Chapter 46

Manufactures of straw, of esparto or of other plaiting materials;

 Basket ware and wickerwork

 

Notes.

1-     In this Chapter the expression “Plaiting materials” means materials in a state or form suitable for plaiting, interlacing or similar processes; it includes straw, osier or willow, bamboos, rushes, reeds, strips of wood, strips of other vegetable material (for example, strips of bark, narrow leaves and raffia or other strips abtained from broad leaves), unspun natural textile fibres, monofilament and strip and the like of plastics and strips of paper, but not strips of leather or composition leather or of felt or nonwovens, human hair, horsehair, textile roving or yarns, or monofilament and strip and the like of Chapter 54.

 

2-     This Chapter does not cover:

( a )Wall coverings of heading No.48.14;

( b )Twine, cordage, ropes or cables, plaited or not (heading No. 56.07),

( c )Footwear or headgear or parts thereof of chapter 64 or 65,

( d )Vehicles or bodies for vehicles of basket ware (Chapter 87); or

( e )Articles of Chapter 94 (for example, furniture, lamps and lighting fittings).

 

3-     For the purposes of heading No. 46.01, the expression “plaiting materials, plaits and similar products of plaiting materials, bound together in parallel stands” means plaiting materials, plaits and similar products of plaiting materials, placed side by side and bound together, in the form of sheets, whether or not the binding materials are of spun textile materials.

 

Explanatory remarks to chapter 46

   The exportation of the goods covered by this chapter is subject to the approval of the Ministry of commerce.

 

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