Division 3 Heading 8509 covers only the following electromechanical machines of the kind commonly used for domestic purposes:

United Kingdom

(a)

floor polishers, food grinders and mixers, and fruit or vegetable juice extractors, of any weight;
(b)

other machines provided the weight of such machines does not exceed 20 kg. The heading does not, however, apply to fans or ventilating or recycling hoods incorporating a fan, whether or not fitted with filters (heading 8414), centrifugal clothes-dryers (heading 8421), dishwashing machines (heading 8422), household washing machines (heading 8450), roller or other ironing machines (heading 8420 or 8451), sewing machines (heading 8452), electric scissors (heading 8467) or to electrothermic appliances (heading 8516).

Notes on Chapter 85

f1: Customs duty autonomously suspended, until 31 December 2010, for black-and-white or other monochrome monitors, using liquid crystal display technology, equipped with either a digital-visual-interface (DVI) or a video-graphics-array (VGA) connector or both, with a diagonal measurement of the screen not exceeding 77,50 cm (i.e. 30,5 inches), with an aspect ratio of 1:1, 4:3, 5:4 or 16:10, with a pixel resolution exceeding 1,92 megapixels, and with a dot pitch not exceeding 0,3 mm (TARIC code 8528 59 10 10).
f2: Customs duty autonomously suspended, until 31 December 2010, for colour monitors using liquid crystal display technology, with a diagonal measurement of the screen not exceeding 55,9 cm (i.e. 22 inches), with an aspect ratio of 1:1, 4:3, 5:4 or 16:10 (TARIC code 8528 59 90 40).
f3: Autonomous rate of duty: Free.