Customs - Tariff Book

Pig iron

Iron-carbon alloys not usefully malleable, containing more than 2 per cent by mass of carbon and which may contain by mass one or more other elements within the following limits:

- not more than 10 per cent of chromium

- not more than 6 per cent of manganese

- not more than 3 per cent of phosphorus

- not more than 8 per cent of silicon

- a total of not more than 10 per cent of other elements.

Spiegeleisen

Iron-carbon alloys containing by mass more than 6 per cent but not more than 30 per cent of manganese and otherwise conforming to the specification at (a) above.

Ferro-alloys

Alloys in pigs, blocks, lumps or similar primary forms, in forms obtained by continuous casting and also in granular or powder forms, whether or not agglomerated, commonly used as an additive in the manufacture of other alloys or as de-oxidants, de-sulphurising agents or for similar uses in ferrous metallurgy and generally not usefully malleable, containing by mass 4 per cent or more of the element iron and one or more of the following:

- more than 10 per cent of chromium

- more than 30 per cent of manganese

- more than 3 per cent of phosphorus

- more than 8 per cent of silicon

- a total of more than 10 per cent of other elements, excluding carbon, subject to a maximum content of 10 per cent in the case of copper.

Steel

Ferrous materials (excluding those of heading 72.03) which (with the exception of certain types produced in the form of castings) are usefully malleable and which contain by mass 2 per cent or less of carbon. However, chromium steels may contain higher proportions of carbon.

Stainless steel

Alloy steels containing, by mass, 1,2 per cent or less of carbon and 10,5 per cent or more of chromium, with or without other elements.

Other alloy steel

Steel not complying with the definition of stainless steel and containing by mass one or more of the following elements in the proportion shown:

- 0,3 per cent or more of aluminium

- 0,0008 per cent or more of boron

- 0,3 per cent or more of chromium

- 0,3 per cent or more of cobalt

- 0,4 per cent or more of copper

- 0,4 per cent or more of lead - 1,65 per cent or more of manganese

- 0,08 per cent or more of molybdenum

- 0,3 per cent or more of nickel

- 0,06 per cent or more of niobium

- 0,6 per cent or more of silicon

- 0,05 per cent or more of titanium

- 0,3 per cent or more of tungsten (wolfram)

- 0,1 per cent or more of vanadium

- 0,05 per cent or more of zirconium

- 0,1 per cent or more of other elements (except sulphur, phosporus, carbon and nitrogen), taken separately.

Remelting scrap ingots of iron or steel

Products roughly cast in the form of ingots without feeder-heads or hot tops, or of pigs, having obvious surface faults and not complying with the chemical composition of pig iron, spiegeleisen or ferro-alloys.

Granules

Products of which less than 90 per cent by mass passes through a sieve with a mesh aperture of 1 mm and of which 90 per cent or more by mass passes through a sieve with a mesh aperture of 5 mm.

Semi-finished products

Continuous cast products of solid section, whether or not subjected to primary hot-rolling; and

Other products of solid section, which have not been further worked than subjected to primary hot-rolling or roughly shaped by forging, including blanks for angles, shapes or sections.

These products are not presented in coils.

Flat-rolled products

Rolled products of solid rectangular (excluding square) cross-section, which do not conform to the definition at (ij) above in the form of:

- coils of successively superimposed layers, or

- straight lengths, which is of a thickness less than 4,75 mm are of a width measuring at least ten times the thickness or is of a thickness of 4,75 mm or more are of a width which exceeds 150 mm and measures at least twice the thickness.

Flat-rolled products include those with patterns in relief derived directly from rolling (for example, grooves, ribs, chequers, tears, buttons, lozenges) and those which have been perforated, corrugated or polished, provided that they do not thereby assume the character of articles or products of other headings.

Flat-rolled products of a shape (excluding rectangular or square), of any size, are to be classified as products of a width of 600 mm or more, provided that they do not assume the character of articles or products of other headings.

Bars and rods, hot-rolled, in irregularly wound coils

Hot-rolled products in irregularly wound coils, which have a solid cross-section in the shape of circles, segments or circles, ovals, rectangles (including squares), triangles or other convex polygons (including "flattened circles" and "modified rectangles", of which two opposite sides are convex arcs, the other two sides being straight, of equal length and parallel). These products may have indentations, ribs, grooves or other deformations produced during the rolling process (reinforcing bars and rods).

Other bars and rods

Products which do not conform to any of the definitions at (ij), (k) or (I) above or to the definition of wire, which have a uniform solid cross-section along their whole length in the shape of circles, segments of circles, ovals, rectangles (including squares), triangles or other convex polygons (including "flattened circles" and "modified rectangles", of which two opposite sides are convex arcs, the other two sides being straight, of equal length and parallel).These products may - - have indentations, ribs, grooves or other deformations produced during the rolling process (reinforcing bars and rods);

- be twisted after rolling.

Angles, Shapes and Sections

Products having a uniform solid cross-section along their whole length which do not conform to any of the definitions at (ij), (k), (I) or (m) above or to the definition of wire.

Chapter 72 does not include products of heading No. 73.01 or 73.02.

Wire

Cold-formed products in coils, of any uniform solid cross-section along their whole length, which do not conform to the definition of flat-rolled products.

Hollow Drill Bars and Rods

Hollow bars and rods of any cross-section, suitable for drills, of which the greatest external dimension of the cross-section exceeds 15 mm but does not exceed 52 mm, and of which the greatest internal dimension does not exceed one half of the greatest external dimension. Hollow bars and rods of iron or steel not conforming to this definition are to be classified in heading No. 73.04.

Alloy Pig Iron:

Pig iron containing, by mass, one or more of the following elements in the specified proportions:

- more than 0,2 per cent of chromium

- more than 0,3 per cent of copper

- more than 0,3 per cent of nickel

- more than 0,1 per cent of any of the following elements: aluminium, molybdenum, titanium, tungsten (wolfram), vanadium.

Non-alloy Free-cutting Steel:

Non-alloy steel containing, by mass, one or more of the following elements in the specified proportions:

- 0,08 per cent or more of sulphur

- 0,1 per cent or more of lead

- more than 0,05 per cent of selenium

- more than 0,01 per cent of tellurium

- more than 0,05 per cent of bismuth

Silicon-electrical Steel:

Alloy steels containing by mass at least 0,6 per cent but not more than 6 per cent of silicon and not more than 0,08 per cent of carbon. They may also contain by mass not more than 1 per cent of aluminium but no other element in a proportion that would give the steel the characteristics of another alloy steel.

High Speed Steel:

Alloy steels containing, with or without other elements, at least two of the three elements molybdenum, tungsten and vanadium with a combined content by mass of 7 per cent or more, 0,6 per cent or more of carbon and 3 to 6 per cent of chromium.

Silico-manganese Steel: Alloy steels containing by mass:

- not more than 0,7 per cent of carbon;

- 0,5 per cent or more but not more than 1,9 per cent of manganese; and

- 0,6 per cent or more but not more than 2,3 per cent of silicon, but no other element in a proportion that would give the steel the characteristics of another alloy steel.