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Issues: Whether the modular plug for telephone was correctly classifiable under Heading 85.17 as parts of apparatus for line telephony or under Heading 85.36 as electrical apparatus for making connections in electrical circuits.
Analysis: The imported item was found to be used for connecting the handset with the main telephone set and, therefore, answered the description of an electrical apparatus used in line telephony. Once the goods were brought within the scope of Heading 85.17, the classification could not be shifted to Heading 85.36 merely because the telephone circuit operated below 1000 volts. Heading 85.17 specifically covered electrical apparatus for line telephony and its parts, making sub-heading 8517.90 the appropriate entry for the modular plug.
Conclusion: The modular plug for telephone was classifiable under Heading 85.17, and not under Heading 85.36; the assessee succeeded.
Final Conclusion: The rejection of refund based on classification under Heading 85.36 was unsustainable, and the imported goods were held to fall under the telephony heading.
Ratio Decidendi: Where a product is specifically used as part of line telephony apparatus, a general electrical-circuit heading cannot displace the more specific telephony heading merely because the circuit voltage is below 1000 volts.
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