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Notes of the Customs Tariff - Tares

The notes are legally binding and contain definitions, further rules, exclusions and distinguishing criteria of the goods listed in the relevant section respectively chapter of the customs tariff, determining their classification.

I. Live animals; animal products

II. Vegetable products

III. Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes

Section III (Notes) (empty)

IV. Prepared foodstuffs; beverages, spirits and vinegar; tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes; products, whether or not containing nicotine, intended for inhalation without combustion; other nicotine containing products intended for the intake of nicotine into the human body

V. Mineral products

Section V (Notes) (empty)

VI. Products of the chemical or allied industries

VII. Plastics and articles thereof; rubber and articles thereof

VIII. Raw hides and skins, leather, furskins and articles thereof; saddlery and harness; travel goods, handbags and similar containers; articles of animal gut (other than silk-worm gut)

Section VIII (Notes) (empty)

IX. Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal; cork and articles of cork; manufactures of straw, of esparto or of other plaiting materials; basketware and wickerwork

Section IX (Notes) (empty)

X. Pulp of wood or of other fibrous cellulosic material; recovered (waste and scrap) paper or paperboard; paper and paperboard and articles thereof

Section X (Notes) (empty)

XI. Textiles and textile articles

50. Silk (Notes) (empty)

53. Other vegetable textile fibres; paper yarn and woven fabrics of paper yarn (Notes) (empty)

XII. Footwear, headgear, umbrellas, sun umbrellas, walking-sticks, seat-sticks, whips, riding-crops and parts thereof; prepared feathers and articles made therewith; artificial flowers; articles of human hair

Section XII (Notes) (empty)

XIII. Articles of stone, plaster, cement, asbestos, mica or similar materials; ceramic products; glass and glassware

Section XIII (Notes) (empty)

XIV. Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal, and articles thereof; imitation jewellery; coin

Section XIV (Notes) (empty)

XV. Base metals and articles of base metal

81. Other base metals; cermets; articles thereof (Notes) (empty)

XVI. Machinery and mechanical appliances; electrical equipment; parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles

XVII. Vehicles, aircraft, vessels and associated transport equipment

XVIII. Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; clocks and watches; musical instruments; parts and accessories thereof

Section XVIII (Notes) (empty)

XIX. Arms and ammunition; parts and accessories thereof

Section XIX (Notes) (empty)

XX. Miscellaneous manufactured articles

Section XX (Notes) (empty)

XXI. Works of art, collectors' pieces and antiques

Section XXI (Notes) (empty)