Heading 9306 : Bombs, grenades, torpedoes, mines, missiles and similar munitions of war and parts thereof; cartridges and other ammunition and projectiles and parts thereof, including shot and cartridge wads.
This heading includes :(A) Ammunition, e.g. : (1) Shells (explosive, shrapnel, armour piercing, star, flare, tracer, incendiary, smoke, etc.), and all other types of ammunition for guns and mortars. (2) Cartridges of all types : blank (including blank cartridges for riveting tools or for starting compression ignition internal combustion piston engines), bulleted, tracer, incendiary, armour piercing, ball and shot cartridges for sporting guns, etc. (3) Slugs, pellets (hollow, spherical, waisted, etc.) and darts for air, gas or spring guns, carbines or pistols, other than those for toys of heading 95.03. (B) Ballistic missiles whose payload returns to the earth's surface after reaching its apogee and which impart to the payload a terminal velocity not exceeding 7,000 m/s . (C) Munitions of a type which contain their own means of propulsion after launching, for example, torpedoes, flying bombs (missiles resembling aircraft), guided air missiles and rocket type ammunition. (D) Other munitions of war, for example, land and sea mines, depth charges, hand and rifle grenades, aerial bombs. (E) Harpoons, whether or not with explosive heads, for harpoon guns, etc. (F) Parts of ammunition and munitions of war, for example : (1) Grenade, mine, bomb, shell and torpedo bodies. (2) Cartridge cases and other parts of cartridges, for example, bases (of brass), inner cups and inner bases and linings (of metal or paperboard) and wads (of felt, paper or cork, etc.). (3) Bullets and lead shot, prepared for ammunition. (4) Fuses (point and base detonating), whether time, percussion or proximity (electronically operated), for shells, torpedoes, etc.; parts of fuses, including protective caps. (5) Mechanical parts for certain munitions, such as special propellers and gyroscopes for torpedoes. (6) War-heads and buoyancy chambers for torpedoes. (7) Strikers, safety pins, levers and other parts of grenades. (8) Fins for bombs. The heading excludes : (a) Propellant powders and prepared explosives, even if put up in forms ready for incorporation in munitions (headings 36.01 and 36.02); safety fuses, detonating fuses, percussion and detonating caps, igniters and electric detonators, including primers for shells (heading 36.03). (b) Signalling flares and rain rockets (heading 36.04). (c) Charges for fire-extinguishers, and charged fire-extinguishing grenades (heading 38.13). (d) Motors of heading 84.11 or 84.12, for rockets, torpedoes and similar missiles. (e) Radio or radar apparatus of heading 85.26 (see Note 2 to this Chapter). (f) Watch or clock movements and parts thereof, for munitions or for parts of munitions (e.g., for fuses) (headings 91.08 to 91.10 and 91.14).
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