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69.05 - Roofing tiles, chimney-pots, cowls, chimney liners, architectural ornaments and other ceramic constructional goods. 6905.10 6905.90 - Roofing tiles - Other This heading covers a range of non-refractory goods, usually of common ottery but sometimes more or less vitrified, which, like bricks, are used in constructional or buili;ing work. It includes : (1) Roofin tiles (for roofs, for top in walls, etc.). These are usually rovided with nibs, holed or nailing, or may be rnou de to interlock, and in this respect di er fiom the tiles of headin s 69.07 and 69.08. They may be flat, half cylinders or of special shapes for eaves, ridges, [ips or valleys, etc. tk PI Fr (2) Chimney-pots, cowls, chimney liners, flue-blocks, etc. (3) Architectural ornaments for use on buildings, walls, gates, etc, (e.g., cornices and fr-iezes); gar oyles; pediments, rosettes, balustrades, corbels, capitals; gable-end, eave, ridging and roo ornaments, etc. B (4) Other ceramic constructional goods, e.g., ventilator grills; clay-lath used as support for plaster-work and formed of wire mesh with fired clay crosses or plates at the intersections, the f ~ e clay d forming the major constituent. These articles fall in this heading whether plain, sand-faced, covered with slip, coloured in the mass, impregnated with other substances, glazed, ribbed, channelled, fluted or otherwise decorated by moulding. The heading excludes, infer a h , pipes and guttering and the like, such as rain-water drain-pipes (heading 69.06), even if used for constructional purposes.
1.- This Chapter applies only to ceramic products which have been fired after shaping : (a) Headings 69.04 to 69.14 apply only to such products other than those classifiable in headings 69.01 to 69.03; (b) Articles heated to temperatures less than 800 °C for purposes such as curing of resins, accelerating hydration reactions, or for the removal of water or other volatile components, are not considered to be fired. Such articles are excluded from Chapter 69; and (c) Ceramic articles are obtained by firing inorganic, non-metallic materials which have been prepared and shaped previously at, in general, room temperature. Raw materials comprise, inter alia, clays, siliceous materials including fused silica, materials with a high melting point, such as oxides, carbides, nitrides, graphite or other carbon, and in some cases binders such as refractory clays or phosphates. 2.- This Chapter does not cover : (a) Products of heading 28.44; (b) Articles of heading 68.04; (c) Articles of Chapter 71 (for example, imitation jewellery); (d) Cermets of heading 81.13; (e) Articles of Chapter 82; (f) Electrical insulators (heading 85.46) or fittings of insulating material of heading 85.47; (g) Artificial teeth (heading 90.21); (h) Articles of Chapter 91 (for example, clocks and clock cases); (ij) Articles of Chapter 94 (for example, furniture, luminaires and lighting fittings, prefabricated buildings); (k) Articles of Chapter 95 (for example, toys, games and sports requisites); (l) Articles of heading 96.06 (for example, buttons) or of heading 96.14 (for example, smoking pipes); or (m) Articles of Chapter 97 (for example, works of art).