Chapter notes
Notes.
1. Except where the context otherwise requires, throughout
the Nomenclature the expression "rubber" means the
following products, whether or not vulcanised or hard:
natural rubber, balata, gutta percha, guayule, chicle
and similar natural gums, synthetic rubber, factice
derived from oils, and such substances reclaimed.
2. This Chapter does not cover:
(a) Goods of Section XI (textiles and textile articles);
(b) Footwear or parts thereof of Chapter 64;
(c) Headgear or parts thereof (including bathing caps)
of Chapter 65;
(d) Mechanical or electrical appliances or parts
thereof of Section XVI (including electrical goods
of all kinds), of hard rubber;
(e) Articles of Chapters 90, 92, 94 or 96; or
(f) Articles of Chapter 95 (other than sports gloves,
mittens and mitts and articles of headings 40.11
to 40.13).
3. In headings 40.01 to 4003.00.00 and 40.05, the
expression "primary forms" applies only to the following
forms:
(a) Liquids and pastes (including latex, whether or not
pre vulcanised, and other dispersions and solutions);
(b) Blocks of irregular shape, lumps, bales, powders,
granules, crumbs and similar bulk forms.
4. In Note 1 to this Chapter and in heading 40.02, the
expression "synthetic rubber" applies to:
(a) Unsaturated synthetic substances which can be
irreversibly transformed by vulcanisation with
sulphur into non thermoplastic substances which,
at a temperature between 18oC and 29oC, will not
break on being extended to three times their
original length and will return, after being
extended to twice their original length, within a
period of five minutes, to a length not greater
than one and a half times their original length.
For the purposes of this test, substances necessary
for the cross linking, such as vulcanising
activators or accelerators, may be added; the
presence of substances as provided for by Note 5(b)
(ii) and (iii) is also permitted. However, the
presence of any substances not necessary for the
cross linking, such as extenders, plasticisers and
fillers, is not permitted;
(b) Thioplasts (TM); and
(c) Natural rubber modified by grafting or mixing with
plastics, depolymerised natural rubber, mixtures of
unsaturated synthetic substances with saturated
synthetic high polymers provided that all the
above-mentioned products comply with the
requirements concerning vulcanisation, elongation
and recovery in (a) above.
5. (A) Headings 40.01 and 40.02 do not apply to any rubber
or mixture of rubbers which has been compounded,
before or after coagulation, with:
(i) vulcanising agents, accelerators, retarders or
activators (other than those added for the
preparation of pre vulcanised rubber latex);
(ii) pigments or other colouring matter, other than
those added solely for the purpose of
identification;
(iii) plasticisers or extenders (except mineral oil
in the case of oil extended rubber), fillers,
reinforcing agents, organic solvents or any
other substances, except those permitted under
(B);
(B) The presence of the following substances in any
rubber or mixture of rubbers shall not affect its
classification in heading 40.01 or 40.02, as the
case may be, provided that such rubber or mixture
of rubbers retains its essential character as a
raw material:
(i) emulsifiers or anti tack agents;
(ii) small amounts of breakdown products of
emulsifiers;
(iii) very small amount