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Chapter 90Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof

The headings in this chapter of Canada's Customs Tariff. Each one opens on the numbers it contains.

Chapter 90 covers optical, photographic, measuring, checking and medical instruments and apparatus. Its logic is neither material nor technology but function: to observe, measure, check, treat.

That is why it often wins against Chapter 85. A wholly electronic device that measures a quantity belongs here, not in Section XVI. Parts follow the chapter's own Note 2, which is distinct from the Section XVI rule: a part identifiable as suitable for use solely with an instrument of Chapter 90 stays in Chapter 90.

32 headings
  • 9001Optical fibres and optical fibre bundles; optical fibre cables other than those of heading 85.44; sheets and plates of polarizing material; lenses (including contact lenses), prisms, mirrors and other optical elements, of any material, unmounted, other than such elements of glass not optically worked.
  • 9002Lenses, prisms, mirrors and other optical elements, of any material, mounted, being parts of or fittings for instruments or apparatus, other than such elements of glass not optically worked.
    • 9002.1Objective lenses:
      • 9002.11For cameras, projectors or photographic enlargers or reducers
        • 9002.11.10For colour television cameras or colour video cameras; For enlargers making negatives or positives of a width exceeding 10 cm and a length exceeding 12.5 cm; For photographic cameras; For use in the manufacture of projectors; To be employed in the commercial production of video tape productions, cinematographic films (motion picture films), animated films or multi-image shows
          • 9002.11.10.10For colour television cameras or colour video cameras; For enlargers making negatives or positives of a width exceeding 10 cm and a length exceeding 12.5 cm; For photographic cameras; For use in the manufacture of projectors
          • 9002.11.10.90Other
        • 9002.11.90.00Other
      • 9002.19.00.00Other
    • 9002.20.00.00Filters
    • 9002.90.00.00Other
  • 9003Frames and mountings for spectacles, goggles or the like, and parts thereof.
    • 9003.1Frames and mountings:
      • 9003.11Of plastics
        • 9003.11.10.00For prismatic eyeglasses; for safety goggles or safety spectacles, designed for use by workers employed in hazardous work
        • 9003.11.20.00For other spectacles, goggles or the like
      • 9003.19.00Of other materials
        • 9003.19.00.10For prismatic eyeglasses for reading; For safety goggles or safety spectacles, designed for use by workers employed in hazardous work
        • 9003.19.00.90Other
    • 9003.90Parts
      • 9003.90.10.00For use in the manufacture of ski goggles; Of other spectacles, goggles or the like, unfinished; Of prismatic eyeglasses for reading; Of safety goggles or safety spectacles designed for use by workers employed in hazardous work
      • 9003.90.90.00Other
  • 9004Spectacles, goggles and the like, corrective, protective or other.
  • 9005Binoculars, monoculars, other optical telescopes, and mountings therefor; other astronomical instruments and mountings therefor, but not including instruments for radio-astronomy.
  • 9006Photographic (other than cinematographic) cameras; photographic flashlight apparatus and flashbulbs other than discharge lamps of heading 85.39.
    • 9006.30Cameras specially designed for underwater use, for aerial survey or for medical or surgical examination of internal organs; comparison cameras for forensic or criminological purposes
      • 9006.30.10.00Comparison cameras for forensic or criminological purposes; For making negatives or positives of a width exceeding 8 cm and of a length exceeding 10.5 cm; Specially designed for medical or surgical examination of internal organs
      • 9006.30.90.00Other
    • 9006.40.00.00Instant print cameras
    • 9006.5Other cameras:
    • 9006.6Photographic flashlight apparatus and flashbulbs:
    • 9006.9Parts and accessories:
      • 9006.91For cameras
        • 9006.91.10.00Lantern slide attachments, lens hoods, stands and vignetters; Parts of the foregoing; Shutters and parts thereof, for use in the manufacture of cameras; Tripod tops and other parts of tripods; Unfinished parts for use in the manufacture of cameras; Other parts of the goods of tariff item No. 9006.30.10, 9006.40.00, 9006.53.90, 9006.59.10 or 9006.59.90
        • 9006.91.90.00Other
      • 9006.99Other
  • 9007Cinematographic cameras and projectors, whether or not incorporating sound recording or reproducing apparatus.
    • 9007.10Cameras
      • 9007.10.10.00For use with surgical, dental, veterinary or diagnostic instruments; To be employed in the commercial production of video tape productions, cinematographic films (motion picture films), animated films or multi-image shows
      • 9007.10.90.00Other
    • 9007.20Projectors
    • 9007.9Parts and accessories:
  • 9008Image projectors, other than cinematographic; photographic (other than cinematographic) enlargers and reducers.
  • 9010Apparatus and equipment for photographic (including cinematographic) laboratories, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter; negatoscopes; projection screens.
    • 9010.10.00.00Apparatus and equipment for automatically developing photographic (including cinematographic) film or paper in rolls or for automatically exposing developed film to rolls of photographic paper
    • 9010.50.00.00Other apparatus and equipment for photographic (including cinematographic) laboratories; negatoscopes
    • 9010.60.00.00Projection screens
    • 9010.90.00.00Parts and accessories
  • 9011Compound optical microscopes, including those for photomicrography, cinephotomicrography or microprojection.
  • 9012Microscopes other than optical microscopes; diffraction apparatus.
  • 9013Lasers, other than laser diodes; other optical appliances and instruments, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter.
  • 9014Direction finding compasses; other navigational instruments and appliances.
  • 9015Surveying (including photogrammetrical surveying), hydrographic, oceanographic, hydrological, meteorological or geophysical instruments and appliances, excluding compasses; rangefinders.
  • 9016.00.00.00Balances of a sensitivity of 5 cg or better, with or without weights.
  • 9017Drawing, marking-out or mathematical calculating instruments (for example, drafting machines, pantographs, protractors, drawing sets, slide rules, disc calculators); instruments for measuring length, for use in the hand (for example, measuring rods and tapes, micrometers, callipers), not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter.
  • 9018Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other electro-medical apparatus and sight-testing instruments.
  • 9019Mechano-therapy appliances; massage apparatus; psychological aptitude-testing apparatus; ozone therapy, oxygen therapy, aerosol therapy, artificial respiration or other therapeutic respiration apparatus.
    • 9019.10.00Mechano-therapy appliances; massage apparatus; psychological aptitude-testing apparatus
      • 9019.10.00.10Mechano-therapy appliances; power-operated massage apparatus; Psychological aptitude-testing apparatus.
      • 9019.10.00.20Manually operated massage apparatus
    • 9019.20.00.00Ozone therapy, oxygen therapy, aerosol therapy, artificial respiration or other therapeutic respiration apparatus
  • 9020.00.00.00Other breathing appliances and gas masks, excluding protective masks having neither mechanical parts nor replaceable filters.
  • 9021Orthopaedic appliances, including crutches, surgical belts and trusses; splints and other fracture appliances; artificial parts of the body; hearing aids and other appliances which are worn or carried, or implanted in the body, to compensate for a defect or disability.
  • 9022Apparatus based on the use of X-rays or of alpha, beta, gamma or other ionizing radiations, whether or not for medical, surgical, dental or veterinary uses, including radiography or radiotherapy apparatus, X-ray tubes and other X-ray generators, high tension generators, control panels and desks, screens, examination or treatment tables, chairs and the like.
    • 9022.1Apparatus based on the use of X-rays, whether or not for medical, surgical, dental or veterinary uses, including radiography or radiotherapy apparatus:
    • 9022.2Apparatus based on the use of alpha, beta, gamma or other ionizing radiations, whether or not for medical, surgical, dental or veterinary uses, including radiography or radiotherapy apparatus:
    • 9022.30.00.00X-ray tubes
    • 9022.90Other, including parts and accessories
  • 9023.00.00.00Instruments, apparatus and models, designed for demonstrational purposes (for example, in education or exhibitions), unsuitable for other uses.
  • 9024Machines and appliances for testing the hardness, strength, compressibility, elasticity or other mechanical properties of materials (for example, metals, wood, textiles, paper, plastics).
  • 9025Hydrometers and similar floating instruments, thermometers, pyrometers, barometers, hygrometers and psychrometers, recording or not, and any combination of these instruments.
  • 9026Instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking the flow, level, pressure or other variables of liquids or gases (for example, flowmeters, level gauges, manometers, heat meters), excluding instruments and apparatus of heading 90.14, 90.15, 90.28 or 90.32.
  • 9027Instruments and apparatus for physical or chemical analysis (for example, polarimeters, refractometers, spectrometers, gas or smoke analysis apparatus); instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking viscosity, porosity, expansion, surface tension or the like; instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking quantities of heat, sound or light (including exposure meters); microtomes.
  • 9028Gas, liquid or electricity supply or production meters, including calibrating meters therefor.
  • 9029Revolution counters, production counters, taximeters, mileometers, pedometers and the like; speed indicators and tachometers, other than those of heading 90.14 or 90.15; stroboscopes.
  • 9030Oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers and other instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking electrical quantities, excluding meters of heading 90.28; instruments and apparatus for measuring or detecting alpha, beta, gamma, X-ray, cosmic or other ionizing radiations.
    • 9030.10.00Instruments and apparatus for measuring or detecting ionizing radiations
      • 9030.10.00.10Alpha-beta Geiger counters, Geiger-Mueller counters and instruments and apparatus for measuring or detecting nuclear radiation
      • 9030.10.00.80Other electrical instruments and apparatus
      • 9030.10.00.90Other
    • 9030.20.00.00Oscilloscopes and oscillographs
    • 9030.3Other instruments and apparatus, for measuring or checking voltage, current, resistance or power (other than those for measuring or checking semiconductor wafers or devices):
    • 9030.40.00.00Other instruments and apparatus, specially designed for telecommunications (for example, cross-talk meters, gain measuring instruments, distortion factor meters, psophometers)
    • 9030.8Other instruments and apparatus:
    • 9030.90.00.00Parts and accessories
  • 9031Measuring or checking instruments, appliances and machines, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter; profile projectors.
  • 9032Automatic regulating or controlling instruments and apparatus.
  • 9033.00.00.00Parts and accessories (not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter) for machines, appliances, instruments or apparatus of Chapter 90.

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