CHAPTER NOTE 70
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- Chapter Notes (upto 31/08/2004)
GLASS AND GLASSWARE
GLASS AND GLASSWARE
1. This Chapter does not cover :
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(a) Goods of heading 3207 (for example, vitrifiable enamels and glazes, glass frit, other glass in form of powder, granules or flakes);
(b) Articles of Chapter 71 (for example, imitation jewellery);
(c) Optical fibre cables of heading 8544, electrical insulators (heading 8546) or fittings of insulating material of heading 8547;
(d) Optical fibres, optically worked optical elements, hypodermic syringes, artificial eyes, thermometers, barometers, hydrometers or other articles of Chapter 90;
(e) Lamps or lighting fittings, illuminated signs, illuminated name-plates and the like, having a permanently fixed light source, or parts thereof of heading 9405;
(f) Toys, games, sports requisites, Christmas tree ornaments or other articles of Chapter 95 (excluding glass eyes without mechanisms for dolls or for other articles of Chapter 95); or
c (g) Buttons, fitted vacuum flasks, scent or similar sprays or other articles of Chapter 96
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(a) glass is not regarded as worked by reason of any process it has undergone before annealing :
(b) cutting to shape does not affect the classification of glass in sheets;
(c) the expression absorbent, reflecting or non-reflecting layer means a microscopically thin coating of metal or of a chemical compound (for example, metal oxide) which absorbs, for example, infra-red light or improves the reflecting qualities of the glass while still allowing it to retain a degree of transparency or translucency; or which prevents light from being reflected on the surface of the glass.
4. For the purposes of heading 7019, the expression glass wool means :
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(a) Mineral wools with a silica (SiO2) content not less than 60% by weight;
(b) Mineral wools with a silica (SiO2) content less than 60% but with an alkaline oxide (K2O or Na2O) content exceeding, 5% by weight or a boric oxide (B2O3) content exceeding 2% by weight
5. Throughout the nomenclature, the expression glass includes fused quartz and other fused silica.
SUB-HEADING NOTE :
For the purposes of sub-headings 7013 21, 7013 31 and 7013 91, the expression lead crystal means only glass having a minimum lead monoxide (PbO) content by weight of 24%
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