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82.05 Hand tools (including glaziers' diamonds), not elsewhere s ecified or included; blow lamps; vices, clamps and the like, other than accessories or and parts of, machine tools; anvils; portable forges; hand or pedal-operated grindlng wheels with frameworks. P 8205.10 - Drilling, threading or tapping tools 8205.20 - Hammers and sledge hammers - Planes, chisels, gouges and similar cutting tools for working wood 8205.40 - Screwdrivers 8205.30 - Other hand tools (including glaziers' diamonds) : 8205.60 - - Household tools - - Other - Blow lamps 8205.70 - Vices, clamps and the like 8205.90 - Other, including sets of articles of two or more subheadings of this heading 8205.5 1 8205.59 This heading covers all hand tools not included in other headings of this Chapter or elsewhere in the Nomenclature (see the General Explanatory Notes to this Chapter), together with certain other tools or appliances specifically mentioned in the title. It includes a large number of hand tools (including some with simple hand-operated mechanisms such as cranks, ratchets or gearing). This group of tools includes : (A) Drilling, threading or tapping tools, such as braces (including ratchet es), breast drills and hand drills; die stocks, tap wrenches and screw plates. Interchangea le tools such as drills, bits, taps and dies for use with these hand tools are excluded - see heading 82.07. 'T (B) Hammers and sledge hammers, such as smiths', boilermakers', carpenters', farriers', quarrymen's, stone-cutters', glaziers', bricklayers' and masons' hammers, stone breaking hammers, mauls, stone rough~ng(" brush ") hammers and hammers with accessory fittings such as picks and nail pullers. (C) Planes, chisels, ouges and similar cuttin tools for working wood such as planes and routers of all kin s (smoothing, grooving, ra bet, jack planes, etc.),.spoke shaves and wood scrapers, gravers and draw-knives, of a kind used by carpenters, ~omers,cabinet-makers, coopers, wood carvers, etc. I (D) Screw drivers (including ratchet types). (E) Other hand tools (including glaziers' diamonds). This group includes : (1) A number of household articles, including some with cutting blades but not includin mechanical types (see the Explanatory Note to heading 82.10), having the character o tools and accordingly not proper to heading 73.23, such as : f Flat irons (gs, iaraffin (kerosene), charcoal, etc., types, but not electric irons which fall in hea ng 5.16), curling irons; bottle openers, cork screws, simple can openers (including keys); nut-crackers; cherry stoners (spring type); button hooks; shoe horns; " steels " and other knife sharpeners of metal; pas cutters and jaggers; graters for cheese, etc.; " lightning " mincers (with cutting whee s); cheese slicers, vegetable slicers; waffling irons; cream or egg whisks, egg slicers; butter curlers; ice picks; vegetable mashers; larding needles; pokers, tongs, rakers and cover lifts for stoves or fire places. ? (2) Watchmakers' tools such as jewel pressing tools, balance poising tools, riveting stakes, mainspring winders, jacot or pivot tools, balance screw filling tools and regulating tools. (3) Glaziers' diamonds, including compass-type diamond point glass cutters mounted on a graduated scale (for cutting out circles) and diamond point scribers for designing on glass. Diamonds presented separately are excluded (heading 71.02). (4) Smiths' tools such as setts, swages, fullers, hardies and punches. (5) Tools, for mining, road work, etc., such as crow bars, prizing levers, stone cutting chisels, punches and wedges. (6) Tools for masons, moulders, cement workers, plasterers, painters, etc., such as trowels, smoothers, servers, scrapers and stripping knives, smoothers' needles and cleaners, indentation rolIers, glass cutters with cutting wheels, palette knives and putty knives. (7) Miscellaneous hand tools such as farriers' aring knives, toeing knives, hoof pickers and hoof cutters, cold chisels and punc es; riveters' drifts, snaps and punches; non-plier type nail lifters, case o eners and pin punches; tyre levers; cobblers' awls (without eyes); upholsterers' or !Iookbinders punches; soldering irons and branding e saw sets; mitre boxes; cheese samplers and the irons; metal scrapers; non- lier like; earth rammers; grin ng w eel dressers; strapping appliances for crates, etc., other than those of heading 84.22 (see the relevant Explanatory Note); spring operated " pistols " for stapling ackages, paperboard, etc.; cartridge o erated riveting, wall-plugg~ng,etc., tools; glass lowers' pipes; mouth blow pipes; oi cans and oilers (including those with pump or screw mechanisms), grease guns. f 8 ?;P \ P (F) Blow lamps (e. ., for soldering or brazing; for paint removal; for starting semi-diesel engines). These amps are of two types, both self-contained, differing in the e of fuel a fuel reservoir for mineral oil or other liquid fuel ( equently gas-filled cartrid e. In some cases, a soldering or is fitted to the tip o the lamp. The heading does not cover gas-operated welding appliances (heading 84.68). F H (G) Vices, clamps and the like, including hand vices, pin vices, bench or table vices, for joiners or carpenters, locksmiths, gunsmiths, watchmakers, etc:, but not including vices forming accessories or parts of machine-tools or water-jet cuthng machines. This group also includes cramps and bench holdfasts which, like vices, serve as holding tools (e.g. joiners' cramps, floor cramps and toolmakers' clamps). The group includes metal vices faced with non-metallic jaw grips (wood, fibre, etc.) to prevent damage to the piece to be held. The heading however does not include vacuum cup holders (suction gri s) consisting of a base, a hanee and a vacuum lever, of base metal, and rubber discs, intended to be attac ed temporanly to an object wlth a view to enabling the object to be moved (for example, heading 73.25, 73.26 or 76.16). E (H) Anvils; portable forges; hand- or pedal-operated grinding wheels with frameworks This group includes : (1) Anvils (including two-beaked anvils) of all sizes and for all uses, e.g., smiths' anvils; watchmakers' or jewellers' anvils; shoemakers' or cobblers' lasts; hand anvils for trueing up scythe blades. (2) Portable forges, usually equipped with blowers and sometimes with an anvil; they are mainly used in small workshops, shipyards, etc. (3) Grinding wheels (hand- or pedal-operated) with wooden or other frameworks. Mechanically driven grinding wheels are classified in Chapter 84 or 85. Grindstones and the like presented separately are classified in heading 68.04 Tools containing metal but with working arts of rubber, leather, felt, etc. are classified according to the constituent materials (Chapters 40,42,5 ,etc.). d' Apart from the exclusions referred to above, the following are also excluded fkom this heading (a) Needles for hand sewing and other articles of heading 73.19. (b) Interchangeable tools desi ned for use in hand tools, mechanical or not, in machine-tools or in power-operated hand tools $eeg.screwdriverbits and rock dnlling bits) (heading 82.07). (c) Appliances for projecting, dispersing or spraying liquids or powders (even if hand-operated) (heading 84.24). (d) Tool holders for hand tools (heading 84.66). (e) Tools for working in the hand, pneumatic, hydraulic or with self-contained electric or non-electric motor (heading 84.67). (f) Marking out, measuring, checking or calibrating instruments (e.g., marking gauges and punches, centre punches and scribers, calipers and gauges) of Chapter 90. -
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.