These goods may be in bulk, in loose bundles, or in tied bunches in which the bristles or hairs are laid parallel and the root ends more or less levelled. They may be raw or they may have been cleaned, bleached, dyed or sterilised. Other brush making hair includes that of the skunk, squirrel and marten. The heading excludes, however, bristles or hairs when in the form of prepared knots or tufts (i.e., made up into unmounted bundles ready for incorporation without division in brooms or brushes or requiring only certain minor processes to be ready for such incorporation); these fall in heading 96.03 (see Note 3 to Chapter 96).
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