Sección: XV BASE METALS AND ARTICLES OF BASE METAL
Capítulo: 82 Tools, implements, cutlery, spoons and forks, of base metal; parts thereof of base metal
Chapter 82

Tools, implements, cutlery, spoons and forks, of base metal;
parts thereof of base metal
Notes.

1.- Apart from blow lamps, portable forges, grinding wheels with frameworks, manicure or pedicure sets, and goods of heading 82.09, this Chapter covers only articles with a blade, working edge, working surface or other working part of :

2.- Parts of base metal of the articles of this Chapter are to be classified with the articles of which they are parts, except parts separately specified as such and tool-holders for hand tools (heading 84.66). However parts of general use as defined in Note 2 to Section XV are in all cases excluded from this Chapter. Heads, blades and cutting plates for electric shavers and electric hair clippers are to be classified in heading 85.10. 3.- Sets consisting of one or more knives of heading 82.11 and at least an equal number of articles of heading 82.15 are to be classified in heading 82.15.

GENERAL
This Chapter covers certain specific kinds of base metal articles, of the nature of tools, implements, cutlery, tableware, etc., which are excluded from the preceding Chapters of Section XV, and are not machinery or appliances of Section XVI (see below), nor instruments or apparatus proper to Chapter 90, nor articles of heading 96.03 or 96.04.

This Chapter includes:

(A) Tools which, apart from certain specified exceptions (e.g., blades for machine saws), are used in the hand (headings 82.01 to 82.05).

(B) Tools of two or more of the headings 82.02 to 82.05, put up in sets for retail sale (heading 82.06).

(C) Interchangeable tools for hand tools, for machine-tools or for power-operated hand tools (heading 82.07), knives and blades for machines or mechanical appliances (heading 82.08) and plates, sticks, tips and the like, for tools (heading 82.09).

(D) Articles of cutlery (whether intended for professional, personal or domestic use), certain mechanical domestic appliances, spoons and forks and similar tableware and kitchen utensils (headings 82.10 to 82.15).

In general, the Chapter covers tools which can be used independently in the hand, whether or not they incorporate simple mechanisms such as gearing, crank-handles, plungers, screw mechanisms or levers. Appliances are, however, generally classified in Chapter 84 if they are designed for fixing to a bench, a wall, etc., or if, by reason of their weight or size or the degree of force required for their use, they are fitted with base plates, stands, supporting frames, etc., for standing on the floor, bench, etc.

Thus a breast drill which the worker uses freely in the hand, without support, is a tool classified in heading 82.05 although it includes a simple gearing mechanism; on the other hand, a drill designed to be fixed to a stand or supporting framework would be classified in heading 84.59. Similarly, plier-type metal cutting shears are classified in heading 82.03, whereas guillotine-type shears fitted with a stand or base plate would be classified in heading 84.62 even if hand-operated.

There are, however, exceptions to this rule, in both directions, depending on the nature of the appliances. Thus vices, grinding wheels with frameworks and portable forges are specifically covered by heading 82.05. Similarly certain mechanical appliances (coffee-mills, juice extractors, meat mincers, etc.) are classified in heading 82.10, to which special criteria apply (see relative Explanatory Note below). On the other hand, Chapter 84 specifically includes certain apparatus used independently in the hand, such as appliances for spraying liquids or powders (heading 84.24), pneumatic tools (heading 84.67), non-pistol type office stapling machines (heading 84.72) - some of the latter being very small appliances which can hardly be described as having base plates or supporting frames.
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Tools, cutlery, etc., do not in general fall in this Chapter unless the blade, working edge, working surface or other working part is of base metal, of metal carbides (see the Explanatory Note to heading 28.49) or of cermets (see the Explanatory Note to heading 81.13); provided, however, that this condition is met, they remain in the Chapter even if fitted with non-metallic handles, bodies, etc., of a weight exceeding that of the metallic working part (e.g., a wooden plane with a metal blade).

The Chapter also, however, includes tools if the working part is of natural, synthetic or reconstructed precious or semi-precious stones (e.g., black diamonds) fitted onto a support of base metal, metal carbides or cermets; further, in certain cases, the working part may be of base metal fitted or covered with abrasive materials.

There are exceptions to these general rules in the case of certain articles specifically mentioned in the headings (e.g., portable forges and grinding wheels with frameworks). Moreover, very few abrasive tools remain in the scope of the Chapter (see the Explanatory Notes to headings 82.02 and 82.07), since heading 68.04 covers grinding wheels and the like (including grinding, sharpening, polishing, trueing and cutting wheels, heads, discs and points), of natural stone, of agglomerated abrasives, or of ceramics, with or without cores, shanks, sockets, axles or the like of other materials, but without frameworks.

Interchangeable tools of base metal, for hand tools, for machine tools or for power-operated hand tools, which are excluded from this Chapter because their working part is not one of the materials specified in Note 1, generally fall to be classified according to the constituent material of the working part, e.g., those of rubber (Chapter 40), leather (Chapter 42), furskin (Chapter 43), cork (Chapter 45), textile fabric (Chapter 59), ceramic materials (heading 69.09). Brushes for use on machines are classified in heading 96.03.

Identifiable base metal parts of tools, cutlery, etc. (e.g., saw frames and plane irons) are normally classified in the same heading as the complete articles. This rule does not, however, apply to parts forming the subject of a special heading. Chains, nails, bolts, nuts, screws, rivets, springs (e.g. for secateurs) and other parts of general use as defined in Note 2 to Section XV are excluded from this Chapter and fall in their appropriate headings (Chapters 73 to 76 and 78 to 81).

Cutlery and other articles classified in headings 82.08 to 82.15 may be fitted with minor trimmings of precious metal or metal clad with precious metal (e.g., monograms or bands); if, however, they include other parts (e.g., handles or blades) of precious metal or metal clad with precious metal, or if they contain natural or cultured pearls, or precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed) (except as working parts as described above), they are classified in Chapter 71.
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The Chapter does not include:

(a) Tools, scissors and other cutlery of the type used as medical, dental, surgical or veterinary instruments or appliances (heading 90.18).

(b) Tools clearly having the character of toys (Chapter 95).


82.01 Hand tools, the following : spades, shovels, mattocks, picks, hoes, forks and rakes; axes, bill hooks and similar hewing tools; secateurs and pruners of any kind; scythes, sickles, hay knives, hedge shears, timber wedges and other tools of a kind used in agriculture, horticulture or forestry.
This heading covers hand tools mainly used in agriculture, horticulture or forestry, though some may also be used for other purposes (e.g., in road work, navvying, mining, quarrying, woodworking or household work).

The heading includes: (1) Spades and shovels including household coal shovels and special types (e.g., entrenching tools for campers, soldiers, etc.). (2) Forks, including pitchforks. (3) Mattocks, picks, hoes and rakes, including lawn-rakes, combined hoe-rakes, grubbers, weeders and cultivators. (4) Axes, bill hooks and similar hewing tools, including felling axes, hand axes, hatchets, choppers, adzes, slashers and matchets. (5) Secateurs and similar one-handed pruners and shears (including poultry shears). These are generally composed of two shafts articulated on a pivot about three-quarters of the way along their length. One of these shafts often terminates in a concave, and the other in a convex cutting edge (“parrot bill”); they further differ from the scissors of heading 82.13 since they have no finger rings. These tools almost always have a spring which forces the shafts apart after cutting, and a hook or other fastening so that they can be easily opened or closed with one hand. In cutting they are manipulated with one hand, and they have a very powerful action. This heading includes gardeners’ secateurs, flower or fruit secateurs; vineyard secateurs with narrow, tapering blades, etc.

The heading does not, however, cover secateur type scissors having the secateur blades but with finger rings (see the Explanatory Note to heading 82.13). (6) Hedge shears, two-handed pruning shears and similar two-handed shears, including grass shears and lopping shears. (7) Other hand tools of a kind used in agriculture, horticulture or forestry. These include scythes, sickles (including bagging, reaping or grass hooks), hay or straw knives of all kinds; planters, seeders, dibbers, trowels and transplanters; fruit pickers; cow combs, curry combs and pig scrapers; bark scrapers and debarking knives; timber wedges, lumbermen’s log rolling tools (log hooks, log tongs, log picks, cant hooks); lawn edging irons; sheep shears.

All these tools remain in the heading whether or not they are fitted with handles.

The heading also covers identifiable base metal parts of such tools.

The heading also excludes:

(a) Sheep ear and other animal marking pliers (heading 82.03).

(b) Road or stone splitting wedges; scythe blade trueing anvils (heading 82.05).

(c) Pruning knives (heading 82.11).

(d) Garden rollers, harrows, hay or grass mowers and similar implements, including those pushed or pulled by hand (Chapter 84).

(e) Ice axes (heading 95.06).


82.02 Hand saws; blades for saws of all kinds (including slitting, slotting or toothless saw blades).

This heading covers:

(A) Hand saws for wood, metal, stone or other materials, whether for trade or domestic use.

These include bow saws, hack saws, fret saws and other saws with wooden or metal frames; panel saws, back or tenon saws, compass saws; cross-cut saws (usually with a handle at each end); saws shaped like a knife (folding or not) used by gardeners or miners; special saws for watchmakers and jewellers; nests of saws; articulated saws for camping, military use, etc.; veneer saws; saws permanently combined with a mitre box, the saw giving the whole article its essential character.

(B) Saw blades of all kinds, for hand saws and for machines, and for all materials. They include:
The heading also covers saw blade blanks. Provided that they are toothed, strip (whether or not cut to length) and discs (with a central hole for fixing the disc to the driving shaft) are regarded as such blanks. These articles are usually of steel with a high carbon content.

Saw blades may have integral teeth, or be fitted with inserted teeth or segments (such as some circular saws). The teeth may be wholly of base metal, or of base metal fitted or covered with metal carbides, diamond (black diamonds in particular) or, in some cases, with abrasive powders. In some saws the teeth may be replaced by diamonds or by elements of metal carbides set around the periphery of the disc.

Toothless discs fitted with abrasive rims (e.g., for cutting marble, quartz or glass) or with a series of peripheral inserts of abrasive material are, however, excluded (see the Explanatory Note to heading 68.04).

The heading includes separately presented base metal parts of hand saws (e.g., frames, bows, handles and stretchers) and base metal teeth and toothed segments for insertion in saw blades.
The heading also excludes:

(a) Stone sawing strand (usually three-ply stranded wire of special steel) (heading 73.12).

(b) Morticing chain cutters (heading 82.07).

(c) Hand saws with self-contained motor (heading 84.67).

(d) Musical saws (heading 92.08).


82.03 Files, rasps, pliers (including cutting pliers), pincers, tweezers, metal cutting shears, pipe-cutters, bolt croppers, perforating punches and similar hand tools.
This heading covers the following hand tools:

(A) Files, rasps and similar tools (including combined file-rasps), of all shapes (flat, round, half round, square, triangular, oval, etc.) and of all sizes, for metal, wood or other materials.

(B) Pliers (including cutting pliers), pincers, tweezers and similar tools, including: (C) Metal cutting shears and similar tools, including tinmen’s snips, and other sheet metal or wire cutting shears.

(D) Pipe-cutters, bolt croppers, perforating punches and similar tools, including:
The heading also excludes:

(a) Punches and files (including rotary files) for machine-tools (heading 82.07).

(b) Nail files, nail nippers and clippers (heading 82.14).

(c) Sugar tongs (heading 82.15).

(d) Machine type metal cutting shears (heading 84.62) and office perforating punches having a base for fixing or standing the punch on a table, desk, etc. (heading 84.72).

(e) Ticket punches for stamping tickets with a date or with any other characters (heading 96.11).


82.04 - Hand-operated spanners and wrenches (including torque meter wrenches but not including tap wrenches); interchangeable spanner sockets, with or without handles.
This heading covers the following hand tools:

(1) Hand-operated spanners and wrenches (e.g., with fixed or adjustable jaws; socket, box or ratchet spanners; crank handle spanners); wrenches or spanners for bicycles or cars, for coach screws, hydrants or piping (including chain type pipe wrenches); torque meter wrenches. The heading does not, however, cover tap wrenches (heading 82.05).

(2) Interchangeable spanner sockets, with or without handles, including drives and extensions.


82.05 Hand tools (including glaziers’ diamonds), not elsewhere specified or included; blow lamps; vices, clamps and the like, other than accessories for and parts of, machine tools; anvils; portable forges; hand or pedal-operated grinding wheels with frameworks.
This heading covers all hand tools not included in other headings of this Chapter or elsewhere in the Nomenclature (see the General Explanatory Notes to this Chapter), together with certain other tools or appliances specifically mentioned in the title.

It includes a large number of hand tools (including some with simple hand-operated mechanisms such as cranks, ratchets or gearing). This group of tools includes:

(A) Drilling, threading or tapping tools, such as braces (including ratchet types), breast drills and hand drills; die stocks, tap wrenches and screw plates. Interchangeable tools such as drills, bits, taps and dies for use with these hand tools are excluded - see heading 82.07.

(B) Hammers and sledge hammers, such as smiths’, boilermakers’, carpenters’, farriers’, quarrymen’s, stone-cutters’, glaziers’, bricklayers’ and masons’ hammers, stone breaking hammers, mauls, stone roughing (“ brush ”) hammers and hammers with accessory fittings such as picks and nail pullers.

(C) Planes, chisels, gouges and similar cutting tools for working wood such as planes and routers of all kinds (smoothing, grooving, rabbet, jack planes, etc.), spoke shaves and wood scrapers, gravers and draw-knives, of a kind used by carpenters, joiners, cabinet-makers, coopers, wood carvers, etc.

(D) Screw drivers (including ratchet types).

(E) Other hand tools (including glaziers’ diamonds).

This group includes:

(F) Blow lamps (e.g., for soldering or brazing; for paint removal; for starting semi-diesel engines). These lamps are of two types, both self-contained, differing in the type of fuel used, incorporating either a fuel reservoir for mineral oil or other liquid fuel (frequently with a small pump), or a replaceable gas-filled cartridge. In some cases, a soldering or branding iron or other attachment is fitted to the tip of the lamp. The heading does not cover gas-operated welding appliances (heading 84.68).

(G) Vices, clamps and the like, including hand vices, pin vices, bench or table vices, for joiners or carpenters, locksmiths, gunsmiths, watchmakers, etc., but not including vices forming accessories or parts of machine-tools or water-jet cutting machines.This group also includes cramps and bench holdfasts which, like vices, serve as holding tools (e.g. joiners’ cramps, floor cramps and toolmakers’ clamps). The group includes metal vices faced with non-metallic jaw grips (wood, fibre, etc.) to prevent damage to the piece to be held. The heading however does not include vacuum cup holders (suction grips) consisting of a base, a handle and a vacuum lever, of base metal, and rubber discs, intended to be attached temporarily to an object with a view to enabling the object to be moved (for example, heading 73.25, 73.26 or 76.16).

(H) Anvils; portable forges; hand- or pedal-operated grinding wheels with frameworks

This group includes: Tools containing metal but with working parts of rubber, leather, felt, etc. are classified according to the constituent materials (Chapters 40, 42, 59, etc.).

Apart from the exclusions referred to above, the following are also excluded from this heading:

(a) Needles for hand sewing and other articles of heading 73.19.

(b) Interchangeable tools designed for use in hand tools, mechanical or not, in machine-tools or in power-operated hand tools (e.g. screwdriver bits and rock drilling bits) (heading 82.07).

(c) Appliances for projecting, dispersing or spraying liquids or powders (even if hand-operated) (heading 84.24).

(d) Tool holders for hand tools (heading 84.66).

(e) Tools for working in the hand, pneumatic, hydraulic or with self-contained electric or non-electric motor (heading 84.67).

(f) Marking out, measuring, checking or calibrating instruments (e.g., marking gauges and punches, centre punches and scribers, calipers and gauges) of Chapter 90.


82.06 - Tools of two or more of the headings 82.02 to 82.05, put up in sets for retail sale.

The heading covers sets of tools falling at least in two or more of the headings 82.02 to 82.05 provided they are put up in sets for retail sale (e.g., in a plastic case or in a metallic tool box).

The heading includes, inter alia:

(1) Sets of car mechanic’s tools including, e.g., sockets sets, spanners, ratchet wrenches, screwdrivers, pliers.

(2) Simple combinations such as sets of spanners and screwdrivers.

Sets including tools of minor importance from other headings or Chapters of the Nomenclature remain classified in this heading, provided that such minority items do not change their essential character of sets of tools of two or more of the headings 82.02 to 82.05.


82.07 - Interchangeable tools for hand tools, whether or not power-operated, or for machine-tools (for example, for pressing, stamping, punching, tapping, threading, drilling, boring, broaching, milling, turning or screwdriving), including dies for drawing or extruding metal, and rock drilling or earth boring tools.
Whereas (apart from a few exceptions such as machine saw blades) the preceding headings of this Chapter apply in the main to hand tools ready for use as they stand or after affixing handles, this heading covers an important group of tools which are unsuitable for use independently, but are designed to be fitted, as the case may be, into :

(A) hand tools, whether or not power-operated (e.g., breast drills, braces and die-stocks),

(B) machine-tools, of headings 84.57 to 84.65, or of heading 84.79 by reason of Note 7 to Chapter 84,

(C) tools of heading 84.67,

for pressing, stamping, punching, tapping, threading, drilling, boring, reaming, broaching, milling, gear-cutting, turning, cutting, morticing or drawing, etc., metals, metal carbides, wood, stone, ebonite, certain plastics or other materials, or for screwdriving.

The heading also includes tools for use with the rock drilling or earth boring machines of heading 84.30.

Dies, punches, drills and other interchangeable tools for machines or appliances other than those specified above are classified as parts of the machines or appliances for which they are intended.

The tools of this heading may be either one-piece or composite articles.

The one-piece tools, made wholly from one material, are generally of alloy steel or steel with a high carbon content.

Composite tools consist of one or more working parts of base metal, of metal carbides or of cermets, of diamond or of other precious or semi-precious stones, attached to a base metal support either permanently, by welding or insetting, or as detachable parts. In the latter case, the tool consists of a base metal body and one or more working parts (blade, plate, point) locked to the body by a device comprising, for example, a bridge plate, a clamping screw or a spring cotter-pin with, where appropriate, a chip-breaking lip.

The heading further includes tools with a base metal working part fitted or covered with abrasive materials, provided these tools have cutting teeth, flutes, grooves, etc., which retain their identity and function even after the application of the abrasive, i.e., tools which could be put to use even if the abrasive had not been applied; most abrasive tools are, however, excluded (see the Explanatory Note to heading 68.04).

The tools classified in this heading include:

(1) Rock drilling or earth boring tools, including mining, oil well drilling or sounding tools (e.g. augers, boring bits and drills).

(2) Dies for drawing or extruding metal, including draw plates.

(3) Tools for pressing, stamping or punching, including punches and dies for cold pressing or stamping of sheet metal; drop forging dies; perforating or cutting dies and punches for machine-tools.

(4) Tools for tapping or threading, such as taps and dies, chasers and chaser dies.

(5) Tools for drilling, other than for rock drilling, including drills (spiral or twist drills, centre bits, etc.), brace bits, etc.

(6) Tools for boring or broaching, including reaming.

(7) Tools for milling, e.g. milling cutters (plain, helical, staggered or angle cutters); gear cutting hobs, etc.

(8) Tools for turning.

(9) Other interchangeable tools, such as:

Wire drawing dies, lathe tools, etc., remain in this heading even if they have been made radioactive.

The heading also excludes:

(a) Bobs, wheels and other tools with working parts of rubber, leather, felt, etc., classified according to the constituent materials (Chapters 40, 42, 59, etc.).

(b) Saw blades of all kinds (heading 82.02).

(c) Plane irons and similar parts of tools (heading 82.05).

(d) Knives and cutting blades for machines or for mechanical appliances (heading 82.08).

(e) Plates, sticks, tips and the like for tools, unmounted, of cermets (heading 82.09).

(f) Spinnerets for extruding man-made fibres (heading 84.48).

(g) Work and tool holders for machines or hand tools, and self-opening dieheads (heading 84.66).

(h) Dies for drawing glass fibres (heading 84.75).

(ij) Brushes (metallic or not) of a kind used as parts of machines (heading 96.03).


82.08 - Knives and cutting blades, for machines or for mechanical appliances.
This heading applies to unmounted knives or cutting blades, rectangular, circular or of other shapes, for machines or for mechanical appliances. It does not, however, cover cutting blades or knives for the hand tools of headings 82.01 to 82.05 (e.g., plane irons).

The heading includes knives or cutting blades :

(1) For metal working: (2) For wood working:

(3) For kitchen appliances or for machines used by the food industry, such as blades and cutters for appliances or machines used in the household, or by butchers, bakers, etc. (e.g., blades for mincing machines, vegetable choppers, bread slicers, bacon or ham slicers).

(4) For agricultural, horticultural or forestry machines, for example, blades and knives for root cutters, straw cutters, etc. or for lawn mowers; blades and segments of blades for harvesting or reaping machines. The heading does not, however, cover coulters for ploughs or discs for harrows.

(5) For other machines or mechanical appliances, such as:
82.09 Plates, sticks, tips and the like for tools, unmounted, of cermets.

The products of this heading are usually in the form of plates, sticks, tips, rods, pellets, rings, etc., and are characterised by great hardness, even when hot, and great rigidity.

In view of their special properties these plates, tips, etc., are welded, brazed or clamped on to lathe tools, milling tools, drills, dies, or other high-speed cutting tools used for working metals or other hard materials. They fall in this heading whether sharpened or not, or otherwise prepared, but not if already mounted on tools; in the latter case they fall in the headings for tools, particularly heading 82.07.

The heading also excludes:

(a) Unmixed, non-sintered metal carbides (heading 28.49).

(b) Prepared but non-sintered metal carbide mixtures (heading 38.24).

(c) Ceramic plates, sticks, tips and the like, for tools (heading 69.09).

(d) Sand blast nozzles and other abrasion resistant parts of machines, of cermets (Chapter 84).


82.10 Hand-operated mechanical appliances, weighing 10 kg or less, used in the preparation, conditioning or serving of food or drink.

This heading covers non-electric mechanical appliances, generally hand-operated, not exceeding 10 kg in weight, used in the preparation, serving or conditioning of food or drink.

For the purposes of this heading an appliance is regarded as mechanical if it has such mechanisms as crank-handles, gearing, Archimedean screw-actions, pumps, etc.; a simple lever or plunger action is not in itself, however, regarded as a mechanical feature involving classification in this heading unless the appliance is designed for fixing to a wall or other surface, or is fitted with base plates, etc., for standing on a table, on the floor, etc.

The heading thus comprises appliances which would fall either in heading 82.05 or in Chapter 84 but for the fact that they fulfil the following conditions :

(1) They weigh 10 kg or less.

(2) They have the mechanical features described.

The following are examples of goods falling in the heading, provided they conform to the conditions set out above:

Coffee or spice mills; vegetable mincers and mashers; meat mincers and slicers; meat pressers; graters for cheese, etc.; vegetable or fruit slicers, cutters and peelers, including potato chippers; bread slicers; macaroni or spaghetti cutters; appliances for stoning fruit (other than spring-types held independently in the hand); bottle openers and corkers; mechanical can openers (other than the simple can openers of heading 82.05); can sealers; butter churns; ice cream freezers and portion servers; egg, cream or mayonnaise beaters and mixers; fruit or meat juice extractors; ice crushers.


82.11 Knives with cutting blades, serrated or not (including pruning knives), other than knives of heading 82.08, and blades therefor.
This heading covers knives with cutting blades, serrated or not, with the exception of those included in heading 82.08, and of certain tools and tableware sometimes called “knives” but covered implicitly or explicitly by other headings of this Chapter (for example, hay knives of heading 82.01, and other articles listed in the exclusions at the end of this Explanatory Note).


The heading covers:

(1) Non-folding table knives of all kinds, including carving or dessert knives. Their handles and blades may be made of a single piece of metal, or they may have a fitted handle of base metal, wood, horn, plastics, etc.

(2) Non-folding knives for kitchen, trade or other uses, generally of a less decorative appearance than the preceding type. This category includes, inter alia:

Butchers’ knives; knives for bookbinders or papermakers; tanners’, furriers’, saddlers’ or cobblers’ knives, with or without handles; bee-keepers’ uncapping knives; gardeners’ pruning knives, etc.; hunting knives, sheath knives; oyster knives; fruit peeling knives.

(3) Folding knives of all kinds, with handles of base metal, wood, horn, plastics, etc. This group includes, inter alia:

Pocket knives, pen knives, jack knives, campers’ knives and sports knives (all these knives may have more than one blade, or be equipped with auxiliary corkscrews, spikes, screwdrivers, scissors, can openers, etc.); pocket folding knives for pruning, budding, grafting, etc.

(4) Knives with several interchangeable blades, whether or not these are contained in the handles.

The heading also covers blades for the manufacture of the knives listed above which may be in the form of crude or machined blanks, polished or completely finished blades. Handles of base metal for the knives of this heading are also included.

In addition to the exclusions mentioned in the first paragraph above, the heading also excludes:

(a) Bill hooks and matchets (heading 82.01).

(b) Articles of cutlery of heading 82.14.

(c) Fish-knives and butter-knives (heading 82.15).
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Subheading Explanatory Note.

Subheading 8211.10

The scope of subheading 8211.10 is limited to sets of different knives or sets of assorted articles, in which the knives predominate in number over the other articles.

82.12 Razors and razor blades (including razor blade blanks in strips).
This heading covers:

(1) Open blade razors, including separately presented blades (finished or not), and separately presented base metal handles.

(2) Safety razors, and their base metal parts and blades, finished or not.

(3) Plastic safety razors presented with their blades.

The heading also covers non-electric dry shavers and blades, cutting plates and heads for non-electric razors.

Blanks of safety razor blades are also included in the heading when in the form of lengths of strip steel, tempered or not, provided they have been perforated ready for the manufacture of safety razor blades, or the outline of the blade has been incised allowing separation by slight pressure.

The heading excludes:

(a) Plastic safety razors presented without their blades (heading 39.24).

(b) Electric razors and heads, blades and cutting plates of such razors (heading 85.10).


82.13 - Scissors, tailors’ shears and similar shears, and blades therefor.

The scissors classified in this heading consist of two superimposed blades, sometimes serrated, articulated on a screw or pin near the centre. In general the heading covers only those scissors in which each blade is fitted, at one end, with a finger ring. The blades may be in one piece, or consist of jointed cutting blades and handles.

The heading also includes certain types of scissors hinged at one end and with a single finger ring (used mainly in the textile industry).

The heading includes, inter alia:

(1) Ordinary scissors for domestic or office use, or for sewing, etc., with straight or curved blades.

(2) Scissors for professional use, e.g., tailors’ or dressmakers’ scissors and shears (including buttonhole scissors); hairdressers’ scissors (including thinning scissors); scissors for drapers, leather workers, glovemakers or hatters.

(3) Manicure scissors, including those in which the side of the blade forms a nail file.

(4) Small folding scissors, e.g., pocket scissors and embroidery scissors; flower scissors; vine scissors; cigar-cutting scissors.

(5) Special types such as pinking scissors; twin scissors (four bladed) for cutting strips of cloth; horse clipping scissors; hoof cutting scissors; secateur type scissors (with one convex and one concave blade) but with the characteristic scissor finger rings (e.g., for flower cutting). The heading includes scissor blades, finished or not.

The heading does not cover:

(a) Hedge shears, sheep shears, etc., with blades not fitted with finger rings, and secateurs and similar one-handed pruners and shears (including poultry shears) of heading 82.01.

(b) Special farriers’ two-handed shears for cutting animals’ hooves (heading 82.05).


82.14 - Other articles of cutlery (for example, hair clippers, butchers’ or kitchen cleavers, choppers and mincing knives, paper knives); manicure or pedicure sets and instruments (including nail files).
This heading includes:

(1) Paper knives, letter openers, erasing knives, pencil sharpeners (including pocket type) and blades therefor, but not pencil sharpening machines of heading 84.72.

(2) Manicure or pedicure sets and instruments, including nail files (folding or not). Such instruments also include nail cleaners, corn-cutters, corn-extractors, cuticle cutting knives, cuticle pressers and pushers, nail nippers and clippers. Manicure or pedicure sets usually contain such instruments in boxes, cases, etc., and may include scissors, non-metallic nail polishers, hair removing tweezers, etc., which, taken separately, would be classified in their appropriate headings. (3) Hair clippers, hand-operated, non-electric. The heading covers not only the spare parts of hair clippers of this heading, but also cutting plates and heads for the mechanical clippers of heading 84.36. (4) Butchers’ or kitchen choppers, cleavers, and mincing knives. These articles do not have the normal shape of a knife, and may be designed for use with one or both hands.

82.15 Spoons, forks, ladles, skimmers, cake-servers, fish-knives, butter-knives, sugar tongs and similar kitchen or tableware.
This heading includes:

(1) Spoons of all kinds including salt or mustard spoons.

(2) Table forks; carving forks, serving forks, cooks’ forks; cake forks; oyster forks; snail forks; toasting forks.

(3) Ladles and ladle type skimmers (for vegetables, frying, etc.).

(4) Slices for serving fish, cake, strawberries, asparagus.

(5) Non-cutting fish-knives and butter-knives.

(6) Sugar tongs of all kinds (cutting or not), cake tongs, hors-d’oeuvre tongs, asparagus tongs, snail tongs, meat tongs and ice tongs.

(7) Other tableware, such as poultry or meat grips, and lobster or unit grips.

These goods may be of one piece or fitted with handles of base metal, wood, plastics, etc.

In accordance with Chapter Note 3, the heading also includes sets consisting of one or more knives of heading 82.11 and at least an equal number of articles of this heading.

The heading excludes lobster cutters or poultry shears of the secateur or scissors type (heading 82.01 or 82.13).


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