Articles of stone, plaster, cement, asbestos,
mica or similar materials; ceramic products; glass and glassware.
Chapter 71 covers natural or cultured pearls,
natural precious or semi-precious stones, reconstructed precious or
semi-precious stones, and dust and powder of natural or synthetic precious or
semi-precious stones.
Section XV explains base metals and articles of
base metal. This section covers base metals (including those in a chemically
pure state) and many articles thereof. The section also includes native metals
separated from their gangues, and the mattes of copper, nickel or cobalt.
Metallic ores and native metals still enclosed in their gangues are excluded
(headings 26.01 to 26.17).
Base metals and articles of base metal. Chapter 72 covers
ferrous metals in primary forms and as products derived directly from those
forms (e.g. semi-finished products and semi-manufactures). It is divided into
four Sub-Chapters:
Other alloy steel; hollow drill bars and rods of alloy or non-alloy
steel.
This Section covers most vegetable products
that have not undergone processing, or have undergone only limited processing;
these products are arranged in 9 Chapters.
Section I covers, with certain exceptions, all
live animals and products of animal origin which have not undergone any
transformation or have undergone a limited transformation.
Section III contains only one Chapter, Chapter
15. Overall, the contents of Chapter 15 are animal or vegetable fats and oils
and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes.
Section IV generally covers products of animal
or vegetable origin that have been processed to an extent beyond that provided
for in the previous Sections
Divided into three Chapters, this Section covers
the majority of the mineral products.
Section VI covers products of the chemical or
allied industries. Inorganic and organic products are therefore classified
here.
