2011 Schedule B - Chapter 46

Section IX - Chapter 46

Manufactures of Straw, of Esparto or of 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,
     rattans, 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:
      Of bamboo  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .X
      Of rattan  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .X
      Other  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .X
               Other:
      Of bamboo  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .X
      Of rattan  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .X
      Of other vegetable materials . . . . . . .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:
      Of bamboo  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .X
      Of rattan  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .X
      Other  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .X
   Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .X