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96.04 - Hand sieves and hand riddles. The expression" hand sieves and hand riddles " applies to articles made of strong gauze or other mesh material (of various mesh sizes) mounted in a rectangular or circular fiame (generally of wood or metal), and used for separating solid substances according to particle size. The materials most commonly used for the mesh are horsehair, man-made monofilaments, silk yarns, spun gut, wire (steel, iron, brass wire, etc.). The heading includes : Hand sieves and hand riddles for cinders, sand, seeds, garden mould, etc.; bolting cloth sieves (e.g., for flour); household sieves (e.g., for flour); sieves used in laboratories (to test fineness of cement, moulding sands, fertilisers, wood flour, etc.), including those which can be connected together to form a series; precision sieves for sorting precious or semi-precious stones (e-g., diamonds). The heading excludes : (a) Sieves and riddles in the nature of fixed articles (e.g., screens resting on the ground for sifting earth or gravel - generally heading 73.26). (b) Simple strainers (e.g., for cheese consistin of a container with a perforated sheet-metal bottom; funnels fitted with a filtering evice; mi& strainers; strainers for filtering pains, whitewash, fungicidal solutions, etc. (generally Chapter 73). d (c) Sieves and riddles designed to be mounted on machines or appliances (e. for the milling industry, in agriculture, for screening stones, ores, etc.), such articles being clsssikid as parts of machine etc., in accordance with Note 2 m Section XVI, generally in the same heading as the machine xi which they are solely or principally designed (e.g., heading 84.37 or 84.74).
1.- This Chapter does not cover : (a) Pencils for cosmetic or toilet uses (Chapter 33); (b) Articles of Chapter 66 (for example, parts of umbrellas or walking-sticks); (c) Imitation jewellery (heading 71.17); (d) Parts of general use, as defined in Note 2 to Section XV, of base metal (Section XV), or similar goods of plastics (Chapter 39); (e) Cutlery or other articles of Chapter 82 with handles or other parts of carving or moulding materials; heading 96.01 or 96.02 applies, however, to separately presented handles or other parts of such articles; (f) Articles of Chapter 90 (for example, spectacle frames (heading 90.03), mathematical drawing pens (heading 90.17), brushes of a kind specialised for use in dentistry or for medical, surgical or veterinary purposes (heading 90.18)); (g) Articles of Chapter 91 (for example, clock or watch cases); (h) Musical instruments or parts or accessories thereof (Chapter 92); (ij) Articles of Chapter 93 (arms and parts thereof); (k) Articles of Chapter 94 (for example, furniture, luminaires and lighting fittings); (l) Articles of Chapter 95 (toys, games, sports requisites); or (m) Works of art, collectors' pieces or antiques (Chapter 97). 2.- In heading 96.02 the expression “vegetable or mineral carving material” means : (a) Hard seeds, pips, hulls and nuts and similar vegetable materials of a kind used for carving (for example, corozo and dom); (b) Amber, meerschaum, agglomerated amber and agglomerated meerschaum, jet and mineral substitutes for jet. 3.- In heading 96.03 the expression “prepared knots and tufts for broom or brush making” applies only to unmounted knots and tufts of animal hair, vegetable fibre or other material, which are ready for incorporation without division in brooms or brushes, or which require only such further minor processes as trimming to shape at the top, to render them ready for such incorporation. 4.- Articles of this Chapter, other than those of headings 96.01 to 96.06 or 96.15, remain classified in the Chapter whether or not composed wholly or partly of precious metal or metal clad with precious metal, of natural or cultured pearls, or precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed). However, headings 96.01 to 96.06 and 96.15 include articles in which natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed), precious metal or metal clad with precious metal constitute only minor constituents.