---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2008 Schedule B - Chapter 96 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This document was produced for the Commodity Analysis Branch (CAB) of the U.S. Census Bureau's Foreign Trade Division. Questions and comments can be directed to them via phone at 800-549-0595 (Menu Option 2). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Section XX - Chapter 96 Miscellaneous Manufactured Articles Notes 1. This chapter does not cover: (a). Pencils for cosmetic or toilet uses (chapter 33); (b). Articles of chapter 66 (for example, parts of umbrellas or walking-sticks); (c). Imitation jewelry (heading 7117); (d). Parts of general use, as defined in note 2 to section XV, of base metal (section XV), or similar goods of plastics (chapter 39); (e). Cutlery or other articles of chapter 82 with handles or other parts of carving or molding materials; heading 9601 or 9602 applies, however, to separately exported handles or other parts of such articles; (f). Articles of chapter 90 (for example, spectacle frames (heading 9003), mathematical drawing pens (heading 9017), brushes of a kind specialized for use in dentistry or for medical, surgical or veterinary purposes (heading 9018); (g). Articles of chapter 91 (for example, clock or watch cases); (h). Musical instruments or parts or accessories thereof (chapter 92); (ij). Articles of chapter 93 (arms and parts thereof); (k). Articles of chapter 94 (for example, furniture, lamps and lighting fittings); (l). Articles of chapter 95 (toys, games, sports equipment); (m). Works of art, collectors' pieces or antiques (chapter 97). 2. In heading 9602 the expression "vegetable or mineral carving material" means: (a). Hard seeds, pips, hulls and nuts and similar vegetable materials of a kind used for carving (for example, corozo and dom); (b). Amber, meerschaum, agglomerated amber and agglomerated meerschaum, jet and mineral substitutes for jet. 3. In heading 9603 the expression "prepared knots and tufts for broom or brush making" applies only to unmounted knots and tufts of animal hair, vegetable fiber or other material, which are ready for incorporation without division in brooms or brushes, or which require only such further minor processes as trimming to shape at the top, to render them ready for such incorporation. 4. Articles of this chapter, other than those of headings 9601 to 9606 and 9615, remain classified in the chapter whether or not composed wholly or partly of precious metal or metal clad with precious metal, of natural or cultured pearls, or precious or semiprecious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed). However, headings 9601 to 9606 and 9615 include articles in which natural or cultured pearls, precious or semiprecious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed), precious metal or metal clad with precious metal constitute only minor constituents. 9601 Worked ivory, bone, tortoise-shell, horn, antlers, coral, mother- of-pearl and other animal carving material, and articles of these materials (including articles obtained by molding): 9601100000 Worked ivory and articles of ivory . . . . . X 9601900000 Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X 9602 Worked vegetable or mineral carving material and articles of these materials; molded or carved articles of wax, of stearin, of natural gums or natural resins, of modeling pastes, and other molded or carved articles, not elsewhere specified or included; worked, unhardened gelatin (except gelatin of heading 3503) and articles of unhardened gelatin: 9602001040 Unfilled gelatin capsules . . . . . . . . . Thsnds 9602004000 Molded or carved articles of wax . . . . . . X 9602006000 Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X 9603 Brooms, brushes (including brushes constituting parts of machines, appliances or vehicles), hand-operated mechanical floor sweepers, not motorized, mops and feather dusters; prepared knots and tufts for broom or brush making; paint pads and rollers; squeegees (other than roller squeegees): 9603100000 Brooms and brushes, consisting of twigs or other vegetable materials bound together, with or without handles Doz. Toothbrushes, shaving brushes, hairbrushes, nail brushes, eyelash brushes and other toilet brushes for use on the person, including such brushes constituting parts of appliances: 9603210000 Tooth brushes, including dental-plate brushes No. 9603290000 Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .No. 9603300000 Artists' brushes, writing brushes and similar brushes for the application of cosmetics . . . . . . . . . .No. 960340 Paint, distemper, varnish or similar brushes (other than brushes of subheading 9603.30); paint pads and rollers: 9603402000 Paint rollers . . . . . . . . . . . . . .No. Other: 9603404020 Paint pads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .No. 9603404050 Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .No. 9603500000 Other brushes constituting parts of machines, appliances or vehicles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .No. 9603900000 Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .No. 9604000000 Hand sieves and hand riddles . . . . . . . . . X 9605000000 Travel sets for personal toilet, sewing or shoe or clothes cleaning (other than manicure and pedicure sets of heading 8214) X 9606 Buttons, press-fasteners, snap-fasteners and press-studs, button molds and other parts of these articles; button blanks: 9606100000 Press-fasteners, snap-fasteners and press-studs and parts therefor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X Buttons: 9606210000 Of plastics, not covered with textile material Gross 9606220000 Of base metal, not covered with textile material Gross 9606290000 Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gross 9606300000 Button molds and other parts of buttons; button blanks X 9607 Slide fasteners and parts thereof: Slide fasteners: 9607110000 Fitted with chain scoops of base metal . .No. 9607190000 Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .No. 9607200000 Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X 9608 Ball point pens; felt tipped and other porous-tipped pens and markers; fountain pens, stylograph pens and other pens; duplicating stylos; propelling or sliding pencils (for example, mechanical pencils); pen-holders, pencil-holders and similar holders; parts (including caps and clips) of the foregoing articles, other than those of heading 9609: 9608100000 Ball point pens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gross 9608200000 Felt tipped and other porous-tipped pens and markers Gross Fountain pens, stylograph pens and other pens: 9608310000 India ink drawing pens . . . . . . . . . .No. 9608390000 Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .No. 960840 Propelling or sliding pencils (for example, mechanical pencils): 9608404000 With a mechanical action for extending, or for extending and retracting, the lead . . . . . . . . Gross 9608408000 Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gross 9608500000 Sets of articles from two or more of the subheadings 9608.10, 9608.20, 9608.31, 9608.39 or 9608.40 No. 9608600000 Refills for ball point pens, comprising the ball point and ink reservoir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .No. Other: 9608910000 Pen nibs and nib points . . . . . . . . Gross 9608990000 Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X 9609 Pencils (other than those pencils of heading 9608), crayons, pencil leads, pastels, drawing charcoals, writing or drawing chalks and tailors' chalks: 9609100000 Pencils and crayons, with leads encased in a rigid sheath Gross 9609200000 Pencil leads, black or colored . . . . . . Gross 9609900000 Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gross 9610000000 Slates and boards, with writing or drawing surfaces, whether or not framed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X 9611000000 Date, sealing or numbering stamps, and the like (including devices for printing or embossing labels), designed for operating in the hand; hand-operated composing sticks and hand printing sets incorporating such composing sticks . . . X 9612 Typewriter or similar ribbons, inked or otherwise prepared for giving impressions, whether or not on spools or in cartridges; ink pads, whether or not inked, with or without boxes: Ribbons: 9612101000 Measuring less than 30 mm in width, permanently put up in plastic or metal cartridges (whether or not containing spools) of a kind used in typewriters, automatic data processing or other machines Doz. kg 9612109000 Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Doz. kg 9612200000 Ink-pads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X 9613 Cigarette lighters and other lighters, whether or not mechanical or electrical, and parts thereof other than flints and wicks: 9613100000 Pocket lighters, gas fueled, nonrefillable .No. 9613200000 Pocket lighters, gas fueled, refillable . . .No. 961380 Other lighters: 9613801010 Table lighters . . . . . . . . . . . . .No. 9613801090 Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .No. 9613900000 Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X 9614 Smoking pipes (including pipe bowls) and cigar or cigarette holders, and parts thereof: Pipes and pipe bowls: 9614002100 Roughly shaped blocks of wood or root, for the manufacture of pipes . . . . . . . . . . Gross 9614003000 Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .No. Other: 9614009400 Of metal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X 9614009800 Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X 9615 Combs, hair-slides and the like; hairpins, curling pins, curling grips, hair-curlers and the like, other than those of heading 8516, and parts thereof: Combs, hair-slides and the like: 9615110000 Of hard rubber or plastics . . . . . . . . X 9615190000 Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X 961590 Other: 9615902000 Nonthermic, nonornamental devices for curling the hair X 9615907000 Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X 9616 Scent sprayers and similar toilet sprayers, and mounts and heads therefor; powder-puffs and pads for the application of cosmetics or toilet preparations: 9616100000 Scent sprayers and similar toilet sprayers, and mounts and heads therefor . . . . . . . . . . . . . X 9616200000 Powder puffs and pads for the application of cosmetics or toilet preparations . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg 9617 Vacuum flasks and other vacuum vessels, complete with cases; parts thereof other than glass inners: 9617002000 Flasks and other vessels . . . . . . . . . .No. 9617006000 Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X 9618000000 Tailors' dummies and other mannequins; automatons and other animated displays used for shop window dressing X ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This document was produced for the Commodity Analysis Branch (CAB) of the U.S. Census Bureau's Foreign Trade Division. Questions and comments can be directed to them via phone at 800-549-0595 (Menu Option 2). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File produced on 15 January 2008 ----------------------------------------------------------------------