Item 2: A machine with sound-reproducing and - editing/mixing functions (so-called ‘disc- jockey multi-player’) in a housing with dimensions of approximately 40 × 32 × 10 cm. It is equipped with a CD-reader and has various interfaces (USB, audio outputs, SD card-reader). It has knobs, push-buttons, sliders and a 6,1 inch liquid crystal display (LCD) indicator. The machine is capable of editing and mixing sound. For those purposes it is, inter alia, equipped with: — an auto beats-per-minute (BPM)
Classification is determined by general rules 1 and 6 for the interpretation of the Combined Nomenclature, note 3 to Section XVI and by the wording of CN codes 8543, 8543 70 and 8543 70 90. As the machine is designed for the purpose of performing two alternative functions (sound reproducing function and sound editing/mixing function), it is to be classified, by virtue of note 3 to Section XVI, as being that machine which performs the principal function. Due to its objective characteristics, namely the number of technical features for editing and mixing sound, the possibility to mix sound files originating from various sources, the design and conception of the machine, the sound editing /mixing function is the machine's principal function. Consequently, classification under heading 8519 is excluded. The machine is therefore to be classified under CN code 8543 70 90 as other machines and apparatus, having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in Chapter 85. Documented CN 2026 code: 85437090.
25 mars 2014