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84.63 - Other machine-tools for working metal or cermets, without removing materid. 8463.10 - Draw-benches for bars, tubes, profiles, wire or the like 8463.20 - Thread rolling machines 8463.30 - Machines for working wire 8463.90 - Other With the exception of the machine-tools of heading 84.62, this heading covers machine-tools which work metal or cermets, without removing material. In general machine-tools are power-driven but similar machines, worked by hand or edal, are also covered by this heading. These latter types can be distin ished from the han tools of heading 82.05 and from the tools for working in the hand of eading 84.67, by the fact that they are usually designed to be mounted on the floor, on a bench, on a wall or on another machine, and are thus usually provided with a base plate, mounting frame, stand, etc. iY i' The heading includes : (I) Drawing machines (draw benches), for the bright-drawing of bars, tubes, shapes, sections, wire or similar products. (2) Thread rolling machines in which the thteads on bolts or screws are obtained by rolling and pressing and not by cutting. (3) Machines for working wire e.g., for manufacturing wire goods such as springs, barbed wire, chains, pins, wire nails or staples, and hooks. The heading also covers machines which, being of a kind specially dest ed for rnakin wire grill or netting, differ from the ordinary textile weavin loom bot?I as regards geir method of operation and their constituent parts. Assem ly looms using precrimped wire are excluded (heading 84.79, etc.). t Machinery for makin ro es or stranded cables of metal wire or of mixed textile and wire is also excluded (herding 8879f (4) Machines for spiralling fine metal wire in the manufacture of electric lamp filaments. (5) Riveting machines apart fiom presses of heading 84.62. (6) Swaging machines, in which tubes or bars are forced through rotating dies to reduce the diameter. (7) Spinning lathes. These machines differ fiom those of heading 84.58 by the fact that they operate by deforming the metal. (8) Machines for manufacturing flexible tubes of spiral metal strip. (9) Electro-magnetic- ulse metal-forming machines (or magneto-forming machines), using the force o a magnetic flux to sha e, without removing any material, a metal workpiece, usually tubular, with the aid of a Be. P PARTS AND ACCESSORIES Sub'ect to the general provisions regarding the classification of arts (see the General Exp anatory Note to Section XVI),parts and accessories (other than t e tools of Chapter 82) of the machine-tools of this heading are classified in heading 84.66. R The heading also excludes : (a) Hand tools (heading 82.05). @) Banding machines for banding bales, machines for closing cans or other containers (heeding 84.22). (c) Machining centres, unit construction machines (single station) and multi-station transfer machines, for worlnng metal (heading 84.57). , (d) Tools for working in the hand, pneumatic, hydraulic or with self-contained electric or non-electric motor (heading 84.67). (e) Testing machines and apparatus (heading 90.24). a 84.64- Machiie-tools for workin stone, ceramics, concrete, asbestos-cement or like mineral materials or for col -working glass (+). 8464.10 - Sawing machines 8464.20 - Grinding or polishing machines In general machine-tools are power-driven but similar machines, worked by hand or edal, are r' B also covered by this heading. These latter types can be distin shed from the han tools of heading 82.05 and fiom the tools for working in the hand of eading 84.67, by the fact that they are usually designed to be mounted on the floor, on a bench, on a wall or on another machine, and are thus usually provided with a base plate, mounting frame, stand, etc. (I) MACHINES FOR WOTUUNG STONE, CERAMICS, CONCRETE, ASBESTOS-CEMENT OR LIKE MINERAL MATERIALS but also those for workin stone, asbestos-cement, etc.). Althoug special features (higher i? most machines for precision, etc.), they The heading includes : (A) Sawing or cutting machines, such as : (I) Sawing machines pro er (circular saws, band saws and reciprocating saws, including those using toothless b ades, etc.). P (2) Disc (e.g., abrasive) cutting machines, including machines for grooving or cutting false joints on concrete surfaces or on the face of building stone. (3) Helical-wire cuttin machines. consistin of severa spirally twisted pulleys. $he wire, assisted by an abrasive cuts into the stone by friction. (3) Machines for splitting or cleaving. (C) Machines for grinding, smoothing, polishing, graining, etc. (D) Machines for drilling or milling. (E) Machines for turning, engraving, carving, cutting mouldings, etc. (F) Machines for cutting or dressing grinding wheels. (G) Machine-tools for working ceramic products (drilling, cutting, milling, polishinp etc.), exce t machines for working ceramic paste or unfred articles of cerarmc materia s (e.g., mac?'I ines for moulding or shaping ceramic paste, heading 84.74). (IT) MACHINE-TOOLS FOR COLD WORKING GLASS This category covers machine-tools used for cold-working glass, but it excludes machines used for hot-workin glass (i.e., glass heated until it becomes fluid or plastic) (heading 84.75). Nevertheless, t e fact that in some cases the glass is slightly heated to facilitate certain processes does not exclude the machines from this heading, since they are working on glass which still retains the consistency of a hard material. % Many of these machines carry out operations similar to those mentioned in paragraph (I) above in connection with stone or the like. Others, on the other hand, are emplo ed for more specific work, e.g, decorative frnishin$.Or for certain specialised uses (e.g., opticalbr watch-malung). The followng, in particular, fa1 m t h ~ s latter category : (1) Glass cutting machines, of the wheel or diamond type. (2) Glass cutting (shaping) machines, for facetting, or for cut-glass articles. (3) Trueing, grindin , etc., machines, used mainly for smoothing edges, levelling bases or trimming moulde objects. d (4) Polishin machines. Polishing is sometimes followed by a still more specialised finishing process, fnown as smoothing, executed by felt disc machines; such machines also fall in this heading. (5) Engraving machines of the 'nding wheel or diamond type; sand jet engraving machines are, however, excluded ( h e s g g 84.24). (6) Machine-tools used for finishing or polishing optical, spectacle or clock or watch glass. These include the special circular glass-cutter which is used to cut out eye-pieces for spectacles, and also machines for shaping or olishmg optical glass by wearmg down the surface of lenses, prisms, spectacle lenses (sp erical, nng-shaped, cylindrical, multi-focus, etc.), etc. R PARTS AND ACCESSORZES Sub'ect to the general provisions regarding the classification of arts (see the General Exp anatory Note to Section XVI), parts and accessories (other than tfe tools of Chapter 82) of the machine-tools of this heading fall in heading 84.66. This heading also excludes : (a) Hand tools or hand or pedal operated grinding wheels (heading 82.05). (b) Machines for twistin glass fibres into yarns, weaving machines, and other machines of beading 84.45 or 84.4bj (c) Machine-tools for working any material by removal of material, by laser or other light or photon beam, ultrasonic or plasma arc processes and other machines of heading 84.56. (d) Tools for working in the hand, pneumatic, hydraulic or with self-contained electric or non-electric motor (heading 84.67). (e) Crushing, inding, mixing, moulding, agglomerating, casting, brick-making, etc., machines (heading 8f74). (f) Machine-tools for sawing, scribing or scoring semiconductor boules or wafers (e.g., "wafer dicers"), and machine-tools for 'nding, polishing or lapping semiconductor boules or wafers or flat panel displays (herding 84.8%f
1.- This Chapter does not cover : (a) Millstones, grindstones or other articles of Chapter 68; (b) Machinery or appliances (for example, pumps) of ceramic material and ceramic parts of machinery or appliances of any material (Chapter 69); (c) Laboratory glassware (heading 70.17); machinery, appliances or other articles for technical uses or parts thereof, of glass (heading 70.19 or 70.20); (d) Articles of heading 73.21 or 73.22 or similar articles of other base metals (Chapters 74 to 76 or 78 to 81); (e) Vacuum cleaners of heading 85.08; (f) Electro-mechanical domestic appliances of heading 85.09; digital cameras of heading 85.25; (g) Radiators for the articles of Section XVII; or (h) Hand-operated mechanical floor sweepers, not motorised (heading 96.03). 2.- Subject to the operation of Note 3 to Section XVI and subject to Note 11 to this Chapter, a machine or appliance which answers to a description in one or more of the headings 84.01 to 84.24, or heading 84.86 and at the same time to a description in one or more of the headings 84.25 to 84.80 is to be classified under the appropriate heading of the former group or under heading 84.86, as the case may be, and not the latter group. (A) Heading 84.19 does not, however, cover : (i) Germination plant, incubators or brooders (heading 84.36); (ii) Grain dampening machines (heading 84.37); (iii) Diffusing apparatus for sugar juice extraction (heading 84.38);