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Harmonized System
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 32.07 to 32.10, 32.12, 32.13 or 32.15);
(b) Ferro‑cerium or other pyrophoric alloys (heading 36.06);
(c) Headgear or parts thereof of heading 65.06 or 65.07;
(d) Umbrella frames or other articles of heading 66.03;
(e) Goodsof 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);
(h) Instruments or apparatus of Section XVIII, including clock or watch springs;
(ij) Lead shotprepared for ammunition (heading 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, monopods, bipods, tripods and similar articles or other articles of Chapter 96 (miscellaneous manufactured articles); or
(n) Articles of Chapter 97 (for example, works of art).
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 metals;
(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) :
(a) 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;
(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.
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 :
(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 :
(a) 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.
(b) Powders
Products of which 90 % or more by weight passes through a sieve having a mesh aperture of 1 mm.
Chapter 74
Copper and articles thereof
Note.
1.‑ In this Chapter the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them :
(a) 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 As Arsenic Cd Cadmium Cr Chromium Mg Magnesium Pb Lead S Sulphur Sn Tin Te Tellurium Zn Zinc Zr Zirconium Other elements*, each |
0.25 0.5 1.3 1.4 0.8 1.5 0.7 0.8 0.8 1 0.3 0.3 |
* Other elements are, for example, Al, Be, Co, Fe, Mn, Ni, Si.
(b) Copper alloys
Metallic substances other than unrefined copper in which copper predominates by weight over each of the other elements, provided that :
(i) the content by weight of at least one of the other elements is greater than the limit specified in the foregoing table; or
(ii) the total content by weight of such other elements exceeds 2.5 %.
(c) 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 28.53.
(d) 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 74.03.
(e) 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.
(f) 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.
(g) Plates, sheets, strip and foil
Flat‑surfaced products (other than the unwrought products of heading 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 or products of other headings.
Headings 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.
(h) 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.
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Subheading Note.
1.‑ In this Chapter the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them :
(a) 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)).
(b) 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 %.
(c) 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)).
(d) 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.
Heading 7413
Stranded wire, cables, plaited bands and the like, of copper, not electrically insulated.
7413.00
Stranded wire, cables, plaited bands and the like, of copper, not electrically insulated.
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 32.07 to 32.10, 32.12, 32.13 or 32.15);
(b) Ferro‑cerium or other pyrophoric alloys (heading 36.06);
(c) Headgear or parts thereof of heading 65.06 or 65.07;
(d) Umbrella frames or other articles of heading 66.03;
(e) Goodsof 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);
(h) Instruments or apparatus of Section XVIII, including clock or watch springs;
(ij) Lead shotprepared for ammunition (heading 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, monopods, bipods, tripods and similar articles or other articles of Chapter 96 (miscellaneous manufactured articles); or
(n) Articles of Chapter 97 (for example, works of art).
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 metals;
(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) :
(a) 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;
(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.
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 :
(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 :
(a) 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.
(b) Powders
Products of which 90 % or more by weight passes through a sieve having a mesh aperture of 1 mm.
Chapter 74
Copper and articles thereof
Note.
1.‑ In this Chapter the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them :
(a) 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 As Arsenic Cd Cadmium Cr Chromium Mg Magnesium Pb Lead S Sulphur Sn Tin Te Tellurium Zn Zinc Zr Zirconium Other elements*, each |
0.25 0.5 1.3 1.4 0.8 1.5 0.7 0.8 0.8 1 0.3 0.3 |
* Other elements are, for example, Al, Be, Co, Fe, Mn, Ni, Si.
(b) Copper alloys
Metallic substances other than unrefined copper in which copper predominates by weight over each of the other elements, provided that :
(i) the content by weight of at least one of the other elements is greater than the limit specified in the foregoing table; or
(ii) the total content by weight of such other elements exceeds 2.5 %.
(c) 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 28.53.
(d) 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 74.03.
(e) 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.
(f) 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.
(g) Plates, sheets, strip and foil
Flat‑surfaced products (other than the unwrought products of heading 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 or products of other headings.
Headings 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.
(h) 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.
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Subheading Note.
1.‑ In this Chapter the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them :
(a) 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)).
(b) 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 %.
(c) 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)).
(d) 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.
Heading 7413
Stranded wire, cables, plaited bands and the like, of copper, not electrically insulated.
7413.00
Stranded wire, cables, plaited bands and the like, of copper, not electrically insulated.
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