5803 00 900 0 — Gauze (excl. that of silk, silk waste or cotton, and narrow woven fabrics of heading 5806)

5803 Forging fabrics other than narrow fabrics of heading 5806

Openwork fabric (sometimes known as weave fabric) is described in note 3 to this chapter. In the smooth fabric of the interlacing, the interlacing threads are directed alternately to the right and to the left of each strand, passing each time over the duck, but crossing under the stand threads; the main standing threads are always on one side of the duck, and the standing base and ducks are not interlaced, but are held together by the forging base. Variants can be obtained by crossing the transmutation threads (the so-called transmutation fabric), by inserting two or more permutation threads together through the loops formed by the stand and transmutation threads, by using two or more stand threads per one transmutation thread and vice versa, etc. This heading also includes: (1) Broche fabric, made with additional flax thread (broche thread), which is introduced during weaving to obtain the effect of drawings against the background of the weaving fabric. (2) Fabrics comprising patches of mating and other weaves in any mutual proportion. They usually have production in the form of base strips, cells or other various patterns. The weaving fabrics are usually sparse and therefore light; they are mainly used for curtains; some are processed into blue yarn by cutting them into narrow stripes in the direction of the base. The different types of weaving fabrics are very different in appearance; and the patterns obtained during weaving are also very diverse. They should not be mixed with brochet fabric or other fabrics of groups 50 to 55, handmade or machine-made lace, embroidery, tulle or other mesh fabrics of this group.

This heading does not cover rarefied fabrics of linen weaving, which are mainly used as bandages and dressings; they are often called gauze and are classified in heading 3005 (if impregnated or coated with pharmaceutical substances or packaged in forms or packages for retail sale intended for use in medicine, surgery, dentistry or veterinary medicine) or in Chapters 50 to 55. Shito fabric is also excluded from this heading (heading 5911).

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. This chapter does not apply to textile fabrics referred to in note 1 to Chapter 59, impregnated, coated, covered or laminated, or to other goods of Chapter 59.

2. Heading 5801 also includes woven weft pile fabrics which have not yet had the floats cut, at which stage they have no pile standing up.

3. For the purposes of heading 5803, ‘gauze’ means a fabric with a warp composed wholly or in part of standing or ground threads and crossing or doup threads which cross the standing or ground threads making a half turn, a complete turn or more to form loops through which weft threads pass.

4. Heading 5804 does not apply to knotted net fabrics of twine, cordage or rope, of heading 5608.

5. For the purposes of heading 5806, the expression ‘narrow woven fabrics’ means:

(a) woven fabrics of a width not exceeding 30 cm, whether woven as such or cut from wider pieces, provided with selvedges (woven, gummed or otherwise made) on both edges;

(b) tubular woven fabrics of a flattened width not exceeding 30 cm; and

(c) bias binding with folded edges, of a width when unfolded not exceeding 30 cm. Narrow woven fabrics with woven fringes are to be classified in heading 5808.

6. In heading 5810, the expression ‘embroidery’ means, inter alia, embroidery with metal or glass thread on a visible ground of textile fabric, and sewn appliqué work of sequins, beads or ornamental motifs of textile or other materials. The heading does not apply to needlework tapestry (heading 5805).

7. In addition to the products of heading 5809, this chapter also includes articles made of metal thread and of a kind used in apparel, as furnishing fabrics or for similar purposes.