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 TARIFF SCHEDULES OF THE UNITED STATES TARIFF SCHEDULES OF THE UNITED STATES

SCHEDULE 3. - TEXTILE FIBERS AND TEXTILE PRODUCTS Part 1. - Textile Fibers and Wastes; Yarns and Threads

U7 Rates of Duty

PART 1. - TEXTILE FffiERS AND WASTES; YARNS AND THREADS Part

I headnotes:

I.

For the purposes of this part — (a) the term "waste" means all fiber, yarn, and thread wastes, including wastes obtained in the production of continuous and noncontinuous fibers, yarns, and threads, such as gin motes, scutcher waste (including tow), picker waste, card waste, top waste, conber waste (including noils), hackling waste (including tow), sliver waste, roving waste, ring waste, throwster (twister or plyer) waste, fly, sweepings, and willowed wastes, and including fiber, yarn, and thread wastes obtained in the production of other textile products (I. e., products other than fibers, yarns, or threads) or otherwise obtained; and (b) the tern' "advanced waste" means any of the above-mentioned wastes which have been cleaned, bleached, colored, or otherwise advanced, and includes fibers recovered by cleaning (except willoi/ing), degumming, caroonizing, cutting, pickering, garnettinc or similar processes from any of the above-mentioned wastes or from textile clippings or articles, new or used, whether or not such fibers or the wastes from which recovered have also been otherwise advanced, but does not include fibers which have been carded, combed, or similarly processed, or reuseable yarns or threads. 2. R«gs and scrap cordage are covered in part 7C of this schedule.

Subpart A. - Cotton Subpart A headnotes: 1. The term "number". as applied to yarns in this subpart, means the number of 84(D-yard hanks of yarn in I pound. To determine the number of any yarn, whether single or plied, the actual yards per pound shall be divided by 840 and the quotient thereof multiplied by the number of plies in such yarn. Fractions in the resulting yarn number shall be disregarded. 2. In this subpart, each of the rates of duty provided for yarns, wholly of cotton, not bleached, mercerized, colored, combed or plied (items 301.01 through 501.98, inclusive) is also the "base rate" for yarn of the same number covered by item 3 0 2. —. For citation purposes, the two blanks on the end of the latter item number shall be filled in with the last two digits of the item number for the applicable base rate. Thus, "item 302.23" would be the citation for bleached, mercerized, colored, combed, or plied yarns, wholly of cotton, of number 28. 3. Under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, the staple length of cotton shall be determined for all customs purposes by application of the Official Cotton Standards of the United States for length of staple, as established by the Secretary of Agriculture and in effect when the determination is to be made.

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