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74.18 - Table, kitchen or other household articles and parts thereof, of copper; pot scourers and scourin or polishing pads, gloves and the like, of copper; sanitary ware and parts thereo ,of copper. f 7418.10 - Table, kitchen or other household articles and parts thereof; pot scouTers and scouring or polishing pads, gloves and the like : 7418.20 - Sanitary ware and parts thereof The Explanatory Notes to headings 73.21, 73.23 and 73.24 apply, mutatis mutandis, to this heading. This heading covers, inter alia, copper cooking or heating apparatus of a kind used for domestic purposes, e.g., small appliances such as etrol, araffin, spirit stoves, as normally used for travelling, camping, etc. and for certain I !ouseho d uses. The heading also covers domestic apparatus of the kind described in the Explanatory Note to heading 73.22. f The heading excludes (a) Household articles having the character of tools (Chapter 82) (see the Explanatory Note to heading 73.23). @) Blow lamps (heading 82.05). (c) Cutlery and spoons, forks, ladles, etc. (headings 82.11 to 82.15). (d) Ornaments of heading 83.06. (e) Heating, cookin ,roastin , distilling, etc., machinery or plant, or similar laboratory equipment, of heading 84.19, k r exampye : ( 1 Non-electrical instantaneous or storage water heaters (whether for domestic or non-domestic use). (2) Counter-type coffee ercolators and certain other specialised heating, cooking, etc., apparatus not used in the housepold. (0 Household equipment of Chapter 85 (in particular, apparatus and appliances of heading 85.09 or 85.16). (g) Articles of Chapter 94. (h) Hand sieves (heading 96.04). (ij) Cigarette lighters and other lighters (heading 96.13). (k) Scent and similar sprays (heading 96.16).
1.- In this Chapter the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them : (a) Refined copper Metal containing at least 99.85 % by weight of copper; or Metal containing at least 97.5 % by weight of copper, provided that the content by weight of any other element does not exceed the limit specified in the following table : TABLE - Other elements Element Limiting content % by weight Ag Silver 0.25 As Arsenic 0.5 Cd Cadmium 1.3 Cr Chromium 1.4 Mg Magnesium 0.8 Pb Lead 1.5 S Sulphur 0.7 Sn Tin 0.8 Te Tellurium 0.8 Zn Zinc 1 Zr Zirconium 0.3 Other elements*, each 0.3 * Other elements are, for example, Al, Be, Co, Fe, Mn, Ni, Si. (b) Copper alloys Metallic substances other than unrefined copper in which copper predominates by weight over each of the other elements, provided that : (i) the content by weight of at least one of the other elements is greater than the limit specified in the foregoing table; or (ii) the total content by weight of such other elements exceeds 2.5 %. (c) Master alloys Alloys containing with other elements more than 10 % by weight of copper, not usefully malleable and commonly used as an additive in the manufacture of other alloys or as de-oxidants, de- sulphurising agents or for similar uses in the metallurgy of non-ferrous metals. However, copper phosphide (phosphor copper) containing more than 15 % by weight of phosphorus falls in heading