This heading covers all cast articles of iron or steel, not elsewhere specified or included. The heading includes, inspection traps, gratings, drain covers and similar castings for sewage, water, etc. systems; hydrant pillars and covers; drinking fountains; pillar-boxes, fire alarm pillars, bollards, etc.; gutters and gutter spouts; mine tubbing; balls for use in grinding and crushing mills; metallurgical pots and crucibles not fitted with mechanical or thermal equipment; counterweights; imitation flowers, foliage, etc. (except articles of heading 83.06); mercury bottles. This heading does not cover castings which are products falling in other headings of the Nomenclature (e.g., recognisable parts of machinery or mechanical appliances) or unfinished castings which require further working but have the essential character of such finished products. The heading also excludes :(a) Articles of a kind described above obtained by processes other than casting (e.g., sintering) (heading 73.26). (b)Statues, vases, urns and crosses of the type used for decoration (heading 83.06).
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