Full report Pub3851 - USITC

Appendix B(C) Heading 8486 also includes machines and apparatus solely or principally of a kind used for :(i)(ii)the manufacture or repair of masks and reticles;assembling semiconductor devices or electronic integrated circuits; and(iii) lifting, handling, loading or unloading of boules, wafers, semiconductor devices, electronic integrated circuitsand flat panel displays.(D) Subject to Note 1 to Section XVI and Note 1 to Chapter 84, machines and apparatus answering to the description inheading 8486 are to be classified in that heading and in no other heading of the Nomenclature.”84-6. Subheading Note 1 to Chapter 84 is modified by replacing “note 5(B)” by “note 5(C)”.84-7. Additional U.S. Note 2 is modified by deleting the expression “Subheadings 8473.30.30 and8473.30.60 cover the following parts of printers of subheading 8471.60:” and substituting“Subheading 8443.99.20 covers the following parts of printer units of subheading 8443.32.10:”in lieu thereof.84-7a Additional U.S. Note 3 is deleted.84-8. The following new Additional U.S. Note 3 to chapter 84 is inserted in numerical sequence:“3. Subheading 8443.99.30 covers the following parts of facsimile machines:(a)(b)(c)(d)(e)(f)(g)(h)(ij)Control or command assemblies, incorporating more than one of the following: printed circuit assembly, modem,hard or flexible (floppy) disk drive, keyboard, user interface;Optics module assemblies, incorporating more than one of the following: optics lamp, charged coupled device andappropriate optics, lenses, mirrors;Laser imaging assemblies, incorporating more than one of the following: photoreceptor belt or cylinder, tonerreceptacle unit, toner developing unit, charge/discharge units, cleaning unit;Ink jet marking assemblies, incorporating more than one of the following: thermal print head, ink dispensing unit,nozzle and reservoir unit, ink heater;Thermal transfer imaging assemblies, incorporating more than one of the following: thermal print head, cleaningunit, supply or take-up roller;Ionographic imaging assemblies, incorporating more than one of the following: ion generation and emitting unit, airassist unit, printed circuit assembly, charge receptor belt or cylinder, toner receptacle unit, toner distribution unit,developer receptacle and distribution unit, developing unit, charge/discharge unit, cleaning unit;Image fixing assemblies, incorporating more than one of the following: fuser, pressure roller, heating elements,release oil dispenser, cleaning unit, electrical control;Paper handling assemblies, incorporating more than one of the following: paper transport belt, roller, print bar,carriage, gripper roller, paper storage unit, exit tray; andCombinations of the above specified assemblies.”B-99