Section notes
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) 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 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 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 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 ôbase
metalsö 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 metal