8213 00 — Scissors, tailors' shears and similar shears, and blades therefor, of base metal (excl. hedge shears, two-handed pruning shears and similar two-handed shears, secateurs and similar one-handed pruners and shears and hoof nippers for farriers)

8213 Scissors, tailor scissors and similar scissors, and blades therefor

The scissors of this heading consist of two cutting blades, sometimes serrated, overlapping one another and pivoted, approximately in the middle, by a screw or rivet. In principle, this heading covers only scissors in which each cutting part has a finger ring at one end. The cutting blades may be in one piece or consist of the blade proper and a handle fixed together. The heading also covers certain types of shears with a hinge at one end and a single finger ring (used mainly in the textile industry). The heading includes, inter alia: (1) Ordinary scissors for household or office use or for sewing, etc., with straight or curved cutting blades. (2) Scissors for professional use, e.g., tailors' shears (including buttonhole scissors); hairdressers' scissors (including thinning scissors); scissors for upholsterers, leather workers, glovers or hatters. (3) Manicure scissors, including scissors with a nail file on one side of the cutting blade. (4) Small folding scissors, e.g., pocket scissors and embroidery scissors; flower scissors; grape scissors; cigar cutters. (5) Special scissors such as piercing scissors; double scissors (with four cutting blades) for cutting strips of fabric; horse-clipping shears; hoof-trimming shears; secateur-type scissors (with one concave and one convex blade), but with the finger rings characteristic of scissors (e.g., for cutting flowers). The heading includes blades for scissors, finished or not. The heading excludes:

(a) hedge cutting scissors, sheep cutting machines, etc., with blades without finger rings, and one-handed cutters and similar scissors (including bird cutting scissors) of heading 8201; (b) special veterinary scissors for cutting hooves of animals intended for two-hand work (heading 8205).

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. Apart from blowlamps, portable forges, grinding wheels with frameworks, manicure and pedicure sets, and goods of heading 8209, this chapter covers only articles with a blade, working edge, working surface or other working part of:

(a) base metal;

(b) metal carbides or cermets;

(c) precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed) on a support of base metal, metal carbide or cermet; or

(d) abrasive materials on a support of base metal, provided that the articles have cutting teeth, flutes, grooves, or the like, of base metal, which retain their identity and function after the application of the abrasive.

2. Parts of base metal of the articles of this chapter are to be classified with the articles of which they are parts, except parts separately specified as such and tool-holders for hand tools (heading 8466). However, parts of general use as defined in note 2 to Section XV are in all cases excluded from this chapter. Heads, blades and cutting plates for electric shavers or electric hair clippers are to be classified in heading 8510.

3. Sets consisting of one or more knives of heading 8211 and at least an equal number of articles of heading 8215 are to be classified in heading 8215.