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32.12 - Pigments (including metallic powders and flakes) dispersed in non-aqueous media, in liquid or paste form, of a kind used in the manufacture of paints (including enamels); stamping foils; dyes and other colouring matter put up in forms or packings for retail sale. 3212.10 - Stamping foils 3212.90 - Other (A) PIGMENTS (INCLUDING METALLIC POWDERS AND FLAKES) DISPERSED IN NON-AQUEOUS MEDIA, IN LIQUID OR PASTE FORM OF A KIND USED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PAINTS (INCLUDING ENAMELS) These are concentrated dispersions of pigments (including aluminium or other metal powders and flakes) in a non-aqueous medium (e ., drytng oils, white spirit, gum, wood or sulphate turpentine or varnish), in liquid or paste om, of a kind used in the manufacture of paints or enamels. ? This group also includes concentrated dispersions, sometimes called " pearl essence ", of : h (a) natural nacreous (pearl pigment containing guanine and hypoxanthine and obtained from the scales of certam fis ,or (b) a synthetic nacreous (pearl) pigment (e.g., mica coated with bismuth chloride oxide or titanium dioxide), in a varnish or lacquer (e.g., nitrocellulose lacquer) or in a solution of synthetic polymers. These roducts are used in the manufacture of imitation pearls, nail enamels or other paints and enarne s. P (B) STAMPING FOILS These products (also known as blocking foils) consist of thin sheets of either : (1) Metallic powder (including powder of precious metal), or pigment, agglomerated with glue, gelatin or other binder, or (2) Metal (including precious metal) or pigment, deposited by vaporisation, cathodic sputtering, etc., on a supporting sheet of any material (e.g., paper, plastics). The are used, with the application of pressure (and generally of heat), for printing book covers, hat gads, etc., by hand or machine. Metallic foils produced by rolling or hammering are classified according to the constituent metal (e.g., gold foil in heading 71.08, copper foil in heading 74.10, aluminium foil in heading 76.07). (C) DYES AND OTHER COLOURING MATTER PUT UP IN FORMS OR PACIUNGS FOR RETAIL SALE These are non-film forming products which normally consist of mixtures of colouring matter with other substances (e inert diluents, surface-active products which encourage the penetration and fixation of colouring matter). Mordants are also sometimes added. 8; They fall here only if: (1) In packings for retail sale (e.g., sachets of powder, bottles of liquid) put up for use as dyes, or (2) h forms (e.g., balls, tablets or the like) clearly designed for retail sale. The dyes covered by this heading are mainly those used for domestic purposes and usually sold as " household d es " (e.g., dyes for clothes, for shoes, for furniture). The heading also includes special dyes use in laboratones, e.g., to colour microscopic preparations. J' The heading does not cover : (a) Artists', studentsLor si board painters' colours, modifying tints, amusement colours and the like, in tablets, tubes, jars, bott es, pans or in similar forms or paclclngs (heading 32.13). P (b) Printing inks (heading 32.15). (c) Theatrical grease paints and other make-up (heading 33.04). (d) The hair " dyes " of heading 33.05. (e) Coloured crayons and pastels (heading 96.09).
1.- This Chapter does not cover : (a) Separate chemically defined elements or compounds (except those of heading 32.03 or 32.04, inorganic products of a kind used as luminophores (heading 32.06), glass obtained from fused quartz or other fused silica in the forms provided for in heading 32.07, and also dyes and other colouring matter put up in forms or packings for retail sale, of heading 32.12); (b) Tannates or other tannin derivatives of products of headings 29.36 to 29.39, 29.41 or 35.01 to 35.04; or (c) Mastics of asphalt or other bituminous mastics (heading 27.15). 2.- Heading 32.04 includes mixtures of stabilised diazonium salts and couplers for the production of azo dyes. 3.- Headings 32.03, 32.04, 32.05 and 32.06 apply also to preparations based on colouring matter (including, in the case of heading 32.06, colouring pigments of heading 25.30 or Chapter 28, metal flakes and metal powders), of a kind used for colouring any material or used as ingredients in the manufacture of colouring preparations. The headings do not apply, however, to pigments dispersed in non-aqueous media, in liquid or paste form, of a kind used in the manufacture of paints, including enamels (heading 32.12), or to other preparations of heading 32.07, 32.08, 32.09, 32.10, 32.12, 32.13 or 32.15. 4.- Heading 32.08 includes solutions (other than collodions) consisting of any of the products specified in headings 39.01 to 39.13 in volatile organic solvents when the weight of the solvent exceeds 50 % of the weight of the solution. 5.- The expression “colouring matter” in this Chapter does not include products of a kind used as extenders in oil paints, whether or not they are also suitable for colouring distempers. 6.- The expression “stamping foils” in heading 32.12 applies only to thin sheets of a kind used for printing, for example, book covers or hat bands, and consisting of : (a) Metallic powder (including powder of precious metal) or pigment, agglomerated with glue, gelatin or other binder; or (b) Metal (including precious metal) or pigment, deposited on a supporting sheet of any material.