7102 31 00 — Diamonds, whether or not worked, but not mounted or set: non-industrial: unworked or simply sawn, cleaved or bruted

7102 Diamonds, whether or not worked, but not mounted or set (+): 7102 10 – Unsorted – Industrial: 7102 21 – – Unworked or simply sawn, cleaved or bruted 7102 29 – – Other – Non-industrial: 7102 31 – – Unworked or simply sawn, cleaved or bruted 7102 39 – – Other

Diamond in its pure form is a crystalline allotropic form of carbon with a very high refractive index and degree of dispersion. It's the hardest of them all.

minerals. Owing to these qualities, diamonds are used in the manufacture of jewellery and also for industrial purposes (in particular, in wire drawing). This heading covers both unworked stones and worked stones, e.g., stones worked by cleaving, sawing, bruting, cleaning or tumble polishing, cutting, grinding, polishing, drilling, engraving (including cameos and intaglios), or made up as doublets, provided that they are not set or mounted. This heading excludes: (a) diamond dust and powder (heading 7105); (b) unmounted worked diamonds for sound pick-ups (heading 8522); (c) diamonds worked so as to be recognisable as parts of measuring instruments or other goods of Chapter 90 (Chapter 90). Subheading Explanatory Notes. Subheading 7102 10 Before 'unworked' or 'rough' diamonds are placed on the market as 'industrial' or 'non-industrial', they are sorted by experts guided by technical criteria. The technical criteria include weight (mass) and crystallographic suitability for cutting. The shape, transparency, colour and purity, or quality, of the crystals are also taken into account. This subheading covers lots (i.e., parcels) of such diamonds or single diamonds which have not been subjected to such expert assessment. This subheading also covers groups of unworked diamonds which have been sieved and packed in bags according to size without being submitted for subsequent expert assessment. Subheadings 7102 21 and 7102 29 These subheadings cover the following natural diamonds: (1) Diamonds proper, i.e., transparent or translucent diamonds which, owing to their characteristics, cannot normally be used in jewellery or by goldsmiths or silversmiths. (2) Black diamonds, as well as other polycrystalline diamond aggregates, including 'carbonado', which are harder than transparent diamonds. (3) Bort proper, namely opaque and other diamonds (including waste from the working of diamonds), usually unsuitable for cutting. (4) Diamonds which, owing to their characteristics (colour, purity, or quality, transparency, etc.), are intended for a certain specific use in industry (e.g., dressing tools and wire-drawing dies or diamond anvils), but which are also suitable for use in jewellery. These diamonds are generally intended for setting in tools (diamond-tipped cutters, drilling tools, etc.) or for mounting in tools for the maintenance of machinery, and also in the machinery itself.

Subheading 7102 21 includes: (1) Diamonds in their natural state, that is, as they occur in deposits or extracts from parent rock, sorted in lots or parcels. (2) Diamonds are simply sawn (for example, into thin strips), split (by splitting along the natural plane of the chip), roughed or cleaned or polished in the drum, or having only a small number of polished faces (for example, the so-called "windows", which are mainly made to conduct an expert examination of the internal characteristics of the rough diamond), that is, stones having only a preliminary shape and suitable for further processing. Stripes may also be cut into discs, rectangles, hexagons or octagonal nicks, provided that all surfaces and ribs remain rough, matte and unpolished. (3) Peeled or polished diamonds, the surface of which is made glossy and sparkling by chemical treatment, also known as chemical polishing. Chemical polishing differs from traditional abrasive polishing in that diamonds are not individually fastened, but are loaded into a chemical reactor. (4) Broken or crushed diamonds. Subheading 7102 29 covers polished or drilled diamonds and engraved diamonds (excluding diamonds which are engraved for identification purposes only). Subheadings 7102 31 and 7102 39 These subheadings include natural diamonds which, because of their characteristic features (color, purity, transparency, etc.), are suitable for use by jewelers, gold or silver craftsmen. Subheading 7102 31 includes: (1) Diamonds in their natural state, that is, as they occur in deposits or extracts from the mother genus, sorted in lots or parcels. (2) Diamonds that are simply sawn, split (split in the natural plane of the layers), roughed or have only a small number of polished faces (for example, the so-called "windows", which are mainly made for the purpose of conducting an expert examination of the internal characteristics of the rough diamond), that is, stones that have only a preliminary shape and undoubtedly must be subjected to further processing. (3) Peeled or polished drum-bathed diamonds whose surface is made glossy and sparkling by a chemical treatment known as chemical polishing. Chemical polishing differs from traditional abrasive polishing in that diamonds are not individually mounted and polished in a polished circle, but are loaded into a chemical reactor. Subheading 7102 39 includes: (1) Polished diamonds with numerous flat polished surfaces or faces which do not require further processing for use in jewelry.

(2) Drilled diamonds, engraved diamonds (including cameos and intalias) and diamonds made as doublets or triplets. (3) Diamonds that have been split in the process of processing by polishing, drilling, as well as diamonds that have been split during transportation or storage. Subheading 7102 39 does not cover: (a) diamonds which have only a small number of polished faces (e.g. so-called “windows” which are made for the purpose of carrying out an expert examination of the internal characteristics of rough diamonds) and which are clearly to be further processed; (b) diamonds which have been engraved solely for identification purposes.

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. Subject to the provisions of Note 1(A) to Section VI and the following exceptions, this Chapter includes all articles consisting wholly or partly of:

(a) natural or cultivated pearls or precious or semi-precious stones (natural, artificial or reconstructed); or

(b) from precious metals or metals clad with precious metals.

2. (A) Headings 7113, 7114 and 7115 do not include articles in which the precious metal or metal clad with the precious metal is present only as minor components, such as fine fittings or minor finishes (e.g. monograms, rims and edgings), and the provisions of point (b) of note 1 do not apply to these articles.

(B) Heading 7116 does not include articles containing precious metals or metals clad in precious metals (other than small constituent parts).

3. This group does not include:

(a) amalgams of precious metals or precious metals in the colloidal state (heading 2843);

(b) sterile surgical suture materials, dental filling materials or other products of Chapter 30;

(c) goods of Chapter 32 (e.g. glossy);

(d) catalysts on carriers (heading 3815);

(e) articles of heading 4202 or 4203 (see note 3(B) to chapter 42);

(f) articles of heading 4303 or 4304;

(g) goods of Section XI (textiles and textile articles);

(h) footwear, headgear or other articles of Chapter 64 or 65;

(ij) umbrellas, canes or other articles of Chapter 66;

(k) abrasive materials of heading 6804 or 6805 or of Chapter 82 containing a crumb or powder of precious or semi-precious stones (natural or artificial); articles of Chapter 82 with a working part of precious or semi-precious stones (natural, artificial or reconstructed); machinery, equipment, machinery, electrical goods, or parts thereof, of Section XVI. However, articles and parts thereof consisting wholly of precious or semi-precious stones (natural, artificial or reconstructed) are classified in this Chapter, with the exception of unfixed processed sapphires and diamonds for pickup needles (heading 8522);

(l) Articles of Chapter 90, 91 or 92 (scientific instruments, clocks of all kinds, musical instruments);

(m) weapons or parts thereof (Chapter 93);

(n) articles referred to in Note 2 to Chapter 95;

(o) articles of Chapter 96, in accordance with Note 4 to Chapter 96; or

(p) original sculptures or figurines (heading 9703), collectibles (heading 9705) or antiques more than one hundred years old (heading 9706), other than natural or cultivated pearls or precious or semi-precious stones.

4. (A) The term “precious metal” means silver, gold and platinum.

(B) The term platinum means platinum, iridium, osmium, palladium, rhodium, and ruthenium.

(C) The term “precious or semi-precious stones” does not apply to the materials referred to in Note 2(b) to Chapter 96.

5. In this chapter, any alloy (including an agglomerated mixture and an intermetallic compound) containing a precious metal shall be considered a precious metal alloy if its share in the alloy is not less than 2% by weight. Alloys of precious metals should be classified according to the following rules:

(a) an alloy containing 2% or more platinum by weight, as a platinum alloy;

(b) an alloy containing 2 wt.% or more of gold but without platinum, or containing less than 2 wt.%, as an alloy of gold;

(c) other alloys containing 2 % or more by weight of silver, as silver alloys.

6. Unless otherwise specified in the context, any reference in the Nomenclature to precious metals or to any particular precious metal shall include a reference to alloys of precious metals or a particular metal in accordance with the rules set out in Note 5 above. However, this does not apply to metals clad with precious metals, base metals or non-metals coated with precious metals by a galvanic method.

7. Throughout the Nomenclature, the term “precious metal clad metal” means a material made from a metal, on one or more surfaces of which a coating of precious metal is coated by soldering, welding, hot rolling or similar mechanical means. Unless otherwise specified in the context, the term also means a base metal inlaid with a precious metal.

8. Subject to the provisions of Note 1(A) to Section VI, goods corresponding to the description of heading 7112 shall be classified in that heading and in no other heading of the Nomenclature.

9. For the purposes of heading 7113, the term “jewelry” means:

(a) any small items of personal adornment (e.g. rings, bracelets, necklaces, brooches, earrings, watch chains, key chains, pendants, tie pins, cufflinks, religious or other medals and signs); and

(b) articles for personal use, usually carried in pockets, handbags, men's or on the body (e.g. cigarette case, snuffboxes, pill boxes, powder boxes, purses with a chain or rosary).

These articles may be combined with or decorated with, for example, natural or cultivated pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, artificial or reconstructed precious or semi-precious stones, turtle shell products, mother-of-pearl, ivory, natural or reconstructed amber, gagat or coral.

10. For the purposes of heading 7114, the term “works of gold or silver craftsmen” means ornaments, utensils, toiletries, smoking utensils and other articles for the household, institutions or religious purposes.

11. For the purpose of heading 7117, the term “jewelry” means jewellery as defined above in note 9 (a) to this chapter (other than buttons or other articles of heading 9606 or ridges, hairpins and hairpins of heading 9615), without natural or cultivated pearls, precious or semi-precious stones (natural, artificial or reconstructed), without precious metals or metals clad with precious metals (not counting galvanic coatings or minor parts of precious metals or metals or precious metals).

Subheading 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 subheadings 7106 10, 7108 11, 7110 11, 7110 21, 7110 31 and 7110 41, the expressions ‘powder’ and ‘in powder form’ mean products of which 90 % or more by weight passes through a sieve having a mesh aperture of 0,5 mm.

2. Notwithstanding the provisions of chapter note 4(B), for the purposes of subheadings 7110 11 and 7110 19, the expression ‘platinum’ does not include iridium, osmium, palladium, rhodium or ruthenium.

3. For the classification of alloys in the subheadings of heading 7110, each alloy is to be classified with that metal, platinum, palladium, rhodium, iridium, osmium or ruthenium which predominates by weight over each other of these metals.

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 7106 91 000 1, 7108 12 000 1, 7108 20 000 1, 7110 11 000 1, 7110 21 000 1 the term “ingot” means a metal article cast in the form of a truncated pyramid, a truncated cone, a prism (square, rectangular or polygonal cross-section) or a cylinder not otherwise treated.