HEADING 82.01 - HAND TOOLS THE FOLLOWING : SPADES SHOVELS MATTOCKS PICKS HOES FORKS AND RAKES; AXES BILL HOOKS AND SIMILAR HEWING TOOLS; SECATEURS AND PRUNERS OF ANY KIND; SCYTHES SICKLES HAY KNIVES HEDGE SHEARS TIMBER WEDGES AND OTHER TOOLS OF A KIND USED IN AGRICULTURE HORTICULTURE OR FORESTRY.

8201.20 - Forks

8201.30 - Mattocks picks hoes and rakes

8201.40 - Axes bill hooks and similar hewing tools

8201.50 - Secateurs and similar one-handed pruners and shears (including poultry shears)

8201.60 - Hedge shears two-handed pruning shears and similar two-handed shears

8201.90 - Other hand tools of a kind used in agriculture horticulture or forestry This heading covers hand tools mainly used in agriculture horticulture or forestry though some may also be used for other purposes (e.g. in road work navvying mining quarrying woodworking or household work).

The heading includes :

(1) Spades and shovels including household coal shovels and special types (e.g. entrenching tools for campers soldiers etc.).

(2) Forks including pitchforks.

(3) Mattocks picks hoes and rakes including lawn-rakes combined hoe-rakes grubbers weeders and cultivators.

(4) Axes bill hooks and similar hewing tools including felling axes hand axes hatchets choppers adzes slashers and matchets.

(5) Secateurs and similar one-handed pruners and shears (including poultry shears). These are generally composed of two shafts articulated on a pivot about three-quarters of the way along their length. One of these shafts often terminates in a concave and the other in a convex cutting edge (" parrot bill "); they further differ from the scissors of heading 82.13 since they have no finger rings.

These tools almost always have a spring which forces the shafts apart after cutting and a hook or other fastening so that they can be easily opened or closed with one hand. In cutting they are manipulated with one hand and they have a very powerful action. This heading includes gardeners' secateurs flower or fruit secateurs; vineyard secateurs with narrow tapering blades etc. The heading does not however cover secateur type scissors having the secateur blades but with finger rings (see the Explanatory Note to heading 82.13).

(6) Hedge shears two-handed pruning shears and similar two-handed shears including grass shears and lopping shears.

(7) Other hand tools of a kind used in agriculture horticulture or forestry. These include scythes sickles (including bagging reaping or grass hooks) hay or straw knives of all kinds; planters seeders dibbers trowels and transplanters; fruit pickers; cow combs curry combs and pig scrapers; bark scrapers and debarking knives; timber wedges lumbermen's log rolling tools (log hooks log tongs log picks cant hooks); lawn edging irons; sheep shears. All these tools remain in the heading whether or not they are fitted with handles. The heading also covers identifiable base metal parts of such tools. The heading also excludes :

(a)Sheep ear and other animal marking pliers (heading 82.03).

(b)Road or stone splitting wedges; scythe blade trueing anvils (heading 82.05).

(c)Pruning knives (heading 82.11).

(d)Garden rollers harrows hay or grass mowers and similar implements including those pushed or pulled by hand (CHAPTER84).

(e)Ice axes (heading 95.06).

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