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SCHEDULE 4. - CHEMICALS AND RELATED PRODUCTS Part 9. - Dyeing and Tanning Products; Pigments and Pigment-Like Materials; Inks, Paints, and Related Products Rates of Duty

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Subpart C. - Inks, Paints, and Related Products SubDsrt C headnotes: 1. The provision In this subpart for artists'. students', and children's pigments and paints assembled Into sets (Item 474.03) covers only pigments and paints assembled In such container and form, and with such assortment of articles, as to be suitable for sale at retail to artists, students. or children as a paint set, kit, or color outfit. 2. The term "paints and enamel paints" In this subpart covers dispersions of pigments or pigmentlike materials with a liquid (vehicle) which are suitable for application to surfaces as a thin layer. and which dry (harden) to an opaque, solid film. The vehicle of paints consists of drying oils or resins which bind the pigment particles together in the film; and the vehicle of enamel paints Is principally varnish. Paints and enamel paints may also contain thinners, driers, plasticizers, or other agents. 3. The term "varnishes" In this subpart covers liquid surface-coating products which contain no pigments or pigment-like materials, and which dry (harden) to a transparent or translucent film. Shellac varnishes are solutions of shellac or any other form of lac In a volatile solvent such as ethyl alcohol. Oleoreslnous varnishes consist of resins dissolved in or reacted with a drying oil. to which thinners, driers, and plastlclzers may be added. Cellulose-derivative varnishes (lacquers) are solutions of cellulose nitrate or other cellulose derivatives In a volatile solvent. 4. The term "stains" In this subpart covers liquids containing transparent or semi-transparent pigments, dyes, or chemicals, chiefly used to deepen or otherwise alter the color of wood, but which will not obscure its grain, texture, or markings.

Artists', students', and children's pigments and paints, in cakes, jars, pans, tubes, or other forms, and such pigments and paints assembled into sets with or without brushes, outline drawings, stencils, water pans. or other articles: In any form not over 1.5 pounds net weight each: Not assembled into sets: Valued under 20 cents per dozen pieces... Valued 20 cents or more per dozen pieces:

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In cakes, pans, or other forms

0.750 per piece

0.750 per piece

l.'+0 per piece + 8.5% ad val. 1.230 per piece + 12.5S^ ad val.

2$ per piece + kC^ ad val. 1.250 per piece + kO% ad val.

2k% ad val. on the entire set

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7 0 ^ ad val. on the entire set

3% ad val. 5.55^ ad val. 3% ad val.

10^ ad val. 155^ ad val. lOS^ ad val.

Assembled into sets with or without brushes, outline drawings, stencils, water pans, or

Inks and ink powders: 47't.20 't7't.22

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