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82.08 - Knives and cutting blades, for machines or for mechanical appliances. 8208.10 - For metal working - For wood working 8208.30 - For kitchen appliances or for machines used by the food industry 8208.40 - For agricultural, horticultural or forestry machines 8208.90 - Other 8208.20 This heading applies to unmounted knives or cutting blades, rectangular, circular or of other shapes, for machines or for mechanical a pliances. It does not, however, cover cutting blades or knives for the hand tools of headings 8 -01to 82.05 (e.g., plane irons). The heading includes knives or cutting blades : (1) For metal working : (a) Blades and knives for fitting into tools for machine-tools, e.g., into reamers or milling cutters. (b) Blades for guillotine-type shears or for machine shears for cutting sheet metal, wire, bars, etc. (2) For wood working : (a) Blades and irons for planing or similar woodworking machines. (b) Blades for veneer cutting machines. (3) For kitchen a pliances or for machines used by the food industry, such as blades and cutters for appEances or machines used in the household, or by butchers, bakers, etc. (e.g., blades for mncing machines, vegetable choppers, bread slicers, bacon or ham slicers). (4) For agricultural, horticultural or forestry machines, for exam le, blades and knives for root cutters, straw cutters, etc. or for lawn mowers; blades an segments of blades for harvesting or reaping machines. The heading does not, however, cover coulters for ploughs or discs for harrows. (5) For other machines or mechanical appliances, such as : (a) Blades and knives, includin circular or cu shaped blades, for machines used in splitting, paring or trimming t e surface of Iea er. f !i (b) Blades and knives for machines for cutting paper, textiles, plastics, etc.; for tobacco shredding machines, etc.
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.