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82.01 - Hand tools, the following : spades, shovels, mattocks, picks, hoes, forks and rakes; axes, bill hooks and similar hewing tools; secateurs and pruners of any kind; scythes, sickles, hay knives, hedge shears, timber wedges and other tools of a kind used in agriculture, horticulture or forestry. 8201.10 8201.30 8201.40 8201.50 820 1.60 8201.90 - Spades and shovels - Mattocks, picks, hoes and rakes - Axes, bill hooks and similar hewing tools - Secateurs and similar one-handed pruners shears) and shears (including poultry - Hedge shears, two-handed pruning shears and similar two-handed shears - Other hand tools of a kind used in agriculture, horticulture or forestry This heading covers hand tools mainly used in aficulture, horticulture or forestry, though some may also be used for other urposes (e.g., in road work, navvying, mining, quarrying, woodworking or household wor ). f: The heading includes : (I) Spades and shovels including household coal shovels and special types (e.g., entrenching tools for campers, soldiers, etc.). (2) Forks, including pitchforks. (3) Mattocks, icks, hoes and rakes, including lawn-rakes, combined hoe-rakes, grubbers, weeders an cultivators. g (4) Axes, bill hooks and similar hewing tools, including felling axes, hand axes, hatchets, choppers, adzes, slashers and matchets. (5) Secateurs and similar one-handed pruners and shears (including poultry shears). These are generally com osed of two shafts articulated on a pivot about three- uarters of the way along their lengi. One of these shafts often terminates in a concave, an the other in a convex cutting ed e ("parrot bill "); they further differ fiom the scissors of heading 82.13 since they ave no finger rings. t These tools almost always have a spring which forces the shafts apart after cutting, and a hook or other fastenin so that they can be easily opened or closed with one hand. In cutting they are rnanipu ated with one hand, and they have a very p o w e m action. This heading includes ardeners' secateurs, flower or h i t secateurs; vineyard secateurs with narrow, tapering bfades, etc. The heading does not, however, cover secateur t e scissors having the secateur blades but with finger rings (see the Explanatory Note to heading 8 1 3 ) . (6) Hedge shears, two-handed pruning shears and similar two-handed shears, including grass shears and lopping shears. (7) Other hand tools of a kind used in agriculture, horticulture or forestry. These include scythes, sickles (including bagging, reapin or grass hooks), hay or straw knives of all kinds; planters, seeders, dibbers, trowels an transplanters; fruit pickers; cow combs, curry f combs and pig scrapers; bark scrapers and debarlung knives; timber wedges, lumbermen's log rolling tools (log hooks, log tongs, log picks, cant hooks); lawn edging irons; sheep shears. All these tools remain in the heading whether or not they are fitted with handles. The heading also covers identifiable base metal parts of such tools. The heading also excludes : (a) Sheep ear and other animal marking pliers (heading 82.03). (b) Road or stone splitting wedges; scythe blade trueing anvils (heading 82.05). (c) Pruning knives (heading 82.11). (d) Garden rollers, harrows, ha or grass mowers and similar implements, including those pushed or pulled by hand (Chapter 84{ (e) Ice axes (heading 95.06).
1.- Apart from blow lamps, portable forges, grinding wheels with frameworks, manicure or pedicure sets, and goods of heading 82.09, this Chapter covers only articles with a blade, working edge, working surface or other working part of : (a) Base metal; (b) Metal carbides or cermets; (c) Precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed) on a support of base metal, metal carbide or cermet; or (d) Abrasive materials on a support of base metal, provided that the articles have cutting teeth, flutes, grooves, or the like, of base metal, which retain their identity and function after the application of the abrasive. 2.- Parts of base metal of the articles of this Chapter are to be classified with the articles of which they are parts, except parts separately specified as such and tool-holders for hand tools (heading 84.66). However, parts of general use as defined in Note 2 to Section XV are in all cases excluded from this Chapter. Heads, blades and cutting plates for electric shavers or electric hair clippers are to be classified in heading 85.10. 3.- Sets consisting of one or more knives of heading 82.11 and at least an equal number of articles of heading 82.15 are to be classified in heading 82.15.