THIS HIGH TENACITY YARN OF 100% POLYESTER IS CLASSIFIED TO COMMODITY CODE 5402200000 IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING:
GENERAL INTERPRETATIVE RULES (GIR)
GIR1 HAS BEEN USED TO CLASSIFY THIS PRODUCT BY THE TERMS OF HEADING 5402 AND ANY RELEVANT SECTION OR CHAPTER NOTES.
GIR5B HAS BEEN USED AS THE GOODS ARE PACKAGED IN NORMAL PACKING FOR TRANSPORT (CARDBOARD TUBES).
GIR6 HAS BEEN USED TO CLASSIFY THE GOODS TO SUBHEADING LEVEL.
SECTION AND CHAPTER NOTES
CHAPTER NOTE TO CHAPTER 54
1. THROUGHOUT THE NOMENCLATURE, THE TERM 'MAN-MADE FIBRES' MEANS STAPLE FIBRES AND FILAMENTS OF ORGANIC POLYMERS PRODUCED BY MANUFACTURING PROCESSES, EITHER:
(A) BY POLYMERISATION OF ORGANIC MONOMERS TO PRODUCE POLYMERS SUCH AS POLYAMIDES, POLYESTERS, POLYOLEFINS OR POLYURETHANES, OR BY CHEMICAL MODIFICATION OF POLYMERS PRODUCED BY THIS PROCESS (FOR EXAMPLE, POLY(VINYL ALCOHOL) PREPARED BY THE HYDROLYSIS OF POLY-(VINYL ACETATE)); OR
(B) BY DISSOLUTION OR CHEMICAL TREATMENT OF NATURAL ORGANIC POLYMERS (FOR EXAMPLE, CELLULOSE) TO PRODUCE POLYMERS SUCH AS CUPRAMMONIUM RAYON (CUPRO) OR VISCOSE RAYON, OR BY CHEMICAL MODIFICATION OF NATURAL ORGANIC POLYMERS (FOR EXAMPLE, CELLULOSE, CASEIN AND OTHER PROTEINS, OR ALGINIC ACID), TO PRODUCE POLYMERS SUCH AS CELLULOSE ACETATE OR ALGINATES.
THE TERMS 'SYNTHETIC' AND 'ARTIFICIAL', USED IN RELATION TO FIBRES, MEAN: SYNTHETIC: FIBRES AS DEFINED AT (A); ARTIFICIAL: FIBRES AS DEFINED AT (B). STRIP AND THE LIKE OF HEADING 5404 OR 5405 ARE NOT CONSIDERED TO BE MAN-MADE FIBRES.
THE TERMS 'MAN-MADE', 'SYNTHETIC' AND 'ARTIFICIAL' SHALL HAVE THE SAME MEANINGS WHEN USED IN RELATION TO 'TEXTILE MATERIALS'.
6. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE EXPRESSION 'HIGH-TENACITY YARN' MEANS YARN HAVING A TENACITY, EXPRESSED IN CN/TEX (CENTINEWTONS PER TEX), GREATER THAN THE FOLLOWING:
- SINGLE YARN OF NYLON OR OTHER POLYAMIDES, OR OF POLYESTERS: 60 CN/TEX.
HARMONISED SYSTEM EXPLANATORY NOTES
GENERAL NOTE TO SECTION XI.
(B) YARNS.
(1) GENERAL.
TEXTILE YARNS MAY BE SINGLE, MULTIPLE (FOLDED) OR CABLED. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE NOMENCLATURE:
(i) SINGLE YARNS MEANS YARNS COMPOSED EITHER OF:
(b) ONE FILAMENT (MONOFILAMENT) OF HEADINGS 54.02 TO 54.05, OR TWO OR MORE FILAMENTS (MULTIFILAMENT) OF HEADING 54.02 OR 54.03, HELD TOGETHER, WITH OR WITHOUT TWIST (CONTINUOUS YARNS).
EXCLUSIONS/INCLUSIONS
AS THIS POLYESTER YARN HAS CN/TEX GREATER THAN 60 IT HAS BEEN CLASSIFIED AS A HIGH TENACITY YARN WITHIN HEADING 5402.