Other

This chapter does not cover: caps, detonators, signalling flares and other pyrotechnic articles of heading 3604, parts of general use as defined in Note 2 to Section XV, armoured fighting vehicles (heading 8710), telescopic sights or other optical devices of Chapter 90 unless mounted on arms, or swords, cutlasses, bayonets and similar arms intended for display or collection when recognizable as antiques (heading 9706). The chapter covers military weapons (heading 9301), revolvers and pistols (heading 9302), other firearms (heading 9303-9304), parts and accessories (heading 9305), and bombs, grenades, torpedoes, mines, missiles and similar munitions of war, and parts thereof (heading 9306). Cartridges and other ammunition, and parts thereof including shot and cartridge wads, are covered by heading 9306.

1. This Section does not cover: (a) goods of Chapter 36 (for example, percussion caps, detonators, signalling flares); (b) parts 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 8710); (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) crossbows (heading 9506); (f) swords, cutlasses, bayonets, lances and similar arms, and parts thereof and scabbards and sheaths therefor (heading 9307). 2. In heading 9306, the reference to 'parts thereof' does not include radio or radar apparatus of heading 8526.