6808 00 00 — Panels, boards, tiles, blocks and similar articles of vegetable fibre, of straw or of shavings, chips, particles, sawdust or other waste, of wood, agglomerated with cement, plaster or other mineral binders

6808 Panels, plates, tiles, blocks and similar articles of vegetable fibers, straw or shavings, chips, particles, sawdust or other wood waste agglomerated with cement, gypsum or other ineral binders

This heading covers heat- and sound-insulating or sound-absorbing building panels, boards, tiles, blocks, etc., made of vegetable materials (such as cellulose fibres, wood fibres, wood wool, wood chips, shavings or other wood waste, sawdust, straw, reeds, rushes or vegetable fibres), agglomerated or shaped with mineral binders such as cement (including magnesium oxychloride cement), plaster, lime or sodium silicate. They may also contain mineral fillers (such as siliceous fossil meals, magnesite, sand or asbestos) or be reinforced with metal. The types of boards, panels, etc., of this heading are relatively light but rigid, and the materials of vegetable origin remain unchanged on the addition of the binder. Since these materials must be agglomerated with mineral binders, they should not be confused with the particle board of heading 4410 and the fibreboard of heading 4411, as those products are agglomerated by the addition of organic binders. The heading also excludes agglomerated cork (heading 4504) and articles of heading 6811.

Notes

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. This group does not include:

(a) goods of Chapter 25;

(b) paper and paperboard impregnated or coated with heading 4810 or 4811 (e.g. paper and paperboard coated with mica or graphite powder, bituminised or asphalt);

(c) textile fabrics impregnated or coated with Chapters 56 or 59 (e.g., fabric coated with mica powder, bituminized or asphalt);

(d) articles of Chapter 71;

(e) instruments or parts thereof of Chapter 82;

(f) stones of lithographic heading 8442;

(g) electrical insulators (heading 8546) or fittings of insulating materials of heading 8547;

(h) dental borons (heading 9018);

(ij) articles of Chapter 91 (e.g. watches not intended to be worn on or with oneself and their housings);

(k) articles of Chapter 94 (e.g. furniture, fixtures and lighting equipment, prefabricated constructions);

(l) Articles of Chapter 95 (e.g. toys, games and sports equipment);

(m) articles of heading 9602 made of the materials referred to in Note 2(b) to Chapter 96 or of heading 9606 (e.g. buttons), 9609 (e.g. pencils), 9610 (e.g. slate boards) or 9620 (e.g. monopores, bipeds, tripods and the like); or

(n) Articles of Chapter 97 (e.g. works of art).

2. For the purposes of heading 6802, the term “stone treated for monuments or construction” means not only stone of the various kinds of heading 2515 or 2516, but also all other kinds of natural stone (e.g. quartzite, flint, dolomite and steatite) treated in a similar manner, with the exception of slate.

Additional note of the Eurasian Economic Union

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. For the purposes of subheadings 6815 91 000 2 and 6815 99 000 2, the term “chemical bundle” means an inorganic component of a refractory material (solution of phosphates, chlorides, sulfates, alkaline silicates or other salts) with which the other components of a refractory material at a temperature below 800 °C give strength to the article during manufacture.