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

(bl Master a Iloys: Alloys of copper with other materials In any proportion, not usefully malleable and conmonly used as raw material in the manufacture of other alloys or as de-oxidants, de-sulphurIzing agents or for similar uses In the metallurgy of nonferrous metals. For the purposes of this subpart — ti) manganese copper is a master alloy which contains copper and manganese, in which the manganese content ranges by weight from 5 to 45 percent, with copper the balance; and (II) phosphor copper is a master alloy which contains phosphorus and copper, in which the phosphorus content ranges by weight from 5 to 16 percent, with copper the balance. 3. For the purposes of this subpart, the following terms have the meanings indicated: (al Bars and plate: Products of solid rectangular cross section over 0.138 inch in thickness, in colls or cut to length, whether or not corrugated or crimped. Bars are not over 12 Inches In width and plates are over 12 Inches in width. (b) Sheets and strips: Products of solid rectangular cross section not over 0.188 inch but over 0.006 Inch in thiclcness. In colls or cut to length, whether or not corrugated or crimped. Sheets are over 20 Inches In width; strips are not over 20 inches In width and do not include flat wire, as defined in (dl below, (c) Rods: Products of round, half-round, quarter-round, oval, half-oval, triangular, pentagonal, hexagonal, octagonal, or decagonal solid cross section, in straight lengths or In colls, and which If In colls are over 0.375 Inch in maximum crosssectional dimension. (dl Wire: A non-tubular product of any crosssectional configuration, which If flat is in coils or straight lengths, not over 1.25 inches in width, not over 0.188 inch in thickness, and has all surfaces rolled or drawn, and which if not flat is not over 0.375 inch In maximum cross-sectional dimension and is In col Is. (e) Angles, shapes, and sections: Products which do not conform completely to the respective definitions set forth in this headnote for bars, plates, sheets, strip, rods, or wire, and do not Include any tubular products. 4. For the purposes of this subpart, any continuous cast product, whether or not machined or otherwise processed, which Is substantially comparable to, and suitable for the same general purposes as, a wrought product provided for in this subpart shall be classified under the same provision and at the same rate as such wrought product, notwithstanding the provisions of headnotes 3ra) and 3(c) of this part.

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