FLECHTSTOFFE UND ANDERE WAREN PFLANZLICHEN URSPRUNGS, ANDERWEIT WEDER GENANNT NOCH INBEGRIFFEN

1. This chapter does not cover the following products which are to be classified in Section XI: vegetable materials or fibres of vegetable materials of a kind used primarily in the manufacture of textiles, however prepared, or other vegetable materials which have undergone treatment so as to render them suitable for use only as textile materials. 2. Heading 1401 applies, inter alia, to bamboos (whether or not split, sawn lengthwise, cut to length, rounded at the ends, bleached, rendered non-inflammable, polished or dyed), split osier, reeds and the like, to rattan cores and to drawn or split rattans. It does not apply to chipwood (heading 4404). 3. Heading 1404 does not apply to wood wool (heading 4405) or to prepared knots or tufts for broom or brush making (heading 9603).