Notes:
1. This Section does not cover:
(a) Prepared paints, inks or other products with a basis of metallic flakes or powder
(heading Nos. 32.07 to 32.10, 32.12, 32.13 or 32.15);
(b) Ferro-cerium or other pyrophoric alloys (heading No. 36.06);
(c) Headgear or parts thereof heading No. 65.06 or 65.07’
(d) Umbrella frames or other articles of heading no. 66.03;
(e) Goods of chapter 71 (for example, precious metal alloys, basemetal clad with precious
metal, imitation jewellery);
(f) Articles of Section XVI (machinery, mechanical applicances and electrical goods);
(g) Assembled railway or tramsway track (heading No 86.08) or other articles of Section XIX
(arms and ammunition);
(h) Instruments or apparatus of Section XVII, including clock or watch springs;
(ij) Lead shot prepared for ammunition (heading No. 93.06) or other articles of Section XIX
(arms and ammunition);
(k) Artcles of chapter 94 (for example, furniture,mattress supports, lamps and lighting
fittings, illuminated signs, prefabricated buildings);
(l) Articles of chapter 95 (for example,toys, games, sports requisites);
(m) Hand sieves, buttons, pen, pencil-holders, pen nibs or other articles of Chapter 96
(miscellaneous manufactured articles); or
(n) Articles of chapter 97 (for example, works of art).
2. Throughout this Schedule the expression "parts of general use" means:
(a) Articles of heading Nos. 73.07, 73.12, 73.15, 73.17 or 73.18 and similar articles of
otherbase metal;
(b) Springs and leaves for springs, of base metal, other than clock or watch springs
(heading No. 91.14); and
(c) Articles of headings Nos. 83.01, 83.02, 83.08, 83.10 and frames and mirrors, of base
metal, of heading No. 83.06.
iN Chapters 73 to 76 and 78 to 82 (but not in heading No. 73.15) references to parts of
goods do not include reference to parts of general use as defined above.
subject to the preceding paragraph and to Note 1 to Chapter 83, the articles of Chapter
82 or 83 are excluded from Chapters 72 to 76 and 78 to 81.
3. Throughout this Schedule, the expression "base metals" means: iron and steel, copper,
nickel, aluminium, lead, zinc, tin, tungsten(wolfram). molybdenum, tantalum, magnesium,
cobalt, bismuth, cadmium, titanium, zirconium, antimony, manganese, beryllium, chromium,
germanium, vanadium, gallium, hafnium, indium, niobium, (columbium), rhenium and
thallium.
4. Throughout this Schedule, the term "cermets" includes sintered metal carbides(metal
carbides sintered with a metal).
5. Classification of alloys (other than ferro-alloys and master alloys as defined in Chapter
72-74):
(a) An alloy od base metals is to be classified as an alloy of the metal which predominates
by weight over each of the other metals;
(b) An alloy composed of base metals of this Section and of elements not falling within this
section is to be treated as an alloy of base metals of this Section if the total weight
of the other elements present;
(c) In this Section the term "alloys" includes sintered mixtures of metal powers, heterogeneous
intimatemixtures obtained by melting (other than cements) and intermetallic compounds.
6. Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in this Schedule to a base metal includes
a reference to alloys which, by virtue of Note 5 above, are to be classified as alloys
of that metal.
7. Classification of composite articles:
Except where the headings otherwise require, articles of base metal (including articles
of mixed materials treted as articles of base meta under the Interpretative Rules)
containing two or more base metals ae to be treated as articles of the base metal
predominating by weight over each of the other metals. For this purpose:
(a) Iron and steel, or different kinds of iron or steel, are regarded as one and the same
metal;
(b) An alloys is regarded as being entirely composed of that metal as an alloys of which, by
virtue of Note 5, it is classified; and
(c) A cermet of heading No. 81.13 is regarded as a single base metal.
8. In this Section, the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them:
(a) Waste and scrap:
Metal waste and scrap from the manufacture or mechanical working of metals, and metal
goods definitely not usable as such because of breakage, cutting-up, wear or other
reasons.
(b) Powders.
Products of which 90% or more by weight passes through a sieve having a mesh aperture of 1 mm.