CATEGORY 16: TELECOMMUNICATIONS, SOUND RECORDING OR REPRODUCTION EQUIPMENT; PHOTOGRAPHY, CINEMATOGRAPHY AND OPTICS

TABLE OF DIVISIONS IN CATEGORY 16

Telecommunications and sound recording or reproduction equipment	16.01
Photography, cinematography, optics	16.03

16.01    Telecommunications and sound recording or reproduction equipment

16.01.01    Antennas, including satellite dishes

Excluding:    Transmitting towers and signal beacons are coded in 07.11.03.

16.01.02    Posts or lines for telephone, telegraph or electricity

16.01.03    Radio or television apparatus, including radios, televisions and projection screens

Excluding:    Video computer terminals are coded in 15.05.03; antennas are coded in 16.01.01.

Specific Guideline:    Video screens are not in 16.01.03 when it is clear that they are video monitors or a part of computer terminals with keyboards and keypads. (See: Specific Guideline 15.05.03 regarding video monitors.) Only actual televisions or screens are in 16.01.03.

Note:    Clock radios are double coded in 16.01.03 and 17.01.02.

16.01.04    Record players; tape players (video and audio); answering machines; stereo components, including sound amplifiers and speakers

16.01.05    Phonograph records, video discs, CDs, CD-ROMs, DVDs

16.01.06    Sound and video recording tapes and cassettes

16.01.07    Microphones, headphones

16.01.08    Telephones

16.01.25    Other apparatus and parts thereof for telecommunication or the recording or reproduction of sound; alarms; megaphones and pagers

16.03    Photography, cinematography, optics

16.03.01    Cameras, including motion picture cameras; photographic lenses

16.03.02    Projection apparatus, including slide projectors and motion picture projectors

Excluding:    Projection screens are coded in 16.01.03.

16.03.03    Film and containers for film, including slide or print film and motion picture reel film

16.03.04    Other apparatus, instruments or equipment for photography or the cinema, including tripods and flashguns

Excluding:    Stage lights, spotlights are coded in 13.01.08; flashbulbs are coded in 13.01.13.

16.03.05    Binoculars, opera glasses, telescopes, microscopes

16.03.06    Magnifying glasses, jeweler's loupes

16.03.07    Eyeglasses, eyeglass frames, sunglasses, goggles and safety goggles

16.03.08    Monocles and optical or spectacle lenses

16.03.25    Other optical apparatus instruments or equipment, including gun sights or cross-hairs

Note:    Designs of gun sights or cross-hairs are often similar to targets 21.03.12.