June 2005 Set of Amendments to the Harmonized System Explanatory Notes
The World Customs Organization (WCO) has issued an amending supplement (No. 8, dated June 2005) to the Harmonized System (HS) Explanatory Notes (ENs). (Although not binding on U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the ENs are followed by CBP whenever possible.)
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Amending Supplement's Remaining Changes to HS Explanatory Notes
This amending supplement makes changes to the following pages of the HS ENs:
| EN Page | Description of Amended Headings |
|---|---|
| 19/20 | Meat and edible meat offal, salted, in brine, dried or smoked; edible flours and meals of meat or meat offal in HS 02.10 |
| 131/132 | Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, partly or wholly hydrogenated, inter-esterified, re-esterfied or elaidinised, whether or not refined, but not further prepared in HS 15.16 |
| 133 | Margarine; edible mixtures or preparations of animal of vegetable fats or oils or of fractions of different fats or oils of this chapter, other than edible fats or oils or their fractions of heading 15.16 |
| 134 and 135/136 | Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, boiled, oxidised, dehydrated, sulphurised, blown, polymerized by heat in vacuum or in inert gas or otherwise chemically modified, excluding those of heading 15.16; inedible mixtures or preparations of animal or vegetable fats or oils or of fractions of different fats or oils of this chapter, not elsewhere specified or included in HS 15.18 |
| 461/462 and 467/468 | Provitamins and vitamins, natural or reproduced by synthesis (including natural concentrates), derivatives thereof used primarily as vitamins, and intermixtures of the foregoing, whether or not in any solvent in HS 29.36 |
| 491/492 and 491a | Antibiotics in HS 29.41 |
| 507/508 | List of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Arranged in Alphabetical Order by Type of Drug in Other organic compounds in HS Chapter 29 |
| 637 | Modelling pastes, including those put up for children's amusement; preparations known as "dental wax" or as "dental impression compounds," put up in sets, in packings for retail sale or in plates, horseshoe shapes, sticks or similar forms; other preparations for use in dentistry, with a basis of plaster (of calcined gypsum or calcium sulphate) in HS 34.07 |
| 791/792 | Trunks, suit-cases, vanity-cases, executive-cases, brief-cases, school satchels, spectacle cases, binocular cases, camera cases, musical instrument cases, gun cases, holsters and similar containers; traveling-bags, insulated food or beverages bags, toilet bags, rucksacks, handbags, shopping bags, wallets, purses, map-cases, cigarette-cases, tobacco-pouches, tool bags, sports bags, bottle-cases, jewellery boxes, powder-boxes, cutlery cases and similar containers, of leather or of composition leather, of sheeting of plastics, of textile materials, of vulcanised fibre or of paperboard, or wholly or mainly covered with such materials or with paper in HS 42.02 |
| 819/820 | Builders' joinery and carpentry of wood, including cellular wood panels, assembled parquet panels, shingles and shakes in HS 44.18 |
| 1263/1264 | Stranded wire, ropes, cables, plaited bands, slings and the like, of iron or steel, not electrically insulated in HS 73.12 |
| 1373/1374 and 1375/1376 | Bells, gongs and the like, non-electric, of base metal; statuettes and other ornaments, of base metal; photograph, picture or similar frames, of base metal; mirrors of base metal in HS 83.06 |
| 1451/1452 | Mechanical appliances (whether or not hand-operated) for projecting, dispersing or spraying liquids or powders; fire extinguishers, whether or not charged; spray guns and similar appliances; steam or sand blasting machines and similar jet projecting machines in HS 84.24 |
| 1603/1604 | Machines and mechanical appliances having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter in HS 84.79 |
| 1604 | Moulding boxes for metal foundry; mould bases; moulding patterns; moulds for metal (other than ingot moulds), metal carbides, glass, mineral materials, rubber or plastics in HS 84.80 |
| 1713/1714 | Vehicles, aircraft, vessels and associated transport equipment in HS Section XVII Notes |
| 1737 | Special purpose motor vehicles, other than those principally designed for the transport of persons or goods (for example, breakdown lorries, crane lorries, fire fighting vehicles, concrete-mixer lorries, road sweeper lorries, spraying lorries, mobile workshops, mobile radiological units) in HS 87.05 |
| 1737 | Chassis fitted with engines, for the motor vehicles of Headings 87.01 to 87.05 in HS 87.06 |
| 1738 | Bodies (including cabs), for the motor vehicles of headings 87.01 to 87.05 in HS 87.07 |
| 1919/1920 and 1921/1922 | Fishing rods, fish-hooks and other line fishing tackle; fish landing nets, butterfly nets and similar nets; decoy "birds" (other than those of heading 92.08 or 97.05) and similar hunting or shooting requisites in HS 95.07 |
| 1931/1932 | Brooms, brushes (including brushes constituting part of machines, appliances or vehicles), hand-operated mechanical floor sweepers, not motorised, mops and feather dusters; prepared knots and tufts for broom or brush making; paint pads and rollers; squeegees (other than roller squeegees) in HS 96.03 |
(See ITT's Online Archives or 03/10/06 news, 06031020, for BP summary of the January 2005 set of Explanatory Note amendments.)
Information about the Harmonized System is available on the WCO Web site athttp://www.wcoomd.org/ie/En/Topics_Issues/topics_issues.html