4602 12 — Basketwork, wickerwork and other articles, made directly to shape from rattan plaiting materials or made up from goods of rattan plaiting materials of heading 4601, and articles of loofah (excl. wallcoverings of heading 4814; twine, cord and rope; footware and headgear and parts thereof; vehicles and vehicle superstructures; goods of chapter 94, e.g. furniture, lighting fixtures)

4602 Basket, wicker and other articles made directly in shape of weaving materials or of goods of heading 4601; articles of lufa: of plant materials: 4602 11 – of bamboo 4602 12 – of rattan 4602 19 – other 4602 90 – other

Subject to the exclusions listed in the General Explanatory Note to this Chapter, this heading covers: (i) Articles made up directly to shape from plaiting materials; (ii) Articles made up from goods of heading 4601 already assembled, i.e., from plaits or similar products, or from products bound together in parallel strands or woven, in sheet form. However, the heading excludes the finished articles of heading 4601, i.e., plaiting materials, plaits and similar products of plaiting materials which, bound together in parallel strands or woven, in sheet form, have the character of finished articles (e.g., mats, matting or screens): see the Explanatory Note to heading 4601, Part (B) (2); and (iii) Articles of loofah (gloves, pads, etc.), whether or not lined. Such articles include: (1) Baskets, hampers, lidded baskets and basketwork packings of all kinds, whether or not fitted with rollers or castors, including wickerwork creels, baskets for fish, krill and fruit baskets; (2) Similar baskets or boxes of interlaced wood chips. Baskets of wood chips not bound by interlacing are excluded (heading 4415); (3) Travelling bags and suitcases; (4) Handbags, shopping bags and the like; (5) Lobster pots and similar articles; bird cages and beehives; (6) Trays, bottle stands, carpet beaters, tableware and kitchenware and other household utensils; (7) Trimmings for ladies' hats and other ornaments, other than those falling in heading 6702; (8) Straw envelopes for bottles. These are usually in the form of hollow cones of unworked straw or similar materials, laid parallel and held together by threads or yarn, or by cord; (9) Mats obtained by joining long plaits into squares, circles, etc., and fastening them together with twine.

Notes

English text as published in Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2021/1832 (Combined Nomenclature). The EAEU tariff and the EU nomenclature copy these notes from the same convention. For a Russian declaration the binding version is the Russian one: Annex to Decision No 80 of the EEC Council of 14 September 2021.

1. In this chapter, the expression ‘plaiting materials’ means materials in a state or form suitable for plaiting, interlacing or similar processes; it includes straw, osier or willow, bamboos, rattans, rushes, reeds, strips of wood, strips of other vegetable material (for example, strips of bark, narrow leaves and raffia or other strips obtained from broad leaves), unspun natural textile fibres, monofilament and strip and the like of plastics and strips of paper, but not strips of leather or composition leather or of felt or nonwovens, human hair, horsehair, textile rovings or yarns, or monofilament and strip and the like of Chapter 54.

2. This chapter does not cover:

(a) wallcoverings of heading 4814;

(b) twine, cordage, ropes or cables, plaited or not (heading 5607);

(c) footwear or headgear or parts thereof of Chapter 64 or 65;

(d) vehicles or bodies for vehicles of basketware (Chapter 87); or

(e) articles of Chapter 94 (for example, furniture, luminaires and lighting fittings).

3. For the purposes of heading 4601, the expression ‘plaiting materials, plaits and similar products of plaiting materials, bound together in parallel strands’ means plaiting materials, plaits and similar products of plaiting materials, placed side by side and bound together, in the form of sheets, whether or not the binding materials are of spun textile materials.