Footwear, headgear, umbrellas, sun umbrellas,
walking-sticks, seat-sticks, whips, riding-crops and parts thereof; Prepared
feathers and articles made therewith; Artificial flowers; Articles of human
hair.
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.
Base metals and articles of base metal. Chapters 78 to 81
cover particular unwrought base metals (lead, zinc, tin and other base metals)
and products of those metals such as bars, rods, wire or sheets, as well as
articles thereof.
Chapters 82 and 83 cover certain specified articles of base
metal which, without regard to the nature of the constituent metal.
In order to classify articles of base metals, one should always check
first if they are covered in chapter 82 or 83, and if not, find the chapter
related to their constituent material.
Machinery and mechanical appliances; electrical
equipment; parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and
sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles.
Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and
mechanical appliances; parts thereof. In general, Chapter 84 covers machinery
and mechanical apparatus and Chapter 85 electrical goods. However, certain
machines are specified in headings of Chapter 85 (e.g., electro-mechanical hand
tools and electro-mechanical domestic appliances) while Chapter 84 on the other
hand covers certain non-mechanical apparatus (e.g., steam generating boilers
and their auxiliary apparatus, and filtering apparatus).
Chapter 85 of Section XVI deals with 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 can be divided into two major
categories: vehicles, aircraft and vessels and associated transport equipment.
The four Chapters of this Section are divided according to their mode of
transport.
