HEADING 83.08 - CLASPS FRAMES WITH CLASPS BUCKLES BUCKLE-CLASPS HOOKS EYES EYELETS AND THE LIKE OF BASE METAL OF A KIND USED FOR CLOTHING FOOTWEAR AWNINGS HANDBAGS TRAVEL GOODS OR OTHER MADE UP ARTICLES; TUBULAR OR BIFURCATED RIVETS OF BASE METAL; BEADS AND SPANGLES OF BASE METAL.

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8308.10 - Hooks eyes and eyelets

8308.20 - Tubular or bifurcated rivets

8308.90 - Other including parts

This heading includes :

(A) Hooks eyes and eyelets for clothing footwear awnings tents or sails.

(B) Tubular or bifurcated rivets of all kinds. These are used in clothing footwear awnings tents travel goods leather goods belting etc.; they also serve in engineering (e.g. in aircraft construction). The heading also covers break mandrel blind rivets where during the setting operation the mandrel is pulled into or against the rivet body and breaks at or near the junction of the mandrel shank and its upset end.

(C) Clasps fasteners and frames with clasps for handbags purses brief-cases executive-cases or other travel goods or for books or wrist-watches; but the heading excludes locks (including locking clasps) and frames with clasps incorporating locks (heading 83.01).

(D) Buckles (with or without tongues) and buckle-clasps whether or not ornamental for clothes belts braces suspenders gloves footwear gaiters wrist-watches haversacks travel goods and leather goods.

(E) Metal beads and spangles used inter alia for making imitation jewellery or for decorating textile material embroidery clothing etc. They are generally made of copper copper alloys or aluminium (often gilded or silvered) and are designed to be fixed in position by glueing sewing etc. Beads are generally spherical or tubular or sometimes facetted; spangles generally of geometrical form (round hexagonal etc.) are cut from metal foil and usually pierced.

The articles referred to in (A) (C) and (D) above may contain parts of leather textiles plastics wood horn bone ebonite mother of pearl ivory imitation precious stones etc. provided they retain the essential character of articles of base metal. They may also be ornamented by working of the metal.

This heading also excludes :

(a)Ornaments other than buckles for hats handbags shoes belts etc. (heading 71.17).

(b)Metal flakes (Chapters 74 to 76 in particular).

(c)Rivets other than tubular or bifurcated rivets; snap hooks (usually Chapters 73 to 76).

(d)Press-studs and push-buttons (heading 96.06).

(e)Slide fasteners and parts thereof (heading 96.07).

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