THIS TITANIUM ALLOY COIL IS CLASSIFIED TO COMMODITY CODE 8108903090 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.
CH 74 NOTE 1
(D) BARS AND RODS:
ROLLED, EXTRUDED, DRAWN OR FORGED PRODUCTS, NOT IN COILS, WHICH HAVE A UNIFORM SOLID CROSS-SECTION ALONG THEIR WHOLE LENGTH IN THE SHAPE OF CIRCLES, OVALS, RECTANGLES (INCLUDING SQUARES), EQUILATERAL TRIANGLES OR REGULAR CONVEX POLYGONS (INCLUDING 'FLATTENED CIRCLES' AND 'MODIFIED RECTANGLES', OF WHICH TWO OPPOSITE SIDES ARE CONVEX ARCS, THE OTHER TWO SIDES BEING STRAIGHT, OF EQUAL LENGTH AND PARALLEL). PRODUCTS WITH A RECTANGULAR (INCLUDING SQUARE), TRIANGULAR OR POLYGONAL CROSS-SECTION MAY HAVE CORNERS ROUNDED ALONG THEIR WHOLE LENGTH. THE THICKNESS OF SUCH PRODUCTS WHICH HAVE A RECTANGULAR (INCLUDING 'MODIFIED RECTANGULAR') CROSS-SECTION EXCEEDS ONETENTH OF THE WIDTH. THE EXPRESSION ALSO COVERS CAST OR SINTERED PRODUCTS, OF THE SAME FORMS AND DIMENSIONS, WHICH HAVE BEEN SUBSEQUENTLY WORKED AFTER PRODUCTION (OTHERWISE THAN BY SIMPLE TRIMMING OR DE-SCALING), PROVIDED THAT THEY HAVE NOT THEREBY ASSUMED THE CHARACTER OF ARTICLES OR PRODUCTS OF OTHER HEADINGS.
WIRE-BARS AND BILLETS WITH THEIR ENDS TAPERED OR OTHERWISE WORKED SIMPLY TO FACILITATE THEIR ENTRY INTO MACHINES FOR CONVERTING THEM INTO, FOR EXAMPLE, DRAWING STOCK (WIRE-ROD) OR TUBES, ARE HOWEVER TO BE TAKEN TO BE UNWROUGHT COPPER OF HEADING 7403
(E) PROFILES:
ROLLED, EXTRUDED, DRAWN, FORGED OR FORMED PRODUCTS, COILED OR NOT, OF A UNIFORM CROSS-SECTION ALONG THEIR WHOLE LENGTH, WHICH DO NOT CONFORM TO ANY OF THE DEFINITIONS OF BARS, RODS, WIRE, PLATES, SHEETS, STRIP, FOIL, TUBES OR PIPES. THE EXPRESSION ALSO COVERS CAST
OR SINTERED PRODUCTS, OF THE SAME FORMS, WHICH HAVE BEEN SUBSEQUENTLY WORKED AFTER PRODUCTION (OTHERWISE THAN BY SIMPLE TRIMMING OR DE-SCALING), PROVIDED THAT THEY HAVE NOT THEREBY ASSUMED THE CHARACTER OF ARTICLES OR PRODUCTS OF OTHER HEADINGS.
HARMONISED SYSTEM EXPLANATORY NOTES:
HSEN TO HEADING 8108; TITANIUM AND ARTICLES THEREOF, INCLUDING WASTE AND SCRAP.
EXCLUSIONS/INCLUSIONS:
EXCLUDED FROM CODE 8108903010 BY THE DEFINITION OF COILS IN CHAPTER 74 WHICH APPLIES MUTATIS MUTANDIS TO CHAPTER 81. AS ITEM IS A PROFILE IT IS PROPER TO CODE 8108903090.