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