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73.23 - Table, kitchen or other household articles and parts thereof, of iron or steel; iron or steel wool; pot scourers and scouring or polishmg pads, gloves and the like, of iron or steel. 7323.10 7323.91 7323.92 7323.93 7323.94 7323.99 - Iron or steel wool; pot scourers and scouring or polishing pads, gloves and the like - Other : - - Of cast iron, not enamelled - - Of cast iron, enamelled - - Of stainless steel - - Of iron (other than cast iron) or steel, enamelled - - Other (A) TABLE, KITCHEN OR OTHER HOUSEHOLD ARTICLES AND PARTS THEREOF This group comprises a wide range of iron or steel articles, not more s ecificall covered by other headings of the Nomenclature, used for table, kitchen or other ousehol purposes; it includes the same goods for use in hotels, restaurants, boarding-houses, hospitals, canteens, barracks, etc. B & These articles may be cast, or of iron or steel sheet, late, hoop, strip, wire, wire grill, wire cloth, etc., and may be manufactured by any process &oulding, forging, punching, stampin etc.). They ma be fitted with lids, handles or other parts or accessories of other materia ; provided that t ey retain the character of iron or steel articles. Z The group includes : (1) Articles for kitchen use such as saucepans, steamers, pressure cookers, reserving ans, stew pans, casseroles, fish kettles; basins; fiyn pans, roastxng or baking shes and p ates; id-irons, ovens not designed to inco~oratekeating elements; kettles; colanders; fryin &skets; jelly or astry moulds; water jugs; domestic milk cans; kitchen storage tins an canisters (bread ins, tea caddies, sugar tins, etc.); salad washers; kitchen type capacity measures; plate racks, funnels. B E I' (2) Articles for table nse such as trays, dishes, plates, soup or vegetable dishes, sauce tureens; sugar basins, butter dishes; milk or cream jugs; hors-d'oeuvres dishes; coffee pots and ercolators but not including domestic percolators provided with a heat source beading 73. I)), tea pots; cups, mugs, tumblers; egg-cups, finger bowls; bread or fruit dishes and baskets; tea pot or similar stands; tea-strainers, cruets; knife-rests; wine cooling buckets, etc., wine pomng cradles; serviette rings, table cloth clips. (3) Other household articles such as wash co pers and boilers; dustbins, buckets, coal scuttles and hods; watering-cans; ash-trays; got water bottles; bottle baskets; movable boot-scrapers; stands for flat irons; baskets for laundry, fruit, vegetables, etc.; letter-boxes; clothes-hangers, shoe trees; luncheon boxes. r The oup also includes iron or steel parts of the articles listed above, such as lids, grips, hand es, separating compartments for pressure cookers, etc. (B) IRON OR STEEL WOOL; POT SCOURERS AND SCOURING OR POLISHING PADS, GLOVES AND THE LIKE Iron or steel wool consists of very fine wire or strip matted together and usually put up in packets ready for retail sale. Pot scourers, scouring or olishin pads, loves and the iike are made up ftom wire, strip, steel wool, etc., sometimes itted vvlt a hand e; provided that they are essentially metal articles, these goods remain in the heading whether or not they are interwoven with textile materials. ? at f Except for iron or steel wool which has it variety of uses, these goods are mainly used in the household (e.g., for scourin kitchen utensils or sanitary appliances, for polishing metal articles, for the care of floor-boar%, parquet flooring, other wood floor coverings and other wood articles). The heading excludes : (a) Cans, boxes and similar containers, of heading 73.10. (b) The stoves, grates, kitchen ranges, cookers, fires, etc., covered by heading 73.21. (c) Waste paper baskets (heading 73.25 or 73.26 as the case may be). (d) Household articles havin the character of tools, e.g., shovels of all kinds; cork-screws; cheese aters, etc.; lardmg needfes; can openers; nut-crackers; bottle openers; curling irons, pressing irons; Re-tongs; egg whisks; wafflin irons; coffee-mills, pepper-nulls; mincea;jwce extractors, vegetable pressers, vegetable mashers (C apter 82). % (e) Cutlery and spoons, forks, ladles, etc., of headings 82.11 to 82.15. (f) Safes, strong boxes, cash and deed boxes (heading 83.03). (g) Ornaments (heading 83.06). (h) Household scales (heading 84.23). (ij) Household electrical e uipment of Chapter 85 (in particular the appliances and apparatus of headings 85.09 and 85.76). (k) Small hanging meat safes and other fhiture of Chapter 94. (1) Lamps and lighting fittings of heading 94.05. (m) Hand sieves (heading 96.04), ciearette lighters and other lighters (heading 96.13), vacuum flasks and other vacuum vessels of headlng 96.17. -
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.