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96.11 Date, sealing or numberin stamps, and the like (including devices for printing or embossin labels), designe%for operating in the hand; hand-operated composing sticks, an hand printing sets incorporating such composing sticks. This heading covers date, sealing and similar stam s and composing sticks, provided they are of a type designed to be used Independently in t e hand. (Date, sealing and similar stamps incorporating a base for fixing on a table, desk, etc., or designed for operating on a stand are excluded - see the Explanatory Note to heading 84.72.) I?, These articles include : (1) Seals for use with sealing wax, with or without design and whether or not provided with handles. (2) Stamps of all kinds, with or without the printing band or self-inking device; for example, date stamps, multiformula stamps, docketing and ticketin stamps, numbering stamps (self-changing or not), roller stamps, pocket stamps (usual y consisting of a stamp and ink-pad in a protective case). H (3) Composing or setting sticks for receiving interchangeable characters. Some sticks may bear a permanent text or design (e.g., post office composing or setting sticks in which only the date is changed). (4) Small hand printing sets (not being toys) consisting of a box containin a hand-operated composing or setting stick, interchangeable characters, tweezers and an inkpad. (5) Hand-operated devices for stamping tickets with a date or other characters, even if incorporating a punch. The heading does not cover : (a) Plombing and sealing pliers, and animal marking pliers (heading 82.03). (b) Branding irons and marking punches (heading 82.05). (c) Unmounted letters, figures or other characters of a kind used in printing machines (heading 84.42). Other types of unmounted characters are classified accordmg to the constituent material. (d) Hand-operated stamps incorporating a base plate for dry relief printing (heading 84.72). (e) Apparatus with clock movements for stamping a record of the time, e.g., of the receipt of a letter (heading 91.06). - v
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.