EURO-PEAN UNION ON HAND PHONE
The European Union (EU) intention to reclassify or set the criteria for certain types of "multifunction" products, of hand phones with GPS function, of certain size, etc.
The EU has been actively working to lower the telecommunication costs for consumers, by lowering roaming costs.
If mobile phones with the additional mobile broadcasting features are reclassified as TVs with attached 14% EU import duty, this would increase the costs to customers.
The European Communities have signed up to the 1996 Information Technology Agreement (ITA). The ITA guarantees a duty free import for all mobile phones under heading 8517.
"Mobile phones” defining as "Cellular or mobile phones are wireless communication devices that simultaneously send and receive voice, data or other mobile communication transmissions via radio waves.
Mobile phones are capable of converting user's voice, into radio waves, and radio waves back into voice. The radio waves from a cellular or mobile phone travel to a cellular base station. Subsequently, they are forwarded to the base station situated closest available to the destination cellular or mobile phone."
"Mobile phones generally have the following characteristics".
• They are "pocket-sized" i.e. have dimensions, which do not exceed 170 mm x 100 mm x 45 mm. The size in which it is actually carried by the consumer is the most compact, smallest form.
Mobile phones can also consist of separate parts forming a mobile phone kit, such as, a wrist mobile phone with a detachable headset.
Devices are becoming increasingly larger, due to consumer expectations for larger screens and keypads that provide increased usability.
The needs of special user groups, such as, growing market segment for elderly people.
• It has a dialing sector of the push-button or touch screen type.
"User interface" instead of "a dialing sector and "voice input.
• It is capable of operating without an external source of electric power;
• It have a microphone and an earphone, either in the same unit or in the form of a detachable headset for the transmission and reception of voice enabling voice communication when the apparatus is held to the ear.
• It incorporate other components, such as, an amplifier and an antenna for telephony, which provide for dual-way short-range transmission of voice within a network consisting of base stations and using mobile telephony frequency bands.
• It can be used as a telephony communication device equipped with a SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) card that has been activated.
Hand phones also have other features, such as, sending and receiving SMS (Short Message Service) and MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) messages, emails; packet switching for access to the Internet; sending and receiving positioning signals; gaming; receiving radio or television signals; capturing, recording and reproducing sound and images.
Access to the Internet, sending and receiving positioning signals, navigating, routing, maps, gaming, Bluetooth, NFC Near Field Communication, receiving radio or television programs.
Additional features, such as, clocks, calculators, address books, PDAs, caller IDs, games, MP3 players, cameras, FM-radios, Mobile TVs or GPS locators.
Able to send or receive data, video, images, audio signals, i.e. supporting communication to the internet and thereby enabling web browsing, e-mail or “information management use” via the cellular or other wireless network.
This subheading excludes apparatus with a wireless telephony function incorporating:
• Personal digital assistant incorporating an alphanumerical keypad.
There is a suggestion on an inbuilt memory to have exceeding 16 Gigabytes.
The European Union (EU) intention to reclassify or set the criteria for certain types of "multifunction" products, of hand phones with GPS function, of certain size, etc.
The EU has been actively working to lower the telecommunication costs for consumers, by lowering roaming costs.
If mobile phones with the additional mobile broadcasting features are reclassified as TVs with attached 14% EU import duty, this would increase the costs to customers.
The European Communities have signed up to the 1996 Information Technology Agreement (ITA). The ITA guarantees a duty free import for all mobile phones under heading 8517.
"Mobile phones” defining as "Cellular or mobile phones are wireless communication devices that simultaneously send and receive voice, data or other mobile communication transmissions via radio waves.
Mobile phones are capable of converting user's voice, into radio waves, and radio waves back into voice. The radio waves from a cellular or mobile phone travel to a cellular base station. Subsequently, they are forwarded to the base station situated closest available to the destination cellular or mobile phone."
"Mobile phones generally have the following characteristics".
• They are "pocket-sized" i.e. have dimensions, which do not exceed 170 mm x 100 mm x 45 mm. The size in which it is actually carried by the consumer is the most compact, smallest form.
Mobile phones can also consist of separate parts forming a mobile phone kit, such as, a wrist mobile phone with a detachable headset.
Devices are becoming increasingly larger, due to consumer expectations for larger screens and keypads that provide increased usability.
The needs of special user groups, such as, growing market segment for elderly people.
• It has a dialing sector of the push-button or touch screen type.
"User interface" instead of "a dialing sector and "voice input.
• It is capable of operating without an external source of electric power;
• It have a microphone and an earphone, either in the same unit or in the form of a detachable headset for the transmission and reception of voice enabling voice communication when the apparatus is held to the ear.
• It incorporate other components, such as, an amplifier and an antenna for telephony, which provide for dual-way short-range transmission of voice within a network consisting of base stations and using mobile telephony frequency bands.
• It can be used as a telephony communication device equipped with a SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) card that has been activated.
Hand phones also have other features, such as, sending and receiving SMS (Short Message Service) and MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) messages, emails; packet switching for access to the Internet; sending and receiving positioning signals; gaming; receiving radio or television signals; capturing, recording and reproducing sound and images.
Access to the Internet, sending and receiving positioning signals, navigating, routing, maps, gaming, Bluetooth, NFC Near Field Communication, receiving radio or television programs.
Additional features, such as, clocks, calculators, address books, PDAs, caller IDs, games, MP3 players, cameras, FM-radios, Mobile TVs or GPS locators.
Able to send or receive data, video, images, audio signals, i.e. supporting communication to the internet and thereby enabling web browsing, e-mail or “information management use” via the cellular or other wireless network.
This subheading excludes apparatus with a wireless telephony function incorporating:
• Personal digital assistant incorporating an alphanumerical keypad.
There is a suggestion on an inbuilt memory to have exceeding 16 Gigabytes.
However, based on EC data, Malaysia’s exports of hand phones under CN85171200 (telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks), totaled Euro 443.8 million in 2007 (RM2.067 billion). Are we going to effect by these measures?
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