Chapter notes
Notes.
1. This Chapter does not cover:
(a) Unused postage or revenue stamps, postal stationery
(stamped paper) or the like, of heading 4907.00;
(b) Theatrical scenery, studio back cloths or the like,
of painted canvas (heading 5907.00.00) except if they
may be classified in heading 9706.00.00; or
(c) Pearls, natural or cultured, or precious or
semi-precious stones (headings 71.01 to 71.03).
2. For the purposes of heading 9702.00.00, the expression
"original engravings, prints and lithographs" means
impressions produced directly, in black and white or in
colour, of one or of several plates wholly executed by
hand by the artist, irrespective of the process or of the
material employed by him, but not including any mechanical
or photomechanical process.
3. Heading 9703.00.00 does not apply to mass produced
reproductions or works of conventional craftsmanship of a
commercial character, even if these articles are designed
or created by artists.
4. (A) Subject to Notes 1 to 3 above, articles of this
Chapter are to be classified in this Chapter and not in
any other Chapter of the Nomenclature.
(B) Heading 9706.00.00 does not apply to articles of the
preceding headings of this Chapter.
5. Frames around paintings, drawings, pastels, collages or
similar decorative plaques, engravings, prints or
litho?graphs are to be classified with those articles,
provided they are of a kind and of a value normal to those
articles. Frames which are not of a kind or of a value
normal to the articles referred to in this Note are to be
classified separately.