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73.14 Cloth (including endless expanded metal of iron or - Woven cloth : 73 14.12 - - Endless bands for machinery, of stainless steel 73 14.14 - - Other woven cloth, of stainless steel 73 14.19 - - Other 7314.20 - Grill, netting and fencing, welded at the intersection, of wire with a maximum cross-sectional dimension of 3 mm or more and having a mesh size of 100 cm2 or more - Other grill, netting and fencing, welded at the intersection : - - Plated or coated with zinc 7314.39 - - Other - Other cloth, grill, netting and fencing : 73 14.41 - - Plated or coated with zinc 73 14.42 - - Coated with plastics 73 14.31 73 14.49 - - Other 73 14.50 - Expanded metal (A) CLOTH (INCLUDING ENDLESS BANDS), GRILL, NETTING AND FENCING The products of this oup are, in the main, produced by interlacing, interweavint netting, etc., iron or steel wire by and or machine. The methods of manufacture broadly resem le those used in the textile industry (for simple warp and weft fabrics, knitted or crocheted fabrics, etc.). f The group includes wire grill in which the wires are welded at the points of contact or bound at those points by means of an additional wire, whether or not the wires are also mterlaced. The term " wire " means hot- or cold-formed products of any cross-sectional shape, of which no cross-sectional dimension exceeds 16 mrn, such as rolled wire, wire rod and flat strip cut fiom sheet (see Note 2 to this Chapter). The material of the heading may be used for many purposes e.g., for the washing, drying or filtering of man materials; to make fencin food protectmg covers and insect screening, safety guards for m c inery, conveyor belting, s elving, mattresses, upholstery, sieves and riddles, etc.; and for reinforcing concrete, etc. Z % The material ma be in rolls, in endless bands (e.g., for belting) or in sheets, whether or not cut to shape; it may e of two or more ply. (B) EXPANDED METAL Expanded metal is a network of diamond shaped meshes formed by stretching sheet or strip metal in which parallel incisions have been cut. The material is fair1 rigid and stron and is used instead of wire grill or perforated sheets for fencing, s a f e v guarc rs for machines, Rooring of foot-bridges or crane runways, reinforcement of various builhng materials (e-g., concrete, cement, plaster, glass), etc. A art fiom articles made up of wire netting which are excluded generally from this heading, the following f& in other Chapters, viz. : (a) Woven fabric of metal thread, of a kind used in articles of apparel, as furnishing fabric or the like (heading 58.09). (b) Plastics or asbestos reinforced with wire mesh, wired glass (Chapters 39, 68 and 70, respectively); bricanion lath (a wire mesh incorporated in kilned cla and used for buildin purposes) Chapter 69); paper roofin sheets usually tarred and rein orced with wire mesh (&apter 48). flowever, woven wire, etc., fghtly coated in plastics (even if the meshes are filled), and wire netting or grill with a backing of paper as used in cementing, plastering, etc., remain in this heading. f' (c) Wire cloth, etc., made into the form of machinery parts, e.g., by assembly with other materials (Chapter 84 or 85). (d) Wire cloth, etc., made up into hand sieves and riddles (heading 96.04).
1.- In this Chapter the expression “cast iron” applies to products obtained by casting in which iron predominates by weight over each of the other elements and which do not comply with the chemical composition of steel as defined in Note 1 (d) to Chapter 72. 2.- In this Chapter the word “wire” means hot or cold-formed products of any cross-sectional shape, of which no cross-sectional dimension exceeds 16 mm.