Chapter 71: Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal, and articles thereof; jewellery; coin

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Chapter 71: Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal, and articles thereof; jewellery; coin

Notes

1. Subject to Note 1(A) to Section VI and excluding the products listed in the following headings, all products consisting wholly or partly of:

(a) Natural or cultured pearls or of precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed), or

(b) Precious metal or metal clad with precious metal, classified in this Chapter.

2. (A) Headings 71.13, 71.14 and 71.15 do not cover articles in which precious metal or metal clad with precious metal is present only as minor constituents, such as minor fittings or minor ornamentation (for example, monograms, girdles and rims), and item (b) of the above Note does not apply to such articles.

(B) Heading 71.16 does not cover articles containing precious metal or metal clad with precious metal (except as minor constituents).

3. This chapter does not cover:

(a) Amalgams of precious metals, or colloidal precious metals (heading 28.43);

(b) Sterile surgical suture materials, dental fillings or other goods of Chapter 30;

(c) Articles of Chapter 32 (for example, glazing agents);

(d) Base catalysts (heading 38.15);

(e) Products of heading 42.02 or 42.03 specified in Note 3 (B) to Chapter 42;

(f) Products of heading 43.03 or 43.04;

(g) Goods of Section XI (textiles and textile products);

(h) Footwear, headgear or other articles of Chapter 64 or 65;

(ij) Umbrellas, walking sticks, walking sticks or other articles of Chapter 66;

(k) Abrasive products of heading 68.04 or 68.05 or Chapter 82, containing dust or powder of precious or semi-precious stones (natural or synthetic); articles of Chapter 82 with working parts of precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed); machines, mechanical appliances or electrical goods, or parts thereof, of Section XVI. However, articles and parts thereof, wholly of precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed) remain classified in this Chapter, except unmounted worked sapphires and diamonds for gramophone styluses (heading 85.22);

(l) Articles of Chapter 90, 91 or 92 (scientific instruments, clocks and watches, musical instruments);

(m) Arms or parts thereof (Chapter 93);

(n) Products specified in Note 2 to Chapter 95;

(o) Products classified in Chapter 96 by virtue of Note 4 to that Chapter; or

(p) Original sculptures or statuary (heading 97.03), collectors' items (heading 97.05) or antiques over 100 years old (heading 97.06), other than natural or cultured pearls or precious or semi-precious stones.

4. (A) The term “precious metals” means silver, gold and platinum.

(B) The term “platinum” means platinum, iridium, osmium, palladium, rhodium and ruthenium.

(C) The expression “precious or semi-precious 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 sintered mixtures and inter-metallic compounds) containing precious metal is to be regarded as an alloy of precious metal if such precious metal constitutes 2% by mass of the alloy. Alloys of precious metal are to be classified according to the following rules:

(a) An alloy containing 2% or more, by mass, of platinum is considered to be an alloy of platinum;

(b) An alloy containing 2% or more, by mass, of gold but no platinum, or containing less than 2%, by mass, of platinum, is considered to be a gold alloy;

(c) Other alloys containing 2% or more, by mass, of silver are considered to be silver alloys.

6. Except where the context otherwise requires, any reference in this Nomenclature to precious metal or to any particular precious metal includes a reference to alloys treated as alloys of precious metal or of that particular precious metal in accordance with the provisions in Note 5 above, but does not apply to metal clad with precious metal or to base metal or non-metals clad with precious metal.

7. Throughout the Nomenclature the expression “metal clad with precious metal” means material with a base of metal on one or more surfaces of which there is a covering of precious metal by soldering, brazing, welding, hot-rolling or similar mechanical process. 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 71.12 are to be classified in that heading and in no other heading of the Nomenclature.

9. For the purposes of heading 71.13, the expression “jewelry” means:

(a) Small items of personal adornment (for example, rings, bracelets, necklaces, brooches, earrings, watch chains, pocket watch chains, pendants, tie pins, cuff links, other buttons, religious or other medals and insignia); and

(b) Articles for personal use of a kind normally carried in the pocket, in the handbag or on the person (for example, cigarette or cigar cases, snuff boxes, chewing gum or pill boxes, powder boxes, chain purses or rosaries).

These products may be combined or set, for example, with natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, synthetic or reconstructed precious or semi-precious stones, tortoise shell, mother-of-pearl, ivory, natural or reconstructed amber, jet or coral.

10. For the purposes of heading 71.14, the expression “goldsmiths' or silversmiths' wares” includes articles such as ornaments, tableware, toilet articles, smokers' requisites and other articles of household, office or religious use.

11. For the purposes of heading 71.17, the expression “articles of jewellery” means articles of jewellery as described in paragraph (a) of Note 9 above (but not including buttons or other articles of heading 96.06, or dress-combs, hair-slides or the like, or hairpins, of heading 96.15), not incorporating natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed) nor (except as plated 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% or more by mass passes through a sieve having a mesh aperture of 0.5 mm.

2. Notwithstanding the provisions of Note 4 (B) to this Chapter, 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 71.10, each alloy is to be classified with that metal, platinum, palladium, rhodium, iridium, osmium or ruthenium which predominates by weight over each other.

CHAPTER I

NATURAL OR CULTURED PEARLS AND PRECIOUS OR SEMI-PRECIOUS 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

71011000

– Natural pearls

– Cultured pearls:

71012100

– – Not processed yet

71012200

– – Processed

7102

Diamonds, whether or not worked, but not mounted or set

71021000

– Ungraded diamonds

– Industrial diamonds:

71022100

– – Unworked or simply cut, split or lightly ground or polished

71022900

– – Other

– Non-industrial diamonds:

71023100

– – Unworked or simply cut, split or lightly ground or polished

71023900

– – Other

7103

Precious stones (other than diamonds) and semi-precious 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

– Unprocessed or simply cut or roughly shaped:

71031010

– – Ruby

71031020

– – Jade (nephrite and jadeite)

71031090

– – Other

– Processed otherwise:

710391

– – Rubies, sapphires and emeralds:

71039110

– – – Ruby

71039190

– – – Other

71039900

– – Other

7104

Synthetic or reconstructed precious or semi-precious stones, whether or not worked or graded but not strung, mounted or set; ungraded synthetic or reconstructed precious or semi-precious stones, temporarily strung for convenience of transport

710410

– Piezoelectric quartz:

71041010

– – Not processed yet

71041020

– – Processed

– Other, unworked or simply sawn or roughly shaped:

71042100

- - Diamond

71042900

– – Other

– Other types:

71049100

- - Diamond

71049900

– – Other

7105

Dust and powder of natural or synthetic precious or semi-precious stones

71051000

– Of diamonds

71059000

– Other

CHAPTER II

PRECIOUS METALS AND METALS CLADDED WITH PRECIOUS METALS

7106

Silver (including silver plated with gold or platinum), unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms or in powder form

71061000

Powder form

– Other types:

71069100

– – Not processed

71069200

– – Semi-finished form

71070000

Base metal clad with silver, not further worked than semi-finished

7108

Gold (including gold plated with platinum), unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms or in powder form

– Not in currency form:

71081100

– – Powder form

710812

– – Other unwrought forms:

71081210

– – – Ingots, bars or cast bars

71081290

– – – Other

71081300

– – Other semi-finished products

71082000

– Currency type

71090000

Base metal or silver, clad with gold, not further worked than semi-manufactured

7110

Platinum, unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms or in powder form

– Platinum:

711011

– – Unwrought or in powder form:

71101110

– – – Lumps, ingots, cast bars or powder

71101190

– – – Other

71101900

– – Other

– Palladium:

711021

– – Unwrought or in powder form:

71102110

– – – Lumps, ingots, cast bars or powder

71102190

– – – Other

71102900

– – Other

– Rodi:

711031

– – Unwrought or in powder form:

71103110

– – – Lumps, ingots, cast bars or powder

71103190

– – – Other

71103900

– – Other

– Iridium, osmium and ruthenium:

711041

– – Unwrought or in powder form:

71104110

– – – Lumps, ingots, cast bars or powder

71104190

– – – Other

71104900

– – Other

7111

Base metals, silver or gold, clad with platinum, not further worked than semi-manufactured

71110010

– Silver or gold, platinum plated

71110090

– Other

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, other than goods of heading 85.49

71123000

– Ash (slag) containing precious metals or precious metal compounds

– Other types:

71129100

– – Of gold, including metal clad with gold, other than scrap containing other precious metals

71129200

– – Of platinum, including metal clad with platinum other than scrap containing other precious metals

711299

– – Other types:

71129910

– – – Of silver, including metal clad with silver other than scrap containing other precious metals

71129990

– – – Other

CHAPTER III

JEWELRY, GOLD AND SILVER INDUSTRY PRODUCTS AND OTHER PRODUCTS

7113

Jewellery 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:

711311

– – Of silver, whether or not plated or clad with other precious metal:

71131110

- - - Part

71131190

– – – Other

711319

– – Of other precious metal, whether or not plated or clad with precious metal:

71131910

- - - Part

71131990

– – – Other

711320

– Base metal clad with precious metal:

71132010

- - Part

71132090

– – Other

7114

Goldsmiths' or silversmiths' articles 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:

71141100

– – Of silver, whether or not plated or clad with other precious metal

71141900

– – Of other precious metal, whether or not plated or clad with precious metal

71142000

– Base metal clad with precious metal

7115

Other articles of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal

71151000

– Catalyst in the form of woven plates or mesh, made of platinum

711590

– Other types:

71159010

– – Gold or silver

71159020

– – Of metal plated with gold or silver

71159090

– – Other

7116

Products with natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed)

71161000

– Made of natural or cultured pearls

71162000

– Of precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed)

7117

Jewelry made of other materials

– Of base metal, whether or not plated with precious metal:

711711

– – Cufflinks and separate buttons:

71171110

- - - Part

71171190

– – – Other

711719

– – Other types:

71171910

– – – Round

71171920

– – – Other jewelry

71171990

- - - Part

711790

– Other types:

71179010

– – Round

71179020

– – Other jewelry

- - Part:

71179094

– – – Entirely of plastics, glass, wood, worked tortoise-shell, ivory, bone, horn, coral, mother-of-pearl or other animal carving material, worked vegetable carving material, worked mineral carving material, or of porcelain

71179099

– – – Other

7118

Metal money

711810

– Metal money (except gold), not legal tender:

71181010

– – Silver money

71181090

– – Other

711890

– Other types:

71189010

– – Gold coins, legal tender ^(*) or non-legal tender

71189020

– – Silver money, legal tender ^(*)

71189090

– – Other

(*): Within the scope of headings 49.07 and 71.18, the term “legal type” is understood to mean a payment instrument issued by a bank recognized by law.