Rattans

14.01 - Vegetable materials of a kind used primarily for plaiting (for example, bamboos, rattans, reeds, rushes, osier, raffia, cleaned, bleached or dyed cereal straw, and lime bark). 1401.10 - Bamboos 1401.20 - Rattans 1401.90 - Other This heading covers raw vegetable materials of a kind used primaril for the manufacture, b or plaiting, of articles such as mats and matting, trays, asket-ware of all kin s (inclu 'ng baskets for packing h i t , vegetables, oysters, etc.), hampers, valises, furniture (e.g., joiin8I chairs and tables), hats, etc. These raw materials may also be used for the manufacture of brushes, umbrella handles, walking sticks, fishing rods, pipe stems, coarse ropes, etc., for the manufacture of paper pulp, or as litter. i: d' The heading covers, inter alia, the following raw materials : (1) Bamboos, special varieties of grasses, which grow particularly in China, Ja an and India. Bamboos have a stalk, in some cases w i g a groove between not split, sawn len wise or cut to length, roun non-inflammable, po ished or dyed) are covered by this heading. P (2) Rattans are stems of climbing alms usually of the enus Calumus and come mainly from Southern Asia. They are cylin ical, solid and flexib e and generally v between 0.3 cm and 6 cm in diameter and in colour vary from yellow to brown; they may ave a dull (matt) or glossy surface. The heading includes rattan cores and the hard outer canes; it also covers the long strips obtained by cutting longitudinally these cores or canes or the whole rattans. 6: S K rw (3) Reeds and rushes, collective terms applied to many herbaceous plants which in dam places, both in temperate zones and in the tropics. Reeds enerally have e more rigi stalks or stems, straight and hollow, with nodes at fairly regu ar intervals, marking the place of the leaves. The best known varieties include water rushes (Scirpus lacustris), common or wild reeds (Arundo donax and Phragmites communis), various species of Cyperus (e.g., C pems tegetiformis, the Chinese mat grass) and species of Juncus (e-g., Juncus efisus, e Japanese mat rush). B f d (4) Osier (white, yellow, green or red), the long, pliable young shoots or branches of certain varieties of the willow tree (Salix). (5) Raffia, the commercial name for the fibrous strips obtained from the leaves of certain palm trees of the genus Raphia, of which the most important is the Raphia mfJ;a grown chiefly in Madagascar. Raffia is used forplaitin and as a tying material in horhculture. Fabrics of unspun raffia are excluded (headmg 46. 1).The headin includes other leaves and asses ., those of the Panama and latama) which are used or the same purposes as ra a and in at-making. '".g i f L (6) Cereal straw, with or without ears, which has been cleaned, bleached or dyed (see below). (7) The inner bark (bast) of several varieties of lime (Tilia species). The fibres of this bark are very strong and are used for the manufacture of ro es ackh cloth and coarse matting and also for 'ng plants. The heading includes baoba bar and t e bark of certain willows T h similar purposes. or poplars, w ~ c serve gye i Apart from cereal straws, which in the unprepared state are excluded (heading 12.13), vegetable plaiting materials fall in this heading whether or not washed and whether raw, or split in strips, peeled, polished, bleached, pre ared for dyeing, dyed, varnished or lac uered, or rendered non-inflammable. The goods o f t e heading may also be cut to length, whet er or not rounded at the ends (straw for makin drinkin straws, canes for making fishing-rods, bamboos for dyeing, etc.), or assorted in bun& or A s which may be li htl twisted for convenience of packing, storage, transport, etc.; the materials of this heading w ic have been assembled by twisting so as to be suitable for use in that state in place of plaits are classified in heading 46.01. B % t.i The heading also excludes : (a) Chipwood (heading 44.04). (b) Vegetable materials described above which have been rolled, crushed, combed or otherwise prepared for spinning (headings 53.03 or 53.05).