Archived – Standard Classification of Goods (SCG) - Notes 1996-2001

Section XV:  Base metals and articles of base metal

Notes.

  1. This Section does not cover:

    a) Prepared paints, inks or other products with a basis of metallic flakes or powder (headings Nos. 32.07 to 32.10, 32.12, 32.13 or 32.15);

    b) Ferro-cerium or other pyrophoric alloys (heading No. 36.06);

    c) Headgear or parts thereof of heading No. 65.06 or 65.07;

    d) Umbrella frames or other articles of heading No. 66.03;

    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 No. 86.08) or other articles of Section XVII (vehicles, ships and boats, aircraft);

    h) Instruments or apparatus of Section XVIII, including clock or watch springs;

    ij) Lead shot prepared for ammunition (heading No. 93.06) or other articles of Section XIX (arms and ammunition);

    k) Articles of Chapter 94 (for example, furniture, mattress supports, lamps and lighting fittings, illuminated signs, prefabricated buildings);

    l) Articles of Chapter 95 (for example, toys, games, sports requisites);

    m) Hand sieves, buttons, pens, pencil-holders, pen nibs or other articles of Chapter 96 (miscellaneous manufactured articles); or

    n) Articles of Chapter 97 (for example, works of art).

  2. Throughout the Classification, the expression "parts of general use" means:
    1. Articles of heading No. 73.07, 73.12, 73.15, 73.17 or 73.18 and similar articles of other base metal;
    2. Springs and leaves for springs, of base metal, other than clock or watch springs (heading No. 91.14); and
    3. Articles of headings Nos. 83.01, 83.02, 83.08, 83.10 and frames and mirrors, of base metal, of heading No. 83.06.
    In Chapters 73 to 76 and 78 to 82 (but not in heading No. 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 metal" 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):
    1. An alloy of base metals is to be classified as an alloy of the metal which predominates by weight over each of the other metals;
    2. 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;
    3. 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 Classification 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.
  7. Classification of composite articles:

    Except where the headings otherwise require, articles of base metal (including articles of mixed materials treated as articles of base metal under the 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.

    For this purpose:
    1. Iron and steel, or different kinds of iron or steel, are regarded as one and the same metal;
    2. An alloy is regarded as being entirely composed of that metal as an alloy of which, by virtue of Note 3, it is classified; and
    3. A cermet of heading No. 81.13 is regarded as a single base metal.
  8. In this Section, the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them:
    1. Waste and scrap

      Metal waste and scrap from the manufacture or mechanical working of metals, and metal goods definitely not usable as such because of breakage, cutting-up, wear or other reasons.
    2. Powders

      Products of which 90% or more by weight passes through a sieve having a mesh aperture of 1 mm.

Chapter 72:  Iron and steel

Notes.

  1. In this Chapter and, in the case of Notes (d), (e) and (f) throughout the Classification, the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them:

    a) Pig iron

    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:

    • not more than 10% of chromium
    • not more than 6% of manganese
    • not more than 3% of phosphorus
    • not more than 8% of silicon
    • a total of not more than 10% of other elements.

    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:

    • more than 10% of chromium
    • more than 30% of manganese
    • more than 3% of phosphorus
    • more than 8% of silicon
    • 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 No. 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.

    f) Other alloy steel

    Steels not complying with the definition of stainless steel and containing by weight one or more of the following elements in the proportion shown:

    • 0.3% or more of aluminum
    • 0.0008% or more of boron
    • 0.3% or more of chromium
    • 0.3% or more of cobalt
    • 0.4% or more of copper
    • 0.4% or more of lead
    • 1.65% or more of manganese
    • 0.08% or more of molybdenum
    • 0.3% or more of nickel
    • 0.06% or more of niobium
    • 0.6% or more of silicon
    • 0.05% or more of titanium
    • 0.3% or more of tungsten (wolfram)
    • 0.1% or more of vanadium
    • 0.05% or more of zirconium
    • 0.1% or more of other elements (except sulphur, phosphorus, carbon and nitrogen), taken separately.

    g) Remelting scrap ingots of iron or steel

    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.

    ij) Semi-finished products

    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

    These products are not presented in coils.

    k) Flat-rolled products

    Rolled products of solid rectangular (other than square) cross-section, which do not conform to the definition at (ij) above in the form of:

    • coils of successively superimposed layers, or
    • 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.

    l) Bars and rods, hot-rolled, in irregularly wound coils

    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).

    m) Other 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);
    • be twisted after rolling.

    n) Angles, shapes and sections

    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.

    Chapter 72 does not include products of heading No. 73.01 or 73.02.

    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.

    p) Hollow drill bars and rods

    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 No. 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:
    1. Alloy pig iron

      Pig iron containing, by weight, one or more of the following elements in the specified proportions:
      • more than 0.2% of chromium
      • more than 0.3% of copper
      • more than 0.3% of nickel
      • more than 0.1% of any of the following elements: aluminum, molybdenum, titanium, tungsten (wolfram), vanadium.
    2. Non-alloy free-cutting steel

      Non-alloy steel containing, by weight, one or more of the following elements in the specified proportions:
      • 0.08% or more of sulphur
      • 0.1% or more of lead
      • more than 0.05% of selenium
      • more than 0.01% of tellurium
      • more than 0.05% of bismuth.
    3. Silicon-electrical steel

      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 aluminum but no other element in a proportion that would give the steel the characteristics of another alloy steel.
    4. High speed 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.
    5. Silico-manganese steel

      Alloy steels containing by weight:
      • not more than 0.7% of carbon,
      • 0.5% or more but not more than 1.9% of manganese, and
      • 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 No. 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.

Chapter 73:  Articles of iron or steel

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.

Chapter 74:  Copper and articles thereof

Note.

  1. In this Chapter the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them:
    1. Refined copper

      Metal containing at least 99.85% by weight of copper; or

      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:
       
      TABLE - Other elements
      Element Limiting content % by weight
      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.
    2. Copper alloys

      Metallic substances other than unrefined copper in which copper predominates by weight over each of the other elements, provided that:
      1. the content by weight of at least one of the other elements is greater than the limit specified in the foregoing table; or
      2. the total content by weight of such other elements exceeds 2.5%.
    3. Master alloys

      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 No. 28.48.
    4. Bars and rods

      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 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 No. 74.03.
    5. Profiles

      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.
    6. Wire

      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.

      In the case of heading No. 74.14, however, 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.
    7. Plates, sheets, strip and foil

      Flat-surfaced products (other than the unwrought products of heading No. 74.03), 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 of products of other headings.
      Headings Nos. 74.09 and 74.10 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.
    8. Tubes and pipes

      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 taken to be 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.

Subheading Note.

  1. In this Chapter the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them:
    1. Copper-zinc base alloys (brasses)

      Alloys of copper and zinc, with or without other elements. When other elements are present:
      • zinc predominates by weight over each of such other elements;
      • 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)).
    2. Copper-tin base 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%.
    3. Copper-nickel-zinc base alloys (nickel silvers)

      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)).
    4. Copper-nickel base alloys

      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.

Chapter 75:  Nickel and articles thereof

Note.

  1. In this Chapter the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them:
    1. Bars and rods

      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.
    2. Profiles

      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.
    3. Wire

      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.
    4. Plates, sheets, strip and foil

      Flat-surfaced products (other than the unwrought products of heading No. 75.02), 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.
      Heading No. 75.06 applies, 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.
    5. Tubes and pipes

      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.

Subheading Notes.

  1. In this Chapter the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them:
    1. Nickel, not alloyed

      Metal containing by weight at least 99% of nickel plus cobalt, provided that:
      1. the cobalt content by weight does not exceed 1.5%, and
      2. the content by weight of any other element does not exceed the limit specified in the following table:
      TABLE - Other elements
      Element Limiting content % by weight
      Fe Iron 0.5
      O Oxygen 0.4
      Other elements, each 0.3
    2. Nickel alloys

      Metallic substances in which nickel predominates by weight over each of the other elements provided that:
      1. the content by weight of cobalt exceeds 1.5%,
      2. the content by weight of at least one of the other elements is greater than the limit specified in the foregoing table, or
      3. the total content by weight of elements other than nickel plus cobalt exceeds 1%.
  2. Notwithstanding the provisions of Chapter Note 1 c), for the purposes of subheading No. 7508.10 the term "wire" applies only to products, whether or not in coils, of any cross-sectional shapes, of which no cross-sectional dimension exceeds 6 mm.

Chapter 76:  Aluminum and articles thereof

Note.

  1. In this Chapter the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them:
    1. Bars and rods

      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.
    2. Profiles

      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.
    3. Wire

      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.
    4. Plates, sheets, strip and foil

      Flat-surfaced products (other than the unwrought products of heading No. 76.01), 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 Nos. 76.06 and 76.07 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.
    5. Tubes and pipes

      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.

Subheading Notes.

  1. In this Chapter the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them:
    1. Aluminum, not alloyed

      Metal containing by weight at least 99% of aluminum, provided that the content by weight of any other element does not exceed the limit specified in the following table:
      TABLE - Other elements
      Element Limiting content % by weight
      Fe + Si (iron plus silicon) 1
      Other elements , eachFootnote 1 0.1Footnote 2

      Footnotes

      Footnote 1

      Other elements are, for example, Cr, Cu, Mg, Mn, Ni, Zn.

      Return to footnote 1 referrer

      Footnote 2

      Copper is permitted in a proportion greater than 0.1% but not more than 0.2%, provided that neither the chromium nor manganese content exceeds 0.05%.

      Return to footnote 2 referrer
    2. Aluminum alloys

      Metallic substances in which aluminum predominates by weight over each of the other elements, provided that:
      1. the content by weight of at least one of the other elements or of iron plus silicon taken together is greater than the limit specified in the foregoing table; or
      2. the total content by weight of such other elements exceeds 1%.
  2. Notwithstanding the provisions of Chapter Note 1 c), for the purposes of subheading No. 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.

Chapter 78:  Lead and articles thereof

Note.

  1. In this Chapter the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them:
    1. Bars and rods

      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.
    2. Profiles

      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.
    3. Wire

      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.
    4. Plates, sheets, strip and foil

      Flat-surfaced products (other than the unwrought products of heading No. 78.01), 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.
      Heading No. 78.04 applies, 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.
    5. Tubes and pipes

      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.

Subheading Note.

  1. In this Chapter the expression "refined lead" means:

    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:
    TABLE - Other elements
    Element Limiting content % by weight
    Ag Silver 0.02
    As Arsenic 0.005
    Bi Bismuth 0.05
    Ca Calcium 0.002
    Cd Cadmium 0.002
    Cu Copper 0.08
    Fe Iron 0.002
    S Sulphur 0.002
    Sb Antimony 0.005
    Sn Tin 0.005
    Zn Zinc 0.002
    Other (for example Te), each 0.001

Chapter 79:  Zinc and articles thereof

Note.

  1. In this Chapter the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them:
    1. Bars and rods

      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.
    2. Profiles

      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.
    3. Wire

      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.
    4. Plates, sheets, strip and foil

      Flat-surfaced products (other than the unwrought products of heading No. 79.01), 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.
      Heading No. 79.05 applies, 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.
    5. Tubes and pipes

      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.

Subheading Note.

  1. In this Chapter the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them:
    1. Zinc, not alloyed

      Metal containing by weight at least 97.5% of zinc.
    2. Zinc alloys

      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%.
    3. Zinc dust

      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.

Chapter 80:  Tin and articles thereof

Note.

  1. In this Chapter the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them:
    1. Bars and rods

      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.
    2. Profiles

      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.
    3. Wire

      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.
    4. Plates, sheets, strip and foil

      Flat-surfaced products (other than the unwrought products of heading No. 80.01), 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 Nos. 80.04 and 80.05 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.
    5. Tubes and pipes

      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.

Subheading Note.

  1. In this Chapter the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them:
    1. Tin, not alloyed

      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:
      TABLE - Other elements
      Element Limiting content % by weight
      Bi Bismuth 0.1
      Cu Copper 0.4
    2. Tin alloys

      Metallic substances in which tin predominates by weight over each of the other elements, provided that:
      1. The total content by weight of such other elements exceeds 1%; or
      2. the content by weight of either bismuth or copper is equal to or greater than the limit specified in the foregoing table.

Chapter 81:  Other base metals; cermets; articles thereof

Subheading Note.

  1. Note 1 to Chapter 74, defining "bars and rods", "profiles", "wire" and "plates, sheets, strip and foil" applies, mutatis mutandis, to this Chapter.

Chapter 82:  Tools, implements, cutlery, spoons and forks, of base metal; parts thereof of base metal

Notes.

  1. Apart from blow lamps, portable forges, grinding wheels with frameworks, manicure or pedicure sets, and goods of heading No. 82.09, this Chapter covers only articles with a blade, working edge, working surface or other working part of:
    1. Base metal;
    2. Metal carbides or cermets;
    3. Precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed) on a support of base metal, metal carbide or cermet; or
    4. 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 No. 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 or cutting plates for electric shavers or electric hair clippers are to be classified in heading No. 85.10.
  3. Sets consisting of one or more knives of heading No. 82.11 and at least an equal number of articles of heading No. 82.15 are to be classified in heading No. 82.15.

Chapter 83:  Miscellaneous articles of base metal

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 No. 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 No. 83.02, the word "castors" means those having a diameter (including, where appropriate, tires) not exceeding 75 mm, or those having a diameter (including, where appropriate, tires) exceeding 75 mm provided that the width of the wheel or tire fitted thereto is less than 30 mm.
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