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2008 Schedule B - Chapter 71
Section XIV
Natural or Cultured Pearls, Precious or Semiprecious Stones, Precious Metals,
Metals Clad with Precious Metal, and Articles Thereof;
Imitation Jewelry; Coin
Section XIV - Chapter 71
Natural or Cultured Pearls, Precious or Semiprecious Stones, Precious Metals, Metals Clad with
Precious Metal, and Articles Thereof; Imitation Jewelry; Coin
Notes
1. Subject to note 1(a) to section VI and except as provided below, all articles consisting wholly
or partly:
(a). Of natural or cultured pearls or of precious or semiprecious stones (natural, synthetic
or reconstructed), or
(b). Of precious metal, or of metal clad with precious metal, are to be classified in this
chapter.
2. (a). Headings 7113, 7114 and 7115 do not cover articles in which precious metal or
metal clad with precious metal is present as minor constituents only, such as minor
fittings or minor ornamentation (for example, monograms, ferrules and rims), and
paragraph (b) of the foregoing note does not apply to such articles.
(b). Heading 7116 does not cover articles containing precious metal or metal clad with
precious metal (other than as minor constituents).
3. This chapter does not cover:
(a). Amalgams of precious metal, or colloidal precious metal (heading 2843);
(b). Sterile surgical suture materials, dental fillings or other goods of chapter 30;
(c). Goods of chapter 32 (for example, lustres);
(d). Supported catalysts (heading 3815);
(e). Articles of heading 4202 or 4203 referred to in note 2(b) to chapter 42;
(f). Articles of heading 4303 or 4304;
(g). Goods of section XI (textiles and textile articles);
(h). Footwear, headgear or other articles of chapter 64 or 65;
(i). Umbrellas, walking-sticks or other articles of chapter 66;
(j). Abrasive goods of heading 6804 or 6805 or chapter 82, containing dust or powder
of precious or semiprecious stones (natural or synthetic); articles of chapter 82 with
a working part of precious or semiprecious stones (natural, synthetic or
reconstructed); machinery, mechanical appliances or electrical goods, or parts
thereof, of section XVI. However, articles and parts thereof, wholly of precious or
semiprecious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed) remain classified in this
chapter, except unmounted worked sapphires and diamonds for styli (heading 8522);
(k). See (j) above.
(l). Articles of chapter 90, 91 or 92 (scientific instruments, clocks and watches, musical
instruments);
(m). Arms or parts thereof (chapter 93);
(n). Articles covered by note 2 to chapter 95;
(o). Articles classified in chapter 96 by virtue of note 4 to that chapter; or
(p). Original sculptures or statuary (heading 9703), collectors' pieces (heading 9705) or
antiques of an age exceeding one hundred years (heading 9706), other than natural
or cultured pearls or precious or semiprecious stones.
4. (a). The expression "precious metal" means silver, gold and platinum.
(b). The expression "platinum" means platinum, iridium, osmium, palladium, rhodium
and ruthenium.
(c). The expression "precious or semiprecious stones" does not include any of the
substances specified in note 2(b) to chapter 96.
5. For the purposes of this chapter, any alloy (including a sintered mixture and an intermetallic
compound) containing precious metal is to be treated as an alloy of precious metal if any
one precious metal constitutes as much as 2 percent, by weight, of the alloy. Alloys of
precious metal are to be classified according to the following rules:
(a). An alloy containing 2 percent or more, by weight, of platinum is to be treated as an
alloy of platinum;
(b). An alloy containing 2 percent or more, by weight, of gold but no platinum, or less
than 2 percent, by weight, of platinum is to be treated as an alloy of gold;
(c). Other alloys containing 2 percent or more, by weight, of silver are to be treated as
alloys of silver.
6. Except where the context otherwise requires, any reference in the nomenclature to precious
metal or to any particular precious metal includes a reference to alloys treated as alloys of
precious metal or of the particular metal in accordance with the rules in note 5 above, but
not to metal clad with precious metal or to base metal or non-metals coated or plated with
precious metal.
7. Throughout the nomenclature, the expression "metal clad with precious metal" means
material made with a base of metal upon one or more surfaces of which there is affixed by
soldering, brazing, welding, hot-rolling or similar mechanical means a covering of precious
metal. Except where the context otherwise requires, the expression also covers base metal
inlaid with precious metal.
8. Subject to note 1(a) to Section VI, goods answering to a description in heading 7112 are
to be classified in that heading and in no other heading of the tariff schedule.
9. For the purposes of heading 7113, the expression "articles of jewelry" means:
(a). Any small objects of personal adornment (gem-set or not) (for example, rings,
bracelets, necklaces, brooches, earrings, watch chains, fobs, pendants, tie pins, cuff
links, dress studs, religious or other medals and insignia); and
(b). Articles of personal use of a kind normally carried in the pocket, in the handbag or
on the person (for example, cigar or cigarette cases, snuff boxes, ca chou or
pillboxes, powder boxes, chain purses or prayer beads).
These articles may be combined or set, for example, with natural or cultured pearls,
precious or semiprecious stones, synthetic or reconstructed precious or semiprecious
stones, tortoise shell, mother-of-pearl, ivory, natural or reconstituted amber, jet or coral.
10 For the purposes of heading 7114, the expression "articles of goldsmiths' or silversmiths'
wares" includes such articles as ornaments, tableware, toilet-ware, smokers' articles and
other articles of household, office or religious use.
11 For the purposes of heading 7117, the expression "imitation jewelry" means articles
of jewelry within the meaning of paragraph (a) of note 9 above (but not including
buttons or other articles of heading 9606, or dress combs, hair slides or the like, or
hair-pins, of heading 9615), not incorporating natural or cultured pearls, precious or
semiprecious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed) nor (except as plating or as
minor constituents) precious metal or metal clad with precious metal.
Subheading Notes
1. For the purposes of subheadings 7106.10, 7108.11, 7110.11, 7110.21, 7110.31 and
7110.41, the expressions "powder" and "in powder form" mean products of which 90
percent or more by weight passes through a sieve having a mesh aperture of 0.5 mm.
(0.020 inch).
2. Notwithstanding the provisions of chapter note 4(b), for the purposes of subheadings
7110.11 and 7110.19, the expression "platinum" does not include iridium, osmium,
palladium, rhodium or ruthenium.
3. For the classification of alloys in the subheadings of heading 7110, each alloy is to be
classified with that metal, platinum, palladium, rhodium, iridium, osmium or ruthenium,
which predominates by weight over each other of these metals.
Statistical Note
1. For the purposes of subchapter II, unless the context otherwise requires:
(a). The term "unwrought" refers to metals, whether or not refined, in the form of ingots,
blocks, lumps, billets, cakes, slabs, pigs, cathodes, anodes, briquettes, cubes, sticks,
grains, sponge, pellets, shot, and similar manufactured primary forms, but does not
cover rolled, forged, drawn, or extruded products, tubular products or cast or
sintered forms which have been machined or processed otherwise than by simple
trimming, scalping or descaling;
(b). The term "semimanufactured" refers to wrought metal products in the form of bars,
rods, sections, plates, sheets, strips, wire, tubes, pipes, and hollow bars, and to
powder (other than primary metals in powder form);
(c). The term "waste and scrap" refers to materials and articles of metals which are
second-hand or waste or refuse, or are obsolete, defective, or damaged, and which
are fit only for the recovery of the metal content or for use in the manufacture of
chemicals, and does not include metals in unwrought form or metal-bearing
materials provided for in heading 2616.
I. NATURAL OR CULTURED PEARLS AND PRECIOUS OR
SEMIPRECIOUS STONES
7101 Pearls, natural or cultured, whether or not worked or graded but
not strung, mounted or set; pearls, natural or cultured,
temporarily strung for convenience of transport:
7101100000 Natural pearls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X
Cultured pearls:
7101210000 Unworked . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X
7101220000 Worked . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X
7102 Diamonds, whether or not worked, but not mounted or set:
7102100000 Unsorted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . carat
Industrial:
7102210000 Unworked or simply sawn, cleaved or bruted carat
7102290000 Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . carat
Nonindustrial:
7102310000 Unworked or simply sawn, cleaved or bruted carat
710239 Other:
7102390010 Weighing not over 0.5 carat each . . . carat
7102390050 Weighing over 0.5 carat each . . . . . carat
7103 Precious stones (other than diamonds) and semiprecious stones,
whether or not worked or graded but not strung, mounted or set;
ungraded precious stones (other than diamonds) and semi-
precious stones, temporarily strung for convenience of transport:
710310 Unworked or simply sawn or roughly shaped:
7103102000 Unworked . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . carat
7103104000 Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . carat
Otherwise worked:
7103910000 Rubies, sapphires and emeralds . . . . . . X
710399 Other:
7103991000 Cut but not set, and suitable for use in the
manufacture of jewelry . . . . . . . . . X
7103995000 Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X
7104 Synthetic or reconstructed precious or semiprecious stones,
whether or not worked or graded but not strung, mounted or set;
ungraded synthetic or reconstructed precious or semiprecious
stones, temporarily strung for convenience of transport:
7104100000 Piezo-electric quartz . . . . . . . . . . . .kg
7104200000 Other, unworked or simply sawn or roughly shaped X
710490 Other:
7104901000 Cut but not set, and suitable for use in the
manufacture of jewelry . . . . . . . . . .No.
7104905000 Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X
7105 Dust and powder of natural or synthetic precious or semiprecious
stones:
710510 Of diamonds:
7105100010 Natural . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . carat
7105100025 Synthetic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . carat
7105900000 Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg
II. PRECIOUS METALS AND METALS CLAD WITH PRECIOUS METAL
7106 Silver (including silver plated with gold or platinum), unwrought
or in semimanufactured forms, or in powder form:
7106100000 Powder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . g
Other:
710691 Unwrought:
Bullion and dore:
7106911010 Bullion (silver content) . . . . . .Ag g
7106911020 Dore (silver content) . . . . . . . Ag g
7106915000 Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . g
7106920000 Semimanufactured . . . . . . . . . . . . . g
7107000000 Base metals clad with silver, not further worked than
semimanufactured . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . g
7108 Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in
semimanufactured forms, or in powder form:
Nonmonetary:
7108110000 Powder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . g
710812 Other unwrought forms:
Bullion and dore:
7108121010 Bullion (gold content) . . . . . . Au g
7108121020 Dore (gold content) . . . . . . . . Au g
7108125000 Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . g
710813 Other semimanufactured forms:
7108131000 Gold leaf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . cm2
7108135000 Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . g
7108200000 Monetary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . g
7109000000 Base metals or silver, clad with gold, not further worked than
semimanufactured . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . g
7110 Platinum, unwrought or in semimanufactured forms, or in
powder form:
Platinum:
7110110000 Unwrought or in powder form (platinum content) Pt g
7110190000 Other (platinum content) . . . . . . . . .Pt g
Palladium:
7110210000 Unwrought or in powder form (palladium content) Pd g
7110290000 Other (palladium content) . . . . . . . .Pd g
Rhodium:
7110310000 Unwrought or in powder form (rhodium content) Rh g
7110390000 Other (rhodium content) . . . . . . . . .Rh g
Iridium, osmium and ruthenium:
7110410000 Unwrought or in powder form . . . . . . . g
7110490000 Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . g
7111000000 Base metals, silver or gold, clad with platinum, not further
worked than semimanufactured . . . . . . . . . g
7112 Waste and scrap of precious metal or of metal clad with precious
metal; other waste and scrap containing precious metal or
precious metal compounds, of a kind used principally for the
recovery of precious metal:
7112300000 Ash containing precious metals or precious metal
compounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . g
Other:
7112910000 Of gold, including metal clad with gold but excluding
sweepings containing other precious metals g
gold contentAu g
7112920000 Of platinum, including metal clad with platinum but
excluding sweepings containing other precious metals g
platinum content Pt g
7112990000 Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . g
III. JEWELRY, GOLDSMITHS' AND SILVERSMITHS' WARES AND
OTHER ARTICLES
7113 Articles of jewelry and parts thereof, of precious metal or of
metal clad with precious metal:
Of precious metal whether or not plated or clad with
precious metal:
7113110000 Of silver, whether or not plated or clad with other
precious metal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X
7113190000 Of other precious metal, whether or not plated or clad
with precious metal . . . . . . . . . . . X
7113200000 Of base metal clad with precious metal . . . X
7114 Articles of goldsmiths' or silversmiths' wares and parts thereof,
of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal:
Of precious metal whether or not plated or clad with
precious metal:
711411 Of silver, whether or not plated or clad with other
precious metal:
7114115100 Knives, forks, spoons or ladles, whether or not
combined in sets . . . . . . . . . . . .PCs.
7114115500 Articles not elsewhere specified or included of a type
used for household, table or kitchen use; toilet and
sanitary wares; all the foregoing and parts thereof, of
silver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X
7114117000 Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X
7114190000 Of other precious metal, whether or not plated or clad
with precious metal . . . . . . . . . . . X
7114200000 Of base metal clad with precious metal . . . X
7115 Other articles of precious metal or of metal clad with precious
metal:
7115100000 Catalysts in the form of wire cloth or grill, of platinum g
7115900000 Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . g
7116 Articles of natural or cultured pearls, precious or semiprecious
stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed):
711610 Of natural or cultured pearls:
7116101000 Natural . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X
7116102500 Cultured . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X
711620 Of precious or semiprecious stones (natural, synthetic or
reconstructed):
7116201000 Articles of jewelry . . . . . . . . . . . X
7116204050 Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X
7117 Imitation jewelry:
Of base metal, whether or not plated with precious metal:
7117110000 Cuff links and studs . . . . . . . . . . . X
7117190000 Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X
7117900000 Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X
7118 Coin:
7118100000 Coin (other than gold coin), not being legal tender X
711890 Other:
7118900030 Gold (gold content) . . . . . . . . . . .Au g
7118900050 Other than gold . . . . . . . . . . . . . X
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Source: FTDWebMaster, Foreign
Trade Division, U.S. Census Bureau, Washington, D.C. 20233
Location: MAIN: REFERENCE:CODES:
SCHEDULE B 2008
Created: 15 January 2008
Last modified:
15 January 2008 at 03:45:05 PM
