CHAPTER 14
VEGETABLE PLAITING MATERIALS; VEGETABLE PRODUCTS NOT ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED OR INCLUDED
NOTES
1. This Chapter does not cover the following products which are to be classified in Section XI: vegetable materials or fibres of vegetable materials of a kind used primarily in the manufacture of textiles, however prepared, or other vegetable materials which have undergone treatment so as to render them suitable for use only as textile materials.
2. Heading 1401 applies, inter alia, to bamboos (whether or not split, sawn lengthwise, cut to length, rounded at the ends, bleached, rendered non-inflammable, polished or dyed), split osier, reeds and the like, to rattan cores and to drawn or split rattans. The heading does not apply to chipwood (heading 4404).
3. Heading 1402 does not apply to wood wool (heading 4405).
4. Heading 1403 does not apply to prepared knots or tufts for broom or brush making (heading 9603).
| Tariff Item | Description of goods | Unit | Rate of duty |
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) |
| 1401 | VEGETABLE MATERIALS OF A KIND USED PRIMARILY FOR PLAITING (FOR EXAMPLE, BAMBOOS, RATTANS, REEDS, RUSHES, OSIER, RAFFIA, CLEANED, BLEACHED OR DYED CEREAL STRAW, AND LIME BARK) | ||
| 1401 10 00 | - Bamboos | kg. | Nil |
| 1401 20 00 | - Rattans | kg. | Nil |
| 1401 90 | - Other: | ||
| 1401 90 10 | --- Canes | kg. | Nil |
| 1401 90 90 | -- --Other | kg. | Nil |
| 1402 00 00 | VEGETABLE MATERIALS OF A KIND USED PRIMARILY AS STUFFING OR AS PADDING (FOR EXAMPLE, KAPOK, VEGETABLE HAIR AND EEL-GRASS), WHETHER OR NOT PUT UP AS A LAYER WITH OR WITHOUT SUPPORTING MATERIAL | kg. | Nil |
| 1403 | VEGETABLE MATERIAL OF A KIND USED PRIMARILY IN BROOMS OR IN BRUSHES (FOR EXAMPLE, BROOM-CORN, PIASSAVA, COUCH-GRASS AND ISTLE), WHETHER OR NOT IN HANKS OR BUNDLES | ||
| 1403 00 | - Vegetable material of a kind used primarily in brooms or in brushes (for example, broom-co piassava, couch-grass and istle), whether or not in hanks or bundles: | ! orn, | |
| 1403 00 10 | --- Palm fibres for brushes | kg. | Nil |
| 1403 00 90 | -- --Other | kg. | Nil |
| 1404 | VEGETABLE PRODUCTS NOT ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED OR INCLUDED | ||
| 1404 10 | - Raw vegetable materials of a kind used primarily in dyeing or tanning: | ||
| -- Henna: | |||
| 1404 10 11 | ---- Henna leaves | kg. | Nil |
| 1404 10 19 | ---- Henna powder | kg. | Nil |
| 1404 10 20 | -- Red sandalwood powder | kg. | Nil |
| 1404 10 30 | -- Safflower (including bastard saffron) | kg. | Nil |
| 1404 10 40 | -- Dyeing substances, excluding turmeric | kg. | Nil |
| 1404 10 50 | -- Gallnuts | kg. | Nil |
| -- Myrobalans: | |||
| 1404 10 61 | ---- Amla (embelica linn) | kg. | Nil |
| 1404 10 69 | --- Other | kg. | Nil |
| 1404 10 70 | -- Wattle bark (mimosa bark) | kg. | Nil |
| 1404 10 90 | --- Other tanning substances | kg. | Nil |
| 1404 20 00 | - Cotton linters | kg. | Nil |
| 1404 90 | - Other: | ||
| 1404 90 10 | --- Bidi wrapper leaves (tendu) | kg. | Nil |
| --- Soap-nuts: | |||
| 1404 90 21 | ---- Powder | kg. | Nil |
| 1404 90 29 | --- Other | kg. | Nil |
| 1404 90 30 | --- Hard seeds, pips, hulls and nuts, of a kind used primarily for carving | kg. | Nil |
| 1404 90 40 | --- Betel leaves | kg. | Nil |
| 1404 90 50 | -- Indian katha | kg. | Nil |
| 1404 90 60 | --- Coconut shell, unworked | kg. | Nil |
| 1404 90 70 | --- Rudraksha seeds | kg. | Nil |
| 1404 90 90 | -- Other | kg. | Nil |