Chapter 14

 

                       Vegetable plaiting materials; vegetable products not elsewhere

                                                                specified or included

 

Notes.

1.             This Chapter does not cover the following products which are to be classified in Section XI: vegetable materials or fibres of vegetable materials of a kind used primarily in the manufacture of textiles, however prepared, or other vegetable materials which have undergone treatment so as to render them suitable for use only as textile materials.

 

2.             Heading 14.01 applies ,inter alia, to bamboos (whether or not split, sawn length wise, cut to length, rounded at the ends, bleached, rendered non-inflammable, polished or dyed), split osier, reeds and the like, to rattan cores and to drawn or split rattans. The heading does not apply to chip wood (heading 44.04).

 

3.             Heading 14.02 does not apply to wood wool (heading 44.05).

 

4.             Heading 14.03 does not apply to prepared knots or tufts for broom or brush making (heading  96.03).

 

 

 

Heading

 

H.S.Code

Description

Statutory

Rate of

Import Duty

Statistical

Unit

Statutory

Rate of

Export Duty

(1)

(2)

(3)

               (4)

          (5)

       (6)

 

14.01

 

Vegetable materials of a kind used primarily for plaiting (for example,

bamboos, rattans, reeds, rushes, osier, raffia, cleaned,

bleached or dyed cereal straw, and lime bark).

 

 

 

 

1401.10.00

-Bamboos

15%

kg

Free

 

1401.20.00

-Rattans

15%

kg

Free

 

1401.90.00

-Other

15%

kg

Free

14.02

1402.00.00

Vegetable materials of a kind used primarily as stuffing or as

padding (for example, kapok, vegetable hair and eel-grass),

whether or not put up as a layer with or without supporting material.

15%

kg

Free

14.03

1403.00.00

Vegetable materials of a kind used primarily in brooms or in

brushes  (for example, broomcorn, piassava, couch-grass

and istle), whether or not in hanks or bundles.

15%

kg

Free

14.04

 

Vegetable products not elsewhere specified or included.

 

 

 

 

 

-Raw vegetable materials of a kind used primarily in dyeing or tanning

 

 

 

 

1404.10.10

---Excluding wrapped/canned

15%

kg

Free

 

1404.10.20

---Wrapped/canned      

15%

kg

Free

 

 

-Cotton linters

 

 

 

 

1404.20.10

---Excluding wrapped/canned

7.5%

kg

Free

 

1404.20.20

---Wrapped/canned      

7.5%

kg

Free

 

 

-Other:

 

 

 

 

 

-- Tendu leaves (Biri leaves)

 

 

 

 

1404.90.11

----Excluding wrapped/canned

32.5%

kg

Free

 

1404.90.12

----Wrapped/canned

32.5%

kg

Free

 

 

--Other

 

 

 

 

1404.90.91

----Excluding wrapped/canned

15%         

kg

Free

 

1404.90.92

----Wrapped/canned

15%

kg

Free