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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 Plates of Duty

3. Forms and Condition of Iron or Steel.—For the purposes of this subpart, the following terms have the meanings hereby assigned to them: (a) Ingots: Castings resulting from the solidification of molten steel and having a columnar form suitable for working by rolling or forging. (b> Blooms and biI lets: Semifinished products generally of rectangular or circular cross section, having a length several times greater than the maximum cross-sectionaI dimension, and, if rectangular, a width less than 4 times the thickness, A bloom is at least 36 square inches in cross-sectional area; a billet is less than 36 square inches but not less than 3 square Inches in cross-sectional area, (cl Slabs and sheet bars: Semifinished products of rectangular cross section, having a width of at least 4 times the thickness. A slab is not less than 2 inches and not over 6 inches in thickness; a sheet bar Is less than 2 Inches in thickness. (d) Bars: Products of solid section not conforming completely to the respective specifications set forth herein for blooms, billets, slabs, sheet bars, wire rods, plates, sheets, strip, wire, rails, joint bars, or tie plates, and which have cross sections in the shape of circles, segments of circles, ovals, triangles, rectangles, hexagons, or octagons. Deformed concrete relnforcino bars are hot rolled steel bars, of solid cross section, having deformations of various patterns on their surfaces, (e) Hoi low dr11I steel: A hollow steel product in any cross section suitable for use in making mining drills or mining drill rods, with the largest internal cross-sectional dimension not greater than one-third of the largest external cross-sectional dimension. (fl Wire rods: A colled, semifinished, hotrolled produce of solid cross section, approximately round in cross section, not under 0,20 inch nor over 0.74 Inch in diameter. (g) Plates and sheets: Platas are flat rolled products, whether or not corrugated or crimped. In colls or cut to length, 0, 1875 inch or more in thickness and, if not cold rolled, over 3 inches in width, or, if cold rolled, over 12 inches in width. Sheets are flat rolled products, whether or not corrugated or crimped, in coils or cut to length, under 0.1875 inch In thickness and over 12 inches in width. For the purposes of this subpart — (I) the term "black plate" refers to cold rolled steel sheets, not coated, under 0.0142 Inch In thickness; III) the term "tin plate and tin coated sheets" refers to tin coated steel sheets; and (I ill the term "terne plate and terne coated sheets" refers to steel sheets coated with terne metal (a lead-t in a IloyI.

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