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52.08 - Woven fabrics of cytton, containing 85 % or more by weight of cotton, weighing not more than 200 glm . - Unbleached : 5208.11 - - Plain weave, weighing not more than 100 g/m2 5208.12 - - Plain weave, weighmg more than 100 g/m2 5208.13 - - 3-thread or 4-thread twill, including cross twill 5208.19 - - Other fabrics - Bleached : 5208.21 - - Plain weave, weighing not more than 100 g/m2 5208.22 - - Plain weave, weighing more than 100 g M 5208.23 - - 3-thread or 4-thread twill, including cross twill 5208.29 - - Other fabrics - Dyed : 5208.3 1 - - Plain weave, weighing not more than 100 g/m2 5208.32 - - Plain weave, weighing more than 100 dm2 5208.33 - - 3-thread or 4-thread twill, including cross twill 5208.39 - - Other fabrics - Of yarns of different colours : 5208.41 - - Plain weave, weighing not more than 100 g/m2 5208.42 - - Plain weave, weighing more than 100 dm2 - - 3-thread or 4-thread twill, including cross twill 5208.49 - - Other fabrics 5208.43 - Printed : 5208.52 - - Plain weave, weighing not more than 100 dm2 - - Plain weave, weighing more than 100 g/m2 5208.59 - - Other fabrics 5208.51 This heading covers woven fabrics (as defined in Part (I) (C) of the General Explanatory Note to Section XI) weighing not more than 200 g h P , containing 85 % or more by weight of cotton. Cotton fabrics are produced in great variety and are used, accordin to their characteristics, for making clothing, household linen, bedspreads, curtains, other furxlls g articles, etc. L The heading does not include : (a) Bandages, medicated or put up for retail sale (heading 30.05). @) Fabrics of heading 58.01. (c) Terry towelling and similar terry fabrics (heading 58.02). (d) Gauze (heading 58.03). (e) Woven fabrics for technical uses, of heading 59.11.
Cotton Subheading Note. 1.- For the p oses of subheadings 5209.42 and 5211.42, the expression "denim" means fabrics of yarns of d2erent colours, of 3-thread or 4-head twill, including broken twill?warp faced, the yarns of which are of one and the same colour and the weft yarns of which are unbleached, b l e a o z dyed grey or coloured a lighter shade of the colour of the warp yarns. GENERAL The General Explanatory Note to Section XI should be taken into account in reading the Explanatory Notes to this Chapter. In general, the Cha ter covers cotton fibres at the various stages of their conversion fiom raw material to woven abrics, and includes mixed textile materials classified as cotton. P