Schedule B 2002 - 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
  
  
  Chapter - 71
 Schedule B
  
  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 (such as cigarette cases, powder boxes, chain purses or pill boxes).
  
  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 but-
    tons 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
  
         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:
     Natural pearls  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X
                 Cultured pearls:
        Unworked . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X
        Worked . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X
  
         Diamonds, whether or not worked, but not mounted or set:
     Unsorted  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . carat
                 Industrial:
        Unworked or simply sawn, cleaved or bruted carat
        Other  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . carat
  
                 Nonindustrial:
        Unworked or simply sawn, cleaved or bruted carat
7102.39           Other:
          Weighing not over 0.5 carat each . . . carat
          Weighing over 0.5 carat each . . . . . carat
  
         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:
7103.10        Unworked or simply sawn or roughly shaped:
        Unworked . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . carat
        Other  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . carat
  
                 Otherwise worked:
        Rubies, sapphires and emeralds . . . . . . X
7103.99           Other:
          Cut but not set, and suitable for use in the 
                      manufacture of jewelry . . . . . . . . . X
          Other  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X
  
         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:
     Piezo-electric quartz . . . . . . . . . . . .kg
     Other, unworked or simply sawn or roughly shaped X
7104.90        Other:
        Cut but not set, and suitable for use in the
                    manufacture of jewelry . . . . . . . . . .No.
        Other  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X
  
         Dust and powder of natural or synthetic precious or semiprecious
               stones:
7105.10        Of diamonds:
        Natural  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . carat
        Synthetic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . carat
     Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg
  
               II. PRECIOUS METALS AND METALS CLAD WITH PRECIOUS METAL
  
         Silver (including silver plated with gold or platinum), unwrought 
               or in semimanufactured forms, or in powder form:
     Powder  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . g
                 Other:
7106.91           Unwrought:
                      Bullion and dore:
             Bullion (silver content)  . . . . . .Ag g
             Dore (silver content) . . . . . . .  Ag g
          Other  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . g
        Semimanufactured . . . . . . . . . . . . . g
  
   Base metals clad with silver, not further worked than
               semimanufactured  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . g
         Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in
               semimanufactured forms, or in powder form:
                 Nonmonetary:
        Powder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . g
7108.12           Other unwrought forms:
                      Bullion and dore:
             Bullion (gold content)  . . . . . .  Au g
             Dore (gold content) . . . . . . . .  Au g
          Other  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . g
  
7108.13           Other semimanufactured forms:
          Gold leaf  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . cm2
          Other  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . g
  
     Monetary  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . g
  
   Base metals or silver, clad with gold, not further worked than
               semimanufactured . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . g
  
         Platinum, unwrought or in semimanufactured forms, or in 
               powder form:
                 Platinum:
        Unwrought or in powder form (platinum content) Pt g
        Other (platinum content) . . . . . . . . .Pt g
                 Palladium:
        Unwrought or in powder form (palladium content) Pd g
        Other (palladium content)  . . . . . . . .Pd g
                 Rhodium:
        Unwrought or in powder form (rhodium content) Rh g
        Other (rhodium content)  . . . . . . . . .Rh g
                 Iridium, osmium and ruthenium:
        Unwrought or in powder form  . . . . . . . g
        Other  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . g
  
   Base metals, silver or gold, clad with platinum, not further 
               worked than semimanufactured  . . . . . . . . . g
         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:
     Ash containing precious metals or precious metal 
                 compounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . g
  
                 Other:
  
        Of gold, including metal clad with gold but excluding
                    sweepings containing other precious metals g
                                                       gold contentAu g
  
        Of platinum, including metal clad with platinum but
                    excluding sweepings containing other precious metals g
                                                       platinum content Pt g
  
        Other  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . g
  
  
               III. JEWELRY, GOLDSMITHS' AND SILVERSMITHS' WARES AND 
                   OTHER ARTICLES
  
         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:
        Of silver, whether or not plated or clad with other
                    precious metal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X
  
        Of other precious metal, whether or not plated or clad
                    with precious metal  . . . . . . . . . . . X
  
     Of base metal clad with precious metaL  . . . X
         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:
7114.11           Of silver, whether or not plated or clad with other
                    precious metal:
          Knives, forks, spoons or ladles, whether or not
                      combined in sets . . . . . . . . . . . .PCs.
          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
          Other  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X
  
        Of other precious metal, whether or not plated or clad 
                    with precious metal  . . . . . . . . . . . X
  
     Of base metal clad with precious metal  . . . X
  
         Other articles of precious metal or of metal clad with precious 
               metal:
     Catalysts in the form of wire cloth or grill, of platinum X
     Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X
  
         Articles of natural or cultured pearls, precious or semiprecious 
               stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed):
7116.10        Of natural or cultured pearls:
        Natural  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X
        Cultured . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X
  
7116.20        Of precious or semiprecious stones (natural, synthetic or
                 reconstructed):
        Articles of jewelry  . . . . . . . . . . . X
        Other  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X
  
         Imitation jewelry:
                 Of base metal, whether or not plated with precious metal:
        Cuff links and studs . . . . . . . . . . . X
        Other  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X
     Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X
  
         Coin:
     Coin (other than gold coin), not being legal tender X
7118.90        Other:
        Gold (gold content)  . . . . . . . . . . .Au g
        Other than gold  . . . . . . . . . . . . . X