ETHYLENE VINYL ALCOHOL COPOLYMER IN GRANULE FORM. METHODS OF ANALYSIS: MELT FLOW RATE. DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRIC (OSC). VOLATILE MATTER (GRAVIMETRIC). MANUFACTURING PROCESS: POLYMERISATION REACTION. MAIN USE: BARRIER RESIN IN FOOD PACKAGING.

THIS ETHYLENE VINYL ALCOHOL COPOLYMER IN GRANULE FORM IS CLASSIFIED TO COMMODITY CODE 3905910090 IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING: GENERAL INTERPRETATIVE RULES (GIR): GIR1 HAS BEEN USED TO CLASSIFY THIS PRODUCT BY THE TERMS OF HEADING 3905. GIR6 HAS BEEN USED TO CLASSIFY THE GOODS TO SUBHEADING LEVEL. CHAPTER 39 NOTES: 1. THROUGHOUT THE NOMENCLATURE, THE EXPRESSION 'PLASTICS' MEANS THOSE MATERIALS OF HEADINGS 3901 TO 3914 WHICH ARE OR HAVE BEEN CAPABLE, EITHER AT THE MOMENT OF POLYMERISATION OR AT SOME SUBSEQUENT STAGE, OF BEING FORMED UNDER EXTERNAL INFLUENCE (USUALLY HEAT AND PRESSURE, IF NECESSARY WITH A SOLVENT OR PLASTICISER) BY MOULDING, CASTING, EXTRUDING, ROLLING OR OTHER PROCESS INTO SHAPES WHICH ARE RETAINED ON THE REMOVAL OF THE EXTERNAL INFLUENCE. THROUGHOUT THE NOMENCLATURE, ANY REFERENCE TO 'PLASTICS' ALSO INCLUDES VULCANISED FIBRE. THE EXPRESSION, HOWEVER, DOES NOT APPLY TO MATERIALS REGARDED AS TEXTILE MATERIALS OF SECTION XI. 3. HEADINGS 3901 TO 3911 APPLY ONLY TO GOODS OF A KIND PRODUCED BY CHEMICAL SYNTHESIS, FALLING IN THE FOLLOWING CATEGORIES: (A) LIQUID SYNTHETIC POLYOLEFINS OF WHICH LESS THAN 60 % BY VOLUME DISTILS AT 300 °C, AFTER CONVERSION TO 1 013 MBAR WHEN A REDUCED PRESSURE DISTILLATION METHOD IS USED (HEADINGS 3901 AND 3902); (B) RESINS, NOT HIGHLY POLYMERISED, OF THE COUMARONE-INDENE TYPE (HEADING 3911); (C) OTHER SYNTHETIC POLYMERS WITH AN AVERAGE OF AT LEAST FIVE MONOMER UNITS; (D) SILICONES (HEADING 3910); (E) RESOLS (HEADING 3909) AND OTHER PREPOLYMERS. 4. THE EXPRESSION 'COPOLYMERS' COVERS ALL POLYMERS IN WHICH NO SINGLE MONOMER UNIT CONTRIBUTES 95 % OR MORE BY WEIGHT TO THE TOTAL POLYMER CONTENT. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS CHAPTER, EXCEPT WHERE THE CONTEXT OTHERWISE REQUIRES, COPOLYMERS (INCLUDING CO-POLYCONDENSATES, CO-POLYADDITION PRODUCTS, BLOCK COPOLYMERS AND GRAFT COPOLYMERS) AND POLYMER BLENDS ARE TO BE CLASSIFIED IN THE HEADING COVERING POLYMERS OF THAT COMONOMER UNIT WHICH PREDOMINATES BY WEIGHT OVER EVERY OTHER SINGLE COMONOMER UNIT. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS NOTE, CONSTITUENT COMONOMER UNITS OF POLYMERS FALLING IN THE SAME HEADING SHALL BE TAKEN TOGETHER. IF NO SINGLE COMONOMER UNIT PREDOMINATES, COPOLYMERS OR POLYMER BLENDS, AS THE CASE MAY BE, ARE TO BE CLASSIFIED IN THE HEADING WHICH OCCURS LAST IN NUMERICAL ORDER AMONG THOSE WHICH EQUALLY MERIT CONSIDERATION. 6. IN HEADINGS 3901 TO 3914, THE EXPRESSION 'PRIMARY FORMS' APPLIES ONLY TO THE FOLLOWING FORMS: (A) LIQUIDS AND PASTES, INCLUDING DISPERSIONS (EMULSIONS AND SUSPENSIONS) AND SOLUTIONS; (B) BLOCKS OF IRREGULAR SHAPE, LUMPS, POWDERS (INCLUDING MOULDING POWDERS), GRANULES, FLAKES AND SIMILAR BULK FORMS. SUBHEADING NOTES 1. WITHIN ANY ONE HEADING OF THIS CHAPTER, POLYMERS (INCLUDING COPOLYMERS) AND CHEMICALLY MODIFIED POLYMERS ARE TO BE CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO THE FOLLOWING PROVISIONS: (A) WHERE THERE IS A SUBHEADING NAMED 'OTHER' IN THE SAME SERIES: (1) THE DESIGNATION IN A SUBHEADING OF A POLYMER BY THE PREFIX 'POLY' (FOR EXAMPLE, POLYETHYLENE AND POLYAMIDE-6,6) MEANS THAT THE CONSTITUENT MONOMER UNIT OR MONOMER UNITS OF THE NAMED POLYMER TAKEN TOGETHER MUST CONTRIBUTE 95 % OR MORE BY WEIGHT OF THE TOTAL POLYMER CONTENT; (2) THE COPOLYMERS NAMED IN SUBHEADINGS 3901 30, 3903 20, 3903 30 AND 3904 30 ARE TO BE CLASSIFIED IN THOSE SUBHEADINGS, PROVIDED THAT THE COMONOMER UNITS OF THE NAMED COPOLYMERS CONTRIBUTE 95 % OR MORE BY WEIGHT OF THE TOTAL POLYMER CONTENT; (3) CHEMICALLY MODIFIED POLYMERS ARE TO BE CLASSIFIED IN THE SUBHEADING NAMED 'OTHER', PROVIDED THAT THE CHEMICALLY MODIFIED POLYMERS ARE NOT MORE SPECIFICALLY COVERED BY ANOTHER SUBHEADING; (4) POLYMERS NOT MEETING (1), (2) OR (3) ABOVE, ARE TO BE CLASSIFIED IN THE SUBHEADING, AMONG THE REMAINING SUBHEADINGS IN THE SERIES, COVERING POLYMERS OF THAT MONOMER UNIT WHICH PREDOMINATES BY WEIGHT OVER EVERY OTHER SINGLE COMONOMER UNIT. FOR THIS PURPOSE, CONSTITUENT MONOMER UNITS OF POLYMERS FALLING IN THE SAME SUBHEADING SHALL BE TAKEN TOGETHER. ONLY THE CONSTITUENT COMONOMER UNITS OF THE POLYMERS IN THE SERIES OF SUBHEADINGS UNDER CONSIDERATION ARE TO BE COMPARED; (B) WHERE THERE IS NO SUBHEADING NAMED 'OTHER' IN THE SAME SERIES: (1) POLYMERS ARE TO BE CLASSIFIED IN THE SUBHEADING COVERING POLYMERS OF THAT MONOMER UNIT WHICH PREDOMINATES BY WEIGHT OVER EVERY OTHER SINGLE COMONOMER UNIT. FOR THIS PURPOSE, CONSTITUENT MONOMER UNITS OF POLYMERS FALLING IN THE SAME SUBHEADING SHALL BE TAKEN TOGETHER. ONLY THE CONSTITUENT COMONOMER UNITS OF THE POLYMERS IN THE SERIES UNDER CONSIDERATION ARE TO BE COMPARED; (2) CHEMICALLY MODIFIED POLYMERS ARE TO BE CLASSIFIED IN THE SUBHEADING APPROPRIATE TO THE UNMODIFIED POLYMER. POLYMER BLENDS ARE TO BE CLASSIFIED IN THE SAME SUBHEADING AS POLYMERS OF THE SAME MONOMER UNITS IN THE SAME PROPORTIONS. HARMONISED SYSTEM EXPLANATORY NOTES: HSEN TO HEADING 3905; POLYMERS OF VINYL ACETATE OR OF OTHER VINYL ESTERS, IN PRIMARY FORMS; OTHER VINYL POLYMERS IN PRIMARY FORMS.