HEADING 41.10 - PARINGS AND OTHER WASTE OF LEATHER OR OF COMPOSITION LEATHER NOT SUITABLE FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF LEATHER ARTICLES; LEATHER DUST POWDER AND FLOUR.

17 COMMODITIES

This heading covers :

(1) Parings and other waste of leather (including composition or parchment-dressed leather) resulting from the manufacture of leather goods suitable for the production of composition leather or glue etc. or for use as fertilisers.

(2) Worn out articles of leather incapable of further use for their original purpose and not usable as leather for the production of other articles.

(3) Leather dust and powder (the waste of leather buffing and fluffing) used as a fertiliser or for making artificial suŠdes composition floorings etc.

(4) Leather flour produced by grinding waste leather and used in making suŠded fabrics or as a filler in plastics etc.

Scrap pieces of leather and worn out leather goods (e.g. old machinery belting) capable of being used in the manufacture of leather goods are classified as leather in the appropriate heading (headings 41.04 to 41.09).

The heading also excludes :

(a)Parings and similar waste of raw hides or skins (heading 05.11).

(b)Old footwear of heading 63.09.