EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 163 - MODIFYING THE NOMENCLATURE AND THE RATES OF IMPORT DUTY ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (IT) PRODUCTS UNDER SECTION 104 OF THE TARIFF AND CUSTOMS CODE OF 1978 (PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1464, AS AMENDED)

WHEREAS, during the APEC meeting held in Manila in November 1996, the 18 APEC leaders called for the conclusion of the Information Technology Agreement (ITA) by the first WTO Ministerial Conference in a move to eliminate tariffs by the year 2000, with fibility in the time frame for the elimination of tariffs;  

WHEREAS, on 13 December 1996, fourteen (14) economies signed in Singapore a Ministerial Declaration on Trade in Information Technology Products, providing for the elimination/binding of tariffs on IT products beginning 1 July 1997 and ending on 1 January 2000 with extended staging of tariff reductions up to the year 2005 for developing countries;

WHEREAS, the Philippines formally signed the Information Technology Agreement (ITA) on 1 April 1997;

WHEREAS, with the Philippine Senate ratification of ITA 1 on 3 December 1998, the Philippines can now implement its commitments under the said Agreement.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH EJERCITO ESTRADA, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby order:

Section 1. The articles specifically listed in “Annex A” hereof, as classified under Section 104 of the Tariff and Customs Code of 1978, as amended, shall be subject to the rates of import duty in accordance with the schedule indicated opposite each article.

Sec. 2. The nomenclature and the rates of import duty on tariff headings not enumerated and those listed but represented by the symbol xxx shall remain in force and effect.

Sec. 3. Upon the effectivity of this Executive Order, the articles specifically listed in the aforesaid “Annex” which are entered in or withdrawn from warehouses in the Philippines for consumption shall be levied the rates of duty herein presented.

Sec. 4. All other Presidential issuances, administrative rules and regulations, or parts thereof, which are inconsistent with this Executive Order are hereby revoked or modified accordingly.

Sec. 5. This Executive Order shall take effect on 1 January 2000 following the complete publication in two (2) newspapers of general circulation in the Philippines.  

Done in the City of Manila, this 18th day of October, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and ninety nine.

“Annex A”

RATE OF
DUTY (%)
HDG. H.S. DESCRIPTION 1 January
NO. CODE 2000

70.17 Laboratory, hygienic or pharmaceutical glassware,
whether or not graduated or calibrated.

7017.10 - Of fused quartz or other fused silica:
7017.10 10 --- Quartz reactor tubes and holders designed for
insertion into diffusion and oxidation furnaces for
production of semiconductor wafers Free
7017.10 90 --- Other 3
7017.20 00 - xxx
7017.90 00 - xxx
84.19 Machinery, plant or laboratory equipment, whether
or not electrically heated, for the treatment of
materials by a process involving a change of
temperature such as heating, cooking, roasting,
distilling, rectifying, sterilising, pasteurising,
steaming, drying, evaporating, vaporising,
condensing or cooling, other than machinery or
plant of a kind used for domestic purposes;
instantaneous or storage water heaters, non-electric.

- xxx
8419.11 00 -- xxx
8419.19 00 -- xxx
8419.20 00 - xxx
- xxx
8419.31 00 -- xxx
8419.32 00 -- xxx
8419.39 00 -- xxx
8419.40 00 - xxx
8419.50 - xxx
8419.50 10 --- xxx
8419.50 90 --- xxx
8419.60 00 - xxx
- Other machinery, plant or equipment:
8419.81 00 -- xxx
8419.89 -- Other:
8419.89 10 --- xxx
8419.89 20 --- Chemical vapor deposition apparatus for
semiconductor production Free
8419.89 90 --- xxx
8419.90 00 - Parts:
8419.90 10 --- Parts of chemical vapor deposition apparatus for
semiconductor production Free
8419.90 90 --- Other 3
84.21 Centrifuges, including centrifugal dryers; filtering or
purifying machinery and apparatus, for liquids or
gases.

- Centrifuges, including centrifugal dryers:
8421.11 00 -- xxx
8421.12 00 -- xxx
8421.19 -- Other:
8421.19 10 --- Spin dryers for semiconductor wafer processing Free
8421.19 90 --- Other 3
- xxx
8421.21 00 -- xxx
8421.22 00 -- xxx
8421.23 00 -- xxx
8421.29 00 -- xxx
- xxx
8421.31 00 -- xxx
8421.39 00 -- xxx
- Parts:
8421.91 -- Of centrifuges, including centrifugal dryers:
8421.91 10 --- Parts of spin dryers for semiconductor wafer
processing Free
8421.91 90 --- Other 3
8421.99 00 -- xxx
84.24 Mechanical appliances (whether or not hand-
operated) for projecting, dispersing or spraying
liquids or powders; fire extinguishers, whether or
not charged; spray guns and similar appliances;
steam or sand blasting machines and similar jet
projecting machines.

8424.10 - xxx
8424.10 10 --- xxx
8424.10 90 --- xxx
8424.20 00 - xxx
8424.30 00 - xxx
- Other appliances:
8424.81 -- xxx
8424.81 10 --- xxx
8424.81 90 --- xxx
8424.89 - Other:
8424.89 10 --- xxx
8424.89 11 ---- xxx
8424.89 19 ---- xxx
8424.89 20 --- Deflash machines for cleaning and removing
contaminants from the metal leads of
semiconductor packages prior to the electroplating
process; spraying appliances for etching, stripping
or cleaning semiconductor wafers Free
8424.89 90 --- xxx
8424.90 - Parts:
8424.90 10 --- xxx
8424.90 20 --- Parts of deflash machines for cleaning and removing
contaminants from the metal leads of semiconductor
packages prior to the electroplating process; parts of
spraying appliances for etching, stripping or cleaning
semiconductor wafers Free
8424.90 90 --- xxx
84.28 Other lifting, handling, loading or unloading
machinery (for example, lifts, escalators, conveyors,
teleferics).

8428.10 00 - xxx
8428.20 00 - xxx
- Other continuous-action elevators and conveyors, for
goods or materials:
8428.31 00 -- xxx
8428.32 00 -- xxx
8428.33 -- Other, belt type:
8428.33 10 --- Automated machines for transport, handling and
storage of semiconductor wafers, wafer cassettes,
wafer boxes and other materials for semiconductor
devices Free
8428.33 90 --- Other 3
8428.39 -- Other:
8428.39 10 --- Automated machines for transport, handling and
storage of semiconductor wafers, wafer cassettes,
wafer boxes and other materials for semiconductor
devices Free
8428.39 90 --- Other 3
8428.40 00 - xxx
8428.50 00 - xxx
8428.60 00 - xxx
8428.90 - Other machinery:
8428.90 10 --- Automated machines for transport, handling and
storage of semiconductor wafers, wafer cassettes,
wafer boxes and other materials for semiconductor
devices Free
8428.90 90 --- Other 3
84.31 Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the
machinery of headings Nos. 84.25 to 84.30.

8431.10 00 - xxx
8431.20 00 - xxx
- Of machinery of heading No. 84.28:
8431.31 00 -- xxx
8431.39 -- Other:
8431.39 10 --- Parts for automated machines for transport, handling
and storage of semiconductor wafers, wafer
cassettes, wafer boxes and other materials for
semiconductor devices Free
8431.39 90 --- Other 3
- xxx
8431.41 00 -- xxx
8431.42 -- xxx
8431.42 10 --- xxx
8431.42 90 --- xxx
8431.43 00 -- xxx
8431.49 -- xxx
8431.49 10 --- xxx
8431.49 90 --- xxx
84.56 Machine-tools for working any material by removal
of material, by laser or other light or photon beam,
ultrasonic, electro-discharge, electro-chemical,
electron beam, ionic beam or plasma arc processes.

8456.10 - Operated by laser or other light or photon beam
processes:
8456.10 10 --- Machines for working any material by removal of
material, by laser or other light or photon beam in
the production of semiconductor wafers Free
8456.10 90 --- Other 3
8456.20 00 -xxx
8456.30 00 -xxx
- Other:
8456.91 00 -- For dry-etching patterns on semiconductor materials Free
8456.99 -- Other:
8456.99 10 --- Focused ion beam milling machines to produce or
repair masks and reticles for patterns on
semiconductor devices; lasercutters for cutting
contacting tracks in semiconductor production by
laser beam Free
8456.99 90 --- Other 3
84.64 Machine-tools for working stone, ceramics, concrete,
asbestos-cement or like mineral materials or for cold
working glass.

8464.10 - Sawing machines:
8464.10 10 --- Machines for sawing monocrystal semiconductor
boules into slices, or wafers into chips Free
8464.10 90 --- Other 3
8464.20 - Grinding or polishing machines:
8464.20 10 --- Grinding, polishing and lapping machines for
processing of semiconductor wafers Free
8464.20 90 --- Other 3
8464.90 - Other:
8464.90 10 --- Dicing machines for scribing or scoring
semiconductor wafers Free
8464.90 90 --- Other 3
84.66 Parts and accessories suitable for use solely or
principally with the machines of headings Nos. 84.56
to 84.65, including work or tool holders, self-opening
dieheads, dividing heads and other special
attachments for machine-tools; tool holders for any
type of tool for working in the hand.

8466.10 00 - xxx
8466.20 00 - xxx
8466.30 00 - xxx
- Other
8466.91 -- For machines of heading No. 84.64:
8466.91 10 --- Parts for machines of subheading Nos. 8464.10 10,
8464.20 10 and 8464.90 10 Free
8466.91 90 --- Other 3
8466.92 00 -- xxx
8466.93 -- For machines of heading Nos. 84.56 to 84.61:
8466.93 10 --- Parts for machines of subheading Nos. 8456.10 10,
8456.91 00 and 8456.99 10 Free
8466.93 90 --- Other 3
8466.94 00 -- xxx
84.69 Typewriters other than printers of heading No. 84.71;
word-processing machines.

- Automatic typewriters and word-processing machines:
8469.11 00 -- Word-processing machines Free
8469.12 00 -- xxx
8469.20 00 - xxx
8469.30 00 - xxx
84.70 Calculating machines and pocket-size data
recording, reproducing and displaying machines
with calculating functions; accounting machines,
postage-franking machines, ticket-issuing machines
and similar machines, incorporating a calculating
device; cash registers.

8470.10 00 - Electronic calculators capable of operation without an
external source of electric power and pocket-size data
recording, reproducing and displaying machines with
calculating functions Free
- Other electronic calculating machines:
8470.21 00 -- Incorporating a printing device Free
8470.29 00 -- Other Free
8470.30 00 - Other calculating machines Free
8470.40 00 - Accounting machines Free
8470.50 00 - Cash registers Free
8470.90 00 - Other Free
84.71 Automatic data processing machines and units
thereof; magnetic or optical readers, machines for
transcribing data onto data media in coded form and
machines for processing such data, not elsewhere
specified or included.

8471.10 00 - Analogue or hybrid automatic data processing
machines Free
8471.30 00 - Portable digital automatic data processing machines,
weighing not more than 10 kg, consisting of at least a
central processing unit, a keyboard and a display Free
- Other digital automatic data processing machines:
8471.41 00 -- Comprising in the same housing at least a central
processing unit and an input and output unit, whether
or not combined Free
8471.49 00 -- Other, presented in the form of systems Free
8471.50 00 - Digital processing units other than those of
subheadings 8471.41 and 8471.49, whether or not
containing in the same housing one or two of the
following types of unit: storage units, input units, output
units Free
8471.60 00 - Input or output units, whether or not containing storage
units in the same housing Free
8471.70 00 - Storage units Free
8471.80 00 - Other units of automatic data processing machines Free
8471.90 00 - Other Free
84.72 Other office machines (for example, hectograph or
stencil duplicating machines, addressing machines,
automatic banknote dispensers, coin-sorting
machines, coin-counting or wrapping machines,
pencil-sharpening machines, perforating or stapling
machines)
8472.10 00 - xxx
8472.20 00 - xxx
8472.30 00 - xxx
8472.90 - xxx
8472.90 10 --- xxx
8472.90 20 --- Automatic banknote dispensers or automatic
teller machines Free
8472.90 90 --- xxx
84.73 Parts and accessories (other than covers, carrying
cases and the like) suitable for use solely or
principally with machines of headings Nos. 84.69 to
84.72.

8473.10 00 - xxx
- Parts and accessories of the machines of heading
No. 84.70:
8473.21 00 -- Of the electronic calculating machines of subheading
Nos. 8470.10, 8470.21 or 8470.29 Free
8473.29 00 -- Other Free
8473.30 00 - Parts and accessories of the machines of heading
No. 84.71 Free
8473.40 00 - xxx
8473.50 00 - Parts and accessories equally suitable for use with
machines of two or more of the headings Nos. 84.69
to 84.72 Free
84.77 Machinery for working rubber or plastics or for the
manufacture of products from these materials, not
specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter.

8477.10 - Injection-moulding machines:
8477.10 10 --- Encapsulation equipment for assembly of
semiconductors Free
8477.10 90 --- Other 3
8477.20 00 - xxx
8477.30 00 - xxx
8477.40 00 - xxx
- xxx
8477.51 00 -- xxx
8477.59 00 -- xxx
8477.80 00 - xxx
8477.90 - Parts:
8477.90 10 --- Parts of encapsulation equipment for assembly of
semiconductors Free
8477.90 90 --- Other 3
84.79 Machines and mechanical appliances having
individual functions, not specified or included
elsewhere in this Chapter.

8479.10 00 - xxx
8479.20 00 - xxx
8479.30 00 - xxx
8479.40 00 - xxx
8479.50 - Industrial robots, not elsewhere specified or included:
8479.50 10 --- Automated machines for transport, handling and
storage of semiconductor wafers, wafer cassettes,
wafer boxes and other materials for semiconductor
devices Free
8479.50 90 --- Other 3
8479.60 00 - xxx
- Other machines and mechanical appliances:
8479.81 00 -- xxx
8479.82 00 -- xxx
8479.89 -- Other
8479.89 10 --- Apparatus for growing or pulling monocrystal
semiconductor boules; apparatus for physical
deposition by sputtering on semiconductor wafers;
apparatus for wet etching, developing, stripping or
cleaning semiconductor wafers and flat panel
displays; die attach apparatus, tape automated
bonders, wire bonders and encapsulation
equipment for assembly of semiconductors; epitaxial
deposition machines for semiconductor wafers;
machines for bending, folding and straightening
semiconductor leads; physical deposition apparatus
for semiconductor production; spinners for coating
photographic emulsions on semiconductor wafers;
automated machines for transport, handling and
storage of semiconductor wafers, wafer cassettes,
wafer boxes and other materials for semiconductor
devices Free
8479.89 90 --- Other 3
8479.90 - Parts:
8479.90 10 --- Part of the apparatus and machines of subheading
No. 8479.89 10 Free
8479.90 90 --- Other 3
84.80 Moulding boxes for metal foundry; mould bases;
moulding patterns; moulds for metal (other than
ingot moulds), metal carbides, glass, mineral
materials, rubber or plastics.

8480.10 00 - xxx
8480.20 00 - xxx
8480.30 00 - xxx
- xxx
8480.41 00 -- xxx
8480.49 00 -- xxx
8480.50 00 - xxx
8480.60 00 - xxx
- Moulds for rubber or plastics:
8480.71 -- Injection or compression types:
8480.71 10 --- Injection and compression moulds for the
manufacture semiconductor devices Free
8480.71 90 --- Other 3
8480.79 00 -- xxx
85.04 Electric transformers, static converters (for
example, rectifiers) and inductors.

8504.10 00 - xxx
- xxx
8504.21 -- xxx
8504.21 10 --- xxx
8504.21 90 --- xxx
8504.22 -- xxx
8504.22 10 --- xxx
8504.22 90 --- xxx
8504.23 -- xxx
8504.23 10 --- xxx
8504.23 90 --- xxx
- xxx
8504.31 -- xxx
8504.31 10 --- xxx
8504.31 20 --- xxx
8504.31 30 --- xxx
8504.31 40 --- xxx
8504.31 90 --- xxx
8504.32 -- xxx
8504.32 10 --- xxx
8504.32 90 --- xxx
8504.33 00 -- xxx
8504.34 -- xxx
8504.34 10 --- xxx
8504.34 90 --- xxx
8504.40 - Static converters:
8504.40 10 --- Static converters for automatic data processing
machines and units thereof, and
telecommunications apparatus Free
8504.40 90 --- Other 10
8504.50 - Other inductors:
8504.50 10 --- Other inductors for power supplies for automatic
data processing machines and units thereof, and
telecommunication apparatus Free
8504.50 90 --- Other 10
8504.90 00 - xxx
85.14 Industrial or laboratory electric (including induction
or dielectric) furnaces and ovens; other industrial or
laboratory induction or dielectric heating equipment.

8514.10 - Resistance heated furnaces and ovens:
8514.10 10 --- Resistance heated furnaces and ovens for the
manufacture of semiconductor devices on
semiconductor wafers Free
8514.10 90 --- Other 3
8514.20 - Induction or dielectric furnaces and ovens:
8514.20 10 -- Inductance or dielectric furnaces and ovens for the
manufacture of semiconductor devices on
semiconductor wafers Free
8514.20 90 --- Other 3
8514.30 - Other furnaces and ovens:
8514.30 10 --- Apparatus for rapid heating of semiconductor wafers Free
8514.30 90 --- Other 3
8514.40 00 - xxx
8514.90 - Parts:
8514.90 10 --- Parts of furnaces and ovens of subheading
Nos. 8514.10 10, 8514.20 10 and 8514.30 10 Free
8514.90 90 --- Other 3
85.18 Microphones and stands therefor; loudspeakers,
whether or not mounted in their enclosures;
headphones, earphones and combined
microphone/speaker sets; audio-frequency electric
amplifiers; electric sound amplifier sets.

8518.10 - xxx
8518.10 10 --- xxx
8518.10 90 --- xxx
- xxx
8518.21 00 -- xxx
8518.22 00 -- xxx
8518.29 -- xxx
8518.29 10 --- xxx
8518.29 20 --- xxx
8518.29 90 --- xxx
8518.30 - xxx
8518.30 10 --- xxx
8518.30 90 --- xxx
8518.40 - xxx
8518.40 10 --- xxx
8518.40 90 --- xxx
8518.50 00 - xxx
8518.90 - Parts:
8518.90 10 --- Parts including printed circuit assemblies of
subheading Nos. 8518.10 10, 8518.29 20,
8518.30 10 and 8518.40 10 Free
8518.90 90 --- xxx
85.22 Parts and accessories suitable for use solely or
principally with the apparatus of headings Nos. 85.19
to 85.21.

8522.10 00 - xxx
8522.90 - Other:
8522.90 10 --- xxx
8522.90 20 --- xxx
8522.90 30 --- Parts including printed circuit assemblies of
telephone answering machines Free
8522.90 90 --- xxx
85.23 Prepared unrecorded media for sound recording or
similar recording of other phenomena, other than
products of Chapter 37.

- xxx
8523.11 -- xxx
8523.11 10 --- xxx
8523.11 90 --- xxx
8523.12 -- xxx
8523.12 10 --- xxx
8523.12 90 --- xxx
8523.13 -- xxx
8523.13 10 --- xxx
8523.13 20 --- xxx
8523.13 90 --- xxx
8523.20 - xxx
8523.20 10 --- xxx
8523.20 90 --- xxx
8523.30 00 - xxx
8523.90 - Other:
8523.90 10 --- Compact discs (CD) media and other unrecorded
media for automatic data processing machines Free
8523.90 90 --- xxx
85.31 Electric sound or visual signaling apparatus (for
example, bells, sirens, indicator panels, burglar or
fire alarms), other than those of heading No. 85.12 or
85.30.

8531.10 00 - xxx
8531.20 00 - Indicator panels incorporating liquid crystal devices
(LCD) or light emitting diodes (LED) Free
8531.80 - Other apparatus:
8531.80 10 --- Flat panel displays (including Electro Luminescence,
Plasma and other technologies) for products falling
within the Information Technology Agreement (ITA);
paging alert devices Free
8531.80 90 --- Other 3
8531.90 - Parts:
8531.90 10 --- Parts including printed circuit assemblies of the
apparatus of subheading Nos. 8531.20 00 and
8531.80 10 Free
8531.90 90 --- Other 3
85.34 8534.00 00 Printed circuits. Free
85.36 Electrical apparatus for switching or protecting
electric circuits, or for making connections to or in
electric circuits (for example, switches, relays,
fuses, surge suppressors, plugs, sockets, lamp-
holders, junction boxes), for a voltage not exceeding
1,000 volts.

8536.10 - xxx
8536.10 10 --- xxx
8536.10 20 --- xxx
8536.10 90 --- xxx
8536.20 00 - xxx
8536.30 00 - xxx
8536.41 00 -- xxx
8536.49 00 -- xxx
8536.50 - xxx
8536.50 10 --- xxx
8536.50 20 --- xxx
8536.50 30 --- xxx
8536.50 40 --- xxx
8536.50 90 --- xxx
- Lamp-holders, plugs and sockets:
8536.61 00 -- xxx
8536.69 -- Other:
8536.69 10 --- Telephone plugs Free
8536.69 20 --- xxx
8536.69 90 --- xxx
8536.90 - Other apparatus:
8536.90 10 --- Connection and contact elements for wires and
cables; wafer probers Free
8536.90 90 --- Other 3
85.38 Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the
apparatus of heading No. 85.35, 85.36 or 85.37.

8538.10 00 - xxx
8538.90 - Other:
8538.90 10 --- Parts including printed circuit assemblies of the
apparatus of subheading Nos. 8536.69 10 and
8536.90 10 Free
8538.90 90 --- Other 3
85.42 Electronic integrated circuits and microassemblies.

- Monolithic digital integrated circuits:
8542.12 00 -- xxx
8542.13 00 -- Metal oxide semiconductors (MOS technology) Free
8542.14 00 -- Circuits obtained by bipolar technology Free
8542.19 00 -- xxx
8542.30 00 - Other monolithic integrated circuits Free
8542.40 00 - xxx
8542.50 00 - Electronic microassemblies Free
8542.90 00 - xxx
85.43 Electrical machines and apparatus, having individual
functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this
Chapter.

- Particle accelerators:
8543.11 00 -- Ion implanters for doping semiconductor materials Free
8543.19 00 -- xxx
8543.20 00 - xxx
8543.30 - Machines and apparatus for electroplating, electrolysis
or electrophoresis:
8543.30 10 --- Apparatus for wet etching, developing, stripping or
cleaning semiconductor wafers and flat panel
displays Free
8543.30 90 --- Other 3
8543.40 00 - xxx
- Other machines and apparatus:
8543.81 00 -- Proximity cards and tags Free
8543.89 -- Other:
8543.89 10 --- xxx
8543.89 20 --- Electrical machines with translation or dictionary
functions; flat panel displays (including LCD, Electro-
Luminescence, Plasma and other technologies
falling within the Information Technology Agreement
(ITA); projection type flat panel display units used
with automatic data processing machines which can
display digital information generated by the central
processing unit Free
8543.89 90 --- xxx
8543.90 - Parts:
8543.90 10 --- xxx
8543.90 20 --- Parts including printed circuit assemblies of
apparatus of subheading Nos. 8543.11 00,
8543.30 10, 8543.81 00 and 8543.89 20 Free
8543.90 90 --- xxx
90.09 Photo-copying apparatus incorporating an optical
system or of the contact type and thermo-copying
apparatus.

- Electrostatic photo-copying apparatus:
9009.11 00 -- Operating by reproducing the original image directly
onto the copy (direct process) Free
9009.12 00 -- xxx
- Other photo-copying apparatus:
9009.21 00 -- Incorporating an optical system Free
9009.22 00 -- xxx
9009.30 00 - xxx
9009.90 00 - Parts and accessories Free
90.10 Apparatus and equipment for photographic
(including cinematographic) laboratories (including
apparatus for the projection or drawing of circuit
patterns on sensitised semi-conductor materials),
not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter;
negatoscopes; projection screens.

9010.10 00 - xxx
- Apparatus for the projection or drawing of circuit
patterns on sensitised semiconductor materials:
9010.41 00 -- Direct write-on-wafer apparatus Free
9010.42 00 -- Step and repeat aligners Free
9010.49 00 -- Other Free
9010.50 00 - xxx
9010.60 00 - xxx
9010.90 - Parts and accessories:
9010.90 10 --- Parts and accessories of the apparatus of
subheading Nos. 9010.41 00, 9010.42 00 and
9010.49 00 Free
9010.90 90 --- Other 3
90.11 Compound optical microscopes, including those for
microphotography, cinephotomicrography or
microprojection.

9011.10 - Stereoscopic microscopes:
9011.10 10 --- Optical stereoscopic microscopes fitted with
equipment specifically designed for the handling and
transport of semiconductor wafers or reticles Free
9011.10 90 --- Other 3
9011.20 - Other microscopes, for microphotography,
cinephotomicrography or microprojection:
9011.20 10 --- Photomicrographic microscopes fitted with
equipment specifically designed for the handling and
transport of semiconductor wafers or reticles Free
9011.20 90 --- Other 3
9011.80 00 - xxx
9011.90 - Parts and accessories:
9011.90 10 --- Parts and accessories of optical stereoscopic and
photomicrographic microscopes fitted with
equipment specifically designed for the handling and
transport of semiconductor wafers or reticles Free
9011.90 90 --- Other 3
90.12 Microscopes other than optical microscopes;
diffraction apparatus.

9012.10 - Microscopes other than optical microscopes and
diffraction apparatus:
9012.10 10 --- Electron beam microscopes fitted with equipment
specifically designed for the handling and transport
of semiconductor wafers or reticles Free
9012.10 90 --- Other 3
9012.90 - Parts and accessories:
9012.90 10 --- Parts and accessories of electron beam microscopes
fitted with equipment specifically designed for the
handling and transport of semiconductor wafers or
reticles Free
9012.90 90 --- Other 3
90.17 Drawing, 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.

9017.10 00 - xxx
9017.20 - Other drawing, marking-out or mathematical calculating
instruments:
9017.20 10 --- xxx
9017.20 20 --- Pattern generating apparatus of a kind used for
producing masks or reticles from photoresist coated
substrates Free
9017.20 90 --- xxx
9017.30 00 - xxx
9017.80 00 - xxx
9017.90 - Parts and accessories:
9017.90 10 --- Parts and accessories including printed circuit
assemblies for pattern generating apparatus of a
kind used for producing masks or reticles from
photoresist coated substrates Free
9017.90 90 --- Other 3
90.26 Instruments and apparatus for measuring or
checking the flow, level, pressure or other variables
of liquids or gases (for example, flow meters, level
gauges, manometers, heat meters), excluding
instruments and apparatus of heading No. 90.14,
90.15, 90.28 or 90.32.

9026.10 - xxx
9026.10 10 --- xxx
9026.10 90 --- xxx
9026.20 - xxx
9026.20 10 --- xxx
9026.20 90 --- xxx
9026.80 00 - Other instruments or apparatus Free
9026.90 00 - Parts and accessories Free
90.27 Instruments and apparatus for physical or chemical
analysis (for example, polarimeters, refractometers,
spectro-meters, 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.

9027.10 00 - xxx
9027.20 00 - Chromatographs and electrophoresis instruments Free
9027.30 00 - Spectrometers, spectrophotometers and spectrographs
using optical radiations (UV, visible, IR) Free
9027.40 00 - xxx
9027.50 00 - Other instruments and apparatus using optical
radiations (UV, visible, IR) Free
9027.80 00 - Other instruments and apparatus Free
9027.90 - Microtomes; parts and accessories:
9027.90 10 --- Parts and accessories including printed circuit
assemblies of products of heading 90.27, other than
for gas or smoke analysis apparatus and
microtomes Free
9027.90 90 --- Other 3
90.30 Oscilloscopes, spectrum analysers and other
instruments and apparatus for measuring or
checking electrical quantities, excluding meters of
heading No. 90.28; instruments and apparatus for
measuring or detecting alpha, beta, gamma, X-ray,
cosmic or other ionising radiations.

9030.10 00 - xxx
9030.20 00 - xxx
- xxx
9030.31 00 -- xxx
9030.39 -- xxx
9030.39 10 --- xxx
9030.39 90 --- xxx
9030.40 00 - Other instruments and apparatus, specially designed
for telecommunications (for example, cross-talk meters,
gain measuring instruments, distortion factor meters,
psophometers) Free
- Other instruments and apparatus:
9030.82 00 -- For measuring or checking semiconductor wafers or
devices
9030.83 00 -- xxx
9030.89 00 -- xxx
9030.90 - Parts and accessories:
9030.90 10 --- Parts and accessories including printed circuit
assemblies of instruments and apparatus of
subheading Nos. 9030.40 00 and 9030.82 00 Free
9030.90 90 --- Other 3
90.31 Measuring or checking instruments, appliances and
machines, not specified or included elsewhere in
this Chapter, profile projectors.

9031.10 00 - xxx
9031.20 00 - xxx
9031.30 00 - xxx
- Other optical instruments and appliances:
9031.41 00 -- For inspecting semiconductor wafers or devices or for
inspecting photomasks or reticles used in
manufacturing semiconductor devices Free
9031.49 -- Other:
9031.49 10 --- Optical instruments and appliances for measuring
surface particulate contamination on semiconductor
wafers Free
9031.49 90 --- Other 3
9031.80 00 - xxx
9031.90 - Parts and accessories:
9031.90 10 --- Parts and accessories including printed circuit
assemblies of optical instruments and appliances of
subheading Nos. 9031.41 00 and 9031.49 10 Free
9031.90 90 --- Other 3