Chapter notes
CHAPTER 46
MANUFACTURES OF STRAW, OF ESPARTO OR OF OTHER PLAITING
MATERIALS; BASKETWARE AND WICKERWORK
1. In this Chapter the expression "plaiting materials"
means materials in a state or form suitable for
plaiting, interlacing or similar processes; it includes
straw, osier or willow, bamboos, rattans, rushes,
reeds, strips of wood, strips of other vegetable
materials (for example, strips of bark, narrow leaves
and raffia or other strips obtained from broad leaves),
unspun natural textile fibres, monofilament and strip
and the like of plastics and strips of paper, but not
strips of leather or composition leather or of felt or
nonwovens, human hair, horsehair, textile rovings or
yarns, or monofilament and strip and the like of
Chapter 54.
2. This Chapter does not cover:
(a) Wall coverings of heading 48.14;
(b) Twine, cordage, ropes or cables, plaited or not
(heading 56.07);
(c) Footwear or headgear or parts thereof of Chapter
64 or 65;
(d) Vehicles or bodies for vehicles of basketware
(Chapter 87); or
(e) Articles of Chapter 94 (for example, furniture,
lamps and lighting fittings).
3. For the purposes of heading 46.01, the expression
"plaiting materials, plaits and similar products of
plaiting materials, bound together in parallel
strands" means plaiting materials, plaits and similar
products of plaiting materials, placed side by side and
bound together, in the form of sheets, whether or not
the binding materials are of spun textile materials.