5302 90 000 0 — True hemp (Cannabis sativa L.), raw or processed but not spun; tow and waste of true hemp (including yarn waste and garnetted stock): other

5302 True hemp (Cannabis sativa L.), raw or processed but not spun; tow and waste of true hemp (including yarn waste and garnetted stock): 5302 10 – true hemp, raw or retted 5302 90 – other

This heading covers only true hemp (Cannabis sativa L.), a plant grown in very varied climatic zones and on various soils. The fibres are contained in the bast of the plant and are separated by a series of operations similar to those used in the case of flax (see the Explanatory Note to heading 5301). The heading covers: (1) Raw hemp, i.e., hemp as harvested, whether or not the leaves and seeds have been removed. (2) Retted hemp, in which the fibres are still attached to the woody part of the plant but the bond has been loosened by retting. (3) Scutched hemp, consisting of separate fibres, sometimes 2 m or more in length, detached from the plant by scutching. (4) Combed hemp or hemp fibres otherwise prepared for spinning, usually in the form of slivers or rovings. (5) Hemp tow and waste. These include waste obtained during scutching or combing, yarn waste obtained during spinning, weaving, etc., and garnetted stock obtained by pulling rags, pieces of rope or cordage, etc. Tow and waste are included in this heading whether suitable for spinning into yarn (in the form of slivers or rovings) or suitable only for use as caulking material, for padding and stuffing, in the manufacture of paper, etc. Cottonising (similar to that sometimes applied to flax), bleaching or dyeing does not affect classification in this heading. The heading excludes: (a) other vegetable fibrous materials sometimes called hemp, e.g.: (1) Mexican "Tampico" hemp (a Spanish hard bast fibre) (heading 1404 or 5305); (2) gambo or kenaf (Hibiscus cannabinus), roselle hemp (Hibiscus sabdariffa), abutilon, or China jute (Abutilon avicennae), Indian, Bengal, Madras, Calcutta, Bombay or Benares hemp (Crotalaria juncea) and Queensland hemp (Sida) (heading 5303); (3) Haiti hemp (Agave foetida), Manila hemp (abaca), aloe hemp (Furcraea gigantea) and New Zealand hemp or flax (Phormium tenax) (heading 5305); (b) the hard woody part of the plant removed during scutching (heading 4401);

(c) True hemp yarn (heading 5308); (d) Rags or scrap ropes or cordage (Chapter 63).

Additional 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. (A) Subject to the exceptions specified in note 1(B) below, in subheadings 5306 10 900 0, 5306 20 900 0 and 5308 20 900 0, the term “retail packaged” in relation to yarn (single, multi-spin (twisted) or single-spin) means yarn prepackaged:

(a) in tangles or on cardboard plates, coils, cartridges or similar carriers of a mass (including the mass of the carrier) not exceeding 200 g;

(b) in brushes or rolls weighing not more than 125 g;

(c) in pasmas or coils comprising several smaller pasmas or coils separated by threads which make them independent of each other, each of these smaller pasmas or coils weighing not more than 125 g.

(B) Exceptions:

(a) multi-twisted (twisted) or single-twisted yarn, unbleached, in brushes or rolls;

(b) multi-rotated or single-rotated yarn, packaged:

(i) in the brushes or rolls of the cross winding; or

(ii) wound on carriers or in any other manner indicative of its use in the textile industry (for example, in cobs, on torsion cartridges and spools, in conical reels or on spindles or in the form of cocoons for embroidery machines).