Division 4 Throughout the nomenclature, ‘municipal waste’means waste of a kind collected from households, hotels, restaurants, hospitals, shops, offices, etc., road and pavement sweepings, as well as construction and demolition waste. Municipal waste generally contains a large variety of materials such as plastics, rubber, wood, paper, textiles, glass, metals, food materials, broken furniture and other damaged or discarded articles. The term ‘municipal waste’, however, does not cover:
United Kingdom
- (a)
individual materials or articles segregated from the waste, such as wastes of plastics, rubber, wood, paper, textiles, glass or metals and spent batteries which fall in their appropriate headings of the nomenclature;
- (b)
industrial waste;
- (c)
waste pharmaceuticals, as defined in note 4(k) to Chapter 30; or
- (d)
clinical waste, as defined in note 6(a) below.
Notes on Chapter 38
Footnotes
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Ad valorem duty rate reduced to 9 % (autonomous suspension) for an indefinite period.
- f2
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Statistical TARIC codes: see Annex 10.
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Entry under this subheading is subject to the conditions laid down in the relevant provisions of the European Union (see Article 254 of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 269, 10.10.2013, p. 1)).