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2008 Schedule B - Chapter 71
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                          Section XIV                                                               
                                                                                                    
Natural or Cultured Pearls, Precious or Semiprecious Stones, Precious Metals,                       
    Metals Clad with Precious Metal, and Articles Thereof;                                          
                    Imitation Jewelry; Coin                                                         
                                                                                                    
Section XIV - Chapter 71                                                                            
                                                                                                    
Natural or Cultured Pearls, Precious or Semiprecious Stones, Precious Metals, Metals Clad with      
 Precious Metal, and Articles Thereof; Imitation Jewelry; Coin                                      
                                                                                                    
Notes                                                                                               
                                                                                                    
1.  Subject to note 1(a) to section VI and except as provided below, all articles consisting wholly 
     or partly:                                                                                     
                                                                                                    
  (a). Of natural or cultured pearls or of precious or semiprecious stones (natural, synthetic      
        or reconstructed), or                                                                       
                                                                                                    
  (b). Of precious metal, or of metal clad with precious metal, are to be classified in this        
        chapter.                                                                                    
                                                                                                    
2.  (a). Headings 7113, 7114 and 7115 do not cover articles in which precious metal or              
          metal clad with precious metal is present as minor constituents only, such as minor       
          fittings or minor ornamentation (for example, monograms, ferrules and rims), and          
          paragraph (b) of the foregoing note does not apply to such articles.                      
                                                                                                    
    (b). Heading 7116 does not cover articles containing precious metal or metal clad with          
          precious metal (other than as minor constituents).                                        
                                                                                                    
3.  This chapter does not cover:                                                                    
                                                                                                    
  (a). Amalgams of precious metal, or colloidal precious metal (heading 2843);                      
                                                                                                    
  (b). Sterile surgical suture materials, dental fillings or other goods of chapter 30;             
                                                                                                    
  (c). Goods of chapter 32 (for example, lustres);                                                  
                                                                                                    
  (d). Supported catalysts (heading 3815);                                                          
                                                                                                    
  (e). Articles of heading 4202 or 4203 referred to in note 2(b) to chapter 42;                     
                                                                                                    
  (f). Articles of heading 4303 or 4304;                                                            
                                                                                                    
  (g). Goods of section XI (textiles and textile articles);                                         
                                                                                                    
  (h). Footwear, headgear or other articles of chapter 64 or 65;                                    
                                                                                                    
  (i). Umbrellas, walking-sticks or other articles of chapter 66;                                   
                                                                                                    
  (j). Abrasive goods of heading 6804 or 6805 or chapter 82, containing dust or powder              
        of precious or semiprecious stones (natural or synthetic); articles of chapter 82 with      
        a working part of precious or semiprecious stones (natural, synthetic or                    
        reconstructed); machinery, mechanical appliances or electrical goods, or parts              
        thereof, of section XVI.  However, articles and parts thereof, wholly of precious or        
        semiprecious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed) remain classified in this         
        chapter, except unmounted worked sapphires and diamonds for styli (heading 8522);           
                                                                                                    
  (k). See (j) above.                                                                               
                                                                                                    
  (l). Articles of chapter 90, 91 or 92 (scientific instruments, clocks and watches, musical        
        instruments);                                                                               
                                                                                                    
  (m). Arms or parts thereof (chapter 93);                                                          
                                                                                                    
  (n). Articles covered by note 2 to chapter 95;                                                    
                                                                                                    
  (o). Articles classified in chapter 96 by virtue of note 4 to that chapter; or                    
                                                                                                    
  (p). Original sculptures or statuary (heading 9703), collectors' pieces (heading 9705) or         
        antiques of an age exceeding one hundred years (heading 9706), other than natural           
        or cultured pearls or precious or semiprecious stones.                                      
                                                                                                    
4.  (a). The expression "precious metal" means silver, gold and platinum.                           
                                                                                                    
    (b). The expression "platinum" means platinum, iridium, osmium, palladium, rhodium              
          and ruthenium.                                                                            
                                                                                                    
    (c). The expression "precious or semiprecious stones" does not include any of the               
          substances specified in note 2(b) to chapter 96.                                          
                                                                                                    
5.  For the purposes of this chapter, any alloy (including a sintered mixture and an intermetallic  
     compound) containing precious metal is to be treated as an alloy of precious metal if any      
     one precious metal constitutes as much as 2 percent, by weight, of the alloy.  Alloys of       
     precious metal are to be classified according to the following rules:                          
                                                                                                    
  (a). An alloy containing 2 percent or more, by weight, of platinum is to be treated as an         
        alloy of platinum;                                                                          
                                                                                                    
  (b). An alloy containing 2 percent or more, by weight, of gold but no platinum, or less           
        than 2 percent, by weight, of platinum is to be treated as an alloy of gold;                
                                                                                                    
  (c). Other alloys containing 2 percent or more, by weight, of silver are to be treated as         
        alloys of silver.                                                                           
                                                                                                    
6.  Except where the context otherwise requires, any reference in the nomenclature to precious      
     metal or to any particular precious metal includes a reference to alloys treated as alloys of  
     precious metal or of the particular metal in accordance with the rules in note 5 above, but    
     not to metal clad with precious metal or to base metal or non-metals coated or plated with     
     precious metal.                                                                                
                                                                                                    
7.  Throughout the nomenclature, the expression "metal clad with precious metal" means              
     material made with a base of metal upon one or more surfaces of which there is affixed by      
     soldering, brazing, welding, hot-rolling or similar mechanical means a covering of precious    
     metal.  Except where the context otherwise requires, the expression also covers base metal     
     inlaid with precious metal.                                                                    
                                                                                                    
8.  Subject to note 1(a) to Section VI, goods answering to a description in heading 7112 are        
     to be classified in that heading and in no other heading of the tariff schedule.               
                                                                                                    
9.  For the purposes of heading 7113, the expression "articles of jewelry" means:                   
                                                                                                    
  (a). Any small objects of personal adornment (gem-set or not) (for example, rings,                
        bracelets, necklaces, brooches, earrings, watch chains, fobs, pendants, tie pins, cuff      
        links, dress studs, religious or other medals and insignia); and                            
                                                                                                    
  (b). Articles of personal use of a kind normally carried in the pocket, in the handbag or         
        on the person (for example, cigar or cigarette cases, snuff boxes, ca chou or               
        pillboxes, powder boxes, chain purses or prayer beads).                                     
                                                                                                    
    These articles may be combined or set, for example, with natural or cultured pearls,            
     precious or semiprecious stones, synthetic or reconstructed precious or semiprecious           
     stones, tortoise shell, mother-of-pearl, ivory, natural or reconstituted amber, jet or coral.  
                                                                                                    
10 For thepurposes of heading 7114, the expression "articles of goldsmiths' or silversmiths'                  
     wares" includes such articles as ornaments, tableware, toilet-ware, smokers' articles and      
     other articles of household, office or religious use.                                          
                                                                                                    
                                                                                                    
11 For thepurposes of heading 7117, the expression "imitation jewelry" means articles                         
     of jewelry within the meaning of paragraph (a) of note 9 above (but not including              
     buttons or other articles of heading 9606, or dress combs, hair slides or the like, or         
     hair-pins, of heading 9615), not incorporating natural or cultured pearls, precious or         
     semiprecious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed) nor (except as plating or as         
     minor constituents) precious metal or metal clad with precious metal.                          
                                                                                                    
Subheading Notes                                                                                    
                                                                                                    
1.  For the purposes of subheadings 7106.10, 7108.11, 7110.11, 7110.21, 7110.31 and                 
     7110.41, the expressions "powder" and "in powder form" mean products of which 90               
     percent or more by weight passes through a sieve having a mesh aperture of 0.5 mm.             
     (0.020 inch).                                                                                  
                                                                                                    
2.  Notwithstanding the provisions of chapter note 4(b), for the purposes of subheadings            
     7110.11 and 7110.19, the expression "platinum" does not include iridium, osmium,               
     palladium, rhodium or ruthenium.                                                               
                                                                                                    
3.  For the classification of alloys in the subheadings of heading 7110, each alloy is to be        
     classified with that metal, platinum, palladium, rhodium, iridium, osmium or ruthenium,        
     which predominates by weight over each other of these metals.                                  
                                                                                                    
Statistical Note                                                                                    
                                                                                                    
1.  For the purposes of subchapter II, unless the context otherwise requires:                       
                                                                                                    
  (a). The term "unwrought" refers to metals, whether or not refined, in the form of ingots,        
        blocks, lumps, billets, cakes, slabs, pigs, cathodes, anodes, briquettes, cubes, sticks,    
        grains, sponge, pellets, shot, and similar manufactured primary forms, but does not         
        cover rolled, forged, drawn, or extruded products, tubular products or cast or              
        sintered forms which have been machined or processed otherwise than by simple               
        trimming, scalping or descaling;                                                            
                                                                                                    
  (b). The term "semimanufactured" refers to wrought metal products in the form of bars,            
        rods, sections, plates, sheets, strips, wire, tubes, pipes, and hollow bars, and to         
        powder (other than primary metals in powder form);                                          
                                                                                                    
  (c). The term "waste and scrap" refers to materials and articles of metals which are              
        second-hand or waste or refuse, or are obsolete, defective, or damaged, and which           
        are fit only for the recovery of the metal content or for use in the manufacture of         
        chemicals, and does not include metals in unwrought form or metal-bearing                   
        materials provided for in heading 2616.                                                     
                                                                                                    
             I. NATURAL OR CULTURED PEARLS AND PRECIOUS OR                                          
                   SEMIPRECIOUS STONES                                                              
7101       Pearls, natural or cultured, whether or not worked or graded but                                   
              not strung, mounted or set; pearls, natural or cultured,                              
              temporarily strung for convenience of transport:                                      
7101100000   Natural pearls  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X                                                  
               Cultured pearls:                                                                     
7101210000      Unworked . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X                                                  
7101220000      Worked . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X                                                  
7102       Diamonds, whether or not worked, but not mounted or set:                                           
7102100000   Unsorted  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . carat                                                
               Industrial:                                                                          
7102210000      Unworked or simply sawn, cleaved or bruted carat                                              
7102290000      Other  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . carat                                                
               Nonindustrial:                                                                       
7102310000      Unworked or simply sawn, cleaved or bruted carat                                              
710239          Other:                                                                                        
7102390010        Weighing not over 0.5 carat each . . . carat                                                
7102390050        Weighing over 0.5 carat each . . . . . carat                                                
7103       Precious stones (other than diamonds) and semiprecious stones,                                     
              whether or not worked or graded but not strung, mounted or set;                       
              ungraded precious stones (other than diamonds) and semi-                              
              precious stones, temporarily strung for convenience of transport:                     
710310       Unworked or simply sawn or roughly shaped:                                                       
7103102000      Unworked . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . carat                                                
7103104000      Other  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . carat                                                
               Otherwise worked:                                                                    
7103910000      Rubies, sapphires and emeralds . . . . . . X                                                  
710399          Other:                                                                                        
7103991000        Cut but not set, and suitable for use in the                                                
                     manufacture of jewelry . . . . . . . . . X                                     
7103995000        Other  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X                                                  
7104       Synthetic or reconstructed precious or semiprecious stones,                                        
              whether or not worked or graded but not strung, mounted or set;                       
              ungraded synthetic or reconstructed precious or semiprecious                          
              stones, temporarily strung for convenience of transport:                              
7104100000   Piezo-electric quartz . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                  
7104200000   Other, unworked or simply sawn or roughly shaped X                                               
710490       Other:                                                                                           
7104901000      Cut but not set, and suitable for use in the                                                  
                   manufacture of jewelry . . . . . . . . . .No.                                    
7104905000      Other  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X                                                  
7105       Dust and powder of natural or synthetic precious or semiprecious                                   
              stones:                                                                               
710510       Of diamonds:                                                                                     
7105100010      Natural  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . carat                                                
7105100025      Synthetic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . carat                                                
7105900000   Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                  
             II. PRECIOUS METALS AND METALS CLAD WITH PRECIOUS METAL                                
7106       Silver (including silver plated with gold or platinum), unwrought                                  
              or in semimanufactured forms, or in powder form:                                      
7106100000   Powder  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . g                                                  
               Other:                                                                               
710691          Unwrought:                                                                                    
                    Bullion and dore:                                                               
7106911010           Bullion (silver content)  . . . . . .Ag g                                                
7106911020           Dore (silver content) . . . . . . .  Ag g                                                
7106915000        Other  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . g                                                  
7106920000      Semimanufactured . . . . . . . . . . . . . g                                                  
7107000000 Base metals clad with silver, not further worked than                                              
              semimanufactured  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . g                                     
7108       Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in                                         
              semimanufactured forms, or in powder form:                                            
               Nonmonetary:                                                                         
7108110000      Powder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . g                                                  
710812          Other unwrought forms:                                                                        
                    Bullion and dore:                                                               
7108121010           Bullion (gold content)  . . . . . .  Au g                                                
7108121020           Dore (gold content) . . . . . . . .  Au g                                                
7108125000        Other  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . g                                                  
710813          Other semimanufactured forms:                                                                 
7108131000        Gold leaf  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . cm2                                                
7108135000        Other  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . g                                                  
7108200000   Monetary  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . g                                                  
7109000000 Base metals or silver, clad with gold, not further worked than                                     
              semimanufactured . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . g                        
7110       Platinum, unwrought or in semimanufactured forms, or in                                            
              powder form:                                                                          
               Platinum:                                                                            
7110110000      Unwrought or in powder form (platinum content) Pt g                                           
7110190000      Other (platinum content) . . . . . . . . .Pt g                                                
               Palladium:                                                                           
7110210000      Unwrought or in powder form (palladium content) Pd g                                          
7110290000      Other (palladium content)  . . . . . . . .Pd g                                                
               Rhodium:                                                                             
7110310000      Unwrought or in powder form (rhodium content) Rh g                                            
7110390000      Other (rhodium content)  . . . . . . . . .Rh g                                                
               Iridium, osmium and ruthenium:                                                       
7110410000      Unwrought or in powder form  . . . . . . . g                                                  
7110490000      Other  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . g                                                  
7111000000 Base metals, silver or gold, clad with platinum, not further                                       
              worked than semimanufactured  . . . . . . . . . g                                     
7112       Waste and scrap of precious metal or of metal clad with precious                                   
              metal; other waste and scrap containing precious metal or                             
              precious metal compounds, of a kind used principally for the                          
              recovery of precious metal:                                                           
7112300000   Ash containing precious metals or precious metal                                                 
                compounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . g                                     
               Other:                                                                               
7112910000      Of gold, including metal clad with gold but excluding                                         
                   sweepings containing other precious metals g                                     
                                                     gold contentAu g                               
7112920000      Of platinum, including metal clad with platinum but                                           
                   excluding sweepings containing other precious metals g                           
                                                     platinum content Pt g                          
7112990000      Other  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . g                                                  
             III. JEWELRY, GOLDSMITHS' AND SILVERSMITHS' WARES AND                                  
                 OTHER ARTICLES                                                                     
7113       Articles of jewelry and parts thereof, of precious metal or of                                     
              metal clad with precious metal:                                                       
               Of precious metal whether or not plated or clad with                                 
                precious metal:                                                                     
7113110000      Of silver, whether or not plated or clad with other                                           
                   precious metal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X                                     
7113190000      Of other precious metal, whether or not plated or clad                                        
                   with precious metal  . . . . . . . . . . . X                                     
7113200000   Of base metal clad with precious metal  . . . X                                                  
7114       Articles of goldsmiths' or silversmiths' wares and parts thereof,                                  
              of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal:                               
               Of precious metal whether or not plated or clad with                                 
                precious metal:                                                                     
                                                                                                    
711411          Of silver, whether or not plated or clad with other                                           
                   precious metal:                                                                  
7114115100        Knives, forks, spoons or ladles, whether or not                                             
                     combined in sets . . . . . . . . . . . .PCs.                                   
7114115500        Articles not elsewhere specified or included of a type                                      
                     used for household, table or kitchen use; toilet and                           
                     sanitary wares; all the foregoing and parts thereof, of                        
                     silver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X                                     
7114117000        Other  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X                                                  
7114190000      Of other precious metal, whether or not plated or clad                                        
                   with precious metal  . . . . . . . . . . . X                                     
7114200000   Of base metal clad with precious metal  . . . X                                                  
7115       Other articles of precious metal or of metal clad with precious                                    
              metal:                                                                                
7115100000   Catalysts in the form of wire cloth or grill, of platinum g                                      
7115900000   Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . g                                                  
7116       Articles of natural or cultured pearls, precious or semiprecious                                   
              stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed):                                         
711610       Of natural or cultured pearls:                                                                   
7116101000      Natural  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X                                                  
7116102500      Cultured . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X                                                  
711620       Of precious or semiprecious stones (natural, synthetic or                                        
                reconstructed):                                                                     
7116201000      Articles of jewelry  . . . . . . . . . . . X                                                  
7116204050      Other  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X                                                  
7117       Imitation jewelry:                                                                                 
               Of base metal, whether or not plated with precious metal:                            
7117110000      Cuff links and studs . . . . . . . . . . . X                                                  
7117190000      Other  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X                                                  
7117900000   Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X                                                  
7118       Coin:                                                                                              
7118100000   Coin (other than gold coin), not being legal tender X                                            
711890       Other:                                                                                           
7118900030      Gold (gold content)  . . . . . . . . . . .Au g                                                
7118900050      Other than gold  . . . . . . . . . . . . . X                                                  
                                                                      
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