HEADING 58.02 - TERRY TOWELLING AND SIMILAR WOVEN TERRY FABRICS OTHER THAN

NARROW FABRICS OF HEADING No. 58.06; TUFTED TEXTILE FABRICS

OTHER THAN PRODUCTS OF HEADING No. 57.03.

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- Terry towelling and similar woven terry fabrics of cotton

:

5802.11 - - Unbleached

5802.19 - - Other

5802.20 - Terry towelling and similar woven terry fabrics of other

textile materials

5802.30 - Tufted textile fabrics

(A) TERRY TOWELLING AND SIMILAR WOVEN TERRY FABRICS

These fabrics are those looped pile fabrics such as are used for towelling bathrobes

beachrobes leisure robes toilet gloves etc. They have a tight weft and two series of

warp threads one tight and one slack the latter forming loops on the surface of the

fabric. The proportion of the two kinds of warp threads in the fabric may differ but

usually there are the same number of ground warp threads as of pile warp threads.

The loops often appear twisted and are generally produced on both sides of the cloth

but sometimes on one only; they may sometimes be cut. The loops may cover the

entire surface uniformly or form stripes checks diamonds or more complicated

patterns. However this heading does not cover fabrics having pile on one side only all

of the loops of which are cut (heading 58.01).

The heading also excludes :

(a)Terry fabrics knitted or crocheted (heading 60.01).

(b)Fabric in the piece which by the simple process of cutting along defined lines indicated by the absence of

weft threads may be converted into separate fringed articles (heading 63.02).

(B) TUFTED TEXTILE FABRICS

These fabrics are made by inserting yarns by means of a system of needles and

hooks into a pre-existing textile ground fabric (woven knitted or crocheted felt

nonwoven etc.) so as to form loops or if the hooks are combined with a cutting device

tufts of cut pile.

Products of this heading are distinguished from the tufted carpets and floor coverings

of heading 57.03 by for example their lack of stiffness thickness and strength which

renders them unsuitable for use as floor coverings.

Furthermore these fabrics can be distinguished from the pile fabrics of heading 60.01

which have rows of chain stitches on the back of the fabric by their characteristic rows

of stitches having the appearance of running stitches along the length of the back of the

fabric.