5702 49 — Carpets and other floor coverings, of vegetable textile materials or coarse animal hair, woven, not tufted or flocked, of pile construction, made up (excl. Kelem, Schumacks, Karamanie and similar hand-woven rugs, and floor coverings of coconut fibres "coir")

5702 Carpets and other textile floor coverings, woven, not tufted or flocked, whether or not made up, including "Kelem", "Schumacks", "Karamanie" and similar hand-woven rugs: 5702 10 – "Kelem", "Schumacks", "Karamanie" and similar hand-woven rugs 5702 20 – Floor coverings of coconut fibres – Other, of pile construction, not made up: 5702 31 – – Of wool or fine animal hair 5702 32 – – Of man-made textile materials 5702 39 – – Of other textile materials – Other, of pile construction, made up: 5702 41 – – Of wool or fine animal hair 5702 42 – – Of man-made textile materials 5702 49 – – Of other textile materials 5702 50 – Other, not of pile construction, not made up – Other, not of pile construction, made up: 5702 91 – – Of wool or fine animal hair 5702 92 – – Of man-made textile materials 5702 99 – – Of other textile materials

Carpets and other textile floor coverings of this heading include: (1) Wilton and similar carpets. These articles have a strong, heavy ground fabric covered with a pile (i.e., the face consists of adjacent yarns or tufts of yarn standing upright), or have a looped surface. The surface of these carpets is formed by supplementary warp threads which form loops on the face of the fabric during weaving through the temporary insertion of metal wires or rods. When the loops are cut, a carpet with a pile is obtained

(like Wilton, see RI page 4); in this case, the pile strands form a loop under the refining threads. If the hinges remain uncut, the resulting carpets have a loop pile, like Brussels carpets (see Figures 4 and 5).

Loops cut loops not cut Fig. 4.

Fig. 5 These carpets may be plain or patterned, the pattern being produced on a loom (e.g., a Jacquard loom) specially equipped to produce the pattern using from two to five yarns of different colours. Wilton carpets are also made by weaving two fabrics with one common pile yarn, which is cut after weaving to give two pile carpets (face-to-face Wilton carpet). The pile yarn usually consists of wool or of a mixture of wool and nylon fibres, but it may also be of cotton, polyamide, acrylic or viscose fibres or of a mixture of these fibres. The ground fabric is usually made of cotton, jute or polypropylene fibres. (2) Axminster carpets. These are machine-made carpets in which successive rows of pile yarns, laid along the weft threads, are inserted during weaving in accordance with a predetermined colour arrangement. (3) Chenille carpets. The main characteristic of these carpets is that their pile surface is obtained from chenille yarn (see the Explanatory Note to heading 5606). These yarns may be used as supplementary weft yarns laid in the traditional manner; in some cases short pieces of chenille yarn may be laid as supplementary warp threads held in the ground of the carpet. (4) Woven carpets without pile or loops are distinguished from the textile articles of Chapters 50 to 55 by the fact that, being heavy and strong, they are intended for use as floor coverings. They include Kidderminster or so-called "Belgian" carpets, which are double fabrics, the structure of the carpet being obtained by interchanging these two fabrics at certain intervals. Besides these relatively fine domestic carpets, the heading also covers coarse carpets and carpeting of jute, coconut fibre, coarse wool, paper yarn, etc. (usually of plain, twill or herringbone weave), and coarse carpets with a warp of jute yarn and a weft of textile waste tied end to end.

(5) Doormats and matting. These consist mainly of stiff tufts, usually of coconut fibres or sisal, looped under the warp threads of the ground fabric; they are made in small sizes suited to their use. (6) Terry towelling or similar bath mats. It should be noted that certain mats are made in the same way as many pile or chenille fabrics of heading 5801, but, being intended mainly for use as floor coverings, they are distinguished by their thickness, owing to the coarse texture of the materials of which they are made, or by the stiffness of the ground fabric, which usually contains a supplementary warp (binding warp). (7) "Kelem", "Schumacks", "Karamanie" and similar hand-woven rugs. "Kelem", also called "Karamanie", is made in the same way as the hand-woven tapestries described in the Explanatory Note to heading 5805, Item (A). Consequently its structure is similar to that of the above tapestries, the same slits usually occurring along the line of the warp. However, as regards the design, "Kelem" rugs as a rule have not floral or plant designs, but usually geometric patterns. Although the face of the rug can be distinguished from the back, the difference is so slight that the rug can be used on either side. A "Kelem" sometimes consists of two long strips sewn together, the design being worked so as to conceal the seam. That is why it has a border (woven selvedges) only at the short ends or none at all. This, of course, does not exclude the presence of additional borders. The warp is usually of wool, and the weft of wool or cotton. The heading also covers articles made by the "Kelem" method (mainly in Central Europe), having decorative designs of the same type as the light oriental "Kelem" rugs. "Schumacks" rugs are made in the same way as "Kelem", but differ from them in the following respects: – as soon as one or two weft lines forming the design have been completely used, an additional weft thread is laid across the whole width of the article, which prevents the formation of slits in the warp; – as regards the design, the ground is usually decorated with three to five flat multicoloured stars in the form of medallions; the border usually consists of one wide main band and two or three supplementary bands. The back is shaggy because of the ends, several centimetres long, left after the weft threads have been broken off. The weft in "Schumacks" rugs is of wool, whereas the warp may be of wool or cotton or even of goat hair. Similar rugs include, in particular, the "Sileh" rug, which is made in the same way as the "Schumacks" rug. The design of the "Sileh" rug consists mainly of S-shaped motifs, arranged around or zigzagging about figures of animals scattered over the whole surface of the rug. The warp and weft are of wool (in rare cases the warp is of cotton). The heading excludes mats and matting of plaiting materials (Chapter 46).

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. For the purposes of this chapter, the term ‘carpets and other textile floor coverings’ means floor coverings in which textile materials serve as the exposed surface of the article when in use and includes articles having the characteristics of textile floor coverings but intended for use for other purposes.

2. This chapter does not cover floor-covering underlays.