GRI 3(b) provides, in relevant part, that goods put up for retail sale shall be classified as if they consisted of the material or component, which gives them their essential character. The General Rules of Interpretation (GRIs) of the Harmonized Tariff System (HTS) governs the classification of goods put up in sets for retail sale. The set is sold in a pre-confined configuration. All the items in the set are sealed together in a white box before being shipped directly to the customer. The eight cards are shrink-wrapped and the four readers are bubble-wrapped. The components of the Swift Initial Pack are packaged and sold as a set put up for retail sale. The USB connection transmits data to and from the computer and provides power to the readers. Contact pads on the cards physically contact the contact pads in the readers. The card does not have magnetic or proximity technology. An Integrated Circuit (IC) microprocessor is imbedded in the card.
The computer uses downloaded drivers to operate the reader if the drivers are not already embedded in the computer’s windows operating system, which are necessary to communicate with the reader.
Middleware software is the lower-level interface installed in the computer that allows computer programs to communicate with the smart card. The reader contains a micro controller, smart card controller STC II, field upgradeable firmware and a single chip with an integrated USB controller.
The smart cards communicate with a computer through the smartcard standard interface ISO 7816. The USB v.3 reader has contacts for ISO locations and is useable with any off-the-shelf smart card supporting ISO 7816 Class A and AB smart cards, major smart card protocols (T=0/T=1), frequency up to 12 MHz (PPS, DI parameter) and speeds up to 344 Kbps. The Reflex smart cards are in compliance with ISO 7816 dimension standards measuring 3.37” long by 2.12” wide by. The item imported is the Swift Initial Pack which includes eight Cyberflex 64K v2 smart cards, four USB v3 smart card readers with attached 59” long cable and USB type A connector, one green light emitting diode (LED), and one page of documentation. Evert: In your letter dated Mayou requested a tariff classification ruling. RE: The tariff classification of a set containing smart cards and smart card readers from Singapore Dear Ms.