2008 Schedule B - Chapter 51

Section XI - Chapter 51                                                                             
                                                                                                    
Wool, Fine or Coarse Animal Hair; Horsehair Yarn and Woven Fabric                                   
                                                                                                    
Note                                                                                                
                                                                                                    
1.  Throughout the Schedule B:                                                                      
                                                                                                    
  (a). "Wool" means the natural fiber grown by sheep or lambs;                                      
                                                                                                    
  (b). "Fine animal hair" means the hair of alpaca, llama, vicuna, camel (including                 
         dromedary), yak, Angora, Tibetan, Kashmir or similar goats (but not common                 
         goats), rabbit (including Angora rabbit), hare, beaver, nutria or muskrat; and             
                                                                                                    
  (c). "Coarse animal hair" means the hair of animals not mentioned above, excluding                
         brushmaking hair and bristles (heading 0502), and horsehair (heading 0511).                
                                                                                                    
Statistical Note                                                                                    
                                                                                                    
1.  For the purposes of this chapter                                                                
                                                                                                    
  (a). The unit of quantity "cy kg" means kilogram (kg) of clean yield (cy);                        
                                                                                                    
  (b). The term "clean yield", except for purposes of carbonized fibers, means the                  
        absolute clean content (i.e., all that portion of the merchandise which consists            
        exclusively of wool or hair free of all vegetable and other foreign material,               
        containing by weight 12 percent of moisture and 1.5 percent of material                     
        removable from the wool or hair by extraction with alcohol, and having an ash               
        content of not over 0.5 percent by weight), less an allowance, equal by weight to           
        0.5 percent of the absolute clean content plus 60 percent of the vegetable matter           
        present, but not exceeding 15 percent by weight of the absolute clean content,              
        for wool or hair that would ordinarily be lost during commercial cleaning                   
        operations;                                                                                 
                                                                                                    
  (c). For the purposes of carbonized fibers, the term "clean yield" means in the                   
        condition as exported.                                                                      
                                                                                                    
 Wool, not carded or combed:                                                                        
               Greasy, including fleece-washed wool:                                                
      Shorn wool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . cy kg                                                
                                                            kg                                      
      Other  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . cy kg                                                
                                                            kg                                      
               Degreased, not carbonized:                                                           
      Shorn wool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . cy kg                                                
                                                            kg                                      
      Other  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . cy kg                                                
                                                            kg                                      
   Carbonized  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                  
 Fine or coarse animal hair, not carded or combed:                                                  
               Fine animal hair:                                                                    
      Of Kashmir (cashmere) goats:                                                                  
        Not processed in any manner beyond the degreased                                            
                     or carbonized condition  . . . . . . . cy kg                                   
                                                            kg                                      
        Other  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . cy kg                                                
                                                            kg                                      
      Other:                                                                                        
                    Not processed in any manner beyond the degreased                                
                     or carbonized condition:                                                       
           Hair of the Angora goat (MOHAIR)  . cy kg                                                
                                                            kg                                      
           Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . cy kg                                                
                                                            kg                                      
        Other  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                  
   Coarse animal hair  . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                  
 Waste of wool or of fine or coarse animal hair, including yarn                                     
              waste but excluding garnetted stock:                                                  
   Noils of wool or of fine animal hair  . . . .kg                                                  
   Other waste of wool or of fine animal hair  .kg                                                  
   Waste of coarse animal hair . . . . . . . . .kg                                                  
 Garnetted stock of wool or of fine or coarse animal hair kg                                        
 Wool and fine or coarse animal hair, carded or combed (including                                   
              combed wool in fragments):                                                            
   Carded wool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                  
               Wool tops and other combed wool:                                                     
      Combed wool in fragments . . . . . . . . .kg                                                  
      Other  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                  
               Fine animal hair, carded or combed:                                                  
      Of Kashmir (cashmere) goats  . . . . . . .kg                                                  
      Other  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                  
   Coarse animal hair, carded or combed  . . . .kg                                                  
 Yarn of carded wool, not put up for retail sale:                                                   
   Containing 85 percent or more by weight of wool:                                                 
      Of which the average fiber diameter is not less than                                          
                   34.40 microns  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                     
      Other  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                  
   Containing less than 85 percent by weight of wool kg                                             
 Yarn of combed wool, not put up for retail sale:                                                   
   Containing 85 percent or more by weight of wool kg                                               
   Containing less than 85 percent by weight of wool kg                                             
 Yarn of fine animal hair (carded or combed), not put up for retail                                 
              sale:                                                                                 
   Carded  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                  
   Combed  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                  
 Yarn of wool or fine animal hair, put up for retail sale:                                          
   Containing 85 percent or more by weight of wool or of fine                                       
                animal hair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                     
   Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                  
 Yarn of coarse animal hair or of horsehair (including gimped                                       
              horsehair yarn), whether or not put up for retail sale kg                             
 Woven fabrics of carded wool or of carded fine animal hair:                                        
               Containing 85 percent or more by weight of wool or of                                
                fine animal hair:                                                                   
      Of a weight not exceeding 300 g/m2 (8.85 oz./sq. yd.) m2                                      
                                                            kg                                      
      Other  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .m2                                                  
                                                            kg                                      
   Other, mixed mainly or solely with manmade filaments m2                                          
                                                            kg                                      
   Other, mixed mainly or solely with manmade staple fibers m2                                      
                                                            kg                                      
   Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .m2                                                  
                                                            kg                                      
 Woven fabrics of combed wool or of combed fine animal hair:                                        
               Containing 85 percent or more by weight of wool or of fine                           
                animal hair:                                                                        
      Of a weight not exceeding 200 g/m2 (5.90 oz./sq. yd.) m2                                      
                                                            kg                                      
      Other  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .m2                                                  
                                                            kg                                      
   Other, mixed mainly or solely with manmade filaments m2                                          
                                                            kg                                      
   Other, mixed mainly or solely with manmade staple fibers m2                                      
                                                            kg                                      
   Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .m2                                                  
                                                            kg                                      
 Woven fabrics of coarse animal hair or of horsehair m2                                             
                                                            kg