O f Kashmir (cashmere) goats

Subheading Explanatory Note. Subheading 5102.11 oses of subheading 5102.11, the expression "of Kashmir (cashmere) oats" means the fine % EiPZthe undercoat (downy fleece of the breed of goats that ori inated in kasbmir but is today raised in several other regions of the wor1d. For the purposes of this sub%eading, the region in which the animals are raised is not to be taken into account. 51.03 - Waste of wool or of fine or coarse animal hair, including yarn waste but excluding garnetted stock. 5103.10 - Noils of wool or of fine animal hair - Other waste of wool or of fine animal hair 5 103.30 - Waste of coarse animal hair 5103.20 In general this heading covers all waste other than garnetted stock) of wool or of fine or coarse animal hair, i-e., the waste recovere during the successive treatments converting the raw wool or hair into washed, carded, combed, spun, woven, knitted, etc., products. The principal wastes included here are : (I) Wastes from combing, carding or other processes reparatory to spinning, such as : noils, the most important waste, composed of short bres removed during combing; lap and sliver ends, small waste pieces of the combed lap; burr waste and carded shoddy, wastes collected during cardtng; fibres recovered on cleaning the rollers of carding machines and known as strippings. (2) Yarn waste such as broken, knotted or tangled yarns collected as waste during spinning, doubling, reeling, weaving, knitting,etc., operations. (3) Wastes such as sorting wastes and washing wastes collected fkom the bottom of the vat or fiom the gratings of washers. (4) Waste, such as old mattress hair and wool. Some of these wastes may be impre ated with oil fiom the machines or mixed with dust or other impurities (natural impurihes o vegetable origin, for exam le). These wastes, according to type and quality, may be used for spinning, for stufftng, etc. 7%ev classification here is not affected by carbonisation, bleaching, dyeing, etc. ? The heading excludes : (a) Horsehair waste (heading 05.11). (b) Wadding (heading 30.05 or 56.01). (c) Waste of wool or animal hair suitable only for use as fertilisers (Chapter 31). (d) Garnetted stock of wool or of fine or coarse animal hair (heading 51.04). (e) Carded or combed waste of wool or of fine or coarse animal hair (heading 51.05). (f) Textile flock and dust and mill neps (heading 56.01). 51.04 - Garnetted stock of wool or of fine or coarse animal hair. This heading covers garnetted stock of wool or of fine or coarse animal hair, obtained by garnetting rags of knitted, woven, etc., matenal or by garnetting the waste yarns obtained during the spinmng, weaving, knitting, etc., operations. Garnetted wool (reclaimed or reworked wool) includes : (I) Shoddy and mungo, obtained by garnetting woollen or worsted yams or rags. (2) Extract wool, obtained by garnetting the wool remaining when mixed rags are treated, usually with acid, to eliminate the vegetable fibres (e.g., cotton) or artificial staple fibres. Gametted stock of wool or of fine or coarse animal hair of this heading is usually spun into yarns either alone or mixed with new fibres, and is used for the manufacture of woven or knitted fabrics, of felts or for padding or stuffing purposes. Such garnetted stock remains classified here whether or not bleached or dyed. The heading does not cover : (a) Wadding (heading 30.05 or 56.01). @) Carded or combed garnetted stock of wool or of fine or coarse animal hair (heading 51.05). (c) Textile flock and dust and mi11 neps (heading 56.01). (d) Used or new rags, not garnetted (heading 63.10). 51.05 - Wool and fine or coarse animal hair, carded or combed (including combed wool in fragments) (+). 5105.10 - Cardedwool - Wool tops and other combed wool : 5105.21 5105.39 - - Combed wool in fragments - - Other - Fine animal hair, carded or combed : - - Of Kashmir (cashmere) goats -- 0 t h 5105.40 - Coarse animal hair, carded or combed 5105.29 5 105.31 This heading covers : (1) Wool and fine or coarse animal hair (including waste and garnetted stock), carded preparatory to woollen spinning. (2) Wool and fine animal hair, combed following the "preparing" (gilling) or carding process. r The purpose of carding (on special carding machines) is to disentangle the fibres, la them more or less arallel, and entirely or lar ely kee them from any extraneous matter (most y vegetable) which t iey may still contm. The bres are then in the form of webs. I If " woollen " products (i.e., those which have beem carded only) are required, the web of fibres is divided lengthwise into numerous elements which are then rolled or rubbed into the form of slubbings to increase the cohesion of the fibres and to facilitate their spinning into yarns. The slubbings are wound onto bobbins and can be used without further operation for spinning into woollen yarns. ,combed products (worsted) are required, two alternative processes may be adopted, viz., el er the carded webs are combed or, alternatively, the wool or animal hair is not first carded but before combing undergoes a " reparin " rocess in which the material is treated in gilling machines (also known as " gigboxes wRich open out and straighten the fibres. If, on the contr S '5 During the subse uent combing o eration, the short fibres are eliminated, principally in the form of noils, whi e the remaining bres are laid arallel in the form of a sliver. Any re ve etable impurities are also removed along wi the noils. The combed sliver is then drafte an gilled to ensure a corn lete mixing of the fibres of various lengths, y d the resultin sliver is wound into the form of a Y3all, known as a "top ". Materials, chiefly ham, wh~chwi not ball easily often leave this stage in the form of com ressed coils, tightly tied between two sheets of paper, and known as " bum ed tops ". The com ed products are put through a series of drawing and doubling operations w ich convert them into rovings. These are wound onto bobbins in readiness for spinning into worsted yarns. ? !!i R -8 li !i This heading covers the slubbings, carded slivers, tops and rovings referred to above, and also cut or broken tops and cut or broken carded slivers which have been deliberately cut or broken into short uniform lengths. This heading also covers combed wool in fragments, sometimes known as " combed wool in bulk " scouted deburred wool " or " open tops ". This wool, generally scoured, is wool which has been mechanically deburred by utilising part of the production line machine (cardin and combins) used to produce wool tops for worsted s mnning. After leavin the corn ing macL e the conhnuous sliver produced is stretched and bro en into irregular fl& fragments which arg then baled. The roduct is of short fibre length (avera e fibre length less than 45 mm) and is suitable for woo en or cotton system spinning but not or worsted spinning. It must, therefore, be re-carded before spinning. In appearance it resembles fluffy scoured wool with no vegetable material evident. ' I , B i Km It should be noted that certain rovings may have much the same diameter as single yarns of headings 51.06 to 51.10 and may also be slightly twisted, but since they have not yet been spun they do not constitute yarns and therefore remain in this heading. Processes such as bleaching and dyeing do not affect the classification of the products in this heading. The heading does not include : (a) Wadding (heading 30.05 or 56.01). (b) Wool prepared for use in making wigs or the like (heading 67.03).