Eac Cet 2022 Version 25th June
Eac Cet 2022 Version 25th June
Eac Cet 2022 Version 25th June
LEGAL NOTICE
IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred upon the Council of Ministers by Article 12 (2) and (3) and 39(1) (c) of the
Protocol on the Establishment of the East African Community Customs Union, the Council of Ministers has reviewed
and adopted a four band common external tariff structure for the Community.
Introduction
SCHEDULE 1
SECTION I
Section Notes.
1 Live animals.
4 Dairy produce; birds’ eggs; natural honey; edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included.
SECTION II
VEGETABLE PRODUCTS
Section Note.
6 Live trees and other plants; bulbs, roots and the like; cut flowers and ornamental foliage.
10 Cereals.
12 Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and
fodder.
15 Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or
vegetable waxes.
SECTION IV
Section Note.
23 Residues and waste from the food industries; prepared animal fodder.
24 Tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes; products, whether or not containing nicotine, intended for
inhalation without combustion; other nicotine containing products intended for the intake of nicotine into the
human body.
SECTION V
MINERAL PRODUCTS
25 Salt; sulphur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement.
27 Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes.
Section Notes.
28 Inorganic chemicals; organic or inorganic compounds of precious metals, of rare-earth metals, of radioactive
elements or of isotopes.
29 Organic chemicals.
30 Pharmaceutical products.
31 Fertilisers.
32 Tanning or dyeing extracts; tannins and their derivatives; dyes, pigments and other colouring matter; paints and
varnishes; putty and other mastics; inks.
34 Soap, organic surface-active agents, washing preparations, lubricating preparations, artificial waxes, prepared
waxes, polishing or scouring preparations, candles and similar articles, modelling pastes, “dental waxes” and
dental preparations with a basis of plaster.
SECTION VII
Section Notes.
42 Articles of leather; saddlery and harness; travel goods, handbags and similar containers; articles of animal gut
(other than silk-worm gut).
SECTION IX
SECTION X
47 Pulp of wood or of other fibrous cellulosic material; recovered (waste and scrap) paper or paperboard.
49 Printed books, newspapers, pictures and other products of the printing industry; manuscripts, typescripts and
plans.
Section Notes.
50 Silk.
51 Wool, fine or coarse animal hair; horsehair yarn and woven fabric.
52 Cotton.
53 Other vegetable textile fibres; paper yarn and woven fabrics of paper yarn.
56 Wadding, felt and nonwovens; special yarns; twine, cordage, ropes and cables and articles thereof.
58 Special woven fabrics; tufted textile fabrics; lace; tapestries; trimmings; embroidery.
59 Impregnated, coated, covered or laminated textile fabrics; textile articles of a kind suitable for industrial use.
63 Other made up textile articles; sets; worn clothing and worn textile articles; rags.
SECTION XII
66 Umbrellas, sun umbrellas, walking-sticks, seat-sticks, whips, riding-crops and parts thereof.
67 Prepared feathers and down and articles made of feathers or of down; artificial flowers; articles of human
hair.
69 Ceramic products.
SECTION XIV
71 Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal
and articles thereof; imitation jewellery; coin.
SECTION XV
82 Tools, implements, cutlery, spoons and forks, of base metal; parts thereof of base metal.
Section Notes.
85 Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and
sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles.
SECTION XVII
Section Notes.
86 Railway or tramway locomotives, rolling-stock and parts thereof; railway or tramway track fixtures and fittings
and parts thereof; mechanical (including electro-mechanical) traffic signalling equipment of all kinds.
87 Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling-stock, and parts and accessories thereof.
SECTION XVIII
90 Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and
apparatus; parts and accessories thereof.
SECTION XIX
94 Furniture; bedding, mattresses, mattress supports, cushions and similar stuffed furnishings; luminaires and
lighting fittings, not elsewhere specified or included; illuminated signs, illuminated name-plates and the like;
prefabricated buildings.
SECTION XXI
SCHEDULE 2
List of Sensitive Items
The text of the Nomenclature established under the International Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description
and Coding System, approved by the Customs Co-operation Council on June 1983, amended as at 1st January 2022.
The Handbook includes the General Rules for the Interpretation of the Harmonized System, abbreviations and symbols,
Section, Chapter and Subheading Notes, and the headings and subheadings.
Each heading is identified by four digits, the first two indicating the Chapter number and the second two the numerical
order in which the heading appears within the Chapter.
The heading numbers are shown in the first column. The second column contains the eight-digit codes of the Harmonized
System as transposed at the EAC level. The third column contains the text of the headings in bold and the texts of
subheadings. The fourth column contains units of quantity for use when reporting statistics based on the Harmonized
System. The fifth column contains applicable Common External Tariff rates.
The Handbook comprises Schedule 1 with duty rates under the three-band tax structure and Schedule 2 with duty
rates of sensitive items.
The fifth column of Schedule 1 contains applicable Common External Tariff rates and where the abbreviation “SI”
(Sensitive Items) appears the applicable duty rates shall be those specified in Schedule 2.
1. The titles of Sections, Chapters and sub-Chapters are provided for ease of reference only; for legal purposes,
classification shall be determined according to the terms of the headings and any relative Section or Chapter
Notes and, provided such headings or Notes do not otherwise require, according to the following provisions :
2. (a) Any reference in a heading to an article shall be taken to include a reference to that article incomplete or
unfinished, provided that, as presented, the incomplete or unfinished article has the essential character
of the complete or finished article. It shall also be taken to include a reference to that article complete or
finished (or falling to be classified as complete or finished by virtue of this Rule), presented unassembled
or disassembled.
(b) Any reference in a heading to a material or substance shall be taken to include a reference to mixtures
or combinations of that material or substance with other materials or substances. Any reference to
goods of a given material or substance shall be taken to include a reference to goods consisting wholly
or partly of such material or substance. The classification of goods consisting of more than one material
or substance shall be according to the principles of Rule 3.
3. When by application of Rule 2 (b) or for any other reason, goods are, prima facie, classifiable under two or more
headings, classification shall be effected as follows :
(a) The heading which provides the most specific description shall be preferred to headings providing a
more general description. However, when two or more headings each refer to part only of the materials
or substances contained in mixed or composite goods or to part only of the items in a set put up for retail
sale, those headings are to be regarded as equally specific in relation to those goods, even if one of them
gives a more complete or precise description of the goods.
(b) Mixtures, composite goods consisting of different materials or made up of different components, and
goods put up in sets for retail sale, which cannot be classified by reference to 3 (a), shall be classified as
if they consisted of the material or component which gives them their essential character, insofar as this
criterion is applicable.
4. Goods which cannot be classified in accordance with the above Rules shall be classified under the heading
appropriate to the goods to which they are most akin.
5. In addition to the foregoing provisions, the following Rules shall apply in respect of the goods referred to
therein :
(a) Camera cases, musical instrument cases, gun cases, drawing instrument cases, necklace cases and
similar containers, specially shaped or fitted to contain a specific article or set of articles, suitable for
longterm use and presented with the articles for which they are intended, shall be classified with such
articles when of a kind normally sold therewith. This Rule does not, however, apply to containers which
give the whole its essential character;
(b) Subject to the provisions of Rule 5 (a) above, packing materials and packing containers presented with
the goods therein shall be classified with the goods if they are of a kind normally used for packing such
goods. However, this provision is not binding when such packing materials or packing containers are
clearly suitable for repetitive use.
6. For legal purposes, the classification of goods in the subheadings of a heading shall be determined according to
the terms of those subheadings and any related Subheading Notes and, mutatis mutandis, to the above Rules,
on the understanding that only subheadings at the same level are comparable. For the purposes of this Rule
the relative Section and Chapter Notes also apply, unless the context otherwise requires.
AC - alternating current
ASTM - African Society for Testing Material
Bq - bcquerel
O
C
- degree(s) Celsius
cc - cubic centimetre(s)
cg - centigram(s)
cm - centimetre(s)
cm2 - square centimetre(s)
cm3 - cubic centimetre(s)
cN - centinewton(s)
DC - direct current
Ex - exempt
g - gram(s)
Gen - General
Hz - hertz
IR - infrared
kcal - kilocalorie(s)
kg - kilogram(s)
kgf - kilogram force
kN - kilonewton(s)
kPa - kilopascal(s)
kV - kilovolt(s)
kVA - kilovolt ampere(s)
kVar - kilovolt ampere(s) reactive
kW - kilowatt(s)
l - litre(s)
m - metre(s)
m - meta
m2 - square metre(s)
μci. - microcune
mm - millimetre(s)
mN - millinewton(s)
MPa - megapascal(s)
N - newton(s)
No. - Number
O - ortho
P - para
T - tonne(s)
U - units
2u - pairs
UV - ultraviolet
V - volt(s)
vol. - volume
W - watt(s)
% - percent
xo - x degree(s)
“SI” - Sensitive Item (see Schedule 2)
Examples
1500 g/m2 - means one thousand five hundred grams per square metre
15 C
o
- means fifteen degrees Celsius
Notes.
1.- Any reference in this Section to a particular genus or species of an animal, except where the context otherwise
requires, includes a reference to the young of that genus or species.
2.- Except where the context otherwise requires, throughout the Nomenclature any reference to “dried” products
also covers products which have been dehydrated, evaporated or freeze-dried.
Chapter 1
Live Animals
Note.
(a) Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates, of heading 03.01, 03.06, 03.07 or 03.08;
- Horses:
- Asses:
- Other:
- Cattle:
- Buffalo:
- Other:
- Other:
- Sheep:
- Goats:
0105.12.00 -- Turkeys: u 0%
- Other:
- Mammals:
0106.12.00 -- Whales, dolphins and porpoises (mammals of the order Cetacea); u 25%
manatees and dugongs (mammals of the order Sirenia); seals,
sea lions and walruses (mammals of the suborder Pinnipedia)
- Birds:
- Insects:
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Note.
1.- This Chapter does not cover:
(a) Products of the kinds described in headings. 02.01 to 02.08 or 02.10, unfit or unsuitable for human
consumption;
(d) Animal fat, other than products of heading 02.09 (Chapter 15).
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- Fresh or chilled:
- Frozen:
02.05 0205.00.00 Meat of horses, asses, mules or hinnies, fresh, chilled or kg 35%
frozen.
- Of swine, frozen:
- Of turkeys:
- Of ducks:
- Of geese:
02.08 Other meat and edible meat offal, fresh, chilled or frozen.
02.09 Pig fat, free of lean meat, and poultry fat, not rendered or
otherwise extracted, fresh, chilled, frozen, salted, in brine,
dried or smoked.
02.10 Meat and edible meat offal, salted, in brine, dried or smoked;
edible flours and meals of meat or meat offal.
- Meat of swine:
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Notes.
(c) Fish (including livers, roes and milt thereof) or crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates,
dead and unfit or unsuitable for human consumption by reason of either their species or their condition
(Chapter 5); flours, meals or pellets of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates,
unfit for human consumption (heading 23.01); or
(d) Caviar or caviar substitutes prepared from fish eggs (heading 16.04).
2.- In this Chapter the term “pellets” means products which have been agglomerated either directly by compression
or by the addition of a small quantity of binder.
3.- Headings 03.05 to 03.08 do not cover flours, meals and pellets, fit for human consumption (heading 03.09).
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- Ornamental fish:
0301.94.00 -- Atlantic and Pacific bluefin tunas (Thunnus thynnus, Thunnus kg 25%
orientalis)
03.02 Fish, fresh or chilled, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat
of heading.
0302.14.00 -- Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and Danube salmon (Hucho kg 25%
hucho)
0302.35.00 -- Atlantic and Pacific bluefin tunas (Thunnus thynnus, Thunnus kg 25%
orientalis)
0302.72.00 -- Catfish (Pangasius spp., Silurus spp., Clarias spp., Ictalurus kg 25%
spp.)
- Livers, roes, milt, fish fins, heads, tails, maws and other edible
fish offal:
03.03 Fish, frozen, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of
heading 03.04.
0303.13.00 -- Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and Danube salmon (Hucho kg 25%
hucho)
0303.45.00 --Atlantic and Pacific bluefin tunas (Thunnus thynnus, Thunnus kg 25%
orientalis)
- Livers, roes, milt, fish fins, heads, tails, maws and other edible
fish offal :
03.04 Fish fillets and other fish meat (whether or not minced), fresh,
chilled or frozen
0304.32.00 -- Catfish (Pangasius spp., Silurus spp., Clarias spp., Ictalurus kg 25%
spp.)
0304.62.00 -- Catfish (Pangasius spp., Silurus spp., Clarias spp., Ictalurus kg 25%
spp.)
0304.87.00 --Tunas (of the genus Thunnus), skipjack tuna (stripe-bellied kg 25%
bonito) (Katsuwonus pelamis).
- Other, frozen:
0305.20.00 - Livers, roes and milt of fish, dried, smoked, salted or in brine kg 25%
- Dried fish, other than edible fish offal, whether or not salted but
not smoked:
- Fish, salted but not dried or smoked and fish in brine, other than
edible fish offal:
- Fish fins, heads, tails, maws and other edible fish offal:
- Frozen:
0306.11.00 -- Rock lobster and other sea crawfish (Palinurus spp., Panulirus kg 25%
spp., Jasus spp.)
0306.31.00 -- Rock lobster and other sea crawfish (Palinurus spp., Panulirus kg 25%
spp., Jasus spp.)
-Other:
0306.91.00 -- Rock lobster and other sea crawfish (Palinurus spp., Panulirus kg 25%
spp., Jasus spp.)
- Oysters:
- Other:
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Notes.
1.- The expression “milk” means full cream milk or partially or completely skimmed milk.
2.- For the purposes of heading 04.03, yogurt may be concentrated or flavoured and may contain added sugar or
other sweetening matter, fruit, nuts, cocoa, chocolate, spices, coffee or coffee extracts, plants, parts of plants,
cereals or bakers’ wares, provided that any added substance is not used for the purpose of replacing, in whole
or in part, any milk constituent, and the product retains the essential character of yogurt.
(a) The term “butter” means natural butter, whey butter or recombined butter (fresh, salted or rancid, including
canned butter) derived exclusively from milk, with a milkfat content of 80% or more but not more than
95% by weight, a maximum milk solids-not-fat content of 2% by weight and a maximum water content
of 16% by weight. Butter does not contain added emulsifiers, but may contain sodium chloride, food
colours, neutralising salts and cultures of harmless lactic-acid-producing bacteria.
(b) The expression “dairy spreads” means a spreadable emulsion of the water-in-oil type, containing milkfat
as the only fat in the product, with a milkfat content of 39% or more but less than 80% by weight.
4.- Products obtained by the concentration of whey and with the addition of milk or milkfat are to be classified as
cheese in heading 04.06 provided that they have the three following characteristics:
(b) a dry matter content, by weight, of at least 70% but not exceeding 85%; and
(b) Products obtained from whey, containing by weight more than 95% lactose, expressed as anhydrous
lactose calculated on the dry matter (heading 17.02);
(c) Products obtained from milk by replacing one or more of its natural constituents (for example, butyric
fats) by another substance (for example, oleic fats) (heading 19.01 or 21.06); or
(d) Albumins (including concentrates of two or more whey proteins, containing by weight more than 80%
whey proteins, calculated on the dry matter) (heading 35.02) or globulins (heading 35.04).
6.- For the purposes of heading 04.10, the term “insects” means edible non-living insects, whole or in parts, fresh,
chilled, frozen, dried, smoked, salted or in brine, as well as flours and meals of insects, fit for human consumption.
However, it does not cover edible non-living insects otherwise prepared or preserved (generally Section IV).
Subheading Notes.
1.- For the purposes of subheading 0404.10, the expression “modified whey” means products consisting of whey
constituents, that is, whey from which all or part of the lactose, proteins or minerals have been removed, whey to
which natural whey constituents have been added, and products obtained by mixing natural whey constituents.
2.- For the purposes of subheading 0405.10 the term “butter” does not include dehydrated butter or ghee
(subheading 0405.90).
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H.S. Code / Unit of
Heading Description Rate
Tariff No. Quantity
0402.29.00 -- Other: kg SI
- Other:
0402.99.00 -- Other: kg SI
0403.20.00 -Yogurt kg SI
0403.90.00 - Other kg SI
04.05 Butter and other fats and oils derived from milk; dairy spreads.
04.08 Birds’ eggs, not in shell, and egg yolks, fresh, dried, cooked
by steaming or by boiling in water, moulded, frozen or
otherwise preserved, whether or not containing added sugar
or other sweetening matter.
- Egg yolks:
- Other:
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Notes.
(a) Edible products (other than guts, bladders and stomachs of animals, whole and pieces thereof, and
animal blood, liquid or dried);
(b) Hides or skins (including furskins) other than goods of heading 05.05 and parings and similar waste of
raw hides or skins of heading 05.11 (Chapter 41 or 43);
(c) Animal textile materials, other than horsehair and horsehair waste (Section XI); or
(d) Prepared knots or tufts for broom or brush making (heading 96.03).
2.- For the purposes of heading 05.01, the sorting of hair by length (provided the root ends and tip ends respectively
are not arranged together) shall be deemed not to constitute working.
3.- Throughout the Nomenclature, elephant, hippopotamus, walrus, narwhal and wild boar tusks, rhinoceros horns
and the teeth of all animals are regarded as “ivory”.
4.- Throughout the Nomenclature, the expression “horsehair” means hair of the manes or tails of equine or bovine
animals. Heading 05.11 covers, inter alia, horsehair and horsehair waste, whether or not put up as a layer with
or without supporting material.
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05.01 0501.00.00 Human hair, unworked, whether or not washed or scoured; kg 35%
waste of human hair.
05.02 Pigs’, hogs’ or boars’ bristles and hair; badger hair and other
brush making hair; waste of such bristles or hair.
0502.10.00 - Pigs’, hogs’ or boars’ bristles and hair and waste thereof kg 25%
[05.03]
05.04 0504.00.00 Guts, bladders and stomachs of animals (other than fish), kg 25%
whole and pieces thereof, fresh, chilled, frozen, salted, in
brine, dried or smoked.
05.08 0508.00.00 Coral and similar materials, unworked or simply prepared kg 35%
but not otherwise worked; shells of molluscs, crustaceans or
echinoderms and cuttle-bone, unworked or simply prepared
but not cut to shape, powder and waste thereof.
[05.09]
05.10 0510.00.00 Ambergris, castoreum, civet and musk; cantharides; bile, kg 10%
whether or not dried; glands and other animal products used
in the preparation of pharmaceutical products, fresh, chilled,
frozen or otherwise provisionally preserved.
- Other:
-- Other:
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VEGETABLE PRODUCTS
Note.
1.- In this Section the term “pellets” means products which have been agglomerated either directly by compression
or by the addition of a binder in a proportion not exceeding 3% by weight.
Chapter 6
Live trees and other plants; bulbs, roots and the like;
cut flowers and ornamental foliage
Notes.
1.- Subject to the second part of heading 06.01, this Chapter covers only live trees and goods (including seedling
vegetables) of a kind commonly supplied by nursery gardeners or florists for planting or for ornamental use;
nevertheless it does not include potatoes, onions, shallots, garlic or other products of Chapter 7.
2.- Any reference in heading 06.03 or 06.04 to goods of any kind shall be construed as including a reference to
bouquets, floral baskets, wreaths and similar articles made wholly or partly of goods of that kind, account not
being taken of accessories of other materials. However, these headings do not include collages or similar
decorative plaques of heading 97.01.
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06.02 Other live plants (including their roots), cuttings and slips;
mushroom spawn.
0602.20.00 - Trees, shrubs and bushes, grafted or not, of kinds which bear u 0%
edible fruit or nuts
0602.90.00 - Other kg 0%
06.03 Cut flowers and flower buds of a kind suitable for bouquets
or for ornamental purposes, fresh, dried, dyed, bleached,
impregnated or otherwise prepared.
- Fresh:
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Notes.
1.- This Chapter does not cover forage products of heading 12.14.
2.- In headings 07.09, 07.10, 07.11 and 07.12 the word “vegetables” includes edible mushrooms, truffles, olives,
capers, marrows, pumpkins, aubergines, sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata), fruits of the genus Capsicum
or of the genus Pimenta, fennel, parsley, chervil, tarragon, cress and sweet marjoram (Majorana hortensis or
Origanum majorana).
3.- Heading 07.12 covers all dried vegetables of the kinds falling in headings. 07.01 to 07.11, other than:
(c) flour, meal, powder, flakes, granules and pellets of potatoes (heading 11.05);
(d) flour, meal and powder of the dried leguminous vegetables of heading 07.13 (heading 11.06).
4.- However, dried or crushed or ground fruits of the genus Capsicum or of the genus Pimenta are excluded from
this Chapter (heading 09.04).
5.- Heading 07.11 applies to vegetables which have been treated solely to ensure their provisional preservation
during transport or storage prior to use (for example, by sulphur dioxide gas, in brine, in sulphur water or in other
preservative solutions), provided they remain unsuitable for immediate consumption in that state.
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- Lettuce:
- Chicory:
0709.70.00 - Spinach, New Zealand spinach and orache spinach (garden kg 25%
spinach)
- Other:
0710.30.00 - Spinach, New Zealand spinach and orache spinach (garden kg 35%
spinach)
0713.31.00 -- Beans of the species Vigna mungo (L.) Hepper or Vigna radiata kg 25%
(L.) Wilczek
0713.33.00 -- Kidney beans, including white pea beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) kg 35%
0713.50.00 - Broad beans (Vicia faba var.major) and horse beans (Vicia faba Kg 25%
var.equina, Vicia faba var.minor)
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Notes.
(a) For additional preservation or stabilisation (for example, by moderate heat treatment, sulphuring, the
addition of sorbic acid or potassium sorbate),
(b) To improve or maintain their appearance (for example, by the addition of vegetable oil or small quantities
of glucose syrup), provided that they retain the character of dried fruit or dried nuts.
4.- Heading 08.12 applies to fruit and nuts which have been treated solely to ensure their provisional preservation
during transport or storage prior to use (for example, by sulphur dioxide gas, in brine, in sulphur water or in other
preservative solutions), provided they remain unsuitable for immediate consumption in that state.
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08.01 Coconuts, Brazil nuts and cashew nuts, fresh or dried, whether or not
shelled or peeled.
- Coconuts:
- Brazil nuts:
- Cashew nuts:
- Almonds:
- Walnuts:
- Pistachios:
- Macadamia nuts:
- Other.
0805.50.00 - Lemons (Citrus limon, Citrus limonum) and limes (Citrus kg 35%
aurantifolia,Citrus latifolia))
- Cherries:
0810.40.00 - Cranberries, bilberries and other fruits of the genus Vaccinium kg 25%
08.14 0814.00.00 Peel of citrus fruit or melons (including watermelons), fresh, kg 25%
frozen, dried or provisionally preserved in brine, in sulphur
water or in other preservative solutions.
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1.- Mixtures of the products of headings. 09.04 to 09.10 are to be classified as follows:
(a) Mixtures of two or more of the products of the same heading are to be classified in that heading;
(b) Mixtures of two or more of the products of different headings are to be classified in heading 09.10.
The addition of other substances to the products of headings. 09.04 to 09.10 (or to the mixtures referred to
in paragraph (a) or (b) above) shall not affect their classification provided the resulting mixtures retain the
essential character of the goods of those headings. Otherwise such mixtures are not classified in this Chapter;
those constituting mixed condiments or mixed seasonings are classified in heading 21.03.
2.- This Chapter does not cover Cubeb pepper (Piper cubeba) or other products of heading 12.11.
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- Coffee roasted:
0902.30.00 - Black tea (fermented) and partly fermented tea, in immediate kg 35%
packings of a content not exceeding 3 kg
0902.40.00 - Other black tea (fermented) and other partly fermented tea kg 35%
- Pepper:
09.05 Vanilla.
- Nutmeg:
- Mace:
- Cardamoms:
- Seeds of coriander:
- Seeds of cumin:
- Ginger:
- Other spices:
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Cereals
Notes.
1.- (A) The products specified in the headings of this Chapter are to be classified in those headings
only if grains are present, whether or not in the ear or on the stalk.
1.- The Chapter does not cover grains which have been hulled or otherwise worked. However, rice, husked,
milled, polished, glazed, parboiled or broken remains classified in heading 10.06. Similarly, quinoa from
which the pericarp has been wholly or partly removed in order to separate the saponin, but which has not
undergone any other processes, remains classified in heading 10.08.
2.- Heading 10.05 does not cover sweet corn (Chapter 7).
Subheading Notes
(A) The term “durum wheat” means wheat of the Triticum durum species and the hybrids derived from the inter-
specific crossing of Triticum durum which have the same number (28) of chromosomes as that species.
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- Durum wheat:
1001.11.00 -- Seed kg 0%
1001.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
- Other:
1001.91.00 -- Seed kg 0%
-- Other:
10.02 Rye.
1002.10.00 - Seed kg 0%
1002.90.00 - Other kg 0%
10.03 Barley.
1003.10.00 - Seed kg 0%
10.04 - Oats.
1004.10.00 - Seed kg 0%
1004.90.00 - Other kg 0%
1005.90.00 - Other kg SI
10.06 Rice.
- Millet:
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Notes.
(f) Starches having the character of perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations (Chapter 33).
2.- (A) Products from the milling of the cereals listed in the table below fall in this Chapter if they have, by weight
on the dry product:
(a) a starch content (determined by the modified Ewers polarimetric method) exceeding that indicated
in Column(2); and
(b) an ash content (after deduction of any added minerals) not exceeding that indicated in Column(3)
Otherwise, they fall in heading 23.02. However, germ of cereals, whole, rolled, flaked or ground, is
always classified in heading 11.04.
(B) Products falling in this Chapter under the above provisions shall be classified in heading 11.01 or 11.02
if the percentage passing through a woven metal wire cloth sieve with the aperture indicated in Column
(4) or (5) is not less, by weight, than that shown against the cereal concerned.
(4) (5)
Wheat and rye 45% 2.5% 80% -
Barley 45% 3% 80% -
Oats 45% 5% 80% -
Maize (corn) and grain
Sorghum 45% 2% - 90%
Rice 45% 1.6% 80% -
Buckwheat 45% 4% 80% -
3.- For the purposes of heading 11.03, the terms “groats” and “meal” mean products obtained by the fragmentation
of cereal grains, of which:
(a) in the case of maize (corn) products, at least 95% by weight passes through a woven metal wire cloth
sieve with an aperture of 2 mm;
(b) in the case of other cereal products, at least 95% by weight passes through a woven metal wire cloth
sieve with an aperture of 1.25 mm.
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- Other:
- Starches:
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Notes.
1.- Heading 12.07 applies, inter alia, to palm nuts and kernels, cotton seeds, castor oil seeds, sesamum seeds,
mustard seeds, safflower seeds, poppy seeds and shea nuts (karite nuts). It does not apply to products of
heading 08.01 or 08.02 or to olives (Chapter 7 or Chapter 20).
2.- Heading 12.08 applies not only to non-defatted flours and meals but also to flours and meals which have been
partially defatted or defatted and wholly or partially refatted with their original oils. It does not, however, apply to
residues of headings. 23.04 to 23.06.
3.- For the purposes of heading 12.09, beet seeds, grass and other herbage seeds, seeds of ornamental flowers,
vegetable seeds, seeds of forest trees, seeds of fruit trees, seeds of vetches (other than those of the species
Vicia faba) or of lupines are to be regarded as “seeds of a kind used for sowing”.
Heading 12.09 does not, however, apply to the following even if for sowing :
4.- Heading 12.11 applies, inter alia, to the following plants or parts thereof: basil, borage, ginseng, hyssop, liquorice,
all species of mint, rosemary, rue, sage and wormwood.
5.- For the purposes of heading 12.12, the term “seaweeds and other algae” does not include:
Subheading Note.
1.- For the purposes of subheading 1205.10, the expression “ low erucic acid rape or colza seeds” means rape or
colza seeds yielding a fixed oil which has an erucic acid content of less than 2% by weight and yielding a solid
component which contains less than 30 micromoles of glucosinolates per gram.
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- Other:
12.07 Other oil seeds and oleaginous fruits, whether or not broken.
- Cotton seeds:
- Other:
12.08 Flours and meals of oil seeds or oleaginous fruits, other than
those of mustard.
1209.25.00 -- Rye grass (Lolium multiflorum Lam., Lolium perenne L.) seeds kg 0%
1209.29.00 -- Other kg 0%
- Other:
1209.99.00 -- Other kg 0%
1210.10.00 - Hop cones, neither ground nor powdered nor in the form of pellets kg 0%
12.11 Plants and parts of plants (including seeds and fruits), of a kind
used primarily in perfumery, in pharmacy or for insecticidal,
fungicidal or similar purposes fresh, chilled, frozen or dried,
whether or not cut, crushed or powdered.
- Other:
12.12 Locust beans, seaweeds and other algae, sugar beet and
sugar cane, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or
not ground; fruit stones and kernels and other vegetable
products (including unroasted chicory roots of the variety
Cichorium intybus sativum) of a kind used primarily for human
consumption, not elsewhere specified or included.
- Other:
12.13 1213.00.00 Cereal straw and husks, unprepared, whether or not chopped, Kg 10%
ground, pressed or in the form of pellets.
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Note.
1.- Heading 13.02 applies, inter alia, to liquorice extract and extract of pyrethrum, extract of hops, extract of aloes
and opium.
(a) Liquorice extract containing more than 10% by weight of sucrose or put up as confectionery (heading
17.04);
(f) Concentrates of poppy straw containing not less than 50% by weight of alkaloids (heading 29.39);
(ij) Essential oils, concretes, absolutes, resinoids, extracted oleoresins, aqueous distillates or aqueous
solutions of essential oils or preparations based on odoriferous substances of a kind used for the
manufacture of beverages (Chapter 33); or
(k) Natural rubber, balata, gutta-percha, guayule, chicle or similar natural gums (heading 40.01).
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1301.90.00 - Other kg 0%
1302.11.00 -- Opium kg 0%
1302.12.00 -- Of liquorice kg 0%
1302.13.00 -- Of hops kg 0%
1302.14.00 -- Of ephedra kg 0%
1302.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
1302.31.00 -- Agar-agar kg 0%
1302.39.00 -- Other kg 0%
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Notes.
1.- This Chapter does not cover the following products which are to be classified in Section XI : vegetable materials
or fibres of vegetable materials of a kind used primarily in the manufacture of textiles, however prepared, or
other vegetable materials which have undergone treatment so as to render them suitable for use only as textile
materials.
2.- Heading 14.01 applies, inter alia, to bamboos (whether or not split, sawn lengthwise, cut to length, rounded at
the ends, bleached, rendered non-inflammable, polished or dyed), split osier, reeds and the like, to rattan cores
and to drawn or split rattans. The heading does not apply to chipwood (heading 44.04).
3.- Heading 14.04 does not apply to wood wool (heading 44.05) and prepared knots or tufts for broom or brush
making (heading 96.03).
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14.01 Vegetable materials of a kind used primarily for plaiting (for example, bam-
boos, rattans, reeds, rushes, osier, raffia, cleaned, bleached or dyed cereal
straw, and lime bark).
[14.02]
[14.03]
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Chapter 15
Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products;
prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
Notes.
(c) Edible preparations containing by weight more than 15% of the products of heading 04.05 (generally
Chapter 21);
(e) Fatty acids, prepared waxes, medicaments, paints, varnishes, soap, perfumery, cosmetic or toilet
preparations, sulphonated oils or other goods of Section VI; or
2.- Heading 15.09 does not apply to oils obtained from olives by solvent extraction (heading 15.10).
3.- Heading 15.18 does not cover fats or oils or their fractions, merely denatured, which are to be classified in the
heading appropriate to the corresponding undenatured fats and oils and their fractions.
4.- Soap-stocks, oil foots and dregs, stearin pitch, glycerol pitch and wool grease residues fall in heading 15.22.
Subheading Notes
1.- For the purposes of subheading 1509.30, virgin olive oil has a free acidity expressed as oleic acid not exceeding
2.0 g/ 100 g and can be distinguished from the other virgin olive oil categories according to the characteristics
indicated in the Codex Alimentarius Standard 33-1981.
2.- For the purposes of subheadings 1514.11 and 1514.19, the expression “low erucic acid rape or colza oil” means
the fixed oil which has an erucic acid content of less than 2% by weight
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15.01 Pig fat (including lard) and poultry fat, other than that of
heading 02.09 or 15.03.
1502.10.00 - Tallow kg 0%
15.03 1503.00.00 Lard stearin, lard oil, oleostearin, oleo-oil and tallow oil, not Kg 10%
emulsified or mixed or otherwise prepared.
15.04 Fats and oils and their fractions, of fish or marine mammals,
whether or not refined, but not chemically modified.
1504.20.00 - Fats and oils and their fractions, of fish, other than liver oils kg 10%
1504.30.00 - Fats and oils and their fractions, of marine mammals kg 10%
15.06 1506.00.00 Other animal fats and oils and their fractions, whether or not Kg 10%
refined, but not chemically modified.
15.07 Soya-bean oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not
chemically modified.
15.08 Ground-nut oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but
not chemically modified.
15.09 Olive oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not
chemically modified.
15.10 Other oils and their fractions, obtained solely from olives,
whether or not refined, but not chemically modified, including
blends of these oils or fractions with oils or fractions of
heading 15.09.
15.11 Palm oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not
chemically modified.
- Other:
1512.21.00 -- Crude oil, whether or not gossypol has been removed kg 10%
- Other:
15.16 Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their fractions,
partly or wholly hydrogenated, inter-esterified, re-esterified or
elaidinised, whether or not refined, but not further prepared.
15.18 1518.00.00 Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their Kg 35%
fractions, boiled, oxidised, dehydrated, sulphurised, blown,
polymerised by heat in vacuum or in inert gas or otherwise
chemically modified, excluding those of heading 15.16;
inedible mixtures or preparations of animal, vegetable or
microbial fats or oils or of fractions of different fats or oils of
this Chapter, not elsewhere specified or included.
[15.19]
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Note.
1.- In this Section the term “pellets” means products which have been agglomerated either directly by compression
or by the addition of a binder in a proportion not exceeding 3% by weight.
Chapter 16
Notes.
1.- This Chapter does not cover meat, meat offal, fish, crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, as
well as insects, prepared or preserved by the processes specified in Chapter 2 or 3, Note 6 to Chapter 4 or in
heading 05.04.
2.- Food preparations fall in this Chapter provided that they contain more than 20 % by weight of sausage, meat,
meat offal, blood, insects, fish or crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, or any combination
thereof. In cases where the preparation contains two or more of the products mentioned above, it is classified
in the heading of Chapter 16 corresponding to the component or components which predominate by weight.
These provisions do not apply to the stuffed products of heading 19.02 or to the preparations of heading 21.03
or 21.04.
Subheading Notes.
1.- For the purposes of subheading 1602.10, the expression “homogenised preparations” means preparations of
meat, meat offal, blood or insects, finely homogenised, put up for retail sale as food suitable for infants or young
children or for dietetic purposes, in containers of a net weight content not exceeding 250 g. For the application
of this definition no account is to be taken of small quantities of any ingredients which may have been added to
the preparation for seasoning, preservation or other purposes. These preparations may contain a small quantity
of visible pieces of meat, meat offal or insects. This subheading takes precedence over all other subheadings of
heading 16.02.
2.- The fish, crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates specified in the subheadings of heading 16.04
or 16.05 under their common names only, are of the same species as those mentioned in Chapter 3 under the
same name.
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16.01 1601.00.00 Sausages and similar products, of meat, meat offal, blood or kg 35%
insects; food preparations based on these products.
- Of swine:
16.03 1603.00.00 Extracts and juices of meat, fish or crustaceans, molluscs or kg 35%
other aquatic invertebrates.
- Molluscs:
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(b) Chemically pure sugars (other than sucrose, lactose, maltose, glucose and fructose) or other products
of heading 29.40; or
Subheading Notes
1.- For the purposes of subheadings 1701.12, 1701.13 and 1701.14, “raw sugar” means sugar whose content of
sucrose by weight, in the dry state, corresponds to a polarimeter reading of less than 99.5°.
2.- Subheading 1701.13 covers only cane sugar obtained without centrifugation, whose content of sucrose by
weight, in the dry state, corresponds to a polarimeter reading of 69° or more but less than 93°. The product
contains only natural anhedral microcrystals, of irregular shape, no visible to the naked eye, which are surrounded
by residues of molasses and other constituents of sugar cane.
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-- Beet sugar:
- Other:
-- Other:
1702.40.00 - Glucose and glucose syrup, containing in the dry state at least kg 10%
20% but less than 50% by weight of fructose, excluding invert
sugar
1702.60.00 - Other fructose and fructose syrup, containing in the dry state kg 10%
more than 50% by weight of fructose, excluding invert sugar
1702.90.00 - Other, including invert sugar and other sugar and sugar syrup kg 10%
blends containing in the dry state 50% by weight of fructose.
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Notes.
1.- This Chapter does not cover :
(a) Food preparations containing more than 20 % by weight of sausage, meat, meat offal, blood, insects,
fish or crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, or any combination thereof (Chapter
16);
(b) Preparations of headings 04.03, 19.01, 19.02, 19.04, 19.05, 21.05, 22.02, 22.08, 30.03 or 30.04.
2.- Heading 18.06 includes sugar confectionery containing cocoa and, subject to Note 1 to this Chapter, other food
preparations containing cocoa.
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18.02 1802.00.00 Cocoa shells, husks, skins and other cocoa waste. kg 10%
1806.20.00 - Other preparations in blocks, slabs or bars weighing more than kg 35%
2 kg or in liquid, paste, powder, granular or other bulk form in
containers or immediate packings, of a content exceeding 2 kg
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Notes.
(a) Except in the case of stuffed products of heading 19.02, food preparations containing more than 20 %
by weight of sausage, meat, meat offal, blood, insects, fish or crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic
invertebrates, or any combination thereof (Chapter 16);
(b) Biscuits or other articles made from flour or from starch, specially prepared for use in animal feeding
(heading 23.09); or
(2) Flour, meal and powder of vegetable origin of any Chapter, other than flour, meal or powder of
dried vegetables (heading 07.12), of potatoes (heading 11.05) or of dried leguminous vegetables
(heading 11.06).
3.- Heading 19.04 does not cover preparations containing more than 6% by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally
defatted basis or completely coated with chocolate or other food preparations containing cocoa of heading
18.06 (heading 18.06).
4.- For the purposes of heading 19.04, the expression “otherwise prepared” means prepared or processed to an
extent beyond that provided for in the headings of or Notes to Chapter 10 or 11.
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1901.10.00 - Preparations suitable for infants or young children, put up for kg 25%
retail sale.
- Other:
19.03 1903.00.00 Tapioca and substitutes therefor prepared from starch, in the kg 25%
form of flakes, grains, pearls, siftings or in similar forms.
1904.20.00 - Prepared foods obtained from unroasted cereal flakes or from kg 25%
mixtures of unroasted cereal flakes and roasted cereal flakes or
swelled cereals
- Other:
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Notes.
(a) Vegetables, fruit or nuts, prepared or preserved by the processes specified in Chapter 7, 8 or 11;
(c) Food preparations containing more than 20% by weight of sausage, meat, meat offal, blood, insects, fish
or crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, or any combination thereof (Chapter 16);
2.- Headings 20.07 and 20.08 do not apply to fruit jellies, fruit pastes, sugar-coated almonds or the like in the form
of sugar confectionery (heading 17.04) or chocolate confectionery (heading 18.06).
3.- Headings 20.01, 20.04 and 20.05 cover, as the case may be, only those products of Chapter 7 or of heading
11.05 or 11.06 (other than flour, meal and powder of the products of Chapter 8) which have been prepared or
preserved by processes other than those referred to in Note 1 (a).
4.- Tomato juice the dry weight content of which is 7% or more is to be classified in heading 20.02.
5.- For the purposes of heading 20.07, the expression “obtained by cooking” means obtained by heat treatment
at atmospheric pressure or under reduced pressure to increase the viscosity of a product through reduction of
water content or other means.
6.- For the purposes of heading 20.09, the expression “juices, unfermented and not containing added spirit” means
juices of an alcoholic strength by volume (see Note 2 to Chapter 22) not exceeding 0.5% vol.
Subheading Notes.
1.- For the purposes of subheading 2005.10, the expression “homogenised vegetables” means preparations of
vegetables, finely homogenised, put up for retail sale as food suitable for infants or young children or for dietetic
purposes, in containers of a net weight content not exceeding 250 g. For the application of this definition no
account is to be taken of small quantities of any ingredients which may have been added to the preparation for
seasoning, preservation or other purposes. These preparations may contain a small quantity of visible pieces
of vegetables. Subheading 2005.10 takes precedence over all other subheadings of heading 20.05.
2.- For the purposes of subheading 2007.10, the expression “homogenised preparations” means preparations of
fruit, finely homogenised, put up for retail sale as food suitable for infants or young children or for dietetic
purposes, in containers of a net weight content not exceeding 250 g. For the application of this definition no
account is to be taken of small quantities of any ingredients which may have been added to the preparation for
seasoning, preservation or other purposes. These preparations may contain a small quantity of visible pieces
of fruit. Subheading 2007.10 takes precedence over all other subheadings of heading 20.07.
3.- For the purposes of subheadings 2009.12, 2009.21, 2009.31, 2009.41, 2009.61 and 2009.71, the expression
“Brix value” means the direct reading of degrees Brix obtained from a Brix hydrometer or of refractive index
expressed in terms of percentage sucrose content obtained from a refractometer, at a temperature of 20° C or
corrected for 20° C if the reading is made at a different temperature.
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20.06 2006.00.00 Vegetables, fruit, nuts, fruit-peel and other parts of plants, kg 35%
preserved by sugar (drained, glacé or crystallised).
20.07 Jams, fruit jellies, marmalades, fruit or nut purée and fruit or
nut pastes, obtained by cooking, whether or not containing
added sugar or other sweetening matter.
- Other:
20.09 Fruit or nut juices (including grape must and coconut water)
and vegetable juices, unfermented and not containing
added spirit, whether or not containing added sugar or other
sweetening matter.
- Orange juice:
- Pineapple juice:
- Apple juice:
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Notes.
(b) Roasted coffee substitutes containing coffee in any proportion (heading 09.01);
(e) Food preparations, other than the products described in heading 21.03 or 21.04, containing more than
20% by weight of sausage, meat, meat offal, blood, insects, fish or crustaceans, molluscs or other
aquatic invertebrates, or any combination thereof (Chapter 16);
2.- Extracts of the substitutes referred to in Note 1 (b) above are to be classified in heading 21.01.
3.- For the purposes of heading 21.04, the expression “homogenised composite food preparations” means
preparations consisting of a finely homogenised mixture of two or more basic ingredients such as meat, fish,
vegetables, fruit or nuts, , put up for retail sale as food suitable for infants or young children or for dietetic
purposes, in containers of a net weight content not exceeding 250 g. For the application of this definition, no
account is to be taken of small quantities of any ingredients which may be added to the mixture for seasoning,
preservation or other purposes. Such preparations may contain a small quantity of visible pieces of ingredients.
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2101.30.00 - Roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes, and kg 35%
extracts, essences and concentrates thereof
21.05 2105.00.00 Ice cream and other edible ice, whether or not containing kg 35%
cocoa.
- Other:
--- Other:
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Notes.
(a) Products of this Chapter (other than those of heading 22.09) prepared for culinary purposes and thereby
rendered unsuitable for consumption as beverages (generally heading 21.03);
(c) Acetic acid of a concentration exceeding 10% by weight of acetic acid (heading 29.15);
2.- For the purposes of this Chapter and of Chapters 20 and 21, the “alcoholic strength by volume” shall be
determined at a temperature of 20 °C.
3.- For the purposes of heading 22.02, the term “non-alcoholic beverages” means beverages of an alcoholic
strength by volume not exceeding 0.5% vol. Alcoholic beverages are classified in headings. 22.03 to 22.06 or
heading 22.08 as appropriate.
Subheading Note.
1.- For the purposes of subheading 2204.10, the expression “sparkling wine” means wine which, when kept at a
temperature of 20 °C in closed containers, has an excess pressure of not less than 3 bars.
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22.01 Waters, including natural or artificial mineral waters and aerated waters,
not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter nor flavoured; ice
and snow.
2202.10.00 - Waters, including mineral waters and aerated waters, containing l 35%
added sugar or other sweetening matter or flavoured
- Other:
2204.22.00 -- In containers holding more than 2 l but not more than 10 l l 35%
2207.20.00 - Ethyl alcohol and other spirits, denatured, of any strength l 35%
2208.40.00 - Rum and other spirits obtained by distilling fermented sugar- l 35%
cane products
- Other:
22.09 2209.00.00 Vinegar and substitutes for vinegar obtained from acetic l 35%
acid.
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Note.
1.- Heading 23.09 includes products of a kind used in animal feeding, not elsewhere specified or included, obtained
by processing vegetable or animal materials to such an extent that they have lost the essential characteristics of
the original material, other than vegetable waste, vegetable residues and by-products of such processing.
Subheading Note.
1.- For the purposes of subheading 2306.41, the expression “low erucic acid rape or colza seeds“ means seeds as
defined in subheading Note 1 to Chapter 12.
23.01 Flours, meals and pellets, of meat or meat offal, of fish or of crustaceans,
molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, unfit for human consumption;
greaves.
2301.10.00 - Flours, meals and pellets, of meat or meat offal; greaves kg 10%
23.02 Bran, sharps and other residues, whether or not in the form
of pellets, derived from the sifting, milling or other working
of cereals or of leguminous plants.
23.04 2304.00.00 Oil-cake and other solid residues, whether or not ground or kg 10%
in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of soya
beans oil.
23.05 2305.00.00 Oil-cake and other solid residues, whether or not ground kg 10%
or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of
groundnut oil.
23.08 2308.00.00 Vegetable materials and vegetable waste, vegetable residues kg 10%
and by-products, whether or not in the form of pellets, of
a kind used in animal feeding, not elsewhere specified or
included.
- Other:
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Notes.
1.- This Chapter does not cover medicinal cigarettes (Chapter 30).
2.- Any products classifiable in heading 24.04 and any other heading of the Chapter are to be classified in heading
24.04.
3.- For the purposes of heading 24.04, the expression “inhalation without combustion” means inhalation through
heated delivery or other means, without combustion.”.
Subheading Note.
1.- For the purposes of subheading 2403.11, the expression “water pipe tobacco” means tobacco intended for
smoking in a water pipe and which consists of a mixture of tobacco and glycerol, whether or not containing
aromatic oils and extracts, molasses or sugar, and whether or not flavoured with fruit. However, tobacco-free
products intended for smoking in a water pipe are excluded from this subheading.
2402.20.10 ---Of length not exceeding 72 mm in length including the filter tip kg 35%
- Other:
- Other:
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MINERAL PRODUCTS
Chapter 25
Notes.
1.- Except where their context or Note 4 to this Chapter otherwise requires, the headings of this Chapter cover only
products which are in the crude state or which have been washed (even with chemical substances eliminating
the impurities without changing the structure of the product), crushed, ground, powdered, levigated, sifted,
screened, concentrated by flotation, magnetic separation or other mechanical or physical processes (except
crystallisation), but not products which have been roasted, calcined, obtained by mixing or subjected to
processing beyond that mentioned in each heading.
The products of this Chapter may contain an added anti-dusting agent, provided that such addition does not
render the product particularly suitable for specific use rather than for general use.
(b) Earth colours containing 70% or more by weight of combined iron evaluated as Fe2O3 (heading 28.21);
(f) Setts, curbstones or flagstones (heading 68.01); mosaic cubes or the like (heading 68.02); roofing, facing
or damp course slates (heading 68.03);
(h) Cultured crystals (other than optical elements) weighing not less than 2.5 g each, of sodium chloride
or of magnesium oxide, of heading 38.24; optical elements of sodium chloride or of magnesium oxide
(heading 90.01);
3.- Any products classifiable in heading 25.17 and any other heading of the Chapter are to be classified in heading
25.17.
4.- Heading 25.30 applies, inter alia, to: vermiculite, perlite and chlorites, unexpanded; earth colours, whether or
not calcined or mixed together; natural micaceous iron oxides; meerschaum (whether or not in polished pieces);
amber; agglomerated meerschaum and agglomerated amber, in plates, rods, sticks or similar forms, not worked
after moulding; jet; strontianite (whether or not calcined), other than strontium oxide; broken pieces of pottery,
brick or concrete.
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25.01 Salt (including table salt and denatured salt) and pure sodium
chloride, whether or not in aqueous solution or containing
added anti-caking or free-flowing agents; seawater.
2504.90.00 - Other kg 0%
2505.90.00 - Other kg 0%
2506.10.00 - Quartz kg 0%
2506.20.00 - Quartzite kg 0%
25.07 2507.00.00 Kaolin and other kaolinic clays, whether or not calcined. kg 0%
2508.10.00 - Bentonite kg 0%
2508.30.00 - Fire-clay kg 0%
2508.60.00 - Mullite kg 0%
2510.10.00 - Unground kg 0%
2510.20.00 - Ground kg 0%
- Granite:
2516.20.00 - Sandstone kg 0%
2520.20.00 - Plasters kg 0%
25.21 2521.00.00 Limestone flux; limestone and other calcareous stone, of a kg 10%
kind used for the manufacture of lime or cement.
- Portland cement:
25.24 Asbestos.
2525.10.00 - Crude mica and mica rifted into sheets or splittings kg 10%
[25.27]
25.28 2528.00.00 Natural borates and concentrates thereof (whether or not kg 10%
calcined), but not including borates separated from natural
brine; natural boric acid containing not more than 85% of
H3BO3 calculated on the dry weight
- Fluorspar:
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(b) Natural magnesium carbonate (magnesite), whether or not calcined (heading 25.19);
(c) Sludges from the storage tanks of petroleum oils, consisting mainly of such oils (heading 27.10);
(e) Slag wool, rock wool or similar mineral wools (heading 68.06);
(f) Waste or scrap of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal; other waste or scrap containing
precious metal or precious metal compounds, of a kind used principally for the recovery of precious metal
heading 71.12 or 85.49);or
(g) Copper, nickel or cobalt mattes produced by any process of smelting (Section XV).
2.- For the purposes of headings. 26.01 to 26.17, the term “ores” means minerals of mineralogical species actually
used in the metallurgical industry for the extraction of mercury, of the metals of heading 28.44 or of the metals of
Section XIV or XV, even if they are intended for non-metallurgical purposes. Headings. 26.01 to 26.17 do not,
however, include minerals which have been submitted to processes not normal to the metallurgical industry.
(b) Slag, ash and residues containing arsenic, whether or not containg metals, of a kind used either for the
extraction of arsenic or metals or for the manufacture of their chemical compounds.
Subheading Notes.
1.- For the purposes of subheading 2620.21, “leaded gasoline sludges and leaded anti-knock compound sludges”
mean sludges obtained from storage tanks of leaded gasoline and leaded anti-knock compounds (for example,
tetraethyllead), and consisting essentially of lead, lead compounds and iron oxide.
2.- Slag, ash and residues containing arsenic, mercury, thallium or their mixtures, of a kind used for the extraction of
arsenic or those metals or for the manufacture of their chemical compounds, are to be classified in subheading
2620.60.
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2601.11.00 -- Non-agglomerated kg 0%
2601.12.00 -- Agglomerated kg 0%
2613.10.00 - Roasted kg 0%
2613.90.00 - Other kg 0%
2615.90.00 - Other kg 0%
2616.90.00 - Other kg 0%
2617.90.00 - Other kg 0%
26.18 2618.00.00 Granulated slag (slag sand) from the manufacture of iron or kg 0%
steel.
26.19 2619.00.00 Slag, dross (other than granulated slag), scalings and other kg 0%
waste from the manufacture of iron or steel.
26.20 Slag, ash and residues (other than from the manufacture
of iron or steel), containing arsenic, metals or their
compounds.
2620.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
2620.29.00 -- Other kg 0%
- Other
2620.99.00 -- Other kg 0%
26.21 Other slag and ash, including seaweed ash (kelp); ash and
residue from the incineration of municipal waste.
2621.90.00 - Other kg 0%
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(a) Separate chemically defined organic compounds, other than pure methane and propane, which are to be
classified in heading 27.11;
2.- References in heading 27.10 to “petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals” include not only
petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals but also similar oils, as well as those consisting
mainly of mixed unsaturated hydrocarbons, obtained by any process, provided that the weight of the non-
aromatic constituents exceeds that of the aromatic constituents.
However, the references do not include liquid synthetic polyolefins of which less than 60% by volume distils at
300 °C, after conversion to 1,013 millibars when a reduced-pressure distillation method is used (Chapter 39).
3.- For the purposes of heading 27.10, “waste oils” means waste containing mainly petroleum oils and oils obtained
from bituminous minerals (as described in Note 2 to this Chapter), whether or not mixed with water. These
include:
(a) Such oils no longer fit for use as primary products (for example, used lubricating oils, used hydraulic oils
and used transformer oils);
(b) Sludge oils from the storage tanks of petroleum oils, mainly containing such oils and a high concentration
of additives (for example, chemicals) used in the manufacture of the primary products; and
(c) Such oils in the form of emulsions in water or mixtures with water, such as those resulting from oil spills,
storage tank washings, or from the use of cutting oils for machining operations.
Subheading Notes.
1.- For the purposes of subheading 2701.11, “anthracite” means coal having a volatile matter limit (on a dry, mineral-
matter-free basis) not exceeding 14%.
2.- For the purposes of subheading 2701.12, “bituminous coal” means coal having a volatile matter limit (on a dry,
mineral-matter-free basis) exceeding 14% and a calorific value limit (on a moist, mineral-matter-free basis) equal
to or greater than 5,833 kcal/kg.
3.- For the purposes of subheadings 2707.10, 2707.20, 2707.30, and 2707.40, the terms “benzol (benzene)”, “toluol
(toluene)”, “xylol (xylenes)” and “naphthalene” apply to products which contain more than 50% by weight of
benzene, toluene, xylene or naphthalene, respectively.
4.- For the purposes of subheading 2710.12, “light oils and preparations” are those of which 90 % or more by
volume (including losses) distil at 210 °C according to the ISO 3405 method (equivalent to the ASTM D 86
method).
__________
2701.11.00 -- Anthracite kg 0%
27.03 2703.00.00 Peat (including peat litter), whether or not agglomerated. kg 10%
27.05 2705.00.00 Coal gas, water gas, producer gas and similar gases, other kg 10%
than petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons.
27.06 2706.00.00 Tar distilled from coal, from lignite or from peat, and kg 10%
other mineral tars, whether or not dehydrated or partially
distilled, including reconstituted tars.
- Other:
27.08 Pitch and pitch coke, obtained from coal tar or from other
mineral tars.
27.09 2709.00.00 Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, kg 0%
crude.
-- Other:
2710.19.31 ---- Gas oil (automotive, light, amber for high speed engines) l 0%
2710.19.32 ---- Diesel oil (industrial heavy, black, for low speed marine and l 0%
stationery engines)
2710.19.41 ---- Residual fuel oils(marine, furnace and similar fuel oils) of a l 0%
Kinematic viscosity of 125 centistrokes
2710.19.42 ---- Residual fuel oils (marine, furnace and similar fuel oils) of a l 0%
Kinematic viscosity of 180 centistrokes
2710.19.43 ---- Residual fuel oils (marine, furnace and similar fuel oils) of a l 0%
Kinematic viscosity of 280 centistrokes
--- Other:
2710.19.56 ---- Non-lubrcating oils (cutting oils, coolants, anti-rust, brake l 25%
fluids and similar oils nes.)
- Waste oils:
- Liquefied:
2711.12.00 -- Propane kg 0%
2711.13.00 -- Butanes kg 0%
2711.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
- In gaseous state:
2712.90.00 - Other kg 0%
- Petroleum coke:
2713.12.00 -- Calcined kg 0%
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Notes.
1.- (A) Goods (other than radioactive ores) answering to a description in heading 28.44 or 28.45 are to be
classified in those headings and in no other heading of the Nomenclature.
(B) Subject to paragraph (A) above, goods answering to a description in heading 28.43 , 28.46 or 28.52 are
to be classified in those headings and in no other heading of this Section.
2.- Subject to Note 1 above, goods classifiable in heading 30.04, 30.05, 30.06, 32.12, 33.03, 33.04, 33.05, 33.06,
33.07, 35.06, 37.07 or 38.08 by reason of being put up in measured doses or for retail sale are to be classified
in those headings and in no other heading of the Nomenclature.
3.- Goods put up in sets consisting of two or more separate constituents, some or all of which fall in this Section
and are intended to be mixed together to obtain a product of Section VI or VII, are to be classified in the heading
appropriate to that product, provided that the constituents are:
(a) having regard to the manner in which they are put up, clearly identifiable as being intended to be used
together without first being repacked;
(c) identifiable, whether by their nature or by the relative proportions in which they are present, as being
complementary one to another.
4.- Where a product answers to a description in one or more of the headings in Section VI by virtue of being
described by name or function and also to heading 38.27, then it is classifiable in a heading that references the
product by name or function and not under heading 38.27.
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Notes.
1.- Except where the context otherwise requires, the headings of this Chapter apply only to:
(a) Separate chemical elements and separate chemically defined compounds, whether or not containing
impurities;
(c) The products mentioned in (a) above dissolved in other solvents provided that the solution constitutes
a normal and necessary method of putting up these products adopted solely for reasons of safety or for
transport and that the solvent does not render the product particularly suitable for specific use rather than
for general use;
(d) The products mentioned in (a), (b) or (c) above with an added stabiliser (including an anti-caking agent)
necessary for their preservation or transport;
(e) The products mentioned in (a), (b), (c) or (d) above with an added anti-dusting agent or a colouring
substance added to facilitate their identification or for safety reasons, provided that the additions do not
render the product particularly suitable for specific use rather than for general use.
2.- In addition to dithionites and sulphoxylates, stabilised with organic substances (heading 28.31), carbonates
and peroxocarbonates of inorganic bases (heading 28.36), cyanides, cyanide oxides and complex cyanides of
inorganic bases (heading 28.37), fulminates, cyanates and thiocyanates, of inorganic bases (heading 28.42),
organic products included in headings. 28.43 to 28.46 and 28.52 and carbides (heading 28.49), only the following
compounds of carbon are to be classified in this Chapter:
(a) Oxides of carbon, hydrogen cyanide and fulminic, isocyanic, thiocyanic and other simple or complex
cyanogen acids (heading 28.11);
(e) Hydrogen peroxide, solidified with urea (heading 28.47), carbon oxysulphide, thiocarbonyl halides,
cyanogen, cyanogen halides and cyanamide and its metal derivatives (heading 28.53) other than calcium
cyanamide, whether or not pure (Chapter 31).
3.- Subject to the provisions of Note 1 to Section VI this Chapter does not cover:
(a) Sodium chloride or magnesium oxide, whether or not pure, or other products of Section V;
(d) Inorganic products of a kind used as luminophores, of heading 32.06; glass frit and other glass in the form
of powder, granules or flakes, of heading 32.07;
(e) Artificial graphite (heading 38.01); products put up as charges for fire-extinguishers or put up in fire-
extinguishing grenades, of heading 38.13; ink removers put up in packings for retail sale, of heading
38.24; cultured crystals (other than optical elements) weighing not less than 2.5 g each, of the halides of
the alkali or alkaline-earth metals, of heading 38.24;
(f) Precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed) or dust or powder of such stones
(h) Optical elements, for example, of the halides of the alkali or alkaline-earth metals (heading 90.01).
4.- Chemically defined complex acids consisting of a non-metal acid of sub-Chapter II and a metal acid of sub-
Chapter IV are to be classified in heading 28.11.
5.- Headings. 28.26 to 28.42 apply only to metal or ammonium salts or peroxysalts.
Except where the context otherwise requires, double or complex salts are to be classified in heading 28.42.
(a) Technetium (atomic No. 43), promethium (atomic No. 61), polonium (atomic No. 84) and all elements with
an atomic number greater than 84;
(b) Natural or artificial radioactive isotopes (including those of the precious metals or of the base metals of
Sections XIV and XV), whether or not mixed together;
(c) Compounds, inorganic or organic, of these elements or isotopes, whether or not chemically defined,
whether or not mixed together;
(d) Alloys, dispersions (including cermets), ceramic products and mixtures containing these elements or
isotopes or inorganic or organic compounds thereof and having a specific radioactivity exceeding 74 Bq/g
(0.002 mCi/g);
The term “isotopes”, for the purposes of this Note and of the wording of headings. 28.44 and 28.45, refers to:
- individual nuclides, excluding, however, those existing in nature in the monoisotopic state;
- mixtures of isotopes of one and the same element, enriched in one or several of the said isotopes, that
is, elements of which the natural isotopic composition has been artificially modified.
7.- Heading 28.53 includes copper phosphide (phosphor copper) containing more than 15 % by weight of
phosphorus.
8.- Chemical elements (for example, silicon and selenium) doped for use in electronics are to be classified in this
Chapter, provided that they are in forms unworked as drawn, or in the form of cylinders or rods. When cut in the
form of discs, wafers or similar forms, they fall in heading 38.18.
Subheading Note.
1.- For the purposes of subheading 2852.10, the expression “chemically defined” means all organic or inorganic
compounds of mercury meeting the requirements of paragraphs (a) to (e) of Note 1 to Chapter 28 or paragraphs
(a) to (h) of Note 1 to Chapter 29.
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I. - CHEMICAL ELEMENTS
2801.10.00 - Chlorine kg 0%
2801.20.00 - Iodine kg 0%
28.03 2803.00.00 Carbon (carbon blacks and other forms of carbon not kg 0%
elsewhere specified or included).
2804.10.00 - Hydrogen m³ 0%
- Rare gases:
2804.21.00 -- Argon m³ 0%
2804.29.00 -- Other m³ 0%
2804.30.00 - Nitrogen m³ 0%
- Silicon:
2804.69.00 -- Other kg 0%
2804.70.00 - Phosphorus kg 0%
2804.80.00 - Arsenic kg 0%
2804.90.00 - Selenium kg 0%
2805.11.00 -- Sodium kg 0%
2805.12.00 -- Calcium kg 0%
2805.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
2805.40.00 - Mercury kg 0%
2811.29.00 -- Other kg 0%
2812.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
2812.90.00 - Other kg 0%
2813.90.00 - Other kg 0%
2815.11.00 -- Solid kg 0%
2819.90.00 - Other kg 0%
2820.90.00 - Other kg 0%
2824.90.00 - Other kg 0%
2825.90.00 - Other kg 0%
- Fluorides:
2826.12.00 -- Of aluminium kg 0%
2826.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
2826.90.00 - Other kg 0%
- Other chlorides:
2827.31.00 -- Of magnesium kg 0%
2827.32.00 -- Of aluminium kg 0%
2827.35.00 -- Of nickel kg 0%
2827.39.00 -- Other kg 0%
2827.41.00 -- Of copper kg 0%
2827.49.00 -- Other kg 0%
2827.59.00 -- Other kg 0%
2828.90.00 - Other kg 0%
- Chlorates:
2829.11.00 -- Of sodium kg 0%
2829.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
2829.90.00 - Other kg 0%
2830.90.00 - Other kg 0%
2831.10.00 - Of sodium kg 0%
2831.90.00 - Other kg 0%
2832.30.00 - Thiosulphates kg 0%
- Sodium sulphates:
- Other sulphates:
2833.21.00 -- Of magnesium kg 0%
2833.24.00 -- Of nickel kg 0%
2833.25.00 -- Of copper kg 0%
2833.27.00 -- Of barium kg 0%
2833.29.00 -- Other kg 0%
2833.30.00 - Alums kg 0%
2834.10.00 - Nitrites kg 0%
- Nitrates:
2834.21.00 -- Of potassium kg 0%
2834.29.00 -- Other kg 0%
- Phosphates:
2835.24.00 -- Of potassium kg 0%
2835.29.00 -- Other kg 0%
- Polyphosphates:
2835.39.00 -- Other kg 0%
- Other:
2836.99.00 -- Other kg 0%
2837.11.00 -- Of sodium kg 0%
2837.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
[28.38]
- Of sodium:
2839.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
2839.90.00 - Other kg 0%
2840.11.00 -- Anhydrous kg 0%
2840.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
2841.69.00 -- Other kg 0%
2841.70.00 - Molybdates kg 0%
2841.90.00 - Other kg 0%
2842.90.00 - Other kg 0%
VI.- MISCELLANEOUS
- Silver compounds:
2843.29.00 -- Other kg 0%
2845.40.00 - Helium-3 kg 0%
2845.90.00 - Other kg 0%
2846.90.00 - Other kg 0%
[28.48]
2849.10.00 - Of calcium kg 0%
2849.20.00 - Of silicon kg 0%
2849.90.00 - Other kg 0%
[28.51]
2852.90.00 - Other kg 0%
2853.90.00 -Other kg 0%
_________
Organic chemicals
Notes.
1.- Except where the context otherwise requires, the headings of this Chapter apply only to:
(a) Separate chemically defined organic compounds, whether or not containing impurities;
(b) Mixtures of two or more isomers of the same organic compound (whether or not containing impurities),
except mixtures of acyclic hydrocarbon isomers (other than stereoisomers), whether or not saturated
(Chapter 27);
(c) The products of headings 29.36 to 29.39 or the sugar ethers, sugar acetals and sugar esters, and their
salts, of heading 29.40, or the products of heading 29.41, whether or not chemically defined;
(d) The products mentioned in (a), (b) or (c) above dissolved in water;
(e) The products mentioned in (a), (b) or (c) above dissolved in other solvents provided that the solution
constitutes a normal and necessary method of putting up these products adopted solely for reasons of
safety or for transport and that the solvent does not render the product particularly suitable for specific use
rather than for general use;
(f) The products mentioned in (a), (b), (c), (d) or (e) above with an added stabiliser (including an anti-caking
agent) necessary for their preservation or transport;
(g) The products mentioned in (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) or (f) above with an added anti-dusting agent or a colouring
or odoriferous substance or an emetic added to facilitate their identification or for safety reasons, provided
that the additions do not render the product particularly suitable for specific use rather than for general
use;
(h) The following products, diluted to standard strengths, for the production of azo dyes: diazonium salts,
couplers used for these salts and diazotisable amines and their salts.
(g) Colouring matter of vegetable or animal origin (heading 32.03), synthetic organic colouring matter,
synthetic organic products of a kind used as fluorescent brightening agents or as luminophores (heading
32.04) or dyes or other colouring matter put up in forms or packings for retail sale (heading 32.12);
(i) Metaldehyde, hexamethylenetetramine or similar substances, put up in forms (for example, tablets, sticks
or similar forms) for use as fuels, or liquid or liquefied-gas fuels in containers of a kind used for filling or
refilling cigarette or similar lighters and of a capacity not exceeding 300 cm3 (heading 36.06);
(j) Products put up as charges for fire-extinguishers or put up in fire-extinguishing grenades, of heading
38.13; ink removers put up in packings for retail sale, of heading 38.24; or
4.- In headings. 29.04 to 29.06, 29.08 to 29.11 and 29.13 to 29.20, any reference to halogenated, sulphonated,
nitrated or nitrosated derivatives includes a reference to compound derivatives, such as sulphohalogenated,
nitrohalogenated, nitrosulphonated or nitrosulphohalogenated derivatives.
Nitro or nitroso groups are not to be taken as “nitrogen-functions” for the purposes of heading 29.29.
For the purposes of headings. 29.11, 29.12, 29.14, 29.18 and 29.22, “oxygen function”, the characteristic
organic oxygen-containing group of those respective headings, is restricted to the oxygen-functions referred to
in headings 29.05 to 29.20.
5.- (A) The esters of acid-function organic compounds of sub-Chapters I to VII with organic compounds of these
sub-Chapters are to be classified with that compound which is classified in the heading which occurs last
in numerical order in these sub-Chapters.
(B) Esters of ethyl alcohol with acid-function organic compounds of sub-Chapters I to VII are to be classified
in the same heading as the corresponding acid-function compounds.
(1) Inorganic salts of organic compounds such as acid-, phenol- or enol-function compounds or organic
bases, of sub-Chapters I to X or heading 29.42, are to be classified in the heading appropriate to
the organic compound;
(2) Salts formed between organic compounds of sub-Chapters I to X or heading 29.42 are to be
classified in the heading appropriate to the base or to the acid (including phenol- or enol-function
compounds) from which they are formed, whichever occurs last in numerical order in the Chapter,
and
(3) Co-ordination compounds, other than products classifiable in sub-Chapter XI or heading 29.41,
are to be classified in the heading which occurs last in numerical order in Chapter 29, among
those appropriate to the fragments formed by “cleaving” of all metal bonds, other than metal-
carbon bonds.”
(D) Metal alcoholates are to be classified in the same heading as the corresponding alcohols except in the
case of ethanol (heading 29.05).
(E) Halides of carboxylic acids are to be classified in the same heading as the corresponding acids.
6.- The compounds of headings. 29.30 and 29.31 are organic compounds the molecules of which contain, in addition
to atoms of hydrogen, oxygen or nitrogen, atoms of other non-metals or of metals (such as sulphur, arsenic, or
lead) directly linked to carbon atoms.
Heading 29.30 (organo-sulphur compounds) and heading 29.31 (other organo-inorganic compounds) do not
include sulphonated or halogenated derivatives (including compound derivatives) which, apart from hydrogen,
oxygen and nitrogen, only have directly linked to carbon the atoms of sulphur or of a halogen which give them
their nature of sulphonated or halogenated derivatives (or compound derivatives).
7.- Headings. 29.32, 29.33 and 29.34 do not include epoxides with a three-membered ring, ketone peroxides, cyclic
polymers of aldehydes or of thioaldehydes, anhydrides of polybasic carboxylic acids, cyclic esters of polyhydric
alcohols or phenols with polybasic acids, or imides of polybasic acids.
These provisions apply only when the ring-position hetero-atoms are those resulting solely from the cyclising
function or functions here listed.
(a) the term “hormones” includes hormone-releasing or hormone-stimulating factors, hormone inhibitors and
hormone antagonists (anti-hormones);
(b) the expression “used primarily as hormones” applies not only to hormone derivatives and structural
analogues used primarily for their hormonal effect, but also to those derivatives and structural analogues
used primarily as intermediates in the synthesis of products of this heading.
Subheading Notes.
1.- Within any one heading of this Chapter, derivatives of a chemical compound (or group of chemical compounds)
are to be classified in the same subheading as that compound (or group of compounds) provided that they
are not more specifically covered by any other subheading and that there is no residual subheading named
“Other” in the series of subheadings concerned.
2.- Note 3 to Chapter 29 does not apply to the subheadings of this Chapter.”
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2901.10.00 - Saturated kg 0%
- Unsaturated:
2901.21.00 -- Ethylene kg 0%
2901.29.00 -- Other kg 0%
2902.11.00 -- Cyclohexane kg 0%
2902.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
2902.20.00 - Benzene kg 0%
2902.30.00 - Toluene kg 0%
- Xylenes:
2902.41.00 -- o-Xylene kg 0%
2902.42.00 -- m-Xylene kg 0%
2902.43.00 -- p-Xylene kg 0%
2902.50.00 - Styrene kg 0%
2902.60.00 - Ethylbenzene kg 0%
2902.70.00 - Cumene kg 0%
2902.90.00 - Other kg 0%
-- Other:
2903.22.00 -- Trichloroethylene kg 0%
2903.29.00 -- Other kg 0%
2903.49.00 -- Other kg 0%
2903.59.00 -- Other kg 0%
2903.69.00 -- Other kg 0%
2903.79.00 -- Other kg 0%
2903.89.00 -- Other kg 0%
2903.94.00 -- Hexabromobiphenyls kg 0%
2903.99.00 -- Other kg 0%
2904.10.00 - Derivatives containing only sulpho groups, their salts and ethyl kg 0%
esters
- Other
2904.99.00 -- Other kg 0%
2905.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
2905.29.00 -- Other kg 0%
‑ Diols:
2905.39.00 -- Other kg 0%
2905.42.00 ‑‑ Pentaerythritol kg 0%
2905.43.00 ‑‑ Mannitol kg 0%
2905.45.00 -- Glycerol kg 0%
2905.49.00 -- Other kg 0%
2905.59.00 -- Other kg 0%
2906.11.00 -- Menthol kg 0%
2906.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
- Aromatic:
2906.29.00 -- Other kg 0%
‑ Monophenols:
2907.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
‑ Polyphenols; phenol-alcohols:
2907.29.00 -- Other kg 0%
2908.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
- Other:
2908.99.00 -- Other kg 0%
2909.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
2909.49.00 -- Other kg 0%
2910.90.00 - Other kg 0%
29.11 2911.00.00 Acetals and hemiacetals, whether or not with other oxygen kg 0%
function, and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or
nitrosated derivatives.
2912.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
2912.21.00 -- Benzaldehyde kg 0%
2912.29.00 -- Other kg 0%
2912.49.00 -- Other kg 0%
2912.60.00 - Paraformaldehyde kg 0%
2914.11.00 -- Acetone kg 0%
2914.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
2914.29.00 -- Other kg 0%
2914.39.00 -- Other kg 0%
- Quinones:
2914.61.00 -- Anthraquinone kg 0%
2914.69.00 -- Other kg 0%
2914.79.00 -- Other kg 0%
2915.29.00 -- Other kg 0%
2915.39.00 -- Other kg 0%
2915.90.00 - Other kg 0%
2916.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
2916.39.00 -- Other kg 0%
2917.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
2917.39.00 -- Other kg 0%
2918.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
2918.29.00 -- Other kg 0%
- Other
2918.99.00 -- Other kg 0%
2919.90.00 - Other kg 0%
2920.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
2920.29.00 --Other kg 0%
2920.90.00 - Other kg 0%
2921.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
2921.29.00 -- Other kg 0%
2921.49.00 -- Other kg 0%
2921.59.00 -- Other kg 0%
2922.15.00 -- Triethanolamine kg 0%
2922.18.00 -- 2-(N,N-Diisopropylamino)ethanol kg 0%
2922.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
2922.29.00 -- Other kg 0%
2922.39.00 -- Other kg 0%
2922.49.00 -- Other kg 0%
2923.90.00 - Other kg 0%
2924.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
2924.29.00 -- Other kg 0%
2925.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
2925.29.00 -- Other kg 0%
2926.10.00 - Acrylonitrile kg 0%
2926.40.00 - alpha-Phenylacetoacetonitrile kg 0%
2926.90.00 - Other kg 0%
2929.10.00 - Isocyanates kg 0%
2929.90.00 - Other kg 0%
2930.40.00 - Methionine kg 0%
2930.60.00 - 2-(N,N-Diethylamino)ethanethiol kg 0%
2930.90.00 - Other kg 0%
2931.48.00 -- 3,9-Dimethyl-2,4,8,10-tetraoxa-3,9-diphosphaspiro[5.5] kg 0%
undecane 3,9-dioxide
2931.49.00 -- Other kg 0%
2931.59.00 -- Other kg 0%
2931.90.00 - Other kg 0%
2932.11.00 -- Tetrahydrofuran kg 0%
2932.14.00 -- Sucralose kg 0%
2932.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
2932.20.00 - Lactones kg 0%
- Other:
2932.91.00 -- Isosafrole kg 0%
2932.92.00 -- 1-(1,3-Benzodioxol-5-yl)propan-2-one kg 0%
2932.93.00 -- Piperonal kg 0%
2932.94.00 -- Safrole kg 0%
2932.99.00 -- Other kg 0%
2933.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
2933.29.00 -- Other kg 0%
2933.35.00 -- 3-Quinuclidinol kg 0%
2933.39.00 -- Other kg 0%
2933.49.00 -- Other kg 0%
2933.59.00 -- Other kg 0%
2933.61.00 -- Melamine kg 0%
2933.69.00 -- Other kg 0%
- Lactams:
- Other:
2933.99.00 -- Other kg 0%
- Other:
2934.99.00 -- Other kg 0%
29.35 Sulphonamides.
2935.90.00 - Other kg 0%
2937.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
2937.29.00 -- Other kg 0%
2937.90.00 -- Other kg 0%
2938.90.00 - Other kg 0%
2939.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
2939.49.00 -- Other kg 0%
2939.59.00 -- Other kg 0%
2939.69.00 -- Other kg 0%
2939.79.00 -- Other kg 0%
2939.80.00 - Other kg 0%
29.41 Antibiotics.
2941.90.00 - Other kg 0%
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Pharmaceutical products
Notes.
(a) Foods or beverages (such as dietetic, diabetic or fortified foods, food supplements, tonic beverages and
mineral waters), other than nutritional preparations for intravenous administration (Section IV);
(b) Products, such as tablets, chewing gum or patches (transdermal systems), containing nicotine and
intended to assist tobacco use cessation (heading 24.04);
(c) Plasters specially calcined or finely ground for use in dentistry (heading 25.20);
(d) Aqueous distillates or aqueous solutions of essential oils, suitable for medicinal uses (heading 33.01);
(e) Preparations of headings 33.03 to 33.07, even if they have therapeutic or prophylactic properties;
(g) Preparations with a basis of plaster for use in dentistry (heading 34.07);
(h) Blood albumin not prepared for therapeutic or prophylactic uses (heading 35.02).
2.- For the purposes of heading 30.02, the expression “immunological products” applies to peptides and proteins
(other than goods of heading 29.37) which are directly involved in the regulation of immunological processes,
such as monoclonal antibodies (MAB), antibody fragments, antibody conjugates and antibody fragment
conjugates, interleukins, interferons (IFN), chemokines and certain tumor necrosis factors (TNF), growth factors
(GF), hematopoietins and colony stimulating factors (CSF).
3.- For the purposes of headings 30.03 and 30.04 and of Note 4 (d) to this Chapter, the following are to be treated:
(3) Simple vegetable extracts of heading 13.02, merely standardised or dissolved in any solvent;
(2) Vegetable extracts obtained by the treatment of mixtures of vegetable materials; and
4.- Heading 30.06 applies only to the following, which are to be classified in that heading and in no other heading of
the Nomenclature:
(a) Sterile surgical catgut, similar sterile suture materials (including sterile absorbable surgical or dental
yarns) and sterile tissue adhesives for surgical wound closure;
(c) Sterile absorbable surgical or dental haemostatics; sterile surgical or dental adhesion barriers, whether or
not absorbable;
(e) Placebos and blinded (or double-blinded) clinical trial kits for use in recognised clinical trials, put up in
measured doses, even if they might contain active medicaments.
(f) Dental cements and other dental fillings; bone reconstruction cements;
(j) Waste pharmaceuticals, that is, pharmaceutical products which are unfit for their original intended
purpose due to, for example, expiry of shelf life; and
(k) Appliances identifiable for ostomy use that is, colostomy, ileostomy and urostomy pouches cut to shape
and their adhesive wafers or faceplates.
Subheading Notes.
1.- For the purposes of subheadings 3002.13 and 3002.14, the following are to be treated:
3001.90.00 - Other kg 0%
3002.49.00 -- Other kg 0%
3002.59.00 -- Other kg 0%
3002.90.00 - Other kg 0%
3003.39.00 -- Other kg 0%
3003.49.00 -- Other kg 0%
3003.90.00 - Other kg 0%
3004.39.00 -- Other kg 0%
3004.49.00 -- Other kg 0%
3004.90.00 - Other kg 0%
- Other:
- Other:
3006.93.00 -- Placebos and blinded (or double-blinded) clinical trial kits for a kg 0%
recognised clinical trial, put up in measured doses
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Fertilisers
Notes.
(b) Separate chemically defined compounds (other than those answering to the descriptions in Note 2 (a), 3
(a), 4 (a) or 5 below); or
(c) Cultured potassium chloride crystals (other than optical elements) weighing not less than 2.5 g each, of
heading 38.24; optical elements of potassium chloride (heading 90.01).
2.- Heading 31.02 applies only to the following goods, provided that they are not put up in the forms or packages
described in heading 31.05:
(a) Goods which answer to one or other of the descriptions given below:
(iii) Double salts, whether or not pure, of ammonium sulphate and ammonium nitrate;
(v) Double salts (whether or not pure) or mixtures of calcium nitrate and ammonium nitrate;
(vi) Double salts (whether or not pure) or mixtures of calcium nitrate and magnesium nitrate;
(b) Fertilisers consisting of any of the goods described in (a) above mixed together.
(c) Fertilisers consisting of ammonium chloride or of any of the goods described in (a) or (b) above mixed
with chalk, gypsum or other inorganic non-fertilising substances.
(d) Liquid fertilisers consisting of the goods of subparagraph (a) (ii) or (viii) above, or of mixtures of those
goods, in an aqueous or ammoniacal solution.
3.- Heading 31.03 applies only to the following goods, provided that they are not put up in the forms or packages
described in heading 31.05:
(a) Goods which answer to one or other of the descriptions given below:
(ii) Natural phosphates of heading 25.10, calcined or further heat-treated than for the removal of
impurities;
(iv) Calcium hydrogenorthophosphate containing not less than 0.2 % by weight of fluorine calculated
on the dry anhydrous product.
(b) Fertilisers consisting of any of the goods described in (a) above mixed together, but with no account
being taken of the fluorine content limit.
(c) Fertilisers consisting of any of the goods described in (a) or (b) above, but with no account being taken
of the fluorine content limit, mixed with chalk, gypsum or other inorganic non-fertilising substances.
(a) Goods which answer to one or other of the descriptions given below:
(i) Crude natural potassium salts (for example, carnallite, kainite and sylvite);
(ii) Potassium chloride, whether or not pure, except as provided in Note 1 (c) above;
(b) Fertilisers consisting of any of the goods described in (a) above mixed together.
6.- For the purposes of heading 31.05, the term “other fertilisers” applies only to products of a kind used as fertilisers
and containing, as an essential constituent, at least one of the fertilising elements nitrogen, phosphorus or
potassium.
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31.01 3101.00.00 Animal or vegetable fertilisers, whether or not mixed together or chemically kg 0%
treated; fertilisers produced by the mixing or chemical treatment of animal
or vegetable products.
3102.29.00 -- Other kg 0%
- Superphosphates
(P2O5)
3103.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
3103.90.00 - Other kg 0%
3104.90.00 - Other kg 0%
3105.59.00 -- Other kg 0%
3105.90.00 - Other kg 0%
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Notes.
(a) Separate chemically defined elements or compounds (except those of heading 32.03 or 32.04, inorganic
products of a kind used as luminophores (heading 32.06), glass obtained from fused quartz or other
fused silica in the forms provided for in heading 32.07, and also dyes and other colouring matter put up
in forms or packings for retail sale, of heading 32.12);
(b) Tannates or other tannin derivatives of products of headings 29.36 to 29.39, 29.41 or 35.01 to 35.04; or
2.- Heading 32.04 includes mixtures of stabilised diazonium salts and couplers for the production of azo dyes.
3.- Headings. 32.03, 32.04, 32.05 and 32.06 apply also to preparations based on colouring matter (including, in the
case of heading 32.06, colouring pigments of heading 25.30 or Chapter 28, metal flakes and metal powders), of
a kind used for colouring any material or used as ingredients in the manufacture of colouring preparations. The
headings do not apply, however, to pigments dispersed in non-aqueous media, in liquid or paste form, of a kind
used in the manufacture of paints, including enamels (heading 32.12), or to other preparations of heading 32.07,
32.08, 32.09, 32.10, 32.12, 32.13 or 32.15.
4.- Heading 32.08 includes solutions (other than collodions) consisting of any of the products specified in headings
39.01 to 39.13 in volatile organic solvents when the weight of the solvent exceeds 50% of the weight of the
solution.
5.- The expression “colouring matter” in this Chapter does not include products of a kind used as extenders in oil
paints, whether or not they are also suitable for colouring distempers.
6.- The expression “stamping foils” in heading 32.12 applies only to thin sheets of a kind used for printing, for
example, book covers or hat bands, and consisting of:
(a) Metallic powder (including powder of precious metal) or pigment, agglomerated with glue, gelatin or other
binder; or
(b) Metal (including precious metal) or pigment, deposited on a supporting sheet of any material.
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3201.90.00 - Other kg 0%
3202.90.00 - Other kg 0%
3204.15.00 -- Vat dyes (including those usable in that state as pigments) and kg 0%
preparations based thereon
3204.90.00 - Other. kg 0%
3206.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
3206.49.00 -- Other kg 0%
3207.40.00 - Glass frit and other glass, in the form of powder, granules or kg 0%
flakes
- Based on polyesters:
- Other:
- Other:
- Other:
- Other:
3214.10.90 --- Resin cements, caulking compounds and other mastics; kg 25%
painters’ fillings
32.15 Printing ink, writing or drawing ink and other inks, whether or
not concentrated or solid.
- Printing ink:
- Other:
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Notes.
2.- The expression “odoriferous substances” in heading 33.02 refers only to the substances of heading 33.01, to
odoriferous constituents isolated from those substances or to synthetic aromatics.
3.- Headings. 33.03 to 33.07 apply, inter alia, to products, whether or not mixed (other than aqueous distillates and
aqueous solutions of essential oils), suitable for use as goods of these headings and put up in packings of a kind
sold by retail for such use.
4.- The expression “perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations” in heading 33.07 applies, inter alia, to the following
products : scented sachets; odoriferous preparations which operate by burning; perfumed papers and papers
impregnated or coated with cosmetics; contact lens or artificial eye solutions; wadding, felt and nonwovens,
impregnated, coated or covered with perfume or cosmetics; animal toilet preparations.
3301.12.00 -- Of orange kg 0%
3301.13.00 -- Of lemon kg 0%
3301.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
3301.29.00 -- Other kg 0%
3301.30.00 - Resinoids kg 0%
3301.90.00 - Other kg 0%
3302.90.00 - Other kg 0%
- Other:
3306.20.00 - Yarn used to clean between the teeth (dental floss) kg 25%
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Notes.
(a) Edible mixtures or preparations of animal, vegetable or microbial fats or oils of a kind used as mould
release preparations (heading 15.17);
(c) Shampoos, dentifrices, shaving creams and foams, or bath preparations, containing soap or other organic
surface-active agents (heading 33.05, 33.06 or 33.07).
2.- For the purposes of heading 34.01, the expression “soap” applies only to soap soluble in water. Soap and the
other products of heading 34.01 may contain added substances (for example, disinfectants, abrasive powders,
fillers or medicaments). Products containing abrasive powders remain classified in heading 34.01 only if in the
form of bars, cakes or moulded pieces or shapes. In other forms they are to be classified in heading 34.05 as
“scouring powders and similar preparations”.
3.- For the purposes of heading 34.02, “organic surface-active agents” are products which when mixed with water
at a concentration of 0.5% at 20°C and left to stand for one hour at the same temperature:
(a) give a transparent or translucent liquid or stable emulsion without separation of insoluble matter; and
(b) reduce the surface tension of water to 4.5 x10-2 N/m (45 dyne/cm)or less.
4.- In heading 34.03 the expression “petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals” applies to the
products defined in Note 2 to Chapter 27.
5.- In heading 34.04, subject to the exclusions provided below, the expression “artificial waxes and prepared waxes”
applies only to:
(a) Chemically produced organic products of a waxy character, whether or not water-soluble;
(c) Products of a waxy character with a basis of one or more waxes and containing fats, resins, mineral
substances or other materials.
(a) Products of heading 15.16, 34.02 or 38.23, even if having a waxy character;
(b) Unmixed animal waxes or unmixed vegetable waxes, whether or not refined or coloured, of heading
15.21;
(c) Mineral waxes or similar products of heading 27.12, whether or not intermixed or merely coloured; or
(d) Waxes mixed with, dispersed in or dissolved in a liquid medium (headings. 34.05, 38.09, etc.).
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34.01 Soap; organic surface-active products and preparations for use as soap, in
the form of bars, cakes, moulded pieces or shapes, whether or not contain-
ing soap; organic surface-active products and preparations for washing
the skin, in the form of liquid or cream and put up for retail sale, whether
or not containing soap; paper, wadding, felt and nonwovens, impregnated,
coated or covered with soap or detergent.
- Other:
3404.90.00 - Other kg 0%
3405.10.00 - Polishes, creams and similar preparations for footwear or leather kg 35%
3405.20.00 - Polishes, creams and similar preparations for the maintenance of kg 35%
wooden furniture, floors or other woodwork
3405.30.00 - Polishes and similar preparations for coachwork, other than kg 35%
metal polishes
3405.40.00 - Scouring pastes and powders and other scouring preparations kg 35%
34.07 3407.00.00 Modelling pastes, including those put up for children’s kg 10%
amusement; preparations known as “dental wax” or as
“dental impression compounds”, put up in sets, in packings
for retail sale or in plates, horseshoe shapes, sticks or similar
forms; other preparations for use in dentistry, with a basis of
plaster (of calcined gypsum or calcium sulphate).
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Notes.
(b) Blood fractions (other than blood albumin not prepared for therapeutic or prophylactic uses), medicaments
or other products of Chapter 30;
2.- For the purposes of heading 35.05, the term “dextrins” means starch degradation products with a reducing sugar
content, expressed as dextrose on the dry substance, not exceeding 10%.
Such products with a reducing sugar content exceeding 10% fall in heading 17.02.
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- Egg albumin:
3502.20.00 - Milk albumin, including concentrates of two or more whey proteins kg 10%
35.04 3504.00.00 Peptones and their derivatives; other protein substances and kg 10%
their derivatives, not elsewhere specified or included; hide
powder, whether or not chromed.
3506.10.00 - Products suitable for use as glues or adhesives, put up for retail kg 25%
sale as glues or adhesives, not exceeding a net weight of 1 kg
- Other:
3507.90.00 - Other kg 0%
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Notes.
1.- This Chapter does not cover separate chemically defined compounds other than those described in Note 2 (a)
or (b) below.
2.- The expression “articles of combustible materials” in heading 36.06 applies only to:
(a) Metaldehyde, hexamethylenetetramine and similar substances, put up in forms (for example, tablets,
sticks or similar forms) for use as fuels; fuels with a basis of alcohol, and similar prepared fuels, in solid
or semi-solid form;
(b) Liquid or liquefied-gas fuels in containers of a kind used for filling or refilling cigarette or similar lighters
and of a capacity not exceeding 300 cm³; and
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Notes.
2.- In this Chapter the word “photographic” relates to the process by which visible images are formed, directly or
indirectly, by the action of light or other forms of radiation on photosensitive, including thermosensitive, surfaces.
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3701.30.00 - Other plates and film, with any side exceeding 255 mm m² 10%
- Other:
- Other:
37.04 3704.00.00 Photographic plates, film, paper, paperboard and textiles, kg 10%
exposed but not developed.
37.05 3705.00.00 Photographic plates and film, exposed and developed, other kg 10%
than cinematographic film.
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Notes.
(a) Separate chemically defined elements or compounds with the exception of the following:
(2) Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, anti-sprouting products and plant-growth regulators,
disinfectants and similar products, put up as described in heading 38.08;
(3) Products put up as charges for fire-extinguishers or put up in fire-extinguishing grenades (heading
38.13);
(b) Mixtures of chemicals with foodstuffs or other substances with nutritive value, of a kind used in the
preparation of human foodstuffs (generally heading 21.06);
(d) Slag, ash and residues (including sludges, other than sewage sludge), containing metals, arsenic or their
mixtures and meeting the requirements of Note 3 (a) or 3 (b) to Chapter 26 (heading 26.20);
(f) Spent catalysts of a kind used for the extraction of base metals or for the manufacture of chemical
compounds of base metals (heading 26.20), spent catalysts of a kind used principally for the recovery
of precious metal (heading 71.12) or catalysts consisting of metals or metal alloys in the form of, for
example, finely divided powder or woven gauze (Section XIV or XV).
2.- (a) For the purpose of heading 38.22, the expression “certified reference materials” means reference materials
which are accompanied by a certificate which indicates that the values of the certified properties, the
methods used to deternine these values and the degree of certainty associated with each value and
which are suitable for analytical, calibrating or referencing purposes.
(b) With the exception of the products of Chapter 28 or 29, for the classification of certified reference materials,
heading 38.22 shall take precedence over any other heading in the Nomenclature.
3.- Heading 38.24 includes the following goods which are not to be classified in any other heading of the
Nomenclature:
(a) Cultured crystals (other than optical elements) weighing not less than 2.5 g each, of magnesium oxide or
of the halides of the alkali or alkaline-earth metals;
(d) Stencil correctors, other correcting fluids and correction tapes (other than those of heading 96.12 ), put
up in packings for retail sale; and
4.- Throughout the Nomenclature, “municipal waste” means waste of a kind collected from households, hotels,
restaurants, hospitals, shops, offices, etc., road and pavement sweepings, as well as construction and demolition
waste. Municipal waste generally contains a large variety of materials such as plastics, rubber, wood, paper,
textiles, glass, metals, food materials, broken furniture and other damaged or discarded articles. The term
“municipal waste”, however, does not cover:
(a) Individual materials or articles segregated from the waste, for example wastes of plastics, rubber, wood,
paper, textiles, glass or metals, electrical and electronic waste and scrap (including spent batteries) which
fall in their appropriate headings of the Nomenclature;
5.- For the purposes of heading 38.25, “ sewage sludge” means sludge arising from urban effluent treatment plant
and includes pre-treatment waste, scourings and unstabilised sludge. Stabilised sludge when suitable for use as
fertiliser is excluded (Chapter 31).
6.- For the purposes of heading 38.25, the expression “ other wastes” applies to:
(a) Clinical waste, that is, contaminated waste arising from medical research, diagnosis treatment or other
medical, surgical, dental or veterinary procedures, which often contain pathogens and pharmaceutical
substances and require special disposal procedures (for example, soiled dressings, used gloves and
used syringes);
(c) Wastes of metal pickling liquors, hydraulic fluids, brake fluids and anti-freezing fluids; and
The expression “other wastes” does not, however, cover wastes which contain mainly petroleum oils or
oils obtained from bituminous minerals (heading 27.10).
7.- For the purposes of heading 38.26, the term “biodiesel” means mono-alkyl esters of fatty acids of a kind used as
a fuel, derived from animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils whether or not used.
Subheading Notes.
1.- Subheadings 3808.52 and 3808.59 cover only goods of heading 38.08, containing one or more of the following
substances : alachlor (ISO); aldicarb (ISO); aldrin (ISO); azinphos-methyl (ISO); binapacryl (ISO); camphechlor
(ISO) (toxaphene); captafol (ISO); carbofuran (ISO); chlordane (ISO); chlordimeform (ISO); chlorobenzilate (ISO);
DDT (ISO) (clofenotane (INN), 1,1,1-trichloro-2,2-bis(p-chlorophenyl)ethane); dieldrin (ISO, INN); 4,6- dinitro-o-
cresol (DNOC (ISO)) or its salts; dinoseb (ISO), its salts or its esters; endosulfan (ISO); ethylene dibromide
(ISO) (1,2-dibromoethane); ethylene dichloride (ISO) (1,2-dichloroethane); fluoroacetamide (ISO); heptachlor
(ISO); hexachlorobenzene (ISO); 1,2,3,4,5,6-hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH (ISO)), including lindane (ISO,
INN); mercury compounds; methamidophos (ISO); monocrotophos (ISO); oxirane (ethylene oxide); parathion
(ISO); parathion-methyl (ISO) methyl-parathion); pentachlorophenol (ISO), its salts or its esters; perfluorooctane
sulphonic acid and its salts; perfluorooctane sulphonamides; perfluorooctane sulphonyl fluoride; phosphamidon
(ISO); 2,4,5-T (ISO) (2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid), its salts or its esters; tributyltin compounds; trichlorfon
(ISO).
2.- Subheadings 3808.61 to 3808.69 cover only goods of heading 38.08, containing alpha-cypermethrin (ISO),
bendiocarb (ISO), bifenthrin (ISO), chlorfenapyr (ISO), cyfluthrin (ISO), deltamethrin (INN, ISO), etofenprox
(INN), fenitrothion (ISO), lambda-cyhalothrin (ISO), malathion (ISO), pirimiphos-methyl (ISO) or propoxur (ISO).
3.- Subheadings 3824.81 to 3824.89 cover only mixtures and preparations containing one or more of the
following substances : oxirane (ethylene oxide); polybrominated biphenyls (PBBs); polychlorinated biphenyls
(PCBs); polychlorinated terphenyls (PCTs); tris(2,3-dibromopropyl) phosphate; aldrin (ISO); camphechlor
(ISO) (toxaphene); chlordane (ISO); chlordecone (ISO); DDT (ISO) (clofenotane (INN); 1,1,1-trichloro-
2,2bis(p-chlorophenyl)ethane); dieldrin (ISO, INN); endosulfan (ISO); endrin (ISO); heptachlor (ISO); mirex
(ISO); 1,2,3,4,5,6-hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH (ISO)), including lindane (ISO, INN); pentachlorobenzene
(ISO); hexachlorobenzene (ISO); perfluorooctane sulphonic acid, its salts; perfluorooctane sulphonamides;
perfluorooctane sulphonyl fluoride; tetra-, penta-, hexa-, hepta- or octabromodiphenyl ethers; short-chain
chlorinated paraffins.
Short-chain chlorinated paraffins are mixtures of compounds, with a chlorination degree of more than 48 % by
weight, with the following molecular formula : CxH(2x-y+2)Cly, where x=10 - 13 and y= 1 – 13.
4.- For the purposes of subheadings 3825.41 and 3825.49, “waste organic solvents” are wastes containing mainly
organic solvents, not fit for further use as presented as primary products, whether or not intended for recovery
of the solvents.
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3801.90.00 - Other kg 0%
3802.90.00 - Other kg 0%
38.04 3804.00.00 Residual lyes from the manufacture of wood pulp, whether or kg 0%
not concentrated, desugared or chemically treated, including
lignin sulphonates, but excluding tall oil of heading 38.03.
3805.90.00 - Other kg 0%
38.06 Rosin and resin acids, and derivatives thereof; rosin spirit
and rosin oils; run gums.
3806.90.00 - Other kg 0%
38.07 3807.00.00 Wood tar; wood tar oils; wood creosote; wood naphtha; kg 0%
vegetable pitch; brewers’ pitch and similar preparations
based on rosin, resin acids or on vegetable pitch.
3808.59.00 -- Other kg 0%
3808.69.00 -- Other kg 0%
- Other;
-- Insecticides:
--- Mosquito coils, chips, mats and similar products designed for
use by burning or heating
--- Other:
-- Fungicides:
-- Disinfectants:
-- Other:
- Other:
- Anti-knock preparations:
3812.39.00 -- Other kg 0%
- Supported catalysts:
3815.12.00 -- With precious metal or precious metal compounds as the active kg 10%
substance
38.18 3818.00.00 Chemical elements doped for use in electronics, in the form kg 10%
of discs, wafers or similar forms; chemical compounds doped
for use in electronics.
38.19 3819.00.00 Hydraulic brake fluids and other prepared liquids for hydraulic kg 25%
transmission, not containing or containing less than 70 % by
weight of petroleum oils or oils obtained from bituminous
minerals.
3822.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
3822.90.00 - Other kg 0%
3823.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
Other:
-- Other:
3825.50.00 - Wastes of metal pickling liquors, hydraulic fluids, brake fluids and kg 25%
anti-freeze fluids
3827.39.00 -- Other kg 0%
3827.59.00 -- Other kg 0%
3827.69.00 -- Other kg 0%
3827.90.00 - Other kg 0%
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Notes.
1.- Goods put up in sets consisting of two or more separate constituents, some or all of which fall in this Section
and are intended to be mixed together to obtain a product of Section VI or VII, are to be classified in the heading
appropriate to that product, provided that the constituents are:
(a) having regard to the manner in which they are put up, clearly identifiable as being intended to be used
together without first being repacked;
(c) identifiable, whether by their nature or by the relative proportions in which they are present, as being
complementary one to another.
2.- Except for the goods of heading 39.18 or 39.19, plastics, rubber, and articles thereof, printed with motifs,
characters or pictorial representations, which are not merely subsidiary to the primary use of the goods, fall in
Chapter 49.
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Notes.
1.- Throughout the Nomenclature the expression “plastics” means those materials of headings 39.01 to 39.14
which are or have been capable, either at the moment of polymerisation or at some subsequent stage, of
being formed under external influence (usually heat and pressure, if necessary with a solvent or plasticiser)
by moulding, casting, extruding, rolling or other process into shapes which are retained on the removal of the
external influence.
Throughout the Nomenclature any reference to “plastics” also includes vulcanised fibre. The expression,
however, does not apply to materials regarded as textile materials of Section XI.
(e) Solutions (other than collodions) consisting of any of the products specified in headings 39.01 to 39.13
in volatile organic solvents when the weight of the solvent exceeds 50 % of the weight of the solution
(heading 32.08); stamping foils of heading 32.12;
(h) Prepared additives for mineral oils (including gasoline) or for other liquids used for the same purposes as
mineral oils (heading 38.11);
(ij) Prepared hydraulic fluids based on polyglycols, silicones or other polymers of Chapter 39 (heading
38.19);
(l) Synthetic rubber, as defined for the purposes of Chapter 40, or articles thereof;
(m) Saddlery or harness (heading 42.01) or trunks, suitcases, handbags or other containers of heading 42.02;
(q) Articles of Section XII (for example, footwear, headgear, umbrellas, sun umbrellas, walking-sticks, whips,
riding-crops or parts thereof);
(r) Imitation jewellery of heading 71.17;
(u) Articles of Chapter 90 (for example, optical elements, spectacle frames, drawing instruments);
(x) Articles of Chapter 94 (for example, furniture luminaires and lighting fittings, illuminated signs, prefabricated
buildings);
(z) Articles of Chapter 96 (for example, brushes, buttons, slide fasteners, combs, mouthpieces or stems for
smoking pipes, cigarette-holders or the like, parts of vacuum flasks or the like, pens, propelling pencils,
and monopods, bipods, tripods and similar articles).
(a) Liquid synthetic polyolefins of which less than 60% by volume distils at 300°C, after conversion to 1,013
millibars when a reduced-pressure distillation method is used (headings 39.01 and 39.02);
(b) Resins, not highly polymerised, of the coumarone-indene type (heading 39.11);
4.- The expression “copolymers” covers all polymers in which no single monomer unit contributes 95% or more by
weight to the total polymer content.
For the purposes of this Chapter, except where the context otherwise requires, copolymers (including co-
polycondensates, co-polyaddition products, block copolymers and graft copolymers) and polymer blends are to
be classified in the heading covering polymers of that comonomer unit which predominates by weight over every
other single comonomer unit. For the purposes of this Note, constituent comonomer units of polymers falling in
the same heading shall be taken together.
If no single comonomer unit predominates, copolymers or polymer blends, as the case may be, are to be
classified in the heading which occurs last in numerical order among those which equally merit consideration.
5.- Chemically modified polymers, that is those in which only appendages to the main polymer chain have been
changed by chemical reaction, are to be classified in the heading appropriate to the unmodified polymer. This
provision does not apply to graft copolymers.
6.- In headings 39.01 to 39.14, the expression “primary forms” applies only to the following forms:
(a) Liquids and pastes, including dispersions (emulsions and suspensions) and solutions;
(b) Blocks of irregular shape, lumps, powders (including moulding powders), granules, flakes and similar bulk
forms.
7.- Heading 39.15 does not apply to waste, parings and scrap of a single thermoplastic material, transformed into
primary forms (headings 39.01 to 39.14).
8.- For the purposes of heading 39.17, the expression “tubes, pipes and hoses” means hollow products, whether
semi-manufactures or finished products, of a kind generally used for conveying, conducting or distributing gases
or liquids (for example, ribbed garden hose, perforated tubes). This expression also includes sausage casings
and other lay-flat tubing. However, except for the last-mentioned, those having an internal cross-section other
than round, oval, rectangular (in which the length does not exceed 1.5 times the width) or in the shape of a
regular polygon are not to be regarded as tubes, pipes and hoses but as profile shapes.
9.- For the purposes of heading 39.18, the expression “wall or ceiling coverings of plastics” applies to products in
rolls, of a width not less than 45 cm, suitable for wall or ceiling decoration, consisting of plastics fixed permanently
on a backing of any material other than paper, the layer of plastics (on the face side) being grained, embossed,
coloured, design-printed or otherwise decorated.
10.- In headings. 39.20 and 39.21, the expression “plates, sheets, film, foil and strip” applies only to plates, sheets,
film, foil and strip (other than those of Chapter 54) and to blocks of regular geometric shape, whether or not
printed or otherwise surface-worked, uncut or cut into rectangles (including squares) but not further worked
(even if when so cut they become articles ready for use).
11.- Heading 39.25 applies only to the following articles, not being products covered by any of the earlier headings
of sub-Chapter II:
(a) Reservoirs, tanks (including septic tanks), vats and similar containers, of a capacity exceeding 300 l;
(b) Structural elements used, for example, in floors, walls or partitions, ceilings or roofs;
(f) Shutters, blinds (including Venetian blinds) and similar articles and parts and fittings thereof;
(g) Large-scale shelving for assembly and permanent installation, for example, in shops, workshops,
warehouses;
(h) Ornamental architectural features, for example, flutings, cupolas, dovecotes; and
(ij) Fittings and mountings intended for permanent installation in or on doors, windows, staircases, walls or
other parts of buildings, for example, knobs, handles, hooks, brackets, towel rails, switch-plates and other
protective plates.
Subheading Notes.
1.- Within any one heading of this Chapter, polymers (including copolymers) and chemically modified polymers are
to be classified according to the following provisions:
(1) The designation in a subheading of a polymer by the prefix “poly” (for example, polyethylene and
polyamide-6,6) means that the constituent monomer unit or monomer units of the named polymer
taken together must contribute 95% or more by weight of the total polymer content.
(2) The copolymers named in subheadings 3901.30, 3901.40, 3903.20, 3903.30 and 3904.30 are to
be classified in those subheadings, provided that the comonomer units of the named copolymers
contribute 95 % or more by weight of the total polymer content.
(3) Chemically modified polymers are to be classified in the subheading named “Other”, provided that
the chemically modified polymers are not more specifically covered by another subheading.
(4) Polymers not meeting (1), (2) or (3) above, are to be classified in the subheading, among the
remaining subheadings in the series, covering polymers of that monomer unit which predominates
by weight over every other single comonomer unit. For this purpose, constituent monomer units of
polymers falling in the same subheading shall be taken together. Only the constituent comonomer
units of the polymers in the series of subheadings under consideration are to be compared.
(1) Polymers are to be classified in the subheading covering polymers of that monomer unit which
predominates by weight over every other single comonomer unit. For this purpose, constituent
monomer units of polymers falling in the same subheading shall be taken together. Only the
constituent comonomer units of the polymers in the series under consideration are to be compared.
(2) Chemically modified polymers are to be classified in the subheading appropriate to the unmodified
polymer.
Polymer blends are to be classified in the same subheading as polymers of the same monomer units in
the same proportions.
2.- For the purposes of subheading 3920.43, the term “plasticisers” includes secondary plasticisers.
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3901.90.00 - Other kg 0%
3902.10.00 - Polypropylene kg 0%
3902.20.00 - Polyisobutylene kg 0%
3902.90.00 - Other kg 0%
- Polystyrene:
3903.11.00 -- Expansible kg 0%
3903.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
3903.90.00 - Other kg 0%
3904.21.00 -- Non-plasticised kg 0%
3904.22.00 -- Plasticised kg 0%
- Fluoro-polymers:
3904.61.00 -- Polytetrafluoroethylene kg 0%
3904.69.00 -- Other kg 0%
3904.90.00 - Other kg 0%
- Poly(vinyl acetate):
- Other:
3907.10.00 - Polyacetals kg 0%
- Other polyethers:
3907.29.00 -- Other kg 0%
3907.40.00 - Polycarbonates kg 0%
- Poly(ethylene terephthalate):
3907.69.00 -- Other kg 0%
- Other polyesters:
3908.90.00 - Other kg 0%
- Other amino-resins:
3909.39.00 -- Other kg 0%
3911.90.00 - Other kg 0%
- Cellulose acetates:
3912.11.00 -- Non-plasticised kg 0%
3912.12.00 -- Plasticised kg 0%
- Cellulose ethers:
3912.39.00 -- Other kg 0%
3912.90.00 - Other kg 0%
3913.90.00 - Other kg 0%
39.17 Tubes, pipes and hoses, and fittings therefor (for example,
joints, elbows, flanges), of plastics.
3917.31.00 -- Flexible tubes, pipes and hoses, having a minimum burst kg 25%
pressure of 27.6 MPa
3917.32.00 -- Other, not reinforced or otherwise combined with other materials, kg 25%
without fittings
3917.33.00 -- Other, not reinforced or otherwise combined with other materials, kg 25%
with fittings
39.19 Self-adhesive plates, sheets, film, foil, tape, strip and other
flat shapes, of plastics, whether or not in rolls.
- Other:
39.20 Other plates, sheets, film, foil and strip, of plastics, non-
cellular and not reinforced, laminated, supported or similarly
combined with other materials.
- Of polymers of ethylene:
- Of polymers of propylene:
- Of polymers of styrene:
- Of acrylic polymers:
-- Of poly(methyl methacrylate):
-- Other:
-- Of polycarbonates:
-- Of poly(ethylene terephthalate):
-- Of unsaturated polyesters:
-- Of other polyesters:
-- Of regenerated cellulose:
-- Of cellulose acetate:
- Of other plastics:
-- Of poly(vinyl butyral):
-- Of polyamides:
-- Of amino-resins:
-- Of phenolic resins:
-- Of other plastics:
- Cellular:
-- Of polymers of styrene:
-- Of polyurethanes:
-- Of regenerated cellulose:
-- Of other plastics:
- Other:
- Other:
3923.90.20 --- Plastic tubes for packing of toothpaste, cosmetics and similar kg 25%
products
3925.20.00 - Doors, windows and their frames and thresholds for doors kg 25%
3925.30.00 - Shutters, blinds (including Venetian blinds) and similar articles kg 25%
and parts thereof
- Other:
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Notes.
1.- Except where the context otherwise requires, throughout the Nomenclature the expression “rubber” means the
following products, whether or not vulcanised or hard : natural rubber, balata, gutta-percha, guayule, chicle and
similar natural gums, synthetic rubber, factice derived from oils, and such substances reclaimed.
(d) Mechanical or electrical appliances or parts thereof of Section XVI (including electrical goods of all
kinds), of hard rubber;
(f) Articles of Chapter 95 (other than sports gloves, mittens and mitts and articles of headings. 40.11 to
40.13).
3.- In headings 40.01 to 40.03 and 40.05, the expression “primary forms” applies only to the following forms:
(a) Liquids and pastes (including latex, whether or not pre-vulcanised, and other dispersions and solutions);
(b) Blocks of irregular shape, lumps, bales, powders, granules, crumbs and similar bulk forms.
4.- In Note 1 to this Chapter and in heading 40.02, the expression “synthetic rubber” applies to:
(a) Unsaturated synthetic substances which can be irreversibly transformed by vulcanisation with sulphur
into non-thermoplastic substances which, at a temperature between 18°C and 29°C, will not break
on being extended to three times their original length and will return, after being extended to twice
their original length, within a period of five minutes, to a length not greater than one and a half times
their original length. For the purposes of this test, substances necessary for the cross-linking, such as
vulcanising activators or accelerators, may be added; the presence of substances as provided for by
Note 5 (B) (ii) and (iii) is also permitted. However, the presence of any substances not necessary for the
cross-linking, such as extenders, plasticisers and fillers, is not permitted;
(c) Natural rubber modified by grafting or mixing with plastics, depolymerised natural rubber, mixtures of
unsaturated synthetic substances with saturated synthetic high polymers provided that all the above-
mentioned products comply with the requirements concerning vulcanisation, elongation and recovery in
(a) above.
5.- (A) Headings 40.01 and 40.02 do not apply to any rubber or mixture of rubbers which has been compounded,
before or after coagulation, with:
(i) vulcanising agents, accelerators, retarders or activators (other than those added for the
preparation of pre-vulcanised rubber latex);
(ii) pigments or other colouring matter, other than those added solely for the purpose of
identification;
(iii) plasticisers or extenders (except mineral oil in the case of oil-extended rubber), fillers,
reinforcing agents, organic solvents or any other substances, except those permitted
under (B);
(iii) very small amounts of the following: heat-sensitive agents (generally for obtaining thermosensitive
rubber latexes), cationic surface-active agents (generally for obtaining electro-positive rubber
latexes), antioxidants, coagulants, crumbling agents, freeze-resisting agents, peptisers,
preservatives, stabilisers, viscosity-control agents, or similar special-purpose additives.
6.- For the purposes of heading 40.04, the expression “waste, parings and scrap” means rubber waste, parings
and scrap from the manufacture or working of rubber and rubber goods definitely not usable as such because
of cutting-up, wear or other reasons.
7.- Thread wholly of vulcanised rubber, of which any cross-sectional dimension exceeds 5 mm, is to be classified
as strip, rods or profile shapes, of heading 40.08.
8.- Heading 40.10 includes conveyor or transmission belts or belting of textile fabric impregnated, coated, covered
or laminated with rubber or made from textile yarn or cord impregnated, coated, covered or sheathed with
rubber.
9.- In headings 40.01, 40.02, 40.03, 40.05 and 40.08, the expressions “plates”, “sheets” and “strip” apply only to
plates, sheets and strip and to blocks of regular geometric shape, uncut or simply cut to rectangular (including
square) shape, whether or not having the character of articles and whether or not printed or otherwise surface-
worked, but not otherwise cut to shape or further worked.
In heading 40.08 the expressions “rods” and “profile shapes” apply only to such products, whether or not cut to
length or surface-worked but not otherwise worked.
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4001.29.00 -- Other kg 0%
4002.11.00 -- Latex kg 0%
4002.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
4002.39.00 -- Other kg 0%
4002.41.00 -- Latex kg 0%
4002.49.00 -- Other kg 0%
4002.51.00 -- Latex kg 0%
4002.59.00 -- Other kg 0%
4002.80.00 - Mixtures of any product of heading 40.01 with any product of this kg 0%
heading
- Other:
4002.91.00 -- Latex kg 0%
4002.99.00 -- Other kg 0%
40.04 4004.00.00 Waste, parings and scrap of rubber (other than hard rubber) kg 0%
and powders and granules obtained therefrom.
- Other:
4005.99.00 -- Other kg 0%
40.06 Other forms (for example, rods, tubes and profile shapes)
and articles (for example, discs and rings), of unvulcanised
rubber.
- Of cellular rubber:
- Of non-cellular rubber:
4011.10.00 - Of a kind used on motor cars (including station wagons and u 25%
racing cars)
- Retreaded tyres:
4012.11.00 -- Of a kind used on motor cars (including station wagons and u 25%
racing cars)
- Other:
4013.10.00 - Of a kind used on motor cars (including station wagons and u 25%
racing cars), buses or lorries
4014.90.00 - Other kg 0%
- Other:
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Chapter 41
Notes.
(b) Birdskins or parts of birdskins, with their feathers or down, of heading 05.05 or 67.01; or
(c) Hides or skins, with the hair or wool on, raw, tanned or dressed (Chapter 43); the following are, however,
to be classified in Chapter 41, namely, raw hides and skins with the hair or wool on, of bovine animals
(including buffalo), of equine animals, of sheep or lambs (except Astrakhan, Broadtail, Caracul, Persian or
similar lambs, Indian, Chinese, Mongolian or Tibetan lambs), of goats or kids (except Yemen, Mongolian
or Tibetan goats and kids), of swine (including peccary), of chamois, of gazelle, of camels (including
dromedaries), reindeer, of elk, of deer, of roebucks or of dogs.
2.- (A) Headings 41.04 to 41.06 do not cover hides and skins which have undergone a tanning (including pre-
tanning) process which is reversible (headings 41.01 to 41.03, as the case may be).
(B) For the purposes of headings 41.04 to 41.06, the term “crust” includes hides and skins that have been
retanned, coloured or fat-liquored (stuffed) prior to drying.
3.- Throughout the Nomenclature the expression “composition leather” means only substances of the kind referred
to in heading 41.15.
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4101.20.00 - Whole hides and skins, unsplit, of a weight per skin not exceeding kg 10%
8 kg when simply dried, 10 kg when dry-salted, or 16 kg when
fresh, wet-salted or otherwise preserved
41.03 Other raw hides and skins (fresh, or salted, dried, limed,
pickled or otherwise preserved, but not tanned, parchment-
dressed or further prepared), whether or not debarred or split,
other than those excluded by Note 1 (b) or 1 (c) to this Chapter.
- Of goats or kids:
- Of swine:
- Other:
[41.08]
[41.09]
[41.10]
[41.11]
41.12 4112.00.00 Leather further prepared after tanning or crusting, including kg 10%
parchment-dressed leather, of sheep or lamb, without wool
on, whether or not split, other than leather of heading 41.14.
4114.20.00 - Patent leather and patent laminated leather, metallised leather kg 10%
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Notes.
1.- For the purposes of this Chapter, the term “leather” includes chamois (including combination chamois) leather,
patent leather, patent laminated leather and metallised leather.
(b) Articles of apparel or clothing accessories (except gloves, mittens and mitts), lined with furskin or artificial
fur or to which furskin or artificial fur is attached on the outside except as mere trimming (heading 43.03
or 43.04);
(h) Fittings or trimmings for harness, such as stirrups, bits, horse brasses and buckles, separately presented
(generally Section XV);
(ij) Strings, skins for drums or the like, or other parts of musical instruments (heading 92.09);
(k) Articles of Chapter 94 (for example, furniture, luminaires and lighting fittings);
(m) Buttons, press-fasteners, snap-fasteners, press-studs, button moulds or other parts of these articles,
button blanks, of heading 96.06.
3.- (A) In addition to the provisions of Note 2 above, heading 42.02 does not cover:
(a) Bags made of sheeting of plastics, whether or not printed, with handles, not designed for prolonged
use (heading 39.23);
(B) Articles of headings 42.02 and 42.03 which have parts of precious metal or metal clad with precious metal,
of natural or cultured pearls, of precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed)
remain classified in those headings even if such parts constitute more than minor fittings or minor
ornamentation, provided that these parts do not give the articles their essential character. If, on the other
hand, the parts give the articles their essential character, the articles are to be classified in Chapter 71.
4.- For the purposes of heading 42.03, the expression “articles of apparel and clothing accessories” applies, inter
alia, to gloves, mittens and mitts (including those for sport or for protection), aprons and other protective clothing,
braces, belts, bandoliers and wrist straps, but excluding watch straps (heading 91.13).
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42.01 4201.00.00 Saddlery and harness for any animal (including traces, leads, knee pads, kg 25%
muzzles, saddle cloths, saddle bags, dog coats and the like), of any material.
- Other:
[42.04]
42.06 4206.00.00 Articles of gut (other than silk-worm gut), of goldbeater’s kg 25%
skin, of bladders or of tendons.
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Notes.
1.- Throughout the Nomenclature references to “furskins”, other than to raw furskins of heading 43.01, apply to
hides or skins of all animals which have been tanned or dressed with the hair or wool on.
(a) Birdskins or parts of birdskins, with their feathers or down (heading 05.05 or 67.01);
(b) Raw hides or skins, with the hair or wool on, of Chapter 41 (see Note 1 (c) to that Chapter);
(c) Gloves, mittens and mitts consisting of leather and furskin or of leather and artificial fur (heading 42.03);
3.- Heading 43.03 includes furskins and parts thereof, assembled with the addition of other materials, and furskins
and parts thereof, sewn together in the form of garments or parts or accessories of garments or in the form of
other articles.
4.- Articles of apparel and clothing accessories (except those excluded by Note 2) lined with furskin or artificial fur or
to which furskin or artificial fur is attached on the outside except as mere trimming are to be classified in heading
43.03 or 43.04 as the case may be.
5.- Throughout the Nomenclature the expression “artificial fur” means any imitation of furskin consisting of wool,
hair or other fibres gummed or sewn on to leather, woven fabric or other materials, but does not include imitation
furskins obtained by weaving or knitting (generally, heading 58.01 or 60.01).
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43.01 Raw furskins (including heads, tails, paws and other pieces
or cuttings, suitable for furriers’ use), other than raw hides
and skins of heading 41.01, 41.02 or 41.03.
4301.90.00 - Heads, tails, paws and other pieces or cuttings, suitable for kg 0%
furriers’ use
4302.20.00 - Heads, tails, paws and other pieces or cuttings, not assembled kg 10%
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Chapter 44
Notes.
(b) Bamboos or other materials of a woody nature of a kind used primarily for plaiting, in the rough, whether
or not split, sawn lengthwise or cut to length (heading 14.01);
(c) Wood, in chips, in shavings, ground or powdered, of a kind used primarily in dyeing or in tanning (heading
14.04);
(h) Goods of Chapter 66 (for example, umbrellas and walking-sticks and parts thereof);
(l) Goods of Section XVI or Section XVII (for example, machine parts, cases, covers, cabinets for machines
and apparatus and wheelwrights’ wares);
(m) Goods of Section XVIII (for example, clock cases and musical instruments and parts thereof);
(o) Articles of Chapter 94 (for example, furniture, luminaires and lighting fittings, prefabricated buildings);
(q) Articles of Chapter 96 (for example, smoking pipes and parts thereof, buttons, pencils, and monopods,
bipods, tripods and similar articles) excluding bodies and handles, of wood, for articles of heading 96.03;
or.
2.- In this Chapter, the expression “densified wood” means wood which has been subjected to chemical or physical
treatment (being, in the case of layers bonded together, treatment in excess of that needed to ensure a good
bond), and which has thereby acquired increased density or hardness together with improved mechanical
strength or resistance to chemical or electrical agencies.
3.- Headings 44.14 to 44.21 apply to articles of the respective descriptions of particle board or similar board,
5.- Heading 44.17 does not apply to tools in which the blade, working edge, working surface or other working part
is formed by any of the materials specified in Note 1 to Chapter 82.
6.- Subject to Note 1 above and except where the context otherwise requires, any reference to “wood” in a heading
of this Chapter applies also to bamboos and other materials of a woody nature.
Subheading Notes
1.- For the purposes of subheading 4401.31, the expression “wood pellets” means by-products such as cutter
shavings, sawdust or chips, of the mechanical wood processing industry, furniture-making industry or other
wood transformation activities, which have been agglomerated either directly by compression or by the addition
of a binder in a proportion not exceeding 3 % by weight. Such pellets are cylindrical, with a diameter not
exceeding 25 mm and a length not exceeding 100 mm.
2.- For the purposes of subheading 4401.32, the expression “wood briquettes” means by- products such as cutter
shavings, sawdust or chips, of the mechanical wood processing industry, furniture making or other wood
transformation activities, which have been agglomerated either directly by compression or by addition of a binder
in a proportion not exceeding 3 % by weight. Such briquettes are in the form of cubiform, polyhedral or cylindrical
units with the minimum cross-sectional dimension greater than 25 mm.
3.- For the purposes of subheading 4407.13, “S-P-F” refers to wood sourced from mixed stands of spruce, pine and
fir where the proportion of each species varies and is unknown-4- For the purposes of subheading 4407.14,
“Hem-fir” refers to wood sourced from mixed stands of Western hemlock and fir where the proportion of each
species varies and is unknown.
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44.01 Fuel wood, in logs, in billets, in twigs, in faggots or in similar forms; wood
in chips or particles; sawdust and wood waste and scrap, whether or not
agglomerated in logs, briquettes, pellets or similar forms.
4401.11.00 -- Coniferous kg 0%
4401.12.00 -- Non-coniferous kg 0%
4401.21.00 -- Coniferous kg 0%
4401.22.00 -- Non-coniferous kg 0%
4401.39.00 -- Other kg 0%
4401.41.00 -- Sawdust kg 0%
4401.49.00 -- Other kg 0%
4402.10.00 - Of bamboo kg 0%
4402.90.00 -Other kg 0%
4403.11.00 -- Coniferous m³ 0%
4403.12.00 -- Non-coniferous m³ 0%
- Other, coniferous:
4403.23.00 -- Of fir (Abies spp.) and spruce (Picea spp.), of which the smallest m³ 0%
cross-sectional dimension is 15 cm or more
4403.26.00 -- Other m³ 0%
4403.42.00 -- Teak m³ 0%
4403.49.00 -- Other m³ 0%
- Other:
4403.99.00 --Other m³ 0%
4404.10.00 - Coniferous kg 0%
4404.20.00 - Non-coniferous kg 0%
- Not impregnated:
4406.11.00 -- Coniferous m³ 0%
- Other:
4406.91.00 -- Coniferous m³ 0%
- Coniferous:
4407.12.00 --Of fir (Abies spp.) and spruce (Picea spp.) m³ 10%
4407.13.00 -- Of S-P-F (spruce (Picea spp.), pine (Pinus spp.) and fir (Abies m³ 10%
spp.))
4407.14.00 -- Of Hem-fir (Western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla) and fir (Abies m³ 10%
spp.))
- Of tropical wood:
4407.25.00 -- Dark Red Meranti, Light Red Meranti and Meranti Bakau m³ 10%
4407.26.00 -- White Lauan, White Meranti, White Seraya, Yellow Meranti and m³ 10%
Alan
- Other:
- Of tropical wood:
4408.31.00 -- Dark Red Meranti, Light Red Meranti and Meranti Bakau kg 25%
44.09 Wood (including strips and friezes for parquet flooring, not
assembled) continuously shaped (tongued, grooved, rebated,
chamfered, V-jointed, beaded, moulded, rounded or the like)
along any of its edges, ends or faces, whether or not planed,
sanded or end-jointed.
- Non-coniferous:
- Of wood:
- Other;
4411.93.00 -- Of a density exceeding 0.5 g/cm³ but not exceeding 0.8 g/cm³ kg 25%
4412.33.00 -- Other, with at least one outer ply of non-coniferous wood of the m³ 25%
species alder (Alnus spp.), ash (Fraxinus spp), beech (Fagus spp.),
birch (Betula spp.), cherry (Prunus spp.), chestnus(Castanea spp.),
elm (Ulmus spp), eucalyptus(Eucalyptus spp.), hickory (Carya
spp.) horse chestnut (Aesculus spp.), lime (Tilia spp.),maple
(Acer spp.) oak (Quercus spp.) plane tree (Planatus spp.),
poplar and aspen(Populus spp.),robinia(Robinia spp.), tulipwood
(Liriodendron spp.) or walnut (Juglans spp.)
4412.34.00 -- Other, with at least one outer ply of non-coniferous wood not m³ 25%
specified under subheading 4412.33
4412.42.00 -- Other, with at least one outer ply of non-coniferous wood m³ 25%
4412.52.00 -- Other, with at least one outer ply of non-coniferous wood m³ 25%
- Other :
4412.92.00 -- Other, with at least one outer ply of non-coniferous wood m³ 25%
44.13 4413.00.00 Densified wood, in blocks, plates, strips or profile shapes. kg 25%
4415.10.00 - Cases, boxes, crates, drums and similar packings; cable-drums u 35%
4415.20.00 - Pallets, box pallets and other load boards; pallet collars u 35%
44.16 4416.00.00 Casks, barrels, vats, tubs and other coopers’ products and kg 35%
parts thereof, of wood, including staves.
44.17 4417.00.00 Tools, tool bodies, tool handles, broom or brush bodies and kg 25%
handles, of wood; boot or shoe lasts and trees, of wood.
4418.30.00 - Posts and beams other than products of subheadings 4418.81 kg 25%
to 4418.89
4418.73.00 -- Of bamboo or with at least the top layer(wear layer) of bamboo kg 25%
-Other:
- Of bamboo:
44.20 Wood marquetry and inlaid wood; caskets and cases for
jewellery or cutlery, and similar articles, of wood; statuettes
and other ornaments, of wood; wooden articles of furniture
not falling in Chapter 94.
- Other:
--Of bamboo:
-- Other:
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Note.
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45.01 Natural cork, raw or simply prepared; waste cork; crushed, granulated or
ground cork.
4501.90.00 - Other kg 0%
4504.10.00 - Blocks, plates, sheets and strip; tiles of any shape; solid cylinders, kg 10%
including discs
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Chapter 46
Notes.
1.- In this Chapter the expression “plaiting materials” means materials in a state or form suitable for plaiting,
interlacing or similar processes; it includes straw, osier or willow, bamboos, rattans, rushes, reeds, strips of
wood, strips of other vegetable material (for example, strips of bark, narrow leaves and raffia or other strips
obtained from broad leaves), unspun natural textile fibres, monofilament and strip and the like of plastics and
strips of paper, but not strips of leather or composition leather or of felt or nonwovens, human hair, horsehair,
textile rovings or yarns, or monofilament and strip and the like of Chapter 54.
(e) Articles of Chapter 94 (for example, furniture, luminaires and lighting fittings).
3.- For the purposes of heading 46.01, the expression “plaiting materials, plaits and similar products of plaiting
materials, bound together in parallel strands” means plaiting materials, plaits and similar products of plaiting
materials, placed side by side and bound together, in the form of sheets, whether or not the binding materials
are of spun textile materials.
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- Of vegetable materials:
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Note.
1.- For the purposes of heading 47.02, the expression “chemical wood pulp, dissolving grades” means chemical
wood pulp having by weight an insoluble fraction of 92% or more for soda or sulphate wood pulp or of 88% or
more for sulphite wood pulp after one hour in a caustic soda solution containing 18% sodium hydroxide (NaOH)
at 20 °C, and for sulphite wood pulp an ash content that does not exceed 0.15% by weight.
- Unbleached:
4703.11.00 -- Coniferous kg 0%
4703.19.00 -- Non-coniferous kg 0%
- Semi-bleached or bleached:
4703.21.00 -- Coniferous kg 0%
4703.29.00 -- Non-coniferous kg 0%
- Unbleached:
4704.11.00 -- Coniferous kg 0%
4704.19.00 -- Non-coniferous kg 0%
- Semi-bleached or bleached:
4704.21.00 -- Coniferous kg 0%
4704.29.00 -- Non-coniferous kg 0%
4706.20.00 - Pulps of fibres derived from recovered (waste and scrap) paper kg 0%
or paperboard
- Other:
4706.91.00 -- Mechanical kg 0%
4706.92.00 -- Chemical kg 0%
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Notes.
1.- For the purposes of this Chapter, except where the context otherwise requires, a reference to “paper” includes
references to paperboard (irrespective of thickness or weight per m²).
(d) Paper or cellulose wadding impregnated, coated or covered with soap or detergent (heading 34.01), or
with polishes, creams or similar preparations (heading 34.05);
(g) Paper-reinforced stratified sheeting of plastics, or one layer of paper or paperboard coated or covered
with a layer of plastics, the latter constituting more than half the total thickness, or articles of such
materials, other than wall coverings of heading 48.14 (Chapter 39);
(m) Abrasive paper or paperboard (heading 68.05) or paper- or paperboard-backed mica (heading 68.14)
(paper and paperboard coated with mica powder are, however, to be classified in this Chapter);
(n) Metal foil backed with paper or paperboard (generally Section XIV or XV);
(q) Articles of Chapter 96 (for example, buttons, sanitary towels (pads) and tampons, napkins (diapers)
3.- Subject to the provisions of Note 7, headings 48.01 to 48.05 include paper and paperboard which have been
subjected to calendering, super-calendering, glazing or similar finishing, false water-marking or surface sizing,
and also paper, paperboard, cellulose wadding and webs of cellulose fibres, coloured or marbled throughout the
mass by any method. Except where heading 48.03 otherwise requires, these headings do not apply to paper,
paperboard, cellulose wadding or webs of cellulose fibres which have been otherwise processed.
4.- In this Chapter the expression “newsprint” means uncoated paper of a kind used for the printing of newspapers,
of which not less than 50% by weight of the total fibre content consists of wood fibres obtained by a mechanical
or chemi-mechanical process, unsized or very lightly sized, having a surface roughness Parker Print Surf (1
MPa) on each side exceeding 2.5 micrometres (microns), weighing not less than 40 g/m² and not more than 65
g/m² and applies only to paper : (a) in strips or rolls of a width exceeding 28 cm; or (b) in rectangular (including
square) sheets with one side exceeding 28 cm and the other side exceeding 15 cm in the unfolded state.
5.- For the purposes of heading 48.02, the expressions “paper and paperboard, of a kind used for writing, printing or
other graphic purposes” and “non perforated punch-cards and punch tape paper” mean paper and paperboard
made mainly from bleached pulp or from pulp obtained by a mechanical or chemi-mechanical process and
satisfying any of the following criteria:
(a) containing 10 % or more of fibres obtained by a mechanical or chemi-mechanical process, and
(c) containing more than 3 % ash and having a brightness of 60 % or more; or
(d) containing more than 3 % but not more than 8 % ash, having a brightness less than 60 %, and a
burst index equal to or less than 2.5 kPa·m2/g; or
(e) containing 3 % ash or less, having a brightness of 60 % or more and a burst index equal to or less
than 2.5 kPa·m2/g.
2. a caliper of more than 225 micrometres (microns) but not more than 508 micrometres
(microns) and an ash content of more than 3 %; or
(c) having a brightness of less than 60 %, a caliper of 254 micrometres (microns) or less and an ash
content of more than 8 %.
Heading 48.02 does not, however, cover filter paper or paperboard (including tea-bag paper) or felt
paper or paperboard.
6.- In this Chapter “kraft paper and paperboard” means paper and paperboard of which not less than 80% by weight
of the total fibre content consists of fibres obtained by the chemical sulphate or soda processes.
7.- Except where the terms of the headings otherwise require, paper, paperboard, cellulose wadding and webs of
cellulose fibres answering to a description in two or more of the headings 48.01 to 48.11 are to be classified
under that one of such headings which occurs last in numerical order in the Nomenclature.
8.- Headings 48.03 to 48.09 apply only to paper, paperboard, cellulose wadding and webs of cellulose fibres:
(b) in rectangular (including square) sheets with one side exceeding 36 cm and the other side exceeding 15
cm in the unfolded state.
9.- For the purposes of heading 48.14, the expression “wallpaper and similar wall coverings” applies only to:
(a) Paper in rolls, of a width of not less than 45 cm and not more than 160 cm, suitable for wall or ceiling
decoration:
(i) With an uneven surface resulting from the incorporation of particles of wood, straw, etc.;
(iii) Covered on the face side with plaiting material, whether or not bound together in parallel strands
or woven;
(b) Borders and friezes, of paper, treated as above, whether or not in rolls, suitable for wall or ceiling
decoration;
(c) Wall coverings of paper made up of several panels, in rolls or sheets, printed so as to make up a scene,
design or motif when applied to a wall.
Products on a base of paper or paperboard, suitable for use both as floor coverings and as wall coverings, are
to be classified in heading 48.23.
10.- Heading 48.20 does not cover loose sheets or cards, cut to size, whether or not printed, embossed or perforated.
11.- Heading 48.23 applies, inter alia, to perforated paper or paperboard cards for Jacquard or similar machines and
paper lace.
12.- Except for the goods of heading 48.14 or 48.21, paper, paperboard, cellulose wadding and articles thereof,
printed with motifs, characters or pictorial representations, which are not merely subsidiary to the primary use of
the goods, fall in Chapter 49.
Subheading Notes.
1.- For the purposes of subheadings 4804.11 and 4804.19, “kraftliner” means machine-finished or machine-glazed
paper and paperboard, of which not less than 80% by weight of the total fibre content consists of wood fibres
obtained by the chemical sulphate or soda processes, in rolls, weighing more than 115 g/m² and having a
minimum Mullen bursting strength as indicated in the following table or the linearly interpolated or extrapolated
equivalent for any other weight.
________________ _______________________________________
115 393
125 417
200 637
300 824
400 961
2.- For the purposes of subheadings 4804.21 and 4804.29, “sack kraft paper” means machine-finished paper, of
which not less than 80 % by weight of the total fibre content consists of fibres obtained by the chemical sulphate
or soda processes, in rolls, weighing not less than 60 g/m² but not more than 115 g/m² and meeting one of the
following sets of specifications:
(a) Having a Mullen burst index of not less than 3.7 kPa. m²/g and a stretch factor of more than 4.5% in the
cross direction and of more than 2% in the machine direction.
(b) Having minima for tear and tensile as indicated in the following table or the linearly interpolated equivalent
for any other weight:
Machine Machine
Machine Cross
direction plus direction plus
Direction direction
cross direction cross direction
3.- For the purposes of subheading 4805.11, “semi-chemical fluting paper” means paper, in rolls, of which not less
than 65% by weight of the total fibre content consists of unbleached hardwood fibres obtained by a combination
of mechanical and chemical pulping processes, and having a CMT 30 (Corrugated Medium Test with 30 minutes
of conditioning) crush resistance exceeding 1.8 newtons/g/m² at 50% relative humidity, at 23°C.
4.- Subheading 4805.12 covers paper, in rolls, made mainly of straw pulp obtained by a combination of mechanical
and chemical processes, weighing 130g/m² or more, and having a CMT 30 (Corrugated Medium test with 30
minutes of conditioning) crush resistance exceeding 1.4 newtons/g/m² at 50% relative humidity, at 23°C
5.- Subheadings 4805.24 and 4805.25 cover paper and paperboard made wholly or mainly of pulp of recovered
(waste and scrap) paper or paperboard. Testliner may also have a surface layer of dyed paper or of paper made
of bleached or unbleached non-recovered pulp. These products have a mullen burst index of not less than 2 kPa.
m²/g.
6.- For the purposes of subheading 4805.30, “sulphite wrapping paper” means machine-glazed paper, of which more
than 40% by weight of the total fibre content consists of wood fibres obtained by the chemical sulphite process,
having an ash content not exceeding 8% and having a Mullen burst index of not less than 1.47 kPa .m²/g.
7.- For the purposes of subheading 4810.22 “light-weight coated paper” means paper, coated on both sides, of a
total weight not exceeding 72 g/m², with a coating weight not exceeding 15 g/m² per side, on a base of which not
less than 50% by weight of the total fibre content consists of wood fibres obtained by a mechanical process.
__________
4802.20.00 - Paper and paperboard of a kind used as a base for photo- kg 10%
sensitive, heat-sensitive or electro-sensitive paper or paperboard
4802.55.00 -- Weighing 40 g/m² or more but not more than 150 g/m², in rolls kg 10%
4802.56.00 -- Weighing 40 g/m² or more but not more than 150 g/m², in sheets kg 25%
wiith one side not exceeding 435 mm and the other side not
exceeding 297 mm in the unfolded state
4802.57.00 -- Other, weighing 40 g/m² or more but not more than 150 g/m² kg 10%
4802.62.00 -- In sheets with one side not exceeding 435 mm and the other kg 10%
side not exceeding 297 mm in the unfolded state
48.03 4803.00.00 Toilet or facial tissue stock, towel or napkin stock and similar kg 10%
paper of a kind used for household or sanitary purposes,
cellulose wadding and webs of cellulose fibres, whether or
not creped, crinkled, embossed, perforated, surface-coloured,
surface-decorated or printed, in rolls or sheets.
- Kraftliner:
-- Other:
4804.42.00 -- Bleached uniformly throughout the mass and of which more than kg 10%
95% by weight of the total fibre content consists of wood fibres
obtained by a chemical process
4804.52.00 -- Bleached uniformly throughout the mass and of which more than kg 10%
95% by weight of the total fibre content consists of wood obtained
by a chemical process
- Fluting paper:
- Other:
4805.92.00 -- Weighing more than 150 g/m² but less than 225 g/m² kg 10%
48.07 4807.00.00 Composite paper and paperboard (made by sticking flat kg 10%
layers of paper or paperboard together with an adhesive),
not surface-coated or impregnated, whether or not internally
reinforced, in rolls or sheets.
4810.14.00 -- In sheets with one side not exceeding 435 mm and the other kg 10%
side not exceeding 297 mm in the unfolded state
- Kraft paper and paperboard, other than that of a kind used for
writing, printing or other graphic purposes:
4810.31.00 -- Bleached uniformly throughout the mass and of which more than kg 10%
95% by weight of the total fibre content consists of wood fibres
obtained by a chemical process, and weighing 150 g/m² or less
4810.32.00 -- Bleached uniformly throughout the mass and of which more than kg 10%
95% by weight of the total fibre content consists of wood fibres
obtained by a chemical process, and weighing more than 150 g/m²
-- Self‑adhesive:
-- Other:
4813.90.00 - Other kg 0%
4814.20.00 - Wallpaper and similar wall coverings, consisting of paper coated kg 25%
or covered, on the face side, with a grained, embossed, coloured,
design-printed or otherwise decorated layer of plastics
[48.15]
4819.60.00 - Box files, letter trays, storage boxes and similar articles, of a kind kg 35%
used in offices, shops or the like
4820.10.00 - Registers, account books, note books, order books, receipt kg 35%
books, letter pads, memorandum pads, diaries and similar articles
4820.30.00 - Binders (other than book covers), folders and file covers kg 35%
- Printed:
4823.40.00 - Rolls, sheets and dials, printed for self-recording apparatus kg 25%
- Other:
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Notes.
(b) Maps, plans or globes, in relief, whether or not printed (heading 90.23);
(d) Original engravings, prints or lithographs (heading 97.02), postage or revenue stamps, stamp-postmarks,
first-day covers, postal stationery or the like of heading 97.04, antiques of an age exceeding one hundred
years or other articles of Chapter 97.
2.- For the purposes of Chapter 49, the term “printed” also means reproduced by means of a duplicating machine,
produced under the control of an automatic data processing machine embossed, photographed, photocopied,
thermocopied or typewritten.
3.- Newspapers, journals and periodicals which are bound otherwise than in paper, and sets of newspapers,
journals or periodicals comprising more than one number under a single cover are to be classified in heading
49.01, whether or not containing advertising material.
(a) A collection of printed reproductions of, for example, works of art or drawings, with a relative text, put up
with numbered pages in a form suitable for binding into one or more volumes;
(b) A pictorial supplement accompanying, and subsidiary to, a bound volume; and
(c) Printed parts of books or booklets, in the form of assembled or separate sheets or signatures, constituting
the whole or a part of a complete work and designed for binding.
However, printed pictures or illustrations not bearing a text, whether in the form of signatures or separate sheets,
fall in heading 49.11.
5.- Subject to Note 3 to this Chapter, heading 49.01 does not cover publications which are essentially devoted
to advertising (for example, brochures, pamphlets, leaflets, trade catalogues, year books published by trade
associations, tourist propaganda). Such publications are to be classified in heading 49.11.
6.- For the purposes of heading 49.03, the expression “children’s picture books” means books for children in which
the pictures form the principal interest and the text is subsidiary.
_________
49.01 Printed books, brochures, leaflets and similar printed matter, whether or
not in single sheets.
- Other:
4901.99.00 -- Other kg 0%
4902.90.00 - Other kg 0%
4905.90.00 - Other kg 0%
49.10 4910.00.00 Calendars of any kind, printed, including calendar blocks. kg 35%
4911.10.00 - Trade advertising material, commercial catalogues and the like kg 35%
- Other:
-- Other:
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Notes.
(a) Animal brush making bristles or hair (heading 05.02); horsehair or horsehair waste (heading 05.11);
(b) Human hair or articles of human hair (heading 05.01, 67.03 or 67.04), except filtering or straining cloth of
a kind commonly used in oil presses or the like (heading 59.11);
(d) Asbestos of heading 25.24 or articles of asbestos or other products of heading 68.12 or 68.13;
(e) Articles of heading 30.05 or 30.06; yarn used to clean between the teeth (dental floss), in individual retail
packages, of heading 33.06
(g) Monofilament of which any cross-sectional dimension exceeds 1 mm or strip or the like (for example,
artificial straw) of an apparent width exceeding 5 mm, of plastics (Chapter 39), or plaits or fabrics or other
basketware or wickerwork of such monofilament or strip (Chapter 46);
(h) Woven, knitted or crocheted fabrics, felt or nonwovens, impregnated, coated, covered or laminated with
plastics, or articles thereof, of Chapter 39;
(ij) Woven, knitted or crocheted fabrics, felt or nonwovens, impregnated, coated, covered or laminated with
rubber, or articles thereof, of Chapter 40;
(i) Hides or skins with their hair or wool on (Chapter 41 or 43) or articles of furskin, artificial fur or articles
thereof, of heading 43.03 or 43.04;
(l) Footwear or parts of footwear, gaiters or leggings or similar articles of Chapter 64;
(o) Abrasivecoated textile material (heading 68.05) and also carbon fibres or articles of carbon fibres of
heading 68.15;
(p) Glass fibres or articles of glass fibres, other than embroidery with glass thread on a visible ground of fabric
(Chapter 70);
(q) Articles of Chapter 94 (for example, furniture, bedding,); luminaires and lighting fittings
(r) Articles of Chapter 95 (for example, toys, games, sports requisites and nets);
(s) Articles of Chapter 96 (for example, brushes, travel sets for sewing, slide fasteners, typewriter ribbons,
sanitary towels (pads) and tampons, napkins (diapers) and napkin liners); or
2.- (A) Goods classifiable in Chapters 50 to 55 or in heading 58.09 or 59.02 and of a mixture of two or more
textile materials are to be classified as if consisting wholly of that one textile material which predominates
by weight over any other single textile material.
When no one textile material predominates by weight, the goods are to be classified as if consisting
wholly of that one textile material which is covered by the heading which occurs last in numerical order
among those which equally merit consideration.
(a) Gimped horsehair yarn (heading 51.10) and metallised yarn (heading 56.05) are to be treated
as a single textile material the weight of which is to be taken as the aggregate of the weights of
its components; for the classification of woven fabrics, metal thread is to be regarded as a textile
material;
(b) The choice of appropriate heading shall be effected by determining first the Chapter and then the
applicable heading within that Chapter, disregarding any materials not classified in that Chapter;
(c) When both Chapters 54 and 55 are involved with any other Chapter, Chapters 54 and 55 are to be
treated as a single Chapter;
(d) Where a Chapter or a heading refers to goods of different textile materials, such materials are to
be treated as a single textile material.
(C) The provisions of paragraphs (A) and (B) above apply also to the yarns referred to in Note 3, 4, 5 or 6
below.
3.- (A) For the purposes of this Section, and subject to the exceptions in paragraph (B) below, yarns (single,
multiple (folded) or cabled) of the following descriptions are to be treated as “twine, cordage, ropes and
cables:
(b) Of man-made fibres (including yarn of two or more monofilaments of Chapter 54), measuring more
than 10,000 decitex;
(B) Exceptions:
(a) Yarn of wool or other animal hair and paper yarn, other than yarn reinforced with metal thread;
(b) Man-made filament tow of Chapter 55 and multifilament yarn without twist or with a twist of less
than 5 turns per metre of Chapter 54;
(c) Silk worm gut of heading 50.06, and monofilaments of Chapter 54;
(d) Metallised yarn of heading 56.05; yarn reinforced with metal thread is subject to paragraph (A) (f)
above; and
(e) Chenille yarn, gimped yarn and loop wale-yarn of heading 56.06.
4.- (A) For the purposes of Chapters 50, 51, 52, 54 and 55, the expression “put up for retail sale” in relation to
yarn means, subject to the exceptions in paragraph (B) below, yarn (single,multiple (folded) or cabled)
put up:
(a) On cards, reels, tubes or similar supports, of a weight (including support) not exceeding:
(ii) 125 g in the case of all other yarns of less than 2,000 decitex; or
(c) In hanks or skeins comprising several smaller hanks or skeins separated by dividing threads which
render them independent one of the other, each of uniform weight not exceeding:
(B) Exceptions:
(ii) Single yarn of wool or fine animal hair, bleached, dyed or printed, measuring more than
5,000 decitex;
(ii) Of other textile material except wool or fine animal hair, in hanks or skeins;
(c) Multiple (folded) or cabled yarn of silk or waste silk, bleached, dyed or printed, measuring 133
decitex or less; and
(ii) Put up on supports or in some other manner indicating its use in the textile industry (for
example, on cops, twisting mill tubes, pirns, conical bobbins or spindles, or reeled in the
form of cocoons for embroidery looms).
5.- For the purposes of headings. 52.04, 54.01 and 55.08 the expression “sewing thread” means multiple (folded)
or cabled yarn:
(a) Put up on supports (for example, reels, tubes) of a weight (including support) not exceeding 1,000 g;
6.- For the purposes of this Section, the expression “high tenacity yarn” means yarn having a tenacity, expressed in
cN/tex (centinewtons per tex), greater than the following:
Multiple (folded) or cabled yarn of nylon or other polyamides, or of polyesters ... 53 cN/tex
7.- For the purposes of this Section, the expression “made up” means:
(b) Produced in the finished state, ready for use (or merely needing separation by cutting dividing threads)
without sewing or other working (for example, certain dusters, towels, table cloths, scarf squares,
blankets);
(d) Hemmed or with rolled edges, or with a knotted fringe at any of the edges, but excluding fabrics the cut
edges of which have been prevented from unravelling by whipping or by other simple means;
(e) Cut to size and having undergone a process of drawn thread work;
(f) Assembled by sewing, gumming or otherwise (other than piece goods consisting of two or more lengths
of identical material joined end to end and piece goods composed of two or more textiles assembled in
layers, whether or not padded);
(g) Knitted or crocheted to shape, whether presented as separate items or in the form of a number of items
in the length.
(a) Chapters 50 to 55 and 60 and, except where the context otherwise requires, Chapters 56 to 59 do not
apply to goods made up within the meaning of Note 7 above; and
9.- The woven fabrics of Chapters 50 to 55 include fabrics consisting of layers of parallel textile yarns superimposed
on each other at acute or right angles. These layers are bonded at the intersections of the yarns by an adhesive
or by thermal bonding.
10.- Elastic products consisting of textile materials combined with rubber threads are classified in this Section.
11.- For the purposes of this Section, the expression “impregnated” includes “dipped”.
12.- For the purposes of this Section, the expression “polyamides” includes “aramids”.
13.- For the purposes of this Section and, where applicable, throughout the Nomenclature, the expression “elastomeric
yarn” means filament yarn, including monofilament, of synthetic textile material, other than textured yarn, which
does not break on being extended to three times its original length and which returns, after being extended
to twice its original length, within a period of five minutes, to a length not greater than one and a half times its
original length.
14.- Unless the context otherwise requires, textile garments of different headings are to be classified in their own
headings even if put up in sets for retail sale. For the purposes of this Note, the expression “textile garments”
means garments of headings 61.01 to 61.14 and headings 62.01 to 62.11.
15.- Subject to Note 1 to Section XI, textiles, garments and other textile articles, incorporating chemical, mechanical
or electronic components for additional functionality, whether incorporated as built-in components or within the
fibre or fabric, are classified in their respective headings in Section XI provided that they retain the essential
character of the goods of this Section
Subheading Notes.
1.- In this Section and, where applicable, throughout the Nomenclature, the following expressions have the
meanings hereby assigned to them:
(a) Unbleached yarn
Yarn which:
(i) has the natural colour of its constituent fibres and has not been bleached, dyed (whether or not in
the mass) or printed; or
Such yarn may have been treated with a colourless dressing or fugitive dye (which disappears
after simple washing with soap) and, in the case of man-made fibres, treated in the mass with
delustring agents (for example, titanium dioxide).
Yarn which:
(i) has undergone a bleaching process, is made of bleached fibres or, unless the context otherwise
requires, has been dyed white (whether or not in the mass) or treated with a white dressing;
(iii) is multiple (folded) or cabled and consists of unbleached and bleached yarns
Yarn which:
(i) is dyed (whether or not in the mass) other than white or in a fugitive colour, or printed, or made
from dyed or printed fibres;
(ii) consists of a mixture of dyed fibres of different colours or of a mixture of unbleached or bleached
fibres with coloured fibres (marl or mixture yarns), or is printed in one or more colours at intervals
to give the impression of dots;
(iv) is multiple (folded) or cabled and consists of unbleached or bleached yarn and coloured yarn.
The above definitions also apply, mutatis mutandis, to monofilament and to strip or the like of Chapter 54.
Woven fabric made from unbleached yarn and which has not been bleached, dyed or printed. Such fabric may
have been treated with a colourless dressing or a fugitive dye.
(i) has been bleached or, unless the context otherwise requires, dyed white or treated with a white
dressing, in the piece;
(i) is dyed a single uniform colour other than white (unless the context otherwise requires) or has
been treated with a coloured finish other than white (unless the context otherwise requires), in the
piece; or
(i) consists of yarns of different colours or yarns of different shades of the same colour (other than
the natural colour of the constituent fibres);
(iv) (In all cases, the yarn used in selvedges and piece ends is not taken into consideration.)
Woven fabric which has been printed in the piece, whether or not made from yarns of different colours.
(The following are also regarded as printed woven fabrics: woven fabrics bearing designs made, for example,
with a brush or spray gun, by means of transfer paper, by flocking or by the batik process.)
The process of mercerisation does not affect the classification of yarns or fabrics within the above categories.
The definitions at (d) to (h) above apply, mutatis mutandis, to knitted or crocheted fabrics.
A fabric construction in which each yarn of the weft passes alternately over and under successive yarns
of the warp and each yarn of the warp passes alternately over and under successive yarns of the weft.
2.- (A) Products of Chapters 56 to 63 containing two or more textile materials are to be regarded as consisting
wholly of that textile material which would be selected under Note 2 to this Section for the classification of
a product of Chapters 50 to 55 or of heading 58.09 consisting of the same textile materials.
(a) where appropriate, only the part which determines the classification under Interpretative Rule 3
shall be taken into account;
(b) in the case of textile products consisting of a ground fabric and a pile or looped surface no
account shall be taken of the ground fabric;
(c) in the case of embroidery of heading 58.10 and goods thereof, only the ground fabric shall be
taken into account. However, embroidery without visible ground, and goods thereof, shall be
classified with reference to the embroidering threads alone.
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Silk
___________
50.03 5003.00.00 Silk waste (including cocoons unsuitable for reeling, yarn kg 0%
waste and garnetted stock).
50.04 5004.00.00 Silk yarn (other than yarn spun from silk waste) not put up for kg 10%
retail sale.
50.05 5005.00.00 Yarn spun from silk waste, not put up for retail sale. kg 10%
50.06 5006.00.00 Silk yarn and yarn spun from silk waste, put up for retail sale; kg 10%
silk-worm gut.
5007.20.00 - Other fabrics, containing 85% or more by weight of silk or of silk kg 25%
waste other than noil silk
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Note.
(b) “Fine animal hair” means the hair of alpaca, llama, vicuna, camel (including dromedary), yak, Angora,
Tibetan, Kashmir or similar goats (but not common goats), rabbit (including Angora rabbit), hare, beaver,
nutria or musk-rat;
(c) “Coarse animal hair” means the hair of animals not mentioned above, excluding brush-making hair and
bristles (heading 05.02) and horsehair (heading 05.11).
__________
5101.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
5101.29.00 -- Other kg 0%
5101.30.00 - Carbonised kg 0%
5102.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
5105.29.00 -- Other kg 0%
5105.39.00 -- Other kg 0%
51.08 Yarn of fine animal hair (carded or combed), not put up for
retail sale.
51.09 Yarn of wool or of fine animal hair, put up for retail sale.
5109.10.00 - Containing 85% or more by weight of wool or of fine animal hair kg 10%
51.10 5110.00.00 Yarn of coarse animal hair or of horsehair (including gimped kg 10%
horsehair yarn), whether or not put up for retail sale.
5111.30.00 - Other, mixed mainly or solely with man-made staple fibres kg 25%
5112.30.00 - Other, mixed mainly or solely with man-made staple fibres kg 25%
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Cotton
Subheading Note.
1.- For the purposes of subheadings 5209.42 and 5211.42, the expression “denim” means fabrics of yarns of
different colours, of 3-thread or 4-thread twill, including broken twill, warp faced, the warp yarns of which are of
one and the same colour and the weft yarns of which are unbleached, bleached, dyed grey or coloured a lighter
shade of the colour of the warp yarns.
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- Other:
5202.99.00 -- Other kg 0%
52.04 Cotton sewing thread, whether or not put up for retail sale.
5205.12.00 -- Measuring less than 714.29 decitex but not less than 232.56 kg 10%
decitex (exceeding 14 metric number but not exceeding 43 metric
number)
5205.13.00 -- Measuring less than 232.56 decitex but not less than 192.31 kg 10%
decitex (exceeding 43 metric number but not exceeding 52 metric
number)
5205.14.00 -- Measuring less than 192.31 decitex but not less than 125 decitex kg 10%
(exceeding 52 metric number but not exceeding 80 metric number)
5205.15.00 -- Measuring less than 125 decitex (exceeding 80 metric number) kg 10%
5205.22.00 -- Measuring less than 714.29 decitex but not less than 232.56 kg 10%
decitex (exceeding 14 metric number but not exceeding 43 metric
number)
5205.23.00 -- Measuring less than 232.56 decitex but not less than 192.31 kg 10%
decitex (exceeding 43 metric number but not exceeding 52 metric
number)
5205.24.00 -- Measuring less than 192.31 decitex but not less than 125 decitex kg 10%
(exceeding 52 metric number but not exceeding 80 metric number)
5205.26.00 -- Measuring less than 125 decitex but not less than 106.38 decitex kg 10%
(exceeding 80 metric number but not exceeding 94 metric number)
5205.27.00 -- Measuring less than 106.38 decitex but not less than 83.33 kg 10%
decitex (exceeding 94 metric number but not exceeding 120 metric
number)
5205.28.00 -- Measuring less than 83.33 decitex (exceeding 120 metric kg 10%
number)
5205.31.00 -- Measuring per single yarn 714.29 decitex or more (not exceeding kg 10%
14 metric number per single yarn)
5205.32.00 -- Measuring per single yarn less than 714.29 decitex but not kg 10%
less than 232.56 decitex (exceeding 14 metric number but not
exceeding 43 metric number per single yarn)
5205.33.00 -- Measuring per single yarn less than 232.56 decitex but not kg 10%
less than 192.31 decitex (exceeding 43 metric number but not
exceeding 52 metric number per single yarn)
5205.34.00 -- Measuring per single yarn less than 192.31 decitex but not less kg 10%
than 125 decitex (exceeding 52 metric number but not exceeding
80 metric number per single yarn)
5205.35.00 -- Measuring per single yarn less than 125 decitex (exceeding 80 kg 10%
metric number per single yarn)
5205.41.00 -- Measuring per single yarn 714.29 decitex or more (not exceeding kg 10%
14 metric number per single yarn)
5205.42.00 -- Measuring per single yarn less than 714.29 decitex but not kg 10%
less than 232.56 decitex (exceeding 14 metric number but not
exceeding 43 metric number per single yarn)
5205.43.00 -- Measuring per single yarn less than 232.56 decitex but not kg 10%
less than 192.31 decitex (exceeding 43 metric number but not
exceeding 52 metric number per single yarn)
5205.44.00 -- Measuring per single yarn less than 192.31 decitex but not less kg 10%
than 125 decitex (exceeding 52 metric number but not exceeding
80 metric number per single yarn)
5205.46.00 -- Measuring per single yarn less than 125 decitex but not less than kg 10%
106.38 decitex (exceeding 80 metric number but not exceeding 94
metric number per single yarn)
5205.47.00 -- Measuring per single yarn less than 106.38 decitex but not less kg 10%
than 83.33 decitex (exceeding 94 metric number but not exceeding
120 metric number per single yarn)
5205.48.00 -- Measuring per single yarn less than 83.33 decitex (exceeding kg 10%
120 metric number per single yarn)
5206.12.00 -- Measuring less than 714.29 decitex but not less than 232.56 kg 10%
decitex (exceeding 14 metric number but not exceeding 43 metric
number)
5206.13.00 -- Measuring less than 232.56 decitex but not less than 192.31 kg 10%
decitex (exceeding 43 metric number but not exceeding 52 metric
number)
5206.14.00 -- Measuring less than 192.31 decitex but not less than 125 decitex kg 10%
(exceeding 52 metric number but not exceeding 80 metric number)
5206.15.00 -- Measuring less than 125 decitex (exceeding 80 metric number) kg 10%
5206.22.00 -- Measuring less than 714.29 decitex but not less than 232.56 kg 10%
decitex (exceeding 14 metric number but not exceeding 43 metric
number)
5206.23.00 -- Measuring less than 232.56 decitex but not less than 192.31 kg 10%
decitex (exceeding 43 metric number but not exceeding 52 metric
number)
5206.24.00 -- Measuring less than 192.31 decitex but not less than 125 decitex kg 10%
(exceeding 52 metric number but not exceeding 80 metric number)
5206.25.00 -- Measuring less than 125 decitex (exceeding 80 metric number) kg 10%
5206.31.00 -- Measuring per single yarn 714.29 decitex or more (not exceeding kg 10%
14 metric number per single yarn)
5206.32.00 -- Measuring per single yarn less than 714.29 decitex but not kg 10%
less than 232.56 decitex (exceeding 14 metric number but not
exceeding 43 metric number per single yarn)
5206.33.00 -- Measuring per single yarn less than 232.56 decitex but not kg 10%
less than 192.31 decitex (exceeding 43 metric number but not
exceeding 52 metric number per single yarn)
5206.34.00 -- Measuring per single yarn less than 192.31 decitex but not less kg 10%
than 125 decitex (exceeding 52 metric number but not exceeding
80 metric number per single yarn)
5206.35.00 -- Measuring per single yarn less than 125 decitex (exceeding 80 kg 10%
metric number per single yarn)
5206.41.00 -- Measuring per single yarn 714.29 decitex or more(not exceeding kg 10%
14 metric number per single yarn)
5206.42.00 -- Measuring per single yarn less than 714.29 decitex but not kg 10%
less than 232.56 decitex (exceeding 14 metric number but not
exceeding 43 metric number per single yarn)
5206.43.00 -- Measuring per single yarn less than 232.56 decitex but not kg 10%
less than 192.31 decitex (exceeding 43 metric number but not
exceeding 52 metric number per single yarn)
5206.44.00 -- Measuring per single yarn less than 192.31 decitex but not less kg 10%
than 125 decitex (exceeding 52 metric number but not exceeding
80 metric number per single yarn)
5206.45.00 -- Measuring per single yarn less than 125 decitex (exceeding 80 kg 10%
metric number per single yarn)
52.07 Cotton yarn (other than sewing thread) put up for retail sale.
- Unbleached:
5208.11.00 -- Plain weave, weighing not more than 100 g/m2 kg 25%
- Bleached:
5208.21.00 -- Plain weave, weighing not more than 100 g/m2 kg 25%
- Dyed:
5208.31.00 -- Plain weave, weighing not more than 100 g/m2 kg 25%
5208.41.00 -- Plain weave, weighing not more than 100 g/m2 kg 25%
- Printed:
- Unbleached:
- Bleached:
- Dyed:
5209.43.00 -- Other fabrics of 3-thread or 4-thread twill, including cross twill kg 25%
- Printed:
-- Plain weave:
- Unbleached:
- Bleached:
- Dyed:
- Printed:
-- Plain weave:
- Unbleached:
- Dyed:
5211.43.00 -- Other fabrics of 3-thread or 4-thread twill, including cross twill kg 25%
- Printed:
-- Plain weave:
-- Printed:
-- Printed:
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____________
53.01 Flax, raw or processed but not spun; flax tow and waste
(including yarn waste and garnetted stock).
5301.29.00 -- Other kg 0%
53.02 True hemp (Cannabis sativa L.), raw or processed but not
spun; tow and waste of true hemp (including yarn waste and
garnetted stock).
5302.90.00 - Other kg 0%
53.03 Jute and other textile bast fibres (excluding flax, true hemp
and ramie), raw or processed but not spun; tow and waste of
these fibres (including yarn waste and garnetted stock).
5303.90.00 - Other kg 0%
[53.04]
53.05 5305.00.00 Coconut, abaca (Manila hemp or Musa textilis Nee), ramie and kg 0%
other vegetable textile fibres, not elsewhere specified or
included, raw or processed but not spun; tow, noils and waste
of these fibres (including yarn waste and garnetted stock).
53.11 5311.00.00 Woven fabrics of other vegetable textile fibres; woven fabrics kg 25%
of paper yarn.
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Notes.
1.- Throughout the Nomenclature, the term “man-made fibres” means staple fibres and filaments of organic
polymers produced by manufacturing processes, either:
(a) By polymerisation of organic monomers to produce polymers such as polyamides, polyesters, polyolefins
or polyurethanes, or by chemical modification of polymers produced by this process (for example,
poly(vinyl alcohol) prepared by the hydrolysis of poly(vinyl acetate)); or
(b) By dissolution or chemical treatment of natural organic polymers (for example, cellulose) to produce
polymers such as cuprammonium rayon (cupro) or viscose rayon, or by chemical modification of natural
organic polymers (for example, cellulose, casein and other proteins, or alginic acid), to produce polymers
such as cellulose acetate or alginates.
The terms “synthetic” and “artificial”, used in relation to fibres, mean: synthetic: fibres as defined at (a);
artificial: fibres as defined at (b). Strip and the like of heading 54.04 or 54.05 are not considered to be
man-made fibres.
The terms “man-made”, “synthetic” and “artificial” shall have the same meanings when used in relation
to “textile materials”.
2.- Headings 54.02 and 54.03 do not apply to synthetic or artificial filament tow of Chapter 55.
__________
54.02 Synthetic filament yarn (other than sewing thread), not put up
for retail sale, including synthetic monofilament of less than
67 decitex.
- Textured yarn:
5402.31.00 -- Of nylon or other polyamides, measuring per single yarn not kg 10%
more than 50 tex
5402.32.00 -- Of nylon or other polyamides, measuring per single yarn more kg 10%
than 50 tex
54.03 Artificial filament yarn (other than sewing thread), not put up
for retail sale, including artificial monofilament of less than
67 decitex.
5403.31.00 -- Of viscose rayon, untwisted or with a twist not exceeding 120 kg 10%
turns per metre
5403.32.00 -- Of viscose rayon, with a twist exceeding 120 turns per metre kg 10%
54.06 5406.00.00 Man-made filament yarn (other than sewing thread), put up kg 10%
for retail sale.
5407.10.00 - Woven fabrics obtained from high tenacity yarn of nylon or other kg 25%
polyamides or of polyesters
5408.10.00 - Woven fabrics obtained from high tenacity yarn of viscose rayon kg 25%
__________
Note.
1.- Headings 55.01 and 55.02 apply only to man-made filament tow, consisting of parallel filaments of a uniform
length equal to the length of the tow, meeting the following specifications:
(d) Synthetic filament tow only : the tow must be drawn, that is to say, be incapable of being stretched by
more than 100 % of its length;
____________
5501.11.00 -- Of aramids kg 0%
5501.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
5501.20.00 - Of polyesters kg 0%
5501.90.00 - Other kg 0%
5502.90.00 - Other kg 0%
5503.11.00 -- Of aramids kg 0%
5503.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
5503.20.00 - Of polyesters kg 0%
5503.40.00 - Of polypropylene kg 0%
5503.90.00 - Other kg 0%
5504.90.00 - Other kg 0%
5506.20.00 - Of polyesters kg 0%
5506.40.00 - Of polypropylene kg 0%
5506.90.00 - Other kg 0%
55.09 Yarn (other than sewing thread) of synthetic staple fibres, not
put up for retail sale.
5509.52.00 -- Mixed mainly or solely with wool or fine animal hair kg 10%
5509.61.00 -- Mixed mainly or solely with wool or fine animal hair manufactured kg 10%
- Other yarn:
5509.91.00 -- Mixed mainly or solely with wool or fine animal hair kg 10%
55.10 Yarn (other than sewing thread) of artificial staple fibres, not
put up for retail sale.
5510.20.00 - Other yarn, mixed mainly or solely with wool or fine animal hair kg 10%
5511.20.00 - Of synthetic staple fibres, containing less than 85% by weight of kg 10%
such fibres
- Other:
- Unbleached or bleached:
5513.12.00 -- 3-thread or 4-thread twill, including cross twill, of polyester staple kg 25%
fibres
- Dyed:
- Printed:
- Unbleached or bleached:
5514.12.00 -- 3-thread or 4-thread twill, including cross twill, of polyester staple Kg 25%
fibres
- Dyed:
- Printed:
5514.42.00 -- 3-thread or 4-thread twill, including cross twill, of polyester staple kg 25%
fibres
5515.11.00 -- Mixed mainly or solely with viscose rayon staple fibres kg 25%
5515.13.00 -- Mixed mainly or solely with wool or fine animal hair kg 25%
5515.22.00 -- Mixed mainly or solely with wool or fine animal hair kg 25%
- Other:
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Notes.
(a) Wadding, felt or nonwovens, impregnated, coated or covered with substances or preparations (for
example, perfumes or cosmetics of Chapter 33, soaps or detergents of heading 34.01, polishes, creams
or similar preparations of heading 34.05, fabric softeners of heading 38.09) where the textile material is
present merely as a carrying medium;
(c) Natural or artificial abrasive powder or grain, on a backing of felt or nonwovens (heading 68.05);
(e) Metal foil on a backing of felt or nonwovens (generally Section XIV or XV); or
(f) Sanitary towels (pads) and tampons, napkins (diapers) and napkin liners and similar articles of heading
96.19.
2.- The term “felt” includes needleloom felt and fabrics consisting of a web of textile fibres the cohesion of which has
been enhanced by a stitch-bonding process using fibres from the web itself.
3.- Headings 56.02 and 56.03 cover respectively felt and nonwovens, impregnated, coated, covered or laminated
with plastics or rubber whatever the nature of these materials (compact or cellular).
Heading 56.03 also includes nonwovens in which plastics or rubber forms the bonding substance.
(a) Felt impregnated, coated, covered or laminated with plastics or rubber, containing 50 % or less by weight
of textile material or felt completely embedded in plastics or rubber (Chapter 39 or 40);
(b) Nonwovens, either completely embedded in plastics or rubber, or entirely coated or covered on both
sides with such materials, provided that such coating or covering can be seen with the naked eye with no
account being taken of any resulting change of colour (Chapter 39 or 40); or
(c) Plates, sheets or strip of cellular plastics or cellular rubber combined with felt or nonwovens, where the
textile material is present merely for reinforcing purposes (Chapter 39 or 40).
4.- Heading 56.04 does not cover textile yarn, or strip or the like of heading 54.04 or 54.05, in which the impregnation,
coating or covering cannot be seen with the naked eye (usually Chapters 50 to 55); for the purpose of this
provision, no account should be taken of any resulting change of colour.
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56.01 Wadding of textile materials and articles thereof; textile fibres, not exceed-
ing 5 mm in length (flock), textile dust and mill neps.
- Of man-made filaments:
5603.12.00 -- Weighing more than 25 g/m² but not more than 70 g/m² kg 10%
5603.13.00 -- Weighing more than 70 g/m² but not more than 150 g/m² kg 10%
- Other:
5603.92.00 -- Weighing more than 25 g/m² but not more than 70 g/m² kg 10%
5603.93.00 -- Weighing more than 70 g/m² but not more than 150 g/m² kg 10%
56.04 Rubber thread and cord, textile covered; textile yarn, and strip
and the like of heading 54.04 or 54.05, impregnated, coated,
covered or sheathed with rubber or plastics.
56.05 5605.00.00 Metallised yarn, whether or not gimped, being textile yarn, kg 10%
or strip or the like of heading 54.04 or 54.05, combined with
metal in the form of thread, strip or powder or covered with
metal.
56.06 5606.00.00 Gimped yarn, and strip and the like of heading 54.04 or kg 10%
54.05, gimped (other than those of heading 56.05 and gimped
horsehair yarn); chenille yarn (including flock chenille yarn);
loop wale-yarn.
- Of polyethylene or polypropylene:
-- Other:
56.09 5609.00.00 Articles of yarn, strip or the like of heading 54.04 or 54.05, kg 25%
twine, cordage, rope or cables, not elsewhere specified or
included.
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Notes.
1.- For the purposes of this Chapter, the term “carpets and other textile floor coverings” means floor coverings in
which textile materials serve as the exposed surface of the article when in use and includes articles having the
characteristics of textile floor coverings but intended for use for other purposes.
____________
57.02 Carpets and other textile floor coverings, woven, not tufted
or flocked, whether or not made up, including “Kelem”,
“Schumacks”, “Karamanie” and similar hand-woven rugs.
57.04 Carpets and other textile floor coverings, of felt, not tufted or
flocked, whether or not made up.
5704.20.00 - Tiles, having a maximum surface area exceeding 0.3 m² but not m² 25%
exceeding 1 m².
57.05 5705.00.00 Other carpets and other textile floor coverings, whether or not m² 25%
made up.
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Notes.
1.- This Chapter does not apply to textile fabrics referred to in Note 1 to Chapter 59, impregnated, coated, covered
or laminated, or to other goods of Chapter 59.
2.- Heading 58.01 also includes woven weft pile fabrics which have not yet had the floats cut, at which stage they
have no pile standing up.
3.- For the purposes of heading 58.03, “gauze” means a fabric with a warp composed wholly or in part of standing
or ground threads and crossing or doup threads which cross the standing or ground threads making a half turn,
a complete turn or more to form loops through which weft threads pass.
4.- Heading 58.04 does not apply to knotted net fabrics of twine, cordage or rope, of heading 56.08.
5.- For the purposes of heading 58.06, the expression “narrow woven fabrics” means:
(a) Woven fabrics of a width not exceeding 30 cm, whether woven as such or cut from wider pieces, provided
with selvedges (woven, gummed or otherwise made) on both edges;
(b) Tubular woven fabrics of a flattened width not exceeding 30 cm; and
(c) Bias binding with folded edges, of a width when unfolded not exceeding 30 cm.
(d) Narrow woven fabrics with woven fringes are to be classified in heading 58.08.
6.- In heading 58.10, the expression “embroidery” means, inter alia, embroidery with metal or glass thread on a
visible ground of textile fabric, and sewn appliqué work of sequins, beads or ornamental motifs of textile or other
materials. The heading does not apply to needlework tapestry (heading 58.05).
7.- In addition to the products of heading 58.09, this Chapter also includes articles made of metal thread and of a
kind used in apparel, as furnishing fabrics or for similar purposes.
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58.01 Woven pile fabrics and chenille fabrics, other than fabrics of heading
58.02 or 58.06.
- Of cotton:
- Of man-made fibres:
58.02 Terry towelling and similar woven terry fabrics, other than
narrow fabrics of heading 58.06; tufted textile fabrics, other
than products of heading 57.03.
5802.10.00 - Terry towelling and similar woven terry fabrics, of cotton kg 25%
5802.20.00 - Terry towelling and similar woven terry fabrics, of other textile kg 25%
materials
58.03 5803.00.00 Gauze, other than narrow fabrics of heading 58.06. kg 25%
58.04 Tulles and other net fabrics, not including woven, knitted or
crocheted fabrics; lace in the piece, in strips or in motifs,
other than fabrics of headings 60.02 to 60.06.
5806.10.00 - Woven pile fabrics (including terry towelling and similar terry kg 25%
fabrics) and chenille fabrics
58.09 5809.00.00 Woven fabrics of metal thread and woven fabrics of metallised kg 25%
yarn of heading No. 56.05, of a kind used in apparel, as
furnishing fabrics or for similar purposes, not elsewhere
specified or included.
- Other embroidery:
58.11 5811.00.00 Quilted textile products in the piece, composed of one or kg 25%
more layers of textile materials assembled with padding by
stitching or otherwise, other than embroidery of heading
58.10
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Notes.
1.- Except where the context otherwise requires, for the purposes of this Chapter the expression “textile fabrics”
applies only to the woven fabrics of Chapters 50 to 55 and headings 58.03 and 58.06, the braids and ornamental
trimmings in the piece of heading 58.08 and the knitted or crocheted fabrics of heading 60.02 to 60.06.
(a) Textile fabrics, impregnated, coated, covered or laminated with plastics, whatever the weight per square
metre and whatever the nature of the plastic material (compact or cellular), other than:
(1) Fabrics in which the impregnation, coating or covering cannot be seen with the naked eye (usually
Chapters 50 to 55, 58 or 60); for the purpose of this provision, no account should be taken of any
resulting change of colour;
(2) Products which cannot, without fracturing, be bent manually around a cylinder of a diameter of 7
mm, at a temperature between 15 °C and 30 °C (usually Chapter 39);
(3) Products in which the textile fabric is either completely embedded in plastics or entirely coated or
covered on both sides with such material, provided that such coating or covering can be seen with
the naked eye with no account being taken of any resulting change of colour (Chapter 39);
(4) Fabrics partially coated or partially covered with plastics and bearing designs resulting from these
treatments (usually Chapters 50 to 55, 58 or 60);
(5) Plates, sheets or strip of cellular plastics, combined with textile fabric, where the textile fabric is
present merely for reinforcing purposes (Chapter 39); or
(b) Fabrics made from yarn, strip or the like, impregnated, coated, covered or sheathed with plastics, of
heading 56.04.
3.- For the purposes of heading 59.03, “textile fabrics laminated with plastics” means products made by the assembly
of one or more layers of fabrics with one or more sheets or film of plastics which are combined by any process
that bonds the layers together, whether or not the sheets or film of plastics are visible to the naked eye in the
cross-section.
4.- For the purposes of heading 59.05, the expression “textile wall coverings” applies to products in rolls, of a width
of not less than 45 cm, suitable for wall or ceiling decoration, consisting of a textile surface which has been fixed
on a backing or has been treated on the back (impregnated or coated to permit pasting).
This heading does not, however, apply to wall coverings consisting of textile flock or dust fixed directly on a
backing of paper (heading 48.14) or on a textile backing (generally heading 59.07).
5.- For the purposes of heading 59.06, the expression “rubberised textile fabrics” means:
(ii) Weighing more than 1,500 g/m2 and containing more than 50% by weight of textile material;
(b) Fabrics made from yarn, strip or the like, impregnated, coated, covered or sheathed with rubber, of
heading 56.04; and
(c) Fabrics composed of parallel textile yarns agglomerated with rubber, irrespective of their weight per
square metre.
This heading does not, however, apply to plates, sheets or strip of cellular rubber, combined with textile fabric,
where the textile fabric is present merely for reinforcing purposes (Chapter 40), or textile products of heading
58.11.
(a) Fabrics in which the impregnation, coating or covering cannot be seen with the naked eye (usually
Chapters 50 to 55, 58 or 60); for the purpose of this provision, no account should be taken of any resulting
change of colour;
(b) Fabrics painted with designs (other than painted canvas being theatrical scenery, studio back-cloths or
the like);
(c) Fabrics partially covered with flock, dust, powdered cork or the like and bearing designs resulting from
these treatments; however, imitation pile fabrics remain classified in this heading;
(d) Fabrics finished with normal dressings having a basis of amylaceous or similar substances;
(f) Natural or artificial abrasive powder or grain, on a backing of textile fabrics (heading 68.05);
(h) Metal foil on a backing of textile fabrics (generally Section XIV or XV).
(a) Transmission or conveyor belting, of textile material, of a thickness of less than 3 mm; or
(b) Transmission or conveyor belts or belting of textile fabric impregnated, coated, covered or laminated with
rubber or made from textile yarn or cord impregnated, coated, covered or sheathed with rubber (heading
40.10).
8.- Heading 59.11 applies to the following goods, which do not fall in any other heading of Section XI:
(a) Textile products in the piece, cut to length or simply cut to rectangular (including square) shape (other
than those having the character of the products of headings. 59.08 to 59.10), the following only:
(i) Textile fabrics, felt and felt-lined woven fabrics, coated, covered or laminated with rubber, leather
or other material, of a kind used for card clothing, and similar fabrics of a kind used for other
technical purposes, including narrow fabrics made of velvet impregnated with rubber, for covering
weaving spindles (weaving beams);
(iii) Filtering or straining cloth of a kind used in oil presses or the like, of textile material or of human
hair,
(iv) Flat woven textile fabrics with multiple warp or weft, whether or not felted, impregnated or coated,
of a kind used in machinery or for other technical purposes;
(v) Textile fabrics reinforced with metal, of a kind used for technical purposes;
(vi) Cords, braids and the like, whether or not coated, impregnated or reinforced with metal, of a kind
used in industry as packing or lubricating materials;
(b) Textile articles (other than those of headings 59.08 to 59.10) of a kind used for technical purposes (for
example, textile fabrics and felts, endless or fitted with linking devices, of a kind used in paper-making or
similar machines (for example, for pulp or asbestos-cement), gaskets, washers, polishing discs and other
machinery parts).
_________
59.01 Textile fabrics coated with gum or amylaceous substances, of a kind used
for the outer covers of books or the like; tracing cloth; prepared painting
canvas; buckram and similar stiffened textile fabrics of a kind used for hat
foundations.
5902.20.00 - Of polyesters kg 0%
5902.90.00 - Other kg 0%
- Other:
59.08 5908.00.00 Textile wicks, woven, plaited or knitted, for lamps, stoves, kg 10%
lighters, candles or the like; incandescent gas mantles and
tubular knitted gas mantle fabric therefor, whether or not
impregnated.
59.09 5909.00.00 Textile hosepiping and similar textile tubing, with or without kg 25%
lining, armour or accessories of other materials.
5911.10.00 - Textile fabrics, felt and felt-lined woven fabrics, coated, covered or kg 10%
laminated with rubber, leather or other material, of a kind used for
card clothing, and similar fabrics of a kind used for other technical
purposes, including narrow fabrics made of velvet impregnated
with rubber, for covering weaving spindles (weaving beams)
5911.40.00 - Filtering or straining cloth of a kind used in oil presses or the like, kg 0%
including that of human hair
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Notes.
(c) Knitted or crocheted fabrics, impregnated, coated, covered or laminated, of Chapter 59. However, knitted
or crocheted pile fabrics, impregnated, coated, covered or laminated, remain classified in heading 60.01.
2.- This Chapter also includes fabrics made of metal thread and of a kind used in apparel, as furnishing fabrics or
for similar purposes.
3.- Throughout the Nomenclature any reference to “knitted” goods includes a reference to stitch-bonded goods in
which the chain stitches are formed of textile yarn.
Subheading Note.
1.- Subheading 6005.35 covers fabrics of polyethylene monofilament or of polyester multifilament, weighing not
less than 30 g/m2 and not more than 55 g/m2, having a mesh size of not less than 20 holes/cm2 and not more
than 100 holes/cm2, and impregnated or coated with alpha-cypermethrin (ISO), chlorfenapyr (ISO), deltamethrin
(INN, ISO), lambda-cyhalothrin (ISO), permethrin (ISO) or pirimiphos-methyl (ISO).).”.).”.
60.01 Pile fabrics, including “long pile” fabrics and terry fabrics, knitted or
crocheted.
- Other:
- Of cotton:
- Of synthetic fibres:
- Of artificial fibres:
- Of cotton:
- Of synthetic fibres:
- Of artificial fibres:
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Notes.
(c) Orthopaedic appliances, surgical belts, trusses or the like (heading 90.21).
(a) The term “suit” means a set of garments composed of two or three pieces made up, in respect of their
outer surface, in identical fabric and comprising:
- one suit coat or jacket the outer shell of which, exclusive of sleeves, consists of four or more
panels, designed to cover the upper part of the body, possibly with a tailored waistcoat in addition
whose front is made from the same fabric as the outer surface of the other components of the set
and whose back is made from the same fabric as the lining of the suit coat or jacket; and
- one garment designed to cover the lower part of the body and consisting of trousers, breeches or
shorts (other than swimwear), a skirt or a divided skirt, having neither braces nor bibs.
All of the components of a “suit” must be of the same fabric construction, colour and composition; they
must also be of the same style and of corresponding or compatible size. However, these components
may have piping (a strip of fabric sewn into the seam) in a different fabric.
If several separate components to cover the lower part of the body are presented together (for example,
two pairs of trousers or trousers and shorts, or a skirt or divided skirt and trousers), the constituent lower
part shall be one pair of trousers or, in the case of women’s or girls’ suits, the skirt or divided skirt, the
other garments being considered separately.
The term “suit” includes the following sets of garments, whether or not they fulfil all the above conditions:
- morning dress, comprising a plain jacket (cutaway) with rounded tails hanging well down at the
back and striped trousers;
- evening dress (tailcoat), generally made of black fabric, the jacket of which is relatively short at
the front, does not close and has narrow skirts cut in at the hips and hanging down behind;
- dinner jacket suits, in which the jacket is similar in style to an ordinary jacket (though perhaps
revealing more of the shirt front) but has shiny silk or imitation silk lapels.
(b) The term “ensemble” means a set of garments (other than suits and articles of heading 61.07, 61.08 or
61.09), composed of several pieces made up in identical fabric, put up for retail sale, and comprising:
- one garment designed to cover the upper part of the body, with the exception of pullovers which
may form a second upper garment in the sole context of twin sets, and of waistcoats which may
also form a second upper garment, and
- one or two different garments, designed to cover the lower part of the body and consisting of
trousers, bib and brace overalls, breeches, shorts (other than swimwear), a skirt or a divided skirt.
All of the components of an ensemble must be of the same fabric construction, style, colour and
composition; they also must be of corresponding or compatible size. The term “ensemble” does not
apply to track suits or ski suits, of heading 61.12.
“Shirts” and “shirt-blouses” are garments designed to cover the upper part of the body, having long or short
sleeves and a full or partial opening starting at the neckline. “Blouses” are loose-fitting garments also designed
to cover the upper part of the body but may be sleeveless and with or without an opening at the neckline.
“Shirts”, “shirt-blouses” and “blouses” may also have a collar.
5.- Heading 61.09 does not cover garments with a drawstring, ribbed waistband or other means of tightening at the
bottom of the garment.
(a) The expression “babies’ garments and clothing accessories” means articles for young children of a body
height not exceeding 86 cm;
(b) Articles which are, prima facie, classifiable both in heading 61.11 and in other headings of this Chapter
are to be classified in heading 61.11.
7.- For the purposes of heading 61.12, “ski suits” means garments or sets of garments which, by their general
appearance and texture, are identifiable as intended to be worn principally for skiing (cross-country or alpine).
They consist either of:
(a) a “ski overall”, that is, a one-piece garment designed to cover the upper and the lower parts of the body;
in addition to sleeves and a collar the ski overall may have pockets or footstraps; or
(b) a “ski ensemble”, that is, a set of garments composed of two or three pieces, put up for retail sale and
comprising:
- one garment such as an anorak, wind-cheater, wind-jacket or similar article, closed by a slide
fastener (zipper), possibly with a waistcoat in addition, and
- one pair of trousers whether or not extending above waist-level, one pair of breeches or one bib and
brace overall.
The “ski ensemble” may also consist of an overall similar to the one mentioned in paragraph (a) above
and a type of padded, sleeveless jacket worn over the overall.
All the components of a “ski ensemble” must be made up in a fabric of the same texture, style and
composition whether or not of the same colour; they also must be of corresponding or compatible size.
8.- Garments which are, prima facie, classifiable both in heading 61.13 and in other headings of this Chapter,
excluding heading 61.11, are to be classified in heading 61.13.
9.- Garments of this Chapter designed for left over right closure at the front shall be regarded as men’s or boys’
garments, and those designed for right over left closure at the front as women’s or girls’ garments. These
provisions do not apply where the cut of the garment clearly indicates that it is designed for one or other of the
sexes.
Garments which cannot be identified as either men’s or boys’ garments or as women’s or girls’ garments are to
be classified in the headings covering women’s or girls’ garments.
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- Ensembles:
- Suits:
- Ensembles:
- Dresses:
- Other:
- Other:
- Track suits:
6115.21.00 -- Of synthetic fibres, measuring per single yarn less than 67 kg 25%
decitex
6115.22.00 -- Of synthetic fibres, measuring per single yarn 67 decitex or more kg 25%
- Other:
- Other:
6117.10.00 - Shawls, scarves, mufflers, mantillas, veils and the like u 25%
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Notes.
1.- This Chapter applies only to made up articles of any textile fabric other than wadding, excluding knitted or
crocheted articles (other than those of heading 62.12).
(b) Orthopaedic appliances, surgical belts, trusses or the like (heading 90.21).
(a) The term “suit” means a set of garments composed of two or three pieces made up, in respect of their
outer surface, in identical fabric and comprising:
- one suit coat or jacket the outer shell of which, exclusive of sleeves, consists of four or more panels,
designed to cover the upper part of the body, possibly with a tailored waistcoat in addition whose
front is made from the same fabric as the outer surface of the other components of the set and
whose back is made from the same fabric as the lining of the suit coat or jacket; and
- one garment designed to cover the lower part of the body and consisting of trousers, breeches or
shorts (other than swimwear), a skirt or a divided skirt, having neither braces nor bibs.
All of the components of a “suit” must be of the same fabric construction, colour and composition; they
must also be of the same style and of corresponding or compatible size. However, these components
may have piping (a strip of fabric sewn into the seam) in a different fabric.
If several separate components to cover the lower part of the body are presented together (for example,
two pairs of trousers or trousers and shorts, or a skirt or divided skirt and trousers), the constituent lower
part shall be one pair of trousers or, in the case of women’s or girls’ suits, the skirt or divided skirt, the
other garments being considered separately.
The term “suit” includes the following sets of garments, whether or not they fulfil all the above conditions:
- morning dress, comprising a plain jacket (cutaway) with rounded tails hanging well down at the back
and striped trousers;
- evening dress (tailcoat), generally made of black fabric, the jacket of which is relatively short at the
front, does not close and has narrow skirts cut in at the hips and hanging down behind;
- dinner jacket suits, in which the jacket is similar in style to an ordinary jacket (though perhaps
revealing more of the shirt front), but has shiny silk or imitation silk lapels.
(b) The term “ensemble” means a set of garments (other than suits and articles of heading 62.07 or 62.08)
composed of several pieces made up in identical fabric, put up for retail sale, and comprising:
- one garment designed to cover the upper part of the body, with the exception of waistcoats which
may also form a second upper garment, and
- one or two different garments, designed to cover the lower part of the body and consisting of
trousers, bib and brace overalls, breeches, shorts (other than swimwear), a skirt or a divided skirt.
All of the components of an ensemble must be of the same fabric construction, style, colour and
composition; they also must be of corresponding or compatible size. The term “ensemble” does not
apply to track suits or ski suits, of heading 62.11.
“Shirts” and “shirt-blouses” are garments designed to cover the upper part of the body, having long or short
sleeves and a full or partial opening starting at the neckline. “Blouses” are loose-fitting garments also designed
to cover the upper part of the body but may be sleeveless and with or without an opening at the neckline.
“Shirts”, “shirt-blouses” and “blouses” may also have a collar.
(a) The expression “babies’ garments and clothing accessories” means articles for young children of a body
height not exceeding 86 cm;
(b) Articles which are, prima facie, classifiable both in heading 62.09 and in other headings of this Chapter
are to be classified in heading 62.09.
6.- Garments which are, prima facie, classifiable both in heading 62.10 and in other headings of this Chapter,
excluding heading 62.09, are to be classified in heading 62.10.
7.- For the purposes of heading 62.11, “ski suits” means garments or sets of garments which, by their general
appearance and texture, are identifiable as intended to be worn principally for skiing (cross-country or alpine).
They consist either of:
(a) a “ski overall”, that is, a one-piece garment designed to cover the upper and the lower parts of the body;
in addition to sleeves and a collar the ski overall may have pockets or footstraps; or
(b) a “ski ensemble”, that is, a set of garments composed of two or three pieces, put up for retail sale and
comprising:
- one garment such as an anorak, wind-cheater, wind-jacket or similar article, closed by a slide
fastener (zipper), possibly with a waistcoat in addition, and
- one pair of trousers whether or not extending above waist-level, one pair of breeches or one bib and
brace overall.
The “ski ensemble” may also consist of an overall similar to the one mentioned in paragraph (a) above
and a type of padded, sleeveless jacket worn over the overall.
All the components of a “ski ensemble” must be made up in a fabric of the same texture, style and
composition whether or not of the same colour; they also must be of corresponding or compatible size.
8.- Scarves and articles of the scarf type, square or approximately square, of which no side exceeds 60 cm, are
to be classified as handkerchiefs (heading 62.13). Handkerchiefs of which any side exceeds 60 cm are to be
classified in heading 62.14.
9.- Garments of this Chapter designed for left over right closure at the front shall be regarded as men’s or boys’
garments, and those designed for right over left closure at the front as women’s or girls’ garments. These
provisions do not apply where the cut of the garment clearly indicates that it is designed for one or other of the
sexes.
Garments which cannot be identified as either men’s or boys’ garments or as women’s or girls’ garments are to
be classified in the headings covering women’s or girls’ garments.
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- Suits:
- Ensembles:
- Suits:
- Ensembles:
- Dresses:
- Other:
- Other:
- Swimwear:
-- Of cotton:
-- Of man-made fibres:
62.13 Handkerchiefs.
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Notes.
(iii) Bed linen, table linen, toilet linen and kitchen linen;
(iv) Furnishing articles, other than carpets of headings 57.01 to 57.05 and tapestries of heading
58.05;
In order to be classified in this heading, the articles mentioned above must comply with both of the
following requirements:
Subheading Note
1.- Subheading 6304.20 covers articles made from warp knit fabrics, impregnated or coated with alpha-cypermethrin
(ISO), chlorfenapyr (ISO), deltamethrin (INN, ISO), lambda-cyhalothrin (ISO), permethrin (ISO) or pirimiphos-
methyl (ISO).
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6301.20.00 - Blankets (other than electric blankets) and travelling rugs, kg 25%
of wool or of fine animal hair
6301.30.00 - Blankets (other than electric blankets) and travelling rugs, kg 25%
of cotton
6301.40.00 - Blankets (other than electric blankets) and travelling rugs, kg 25%
of synthetic fibres
63.02 Bed linen, table linen, toilet linen and kitchen linen.
6302.21.00 -- Of cotton kg SI
6302.31.00 -- Of cotton kg SI
6302.51.00 -- Of cotton kg SI
6302.60.00 - Toilet linen and kitchen linen, of terry towelling or similar kg 25%
terry fabrics, of cotton
- Other:
6302.91.00 -- Of cotton kg SI
- Knitted or crocheted:
- Other:
- Bedspreads:
- Other:
-- Knitted or crocheted:
63.05 Sacks and bags, of a kind used for the packing of goods.
II.- SETS
63.08 6308.00.00 Sets consisting of woven fabric and yarn, whether or not kg 25%
with accessories, for making up into rugs, tapestries,
embroidered table cloths or serviettes, or similar textile
articles, put up in packings for retail sale.
63.10 Used or new rags, scrap twine, cordage, rope and cables
and worn out articles of twine, cordage, rope or cables,
of textile materials.
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Notes.
(a) Disposable foot or shoe coverings of flimsy material (for example, paper, sheeting of plastics) without
applied soles. These products are classified according to their constituent material;
(b) Footwear of textile material, without an outer sole glued, sewn or otherwise affixed or applied to the upper
(Section XI
(e) Orthopaedic footwear or other orthopaedic appliances, or parts thereof (heading 90.21); or
(f) Toy footwear or skating boots with ice or roller skates attached; shin-guards or similar protective
sportswear (Chapter 95).
2.- For the purposes of heading 64.06, the term “parts” does not include pegs, protectors, eyelets, hooks, buckles,
ornaments, braid, laces, pompons or other trimmings (which are to be classified in their appropriate headings)
or buttons or other goods of heading 96.06.
(a) the terms “rubber” and “plastics” include woven fabrics or other textile products with an external layer of
rubber or plastics being visible to the naked eye; for the purpose of this provision, no account should be
taken of any resulting change of colour; and
(b) the term “leather” refers to the goods of headings 41.07 and 41.12 to 41.14
(a) the material of the upper shall be taken to be the constituent material having the greatest external
surface area, no account being taken of accessories or reinforcements such as ankle patches, edging,
ornamentation, buckles, tabs, eyelet stays or similar attachments;
(b) the constituent material of the outer sole shall be taken to be the material having the greatest surface area
in contact with the ground, no account being taken of accessories or reinforcements such as spikes, bars,
nails, protectors or similar attachments.
Subheading Note.
1.- For the purposes of subheadings 6402.12, 6402.19, 6403.12, 6403.19 and 6404.11, the expression “sports
footwear” applies only to:
(a) footwear which is designed for a sporting activity and has, or has provision for the attachment of, spikes,
sprigs, stops, clips, bars or the like;
(b) skating boots, ski-boots and cross-country ski footwear, snowboard boots, wrestling boots, boxing boots
and cycling shoes.
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- Other footwear:
6401.92.00 -- Covering the ankle but not covering the knee 2u 35%
- Sports footwear:
6402.20.00 - Footwear with upper straps or thongs assembled to the sole by 2u 35%
means of plugs
- Other footwear:
- Sports footwear:
6403.20.00 - Footwear with outer soles of leather, and uppers which consist of 2u 35%
leather straps across the instep and around the big toe
‑ Other footwear:
6404.11.00 ‑‑ Sports footwear; tennis shoes, basketball shoes, gym shoes, 2u 35%
training shoes and the like
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Notes.
(c) Dolls’ hats, other toy hats or carnival articles of Chapter 95.
2.- Heading 65.02 does not cover hat-shapes made by sewing, other than those obtained simply by sewing strips
in spirals.
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65.01 6501.00.00 Hat-forms, hat bodies and hoods of felt, neither blocked to kg 10%
shape nor with made brims; plateaux and manchons (includ-
ing slit manchons), of felt.
[65.03]
65.04 6504.00.00 Hats and other headgear, plaited or made by assembling kg 25%
strips of any material, whether or not lined or trimmed.
65.05 6505.00.00 Hats and other headgear, knitted or crocheted, or made up kg 35%
from lace, felt or other textile fabric, in the piece (but not
in strips), whether or not lined or trimmed; hair-nets of any
material, whether or not lined or trimmed.
- Other:
65.07 6507.00.00 Head-bands, linings, covers, hat foundations, hat frames, kg 10%
peaks and chinstraps, for headgear.
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Notes.
(c) Goods of Chapter 95 (for example, toy umbrellas, toy sun umbrellas).
2.- Heading 66.03 does not cover parts, trimmings or accessories of textile material, or covers, tassels, thongs,
umbrella cases or the like, of any material. Such goods presented with, but not fitted to, articles of heading 66.01
or 66.02 are to be classified separately and are not to be treated as forming part of those articles.
___________
- Other:
66.02 6602.00.00 Walking-sticks, seat-sticks, whips, riding-crops and the like. u 25%
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Notes.
(b) Floral motifs of lace, of embroidery or other textile fabric (Section XI);
(a) Articles in which feathers or down constitute only filling or padding (for example, bedding of heading
94.04);
(b) Articles of apparel or clothing accessories in which feathers or down constitute no more than mere
trimming or padding; or
(c) Artificial flowers or foliage or parts thereof or made up articles of heading 67.02.
(b) Artificial flowers, foliage or fruit of pottery, stone, metal, wood or other materials, obtained in one piece by
moulding, forging, carving, stamping or other process, or consisting of parts assembled otherwise than
by binding, glueing, fitting into one another or similar methods.
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67.01 6701.00.00 Skins and other parts of birds with their feathers or down, kg 25%
feathers, parts of feathers, down and articles thereof (other
than goods of heading 05.05 and worked quills and scapes).
67.02 Artificial flowers, foliage and fruit and parts thereof; articles
made of artificial flowers, foliage or fruit.
67.03 6703.00.00 Human hair, dressed, thinned, bleached or otherwise worked; kg 35%
wool or other animal hair or other textile materials, prepared
for use in making wigs or the like.
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Notes.
(b) Coated, impregnated or covered paper and paperboard of heading 48.10 or 48.11 (for example, paper
and paperboard coated with mica powder or graphite, bituminised or asphalted paper and paperboard);
(c) Coated, impregnated or covered textile fabric of Chapter 56 or 59 (for example, fabric coated or covered
with mica powder, bituminised or asphalted fabric);
(g) Electrical insulators (heading 85.46) or fittings of insulating material of heading 85.47;
(k) Articles of Chapter 94 (for example, furniture, luminaires and lighting fittings, prefabricated buildings);
(l) Articles of Chapter 95 (for example, toys, games and sports requisites);
(m) Articles of heading 96.02, if made of materials specified in Note 2 (b) to Chapter 96, or of heading
96.06 (for example, buttons), of heading 96.09 (for example, slate pencils), heading 96.10 (for example,
drawing slates) or of heading 96.20 (monopods, bipods, tripods and similar articles); or
(n) Articles of Chapter 97 (for example, works of art).
2.- In heading 68.02 the expression “worked monumental or building stone” applies not only to the varieties of stone
referred to in heading 25.15 or 25.16 but also to all other natural stone (for example, quartzite, flint, dolomite and
steatite) similarly worked; it does not, however, apply to slate.
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68.01 6801.00.00 Setts, curbstones and flagstones, of natural stone (except kg 25%
slate).
6802.10.00 - Tiles, cubes and similar articles, whether or not rectangular kg 25%
(including square), the largest face of which is capable of being
enclosed in a square the side of which is less than 7 cm; artificially
coloured granules, chippings and powder.
- Other:
68.03 6803.00.00 Worked slate and articles of slate or of agglomerated slate. kg 25%
68.06 Slag wool, rock wool and similar mineral wools; exfoliated
vermiculite, expanded clays, foamed slag and similar
expanded mineral materials; mixtures and articles of heat-
insulating, sound-insulating or sound-absorbing mineral
materials, other than those of heading 68.11 or 68.12 or of
Chapter 69.
6806.10.00 - Slag wool, rock wool and similar mineral wools (including kg 25%
intermixtures thereof), in bulk, sheets or rolls
68.08 6808.00.00 Panels, boards, tiles, blocks and similar articles of vegetable kg 25%
fibre, of straw or of shavings, chips, particles, Sawdust or
other waste, of wood, agglomerated with cement, plaster or
other mineral binders.
- Other articles:
-- Other:
- Other:
6812.99.00 --Other kg 0%
--Other:
- Other articles:
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Ceramic products
Notes.
1.- This Chapter applies only to ceramic products which have been fired after shaping:
(a) Headings 69.04 to 69.14 apply only to such products other than those classifiable in headings 69.01 to
69.03.;
(b) Articles heated to temperatures less than 800 °C for purposes such as curing of resins, accelerating
hydration reactions, or for the removal of water or other volatile components, are not considered to be
fired. Such articles are excluded from Chapter 69; and
Ceramic articles are obtained by firing inorganic, non-metallic materials which have been prepared and
(c)
shaped previously at, in general, room temperature. Raw materials comprise, inter alia, clays, siliceous
materials including fused silica, materials with a high melting point, such as oxides, carbides, nitrides,
graphite or other carbon, and in some cases binders such as refractory clays or phosphates.
2.- This Chapter does not cover:
(f) Electrical insulators (heading 85.46) or fittings of insulating material of heading 85.47;
(ij) Articles of Chapter 94 (for example, furniture, luminaires and lighting fittings, prefabricated buildings);
(k) Articles of Chapter 95 (for example, toys, games and sports requisites);
(l) Articles of heading 96.06 (for example, buttons) or of heading 96.14 (for example, smoking pipes); or
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69.01 6901.00.00 Bricks, blocks, tiles and other ceramic goods of siliceous kg 25%
fossil meals (for example, kieselguhr, tripolite or diatomite)
or of similar siliceous earths.
6902.90.00 - Other kg 0%
69.06 6906.00.00 Ceramic pipes, conduits, guttering and pipe fittings. kg 25%
6907.30.00 - Mosaic cubes and the like, other than those of subheading m² 35%
6907.40
[69.08]
6909.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
6909.90.00 - Other kg 0%
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Notes.
(a) Goods of heading 32.07 (for example, vitrifiable enamels and glazes, glass frit, other glass in the form of
powder, granules or flakes);
(c) Optical fibre cables of heading 85.44, electrical insulators (heading 85.46) or fittings of insulating material
of heading 85.47;
(d) Front windscreens (windshields), rear windows and other windows, framed, for vehicles of Chapters 86
to 88;
(e) Front windscreens (windshields), rear windows and other windows, whether or not framed, incorporating
heating devices or other electrical or electronic devices, for vehicles of Chapters 86 to 88;
(f) Optical fibres, optically worked optical elements, hypodermic syringes, artificial eyes, thermometers,
barometers, hydrometers or other articles of Chapter 90;
(g) Luminaires and lighting fittings, illuminated signs, illuminated name-plates or the like, having a permanently
fixed light source, or parts thereof of heading 94.05;
(h) Toys, games, sports requisites, Christmas tree ornaments or other articles of Chapter 95 (excluding glass
eyes without mechanisms for dolls or for other articles of Chapter 95); or
(ij) Buttons, fitted vacuum flasks, scent or similar sprays or other articles of Chapter 96.
(a) glass is not regarded as “worked” by reason of any process it has undergone before annealing;
(b) cutting to shape does not affect the classification of glass in sheets;
(c) the expression “absorbent, reflecting or non-reflecting layer” means a microscopically thin coating of
metal or of a chemical compound (for example, metal oxide) which absorbs, for example, infra-red light
or improves the reflecting qualities of the glass while still allowing it to retain a degree of transparency or
translucency; or which prevents light from being reflected on the surface of the glass.
3.- The products referred to in heading 70.06 remain classified in that heading whether or not they have the
character of articles.
4.- For the purposes of heading 70.19, the expression “glass wool” means:
(a) Mineral wools with a silica (SiO2) content not less than 60% by weight;
(b) Mineral wools with a silica (SiO2) content less than 60% but with an alkaline oxide (K2O or Na2O) content
exceeding 5% by weight or a boric oxide (B2O3) content exceeding 2% by weight.
Mineral wools which do not comply with the above specifications fall in heading 68.06.
5.- Throughout the Nomenclature, the expression “glass” includes fused quartz and other fused silica.
Subheading Note.
1.- For the purposes of subheadings 7013.22, 7013.33, 7013.41 and 7013.91, the expression “lead crystal” means
only glass having a minimum lead monoxide (PbO) content by weight of 24%.
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70.01 7001.00.00 Cullet and other waste and scrap of glass, excluding glass kg 0%
from cathode-ray tubes or other activated glass of heading
85.49; glass in the mass.
- Tubes:
- Non-wired sheets:
7003.12.00 -- Coloured throughout the mass (body tinted), opacified, flashed m² 10%
or having an absorbent, reflecting or non-reflecting layer
7004.20.00 - Glass, coloured throughout the mass (body tinted), opacified, m² 10%
flashed or having an absorbent, reflecting or non-reflecting layer
7005.21.00 -- Coloured throughout the mass (body tinted), opacified, flashed m² 10%
or merely surface ground
70.06 7006.00.00 Glass of heading 70.03, 70.04 or 70.05, bent, edge-worked, kg 25%
engraved, drilled, enamelled or otherwise worked, but not
framed or fitted with other materials.
7007.11.00 -- Of size and shape suitable for incorporation in vehicles, aircraft, kg 10%
spacecraft or vessels
7007.21.00 -- Of size and shape suitable for incorporation in vehicles, aircraft, m² 10%
spacecraft or vessels
- Other:
- Ampoules:
70.11 Glass envelopes (including bulbs and tubes), open, and glass
parts thereof, without fittings, for electric lamps and light
sources, cathode-ray tubes or the like.
[70.12]
7013.42.00 --Of glass having a linear coefficient of expansion not exceeding 5 kg 25%
x 10-6 per Kelvin within a temperature range of 0 °C to 300
°C
-Other glassware:
70.14 7014.00.00 Signalling glassware and optical elements of glass (other kg 10%
than those of heading 70.15), not optically worked.
70.15 Clock or watch glasses and similar glasses, glasses for non-
corrective or corrective spectacles, curved, bent, hollowed or
the like, not optically worked; hollow glass spheres and their
segments, for the manufacture of such glasses.
70.16 Paving blocks, slabs, bricks, squares, tiles and other articles
of pressed or moulded glass, whether or not wired, of a kind
used for building or construction purposes; glass cubes and
other glass smallwares, whether or not on a backing, for
mosaics or similar decorative purposes; leaded lights and
the like; multicellular or foam glass in blocks, panels, plates,
shells or similar forms.
7016.10.00 - Glass cubes and other glass smallwares, whether or not on a kg 25%
backing, for mosaics or similar decorative purposes
7017.90.00 - Other kg 0%
70.19 Glass fibres (including glass wool) and articles thereof (for
example, yarn, rovings, woven fabrics).
7019.63.00 -- Closed woven fabrics, plain weave, of yarns, not coated or kg 10%
laminated
7019.64.00 -- Closed woven fabrics, plain weave, of yarns, coated or laminated kg 10%
- Other:
7019.90.10 --- Interwoven netting glass fibre for manufacture of grinding and kg 0%
cutting wheels
--- Other:
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Chapter 71
Notes.
1.- Subject to Note 1 (a) to Section VI and except as provided below, all articles consisting wholly or partly:
(a) Of natural or cultured pearls or of precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed),
or
(b) Of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal, are to be classified in this Chapter.
2.- (A) Headings 71.13, 71.14 and 71.15 do not cover articles in which precious metal or metal clad with precious
metal is present as minor constituents only, such as minor fittings or minor ornamentation (for example,
monograms, ferrules and rims), and paragraph (b) of the foregoing Note does not apply to such articles (*).
(B) Heading 71.16 does not cover articles containing precious metal or metal clad with precious metal (other
than as minor constituents).
(b) Sterile surgical suture materials, dental fillings or other goods of Chapter 30;
(e) Articles of heading 42.02 or 42.03 referred to in Note 3(B) to Chapter 42;
(k) Abrasive goods of heading 68.04 or 68.05 or Chapter 82, containing dust or powder of precious or semi
precious stones (natural or synthetic) ; articles of Chapter 82 with a working part of precious or semi
precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed); machinery, mechanical appliances or electrical
goods, or parts thereof, of Section XVI. However, articles and parts thereof, wholly of precious or semi
precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed) remain classified in this Chapter, except unmounted
worked sapphires and diamonds for styli (heading 85.22);
(l) Articles of Chapter 90, 91 or 92 (scientific instruments, clocks and watches, musical instruments);
4.- (A) The expression “precious metal “ means silver, gold and platinum.
(B) The expression “ platinum “ means platinum, iridium, osmium, palladium, rhodium and ruthenium.
(C) The expression “precious or semi-precious stones “ does not include any of the substances specified in
Note 2 (b) to Chapter 96.
5.- For the purposes of this Chapter, any alloy (including a sintered mixture and an inter-metallic compound)
containing precious metal is to be treated as an alloy of precious metal if any one precious metal constitutes as
much as 2%, by weight, of the alloy. Alloys of precious metal are to be classified according to the following rules
:
(b) An alloy containing 2% or more, by weight, of gold but no platinum, or less than 2%,by weight,of platinum,
is to be treated as an alloy of gold;
(c) Other alloys containing 2% or more, by weight, of silver are to be treated as alloys of silver.
6.- Except where the context otherwise requires, any reference in the Nomenclature to precious metal or to any
particular precious metal includes a reference to alloys treated as alloys of precious metal or of the particular
metal in accordance with the rules in Note 5 above, but not to metal clad with precious metal or to base metal or
non-metals plated with precious metal.
7.- Throughout the Nomenclature the expression “ metal clad with precious metal “ means material made with a
base of metal upon one or more surfaces of which there is affixed by soldering, brazing, welding, hot-rolling
or similar mechanical means a covering of precious metal. Except where the context otherwise requires, the
expression also covers base metal inlaid with precious metal.
8.- Subject to Note 1 (A) to Section VI, goods answering to a description in heading 71.12 are to be classified in that
heading and in no other heading of the Nomenclature.
9.- For the purposes of heading 71.13, the expression “articles of jewellery “ means:
(a) Any small objects of personal adornment (for example, rings, bracelets, necklaces, brooches, ear-rings,
watch-chains, fobs, pendants, tie-pins, cuff-links, dress-studs, religious or other medals and insignia); and
(b) Articles of personal use of a kind normally carried in the pocket, in the handbag or on the person (for
example, cigar or cigarette cases, snuff boxes, cachou or pill boxes, powder boxes, chain purses or
prayer beads).
These articles may be combined or set, for example, with natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious
stones, synthetic or reconstructed precious or semi-precious stones, tortoise shell, mother-of-pearl, ivory, natural
or reconstituted amber, jet or coral.
10.- For the purposes of heading 71.14, the expression “articles of goldsmiths’ or silversmiths’ wares “ includes
such articles as ornaments, tableware, toilet-ware, smokers’ requisites and other articles of household, office or
religious use.
11.- For the purposes of heading 71.17, the expression “ imitation jewellery “ means articles of jewellery within the
meaning of paragraph (a) of Note 9 above (but not including buttons or other articles of heading 96.06, or dress-
combs, hair-slides or the like, or hairpins, of heading 96.15), not incorporating natural or cultured pearls, precious
or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed) nor (except as plating or as minor constituents)
precious metal or metal clad with precious metal.
Subheading Notes.
1.- For the purposes of subheadings 7106.10, 7108.11, 7110.11, 7110.21, 7110.31 and 7110.41, the expressions “
powder “ and “ in powder form “ mean products of which 90% or more by weight passes through a sieve having
a mesh aperture of 0.5 mm.
3.- For the classification of alloys in the subheadings of heading 71.10, each alloy is to be classified with that metal,
platinum, palladium, rhodium, iridium, osmium or ruthenium which predominates by weight over each other of
these metals.
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- Cultured pearls:
- Industrial:
- Non-industrial:
- Otherwise worked:
-- Other:
- Other:
- Other:
71.07 7107.00.00 Base metals clad with silver, not further worked than semi- gm 25%
manufactured.
- Non-monetary:
7108.20.00 - Monetary gm 0%
71.09 7109.00.00 Base metals or silver, clad with gold, not further worked than gm 25%
semi-manufactured.
- Platinum:
- Palladium:
- Rhodium:
71.11 7111.00.00 Base metals, silver or gold,clad with platinum, not further gm 25%
worked than semi-manufactured.
- Other:
7112.91.00 -- Of gold, including metal clad with gold but excluding sweepings gm 25%
containing other precious metals
7112.92.00 -- Of platinum, including metal clad with platinum but excluding gm 25%
sweepings containing other precious metals
7113.11.00 -- Of silver, whether or not plated or clad with other precious metal gm 25%
7113.19.00 -- Of other precious metal, whether or not plated or clad with gm 25%
precious metal
7114.11.00 -- Of silver, whether or not plated or clad with other precious metal gm 25%
7114.19.00 -- Of other precious metal, whether or not plated or clad with gm 25%
precious metal
71.18 Coin.
7118.10.00 - Coin (other than gold coin), not being legal tender kg 25%
7118.90.00 - Other kg 0%
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Notes.
(a) Prepared paints, inks or other products with a basis of metallic flakes or powder (headings 32.07 to 32.10,
32.12, 32.13 or 32.15);
(e) Goods of Chapter 71 (for example, precious metal alloys, base metal clad with precious metal, imitation
jewellery);
(f) Articles of Section XVI (machinery, mechanical appliances and electrical goods);
(g) Assembled railway or tramway track (heading 86.08) or other articles of Section XVII (vehicles, ships and
boats, aircraft);
(ij) Lead shot prepared for ammunition (heading 93.06) or other articles of Section XIX (arms and ammunition);
(k) Articles of Chapter 94 (for example, furniture, mattress supports, luminaires and lighting fittings, illuminated
signs, prefabricated buildings);
(m) Hand sieves, buttons, pens, pencil-holders, pen nibs, monopods, bipods, tripods and similar articles or
other articles of Chapter 96 (miscellaneous manufactured articles); or
2.- Throughout the Nomenclature, the expression “parts of general use” means:
(a) Articles of heading 73.07, 73.12, 73.15, 73.17 or 73.18 and similar articles of other base metal, other
than articles specially designed for use exclusively in implants in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary
sciences (heading 90.21);
(b) Springs and leaves for springs, of base metal, other than clock or watch springs (heading 91.14); and
(c) Articles of headings 83.01, 83.02, 83.08, 83.10 and frames and mirrors, of base metal, of heading 83.06.
In Chapters 73 to 76 and 78 to 82 (but not in heading 73.15) references to parts of goods do not include
references to parts of general use as defined above.
Subject to the preceding paragraph and to Note 1 to Chapter 83,the articles of Chapter 82 or 83 are excluded
from Chapters 72 to 76 and 78 to 81.;
3.- Throughout the Nomenclature, the expression “base metals” means : iron and steel, copper, nickel, aluminium,
lead, zinc, tin, tungsten (wolfram), molybdenum, tantalum, magnesium, cobalt, bismuth, cadmium, titanium,
zirconium, antimony, manganese, beryllium, chromium, germanium, vanadium, gallium, hafnium, indium,
niobium (columbium), rhenium and thallium.
4.- Throughout the Nomenclature, the term “cermets” means products containing a microscopic heterogeneous
combination of a metallic component and a ceramic component. The term “cermets” includes sintered metal
carbides (metal carbides sintered with a metal).
5.- Classification of alloys (other than ferro-alloys and master alloys as defined in Chapters 72 and 74):
(b) An alloy composed of base metals of this Section and of elements not falling within this Section is to be
treated as an alloy of base metals of this Section if the total weight of such metals equals or exceeds the
total weight of the other elements present;
(c) In this Section the term “alloys” includes sintered mixtures of metal powders, heterogeneous intimate
mixtures obtained by melting (other than cermets) and intermetallic compounds.
6.- Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in the Nomenclature to a base metal includes a reference
to alloys which, by virtue of Note 5 above, are to be classified as alloys of that metal.
Except where the headings otherwise require, articles of base metal (including articles of mixed materials treated
as articles of base metal under the General Interpretative Rules) containing two or more base metals are to be
treated as articles of the base metal predominating by weight over each of the other metals.
(a) Iron and steel, or different kinds of iron or steel, are regarded as one and the same metal;
(b) An alloy is regarded as being entirely composed of that metal as an alloy of which, by virtue of Note 5, it
is classified; and
(c) A cermet of heading 81.13 is regarded as a single base metal.
8.- In this Section, the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them:
(ii) Metal goods definitely not usable as such because of breakage, cutting- up, wear or other reasons.
(b) Powders
Products of which 90% or more by weight passes through a sieve having a mesh aperture of 1 mm.
9.- For the purposes of Chapters 74 to 76 and 78 to 81, the following expressions have the meanings hereby
assigned to them:
Rolled, extruded, drawn or forged products, not in coils, which have a uniform solid cross-section along their
whole length in the shape of circles, ovals, rectangles (including squares), equilateral triangles or regular convex
polygons (including “flattened circles” and “modified rectangles”, of which two opposite sides are convex arcs,
the other two sides being straight, of equal length and parallel). Products with a rectangular (including square),
triangular or polygonal cross-section may have corners rounded along their whole length. The thickness of
such products which have a rectangular (including “modified rectangular”) cross-section exceeds one-tenth of
the width. The expression also covers cast or sintered products, of the same forms and dimensions, which have
been subsequently worked after production (otherwise than by simple trimming or de-scaling), provided that they
have not thereby assumed the character of articles or products of other headings.
Wire-bars and billets of Chapter 74 with their ends tapered or otherwise worked simply to facilitate their entry into
machines for converting them into, for example, drawing stock (wire-rod) or tubes, are however to be taken to
be unwrought copper of heading 74.03. This provision applies mutatis mutandis to the products of Chapter 81.
(b) Profile
Rolled, extruded, drawn, forged or formed products, coiled or not, of a uniform cross-section along their whole
length, which do not conform to any of the definitions of bars, rods, wire, plates, sheets, strip, foil, tubes or pipes.
The expression also covers cast or sintered products, of the same forms, which have been subsequently worked
after production (otherwise than by simple trimming or de-scaling), provided that they have not thereby assumed
the character of articles or products of other headings.
Rolled, extruded or drawn products, in coils, which have a uniform solid cross-section along their whole length
in the shape of circles, ovals, rectangles (including squares), equilateral triangles or regular convex polygons
(including “flattened circles” and “modified rectangles”, of which two opposite sides are convex arcs, the other
two sides being straight, of equal length and parallel). Products with a rectangular (including square), triangular
or polygonal cross-section may have corners rounded along their whole length. The thickness of such products
which have a rectangular (including “modified rectangular”) cross-section exceeds one-tenth of the width
Flat-surfaced products (other than the unwrought products), coiled or not, of solid rectangular (other than square)
cross-section with or without rounded corners (including “modified rectangles” of which two opposite sides are
convex arcs, the other two sides being straight, of equal length and parallel) of a uniform thickness, which are :
- of rectangular (including square) shape with a thickness not exceeding one-tenth of the width;
- of a shape other than rectangular or square, of any size, provided that they do not assume the character
of articles or products of other headings.
Headings for plates, sheets, strip, and foil apply, inter alia, to plates, sheets, strip, and foil with patterns (for
example, grooves, ribs, chequers, tears, buttons, lozenges) and to such products which have been perforated,
corrugated, polished or coated, provided that they do not thereby assume the character of articles or products
of other headings.
Hollow products coiled or not, which have a uniform cross-section with only one enclosed void along their whole
length in the shape of circles, ovals, rectangles (including squares), equilateral triangles or regular convex
polygons, and which have a uniform wall thickness. Products with a rectangular (including square), equilateral
triangular or regular convex polygonal cross-section, which may have corners rounded along their whole length,
are also to be considered as tubes and pipes provided the inner and outer cross-sections are concentric and
have the same form and orientation. Tubes and pipes of the foregoing cross-sections may be polished, coated,
bent, threaded, drilled, waisted, expanded, cone-shaped or fitted with flanges, collars or rings.
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Notes.
1.- In this Chapter and, in the case of Notes (d), (e) and (f) throughout the Nomenclature, the following expressions
have the meanings hereby assigned to them:
Iron-carbon alloys not usefully malleable, containing more than 2% by weight of carbon and which may
contain by weight one or more other elements within the following limits:
(b) Spiegeleisen
Iron-carbon alloys containing by weight more than 6% but not more than 30% of manganese and otherwise
conforming to the specification at (a) above.
(c) Ferro-alloys
Alloys in pigs, blocks, lumps or similar primary forms, in forms obtained by continuous casting and also in
granular or powder forms, whether or not agglomerated, commonly used as an additive in the manufacture
of other alloys or as de-oxidants, de-sulphurising agents or for similar uses in ferrous metallurgy and
generally not usefully malleable, containing by weight 4% or more of the element iron and one or more
of the following:
- a total of more than 10% of other elements, excluding carbon, subject to a maximum content of
10% in the case of copper.
(d) Steel
Ferrous materials other than those of heading 72.03 which (with the exception of certain types produced in
the form of castings) are usefully malleable and which contain by weight 2% or less of carbon. However,
chromium steels may contain higher proportions of carbon.
(e) Stainless steel
Alloy steels containing, by weight, 1.2% or less of carbon and 10.5% or more of chromium, with or without
other elements.
Steels not complying with the definition of stainless steel and containing by weight one or more of the
following elements in the proportion shown:
- 0.1% or more of other elements (except sulphur, phosphorus, carbon and nitrogen), taken
separately.
Products roughly cast in the form of ingots without feeder-heads or hot tops, or of pigs, having obvious
surface faults and not complying with the chemical composition of pig iron, spiegeleisen or ferro-alloys.
(h) Granules
Products of which less than 90% by weight passes through a sieve with a mesh aperture of 1 mm and of
which 90% or more by weight passes through a sieve with a mesh aperture of 5 mm.
Continuous cast products of solid section, whether or not subjected to primary hot-rolling; and
Other products of solid section, which have not been further worked than subjected to primary hot-rolling
or roughly shaped by forging, including blanks for angles, shapes or sections.
Rolled products of solid rectangular (other than square) cross-section, which do not conform to the
definition at (ij) above in the form of:
- straight lengths, which if of a thickness less than 4.75 mm are of a width measuring at least ten
times the thickness or if of a thickness of 4.75 mm or more are of a width which exceeds 150 mm
and measures at least twice the thickness.
Flat-rolled products include those with patterns in relief derived directly from rolling (for example, grooves,
ribs, chequers, tears, buttons, lozenges) and those which have been perforated, corrugated or polished,
provided that they do not thereby assume the character of articles or products of other headings.
Flat-rolled products of a shape other than rectangular or square, of any size, are to be classified as
products of a width of 600 mm or more, provided that they do not assume the character of articles or
products of other headings.
Hot-rolled products in irregularly wound coils, which have a solid cross-section in the shape of circles,
segments of circles, ovals, rectangles (including squares), triangles or other convex polygons (including
“flattened circles” and “modified rectangles”, of which two opposite sides are convex arcs, the other two
sides being straight, of equal length and parallel). These products may have indentations, ribs, grooves
or other deformations produced during the rolling process (reinforcing bars and rods).
Products which do not conform to any of the definitions at (ij), (k) or (l) above or to the definition of wire,
which have a uniform solid cross-section along their whole length in the shape of circles, segments of
circles, ovals, rectangles (including squares), triangles or other convex polygons (including “flattened
circles” and “modified rectangles”, of which two opposite sides are convex arcs, the other two sides being
straight, of equal length and parallel). These products may:
- have indentations, ribs, grooves or other deformations produced during the rolling process
(reinforcing bars and rods);
Products having a uniform solid cross-section along their whole length which do not conform to any of the
definitions at (ij), (k), (l) or (m) above or to the definition of wire.
(o) Wire
Cold-formed products in coils, of any uniform solid cross-section along their whole length, which do not
conform to the definition of flat-rolled products.
Hollow bars and rods of any cross-section, suitable for drills, of which the greatest external dimension
of the cross-section exceeds 15 mm but does not exceed 52 mm, and of which the greatest internal
dimension does not exceed one half of the greatest external dimension. Hollow bars and rods of iron or
steel not conforming to this definition are to be classified in heading 73.04.
2.- Ferrous metals clad with another ferrous metal are to be classified as products of the ferrous metal predominating
by weight.
3.- Iron or steel products obtained by electrolytic deposition, by pressure casting or by sintering are to be classified,
according to their form, their composition and their appearance, in the headings of this Chapter appropriate to
similar hot-rolled products.
Subheading Notes.
1.- In this Chapter the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them:
Pig iron containing, by weight, one or more of the following elements in the specified proportions:
- more than 0.1% of any of the following elements: aluminium, molybdenum, titanium, tungsten
(wolfram), vanadium.
Non-alloy steel containing, by weight, one or more of the following elements in the specified proportions:
Alloy steels containing by weight at least 0.6% but not more than 6% of silicon and not more than 0.08%
of carbon. They may also contain by weight not more than 1% of aluminium but no other element in a
proportion that would give the steel the characteristics of another alloy steel.
Alloy steels containing, with or without other elements, at least two of the three elements molybdenum,
tungsten and vanadium with a combined content by weight of 7% or more, 0.6% or more of carbon and
3 to 6% of chromium.
- 0.6% or more but not more than 2.3% of silicon, but no other element in a proportion that would
give the steel the characteristics of another alloy steel.
2.- For the classification of ferro-alloys in the subheadings of heading 72.02 the following rule should be observed :
A ferro-alloy is considered as binary and classified under the relevant subheading (if it exists) if only one of the
alloy elements exceeds the minimum percentage laid down in Chapter Note 1 (c); by analogy, it is considered
respectively as ternary or quaternary if two or three alloy elements exceed the minimum percentage.
For the application of this rule the unspecified “other elements” referred to in Chapter Note 1 (c) must each
exceed 10% by weight.
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72.02 Ferro-alloys.
- Ferro-manganese:
7202.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
- Ferro-silicon:
7202.29.00 -- Other kg 0%
7202.30.00 - Ferro-silico-manganese kg 0%
- Ferro-chromium:
7202.49.00 -- Other kg 0%
7202.50.00 - Ferro-silico-chromium kg 0%
7202.60.00 - Ferro-nickel kg 0%
7202.70.00 - Ferro-molybdenum kg 0%
- Other:
7202.92.00 -- Ferro-vanadium kg 0%
7202.93.00 -- Ferro-niobium kg 0%
7202.99.00 -- Other kg 0%
7203.90.00 - Other kg 0%
7204.29.00 -- Other kg 0%
7204.49.00 -- Other kg 0%
7205.10.00 - Granules kg 0%
- Powders:
7205.29.00 -- Other kg 0%
7206.10.00 - Ingots kg 0%
7206.90.00 - Other kg 0%
7207.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
7208.40.00 - Not in coils, not further worked than hot-rolled, with patterns kg 0%
in relief
- Other :
- Other:
-- U sections :
-- I sections:
-- H sections:
7216.50.00 - Other angles, shapes and sections, not further worked than kg 35%
hot-rolled, hot-drawn or extruded
- Other:
- Other:
7218.99.00 -- Other kg 0%
7219.90.00 - Other kg 0%
72.21 7221.00.00 Bars and rods, hot-rolled, in irregularly wound coils, of kg 10%
stainless steel.
72.22 Other bars and rods of stainless steel; angles, shapes and
sections of stainless steel.
7222.20.00 - Bars and rods, not further worked than cold-formed or cold- kg 10%
finished
7224.90.00 - Other kg 0%
- Of silicon-electrical steel:
7225.40.00 - Other, not further worked than hot-rolled, not in coils kg 10%
- Other:
- Of silicon-electrical steel:
- Other:
72.28 Other bars and rods of other alloy steel; angles, shapes
and sections, of other alloy steel; hollow drill bars and
rods, of alloy or non-alloy steel.
7228.30.00 - Other bars and rods, not further worked than hot-rolled, hot- kg 25% or
drawn or extruded $200/MT
whichever
is higher
7228.40.00 - Other bars and rods, not further worked than forged kg 25% or
$200/MT
whichever
is higher
7228.50.00 - Other bars and rods, not further worked than cold-formed or kg 25% or
cold-finished $200/MT
whichever
is higher
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Notes.
1.- In this Chapter the expression “cast iron” applies to products obtained by casting in which iron predominates
by weight over each of the other elements and which do not comply with the chemical composition of steel as
defined in Note 1 (d) to Chapter 72.
2.- In this Chapter the word “wire” means hot or cold-formed products of any cross-sectional shape, of which no
cross-sectional dimension exceeds 16 mm.
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7302.10.00 - Rails kg 0%
7302.30.00 - Switch blades, crossing frogs, point rods and other crossing kg 0%
pieces
7302.90.00 - Other kg 0%
73.03 7303.00.00 Tubes, pipes and hollow profiles, of cast iron. kg 25%
7304.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
- Casing, tubing and drill pipe, of a kind used in drilling for oil or
gas:
7304.29.00 -- Other kg 0%
7305.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
- Other, welded:
73.06 Other tubes, pipes and hollow profiles (for example, open
seam or welded, riveted or similarly closed), of iron or steel.
7306.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
7306.29.00 -- Other kg 0%
- Cast fittings:
- Other:
7308.30.00 - Doors, windows and their frames and thresholds for doors kg 35%
- Other:
7308.90.10 --- Roofing tiles coated with acrylic paint and the weather side kg 25%
coated with natural sand granules
--- Other:
73.09 7309.00.00 Reservoirs, tanks, vats and similar containers for any kg 25%
material (other than compressed or liquefied gas), of iron
or steel, of a capacity exceeding300 l, whether ornot lined
or heat‑insulated, but not fitted with mechanical or thermal
equipment.
-- Other:
73.12 Stranded wire, ropes, cables, plaited bands, slings and the
like, of iron or steel, not electrically insulated.
73.13 7313.00.00 Barbed wire of iron or steel; twisted hoop or single flat wire, kg 35%
barbed or not, and loosely twisted double wire, of a kind used
for fencing, of iron or steel.
- Woven cloth:
7314.20.00 - Grill, netting and fencing, welded at the intersection, of wire with a kg 25%
maximum cross-sectional dimension of 3 mm or more and having
a mesh size of 100 cm² or more
- Other chain:
73.16 7316.00.00 Anchors, grapnels and parts thereof, of iron or steel. kg 10%
73.17 7317.00.00 Nails, tacks, drawing pins, corrugated nails, staples (other kg 25%
than those of heading 83.05) and similar articles, of iron
or steel, whether or not with heads of other material, but
excluding such articles with heads of copper.
- Threaded articles:
7318.15.00 -- Other screws and bolts, whether or not with their nuts or washers kg 25%
- Non-threaded articles:
7321.11.00 -- For gas fuel or for both gas and other fuels u 10%
- Other appliances:
7321.81.00 -- For gas fuel or for both gas and other fuels u 25%
73.22 Radiators for central heating, not electrically heated, and parts
thereof, of iron or steel; air heaters and hot air distributors
(including distributors which can also distribute fresh or
conditioned air), not electrically heated, incorporating a
motor-driven fan or blower, and parts thereof, of iron or steel.
- Other:
- Baths:
- Other:
- Other:
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Note.
1.- In this Chapter the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them:
Metal containing at least 97.5% by weight of copper, provided that the content by weight of any other
element does not exceed the limit specified in the following table:
Ag Silver 0.25
As Arsenic 0.5
Cd Cadmium 1.3
Cr Chromium 1.4
Mg Magnesium 0.8
Pb Lead 1.5
S Sulphur 0.7
Sn Tin 0.8
Te Tellurium 0.8
Zn Zinc 1
Zr Zirconium 0.3
Other elements*, each 0.3
* Other elements are, for example, Al, Be, Co, Fe, Mn, Ni, Si.
Metallic substances other than unrefined copper in which copper predominates by weight over each of
the other elements, provided that:
the content by weight of at least one of the other elements is greater than the limit specified in
(i)
the foregoing table; or
Alloys containing with other elements more than 10% by weight of copper, not usefully malleable and
commonly used as an additive in the manufacture of other alloys or as de-oxidants, de-sulphurising
agents or for similar uses in the metallurgy of non- ferrous metals. However, copper phosphide (phosphor
copper) containing more than 15% by weight of phosphorus falls in heading 28.53.
Subheading Note.
1.- In this Chapter the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them:
- any nickel content by weight is less than 5% (see copper-nickel-zinc alloys (nickel silvers)); and
- any tin content by weight is less than 3% (see copper-tin alloys (bronzes)).
Alloys of copper and tin, with or without other elements. When other elements are present, tin predominates
by weight over each of such other elements, except that when the tin content is 3% or more the zinc
content by weight may exceed that of tin but must be less than 10%.
Alloys of copper, nickel and zinc, with or without other elements. The nickel content is 5% or more by
weight (see copper-zinc alloys (brasses)).
Alloys of copper and nickel, with or without other elements but in any case, containing by weight not more
than 1% of zinc. When other elements are present, nickel predominates by weight over each of such
other elements
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- Refined copper:
7403.12.00 -- Wire-bars kg 0%
7403.13.00 -- Billets kg 0%
7403.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
- Copper alloys:
7403.29.00 -- Other copper alloys (other than master alloys of heading 74.05) kg 0%
- Of copper alloys:
- Of refined copper:
- Of copper alloys:
- Of refined copper:
- Not backed:
- Backed:
- Of copper alloys:
74.13 Stranded wire, cables, plaited bands and the like, of copper,
not electrically insulated.
[74.14]
74.15 Nails, tacks, drawing pins, staples (other than those of heading
83.05) and similar articles, of copper or of iron or steel with
heads of copper; screws, bolts, nuts, screw hooks, rivets,
cotters, cotter-pins, washers (including spring washers) and
similar articles, of copper.
7415.10.00 - Nails and tacks, drawing pins, staples and similar articles kg 25%
[74.16]
[74.17]
7418.10.00 - Table, kitchen or other household articles and parts thereof; pot kg 25%
scourers and scouring or polishing pads, gloves and the like
7419.20.00 - Cast, moulded, stamped or forged, but not further worked kg 25%
_____________
Subheading Notes.
1.- In this Chapter the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them:
(a) Nickel, not alloyed Metal containing by weight at least 99% of nickel plus cobalt, provided that:
(i) the cobalt content by weight does not exceed 1.5%, and
(ii) the content by weight of any other element does not exceed the limit specified in the following
table:
O Oxygen 0.4
Metallic substances in which nickel predominates by weight over each of the other elements provided that:
(ii) the content by weight of at least one of the other elements is greater than the limit specified in
the foregoing table, or
(iii) the total content by weight of elements other than nickel plus cobalt exceeds 1 %.
2.- Notwithstanding the provisions of Note 9(c) to Section XV for the purposes of subheading 7508.10 the term
“wire” applies only to products, whether or not in coils, of any cross-sectional shape, of which no cross-sectional
dimension exceeds 6 mm.
___________
- Wire:
75.07 Nickel tubes, pipes and tube or pipe fittings (for example,
couplings, elbows, sleeves).
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Subheading Notes.
1.- In this Chapter the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them:
Metal containing by weight at least 99 % of aluminium, provided that the content by weight of any other
element does not exceed the limit specified in the following table:
(1) Other elements are, for example Cr, Cu, Mg, Mn, Ni,
Zn.
Metallic substances in which aluminium predominates by weight over each of the other elements, provided
that:
the content by weight of at least one of the other elements or of iron plus silicon taken together
(i)
is greater than the limit specified in the foregoing table; or
2.- Notwithstanding the provisions of Note 9 (c) to Section XV, for the purposes of subheading 7616.91 the term
“wire” applies only to products, whether or not in coils, of any cross-sectional shape, of which no cross-sectional
dimension exceeds 6 mm.
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- Of aluminium alloys:
- Of aluminium alloys:
- Other:
- Not backed:
-- Other
- Backed
76.09 7609.00.00 Aluminium tube or pipe fittings (for example, couplings, kg 25%
elbows, sleeves).
7610.10.00 - Doors, windows and their frames and thresholds for doors kg 35%
- Other:
--- Other:
7610.90.94 ---- Aluminium plates, rods, profiles, tubes and the like, prepared kg 25%
for use in structure
76.11 7611.00.00 Aluminium reservoirs, tanks, vats and similar containers, kg 25%
for any material (other than compressed or liquefied gas),
of a capacity exceeding 300 l, whether or not lined or heat-
insulated, but not fitted with mechanical or thermal equipment.
- Other:
76.14 Stranded wire, cables, plaited bands and the like, of aluminium,
not electrically insulated.
7615.10.10 --- Table, kitchen or other household articles and parts thereof kg 25%
7616.10.00 - Nails,tacks, staples (other than those of heading 83.05), screws, kg 25%
bolts, nuts, screw hooks, rivets, cotters, cotter-pins, washers and
similar articles
- Other:
____________
Harmonized System)
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Subheading Note.
Metal containing by weight at least 99.9 % of lead, provided that the content by weight of any other element
does not exceed the limit specified in the following table:
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- Other:
7801.99.00 -- Other kg 0%
[78.03]
78.04 Lead plates, sheets, strip and foil; lead powders and flakes.
7804.11.00 -- Sheets, strip and foil of a thickness (excluding any backing) not kg 10%
exceeding 0.2 mm
[78.05]
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Subheading Note.
1.- In this Chapter the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them:
Metallic substances in which zinc predominates by weight over each of the other elements,provided that
the total content by weight of such other elements exceeds 2.5%.
Dust obtained by condensation of zinc vapour, consisting of spherical particles which are finer than zinc
powders. At least 80% by weight of the particles pass through a sieve with 63 micrometres (microns)
mesh. It must contain at least 85% by weight of metallic zinc.
7903.90.00 - Other kg 0%
[79.06]
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Subheading Note.
1.- In this Chapter the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them:
Metal containing by weight at least 99 % of tin, provided that the content by weight of any bismuth or copper is
less than the limit specified in the following table :
Bi Bismuth 0.1
Cu Copper 0.4
Metallic substances in which tin predominates by weight over each of the other elements, provided that:
(i) the total content by weight of such other elements exceeds 1%; or
(ii) the content by weight of either bismuth or copper is equal to or greater than the limit specified in
the foregoing table.
__________
[80.04]
[80.05]
[80.06]
__________
_________
8101.10.00 - Powders kg 0%
- Other:
8101.96.00 -- Wire kg 0%
8101.99.00 -- Other kg 0%
8102.10.00 - Powders kg 0%
- Other:
8102.95.00 -- Bars and rods, other than those obtained simply by sintering, kg 0%
profiles, plates, sheets, strip and foil
8102.96.00 -- Wire kg 0%
8102.99.00 -- Other kg 0%
- Other:
8103.91.00 -- Crucibles kg 0%
8103.99.00 -- Other kg 0%
- Unwrought magnesium:
8104.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
8104.90.00 - Other kg 0%
8105.90.00 - Other kg 0%
8106.90.00 - Other Kg 0%
[81.07]
8108.90.00 - Other kg 0%
8109.29.00 --Other kg 0%
8109.39.00 --Other Kg 0%
- Other:
8109.99.00 --Other Kg 0%
8110.90.00 - Other kg 0%
81.11 8111.00.00 Manganese and articles thereof, including waste and scrap. kg 0%
- Beryllium:
8112.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
- Chromium:
8112.29.00 -- Other kg 0%
-Hafnium:
8112.39.00 --Other kg 0%
-Rhenium:
8112.49.00 --Other kg 0%
- Thallium:
8112.59.00 -- Other kg 0%
Cadmium:
8112.69.00 --Other kg 0%
- Other:
8112.99.00 -- Other kg 0%
81.13 8113.00.00 Cermets and articles thereof, including waste and scrap. kg 0%
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Notes.
1.- Apart from blow lamps, portable forges, grinding wheels with frameworks, manicure or pedicure sets, and goods
of heading 82.09, this Chapter covers only articles with a blade, working edge, working surface or other working
part of:
(c) Precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed) on a support of base metal, metal
carbide or cermet; or
(d) Abrasive materials on a support of base metal, provided that the articles have cutting teeth, flutes, grooves,
or the like, of base metal, which retain their identity and function after the application of the abrasive.
2.- Parts of base metal of the articles of this Chapter are to be classified with the articles of which they are parts,
except parts separately specified as such and tool-holders for hand tools (heading 84.66). However, parts of
general use as defined in Note 2 to Section XV are in all cases excluded from this Chapter.
Heads, blades and cutting plates for electric shavers or electric hair clippers are to be classified in heading 85.10.
3.- Sets consisting of one or more knives of heading 82.11 and at least an equal number of articles of heading 82.15
are to be classified in heading 82.15.
_________
8201.50.00 - Secateurs and similar one-handed pruners and shears (including kg 10%
poultry shears)
8201.60.00 - Hedge shears, two-handed pruning shears and similar two- kg 10%
handed shears
82.02 Hand saws; blades for saws of all kinds (including slitting,
slotting or toothless saw blades).
8203.20.00 - Pliers (including cutting pliers), pincers, tweezers and similar kg 10%
tools
8203.40.00 - Pipe-cutters, bolt croppers, perforating punches and similar tools kg 10%
8205.30.00 - Planes, chisels, gouges and similar cutting tools for working wood kg 10%
82.06 8206.00.00 Tools of two or more of the headings 82.02 to 82.05, put up in kg 10%
sets for retail sale.
8207.50.00 - Tools for drilling, other than for rock drilling kg 10%
8208.30.00 - For kitchen appliances or for machines used by the food industry kg 10%
82.09 8209.00.00 Plates, sticks, tips and the like for tools, unmounted, of kg 10%
cermets.
- Other:
8212.20.00 - Safety razor blades, including razor blade blanks in strips u 10%
82.13 8213.00.00 Scissors, tailors’ shears and similar shears, and blades kg 10%
therefor.
8214.10.00 - Paper knives, letter openers, erasing knives, pencil sharpeners kg 10%
and blades therefor
8214.20.00 - Manicure or pedicure sets and instruments (including nail files) kg 25%
8215.10.00 - Sets of assorted articles containing at least one article plated with kg 10%
precious metal
- Other:
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Notes.
1.- For the purposes of this Chapter, parts of base metal are to be classified with their parent articles. However,
articles of iron or steel of heading 73.12, 73.15, 73.17, 73.18 or 73.20, or similar articles of other base metal
(Chapters 74 to 76 and 78 to 81) are not to be taken as parts of articles of this Chapter.
2.- For the purposes of heading 83.02, the word “castors” means those having a diameter (including, where
appropriate, tyres) not exceeding 75 mm, or those having a diameter (including, where appropriate, tyres)
exceeding 75 mm provided that the width of the wheel or tyre fitted thereto is less than 30 mm.
_________
8302.30.00 - Other mountings, fittings and similar articles suitable for motor kg 10%
vehicles
83.03 8303.00.00 Armoured or reinforced safes, strong-boxes and doors and kg 25%
safe deposit lockers for strong-rooms, cash or deed boxes
and the like, of base metal.
83.04 8304.00.00 Filing cabinets, card-index cabinets, paper trays, paper kg 25%
rests, pen trays, office-stamp stands and similar office or
desk equipment, of base metal, other than office furniture of
heading 94.03.
83.08
83.09 Stoppers, caps and lids (including crown corks, screw caps
and pouring stoppers), capsules for bottles, threaded bungs,
bung covers, seals and other packing access-ories, of base
metal.
- Other:
8309.90.10 --- Easy opening ends in the form of incised flap and a ring pull or kg 10%
other easy opening mechanism made of base metal used for drink
or food cans
8311.30.00 - Coated rods and cored wire, of base metal, for soldering, brazing kg 10%
or welding by flame
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Notes.
(a) Transmission or conveyor belts or belting, of plastics of Chapter 39, or of vulcanised rubber (heading
40.10), or other articles of a kind used in machinery or mechanical or electrical appliances or for other
technical uses, of vulcanised rubber other than hard rubber (heading 40.16);
(b) Articles of leather or of composition leather (heading 42.05) or of furskin (heading 43.03), of a kind used
in machinery or mechanical appliances or for other technical uses;
(c) Bobbins, spools, cops, cones, cores, reels or similar supports, of any material (for example, Chapter 39,
40, 44 or 48 or Section XV);
(d) Perforated cards for Jacquard or similar machines (for example, Chapter 39 or 48 or Section XV);
(e) Transmission or conveyor belts or belting of textile material (heading 59.10) or other articles of textile
material for technical uses (heading 59.11);
(f) Precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed) of headings 71.02 to 71.04, or
articles wholly of such stones of heading 71.16, except unmounted worked sapphires and diamonds for
styli (heading 85.22);
(g) Parts of general use, as defined in Note 2 to Section XV, of base metal (Section XV), or similar goods of
plastics (Chapter 39);
(o) Interchangeable tools of heading 82.07 or brushes of a kind used as parts of machines (heading 96.03);
similar interchangeable tools are to be classified according to the constituent material of their working part
(for example, in Chapter 40, 42, 43, 45 or 59 or heading 68.04 or 69.09);
(q) Typewriter or similar ribbons, whether or not on spools or in cartridges (classified according to their
constituent material, or in heading 96.12 if inked or otherwise prepared for giving impressions),or
monopods, bipods, tripods and similar articles, of heading 96.20.
2.- Subject to Note 1 to this Section, Note 1 to Chapter 84 and to Note 1 to Chapter 85, parts of machines (not being
parts of the articles of heading 84.84, 85.44, 85.45, 85.46 or 85.47) are to be classified according to the following
rules:
(b) Other parts, if suitable for use solely or principally with a particular kind of machine, or with a number of
machines of the same heading (including a machine of heading 84.79 or 85.43) are to be classified with
the machines of that kind or in heading 84.09, 84.31, 84.48, 84.66, 84.73, 85.03, 85.22, 85.29 or 85.38
as appropriate. However, parts which are equally suitable for use principally with the goods of headings
85.17 and 85.25 to 85.28 are to be classified in heading 85.17, and parts which are suitable for use solely
or principally with the goods of heading 85.24 are to be classified in heading 85.29.
(c) All other parts are to be classified in heading 84.09, 84.31, 84.48, 84.66, 84.73, 85.03, 85.22, 85.29 or
85.38 as appropriate or, failing that, in heading 84.87 or 85.48.
3.- Unless the context otherwise requires, composite machines consisting of two or more machines fitted together
to form a whole and other machines designed for the purpose of performing two or more complementary or
alternative functions are to be classified as if consisting only of that component or as being that machine which
performs the principal function.
4.- Where a machine (including a combination of machines) consists of individual components (whether separate or
interconnected by piping, by transmission devices, by electric cables or by other devices) intended to contribute
together to a clearly defined function covered by one of the headings in Chapter 84 or Chapter 85, then the
whole falls to be classified in the heading appropriate to that function.
5.- For the purposes of these Notes, the expression “machine” means any machine, machinery, plant, equipment,
apparatus or appliance cited in the headings of Chapter 84 or 85.
6.- (A) Throughout the Nomenclature, the expression “electrical and electronic waste and scrap” means
electrical and electronic assemblies, printed circuit boards, and electrical or electronic articles that:
(i) have been rendered unusable for their original purposes by breakage, cutting-up or other
processes or are economically unsuitable for repair, refurbishment or renovation to render them
fit for their original purposes; and
(ii) are packaged or shipped in a manner not intended to protect individual articles from damage
during transportation, loading and unloading operations
(B) Mixed consignments of “electrical and electronic waste and scrap” and other waste and scrap are to be
classified in heading 85.49.
(C) This Section does not cover municipal waste, as defined in Note 4 to Chapter 38.
Additional Notes
To be classified with the appropriate machines, assembly or maintenance tools must satisfy the following
three conditions concerning their nature, intended use and presentation:
(a) they must be tools, i.e., hand tools of heading No 4417 00 or 8205 or, for example, tools falling
within subheading 8203 20, 8203 30, 8203 40, 8204 11, 8204 12, 9603 29, 9603 30, 9603 40,
9603 90.
Measuring and checking instruments of chapter 90 are excluded in all cases;
(b) they must be intended for the assembly or maintenance of the appropriate machine. Where the
tools are identical, only those which must be used simultaneously are to be classified with their
machines. Where they are different, only one of each kind of tool is allowed;
(c) they must be presented for customs clearance at the same time as the appropriate machines.
To be classified with the appropriate machines, interchangeable tools must fulfil three conditions:
Moulds (heading No 8480) and accessories, including accessory apparatus (of, for example,
heading No 8466) are not considered as tools and consequently do not qualify under this
Additional Note;
(b) they must form part of the normal equipment of the appropriate machines.
(i) any number of identical tools which can be accommodated on the machine simultaneously;
(c) they must normally be sold with the appropriate machine and be presented for customs clearance
with it.
2.- A machine in a disassembled or unassembled state may be imported in several consignments over a period of
time if this is necessary for convenience of trade or transport.
In order to be able to declare the different constituent parts under the same tariff heading or subheading as the
assembled machine, the declarant must make a request in writing to the customs post not later than the first
consignment and attach:
(a) a manual, diagram or, if necessary several diagrams, of the machine showing the serial numbers of the
most important constituent parts;
(b) a general inventory containing an indication of the characteristics and approximate weights of the different
parts and the serial numbers of the principal parts referred to above.
The application may only be accepted in fulfilment of a contract for the supply of a machine which can be
regarded as complete for the purposes of the EAC tariff Nomenclature.
All the constituent parts must be imported through the same entry point within the allowed time. However,
in special cases, the competent authorities may authorize importation through several points of entry.
This time limit may not be exceeded unless a reasoned and justified request for an extension is made to
the competent authorities.
Upon each partial importation, a list of the parts making up the consignment with references to the above
mentioned general inventory must be provided. The customs declaration for each consignment must
contain descriptions of both the part or parts making up the consignment and the complete machine.
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Notes.
(b) Machinery or appliances (for example, pumps) of ceramic material and ceramic parts of machinery or
appliances of any material (Chapter 69);
(c) Laboratory glassware (heading 70.17); machinery, appliances or other articles for technical uses or
parts thereof, of glass (heading 70.19 or 70.20);
(d) Articles of heading 73.21 or 73.22 or similar articles of other base metals (Chapters 74 to 76 or 78 to 81);
(f) Electro-mechanical domestic appliances of heading 85.09; digital cameras of heading 85.25;
2.- Subject to the operation of Note 3 to Section XVI and subject to Note 11 to this Chapter, a machine or appliance
which answers to a description in one or more of the headings 84.01 to 84.24, or heading 84.86 and at the same
time to a description in one or more of the headings 84.25 to 84.80 is to be classified under the appropriate
heading of the former group or under heading 84.86, as the case may be, and not the latter group.
(A) Heading 84.19 does not, however, cover:
(iv) Machinery for the heat-treatment of textile yarns, fabrics or made up textile articles (heading
84.51); or
(v) Machinery, plant or laboratory equipment, designed for a mechanical operation, in which a change
of temperature, even if necessary, is subsidiary.
(i) Sewing machines for closing bags or similar containers (heading 84.52); or
3.- A machine-tool for working any material which answers to a description in heading 84.56 and at the same
time to a description in heading 84.57, 84.58, 84.59, 84.60, 84.61, 84.64 or 84.65 is to be classified in heading
84.56.
(a) by automatic tool change from a magazine or the like in conformity with a machining programme
(machining centres),
(b) by the automatic use, simultaneously or sequentially, of different unit heads working on a fixed position
workpiece (unit construction machines, single station), or
(c) by the automatic transfer of the workpiece to different unit heads (multi-station transfer machines).
5.- For the purposes of heading 84.62, a “slitting line” for flat products is a processing line composed of an uncoiler,
a coil flattener, a slitter and a recoiler. A “cut-to-length line” for flat products is a processing line composed of an
uncoiler, a coil flattener, and a shear.
6.- (A) For the purposes of heading 84.71, the expression “automatic data processing machines” means
machines capable of:
(i) Storing the processing program or programs and at least the data immediately necessary for the
execution of the program;
(ii) Being freely programmed in accordance with the requirements of the user;
(iv) Executing, without human intervention, a processing program which requires them to modify their
execution, by logical decision during the processing run.
(B) Automatic data processing machines may be in the form of systems consisting of a variable number of
separate units.
(C) Subject to paragraphs (D) and (E) below, a unit is to be regarded as being part of an automatic data
processing system if it meets all of the following conditions:
(ii) It is connectable to the central processing unit either directly or through one or more other units;
and
(iii) It is able to accept or deliver data in a form (codes or signals) which can be used by the system.
However, keyboards, X-Y co-ordinate input devices and disk storage units which satisfy the
conditions of paragraphs (C) (ii) and (C) (iii) above, are in all cases to be classified as units of
heading 84.71.
(D) Heading 84.71 does not cover the following when presented separately, even if they meet all of the
conditions set forth in Note 6 (C) above:
(ii) Apparatus for the transmission or reception of voice, images or other data, including apparatus
for communication in a wired or wireless network (such as a local or wide area network);
8.- A machine which is used for more than one purpose is, for the purposes of classification, to be treated as if its
principal purpose were its sole purpose.
Subject to Note 2 to this Chapter and Note 3 to Section XVI, a machine the principal purpose of which is not
described in any heading or for which no one purpose is the principal purpose is, unless the context otherwise
requires, to be classified in heading 84.79. Heading 84.79 also covers machines for making rope or cable (for
example, stranding, twisting or cabling machines) from metal wire, textile yarn or any other material or from a
combination of such materials.
9.- For the purposes of heading 84.70, the term “pocket-size” applies only to machines the dimensions of which do
not exceed 170 mm x 100 mm x 45 mm.
10.- For the purposes of heading 84.85, the expression “additive manufacturing” (also referred to as 3D printing)
means the formation of physical objects, based on a digital model, by the successive addition and layering, and
consolidation and solidification, of materials (for example, metal, plastics or ceramics).
Subject to Note 1 to Section XVI and Note 1 to Chapter 84, machines answering to the description in heading
84.85 are to be classified in that heading and in no other heading of the Nomenclature.
11.- (A) Notes 12 (a) and (b) to Chapter 85 also apply with respect to the expressions “semiconductor devices”
and “electronic integrated circuits”, respectively, as used in this Note and in heading 84.86. However,
for the purposes of this Note and of heading 84.86, the expression “semiconductor devices” also covers
photosensitive semiconductor devices and light- emitting diodes (LED).
(B) For the purposes of this Note and of heading 84.86, the expression “manufacture of flat panel displays”
covers the fabrication of substrates into a flat panel. It does not cover the manufacture of glass or the
assembly of printed circuit boards or other electronic components onto the flat panel. The expression
“flat panel display” does not cover cathode-ray tube technology.
(C) Heading 84.86 also includes machines and apparatus solely or principally of a kind used for:
(i) the manufacture or repair of masks and reticles;
(iii) lifting, handling, loading or unloading of boules, wafers, semiconductor devices, electronic
integrated circuits and flat panel displays.
(D) Subject to Note 1 to Section XVI and Note 1 to Chapter 84, machines and apparatus answering to
the description in heading 84.86 are to be classified in that heading and in no other heading of the
Nomenclature.
Subheading Notes.
1.- For the purposes of subheading 8465.20, the term “machining centres” applies only to machine-tools for working
wood, cork, bone, hard rubber, hard plastics or similar hard materials, which can carry out different types of
machining operations by automatic tool change from a magazine or the like in conformity with a machining
programme.
2.- For the purposes of subheading 8471.49, the term “systems” means automatic data processing machines
whose units satisfy the conditions laid down in Note 6 (C) to Chapter 84 and which comprise at least a central
processing unit, one input unit (for example, a keyboard or a scanner), and one output unit (for example, a visual
display unit or a printer).
3.- For the purposes of subheading 8481.20, the expression “valves for oleohydraulic or pneumatic
transmissions” means valves which are used specifically in the transmission of “fluid power” in a hydraulic
or pneumatic system, where the energy source is supplied in the form of pressurized fluids (liquid or gas).
These valves may be of any type (for example, pressure-reducing type, check type). Subheading 8481.20 takes
precedence over all other subheadings of heading 84.81.
4.- Subheading 8482.40 applies only to bearings with cylindrical rollers of a uniform diameter not exceeding 5 mm
and having a length which is at least three times the diameter. The ends of the rollers may be rounded.
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8402.90.00 - Parts kg 0%
8403.10.00 - Boilers kg 0%
8403.90.00 - Parts kg 0%
84.04 Auxiliary plant for use with boilers of heading 84.02 or 84.03
(for example, economisers, super-heaters, soot removers,
gas recoverers); condensers for steam or other vapour power
units.
8404.10.00 - Auxiliary plant for use with boilers of heading 84.02 or 84.03 kg 0%
8404.90.00 - Parts kg 0%
8405.90.00 - Parts kg 0%
- Other turbines:
8406.90.00 - Parts kg 0%
8407.33.00 -- Of a cylinder capacity exceeding 250 cc but not exceeding 1,000 u 10%
cc
- Other engines:
8407.90.10 --- For industrial, agricultural, water supply, sewerage and drainage u 0%
8408.20.00 - Engines of a kind used for the propulsion of vehicles of Chapter u 10%
87
- Other:
8408.90.10 --- For industrial, agricultural, water supply, sewerage and drainage u 0%
84.09 Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the engines of
heading 84.07 or 84.08.
- Other:
8409.91.00 -- Suitable for use solely or principally with spark-ignition internal kg 10%
combustion piston engines
- Turbo-jets:
- Turbo-propellers:
- Parts:
8411.99.00 -- Other kg 0%
8412.29.00 -- Other u 0%
8412.39.00 -- Other u 0%
8412.80.00 - Other u 0%
8412.90.00 - Parts kg 0%
8413.11.00 -- Pumps for dispensing fuel or lubricants, of the type used in u 10%
filling-stations or in garages
8413.30.00 - Fuel, lubricating or cooling medium pumps for internal combustion u 10%
piston engines
8413.81.00 -- Pumps u 0%
- Parts:
8413.91.00 -- Of pumps kg 0%
84.14 Air or vacuum pumps, air or other gas compressors and fans;
ventilating or recycling hoods incorporating a fan, whether
or not fitted with filters; gas-tight biological safety cabinets,
whether or not fitted with filters.
- Fans:
8414.51.00 -- Table, floor, wall, window, ceiling or roof fans, with a self- u 25%
contained electric motor of an output not exceeding 125 W
8414.60.00 - Hoods having a maximum horizontal side not exceeding 120 cm u 25%
- Other:
--- other:
- Other:
8415.81.00 -- Incorporating a refrigerating unit and a valve for reversal of the u 25%
cooling/heat cycle (reversible heat pumps)
84.16 Furnace burners for liquid fuel, for pulverised solid fuel or for
gas; mechanical stokers, including their mechanical grates,
mechanical ash dischargers and similar appliances.
8416.90.00 - Parts kg 0%
8417.10.00 - Furnaces and ovens for the roasting, melting or other heat- u 0%
treatment of ores, pyrites or of metals
8417.80.00 - Other u 0%
8417.90.00 - Parts kg 0%
8418.30.00 - Freezers of the chest type, not exceeding 800 l capacity u 25%
8418.40.00 - Freezers of the upright type, not exceeding 900 l capacity u 25%
-- Other:
- Parts:
8419.19.00 -- Other u 0%
- Dryers:
8419.39.00 -- Other u 0%
8419.89.00 -- Other u 0%
8419.90.00 - Parts kg 0%
- Parts:
8420.91.00 -- Cylinders kg 0%
8420.99.00 -- Other kg 0%
-- Other:
- Parts:
8422.19.00 -- Other u 0%
-- Other:
8424.49.00 --Other u 0%
- Other appliances:
8424.89.00 -- Other u 0%
84.25 Pulley tackle and hoists other than skip hoists; winches and
capstans; jacks.
- Pulley tackle and hoists other than skip hoists or hoists of a kind
used for raising vehicles:
-Winches; capstans:
8426.19.00 -- Other u 0%
8426.41.00 -- On tyres u 0%
8426.49.00 -- Other u 0%
- Other machinery:
8426.99.00 -- Other u 0%
8428.39.00 -- Other u 0%
8429.19.00 -- Other u 0%
8429.30.00 - Scrapers u 0%
8429.59.00 -- Other u 0%
8430.31.00 -- Self-propelled u 0%
8430.39.00 -- Other u 0%
8430.41.00 -- Self-propelled u 0%
8430.49.00 -- Other u 0%
8430.69.00 -- Other u 0%
84.31 Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machinery
of headings 84.25 to 84.30.
8432.10.00 - Ploughs: u 0%
8432.29.00 -- Other u 0%
8432.39.00 -- Other u 0%
8432.90.00 - Parts kg 0%
8433.11.00 -- Powered, with the cutting device rotating in a horizontal plane u 25%
8433.59.00 -- Other u 0%
8433.90.00 - Parts kg 0%
8434.90.00 - Parts kg 0%
8435.10.00 - Machinery u 0%
8435.90.00 - Parts kg 0%
8436.29.00 -- Other u 0%
- Parts:
8436.99.00 -- Other kg 0%
8437.90.00 - Parts kg 0%
8438.90.00 - Parts kg 0%
- Parts:
8439.99.00 -- Other kg 0%
8440.10.00 - Machinery u 0%
8440.90.00 - Parts kg 0%
8441.90.00 - Parts kg 0%
8443.19. 00 -- Other u 0%
8445.19.00 -- Other u 0%
8445.90.00 - Other u 0%
8446.29.00 -- Other u 0%
8447.90.00 - Other u 0%
8448.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
8448.32.00 -- Of machines for preparing textile fibres, other than card clothing kg 0%
8448.39.00 -- Other kg 0%
8448.49.00 -- Other kg 0%
8448.59.00 -- Other kg 0%
-- Fully-automatic machines:
-- Other:
- Drying machines:
8451.29.00 -- Other u 0%
8451.90.00 - Parts kg 0%
8452.29.00 -- Other u 0%
8452.90.00 -Furniture, bases and covers for sewing machines and parts kg 0%
thereof; other parts of sewing machines
8453.90.00 - Parts kg 0%
8454.10.00 - Converters u 0%
8454.90.00 - Parts kg 0%
8455.22.00 -- Cold u 0%
8456.90.00 - Other u 0%
- Horizontal lathes:
8458.19.00 -- Other u 0%
- Other lathes:
8458.99.00 -- Other u 0%
8459.29.00 -- Other u 0%
8459.39.00 -- Other u 0%
8459.49.00 -- Other u 0%
8459.59.00 -- Other u 0%
8459.69.00 -- Other u 0%
8460.19.00 -- Other u 0%
8460.29.00 -- Other u 0%
8460.39.00 -- Other u 0%
8460.90.00 - Other u 0%
8461.90.00 - Other u 0%
8462.19.00 -- Other u 0%
8462.29.00 -- Other u 0%
8462.39.00 -- Other u 0%
8462.49.00 -- Other u 0%
8462.59.00 -- Other u 0%
8462.63.00 -- Servo-presses u 0%
8462.69.00 -- Other u 0%
8462.90.00 - Other u 0%
8463.90.00 - Other u 0%
8464.90.00 - Other u 0%
- Other:
8465.99.00 -- Other u 0%
- Other:
- Pneumatic:
8467.19.00 -- Other u 0%
8467.22.00 -- Saws u 0%
8467.29.00 -- Other u 0%
- Other tools:
8467.89.00 -- Other u 0%
- Parts:
8467.99.00 -- Other kg 0%
8468.90.00 - Parts kg 0%
[84.69]
8471.90.00 - Other u 0%
8472.30.00 - Machines for sorting or folding mail or for inserting mail in u 10%
envelopes or bands, machines for opening, closing or sealing mail
and machines for affixing or cancelling postage stamps
84.73 Parts and accessories (other than covers, carrying cases and
the like) suitable for use solely or principally with machines of
headings 84.70 to 84.72.
8473.50.00 - Parts and accessories equally suitable for use with the machines kg 10%
of two or more of the headings 84.70 to 84.72
8474.39.00 -- Other u 0%
8474.90.00 - Parts kg 0%
8475.29.00 -- Other u 0%
8475.90.00 - Parts kg 0%
- Other machines:
8477.20.00 - Extruders u 0%
8477.59.00 -- Other u 0%
8477.90.00 - Parts kg 0%
8478.10.00 - Machinery u 0%
8478.90.00 - Parts kg 0%
8479.79.00 -- Other u 0%
8479.89.00 -- Other u 0%
8479.90.00 - Parts kg 0%
8480.49.00 -- Other kg 0%
8480.79.00 -- Other kg 0%
84.81 Taps, cocks, valves and similar appliances for pipes, boiler
shells, tanks, vats or the like, including pressure-reducing
valves and thermostatically controlled valves.
8482.20.00 - Tapered roller bearings, including cone and tapered roller u 10%
assemblies
8482.40.00 - Needle roller bearings, including cage and needle roller u 10%
assemblies
8482.50.00 - Other cylindrical roller bearings, including cage and roller u 10%
assemblies
- Parts:
8483.10.00 - Transmission shafts (including cam shafts and crank shafts) and u 10%
cranks
8483.30.00 - Bearing housings, not incorporating ball or roller bearings; plain u 10%
shaft bearings
8483.40.00 - Gears and gearing, other than toothed wheels, chain sprockets u 10%
and other transmission elements presented separately; ball or
roller screws; gear boxes and other speed changers, including
torque converters
8483.90.00 - Toothed wheels, chain sprockets and other transmission elements kg 10%
presented separately; parts
8484.10.00 - Gaskets and similar joints of metal sheeting combined with other kg 10%
material or of two or more layers of metal
8485.80.00 - Other u 0%
8485.90.00 - Parts u 0%
8486.30.00 - Machines and apparatus for the manufacture of flat panel displays u 0%
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Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television
image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
Notes.
(a) Electrically warmed blankets, bed pads, foot-muffs or the like; electrically warmed clothing, footwear or
ear pads or other electrically warmed articles worn on or about the person;
(d) Vacuum apparatus of a kind used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences (heading 90.18); or
2.- Headings 85.01 to 85.04 do not apply to goods described in heading 85.11, 85.12, 85.40, 85.41 or 85.42.
However, metal tank mercury arc rectifiers remain classified in heading 85.04.
3.- For the purposes of heading 85.07, the expression “electric accumulators” includes those presented with
ancillary components which contribute to the accumulator’s function of storing and supplying energy or protect it
from damage, such as electrical connectors, temperature control devices (for example, thermistors) and circuit
protection devices. They may also include a portion of the protective housing of the goods in which they are to
be used.
4.- Heading 85.09 covers only the following electro-mechanical machines of the kind commonly used for domestic
purposes:
(a) Floor polishers, food grinders and mixers, and fruit or vegetable juice extractors, of any weight;
(b) Other machines provided the weight of such machines does not exceed 20 kg.
The heading does not, however, apply to fans or ventilating or recycling hoods incorporating a fan,
~ whether or not fitted with filters (heading 84.14), centrifugal clothes-dryers (heading 84.21), dish
washing machines (heading 84.22), household washing machines (heading 84.50), roller or other ironing
machines (heading 84.20 or 84.51), sewing machines (heading 84.52), electric scissors (heading 84.67)
or to electro-thermic appliances (heading 85.16).
5.- For the purposes of heading 85.17, the term “smartphones” means telephones for cellular networks, equipped
with a mobile operating system designed to perform the functions of an automatic data processing machine
such as downloading and running multiple applications simultaneously, including third-party applications, and
whether or not integrating other features such as digital cameras and navigational aid systems.
(a) “Solid-state non-volatile storage devices” (for example, “flash memory cards” or “flash electronic storage
cards”) are storage devices with a connecting socket, comprising in the same housing one or more
flash memories (for example, “FLASH E²PROM”) in the form of integrated circuits mounted on a printed
circuit board. They may include a controller in the form of an integrated circuit and discrete passive
components, such as capacitors and resistors;
(b) The term “smart cards” means cards which have embedded in them one or more electronic integrated
circuits (a microprocessor, random access memory (RAM) or read-only memory (ROM)) in the form of
chips. These cards may contain contacts, a magnetic stripe or an embedded antenna but do not contain
any other active or passive circuit elements.
For the classification of flat panel display modules defined in this Note, heading 85.24 shall take precedence
over any other heading in the Nomenclature.
8.- For the purposes of heading 85.34 “printed circuits” are circuits obtained by forming on an insulating base, by
any printing process (for example, embossing, plating-up, etching) or by the “film circuit” technique, conductor
elements, contacts or other printed components (for example, inductances, resistors, capacitors) alone or
interconnected according to a pre-established pattern, other than elements which can produce, rectify, modulate
or amplify an electrical signal (for example, semiconductor elements).
The expression “printed circuits” does not cover circuits combined with elements other than those obtained
during the printing process, nor does it cover individual, discrete resistors, capacitors or inductances. Printed
circuits may, however, be fitted with non-printed connecting elements.
Thin- or thick-film circuits comprising passive and active elements obtained during the same technological
process are to be classified in heading 85.42.
9.- For the purpose of heading 85.36, “connectors for optical fibres, optical fibre bundles or cables” means
connectors that simply mechanically align optical fibres end to end in a digital line system. They perform no
other function, such as the amplification, regeneration or modification of a signal.
10.- Heading 85.37 does not include cordless infrared devices for the remote control of television receivers or other
electrical equipment (heading 85.43).
11.- For the purposes of heading 85.39, the expression “light-emitting diode (LED) light sources” covers :
(a) “Light-emitting diode (LED) modules” which are electrical light sources based on light-emitting diodes
(LED) arranged in electrical circuits and containing further elements like electrical, mechanical, thermal
or optical elements. They also contain discrete active elements, discrete passive elements, or articles of
heading 85.36 or 85.42 for the purposes of providing power supply or power control. Light-emitting diode
(LED) modules do not have a cap designed to allow easy installation or replacement in a luminaire and
ensure mechanical and electrical contact.
(b) “Light-emitting diode (LED) lamps” which are electrical light sources containing one or more LED
modules containing further elements like electrical, mechanical, thermal or optical elements. The
distinction between light-emitting diode (LED) modules and lightemitting diode (LED) lamps is that lamps
have a cap designed to allow easy installation or replacement in a luminaire and ensure mechanical and
electrical contact.
(a) (i) “Semiconductor devices” are semiconductor devices the operation of which depends on variations
in resistivity on the application of an electric field or semiconductor-based transducers.
Semiconductor devices may also include assembly of plural elements, whether or not equipped
with active and passive device ancillary functions.
(ii) “Light-emitting diodes (LED)” are semiconductor devices based on semiconductor materials
which convert electrical energy into visible, infra-red or ultra-violet rays, whether or not electrically
connected among each other and whether or not combined with protective diodes. Light-emitting
diodes (LED) of heading 85.41 do not incorporate elements for the purposes of providing power
supply or power control;”
(i) Monolithic integrated circuits in which the circuit elements (diodes, transistors, resistors, capacitors,
inductances, etc.) are created in the mass (essentially) and on the surface of a semiconductor
or compound semiconductor material (for example, doped silicon, gallium arsenide, silicon
germanium, indium phosphide) and are inseparably associated;
(ii) Hybrid integrated circuits in which passive elements (resistors, capacitors, inductances, etc.),
obtained by thin- or thick-film technology, and active elements (diodes, transistors, monolithic
integrated circuits, etc.), obtained by semiconductor technology, are combined to all intents
and purposes indivisibly, by interconnections or interconnecting cables, on a single insulating
substrate (glass, ceramic, etc.). These circuits may also include discrete components;
(iii) Multichip integrated circuits consisting of two or more interconnected monolithic integrated
circuits combined to all intents and purposes indivisibly, whether or not on one or more insulating
substrates, with or without leadframes, but with no other active or passive circuit elements.
(b) “Silicon based actuators” consist of microelectronic and mechanical structures that
are created in the mass or on the surface of a semiconductor and that have the
function of converting electrical signals into physical movement.
(d) “Silicon based oscillators” are active components that consist of microelectronic
or mechanical structures that are created in the mass or on the surface of a
semiconductor and that have the function of generating a mechanical or electrical
oscillation of a predefined frequency that depends on the physical geometry of
these structures.
For the classification of the articles defined in this Note, headings 85.41 and 85.42 shall
take precedence over any other heading in the Nomenclature, except in the case of
heading 85.23, which might cover them by reference to, in particular, their function.
Subheading Notes.
1.- Subheading 8525.81 covers only high-speed television cameras, digital cameras and video camera recorders
having one or more of the following characteristics:
2.- In respect of subheading 8525.82, radiation-hardened or radiation-tolerant television cameras, digital cameras
and video camera recorders are designed or shielded to enable operation in a high-radiation environment.
These cameras are designed to withstand a total radiation dose of at least 50 × 103 Gy(silicon) (5 × 106 RAD
(silicon)), without operational degradation.
4.- Subheading 8527.12 covers only cassette-players with built-in amplifier, without built-in loudspeaker,
capable of operating without an external source of electric power and the dimensions of which do not exceed
170 mm x 100 mm x 45 mm.
5.- For the purposes of subheadings 8549.11 to 8549.19, “spent primary cells, spent primary batteries and spent
electric accumulators” are those which are neither usable as such because of breakage, cutting-up, wear or
other reasons, nor capable of being recharged.
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8501.63.00 -- Of an output exceeding 375 kVA but not exceeding 750 kVA u 0%
- Photovoltaic DC generators:
8502.31.00 -- Wind-powered u 0%
8502.39.00 -- Other u 0%
85.03 8503.00.00 Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machines kg 0%
of heading 85.01 or 85.02.
8504.22.00 -- Having a power handling capacity exceeding 650 kVA but not u 0%
exceeding 10,000 kVA
- Other transformers:
8504.32.00 -- Having a power handling capacity exceeding 1 kVA but not u 10%
exceeding 16 kVA
8504.90.00 - Parts kg 0%
8505.11.00 -- Of metal kg 0%
8505.19.00 -- Other kg 0%
8506.90.00 - Parts kg 0%
8507.90.00 - Parts kg 0%
8508.11.00 -- Of a power not exceeding 1,500 W and having a dust bag or u 25%
other receptacle capacity not exceeding 20 l
8509.40.00 - Food grinders and mixers; fruit or vegetable juice extractors u 25%
- Lamps:
8514.19.00 -- Other u 0%
8514.39.00 -- Other u 0%
8514.90.00 - Parts kg 0%
8515.19.00 -- Other u 0%
8515.29.00 -- Other u 0%
8515.39.00 -- Other u 0%
8515.90.00 - Parts kg 0%
8516.60.00 - Other ovens; cookers, cooking plates, boiling rings, grillers and u 10%
roasters
8517.13.00 -- Smartphones u 0%
8517.18.00 -- Other u 0%
8517.69.00 -- Other u 0%
- Parts:
8517.71.00 -- Aerials and aerial reflectors of all kinds; parts suitable for use kg 10%
therewith
- Other apparatus:
[85.20]
- Magnetic media:
-- Other:
- Optical media:
- Semiconductor media:
- Other:
- Other:
8525.89.00 -- Other u 0%
- Other:
- Other:
- Other monitors:
- Projectors:
-- Other, colour:
-- Other, monochrome:
85.29 Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus
of headings 85.24 to 85.28.
8529.10.00 - Aerials and aerial reflectors of all kinds; parts suitable for use kg 25%
therewith
8532.10.00 - Fixed capacitors designed for use in 50/60 Hz circuits and having kg 10%
a reactive power handling capacity of not less than 0.5 kvar (power
capacitors)
8535.10.00 - Fuses kg 0%
8535.29.00 -- Other kg 0%
8535.90.00 - Other kg 0%
- Relays:
85.38 Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus
of heading 85.35, 85.36 or 85.37.
8538.10.00 - Boards, panels, consoles, desks, cabinets and other bases for kg 10%
the goods of heading 85.37, not equipped with their apparatus
8539.22.00 -- Other, of a power not exceeding 200 W and for a voltage u 25%
exceeding 100 V
8540.20.00 - Television camera tubes; image converters and intensifiers; other u 10%
photo-cathode tubes
- Parts:
8541.29.00 -- Other u 0%
8541.49.00 -- Other u 0%
8541.59.00 -- Other u 0%
8541.90.00 - Parts kg 0%
- Winding wire:
8544.30.00 - Ignition wiring sets and other wiring sets of a kind used in vehicles, kg 25%
aircraft or ships
- Electrodes:
8549.13.00 -- Sorted by chemical type and not containing lead, cadmium or kg 25%
mercury
- Other:
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Notes.
1.- This Section does not cover articles of heading, 95.03 or 95.08, or bobsleighs, toboggans or the like
of heading 95.06.
2.- The expressions “parts” and “parts and accessories” do not apply to the following articles, whether or not
they are identifiable as for the goods of this Section:
(a) Joints, washers or the like of any material (classified according to their constituent material
or in heading 84.84) or other articles of vulcanised rubber other than hard rubber (heading 40.16);
(b) Parts of general use, as defined in Note 2 to Section XV, of base metal (Section XV), or similar
goods of plastics (Chapter 39);
(c) Articles of Chapter 82 (tools);
(e) Machines or apparatus of headings 84.01 to 84.79, or parts thereof, other than the radiators for the
articles of this Section; articles of heading 84.81 or 84.82 or, provided they constitute integral parts
of engines or motors, articles of heading 84.83;
3.- References in Chapters 86 to 88 to “parts” or “accessories” do not apply to parts or accessories which
are not suitable for use solely or principally with the articles of those Chapters. A part or accessory which
answers to a description in two or more of the headings of those Chapters is to be classified under that
heading which corresponds to the principal use of that part or accessory.
(a) Vehicles specially constructed to travel on both road and rail are classified under the appropriate
heading of Chapter 87;
(b) Amphibious motor vehicles are classified under the appropriate heading of Chapter 87;
(c) Aircraft specially constructed so that they can also be used as road vehicles are classified under
the appropriate heading of Chapter 88.
5.- Air-cushion vehicles are to be classified within this Section with the vehicles to which they are most akin as
follows:
(b) In Chapter 87 if designed to travel over land or over both land and water;
(c) In Chapter 89 if designed to travel over water, whether or not able to land on beaches or landing-
stages or also able to travel over ice.
Parts and accessories of air-cushion vehicles are to be classified in the same way as those of vehicles of the
heading in which the air-cushion vehicles are classified under the above provisions.
Hovertrain track fixtures and fittings are to be classified as railway track fixtures and fittings, and signalling, safety
or traffic control equipment for hovertrain transport systems as signalling, safety or traffic control equipment for
railways.
Notes.
(a) Railway or tramway sleepers of wood or of concrete, or concrete guide-track sections for hovertrains
(heading 44.06 or 68.10);
(b) Railway or tramway track construction material of iron or steel of heading 73.02; or
(a) Axles, wheels, wheel sets (running gear), metal tyres, hoops and hubs and other parts of wheels;
(d) Buffers for rolling-stock; hooks and other coupling gear and corridor connections;
(e) Coachwork.
3.- Subject to the provisions of Note 1 above, heading 86.08 applies, inter alia, to:
(b) Semaphores, mechanical signal discs, level crossing control gear, signal and point controls, and other
mechanical (including electro-mechanical) signalling, safety or traffic control equipment, whether or
not fitted for electric lighting, for railways, tramways, roads, inland waterways, parking facilities, port
installations or airfields.
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8602.90.00 - Other u 0%
8603.90.00 - Other u 0%
- Other:
8606.99.00 -- Other u 0%
8607.29.00 -- Other kg 0%
8607.30.00 - Hooks and other coupling devices, buffers, and parts thereof kg 0%
- Other:
8607.91.00 -- Of locomotives kg 0%
8607.99.00 -- Other kg 0%
___________
Notes.
1.- This Chapter does not cover railway or tramway rolling stock designed solely for running on rails.
2.- For the purposes of this Chapter, “tractors” means vehicles constructed essentially for hauling or pushing another
vehicle, appliance or load, whether or not they contain subsidiary provision for the transport, in connection with
the main use of the tractor, of tools, seeds, fertilisers or other goods.
Machines and working tools designed for fitting to tractors of heading 87.01 as interchangeable equipment
remain classified in their respective headings even if presented with the tractor, and whether or not mounted
on it.
3.- Motor chassis fitted with cabs fall in headings 87.02 to 87.04, and not in heading 87.06.
4.- Heading 87.12 includes all children’s bicycles. Other children’s cycles fall in heading 95.03.
Subheading Note
(a) front windscreens (windshields), rear windows and other windows, framed; and
(b) front windscreens (windshields), rear windows and other windows, whether or not framed, incorporating
heating devices or other electrical or electronic devices, when suitable for use solely or principally with
the motor vehicles of headings 87.01 to 87.05.
___________
--Other:
--- Four wheel drive vehicles for the transport of ten persons:
8702.10.22 ---- For the transport of not more than 15 persons u 25%
--- Four wheel drive vehicles for the transport of ten persons:
8702.20.22 ---- For the transport of not more than 15 persons u 25%
--- Four wheel drive vehicles for the transport of ten persons:
8702.30.22 ---- For the transport of not more than 15 persons u 25%
--- Four wheel drive vehicles for the transport of ten persons:
8702.40.22 ---- For the transport of not more than 15 persons u 25%
- Other:
--- Four wheel drive vehicles for the transport of ten persons:
8703.80.00 - Other vehicles, with only electric motor for propulsion u 25%
- Other:
- Other:
8705.90.00 - Other u 0%
87.06 8706.00.00 Chassis fitted with engines, for the motor vehicles of headings u 25%
87.01 to 87.05.
8708.50.00 - Drive-axles with differential, whether or not provided with other kg 10%
transmission components, and non-driving axles; parts thereof
8708.94.00 -- Steering wheels, steering columns and steering boxes; parts kg 10%
thereof
- Vehicles:
8709.11.00 -- Electrical u 0%
8709.19.00 -- Other u 0%
8709.90.00 - Parts kg 0%
87.12 8712.00.00 Bicycles and other cycles (including delivery tricycles), not u 10%
motorised.
8713.90.00 - Other u 0%
- Other:
8714.93.00 -- Hubs, other than coaster braking hubs and hub brakes, and free- kg 10%
wheel sprocket-wheels
8714.94.00 -- Brakes, including coaster braking hubs and hub brakes, and kg 10%
parts thereof
-- Other:
___________
Note.
1.- For the purposes of this Chapter, the expression “unmanned aircraft” means any aircraft, other than those of
heading 88.01, designed to be flown without a pilot on board. They may be designed to carry a payload or
equipped with permanently integrated digital cameras or other equipment which would enable them to perform
utilitarian functions during their flight.
The expression “unmanned aircraft”, however, does not cover flying toys, designed solely for amusement
purposes (heading 95.03).
Subheading Notes.
1. For the purposes of subheadings 8802.11 to 8802.40, the expression “unladen weight” means the weight of
the machine in normal flying order, excluding the weight of the crew and of fuel and equipment other than
permanently fitted items of equipment.
2. For the purposes of subheadings 8806.21 to 8806.24 and 8806.91 to 8806.94, the expression “maximum take-
off weight” means the maximum weight of the machine in normal flying order, at take-off, including the weight of
payload, equipment and fuel.
____________
88.01 8801.00.00 Balloons and dirigibles; gliders, hang gliders and other non- u 0%
powered aircraft.
- Helicopters:
8805.29.00 -- Other kg 0%
8806.22.00 -- With maximum take-off weight more than 250 g but not more u 0%
than 7 kg
8806.23.00 -- With maximum take-off weight more than 7 kg but not more than u 0%
25 kg
8806.24.00 -- With maximum take-off weight more than 25 kg but not more u 0%
than 150 kg
8806.29.00 -- Other u 0%
- Other:
8806.92.00 -- With maximum take-off weight more than 250 g but not more u 0%
than 7 kg
8806.93.00 -- With maximum take-off weight more than 7 kg but not more than u 0%
25 kg
8806.94.00 -- With maximum take-off weight more than 25 kg but not more u 0%
than 150kg
8806.99.00 -- Other u 0%
8807.90.00 - Other kg 0%
__________
Note.
1.- A hull, an unfinished or incomplete vessel, assembled, unassembled or disassembled, or a complete vessel
unassembled or disassembled, is to be classified in heading 89.06 if it does not have the essential character of
a vessel of a particular kind.
______________
8901.20.00 - Tankers u 0%
8901.90.00 - Other vessels for the transport of goods and other vessels for the u 0%
transport of both persons and goods
89.02 8902.00.00 Fishing vessels; factory ships and other vessels for u 0%
processing or preserving fishery products.
89.03 Yachts and other vessels for pleasure or sports; rowing boats
and canoes.
8903.11.00 -- Fitted or designed to be fitted with a motor, unladen (net) weight u 25%
(excluding the motor) not exceeding 100 kg
8903.12.00 -- Not designed for use with a motor and unladen (net) weight not u 25%
exceeding 100 kg
- Other:
-- Other:
8905.10.00 - Dredgers u 0%
8905.90.00 - Other u 0%
8906.10.00 - Warships u 0%
8906.90.00 - Other u 0%
8907.90.00 - Other u 0%
89.08 8908.00.00 Vessels and other floating structures for breaking up. u 0%
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Chapter 90
Optical, photographic,
cinematographic, measuring, checking,
precision, medical or surgical instruments
and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
Notes.
(a) Articles of a kind used in machines, appliances or for other technical uses, of vulcanised rubber other than
hard rubber (heading 40.16), of leather or of composition leather (heading 42.05) or of textile material
(heading 59.11);
(b) Supporting belts or other support articles of textile material, whose intended effect on the organ to be
supported or held derives solely from their elasticity (for example, maternity belts, thoracic support
bandages, abdominal support bandages, supports for joints or muscles) (Section XI);
(c) Refractory goods of heading 69.03; ceramic wares for laboratory, chemical or other technical uses, of
heading 69.09;
(d) Glass mirrors, not optically worked, of heading 70.09, or mirrors of base metal or of precious metal, not
being optical elements (heading 83.06 or Chapter 71);
(f) Parts of general use, as defined in Note 2 to Section XV, of base metal (Section XV) or similar goods
of plastics (Chapter 39); however, articles specially designed for use exclusively in implants in medical,
surgical, dental or veterinary sciences are to be classified in heading 90.21;
(g) Pumps incorporating measuring devices, of heading 84.13; weight operated counting or checking
machinery, or separately presented weights for balances (heading 84.23); lifting or handling machinery
(headings 84.25 to 84.28); paper or paperboard cutting machines of all kinds (heading 84.41); fittings
for adjusting work or tools on machine tools or water – jet cutting machines, of heading 84.66, including
fittings with optical devices for reading the scale (for example, “optical” dividing heads) but not those
which are in themselves essentially optical instruments (for example, alignment telescopes); calculating
machines (heading 84.70); valves or other appliances of heading 84.81;machines and apparatus
(including apparatus for the projection or drawing of circuit patterns on sensitised semiconductor
materials) of heading 84.86;
(h) Searchlights or spotlights of a kind used for cycles or motor vehicles (heading 85.12); portable electric
lamps of heading 85.13; cinematographic sound recording, reproducing or re-recording apparatus
(heading 85.19); sound heads (heading 85.22); television cameras, digital cameras and video camera
recorders (heading 85.25); radar apparatus, radio navigational aid apparatus or radio remote control
apparatus (heading 85.26); connectors for optical fibres, optical fibre bundles or cables (heading 85.36);
numerical control apparatus of heading 85.37; sealed beam lamp units of heading 85.39; optical fibre
cables of heading 85.44;
(n) Spools, reels or similar supports (which are to be classified according to their constituent material, for
example, in heading 39.23 or Section XV).
2.- Subject to Note 1 above, parts and accessories for machines, apparatus, instruments or articles of this Chapter
are to be classified according to the following rules:
(a) Parts and accessories which are goods included in any of the headings of this Chapter or of Chapter 84,
85 or 91 (other than heading 84.87, 85.48 or 90.33) are in all cases to be classified in their respective
headings;
(b) Other parts and accessories, if suitable for use solely or principally with a particular kind of machine,
instrument or apparatus, or with a number of machines, instruments or apparatus of the same heading
(including a machine, instrument or apparatus of heading 90.10, 90.13 or 90.31) are to be classified with
the machines, instruments or apparatus of that kind;
(c) All other parts and accessories are to be classified in heading 90.33.
3.- The provisions of Notes 3 and 4 to Section XVI apply also to this Chapter.
4.- Heading 90.05 does not apply to telescopic sights for fitting to arms, periscopic telescopes for fitting to submarines
or tanks, or to telescopes for machines, appliances, instruments or apparatus of this Chapter or Section XVI;
such telescopic sights and telescopes are to be classified in heading 90.13.
5.- Measuring or checking optical instruments, appliances or machines which, but for this Note, could be classified
both in heading 90.13 and in heading 90.31 are to be classified in heading 90.31.
6.- For the purposes of heading 90.21, the expression “orthopaedic appliances” means appliances for:
- Supporting or holding parts of the body following and illness, operation or injury.
Orthopaedic appliances include footwear and special insoles designed to correct orthopaedic conditions,
provided that they are either (1) made to measure or (2) mass-produced, presented singly and not in pairs and
designed to fit either foot equally.
(a) Instruments and apparatus for automatically controlling the flow, level, pressure or other variables of
liquids or gases, or for automatically controlling temperature, whether or not their operation depends on
an electrical phenomenon which varies according to the factor to be automatically controlled, which are
designed to bring this factor to, and maintain it at, a desired value, stabilised against disturbances, by
constantly or periodically measuring its actual value; and
(b) Automatic regulators of electrical quantities, and instruments or apparatus for automatically controlling
nonelectrical quantities the operation of which depends on an electrical phenomenon varying according
to the factor to be controlled, which are designed to bring this factor to, and maintain it at, a desired value,
stabilised against disturbances, by constantly or periodically measuring its actual value.
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90.01 Optical fibres and optical fibre bundles; optical fibre cables
other than those of heading 85.44; sheets and plates of
polarising material; lenses (including contact lenses),
prisms, mirrors and other optical elements, of any material,
unmounted, other than such elements of glass not optically
worked.
9001.90.00 - Other kg 0%
- Objective lenses:
- Other:
- Other cameras:
[90.09]
9015.10.00 - Rangefinders u 0%
9015.30.00 - Levels u 0%
9018.11.00 -- Electro-cardiographs u 0%
9018.19.00 -- Other u 0%
9018.39.00 -- Other u 0%
9018.49.00 -- Other u 0%
9021.29.00 -- Other kg 0%
9021.39.00 -- Other kg 0%
9021.90.00 - Other kg 0%
9025.19.00 -- Other u 0%
9027.89.00 -- Other u 0%
9030.89.00 -- Other u 0%
9031.49.00 -- Other u 0%
9032.10.00 - Thermostats u 0%
9032.20.00 - Manostats u 0%
9032.89.00 -- Other u 0%
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Notes.
(a) Clock or watch glasses or weights (classified according to their constituent material);
(b) Watch chains (heading 71.13 or 71.17, as the case may be);
(c) Parts of general use defined in Note 2 to Section XV, of base metal (Section XV), or similar goods of
plastics (Chapter 39) or of precious metal or metal clad with precious metal (generally heading 71.15);
clock or watch springs are, however, to be classified as clock or watch parts (heading 91.14);
(d) Bearing balls (heading 73.26 or 84.82, as the case may be);
(g) Articles of Chapter 85 not yet assembled together or with other components into watch or clock
movements or into articles suitable for use solely or principally as parts of such movements (Chapter 85).
2.- Heading 91.01 covers only watches with case wholly of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal, or
of the same materials combined with natural or cultured pearls, or precious or semi-precious stones (natural,
synthetic or reconstructed) of headings 71.01 to 71.04. Watches with case of base metal inlaid with precious
metal fall in heading 91.02.
3.- For the purposes of this Chapter, the expression “watch movements” means devices regulated by a balance-
wheel and hairspring, quartz crystal or any other system capable of determining intervals of time, with a display
or a system to which a mechanical display can be incorporated. Such watch movements shall not exceed 12
mm in thickness and 50 mm in width, length or diameter.
4.- Except as provided in Note 1, movements and other parts suitable for use both in clocks or watches and in other
articles (for example, precision instruments) are to be classified in this Chapter.
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- Other:
- Other:
91.04 9104.00.00 Instrument panel clocks and clocks of a similar type for u 25%
vehicles, aircraft, spacecraft or vessels.
- Alarm clocks:
- Wall clocks:
- Other:
91.07 9107.00.00 Time switches with clock or watch movement or with u 25%
synchronous motor.
- Electrically operated:
- Of watches:
9111.10.00 - Cases of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal u 25%
91.12 Clock cases and cases of a similar type for other goods of
this Chapter, and parts thereof.
91.13 Watch straps, watch bands and watch bracelets, and parts
thereof.
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Musical instruments;
parts and accessories of such articles
Notes.
(a) Parts of general use, as defined in Note 2 to Section XV, of base metal (Section XV), or similar goods of
plastics (Chapter 39);
(b) Microphones, amplifiers, loud speakers, head phones, switches, stroboscopes or other accessory
instruments, apparatus or equipment of Chapter 85 or 90, for use with but not incorporated in or housed
in the same cabinet as instruments of this Chapter;
(d) Brushes for cleaning musical instruments (heading 96.03), or monopods, bipods, tripods and similar
articles (heading 96.20); or
2.- Bows and sticks and similar devices used in playing the musical instruments of heading 92.02 or 92.06
presented with such instruments in numbers normal thereto and clearly intended for use therewith, are
to be classified in the same heading as the relative instruments.
Cards, discs and rolls of heading 92.09 presented with an instrument are to be treated as separate
articles and not as forming a part of such instrument.
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[92.03]
[92.04]
- Other:
9209.92.00 -- Parts and accessories for the musical instruments of heading kg 10%
92.02
9209.94.00 -- Parts and accessories for the musical instruments of heading kg 10%
92.07
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Chapter 93
Notes.
(a) Goods of Chapter 36 (for example, percussion caps, detonators, signalling flares);
(b) Parts of general use, as defined in Note 2 to Section XV, of base metal (Section XV), or similar goods of
plastics (Chapter 39);
(d) Telescopic sights or other optical devices suitable for use with arms, unless mounted on a firearm or
presented with the firearm on which they are designed to be mounted (Chapter 90);
2.- In heading 93.06, the reference to “parts thereof” does not include radio or radar apparatus of heading 85.26
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93.01 Military weapons, other than revolvers, pistols and the arms
of heading 93.07.
9301.10.00 - Artillery weapons, (for example, guns, howitzers and mortars) u 25%
- Other:
--- Rifles:
--- Sub-machine-guns:
93.03 Other firearms and similar devices which operate by the firing
of an explosive charge (for example, sporting shotguns and
rifles, muzzle-loading firearms, Very pistols and other devices
designed to project only signal flares, pistols and revolvers
for firing blank ammunition, captive-bolt humane killers, line-
throwing guns).
93.04 9304.00.00 Other arms (for example, spring, air or gas guns and pistols, u 25%
truncheons), excluding those of heading 93.07.
- Of revolvers or pistols:
9305.10.80 --- Slides (for pistols) and cylinders (for revolvers) kg 25%
- Other:
93.07 9307.00.00 Swords, cutlasses, bayonets, lances and similar arms and kg 25%
parts thereof and scabbards and sheaths therefor.
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Chapter 94
Furniture; bedding, mattresses, mattress supports, cushions and similar stuffed furnishings;
luminaires and lighting fittings, not elsewhere specified or included; illuminated signs, illuminated
name-plates and the like; prefabricated buildings
Notes.
(b) Mirrors designed for placing on the floor or ground (for example, cheval-glasses (swing-mirrors)) of
heading 70.09;
(d) Parts of general use as defined in Note 2 to Section XV, of base metal (Section XV), or similar goods of
plastics (Chapter 39), or safes of heading 83.03;
(e) Furniture specially designed as parts of refrigerating or freezing equipment of heading 84.18; furniture
specially designed for sewing machines (heading 84.52);
(g) Furniture specially designed as parts of apparatus of heading 85.18 (heading 85.18), of headings 85.19
or 85.21 (heading 85.22) or of headings 85.25 to 85.28 (heading 85.29);
(ij) Dentists’ chairs incorporating dental appliances of heading 90.18 or dentists’ spittoons (heading 90.18);
(l) Toy furniture or toy luminaires and lighting fittings (heading 95.03), billiard tables or other furniture
specially constructed for games (heading 95.04), furniture for conjuring tricks or decorations (other than
lighting strings) such as Chinese lanterns (heading 95.05); or
2.- The articles (other than parts) referred to in headings 94.01 to 94.03 are to be classified in those headings only
if they are designed for placing on the floor or ground.
The following are, however, to be classified in the above-mentioned headings even if they are designed to be
hung, to be fixed to the wall or to stand one on the other:
(a) Cupboards, bookcases, other shelved furniture (including single shelves presented with supports for
fixing them to the wall) and unit furniture;
3.- (A) In headings 94.01 to 94.03 references to parts of goods do not include references to sheets or slabs
(whether or not cut to shape but not combined with other parts) of glass (including mirrors), marble or
other stone or of any other material referred to in Chapter 68 or 69.
(B) Goods described in heading 94.04, presented separately, are not to be classified in heading 94.01, 94.02
or 94.03 as parts of goods.
Prefabricated buildings include “modular building units” of steel, normally presented in the size and shape of a
standard shipping container, but substantially or completely pre-fitted internally. Such modular building units are
normally designed to be assembled together to form permanent buildings.
Additional note
1.- A prefabricated buildings may be imported in several consignments over a period of time if this is necessary for
convenience of trade or transport.
In order to be able to declare the different constituent parts under the same tariff heading or subheading as the
assembled prefabricated building, the declarant must make a request in writing to the customs post not later than
the first consignment and attach:
(a) a manual, diagram or, if necessary several diagrams, of the prefabricated building showing the serial
numbers of the most important constituent parts;
(b) a general inventory containing an indication of the characteristics and approximate weights of the different
parts and the serial numbers of the principal parts referred to above.
The application may only be accepted in fulfilment of a contract for the supply of prefabricated building which can
be regarded as complete for the purposes of the EAC Tariff Nomenclature.
All the constituent parts must be imported through the same entry point within the allowed time. However, in special
cases, the competent authorities may authorize importation through several points of entry. This time limit may not
be exceeded unless a reasoned and justified request for an extension is made to the competent authorities.
Upon each partial importation, a list of the parts making up the consignment with references to the above mentioned
general inventory must be provided. The customs declaration for each consignment must contain descriptions of
both the part or parts making up the consignment and the complete prefabricated building.
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- Parts :
- Other:
9402.90.10 --- Operating tables, examination tables and hospital beds with kg 0%
mechanical fittings
- Parts:
- Mattresses:
9405.11.00 -- Designed for use solely with light-emitting diode (LED) light kg 25%
sources
9405.21.00 -- Designed for use solely with light-emitting diode (LED) light kg 25%
sources
9405.31.00 -- Designed for use solely with light-emitting diode (LED) light kg 25%
source
9405.41.00 -- Photovoltaic, designed for use solely with light-emitting diode kg 25%
(LED) light source
9405.42.00 -- Other, designed for use solely with light-emitting diode (LED) kg 25%
light sources
9405.61.00 -- Designed for use solely with light-emitting diode (LED) light kg 25%
source
- Parts:
-- Of glass:
-- Other:
- Of wood:
- Other:
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(c) Yarns, monofilament, cords or gut or the like for fishing, cut to length but not made up into fishing lines, of
Chapter 39, heading 42.06 or Section XI;
(e) Fancy dress of textiles, of Chapter 61 or 62; sports clothing and special articles of apparel of textiles,
of Chapter 61 or 62, whether or not incorporating incidentally protective components such as pads or
padding in the elbow, knee or groin areas (for example, fencing clothing or soccer goalkeeper jerseys);
(f) Textile flags or bunting, or sails for boats, sailboards or land craft, of Chapter 63;
(g) Sports footwear (other than skating boots with ice or roller skates attached) of Chapter 64, or sports
headgear of Chapter 65;
(h) Walking sticks, whips, riding crops or the like (heading 66.02), or parts thereof (heading 66.03);
(ij) Unmounted glass eyes for dolls or other toys, of heading 70.18;
(k) Parts of general use, as defined in Note 2 to Section XV, of base metal (Section XV), or similar goods of
plastics (Chapter 39);
(m) Pumps for liquids (heading 84.13), filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for liquids or gases
(heading 84.21), electric motors (heading 85.01), electric transformers (heading 85.04), discs, tapes,
solid-state non-volatile storage devices, “smart cards” and other media for the recording of sound or of
other phenomena, whether or not recorded (heading 85.23), radio remote control apparatus (heading
85.26) or cordless infrared remote control devices (heading 85.43);
(n) Sports vehicles (other than bobsleighs, toboggans and the like) of Section XVII;
(o) Children’s bicycles (heading 87.12);
(q) Sports craft such as canoes and skiffs (Chapter 89), or their means of propulsion (Chapter 44 for such
articles made of wood);
(r) Spectacles, goggles or the like, for sports or outdoor games (heading 90.04);
(w) Racket strings, tents or other camping goods, or gloves, mittens and mitts (classified according to their
constituent material); or
(x) Tableware, kitchenware, toilet articles, carpets and other textile floor coverings, apparel, bed linen, table
linen, toilet linen, kitchen linen and similar articles having a utilitarian function (classified according to their
constituent material).
2.- This Chapter includes articles in which natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones
(natural, synthetic or reconstructed), precious metal or metal clad with precious metal constitute only minor
constituents.
4.- Subject to the provisions of Note 1 above, heading 95.03 applies, inter alia, to articles of this heading combined
with one or more items, which cannot be considered as sets under the terms of General Interpretative Rule 3
(b), and which, if presented separately, would be classified in other headings, provided the articles are put up
together for retail sale and the combinations have the essential character of toys.
5.- Heading 95.03 does not cover articles which, on account of their design, shape or constituent material, are
identifiable as intended exclusively for animals, for example, “pet toys” (classification in their own appropriate
heading).
(a) The expression “amusement park rides” means a device or combination of devices or equipment that carry,
convey, or direct a person or persons over or through a fixed or restricted course, including watercourses,
or within a defined area for the primary purposes of amusement or entertainment. Such rides may be
combined within an amusement park, theme park, water park or fairground. These amusement park rides
do not include equipment of a kind commonly installed in residences or playgrounds;
(b) The expression “water park amusements” means a device or combination of devices or equipment that
are characterised by a defined area involving water, with no purposes-built path. Water park amusements
only include equipment designed specifically for water parks; and
(c) The expression “fairground amusements” means games of chance, strength or skill, which commonly
employ an operator or attendant and may be installed in permanent buildings or independent concession
stalls. Fairground amusements do not include equipment of heading 95.04.
This heading does not include equipment more specifically classified elsewhere in the Nomenclature.
Subheading Note.
(a) Video game consoles from which the image is reproduced on a television receiver, a monitor or other
external screen or surface; or
(b) Video game machines having a self-contained video screen, whether or not portable.
This subheading does not cover video game consoles or machines operated by coins, banknotes, bank cards, tokens
or by any other means of payment (subheading 9504.30).
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[95.01]
[95.02]
95.03 9503.00.00 Tricycles, scooters, pedal cars and similar wheeled toys; kg 25%
dolls’ carriages; dolls; other toys; reduced-size (“scale”)
models and similar recreational models, working or not;
puzzles of all kinds.
9504.30.00 - Other games, operated by coins, banknotes, bank cards, tokens u 25%
or by any other means of payment, other than automatic bowling
alley equipment.
9504.50.00 - Video game consoles and machines, other than those of kg 25%
subheading 9504.30
9506.70.00 - Ice skates and roller skates, including skating boots with skates 2u 25%
attached
- Other:
9506.91.00 -- Articles and equipment for general physical exercise, gymnastics kg 25%
or athletics
95.07 Fishing rods, fish‑hooks and other line fishing tackle; fish
landing nets, butterfly nets and similar nets; decoy “birds”
(other than those of heading 92.08 or 97.05) and similar
hunting or shooting requisites.
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(d) Parts of general use, as defined in Note 2 to Section XV, of base metal (Section XV), or similar goods of
plastics (Chapter 39);
(e) Cutlery or other articles of Chapter 82 with handles or other parts of carving or moulding materials;
heading 96.01 or 96.02 applies, however, to separately presented handles or other parts of such articles;
(f) Articles of Chapter 90 (for example, spectacle frames (heading 90.03), mathematical drawing pens
(heading 90.17), brushes of a kind specialised for use in dentistry or for medical, surgical or veterinary
purposes (heading 90.18));
(k) Articles of Chapter 94 (for example, furniture, luminaires and lighting fittings);
2.- In heading 96.02 the expression “vegetable or mineral carving material” means:
(a) Hard seeds, pips, hulls and nuts and similar vegetable materials of a kind used for carving (for example,
corozo and dom);
(b) Amber, meerschaum, agglomerated amber and agglomerated meerschaum, jet and mineral substitutes
for jet.
3.- In heading 96.03 the expression “prepared knots and tufts for broom or brush making” applies only to unmounted
knots and tufts of animal hair, vegetable fibre or other material, which are ready for incorporation without division
in brooms or brushes, or which require only such further minor processes as trimming to shape at the top, to
render them ready for such incorporation.
4.- Articles of this Chapter, other than those of headings 96.01 to 96.06 or 96.15, remain classified in the Chapter
whether or not composed wholly or partly of precious metal or metal clad with precious metal, of natural or
cultured pearls, or precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed). However, headings
96.01 to 96.06 and 96.15 include articles in which natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones
(natural, synthetic or reconstructed), precious metal or metal clad with precious metal constitute only minor
constituents.
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96.02 9602.00.00 Worked vegetable or mineral carving material and articles of kg 25%
these materials; moulded or carved articles of wax, of stearin,
of natural gums or natural resins or of modelling pastes, and
other moulded or carved articles, not elsewhere specified
or included; worked, unhardened gelatin (except gelatin of
heading 35.03) and articles of unhardened gelatin.
9603.30.00 ‑ Artists’ brushes, writing brushes and similar brushes for the u 25%
application of cosmetics
9603.40.00 ‑ Paint, distemper, varnish or similar brushes (other than brushes u 25%
of subheading 9603.30); paint pads and rollers
96.05 9605.00.00 Travel sets for personal toilet, sewing or shoe or clothes u 25%
cleaning.
- Buttons:
9606.30.00 - Button moulds and other parts of buttons; button blanks kg 10%
- Slide fasteners:
96.08 Ball point pens; felt tipped and other porous-tipped pens and
markers; fountain pens, stylograph pens and other pens;
duplicating stylos; propelling or sliding pencils; pen-holders,
pencil-holders and similar holders; parts (including caps and
clips) of the foregoing articles, other than those of heading
96.09.
9608.20.00 - Felt tipped and other porous-tipped pens and markers u 25%
9608.50.00 - Sets of articles from two or more of the foregoing subheadings u 25%
9608.60.00 - Refills for ball point pens, comprising the ball point and ink- u 25%
reservoir
- Other:
96.10 9610.00.00 Slates and boards, with writing or drawing surfaces, whether kg 25%
or not framed.
96.11 9611.00.00 Date, sealing or numbering stamps, and the like (including kg 25%
devices for printing or embossing labels), designed for
operating in the hand; hand-operated composing sticks and
hand printing sets incorporating such composing sticks.
- Ribbons:
96.14 9614.00.00 Smoking pipes (including pipe bowls) and cigar or cigarette kg 25%
holders, and parts thereof.
96.15 Combs, hair-slides and the like; hairpins, curling pins, curling
grips, hair-curlers and the like, other than those of heading
85.16, and parts thereof.
96.16 Scent sprays and similar toilet sprays, and mounts and
heads therefor; powder-puffs and pads for the application of
cosmetics or toilet preparations.
- Scent sprays and similar toilet sprays, and mounts and heads
therefor:
--- Other:
9616.20.00 - Powder-puffs and pads for the application of cosmetics or toilet kg 25%
preparations
96.17 9617.00.00 Vacuum flasks and other vacuum vessels, complete; parts kg 25%
thereof other than glass inners.
96.18 9618.00.00 Tailors’ dummies and other lay figures; automata and other kg 25%
animated displays used for shop window dressing.
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Chapter 97
(a) Unused postage or revenue stamps, postal stationery (stamped paper) or the like, of heading 49.07;
(b) Theatrical scenery, studio back cloths or the like, of painted canvas (heading 59.07) except if they may
be classified in heading 97.06; or
(c) Pearls, natural or cultured, or precious or semi-precious stones (headings 71.01 to 71.03).
2.- Heading 97.01 does not apply to mosaics that are mass-produced reproductions, casts or works of conventional
craftsmanship of a commercial character, even if these articles are designed or created by artists.
3.- For the purposes of heading 97.02, the expression “original engravings, prints and lithographs” means
impressions produced directly, in black and white or in colour, of one or of several plates wholly executed
by hand by the artist, irrespective of the process or of the material employed by him, but not including any
mechanical or photomechanical process.
4.- Heading 97.03 does not apply to mass produced reproductions or works of conventional craftsmanship of a
commercial character, even if these articles are designed or created by artists.
5.- (A) Subject to Notes 1 to 4 above, articles of this Chapter are to be classified in this Chapter and not in any
other Chapter of the Nomenclature.
(B) Heading 97.06 does not apply to articles of the preceding headings of this Chapter.
6.- Frames around paintings, drawings, pastels, collages or similar decorative plaques, engravings, prints or
lithographs are to be classified with those articles, provided they are of a kind and of a value normal to those
articles. Frames which are not of a kind or of a value normal to the articles referred to in this Note are to be
classified separately.
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- Other:
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Chapter 99
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Heading
H.S. Code /
Description Rate
Tariff No.
No.
04.01 Milk and cream, not concentrated nor containing added sugar or
other sweetening matter.
0401.10.00 - Of a fat content, by weight, not exceeding% 60%
0401.20.00 - Of a fat content, by weight, exceeding 1% but not exceeding 60%
6%
0401.30.00 - Of a fat content, by weight, exceeding 6% 60%
0401.40.00 - Of a fat content, by weight, exceeding 6 % but not 60%
exceeding 10 %
0401.50.00 - Of a fat content, by weight, exceeding 10 % 60%
04.03 Yogurt: buttermilk, curdled milk and cream, kephir and other
fermented or acidified milk and cream, whether or not concentrated
or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or flavoured or
containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa.
0403.20.00 - Yogurt 60%
0403.90.00 - Other 60%
1006 Rice
1006.10.00 - Rice in the husk (Paddy or rough) 75% or $345/MT
whichever is higher
1006.20.00 - Husked (Brown) rice 75% or $345/MT
whichever is higher
1006.30.00 - Semi-Milled or wholly milled rice whether or not polished or 75% or $345/MT
glazed whichever is higher
1006.40.00 - Broken Rice 75% or $345/MT
whichever is higher
17.01 Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form.
1701.12.10 --- Jaggery 100 % or $ 460/MT
whichever is higher
1701.12.90 --- Other 100 % or $ 460/MT
whichever is higher
1701.13.10 --- Jaggery 100 % or $ 460/MT
whichever is higher
1701.13.90 --- Other 100 % or $ 460/MT
whichever is higher
1701.14.10 --- Jaggery 100 % or $ 460/MT
whichever is higher
1701.14.90 --- Other 100 % or $ 460/MT
whichever is higher
1701.91.00 -- Containing added flavouring or colouring matter 100 % or $ 460/MT
whichever is higher
1701.99.10 ---Sugar for industrial use 100 % or $ 460/MT
whichever is higher
1701.99.90 --- Other 100 % or $ 460/MT
whichever is higher
55.14 Woven fabrics of synthetic staple fibres, containing less than 85% by
weight of such fibres, mixed mainly or solely with cotton, of a weight
exceeding 170 g/m².
5514.41.10 --- Khanga, Kikoi and Kitenge 50%
63.02 Bed linen, table linen, toilet linen and kitchen linen.
6302.21.00 --Of Cotton 50%
6302.31.00 --Of Cotton 50%
6302.51.00 --Of Cotton 50%
6302.91.00 --Of Cotton 50%