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

SCHEDULE 6. - METALS AND METAL PRODUCTS Part 2. - Metals, Their Alloys, and Their Basic Shapes and Forms Rates of Duty

PART 2.

METALS, THEIR ALLOYS, AND THEIR BASIC SHAPES AND FORMS

Part 2 headnotes: 1. This part covers precious metals and base metals (including such metals when they are chemically pure), their alloys, and their so-called basic shapes and forms, and, in addition, covers metal waste and scrap. Unless the context requires othei— wise, the provisions of this part apply to the products described by whatever process made (i.e., whether rolled, forged, drawn, extruded, cast or sintered) and whether or not such products have been subjected to treatments to improve the properties or appearance of the metals or to protect them against rusting, corrosion or other deterioration. These treatments Include annealing, tempering, casehardening and similar heat-treatments or nitriding; descaling, pici<ling, scraping, scalping and other processes to remove oxidation scale and crust; rough coating with oil, tar, grease, red lead, or other material to prevent rusting; polishing, burnishing, glazing, artificial oxidation, phosphatlzing, and other finishing treatments; metallization by cementation, by electroplating, by immersion In a bath of molten metal, or by other means; coating with enamel, paint, lacquer, or other non-metallic substances; and cladding. This part does not Include — (I) Insulated electric conductors (see part 5 of this schedule); (II) milliners' wire and other wire covered with textile or other nonmetalllc nnaterlal (see part 3B of this schedule); (III) leaf and foil (see part 3C of this schedule); or (Iv) other articles specially provided for elsewhere in the tariff schedules, or parts of articles. 2. Allovs. — (a) For the purposes of the tariff schedules, alloys are defined and classifiable as hereinafter set forth. Alloys are metallic substances consisting of two or more metals, or of one or more metals and one or more non-metals, intimately united, usually by having been fused together and which may or may not have been dissolved in each other when molten; they include sintered mixtures of metal powders and heterogeneous Intimate mixtures obtained by fusion, but do not include substances in which the total weight of the metals does not equal or exceed the total weight of the non-metal components. (b) Precious-metal alloys are alloys which contain 2 percent or more by weight of one or more metals of the Blatinum group, of qold, or of silver. Precious-metal alloys are classifiable as — (i) alloys of platinum, if they contain 2 percent or more by weight of one or more metals of the platinum group; (11) alloys of gold, if they contain 2 percent or more by weight of gold, but contain no metal of the platinum group or less than 2 percent by weight thereof; and (Ili) alloys of silver, if they contain 2 percent or more ty weight of si Iver, and are not alloys of platinum or alloys of gold, as defined in b(I) and b(il), respectively, of this headnote.

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