5103 20 000 0 — Waste of wool or of fine or coarse animal hair, including yarn waste but excluding garnetted stock: other waste of wool or of fine animal hair

5103 Waste of wool or fine or coarse animal hair, including poisonous waste, but excluding cleaved raw materials: 5103 10 – crested animal wool or fine hair 5103 20 – waste animal wool or fine hair other 5103 30 – waste animal coarse hair

Generally, this heading covers all waste (other than cleaved raw materials) of wool or fine or coarse animal hair, that is, waste obtained in the process of successive treatment, turning untreated wool or hair into washed, combed, spinned, weaved, knitted, etc. products. The principal wastes included in this heading are: (1) Waste combing, scratching or other processes of preparation for spinning, such as: comb wool, of great importance, containing short fibers removed in the process of combing; tearing of canvases and tapes, small pieces of waste of paddle comb; weed and combed "shoddy", waste collected in the process of scratching; fibers obtained by cleaning the rollers of comb machines and known as the eyeballs. (2) Spinning waste, such as ragged, knotted or tangled yarn collected as waste in spinning, torsion, winding, weaving, knitting, etc. (3) Waste, such as sorting waste and washing waste, collected from the bottoms of washing baths or from lattices of washing machines. (4) Waste, such as hair and wool of old mattresses. Some of this waste may be soaked in oil from machines or mixed with dust or other impurities (e.g. natural contaminants of spruce origin). This waste according to the type and quality can be used for spinning, padding, etc. Their inclusion in this heading is independent of carbonisation, bleaching, dyeing, etc. This heading does not cover: (a) horsehair waste (heading 0511);

(b) wool (heading 3005 or 5601); (c) wastes of animal wool or hair suitable only for use as fertilizer (heading 31); (d) cleaved raw materials of wool or fine or coarse animal hair (heading 5104); (e) wastes of cardio or combing of wool or fine or coarse animal hair (heading 5105); (f) textile down and dust and nodules (heading 5601).

Note

Machine translation. The original is the Russian text of the EAEU tariff, and customs goes by it; this translation is for understanding only and has no legal force.

1. Throughout the Nomenclature:

(a) the term “wool” means the wool of sheep or lambs;

(b) the term “fine animal hair” means the hair of an alpaca, llama, vicuña, camel (including a dromedary), yak, Angora, Tibetan, Kashmiri or similar goats (except ordinary goats), rabbit (including angora), hare, beaver, nutria or muskrat;

(c) the term “brute hair of animals” means the hair of animals not mentioned above, with the exception of hair and bristles used for the manufacture of brushes (heading 0502) and horse hair (heading 0511).