2004 Schedule B - Chapter 46

                                                                                                    
                                                                                                    
Chapter - 46                                                                                        
2004 Sched ule B                                                                                               
                                                                                                    
Manufactures of Straw, of Esparto or of Other Plaiting                                              
Materials; Basketware 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 obtained from                                          
    broad leaves), unspun natural textile fibers, 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 rovings or yarns,                                     
    or monofilament and strip and the like of chapter 54.                                           
                                                                                                    
2.  This chapter does not cover:                                                                    
                                                                                                    
  (a). Wall coverings of heading 4814;                                                              
                                                                                                    
  (b). Twine, cordage, ropes or cables, plaited or not                                              
       (heading 5607);                                                                              
                                                                                                    
  (c). Footwear or headgear or parts thereof of chapter 64                                          
       or 65;                                                                                       
                                                                                                    
  (d). Vehicles and bodies for vehicles of basketware (chapter                                      
       87); or                                                                                      
                                                                                                    
  (e). Articles of chapter 94 (for example, furniture, lamps                                        
       and lighting fittings).                                                                      
                                                                                                    
3.  For the purposes of heading 4601, the expression "plaiting                                      
    materials, plaits and similar products of plaiting                                              
    materials, bound together in parallel strands" 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.                                                                  
                                                                                                    
   Plaits and similar products of plaiting                                                          
	     materials, whether or not assembled into                                                      
	     strips; plaiting materials, plaits and                                                        
	     similar products of plaiting materials, bound                                                 
	     together in parallel strands or woven, in                                                     
	     sheet form, whether or not being finished                                                     
	     articles (for example, mats, matting and                                                      
	     screens):                                                                                     
                                                                                                    
     Mats, matting and screens of vegetable                                                         
	       materials  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X                                              
                                                                                                    
               Other:                                                                               
        Of vegetable materials (bamboo, rattan,                                                     
		  willow, chip and related fibrous veg-                                                           
		  etable substances):                                                                             
          Plaits and similar products of                                                            
		    plaiting materials, whether or not                                                            
		    assembled into strips . . . . . . . . . X                                                     
                                                                                                    
                    Other:                                                                          
             Of one or more of the materials                                                        
		       bamboo, rattan, willow or wood  . . .X                                                     
                                                                                                    
             Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .X                                                 
                                                                                                    
        Other:                                                                                      
          Plaits and similar products of plaiting,                                                  
		    whether or not assembled into strips . .X                                                     
                                                                                                    
          Other  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .X                                                 
                                                                                                    
   Basketwork, wickerwork and other articles,                                                       
	     made directly to shape from plaiting materials                                                
	     or made up from articles of heading 4601;                                                     
	     articles of loofah:                                                                           
                                                                                                    
     Of vegetable materials  . . . . . . . . . . .X                                                 
                                                                                                    
     Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .X