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Heading 9603

Brooms, brushes (including brushes constituting parts of machines, appliances or vehicles), hand-operated mechanical floor sweepers, not motorized, mops and feather dusters; prepared knots and tufts for broom or brush making; paint pads and rollers; squeegees (other than roller squeegees).

7 subheadings

Subheadings

9603.10

Brooms, brushes (including brushes constituting parts of machines, appliances or vehicles), hand-operated mechanical floor sweepers, not motorized, mops and feather dusters; prepared knots and tufts for broom or brush making; paint pads and rollers; squeegees (other than roller squeegees). - Brooms and brushes, consisting of twigs or other vegetable materials bound together, with or without handles

2 tariff items

9603.21

Brooms, brushes (including brushes constituting parts of machines, appliances or vehicles), hand-operated mechanical floor sweepers, not motorized, mops and feather dusters; prepared knots and tufts for broom or brush making; paint pads and rollers; squeegees (other than roller squeegees). - Tooth brushes, shaving brushes, hair brushes, nail brushes, eyelash brushes and other toilet brushes for use on the person, including such brushes constituting parts of appliances: - Tooth brushes, including dental-plate brushes

1 tariff items

9603.29

Brooms, brushes (including brushes constituting parts of machines, appliances or vehicles), hand-operated mechanical floor sweepers, not motorized, mops and feather dusters; prepared knots and tufts for broom or brush making; paint pads and rollers; squeegees (other than roller squeegees). - Tooth brushes, shaving brushes, hair brushes, nail brushes, eyelash brushes and other toilet brushes for use on the person, including such brushes constituting parts of appliances: - Other

1 tariff items

9603.30

Brooms, brushes (including brushes constituting parts of machines, appliances or vehicles), hand-operated mechanical floor sweepers, not motorized, mops and feather dusters; prepared knots and tufts for broom or brush making; paint pads and rollers; squeegees (other than roller squeegees). - Artists' brushes, writing brushes and similar brushes for the application of cosmetics

2 tariff items

9603.40

Brooms, brushes (including brushes constituting parts of machines, appliances or vehicles), hand-operated mechanical floor sweepers, not motorized, mops and feather dusters; prepared knots and tufts for broom or brush making; paint pads and rollers; squeegees (other than roller squeegees). - Paint, distemper, varnish or similar brushes (other than brushes of subheading 9603.30); paint pads and rollers

4 tariff items

9603.50

Brooms, brushes (including brushes constituting parts of machines, appliances or vehicles), hand-operated mechanical floor sweepers, not motorized, mops and feather dusters; prepared knots and tufts for broom or brush making; paint pads and rollers; squeegees (other than roller squeegees). - Other brushes constituting parts of machines, appliances or vehicles

1 tariff items

9603.90

Brooms, brushes (including brushes constituting parts of machines, appliances or vehicles), hand-operated mechanical floor sweepers, not motorized, mops and feather dusters; prepared knots and tufts for broom or brush making; paint pads and rollers; squeegees (other than roller squeegees). - Other

4 tariff items

Related Advance Rulings

Explanatory Notes

Section 11 of the Customs Tariff states that in interpreting the headings and subheadings, regard shall be had to the World Customs Organization's (WCO) Compendium of Classification Opinions and Explanatory Notes to the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (HS). General Interpretative Rule 1 (GIR 1) directs that titles of Sections, Chapters and sub-Chapters are provided for ease...

Source: advance_ruling (8000005444)

Section 11 of the Customs Tariff states that in interpreting the headings and subheadings, regard shall be had to the World Customs Organization's (WCO) Explanatory Notes to the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System. General Interpretative Rule 1 (GIR 1) directs that titles of Sections, Chapters and sub-Chapters are provided for ease of reference only. For legal purposes,...

Source: advance_ruling (C-2019-001069)

Brooms, brushes (including brushes constituting parts of machines, appliances or vehicles), hand-operated mechanical floor sweepers, not motorised, mops and feather dusters; prepared knots and tufts for broom or brush making; paint pads and rollers; squeegees (other than roller squeegees)

Source: eu_cn_en (EUR-Lex 02019XC0329(02)-20250113)

Brooms and brushes, consisting of twigs or other vegetable materials bound together, with or without handles See the HS Explanatory Note to heading 9603 , (A).

Source: eu_cn_en (EUR-Lex 02019XC0329(02)-20250113)

Toothbrushes, shaving-brushes, hairbrushes, nail brushes, eyelash brushes and other toilet brushes for use on the person, including such brushes constituting parts of appliances Eyelash brushes generally consist of several tufts of hair mounted at right angles to the handle. Clothes brushes and shoe brushes are not included in these subheadings (subheading 9603 90 91 ).

Source: eu_cn_en (EUR-Lex 02019XC0329(02)-20250113)

Paint pads and rollers See the HS Explanatory Note to heading 9603 , (F), first two paragraphs.

Source: eu_cn_en (EUR-Lex 02019XC0329(02)-20250113)

Hand-operated mechanical floor sweepers, not motorised See the HS Explanatory Note to heading 9603 , (C).

Source: eu_cn_en (EUR-Lex 02019XC0329(02)-20250113)

This Chapter covers certain specific kinds of base metal articles, of the nature of tools, implements, cutlery, tableware, etc., which are excluded from the preceding Chapters of Section XV, and are not machinery or appliances of Section XVI (see below), nor instruments or apparatus proper to Chapter 90, nor articles of heading 96.03 or 96.04. This Chapter includes: A)        Tools which,...

Source: citt_decision (AP-2018-051)

The relevant tariff nomenclature concerning headings No. 82.05 and 82.07 provides as follows:SECTION XVBASE METALS AND ARTICLES OF BASE METAL. . .Chapter 82TOOLS, IMPLEMENTS, CUTLERY, SPOONSAND FORKS, OF BASE METAL; PARTS THEREOFOF BASE METAL. . .82.05 Hand tools (including glaziers’ diamonds), not elsewhere specified or included; blow lamps; vices, clamps and the like, other than accessories...

Source: citt_decision (AP-2016-019)

Section XXMISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES. . .Chapter 96MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES. . .96.03 Brooms, brushes (including brushes constituting parts of machines, appliances or vehicles), hand-operated mechanical floor sweepers, not motorized, mops and feather dusters; prepared knots and tufts for broom or brush making; paint pads and rollers; squeegees (other than roller...

Source: citt_decision (AP-2009-071)

Chapter 96 Notes (4)
1. 1. This Chapter does not cover: • (a) Pencils for cosmetic or toilet uses (Chapter 33); • (b) Articles of Chapter 66 (for example, parts of umbrellas or walking-sticks); • (c) Imitation jewellery (heading 71.17); • (d) Parts of general use, as defined in Note 2 to Section XV, of base metal (Section XV), or similar goods of plastics (Chapter 39); • (e) Cutlery or other articles of Chapter 82 with handles or other parts of carving or moulding materials; heading 96.01 or 96.02 applies, ...
2. 2. In heading 96.02 the expression "vegetable or mineral carving material" means: • (a) Hard seeds, pips, hulls and nuts and similar vegetable materials of a kind used for carving (for example, corozo and dom); • (b) Amber, meerschaum, agglomerated amber and agglomerated meerschaum, jet and mineral substitutes for jet.
3. 3. In heading 96.03 the expression "prepared knots and tufts for broom or brush making" applies only to unmounted knots and tufts of animal hair, vegetable fibre or other material, which are ready for incorporation without division in brooms or brushes, or which require only such further minor processes as trimming to shape at the top, to render them ready for such incorporation.
4. 4. Articles of this Chapter, other than headings 96.01 to 96.06 or 96.15, remain classified in the Chapter whether or not composed wholly or partly of precious metal or metal clad with precious metal, of natural or cultured pearls, or precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed). However, headings 96.01 to 96.06 and 96.15 include articles in which natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed), precious metal...

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