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82.12 Razors and razor blades (including razor blade blanks in strips). - Razors 8212.20 - Safety razor blades, including razor blade blanks in strips 8212.90 - Other parts 8212.10 This heading covers : (1) Open blade razors, including separately presented blades (finished or not), and separately presented base metal handles. (2) Safety razors, and their base metal parts and blades, finished or not. (3) Plastic safety razors presented with their blades. The heading also covers non-electric dry shavers and blades, cutting plates and heads for non-electric razors. Blanks of safety razor blades are also included in the heading when in the form of lengths of strip steel, tempered or not, provided the have been perforated ready for the manufacture of safety razor blades, or the outline of the lade has been incised allowing separation by slight pressure. r, The heading excludes : (a) Plastic safety razors presented without their blades (heading 39.24). (b) Electric razors and heads, blades and cutting plates of such razors (heading 85.10).
Notes. 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.