Customs Tariff 

Chapter 70

Glass and Glassware

1. This Chapter does not cover:

  1. Goods of heading 32.07 (for example, vitrifiable enamels and glazes, glass frit, other glass in the form of powder, granules or flakes);

  2. Articles of Chapter 71 (for example, imitation jewellery);

  3. Optical fibre cables of heading 85.44, electrical insulators (heading 85.46) or fittings of insulating material of heading 85.47;

  4. Optical fibres, optically worked optical elements, hypodermic syringes, artificial eyes, thermometers, barometers, hydrometers or other articles of Chapter 90;

  5. Lamps or lighting fittings, illuminated signs, illuminated name-plates and the like, having a permanently fixed light source, or parts thereof of heading 94.05;

  6. 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

  7. Buttons, fitted vacuum flasks, scent or similar sprays or other articles of Chapter 96.

2. For the purposes of headings 70.03, 70.04 and 70.05:

  1. glass is not regarded as "worked" by reason of any process it has undergone before annealing;

  2. cutting to shape does not affect the classification of glass in sheets;

  3. 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.

3. The products referred to in heading 70.06 remain classified in that heading whether or not they have the character of articles.

4. For the purposes of heading 70.19, the expression "glass wool" means:

  1. Mineral wools with a silica (SiO2) content not less than 60 per cent by weight;

  2. Mineral wools with a silica (SiO2) content less than 60 per cent but with an alkaline oxide (K2O or Na2O) content exceeding 5 per cent by weight or a boric oxide (B2O3) content exceeding 2% by weight.

  3. Mineral wools which do not comply with the above specifications fall in heading 68.06.

5. Throughout this Schedule, the expression "glass" includes fused quartz and other fused silica.

SUB-HEADING NOTE
For the purposes of tariff items 7013 22 00, 7013 33 00, 7013 41 00 and 7013.91, the expression "lead crystal" means only glass having a minimum lead monoxide (PBO) content by weight of 24 per cent.

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