HEADING 71.07 - BASE METALS CLAD WITH SILVER NOT FURTHER WORKED THAN SEMI- MANUFACTURED.

18 COMMODITIES

Metal clad with precious metal (including base metal inlaid with precious metal) is defined in Note 7 to this Chapter and the General Explanatory Note to this Chapter.

The alloys of tin nickel zinc and particularly of copper are sometimes clad with silver.

Unalloyed copper and steel may also be clad in this way. Such metals are used in silversmiths' wares (tableware articles of interior decoration etc.) and in tubing vessels and apparatus for the chemical or food industries.

Base metal clad with silver falling in this heading is usually in the form of bars rods sections wire plates sheets strip tubes or pipes.

In general the provisions of Explanatory Note to heading 71.06 also apply mutatis mutandis to base metal clad with silver.