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Regulation 2 InterpretationI1

United Kingdom

(1)

In these Regulations—

  • “additional duty” means the increase in import duty imposed by regulation 3(1);

  • “commodity code” means the numerical code which is applied to a category of goods in the Goods Classification Table;

  • “Goods Classification Table” means the table so named in Annex I in Part Three of the Tariff of the United Kingdom;

  • F1“relevant Additional Duties Document” means, in relation to specified goods which have originated from—

    1. (a)

      Belarus, version 1.7 of the document entitled “Belarusian Additional Duties Document” published by the Secretary of State;

    2. (b)

      Russia, version 1.6 of the document entitled “Russian Additional Duties Document” published by the Secretary of State;

  • “specified goods” means goods which—

    1. (a)

      fall within a commodity code which is listed in the column headed “Commodity code” in the table in the relevant Additional Duties Document, and

    2. (b)

      meet any description specified in relation to that commodity code in the column headed “Notes” in that table;

  • “Tariff of the United Kingdom” has the same meaning as in regulation 1(2) of the Customs Tariff (Establishment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020f1.

(2)

For the purpose of determining the commodity codes within which goods most appropriately fall, the rules of interpretation in the following have effect—

(a)

Part Two (Goods Classification Table Rules of Interpretation) of the Tariff of the United Kingdom;

(b)

notes to a section or chapter of the Goods Classification Table.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (18.7.2025) by The Customs (Tariff and Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/751), regs. 1(b), 7

Commencement

I1

Reg. 2 in force at 25.3.2022, see reg. 1(b)

Footnotes

f1

S.I. 2020/1430. Regulation 1(2) was amended by S.I. 2021/1489.