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83.09 - Stoppers, caps and lids (includin crown corks, screw caps and pouring stoppers), capsules for bottles, threaded ungs, bung covers, seals and other packing accessories, of base metal. % 8309.90 - Other The heading covers a ran e of articles of base metal (often with washers or other fittings of plastics, rubber, cork etclf used for corking or capsuling chums, barrels, bottles, etc., or for sealing cases or other packages. The heading includes : (1) Metal stoppers, caps and lids, e.g., crown corks, crown caps or crown seals; stoppers, caps and covers of the screw, clip, lever, spring, etc., types as used for corking or capping beer bottles, mineral water bottles, preserve jars, tubular containers or the like. The heading does not, however, cover spring lever stoppers predominantly of plastics, porcelain, etc. (2) Bungs for metal drums. (3) Pouring, dropping, anti-drip stoppers for bottles of liqueurs, oils, medicaments, etc. (4) Tear off capsules for milk bottles, etc., fabricated capsules of lead or tin. foil, of the type used for certain champagne or wine bottles. (5) Bung covers, in the form of discs, etc., cut from sheet metal and fixed over the bung as a protection. (6) Special wire fittings as used to secure the corks of bottles of champagne, etc. (7) Seals of all kinds, enerally of lead or tin-plate, used to secure crates, packages, buildings, railway wagons, ve icles, etc., including guarantee seals. % (8) Case comer protectors. (9) Fastenings for sealing bags, sachets or similar containers, consisting of one or two steel wires sandwiched between two strips of plastics or two strips of paper. (10) To s with an incised flap and a ring pull, made of base metal, used, for example, for drink P or ood cans.
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.