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Customs Tariff Act 1987
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Chapter 96
Miscellaneous manufactured articles
(a) Pencils for cosmetic or toilet uses (Chapter 33);
(b) Articles of Chapter 66 (for example, parts of umbrellas or walking-sticks);
(c) Imitation jewellery (7117);
(d) Parts of general use, as defined in Note 2 to Section XV, of base metal (Section XV), or similar goods of plastics (Chapter 39);
(e) Cutlery or other articles of Chapter 82 with handles or other parts of carving or moulding materials; 9601 or 9602 applies, however, to separately presented handles or other parts of such articles;
(f) Articles of Chapter 90 (for example, spectacle frames (9003), mathematical drawing pens (9017), brushes of a kind specialised for use in dentistry or for medical, surgical or veterinary purposes (9018));
(g) Articles of Chapter 91 (for example, clock or watch cases);
(h) Musical instruments or parts or accessories thereof (Chapter 92);
(ij) Articles of Chapter 93 (arms and parts thereof);
(k) Articles of Chapter 94 (for example, furniture, lamps and lighting fittings);
(l) Articles of Chapter 95 (toys, games, sports requisites); or
(m) Works of art, collectors’ pieces or antiques (Chapter 97).
2\- In 9602 “vegetable or mineral carving material” means:
(a) Hard seeds, pips, hulls and nuts and similar vegetable materials of a kind used for carving (for example, corozo and dom);
(b) Amber, meerschaum, agglomerated amber and agglomerated meerschaum, jet and mineral substitutes for jet.
3.- In 9603 “prepared knots and tufts for broom or brush making” applies only to unmounted knots and tufts of animal hair, vegetable fibre or other material, which are ready for incorporation without division in brooms or brushes, or which require only such further minor processes as trimming to shape at the top, to render them ready for such incorporation.
4.-Articles of this Chapter, other than those of 9601 to 9606 or 9615, remain classified in the Chapter whether or not composed wholly or partly of precious metal or metal clad with precious metal, of natural or cultured pearls, or precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed). However, 9601 to 9606 and 9615 include articles in which natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed), precious metal or m
| | SCHEDULE 3—continued | |
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| 9601 | WORKED IVORY, BONE, TORTOISE-SHELL, HORN, ANTLERS, CORAL, MOTHER-OF-PEARL AND OTHER ANIMAL CARVING MATERIAL, AND ARTICLES OF THESE MATERIALS (INCLUDING ARTICLES OBTAINED BY MOULDING): | |
| 9601.10.00 | - Worked ivory and articles of ivory | 20%DC:15% |
| 9601.90.00 | - Other | 20%DC:15% |
| 9602 | WORKED VEGETABLE OR MINERAL CARVING MATERIAL AND ARTICLES OF THESE MATERIALS; MOULDED OR CARVED ARTICLES OF WAX, OF STEARIN, OF NATURAL GUMS OR NATURAL RESINS OR OF MODELLING PASTES, AND OTHER MOULDED OR CARVED ARTICLES, NOT ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED OR INCLUDED; WORKED, UNHARDENED GELATIN (EXCEPT GELATIN OF 3503) AND ARTICLES OF UNHARDENED GELATIN: | |
| 9602.00.10 | ---Empty gelatin capsules | 10%DC:5% |
| 9602.00.90 | ---Other | 20%DC:15% |
| 9603 | BROOMS, BRUSHES (INCLUDING BRUSHES CONSTITUTING PARTS OF MACHINES, APPLIANCES OR VEHICLES), HAND-OPERATED MECHANICAL FLOOR SWEEPERS, NOT MOTORISED, MOPS AND FEATHER DUSTERS; PREPARED KNOTS AND TUFTS FOR BROOM OR BRUSH MAKING; PAINT PADS AND ROLLERS; SQUEEGEES (OTHER THAN ROLLER SQUEEGEES): | |
| 9603.10.00 | - Brooms and brushes, consisting of twigs or other vegetable materials bound together, with or without handles | 25%DC:20% |
| 9603.2 | - Tooth brushes, shaving brushes, hair brushes, nail brushes, eyelash brushes and other toilet brushes for use on the person, including such brushes constituting parts of appliances: | |
| 9603.21.00 | - - Tooth brushes | 25%DC:20% |
| 9603.29.00 | - - Other | 25%DC:20% |
| 9603.30.00 | - Artists’ brushes, writing brushes and similar brushes for the application of cosmetics | 25%DC:20% |
| 9603.40.00 | - Paint, distemper, varnish or similar brushes (other than brushes of 9603.30.00); paint pads and rollers | 25%DC:20% |
| 9603.50.00 | - Other brushes constituting parts of machines, appliances or vehicles | 25%DC:20% |
| 9603.90.00 | - Other | 25%DC:20% |
| 9604.00.00 | HAND SIEVES AND HAND RIDDLES | 20%DC:15% |
| 9605.00.00 | TRAVEL SETS FOR PERSONAL TOILET, SEWING OR SHOE OR CLOTHES CLEANING | 2% |
| | SCHEDULE 3—continued | |
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| 9606 | BUTTONS, PRESS-FASTENERS, SNAP-FASTENERS AND PRESS-STUDS, BUTTON MOULDS AND OTHER PARTS OF THESE ARTICLES; BUTTON BLANKS: | |
| 9606.10.00 | - Press-fasteners, snap-fasteners and press-studs and parts therefor | 20%DC:15% |
| 9606.2 | - Buttons: | |
| 9606.21.00 | - - Of plastics, not covered with textile material | 20%DC:15% |
| 9606.22.00 | - - Of base metal, not covered with textile material | 20%DC:15% |
| 9606.29.00 | - - Other | 20%DC:15% |
| 9606.30.00 | - Button moulds and other parts of buttons; button blanks | 20%DC:15% |
| 9607 | SLIDE FASTENERS AND PARTS THEREOF: | |
| 9607.1 | - Slide fasteners: | |
| 9607.11.00 | - - Fitted with chain scoops of base metal | 20%DC:15% |
| 9607.19.00 | - - Other | 20%DC:15% |
| 9607.20.00 | - Parts | 20%DC:15% |
| 9608 | BALL POINT PENS; FELT TIPPED AND OTHER POROUS-TIPPED PENS AND MARKERS; FOUNTAIN PENS, STYLOGRAPH PENS AND OTHER PENS; DUPLICATING STYLOS; PROPELLING OR SLIDING PENCILS; PEN-HOLDERS, PENCIL-HOLDERS AND SIMILAR HOLDERS; PARTS (INCLUDING CAPS AND CLIPS) OF THE FOREGOING ARTICLES, OTHER THAN THOSE OF 9609: | |
| 9608.10.00 | - Ball point pens | 20%DC:15% |
| 9608.20.00 | - Felt tipped and other porous-tipped pens and markers | 20%DC:15% |
| 9608.3 | - Fountain pens, stylograph pens and other pens: | |
| 9608.31.00 | - - Indian ink drawing pens | 20%DC:15% |
| 9608.39.00 | - - Other | 20%DC:15% |
| 9608.40.00 | - Propelling or sliding pencils | 20%DC:15% |
| 9608.50.00 | -Sets of articles from two or more of the foregoing subheadings | 20%DC:15% |
| 9608.60.00 | - Refills for ball point pens, comprising the ball point and ink-reservoir | 20%DC:15% |
| 9608.9 | - Other: | |
| 9608.91.00 | - - Pen nibs and nib points | 2% |
| 9608.99.00 | - - Other | 20%DC:15% |
| | SCHEDULE 3—continued | |
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| 9609 | PENCILS (OTHER THAN PENCILS OF 9608), CRAYONS, PENCIL LEADS, PASTELS, DRAWING CHARCOALS, WRITING OR DRAWING CHALKS AND TAILORS’ CHALKS: | |
| 9609.10.00 | - Pencils and crayons, with leads encased in a rigid sheath | 15%DC:10% |
| 9609.20.00 | - Pencil leads, black or coloured | 2% |
| 9609.90.00 | - Other | 2% |
| 9610.00.00 | SLATES AND BOARDS, WITH WRITING OR DRAWING SURFACES, WHETHER OR NOT FRAMED | 30%DC:25% |
| 9611.00.00 | DATE, SEALING OR NUMBERING STAMPS, AND THE LIKE (INCLUDING DEVICES FOR PRINTING OR EMBOSSING LABELS), DESIGNED FOR OPERATING IN THE HAND; HAND-OPERATED COMPOSING STICKS AND HAND PRINTING SETS INCORPORATING SUCH COMPOSING STICKS | 2% |
| 9612 | TYPEWRITER OR SIMILAR RIBBONS, INKED OR OTHERWISE PREPARED FOR GIVING IMPRESSIONS, WHETHER OR NOT ON SPOOLS OR IN CARTRIDGES; INK-PADS, WHETHER OR NOT INKED, WITH OR WITHOUT BOXES: | |
| 9612.10.00 | - Ribbons | 20%DC:15%CAN:12% |
| 9612.20.00 | - Ink-pads | 20%DC:15% |
| 9613 | CIGARETTE LIGHTERS AND OTHER LIGHTERS, WHETHER OR NOT MECHANICAL OR ELECTRICAL, AND PARTS THEREOF OTHER THAN FLINTS AND WICKS: | |
| 9613.10.00 | - Pocket lighters, gas fuelled, non-refillable | 5% |
| 9613.20.00 | - Pocket lighters, gas fuelled, refillable | 5% |
| 9613.30.00 | - Table lighters | 5% |
| 9613.80.00 | - Other lighters | 20%DC:15% |
| 9613.90.00 | - Parts | 5% |
| 9614 | SMOKING PIPES (INCLUDING PIPE BOWLS) AND CIGAR OR CIGARETTE HOLDERS, AND PARTS THEREOF: | |
| 9614.10.00 | - Roughly shaped blocks of wood or root, for the manufacture of pipes | 15%DC:10% |
| 9614.20.00 | - Pipes and pipe bowls | 15%DC:10% |
| 9614.90.00 | - Other | 15%DC:10% |
| 9615 | COMBS, HAIR-SLIDES AND THE LIKE; HAIRPINS, CURLING PINS, CURLING GRIPS, HAIR-CURLERS AND THE LIKE, OTHER THAN THOSE OF 8516, AND PARTS THEREOF: | |
| 9615.1 | - Combs, hair-slides and the like: | |
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| 9615.11.00 | - - Of hard rubber or plastics | 20% DC:15% |
| 9615.19.00 | - - Other | 20% DC:15% |
| 9615.90.00 | - Other | 20% DC:15% |
| 9616 | SCENT SPRAYS AND SIMILAR TOILET SPRAYS, AND MOUNTS AND HEADS THEREFOR; POWDER-PUFFS AND PADS FOR THE APPLICATION OF COSMETICS OR TOILET PREPARATIONS: | |
| 9616.10.00 | -Scent sprays and similar toilet sprays, and mounts and heads therefor | 2% |
| 9616.20.00 | - Powder-puffs and pads for the application of cosmetics or toilet preparations | 2% |
| 9617.00.00 | VACUUM FLASKS AND OTHER VACUUM VESSELS, COMPLETE WITH CASES; PARTS THEREOF OTHER THAN GLASS INNERS | 20% DC:15% |
| 9618.00.00 | TAILORS’ DUMMIES AND OTHER LAY FIGURES; AUTOMATA AND OTHER ANIMATED DISPLAYS USED FOR SHOP WINDOW DRESSING | 10% DC:5% |
Section XXI
Works of art, collectors’ pieces and antiques