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CHAPTER 14
Vegetable plaiting materials; vegetable products not elsewhere
specified or included

Notes :

1. This Chapter does not cover the following products which are to be classified in Section XI: vegetable materials or fibres of vegetable materials of a kind used primarily in the manufacture of textiles, however prepared, or other vegetable materials which have undergone treatment so as to render them suitable for use only as textile materials.

2. Heading No. 14.01 applies, inter alia, to bamboos (whether or not split, sawn lengthwise, cut to length, rounded at the ends, bleached, rendered non-inflammable, polished or dyed), split osier, reeds and the like, to rattan cores and to drawn or split rattans. The heading does not apply to chipwood (heading No. 44.04).

3. Heading No. 14.02 does not apply to wood wool (heading No. 44.05).

4. Heading No. 14.03 does not apply to prepared knots or tufts for broom or brush making (heading No. 96.03).
 
 
  

Heading No. 
Sub-heading 
No. 
Description of article 
Rate of duty 
     
Standard
Preferential 
Areas 
(1) 
(2) 
(3) 
(4) 
(5) 
14.01   Vegetable materials of a kind used primarily for plaiting (for example, bamboos, rattans, reeds, rushes, osier, raffiac, cleaned, bleached or dyed cereal straw, and lime bark)    
  1401.10  - Bamboos 
30% 
...
  1401.20  - Rattans 
30% 
...
  1401.90  - Other 
30% 
... 
14.02   Vegetable materials of a kind used primarily as stuffing or as padding (for example, kapok, vegetable hair and eel-grass), whether or not put up as a layer with or without supporting material     
  1402.10  - Kapok 
30% 
... 
  1402.90  - Other 
30% 
...
14.03   Vegetable materials of a kind used primarily in brooms or in brushes (for example, broomcorn, piassava, couch-grass and istle), whether or not in hanks or bundles     
  1403.10  - Broomcorn (Sorghum vulgare var, technicum)
30% 
...
  1403.90  - Other 
30% 
... 
14.04   Vegetable products not elsewhere specified or included     
  1404.10  - Raw vegetable materials of a kind used primarily in dyeing or tanning 
30% 
...
  1404.20  - Cotton linters 
30% 
... 
  1404.90  -Other 
30% 
...