CHAPTER 72 IRON AND STEEL

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CHAPTER 72

IRON AND STEEL

Notes:

1. In this Chapter and, in the case of Notes (d), (e) and (f) throughout this Schedule, the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them :

(a) Pig iron:
Iron-carbon alloys not usefully malleable, containing more than 2% by weight of carbon and which may contain by weight one or more other elements within the following limits :
- not more than 10% of chromium
- not more than 6% of manganese
- not more than 3% of phosphorus
- not more than 8% of silicon
- a total of not more than 10% of other elements.
(b) Spiegeleisen:
Iron-carbon alloys containing by weight more than 6% but not more than 30% of manganese and otherwise conforming to the specification at (a) above.
(c) Ferro-alloys:
Alloys in pigs, blocks, lumps or similar primary forms, in forms obtained by continuous casting and also in granular or powder forms, whether or not agglomerated, commonly used as an additive in the manufacture of other alloys or as de-oxidants, de-sulphurising agents or for similar uses in ferrous metallurgy and generally not usefully malleable, containing by weight 4% or more of the element iron and one or more of the following:
- more than 10% of chromium
- more than 30% of manganese
- more than 3% of phosphorus
- more than 8% of silicon
- a total of more than 10% of other elements, excluding carbon, subject to a maximum content of 10% in the case of copper.
(d) Steel:
Ferrous materials other than those of heading No. 72.03 which (with the exception of certain types produced in the form of castings) are usefully malleable and which contain by weight 2% or less of carbon. However, chromium steels may contain higher proportions of carbon.
(e) Stainless steel:
Alloy steels containing, by weight, 1.2% or less of carbon and 10.5% or more of chromium, with or without other elements.
(f) Other alloy steel:
Steels not complying with the definition of stainless steel and containing by weight one or more of the following elements in the proportion shown :
- 0.3% or more of aluminium
- 0.0008% or more of boron
- 0.3% or more of chromium
- 0.3% or more of cobalt
- 0.4% or more of copper
- 0.4% or more of lead
-1.65% or more of manganese
- 0.08% or more of molybdenum
- 0.3% or more of nickel
- 0.06% or more of niobium
- 0.6% or more of silicon
- 0.05% or more of titanium
- 0.3% or more of tungsten (wolfram)
- 0.1% or more of vanadium
- 0.05% or more of zirconium
- 0.1% or more of other elements (except sulphur, phosphorus, carbon and nitrogen), taken separately.
(g) Remelting scrap ingots of iron or steel:
Products roughly cast in the form of ingots without feeder-heads or hot tops, or of pigs, having obvious surface faults and not complying with the chemical composition of pig iron, spiegeleisen or ferro-alloys.
(h) Granules:
Products of which less than 90% by weight passes through a sieve with a mesh aperture of 1 mm and of which 90% or more by weight passes through a sieve with a mesh aperture of 5 mm.
(ij) Semi-finished products:
Continuous cast products of solid section, whether or not subjected to primary hot-rolling; and
Other products of solid section, which have not been further worked than subjected to primary hot-rolling or roughly shaped by forging, including blanks for angles, shapes or sections.
These products are not presented in coils:
(k) Flat-rolled products:
Rolled products of solid rectangular (other than square) cross-section, which do not conform to the definition at (ij) above in the form of:
- coils of successively superimposed layers, or
- straight lengths, which if of a thickness less than 4.75 mm are of a width measuring at least ten times the thickness or if of a thickness of 4.75 mm or more are of a width which exceeds 150 mm and measures at least twice the thickness.
Flat-rolled products include those with patterns in relief derived directly from rolling (for example, grooves, ribs, chequers, tears, buttons, lozenges) and those which have been perforated, corrugated or polished, provided that they do not thereby assume the character of articles or products of other headings.
Flat-rolled products of a shape other than rectangular or square, of any size, are to be classified as products of a width of 600 mm or more, provided that they do not assume the character of articles or products of other headings.
(l) Bars and rods, hot-rolled, in irregularly wound coils
Hot-rolled products in irregularly wound coils, which have a solid cross-section in the shape of circles, segments of circles, ovals, rectangles (including squares), triangles or other convex polygons (including 'flattened circles' and 'modified rectangles', of which two opposite sides are convex arcs, the other two sides being straight, of equal length and parallel). These products may have identations, ribs, grooves or other deformations produced during the rolling process (reinforcing bars and rods);
(m) Other bars and rods
Products which do not conform to any of the definitions at (ij), (k) or (l) above or to the definition of wire, which have a uniform solid cross-section along their whole length in the shape of circles, segments of circles, ovals, rectangles (including squares), triangles or other convex polygons (including 'flattened circles' and 'modified rectangles', of which two opposite sides are convex arcs, the other two sides being straight, of equal length and parallel). These products may:
- have identations, ribs, grooves or other deformations produced during rolling process (reinforcing bars and rods);
- be twisted after rolling.
(n) Angles, shapes and sections :
Products having a uniform solid cross-section along their whole length which do not conform to any of the definitions at (ij), (k), (l) or (m) above or to the definition of wire.
Chapter 72 does not include products of heading No. 73.01 or 73.02.
(o) Wire:
Cold-formed products in coils, of any uniform solid cross-section along their whole length, which do not conform to the definition of flat-rolled products.
(p) Hollow drill bars and rods :
Hollow bars and rods of any cross-section, suitable for drills, of which the greatest external dimension of the cross-section exceeds 15 mm but does not exceed 52 mm, and of which the greatest internal dimension does not exceed one-half of the greatest external dimension. Hollow bars and rods of iron or steel not conforming to this definition are to be classified in heading No. 73.04.
(q) Skelp:
Hot-rolled narrow strip of width not exceeding 600 mm with rolled (square, slightly round or bevelled) edge.

2. Ferrous metals clad with another ferrous metal are to be classified as products of the ferrous metal predominating by weight.

3. Iron or steel products obtained by electrolytic deposition, by pressure casting or by sintering are to be classified, according to their form, their composition and their appearance, in the headings of this Chapter appropriate to similar hot-rolled products.

4. In relation to flat-rolled products of this Chapter, the process of hardening or tempering shall amount to manufacture.

Sub-heading Note

In this Chapter the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them:
(a) Non-alloy free-cutting steel:

Non-alloy steel containing, by weight, one or more of the following elements in the specified proportions :

- 0.08% or more of sulphur
- 0.1% or more of lead
- more than 0.05% of selenium
- more than 0.01% of tellurium
- more than 0.05% of bismuth.

(b) Silicon-electrical steel:

Alloy steels containing by weight at least 0.6% but not more than 6% of silicon and not more than 0.08% of carbon. They may also contain by weight not more than 1% of aluminium but no other element in a proportion that would give the steel the characteristics of another alloy steel.

Alloy steels containing, with or without other elements, at least two of the three elements molybdenum, tungsten and vanadium with a combined content by weight of 7% or more, 0.6% or more of carbon and 3 to 6% of chromium.

(d) Silico manganese steel:

Alloy steels containing by weight:

- not more than 0.7% of carbon,
- 0.5% or more but not more than 1.9% of manganese, and
- 0.6% or more but not more than 2.3% of silicon, but no other element in a proportion that would give the steel the characteristics of another alloy steel.

Heading No.	Sub-heading No.	Description of goods	Rate of duty
(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)
		I - PRIMARY MATERIALS; PRODUCTS IN GRANULAR OR POWDER FORM
72.01	7201.00	Pig iron and spiegeleisen in pigs, blocks or other primary forms	16%
72.02	7202.00	Ferro-alloys	16%
72.03	7203.00	Ferrous products obtained by direct reduction of iron ore and other spongy ferrous products, in lumps, pellets or similar forms; iron having a minimum purity by weight of 99.94%, in lumps, pellets or similar forms	16%
72.04		Ferrous waste and scrap; remelting scrap ingots of iron or steel
	7204.10	- Of iron	16%
		- Of stainless steel:
	7204.21	-- Waste and scrap arising out of manufacture of cold rolled stainless steel pattis/patta	Nil
	7204.29	-- Other	16%
	7204.30	- Of other alloy steel	16%
	7204.90	- Other	16%
72.05		Granules and powders, of pig iron, spiegeleisen, iron or steel
	7205.10	- Of iron	16%
	7205.20	- Of alloy steel	16%
	7205.90	-Other	16%
		II - IRON AND NON-ALLOY STEEL
72.06		Iron and non-alloy steel in ingots or other primary forms (excluding iron of heading No. 72.03)
	7206.10	- Of iron	16%
	7206.90	-Other	16%
72.07		Semi-finished products of iron or non-alloy steel
	7207.10	- Of iron	16%
	7207.90	-Other	16%
72.08		Flat-rolled products of iron or non-alloy steel, of a width of 600 mm or more, hot-rolled, not clad, plated or coated
		- Plates and universal plates :
	7208.11	-- Exceeding 5 nun in thickness	16%
	7208.19	-- Other	16%
		- Sheets:
	7208.21	--Exceeding 5 mm in thickness	16%
	7208.29	-- Other	16%
		- Strips:
	7208.31	-- Exceeding 5 mm in thickness	16%
	7208.39	-- Other	16%
	7208.40	- Skelp	16%
		- Other flat products:
	7208.91	-- Exceeding 5 mm in thickness	16%
	7208.99	-- Other	16%
72.09		Flat-rolled products of iron or non-alloy steel, of a width of 600 mm or more, cold-rolled (cold-reduced), not clad, plated or coated
	7209.10	- Plates	16%
	7209.20	- Sheets	16%
	7209.30	- Strips	16%
	7209.90	-Other	16%
72.10		Flat-rolled products of iron or non-alloy steel, of a width of 600 mm or more, clad, plated or coated
		- Plated or coated with zinc :
	7210.11	-- Corrugated	16%
	7210.19	-- Other	16%
	7210.20	- Plated or coated with tin	16%
	7210.30	- Painted, lacquered, varnished or plastic coated	16%
	7210.90	-Other	16%
72.11		Flat-rolled products of iron or non-alloy steel, of a width of less than 600 mm, not clad, plated or coated
		- Flats :
	7211.11	-- Exceeding 5 mm in thickness	16%
	7211.19	-- Other	16%
		- Universal plates:
	7211.21	-- Exceeding 5 mm in thickness	16%
	7211.29	-- Other	16%
	7211.30	- Hoops	16%
		- Sheets:
	7211.41	-- Cold-rolled (cold-reduced)	16%
	7211.42	-- Hot-rolled, exceeding 5 mm in thickness	16%
	7211.49	-- Other	16%
		- Strips :
	7211.51	-- Cold-rolled (cold-reduced)	16%
	7211.52	-- Hot-rolled, exceeding 5 mm in thickness	16%
	7211.59	-- Other	16%
	7211.60	- Skelp	16%
		- Other flat products:
	7211.91	-- Cold-rolled (cold-reduced)	16%
	7211.92	-- Hot-rolled, exceeding 5 mm in thickness	16%
	7211.99	-- Other	16%
72.12		Flat-rolled products of iron or non-alloy steel, of width of less than 600 mm, clad, plated or coated
		- Plated or coated with zinc:
	7212.11	-- Corrugated	16%
	7212.19	-- Other	16%
	7212.20	- Plated or coated with tin	16%
	7212.30	- Painted, lacquered, varnished or plastic coated	16%
	7212.90	- Other	16%
72.13		Bars and rods, hot-rolled, in irregularly wound coils, of iron or non-alloy steel
	7213.10	- Of free-cutting steel	16%
	7213.90	-Other	16%
72.14		Other bars and rods of iron or non-alloy steel, not further worked than forged, hot-rolled, hot-drawn or hot-extruded but including those twisted after rolling
	7214.10	- Forged	16%
	7214.20	- Of free-cutting steel	16%
	7214.90	-Other	16%
72.15		Other bars and rods of iron or non-alloy steel
	7215.10	- Of free-cutting steel not further worked than cold-formed or cold-finished	16%
	7215.20	- Other, not further worked than cold-formed or cold-finished	16%
	7215.30	- Plated or coated with zinc	16%
	7215.40	- Plated or coated with other base metals	16%
	7215.90	-Other	16%
72.16		Angles, shapes and sections of iron or non-alloy steel
	7216.10	- Not further worked than hot-rolled, hot-drawn or extruded	16%
	7216.20	- Not further worked than cold-formed or cold-finished	16%
	7216.30	- Plated or coated with zinc	16%
	7216.40	- Plated or coated with other base metals	16%
	7216.50	- Slotted angles and slotted channels	16%
	7216.60	- Forged	16%
	7216.90	-Other	16%
72.17		Wire of iron or non-alloy steel
	7217.10	- Electric resistance wire (including electric resistance heating wire)	16%
	7217.90	-Other	16%
		III - STAINLESS STEEL
72.18	7218.00	Stainless steel in ingots or other primary forms; semi-finished products of stainless steel	16%
72.19		Flat-rolled products of stainless steel, of a width of 600 mm or more
	7219.10	- Not further worked than hot-rolled, whether or not in coils	16%
	7219.20	- Not further worked than cold-rolled (cold-reduced)	16%
	7219.30	- Pattis/pattas when subjected to any process other than cold rolling	Nil
	7219.90	- Other	16%
72.20		Flat-rolled products of stainless steel, of a width of less than 600 mm
	7220.10	- Not further worked than hot-rolled, whether or not in coils	16%
	7220.20	- Not further worked than cold-rolled (cold-reduced)	16%
	7220.30	- Pattis/pattas when subjected to any process other than cold rolling	Nil
	7220.90	-Other	16%
72.21	7221.00	Bars and rods, hot-rolled, in irregularly wound coils, of stainless steal.	16%
72.22		Other bars and rods of stainless steel; angles, shapes and sections of stainless steel
	7222.10	- Bars and rods, not further worked than hot-rolled, hot-drawn or extruded	16%
	7222.20	- Bars and rods, not further worked than cold-formed or cold-finished	16%
	7222.30	- Other bars and rods	16%
	7222.40	- Angles, shapes and sections	16%
	7222.50	- Circles used within the factory of production in the manufacture of utensils	Nil
72.23	7223.00	Wire of stainless steel	16%
		IV - OTHER ALLOY STEEL; HOLLOW DRILL BARS AND RODS, OF ALLOY OR NON-ALLOY STEEL
72.24	7224.00	Other alloy steel in ingots or other primary forms; semi-finished products of other alloy steel	16%
72.25		Flat-rolled products of other alloy steel, of a width of 600 mm or more
	7225.10	- Of silicon-electrical steel	16%
	7225.20	- Of high speed steel	16%
	7225.30	- Other, not further worked than hot-rolled, whether or not in coils	16%
	7225.40	- Other, not further worked than cold-rolled (cold-reduced)	16%
	7225.90	-Other	16%
72.26		Flat-rolled products of other alloy steel, of a width of less than 600 mm
	7226.10	- Of silicon-electrical steel	16%
	7226.20	- Of high speed steel	16%
		- Other:
	7226.91	-- Not further worked than hot-rolled	16%
	7226.92	-- Not further worked than cold-rolled (cold-reduced)	16%
	7226.99	-- Other	16%
72.27		Bars and rods, hot-rolled, in irregularly wound coils, of other alloy steel
	7227.10	- Of high speed steel	16%
	7227.20	- Of silico-manganese steel	16%
	7227.90	-Other	16%
72.28		Other bars and rods of other alloy steel; angles, shapes and sections, of other alloy steel; hollow drill bars and rods; of alloy or non-alloy steel
	7228.10	- Bars and rods of high speed steel	16%
	7228.20	- Bars and rods of silico-manganese steel	16%
	7228.30	- Other bars and rods not further worked than hot-rolled, hot-drawn or extruded	16%
	7228.40	- Other bars and rods, not further worked than forged	16%
	7228.50	- Other bars and rods, not further worked than cold-formed or cold-finished	16%
	7228.60	- Other bars and rods	16%
		- Angles, shapes and sections:
	7228.71	— Not further worked than hot-rolled, hot-drawn or extruded	16%
	7228.72	— Not further worked than cold-formed or cold-finished	16%
	7228.79	-- Other	16%
		- Hollow drill bars and rods :
	7228.81	—Of alloy steel	16%
	7228.82	— Of non-alloy steel, forged	16%
	7228.89	- Other	16%
72.29		Wire of other alloy steel
	7229.10	- Of high speed steel	16%
	7229.20	- Of silico-manganese steel	16%
	7229.30	- Electric resistance wire (including electric resistance heating wire)	16%
	7229.90	-Other	16%
72.30	7230.00	Goods and materials of Chapter 72 obtained by breaking up of ships, boats and other floating structures	16% ,