TITANIUM ALLOY ROUND BARS OF 1 INCH WIDTH X 3.6M LENGTH CONSISTING OF 90% TITANIUM, 6% ALUMINIUM AND 4% VANADIUM. THE BARS ARE USED IN THE PRODUCTION OF AERONAUTICAL FASTENERS. THE BARS ARE PRODUCED BY TITANIUM SPONGE AND SCRAP UNDERGOING THE COMPACTING ELECTRODES PROCESS BEFORE BEING MELTED DOWN AND FORGED INTO BILLETS. THE BILLETS ARE THEN PRECISELY FORGED AND MACHINED INTO BARS. THE BARS CONFORM TO STANDARD EN 2002-1 OR EN 4267.

THIS TITANIUM ALLOY BARS IS CLASSIFIED TO COMMODITY CODE 8108903010 IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING: GENERAL INTERPRETATIVE RULES (GIR): GIR1 HAS BEEN USED TO CLASSIFY THIS PRODUCT BY THE TERMS OF HEADING 8108. GIR6 HAS BEEN USED TO CLASSIFY THE GOODS TO SUBHEADING LEVEL. SECTION XV NOTES: 3. THROUGHOUT THE NOMENCLATURE, THE EXPRESSION 'BASE METALS' MEANS: IRON AND STEEL, COPPER, NICKEL, ALUMINIUM, LEAD, ZINC, TIN, TUNGSTEN (WOLFRAM), MOLYBDENUM, TANTALUM, MAGNESIUM, COBALT, BISMUTH, CADMIUM, TITANIUM, ZIRCONIUM, ANTIMONY, MANGANESE, BERYLLIUM, CHROMIUM, GERMANIUM, VANADIUM, GALLIUM, HAFNIUM, INDIUM, NIOBIUM (COLUMBIUM), RHENIUM AND THALLIUM. 5. CLASSIFICATION OF ALLOYS (OTHER THAN FERRO-ALLOYS AND MASTER ALLOYS AS DEFINED IN CHAPTERS 72 AND 74): (A) AN ALLOY OF BASE METALS IS TO BE CLASSIFIED AS AN ALLOY OF THE METAL WHICH PREDOMINATES BY WEIGHT OVER EACH OF THE OTHER METALS. 7. CLASSIFICATION OF COMPOSITE ARTICLES: EXCEPT WHERE THE HEADINGS OTHERWISE REQUIRE, ARTICLES OF BASE METAL (INCLUDING ARTICLES OF MIXED MATERIALS TREATED AS ARTICLES OF BASE METAL UNDER THE INTERPRETATIVE RULES) CONTAINING TWO OR MORE BASE METALS ARE TO BE TREATED AS ARTICLES OF THE BASE METAL PREDOMINATING BY WEIGHT OVER EACH OF THE OTHER METALS. FOR THIS PURPOSE: (B) AN ALLOY IS REGARDED AS BEING ENTIRELY COMPOSED OF THAT METAL AS AN ALLOY OF WHICH, BY VIRTUE OF NOTE 5, IT IS CLASSIFIED. CHAPTER 81 NOTES: SUBHEADING NOTE 1. NOTE 1 TO CHAPTER 74, DEFINING 'BARS AND RODS', 'PROFILES', 'WIRE' AND 'PLATES, SHEETS, STRIP AND FOIL' APPLIES, MUTATIS MUTANDIS, TO THIS CHAPTER. HARMONISED SYSTEM EXPLANATORY NOTES: HSEN TO HEADING 8108; TITANIUM AND ARTICLES THEREOF, INCLUDING WASTE AND SCRAP.