2007/ND-CP;

At the proposal of the director of the Information Technology Department;

The Minister of Information and Communications promulgates the Circular providing a list of used information technology products banned from import,

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GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1. Scope of regulation and subjects of application

1. Scope of regulation

a) Promulgating together with this Circular a list of used information technology products banned from import in the Annex 01 (below referred to as the import-banned product list)

b) Principles of application of the import-banned product list.

2. Subjects of application

This Circular applies to agencies, organizations and individuals conducting activities relating to import goods in the import-banned product list in Vietnam.

Article 2. Interpretation of terms

In this Circular, the terms below are construed as follows:

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2. Renewed, embellished or remanufactured information technology product means a product which has been repaired, had its parts replaced or its functions and appearance restored equivalent to brand-new appliances of the same type;

Chapter II

PROVISION APPLYING TO THE IMPORT-BANNED PRODUCT LIST

Article 3. Provisions applying the import-banned product list

1. The list is formulated based on the list of goods and H.S code in the export and import tariff.

The list bans from import only goods with 8-digit H.S code. The 4- and 6- digit in the list are only intended to clarify information on categories of commodities under 8-digit HS code banned from import.

2. Used parts, spare parts, part assemblies and accessories of products on the list are also banned from import.

3. This list may be supplemented and modified to suit the practical development of information technology and other provisions of law.

4. Renewed, embellished or remanufactured product must have a sign or label in Vietnamse (tân trang, tái sản xuất, làm mới, tái sử dụng) or in English (refurbished, remanufactured, renew, recycled, reused) on its package;

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a) Whole product after course of repair, renew or remanufacture must re-export. Scrap, waste arising in production course must be handled as prescribed by law on environment or re-export together with product;

b) Annually, organizations, individuals report quantity of import, re-export goods, inventory (in according to form in the Annex 02 of this Circular) and copy of export, import declaration to the Ministry of Information and Communications;

c) the Ministry of Information and Communications coordinates with relevant agencies to inspect periodically or suddenly during the course of implementation.

6. Case of import as prescribed in clause 8, Article 4 of this Circular, the following provisions must be complied:

b) Annually, organizations, individuals report quantity of imported, exported, distributed goods, inventory (in according to form in the Annex 03 of this Circular) and copy of export, import declaration to the Ministry of Information and Communications;

c) The Ministry of Information and Communications coordinates with relevant agencies to inspect periodically or suddenly during the course of implementation.

Article 4. Cases not subject to the import-banned product list

1. Those imported for provision of repair, renewal and remanufacture services and re-export product after production.

2. Those imported for use as direct production means or specimens in designing, research and development (R&D) activities;

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4. Those imported in the form of movement of production means within the same agency or organization;

5. Import of used special-use information technology products, with special feature servicing for specific branches such as measurement, automatic, medicine equipment, biology and other branches, and having time limit from day of manufacture to day of opening Customs declaration not exceeding 03 years.

6. Import for use as production means, control, operation, exploitation, inspection of activity of a part or entire of production system or production line.

7. Import of renewed, embellished or remanufactured information technology products for production under specific projects, provided the implementation of these projects can bring about socio-economic benefits or serve security or national defense.

8. Import of used and empty cartridge, after repair, renew, or remanufacture to supply, distribute in domestic market or re-export.

9. Import to service for other special purpose implements under guides for each specific case by the Ministry of Information and Communications

Chapter 3.

ORGANIZATION OF IMPLEMENTATION

Article 5. Effect

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2. This Circular replaces the Circular No. 43/2009/TT-BTTTT, of December 30, 2009 of The Minister of Information and Communications promulgating a list of used information technology products banned from import and previous guiding documents of the Ministry of Information and Communications which are contrary to this Circular.

3. Organizations, individuals violating provisions when conduct import of used import information technology products shall be sanctioned as prescribed by law on violations in export, import.

Article 6. Organization of implementation

1. Heads of agencies and units of the Ministry of Information and Communications, and agencies, organizations and individuals defined in Article 1 shall implement this Circular.

2. Any problems arising in the implementation of this Circular should be reported by concerned agencies, organizations and individuals to the Ministry of Information and Communications for timely settlement.

THE MINISTER OF
INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS




Nguyen Bac Son

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LIST OF USED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PRODUCTS BANNED FROM IMPORT
(promulgated together with the Circular No. 11/2012/TT-BTTTT, of July 07, 2012 of the Minister of Information and Communications)

Code of commodity

Description of goods

8443

Printing machinery using such parts as plates, cylinders and printing parts of heading No. 8442; other printing machines, copying machines and facsimile machines, whether or not combined together; parts and spare parts thereof (except for printing machines, copying machines with printing or copying speed from 35 copies/minute or over)

- Other printing machines, copying machines and facsimile machines, whether or not combined together:

8443.31

- - Machines combined 02 or multiple functions of printing, copying or facsimile, capable of connecting with automatic data processing machines or connecting into networks:

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- - - Combined printing-copying machines, printing in Ink-jet technology

8443.31.20

- - - Combined printing-copying machines, printing in Laser technology

8443.31.30

- - - Combined printing-copying-facsimile machines

8443.32

- - Other, capable of connecting with automatic data processing machines or connecting into networks:

8443.32.10

- - - Dot matrix printers

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- - - Ink-jet printers

8443.32.30

- - - Laser printers

8443.32.40

- - - Facsimile machines

8443.32.90

- - - Other

8443.39

- - Other:

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- - - Ink-jet printers

- Parts and spare part:

8443.99

- Other:

8443.99.20

- - - Filled cartridges

8469

Typewriters other than printers of heading No. 8443; word-processing machines

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- Word-processing machines

8469.00.90

- Other

8470

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 calculators:

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- - Incorporating a printing device

8470.30.00

- Other calculating machines

84.71

Automatic data processing machines and functional units thereof; magnetic or optical readers, machines for transcribing data onto data media in coded forms and machines for processing such data, not elsewhere specified or included

8471.30

- Portable automatic data processing machines, weighing not more than 10 kg, consisting of at least a central processing unit, a keyboard and a display:

8471.30.10

- - Palmtop computers, including mini computers and personal digital assistants (PDAs)

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- - Laptop computers, including also notebooks, subnotebooks, tablet PC

8471.30.90

- - Other

- - Other automatic data processing machines:

8471.41

- - Comprising in the same housing at least a central processing unit, and an input and output unit, whether or not combined together:

8471.41.10

- - - Personal computers other than laptop computers of subheading No. 8471.30

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- - - Other:

8471.49

- - Others, presented in the form of system:

8471.49.10

- - - Personal computers other than pocket calculators of subheading No. 8471.30

8471.49.90

- - Other:

8471.50

- Processing units, except those of subheading No. 8471.41 or 8471.49, whether or not containing in the same housing, or storage, input and/or output unit:

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- - Processing units for personal computers (other than laptop computers)

8471.50.90

- - Other:

8471.60

- Input or output units, whether or not containing storage units in the same housing:

8471.60.30

- - Computer keyboards

8471.60.40

- - X-Y coordinate input devices, including mouse, light pen, joystick, trackball and touch sensitive screens

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- Storage units:

8471.70.10

- - Floppy disk drives

8471.70.20

- - Hard disk drives

8471.70.30

- - Tape drives

8471.70.40

- - Optical disk drives, including CD-ROM drives, DVD drives and CD-R drives may recording

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- Other units of automatic data processing machines:

8471.80.10

- - Control units and adapter units

8471.80.70

- - Sound cards and video cards

8471.90

- Other:

8471.90.20

- - Optical character readers, document or image scanners

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Parts and spare parts (exclusive of housing, casing and all analogous types) use or essentially use with machines of Heading from No. 84.69 to No. 84.72

8473.10

- Parts and spare parts of machines of Heading No. 84.69:

8473.10.10

- - Printed circuit assemblies for word-processing machine

8473.10.90

- - Other

- Parts and spare parts of machines of Heading No. 84.70:

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- - Of electronic calculating machines of subheading 8470.10.00, 8470.21.00 or 8470.29.00

8473.29.00

- - Other

8473.30

- Parts and spare parts of machines of Heading No. 84.70:

8473.30.10

- - Assembled printed circuit boards

8473.30.90

- - Other

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- Parts and spare parts of machines of Heading No. 84.72:

- - For electrically operated machines:

8473.40.11

- - - Parts including printed circuit assemblies for automatic teller machines

8473.40.19

- - - Other

8473.40.20

- - For non-electrically operated machines

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- Parts and accessories equally suitable for use with machines of two or more of the headings 84.69 to 84.72:

- - For electrically operated machines:

8473.50.11

- - - Suitable for use of machines with heading 84.71

8473.50.19

- - - Other

8473.50.20

- - For non-electrically operated machines

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Telephone sets, including telephones for cellular networks or telephones for other wireless networks; other apparatuses for transmission and reception of sounds, images or other data, including telecommunications apparatus connected to line or wireless networks (local-area or wide-area networks), except transmitting and receiving apparatuses of heading No. 84.43, 85.25, 85.27 or 85.28

- Telephone sets, including telephones for cellular networks or telephones for other wireless networks:

8517.11.00

- - Line telephone sets with cordless handsets

8517.12.00

- - Telephones for cellular networks or telephones for other wireless networks

- Other apparatuses for transmission and reception of sounds, images or data, including line or wireless communications apparatus (like those used in local-area or wide-area networks):

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- - Original transmission and reception stations

8517.62

- - Machines for reception, inversion and transmission or reproduction of sounds, images or other data, including switching apparatus and line-fixing apparatus:

- - - Parts of automatic data processing machines, except for those of heading No. 84.71:

8517.62.21

- - - - Controllers and adapters, including terminals, connectors and line-fixing apparatuses

8517.62.30

- - - Telephonic or telegraphic switching apparatus

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- - - Apparatus for carrier-wave wireline systems or for digital wireline systems:

8517.62.41

- - - - Combined modulators-demodulators (modem), including those using cable connectors and insert cards

8517.62.42

- - - - Concentrators or multiplexers

- - - Other combined transmission-reception apparatuses:

8517.62.51

- - - - Wireless local-area network apparatus

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- - - - Other waveform transmission apparatus for radio-telegraphy or radio-telephony

- - - Other transmission apparatuses

8517.62.61

- - - - Used for telegraphy or telephony

8517.69.00

- - Other

85.18

Microphones and stands therefore; loudspeakers, whether or not mounted in their enclosures; headphones and earphones, whether or not combined with a microphone, and sets consisting of a microphone and one or more loudspeakers; audio-frequency electric amplifiers; electric sound amplifier sets.

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- Microphones and stands therefore:

- - Microphones:

8518.10.11

- - - Microphones having a frequency range of 300 Hz to 3.4 kHz with a diameter of not exceeding 10 mm and a height not exceeding 3 mm, for telecommunication use

8518.10.19

- - - Other microphones, whether or not with their stands

8518.10.90

- - Other

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- Loudspeakers, whether or not mounted in their enclosures:

8518.21

- - Single loudspeakers, mounted in their enclosures

8518.21.10

- - - Cabinet loudspeaker

8518.21.90

- - - Other

8518.22

- - Set of Loudspeakers mounted in the same enclosure

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- - - Box assembly speakers

8518.22.90

- - - Other

8518.29

- - Other:

8518.29.20

- - - Loudspeakers, without housing, having a frequency range of 300 Hz to 3.4 kHz with a diameter of not exceeding 50 mm, for telecommunication use

8518.29.90

- - - Other

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- Headphones and earphones, whether or not combined with a microphone, and sets consisting of a microphone and one or more loudspeakers:

8518.30.10

- - Headphones

8518.30.20

- - Earphones

- - Combined microphone / speaker sets:

8518.30.40

- - Combined sets (listen – speaker) for line telephone handsets

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- - Other

8518.40

- Audio-frequency electric amplifiers:

8518.40.10

- - Other, having 6 or more input signal lines, with or without elements for capacity amplifier

8518.40.20

- - Electric amplifiers when used as repeaters in line telephony products

8518.40.30

- - Audio frequency amplifiers used as repeaters in telephony other than line telephony

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- - Other

8518.50

- Electric sound amplifier sets:

8518.50.10

- Of an output of 240 W or more

8518.50.20

- - Other sound amplifier sets combined with loudspeaker line for broadcasting, having voltage of 50 V to 100 V

8518.50.90

- - Other

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- Parts:

8518.90.10

- - Parts including printed circuit assemblies of goods of subheading 8518.10.11, 8518.29.20, 8518.30.40 or 8518.40.20

8518.90.20

- - Parts of goods of subheadings 8518.40.40

8518.90.90

- - Other

8525

Transmission apparatus for radio-broadcasting or television, whether or not incorporating a reception apparatus or sound recording or reproducing apparatus; television cameras; digital cameras and still image video cameras

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- Transmission apparatus

8525.60.00

- Transmission apparatus incorporating a reception apparatus

8525.80

- Television cameras, digital cameras and still image video cameras:

8525.80.10

- - Webcam

- - Video cameras

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- - - Of types for broadcast

8525.80.39

- - - Other

8525.80.40

- - - Television Cameras

8525.80.50

- - Other Digital cameras

85.26

Radar apparatus, radio navigational aid apparatus and radio remote control apparatus.

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- Radar apparatus

8526.10.10

- - Radar apparatus, ground base, or of a kind for incorporation in civil aircraft, or of a kind used solely on sea-going vessels

8526.10.90

- - Other

- Other:

8526.91

- - Radio navigational aid apparatus:

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- - - Radio navigational aid apparatus, of a kind for used in civil aircraft, or of a kind used solely on sea-going vessels

8526.91.90

- - - Other

8526.92.00

- - Radio wave remote control apparatus

85.27

Reception apparatus for radio-wave-broadcasting, whether or not combined with sound recording or reproducing apparatus or a clock in the same housing.

Radio-broadcast receivers capable of operating without an external source of power:

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- - Pocket-size radio cassette-players

8527.13

- - Other apparatus combined with sound recording or reproducing apparatus:

8527.13.10

- - - Portable apparatus

8527.13.90

- - - Other

8527.19

- - Other:

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- - - Reception apparatus capable of planning, managing, and monitoring of electromagnetic spectrum

8527.19.11

- - - - Portable apparatus

8527.19.19

- - - - Other

- - - Other

8527.19.91

- - - - Portable apparatus

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- - - - Other

- Radio-broadcast receivers capable of operating only with an external source of power, of a kind used in motor vehicles:

8527.21.00

- - Types combined with sound recording or reproducing apparatus

8527.29.00

- - Other

- Other:

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- - Types combined with sound recording or reproducing apparatus

8527.91.10

- - - Portable types

8527.91.90

- - - Other

8527.92

- - Not combined with sound recording or reproducing apparatus but combined with a clock:

8527.92.10

- - - Portable types

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- - - Other

8527.99

- - Other

8527.99.10

- - - Portable types

- - - Other

8528

Video monitors and projectors, not incorporating a reception apparatus for use in television; reception apparatus for television, whether or not incorporating a radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus

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- Video monitors using cathode ray tube:

8528.41

- - Used only or mainly for data processing systems of heading No. 84.71:

8528.41.10

- - - Color

8528.41.20

- - - Monochrome

8528.49

- - Other:

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- - - Color

8528.49.20

- - - Monochrome

- Other video monitors:

8528.51

- - Used only or mainly for data processing systems of heading No. 84.71:

8528.51.10

- - - Flat panel display of overhead projection type

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- - - Other, color

8528.51.30

- - - Other, monochrome

8528.59

- - Other:

8528.59.10

- - - Color

8528.59.20

- - - Monochrome

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- Projectors

8528.61

- - Used only or mainly for data processing system of Heading 84.17:

8528.61.10

- - - Flat panel display

8528.61.90

- - - Other

8528.69

- - Other:

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- - - Having capacity for projecting on screens of 300 inches or more

- Reception apparatus for television, whether or not incorporating a radio-broadcast receiver or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus:

8528.71

- - Designed not to incorporate a video display apparatus or screen:

- - - Signal converter (Set-top boxes which have a communications function):

8528.71.11

- - - - Electricity- powered

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- - - - Other

- - - Other:

8528.71.91

- - - - Operation by alternating current

8528.71.99

- - - - Other

8528.72

- - Other, color:

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- - - Cell-powered

- - - Other:

8528.72.91

- - - - using cathode ray tube

8528.72.92

- - - - LCD, LED and other flat panel display

8528.72.99

- - - - Other

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- - Other, Monochrome

85.34

Printed circuits.

8534.00.10

- Single-sided

8534.00.20

- Double-sided

8534.00.30

- Multi-layer

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- Other

85.40

Thermionic, cold cathode or photo-cathode valves and tubes (for example, vacuum or vapour or gas filled valves and tubes, mercury arc rectifying valves and tubes, cathode-ray tubes, television camera tubes).

- Cathode-ray television picture tubes, including video monitor cathode-ray tubes:

8540.11.00

- - Color

8540.12.00

- - Monochrome

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Television camera tubes; image converters and intensifiers; other photo-cathode tubes:

8540.40

- Data/graphic display tubes, color, with a phosphor dot screen pitch smaller than 0.4 mm:

8540.40.10

- - Data/graphic display tubes, color, use with articles of heading 85.25

8540.40.90

- - Other

8540.60.00

- Other cathode-ray tubes

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- Ultra-short-wave tubes or microwave tubes ( for example, magnetrons, klystrons, traveling wave tubes, carcinotrons), excluding grid-controlled tubes;

8540.71.00

- - Magnetrons

8540.79.00

- - Other

- Other valves and tubes:

8540.81.00

- - Valves or tubes of Receivers or amplifier

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- - Other

- Parts:

8540.91.00

- - Of cathode-ray tubes

8540.99

- - Other:

8540.99.10

- - - Of microwave tubes

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- - - Other

85.42

Electronic integrated circuits.

- Electronic integrated circuits:

8542.31.00

- - Processing units and controlling units combined or not combined with memory, converter, logic circuits, amplifier, clock and timing circuits and other circuits

8542.32.00

- - Memory card

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- - Amplifier

8542.39.00

- - Other

8542.90.00

- Part

85.44

Insulated (including enameled or anodized) wire, cable (including co­axial cable) and other insulated electric conductors, whether or not fitted with connectors. Optical-fiber cables made of separately insulated fibers, whether or not fitted with electric conductors or connectors

- Other electric conductors, for a voltage not exceeding 1,000 V:

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- - Fitted with connectors:

- - - For telecommunications and a voltage not exceeding 80 V:

8544.42.11

- - - - Undersea telephone, telegraph, radio relay cables

8544.42.19

- - - - Other:

8544.42.21

- - - - Undersea telephone, telegraph, radio relay cables

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- - - - Telephone, telegraph, radio relay cables of other types

8544.49

- - Other:

- - - For telecommunications and a voltage exceeding 80 V:

8544.49.11

- - - - Undersea telephone, telegraph, radio relay cables

8544.49.19

- - - - Other:

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- - - For telecommunications and a voltage exceeding 80 V but not exceeding 1.000 V:

8544.49.31

- - - - Undersea telephone, telegraph, radio relay station cables

8544.49.39

- - - - Other

8544.70

- Optical fibre cables:

8544.70.10

- - Telephone, telegraph and radio relay cables, submarine

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