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82.14 - Other articles of cutlery (for example, hair cli pers, butchers' or kitchen cleavers, choppers and mincing knives, paper knives!; instruments (including nail files). 8214.10 manicure or pedicure sets and - Paper hives, letter openers, erasing knives, pencil sharpeners and blades therefor - Manicure or pedicure sets and instruments (including nail files) 8214.90 - Other 8214.20 This heading includes : (I) Pa er knives, letter openers, erasing knives, pencil sha eners (including pocket type) an1;blades therefor, but not pencil sharpening machines o heading 84.72. ? (2) Manicure or pedicure sets and instruments, including nail files (folding or not). Such instruments also include nail cleaners, corn-cutters, corn-extractors, cuticle cutting knives, cuticle pressers and pushers, nail nippers and clippers. Manicure or pedicure sets usually contain such instruments in boxes, cases, etc., and may include scissors, non-metallic nail polishers, hair removing tweezers, etc., which, taken separately, would be classified in their appropriate headings. (3) Hair clippers, hand-operated, non-electric. Electric hair clippers with self-contained electric motors are classified in headin 85.10; mechanical clippers for mmals, usually mounted on a stand and equipped with a flexib e transmission, are classified in heading 84.36. f The heading covers not only the spare parts of hair clippers of this heading, but also cutting plates and heads for the mechanical clippers of heading 84.36. (4) Butchers' or kitchen cho pers, cleavers, and mincing knives. These articles do not have the normal shape of a kni e, and may be designed for use with one or both hands. ?
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.