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83.08 Clasps, frames with clasps, buckles, buckle-clasps, hooks, eyes, erlets and the like, of base metal, of a kind used for clothin footwear, awnings, han bags, travel goods or other made up articles; tubular or ifurcated rivets, of base metal; beads and spangles, of base metal. 's 8308.20 - Hooks, eyes and eyelets - Tubular or bifurcated rivets 8308.90 - Other, including parts 8308.10 This heading includes : (A) Hooks, eyes and eyelets, for clothing, footwear, awnings, tents or sails. (B) Tubular or bifurcated rivets of all kinds. These are used in clothing, footwear, awnings, tents, travel goods, leather goods, belting, etc.; they also serve in engineering (e.g., in aircraft construction). The heading also covers break mandrel blind rivets, where during the setting operation the mandrel is ulled into or against the rivet body and breaks at or near the junction of the mandrel s h d and its upset end. (C) Clasps, fasteners, and frames with clas s, for handbags, purses, brief-cases, executive-cases or other travel goods, or for ooks or wrist-watches; but the heading excludes locks (includmg locking clasps), and frames with clasps, incorporating locks (heading 83.01). P, 'r (D) Buckles (with or without ton es) and buckle-clasps, whether or not ornamental, for clothes, belts, braces, suspen ers, gloves, footwear, gaiters, wrist-watches, haversacks, travel goods and leather goods. (E) Metal beads and span es used, inter alia, for making imitation jewellery, or for decoratin textile materig embroidery, clothing, etc. They are generally made of cop er, copper a oys or aluminium (often glded or s~lvered),and are desi ed to be fixe in osltion by glueing, sewin , etc. Beads are enerally spherical or tu ular or sometimes Facetted; spangles, eneral y of geometrical orm (round, hexagonal, etc.), are cut from metal foil and usual y pierced. B f f f T S The articles referred to in (A), C) and @) above may contain parts of leather, textiles, wood, horn, bone, ebonite, mo er of pearl, ivory, irmtation precious stones, etc., provi h'lastics9 ed they retain the essential character of articles of base metal. They may also be ornamented by working of the metal. & This heading also excludes : (a) Ornaments, other than buckles, for hats, handbags, shoes, belts, etc. (heading 71.17). (b) Metal flakes (Chapters 74 to 76, in particular). (c) Rivets, other than tubular or bifurcated rivets; snap hooks (usually Chapters 73 to 76). (d) Press-studs and push-buttons (heading 96.06). (e) Slide fasteners and parts thereof (heading 96.07).
1.- For the purposes of this Chapter, parts of base metal are to be classified with their parent articles. However, articles of iron or steel of heading 73.12, 73.15, 73.17, 73.18 or 73.20, or similar articles of other base metal (Chapters 74 to 76 and 78 to 81) are not to be taken as parts of articles of this Chapter. 2.- For the purposes of heading 83.02, the word “castors” means those having a diameter (including, where appropriate, tyres) not exceeding 75 mm, or those having a diameter (including, where appropriate, tyres) exceeding 75 mm provided that the width of the wheel or tyre fitted thereto is less than 30 mm.