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CHAPTER 53

OTHER VEGETABLE TEXTILE FIBRES;

PAPER YARN AND WOVEN FABRICS OF PAPER YARN Additional note 1. (A) For the purposes of subheadings 5306 10 90, 5306 20 90 and 5308 20 90, the expression ‘put up for retail sale’ in relation to yarn (single, multiple or cabled) means,

subject to the exceptions in paragraph (B) below, yarn put up: (a) in balls or on cards, reels, tubes or similar supports, of a weight (including support) not exceeding 200 grams; (b) in hanks or skeins of a weight not exceeding 125 grams; (c) in hanks or skeins comprising several smaller hanks or skeins separated by dividing threads which render them independent one of the other, each of uniform weight

not exceeding 125 grams. (B) Exceptions:

(a) multiple or cabled yarn, unbleached, in hanks or skeins; (b) multiple or cabled yarn, put up:

(1) in cross-reeled hanks or skeins; or (2) put up on supports or in some other manner indicating its use in the textile industry (for example, on cops, twisting mill tubes, pirns, conical bobbins or spindles,

or reeled in the form of cocoons for embroidery looms).

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Goods code Description Supple-mentary

units

Trade policy Measures

Rates of

duty (%)

Preferential rates of duty (%) VAT

(%)

Rates of

Excises

Import Export CEFTA / MSA

5301

Flax, raw or processed but not spun; flax tow and waste (including yarn waste and garnetted stock):

5301 1000 00

- Flax, raw or retted

-

-

-

10

CEFTA : 0 / MSA : 0

18

-

- Flax, broken, scutched, hackled or otherwise processed, but not spun:

5301 2100 00 - - Broken or scutched - - - 10 CEFTA : 0 / MSA : 0 18 -

5301 2900 00 - - Other - - - 10 CEFTA : 0 / MSA : 0 18 -

5301 3000 00 - Flax tow and waste - - - 10 CEFTA : 0 / MSA : 0 18 -

5302

True hemp (Cannabis sativa L.), raw or processed but not spun; tow and waste of true hemp (including yarn waste and garnetted stock):

5302 1000 00

- True hemp, raw or retted

-

-

-

10

CEFTA : 0 / MSA : 0

18

-

5302 9000 00

- Other

-

-

-

10

CEFTA : 0 / MSA : 0

18

-

5303

Jute and other textile bast fibres (excluding flax, true hemp and ramie), raw or processed but not spun; tow and waste of these fibres (including yarn waste and garnetted stock):

5303 1000 00

- Jute and other textile bast fibres, raw or retted

-

-

-

0

CEFTA : 0 / MSA : 0

18

-

5303 9000 00

- Other

-

-

-

10

CEFTA : 0 / MSA : 0

18

-

[5304]

5305 0000 00

Coconut, abaca (Manila hemp or Musa textilis Nee), ramie and other vegetable textile fibres, not elsewhere specified or included, raw or processed but not spun; tow, noils and waste of these fibres (including yarn waste and garnetted stock):

-

-

-

10

CEFTA : 0 / MSA : 0

18

-

5306

Flax yarn:

5306 10

- Single:

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Goods code Description Supple-mentary

units

Trade policy Measures

Rates of

duty (%)

Preferential rates of duty (%) VAT

(%)

Rates of

Excises

Import Export CEFTA / MSA

- - Not put up for retail sale:

5306 1010 00 - - - Measuring 833,3 decitex or more (not exceeding 12 metric number)

- - - 10 CEFTA : 0 / MSA : 0 18 -

5306 1030 00 - - - Measuring less than 833,3 decitex but not less than 277,8 decitex (exceeding 12 metric number but not exceeding 36 metric number)

- - - 10 CEFTA : 0 / MSA : 0 18 -

5306 1050 00 - - - Measuring less than 277,8 decitex (exceeding 36 metric number) - - - 10 CEFTA : 0 / MSA : 0 18 -

5306 1090 00

- - Put up for retail sale

-

-

-

10

CEFTA : 0 / MSA : 0

18

-

5306 20

- Multiple (folded) or cabled:

5306 2010 00 - - Not put up for retail sale - - - 10 CEFTA : 0 / MSA : 0 18 -

5306 2090 00 - - Put up for retail sale

- - - 10 CEFTA : 0 / MSA : 0 18 -

5307

Yarn of jute or of other textile bast fibres of heading 5303:

5307 1000 00 - Single - - - 10 CEFTA : 0 / MSA : 0 18 -

5307 2000 00

- Multiple (folded) or cabled

-

-

-

10

CEFTA : 0 / MSA : 0

18

-

5308

Yarn of other vegetable textile fibres; paper yarn:

5308 1000 00

- Coir yarn

-

-

-

10

CEFTA : 0 / MSA : 0

18

-

5308 20

- True hemp yarn:

5308 2010 00 - - Not put up for retail sale - - - 10 CEFTA : 0 / MSA : 0 18 -

5308 2090 00 - - Put up for retail sale - - - 10 CEFTA : 0 / MSA : 0 18 -

5308 90

- Other:

- - Ramie yarn:

5308 9012 00 - - - Measuring 277,8 decitex or more (not exceeding 36 metric number)

- - - 10 CEFTA : 0 / MSA : 0 18 -

5308 9019 00 - - - Measuring less than 277,8 decitex (exceeding 36 metric number) - - - 10 CEFTA : 0 / MSA : 0 18 -

5308 9050 00

- - Paper yarn

-

-

-

10

CEFTA : 0 / MSA : 0

18

-

5308 9090 00

- - Other

-

-

-

10

CEFTA : 0 / MSA : 0

18

-

5309

Woven fabrics of flax:

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Goods code Description Supple-mentary

units

Trade policy Measures

Rates of

duty (%)

Preferential rates of duty (%) VAT

(%)

Rates of

Excises

Import Export CEFTA / MSA

- Containing 85 % or more by weight of flax:

5309 11 - - Unbleached or bleached:

5309 1110 00 - - - Unbleached MTK - - 10 CEFTA : 0 / MSA : 0 18 -

5309 1190 00 - - - Bleached MTK - - 10 CEFTA : 0 / MSA : 0 18 -

5309 1900 00 - - Other MTK - - 10 CEFTA : 0 / MSA : 0 18 -

- Containing less than 85 % by weight of flax:

5309 2100 00 - - Unbleached or bleached MTK - - 10 CEFTA : 0 / MSA : 0 18 -

5309 2900 00 - - Other

MTK - - 10 CEFTA : 0 / MSA : 0 18 -

5310

Woven fabrics of jute or of other textile bast fibres of heading 5303:

5310 10

- Unbleached:

5310 1010 00 - - Of a width not exceeding 150 cm MTK - - 10 CEFTA : 0 / MSA : 0 18 -

5310 1090 00 - - Of a width exceeding 150 cm MTK - - 10 CEFTA : 0 / MSA : 0 18 -

5310 9000 00

- Other

MTK

-

-

10

CEFTA : 0 / MSA : 0

18

-

5311 00

Woven fabrics of other vegetable textile fibres; woven fabrics of paper yarn:

5311 0010 00

- Of ramie

MTK

-

-

10

CEFTA : 0 / MSA : 0

18

-

5311 0090 00

- Other

MTK

-

-

10

CEFTA : 0 / MSA : 0

18

-