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72.15 - Other bars and rods of iron or non-alloy steel (+). 7215.10 - Of free-cutting steel, not further worked than cold-formed or cold-finished 7215.50 7215.90 - Other, not further worked than cold-formed or cold-finished - Other The heading covers bars and rods other than those of heading 72.13 or 72.14. The bars and rods of this heading may : (1) be obtained by cold-forming or cold-finishing, i.e., have been subjected either to a cold ass through one or more dies (cold-drawn bars) or to a grinding or turning process grinded or sized bars). (2) have been subjected to working (such as drilling or sizing, or to further surface treatments than are allowed for roducts of heading 72.14, such as plating, coating, or claddin (see Part (N) (C) of the eneral Explanatory Note to this Chapter), provided that they o not thereby assume the character of articles or of products falling within other headings; e f Bars and rods, cold-formed or cold-fdshed, are delivered in strai ht lengths and can therefore be distinguished ftom wire of heading 72.17 which is always in coi s. The heading excludes : (a) Other bars and rods of iron or non-alloy steel twisted after hot-rolling (heading 72.14). (b) Hollow drill bars and rods (heading 72.28). (c) Products consisting of two or more rolled bars twisted together (heading 73.08). (d) Tapered bars and rods of iron or steel (heading 73.26).
1.- In this Chapter and, in the case of Notes (d), (e) and (f) throughout the Nomenclature, the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them : (a) Pig iron Iron-carbon alloys not usefully malleable, containing more than 2 % by weight of carbon and which may contain by weight one or more other elements within the following limits : - not more than 10 % of chromium - not more than 6 % of manganese - not more than 3 % of phosphorus - not more than 8 % of silicon - a total of not more than 10 % of other elements. (b) Spiegeleisen Iron-carbon alloys containing by weight more than 6 % but not more than 30 % of manganese and otherwise conforming to the specification at (a) above. (c) Ferro-alloys Alloys in pigs, blocks, lumps or similar primary forms, in forms obtained by continuous casting and also in granular or powder forms, whether or not agglomerated, commonly used as an additive in the manufacture of other alloys or as de-oxidants, de-sulphurising agents or for similar uses in ferrous metallurgy and generally not usefully malleable, containing by weight 4 % or more of the element iron and one or more of the following : - more than 10 % of chromium - more than 30 % of manganese - more than 3 % of phosphorus - more than 8 % of silicon - a total of more than 10 % of other elements, excluding carbon, subject to a maximum content of 10 % in the case of copper.