Course Category: Harmonized System

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).

Knitted or crocheted fabrics; Articles of
apparel and clothing; Accessories, knitted or crocheted; Articles of apparel
and clothing accessories, not knitted or crocheted; Other made up textile articles;
Sets; Worn clothing and worn textile articles; Rags. These chapters cover
knitted or crocheted fabrics, not made-up (Chap. 60), articles of apparel and
clothing accessories, knitted or crocheted (Chap. 61), or not knitted or
crocheted (Chap. 62), and Other made up textile articles (Chap. 63).

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.

Wadding, felt and nonwovens; special yarns;
twine; cordage, ropes and cables and articles thereof; Carpets and other
textile floor coverings; Special woven fabrics, tufted textile fabrics; lace;
trimmings; embroidery; Impregnated, coated, covered or laminated textile
fabrics; textile articles of a kind suitable for industrial use. Chapters 56 to
59 cover made up products and non-made up products.

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:

• Primary materials; products in granular or
  powder form.
• Iron and non-alloy steel.
• Stainless steel.

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.