Section VII - Chapter 40
Rubber and Articles Thereof
Classification of Exports
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U.S. Census Bureau
Notes
1.
Except where the context otherwise requires, throughout the export schedule the
expression "rubber" means the following products, whether or not vulcanized or hard:
natural rubber, balata, gutta-percha, guayule, chicle and similar natural gums, synthetic
rubber, factice derived from oils, and such substances reclaimed.
2.
This chapter does not cover:
(a).
Goods of section XI (textiles and textile articles);
(b).
Footwear or parts thereof of chapter 64;
(c).
Headgear of parts thereof (including bathing caps) of chapter 65;
(d).
Mechanical or electrical appliances or parts thereof of section XVI (including
electrical goods of all kinds), of hard rubber;
(e).
Articles of chapters 90, 92, 94 or 96; or
(f).
Articles of chapter 95 (other than sports gloves, mittens and mitts and articles of
headings 4011 to 4013).
3.
In headings 4001 to 4003 and 4005 the expression "primary forms" applies only to the
following forms:
(a).
Liquids and pastes (including latex, whether or not prevulcanized, and other
dispersions and solutions);
(b).
Blocks of irregular shape, lumps, bales, powders, granules, crumbs and similar
bulk forms.
4.
In note 1 to this chapter and in heading 4002, the expression "synthetic rubber" applies to:
(a).
Unsaturated synthetic substances which can be irreversibly transformed by
vulcanization with sulfur into non-thermoplastic substances which, at a
temperature between 18 degrees C and 29 degrees C, will not break on being
extended to three times their original length and will return, after being extended
to twice their original length, within a period of five minutes, to a length not
greater than one and a half times their original length. For the purposes of this
test, substances necessary for the cross-linking, such as vulcanizing activators or
accelerators, may be added; the presence of substances as provided for by note 5
(b) (ii) and (iii) is also permitted. However, the