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Section XIX
Arms and Ammunition; Parts and Accessories thereof
Chapter 93
Arms and Ammunition; Parts and Accessories thereof

Notes

1.

This Chapter does not cover the following:

(a)

goods of Chapter 36 (for example, percussion caps, detonators, signalling flares);

(b)

part of general use, as defined in Note 2 to Section XV, of base metal (Section XV), or similar goods of plastics (Chapter 39);

(c)

armoured fighting vehicles (heading 87.10);

(d)

telescopic sights or other optical devices suitable for use with arms, unless mounted on a firearm or presented with the firearm on which they are designed to be mounted (Chapter 90);

(e)

bows, arrows, fencing foils or toys (Chapter 95); or

(f)

collectors' pieces or antiques (heading 97.05 or 97.06).

2.

In heading 93.06, the reference to "parts thereof" does not include radio or radar apparatus of heading 85.26.

Heading CD Description Unit General EU EFTA SADC
93.03 Other firearms and similar devices which operate by the firing of an explosive charge (for example, sporting shotguns and rifles, muzzle-loading firearms, very pistols and other devices designed to project only signal flares, pistols and revolvers for firing blank ammunition, captive-bolt humane killers, line-throwing guns):
9303.10 5 - Muzzle-loading firearms u 15% free 15% free
9303.20 - Other sporting, hunting or target-shooting shotguns, including combination shotgun-rifles:
9303.20.1 -- Shotguns, single barrel:
9303.20.11 5 --- Pump-action u 15% free 15% free
9303.20.12 3 --- Semi-automatic u 15% free 15% free
9303.20.13 1 --- Other u 15% free 15% free
9303.20.20 4 -- Shotguns, multiple barrel, including combination guns u 15% free 15% free
9303.30 - Other sporting, hunting or target-shooting rifles:
9303.30.10 1 -- Single-shot u 15% free 15% free
9303.30.20 9 -- Semi-automatic u 15% free 15% free
9303.30.90 9 -- Other u 15% free 15% free
9303.90 - Other:
9303.90.25 7 -- Captive-bolt humane killers or stunners and line-throwing guns; anti- hail devices u free free free free
9303.90.90 7 -- Other u 15% free 15% free

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