Articles of iron or steel wire

2025/2380

The product is a specially designed support made of heat-resistant stainless steel wire, capable of withstanding temperatures up to 800 °C. It consists of bent wires with ends to allow secure attachment in an orifice located at the base of the electric grill body. Its main function is to securely hold the heating element of the grill, supporting its weight and ensuring uniform heat distribution on the cooking surface. This support does not perform any other functions, notably it does not generate heat. According to the General Rules of Interpretation (GRI 1 and 6) and the wording of the Combined Nomenclature (CN) codes, although this component is essential for the operation of the electric grill, it is not identifiable as a part exclusively or mainly intended for electrothermal appliances of heading 8516. Therefore, it is excluded from this heading and should be classified according to its constituent material, namely a wire product of steel, under heading 7326, CN code 7326 20 00. This classification is in accordance with the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union (case C-336/11). The product is thus a stainless steel wire product used as a retention device for the heating element of an electric grill, ensuring electrical safety and durability of the device.

2017/2248

This article is a preformed guy grip dead end in the shape of a 'U', composed of six galvanized carbon steel wires, cold drawn, zinc-coated (individual thickness: 3.25 mm), loosely twisted and intended to be twisted together around cables or wooden poles for securing them ('guy grip dead end'). Mainly used to secure and hold telegraph poles in place, it has a specific application in the telecommunications infrastructure sector. Probable classification under heading 73, as a wire or steel product, with no specific regulation other than REACH compliance and potential CE marking depending on the final use.

1030/86

Whereas, in order to ensure uniform application of the nomenclature of the Common Customs Tariff, provision must be made for the classification of a key-ring consisting of a small nickel-plated steel chain approximately 3 cm in length, with, at one end, a ring of the same metal that can be opened and closed and at the other a small protective cover of plastic material (approximately 5 × 2,5 cm) containing a miniature address book, the cover of which bears a promotional message; Whereas the Common Customs Tariff annexed to Council Regulation (EEC) No 950/68 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3679/85 (4), lists within heading No 73.40 other articles of iron or steel and within heading No 48.18, amongst other things, registers, exercise books, note-books, memorandum blocks, order books, receipt books and diaries; whereas these headings may be taken into consideration in classifying the goods in question; Whereas the key-ring is a composite article; whereas the address book is too small to be of practial use; whereas the ring and small chain, of nickel-plated steel, give the article, having regard to its normal use, its essential character within the meaning of General Rule 3 (b) for the interpretation of the nomenclature of the Common Customs Tariff; whereas the key-ring should therefore be classified within subheading 7326 20 00; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee on Common Customs Tariff Nomenclature, Documented CN 2026 code: 73262000.

HARK GmbH & Co KG Kamin- und Kachelofenbau v Hauptzollamt Duisburg

On those grounds, the Court (Tenth Chamber) hereby rules: The Combined Nomenclature in Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July 1987 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff, as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1031/2008 of 19 September 2008, must be interpreted as meaning that a stove pipe set, such as that at issue in the main proceedings, which comprises a right-angled tubular elbow component in steel with an external diameter of 154 mm and external dimensions of 495 mm x 595 mm, which is covered in heat-resistant paint and has a closing flap to allow internal cleaning, a chimney connection and an appropriate surround, must be classified under CN heading 7321 as a part, in steel, of a stove. [Signatures] ( *1 ) Language of the case: German.

SIA Kurcums Metal v Valsts ieņēmumu dienests

On those grounds, the Court (Eighth Chamber) hereby rules: 1. Subheading 5607 49 11 of the Combined Nomenclature in Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July 1987 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff, as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1549/2006 of 17 October 2006, must be interpreted as meaning that cables such as those at issue in the main proceedings, which consist of both polypropylene and wound steel thread, do not fall as such within that subheading. 2. General rule 3(b) for the interpretation of the Combined Nomenclature in Annex I to Regulation No 2658/87, as amended by Regulation No 1549/2006, must be interpreted as meaning that the tariff classification of cables such as those at issue in the main proceedings is not to be carried out pursuant to that rule, subject to verification by the referring court, in the light of all the elements of fact placed before it, that neither of the two materials of which those cables are composed in itself gives those cables their essential character. 3. Article 1 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1601/2001 of 2 August 2001 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty and definitively collecting the provisional anti-dumping duty imposed on imports of certain iron or steel ropes and cables originating in the Czech Republic, Russia, Thailand and Turkey must be interpreted as meaning that cables such as those at issue in the main proceedings, on the assumption that they are covered by subheading 7312 10 98 of the Combined Nomenclature in Annex I to Regulation No 2658/87, as amended by Regulation No 1549/2006, fall within the scope of that provision. 4. Subheading 7317 00 90 of the Combined Nomenclature in Annex I to Regulation No 2658/87, as amended by Regulation No 1549/2006, must be interpreted as meaning that corrugated clips with rounded tips connected by means of a pin, such as those at issue in the main proceedings, do not fall within that subheading. [Signatures] (