HEADING 96.12 - TYPEWRITER OR SIMILAR RIBBONS INKED OR OTHERWISE PREPARED FOR GIVING IMPRESSIONS WHETHER OR NOT ON SPOOLS OR IN CARTRIDGES; INK-PADS WHETHER OR NOT INKED WITH OR WITHOUT BOXES.

15 COMMODITIES

9612.10 - Ribbons

9612.20 - Ink-pads

This heading covers :

(1) Ribbons whether or not on spools or in cartridges for typewriters calculating machines or for any other machines incorporating a device for printing bymeans of such ribbons (automatic balances  tabulating machines teleprinters etc.). The heading also includes inked etc. ribbons usually having metal fixing fittings used in barographs thermographs etc. to print and record the movement of the recording machine needle. These ribbons are usually of woven textiles but sometimes they are made of plastics or paper. To fall in the heading they must have been inked or

otherwise prepared to give impressions (e.g. impregnation of textile ribbons or coating of plastics strip or paper with colouring matter ink etc.).

The heading does not cover :

(a) Rolls of carbon or other copying paper strip not suitable for use as typewriter etc. ribbons but designed to produce duplicate copies in accounting machines cash registers etc. This strip which is usually much wider than typewriter ribbons (generally more than 3 cm in width) falls in Chapter 48.

(b) Ribbons not prepared by inking impregnation coating etc. to give an impression; these are classified in CHAPTER39 Section XI etc. according to the constituent material. (c) Empty spools (classified according to their constituent material).

(2) Ink-pads whether or not inked for date stamps etc. They are generally composed of felt woven fabric or other absorbent material on a wooden metallic or plastic support which is often in the form of a box. Hand-operated ink-rollers are excluded from this heading and are classified according to their constituent material.

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