Notes:
- 1.
- This Chapter does not cover:
(a) Goods of heading No. 32.07 (for example, virtifiable enamels and glazes, glass frit, other glass in the form of powder, granules of flakes);
(b) Articles of Chapter 71 (for example, imitation jewellery);
(c) Optical fibre cables of heading No.85.44, elecrtical insulators heading No. 85.46 or fittings of insulating material-heading No. 85.47l;
(d) Optical fibres, optically worked opitcal elements, hypodermic syringes, artificial eyes, thermometres, barometers or other articles of Chapter 90;
(e) Lamps or lighing fittings, illuminated signs, illuminated name plates and the like, having a permanently fixed light source, or parts thereof of heading No. 94.05;
(f) Toys, games, sports requisites, Christmas tree ornaments or other articles of Chapter 95 (excluding glass eyes without mechanisms for dolls or for other articles of Chapter 95); or
(g) Buttons, fitted vacuum flasks, scent or similar sprays or other articles of Chapter 96.
- 2.
- For the purposes of heading Nos. 70.03, 70.04 and 70.05;
(a) glass is not regarded as "worked" by reason of any process it has undergone before annealing;
(b) cutting to shape does not affect the classifiction of glass in sheets;
(c) the expression "absorbent or reflectiong or non-reflecting layer" means a microscopically thin coating of metal or of a chemical compound (e.g. metal oxide) which absorbs, for example, intra-red light or imprves the reflecting quanlities of the glass while still allowing it to retain a degree of transparency or transparency or which prevents light from being reflected on the surface of the glass.
- 3.
- The products referred to in heading No. 70.06 remain classified in that heading whether or not they have the character of articles.
- 4.
- For the purposes of heading No. 70.19, the expression "glass wool" means;
(a) Mineral wools with a silica (SiO2) content not less than 60% by weight;
(b) Mineral wools with a silica (SiO2) content not less than 60% but with an alkalineg oxide (K2O or Na2O) content exceeding 5% by weight or a boric oxide (B2O3) content exceeding 2% by weight.
Mineral wools which do not comply with the above specification fall in heading No. 68.06.
- 5.
- Throughout this Schedule the expression "glass" includes fused quartz and other fused silica.
Sub-heading Note
For the purposes of sub-heading Nos. 7013.21, 7013.31, 7013.91, the expression "lead crystal" means only glass having a minimum lead monoxide (PbO) content by weight of 24%.