Chapter notes
Chapter 46 - NOTE
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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, rushes, reeds, strips of wood, strips
of other vegetable material (for example, raffia, narrow
leaves or strips cut from broad leaves) or bark, unspun
natural textile fibres, 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 No. 48.14;
(b) Twine, cordage, ropes or cables, plaited or not
(heading No. 56.07);
(c) Footwear or headgear or parts thereof of Chapter 64
or 65;
(d) Vehicles or 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 headings No. 46.01, 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.