5309 21 — Woven fabrics of flax, containing predominantly, but < 85% flax by weight, unbleached or bleached

5309 Linen fabrics: – containing 85 % by weight or more linen fibers: 5309 11 – unbleached or bleached 5309 19 – Other – containing less than 85 % by weight of linen fibers: 5309 21 – unbleached or bleached 5309 29 – Other

This heading covers woven fabrics (as defined in Part (I) (C) of the General Explanatory Note to Section XI) made of flax yarn. These fabrics include fine linens and dress fabrics, sheeting, table linen, etc. Flax fabrics are also used for making mattress covers, sacks, tarpaulins, sails, etc. Dressings impregnated or coated with pharmaceutical substances or put up for retail sale are excluded from this heading (heading 3005).

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).