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Section XV - Chapter 81
Other Base Metals; Cermets; Articles Thereof
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.
Statistical Note
1. Alloys of each of the base metals provided for in chapter 81 are metals in which the
content of the respective base metal is, by weight, less than 99 percent, but not less
than any other metallic element.

Schedule B No. and Headings Commodity Description Unit of Quantity Second Quantity
81 Other Base Metals; Cermets; Articles Thereof
81.01 - Tungsten (wolfram) and articles thereof, including waste and scrap:
8101.10.0000 - - Powders kg
- - Other:
8101.94.0000 - - - Unwrought tungsten, including bars and rods obtained simply by sintering kg
8101.96.0000 - - - Wire kg
8101.97.0000 - - - Waste and scrap kg
8101.99 - - - Other:
8101.99.1000 - - - - Bars and rods, other than those obtained simply by sintering, profiles, plates, sheets, strip and foil kg
8101.99.8000 - - - - Other kg
81.02 - Molybdenum and articles thereof, including waste and scrap:
8102.10.0000 - - Powders kg
- - Other:
8102.94.0000 - - - Unwrought molybdenum, including bars and rods obtained simply by sintering kg
8102.95.0000 - - - Bars and rods, other than those obtained simply by sintering; profiles, plates, sheets, strip and foil kg
8102.96.0000 - - - Wire kg
8102.97.0000 - - - Waste and scrap kg
8102.99.0000 - - - Other kg
81.03 - Tantalum and articles thereof, including waste and scrap:
8103.20 - - Unwrought tantalum, including bars and rods obtained simply by sintering; powders:
8103.20.0030 - - - Powders kg
8103.20.0090 - - - Other kg
8103.30.0000 - - Waste and scrap kg
8103.90.0000 - - Other kg
81.04 - Magnesium and articles thereof, including waste and scrap:
- - Unwrought magnesium:
8104.11.0000 - - - Containing at least 99.8 percent by weight of magnesium kg
8104.19.0000 - - - Other kg
8104.20.0000 - - Waste and scrap kg
8104.30.0000 - - Raspings, turnings and granules, graded according to size; powders kg
8104.90.0000 - - Other kg
81.05 - Cobalt mattes and other intermediate products of cobalt metal- lurgy; cobalt and articles thereof, including waste and scrap:
8105.20.0000 - - Cobalt mattes and other intermediate products of cobalt metallurgy; unwrought cobalt; powders kg
8105.30.0000 - - Waste and scrap kg
8105.90.0000 - - Other kg
8106.00.0000 - Bismuth and articles thereof, including waste and scrap kg
81.07 - Cadmium and articles thereof, including waste and scrap:
8107.20.0000 - - Unwrought cadmium; powders kg
8107.30.0000 - - Waste and scrap kg
8107.90.0000 - - Other kg
81.08 - Titanium and articles thereof, including waste and scrap:
8108.20 - - Unwrought titanium; powders:
8108.20.0010 - - - Sponge kg
8108.20.0030 - - - Ingots kg
8108.20.0090 - - - Other kg
8108.30.0000 - - Waste and scrap kg
8108.90 - - Other:
8108.90.6010 - - - Billets kg
8108.90.6020 - - - Blooms, sheet bars and slabs kg
8108.90.6031 - - - Other bars, rods, profiles and wire kg
8108.90.8000 - - - Other kg
81.09 - Zirconium and articles thereof, including waste and scrap:
8109.20.0000 - - Unwrought zirconium; powders kg
8109.30.0000 - - Waste and scrap kg
8109.90.0000 - - Other kg
81.10 - Antimony and articles thereof, including waste and scrap:
8110.10.0000 - - Unwrought antimony; powders kg
8110.20.0000 - - Waste and scrap kg
8110.90.0000 - - Other kg
8111.00.0000 - Manganese and articles thereof, including waste and scrap kg
81.12 - Beryllium, chromium, germanium, vanadium, gallium, hafnium, indium, niobium (columbium), rhenium and thallium, and articles of these metals, including waste and scrap:
- - Beryllium:
8112.12.0000 - - - Unwrought; powders kg
8112.13.0000 - - - Waste and scrap kg
8112.19.0000 - - - Other kg
- - Chromium:
8112.21.0000 - - - Unwrought; powders kg
8112.22.0000 - - - Waste and scrap kg
8112.29.0000 - - - Other kg
- - Thallium:
8112.51.0000 - - - Unwrought; powders kg
8112.52.0000 - - - Waste and scrap kg
8112.59.0000 - - - Other kg
- - Other:
8112.92 - - - Unwrought; waste and scrap; powders:
8112.92.0600 - - - - Waste and scrap kg
- - - - Other:
8112.92.6100 - - - - - Germanium kg
8112.92.7000 - - - - - Vanadium kg
8112.92.9000 - - - - - Other kg
8112.99 - - - Other:
8112.99.1000 - - - - Germanium kg
8112.99.2000 - - - - Vanadium kg
8112.99.9000 - - - - Other kg
8113.00.0000 - Cermets and articles thereof, including waste and scrap kg

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