In general this heading covers all waste (other than garnetted stock) of wool or of fine or coarse animal hair, i.e., the waste recovered during the successive treatments converting the raw wool or hair into washed, carded, combed, spun, woven, knitted, etc., products.
The principal wastes included here are :(1) Wastes from combing, carding or other processes preparatory to spinning, such as : noils, the most important waste, composed of short fibres removed during combing; lap and sliver ends, small waste pieces of the combed lap; burr waste and carded shoddy, wastes collected during carding; fibres recovered on cleaning the rollers of carding machines and known as strippings. (2) Yarn waste such as broken, knotted or tangled yarns collected as waste during spinning, doubling, reeling, weaving, knitting, etc., operations. (3) Wastes such as sorting wastes and washing wastes collected from the bottom of the vat or from the gratings of washers. (4) Waste, such as old mattress hair and wool. Some of these wastes may be impregnated with oil from the machines or mixed with dust or other impurities (natural impurities of vegetable origin, for example). These wastes, according to type and quality, may be used for spinning, for stuffing, etc. Their classification here is not affected by carbonisation, bleaching, dyeing, etc. The heading excludes : (a) Horsehair waste (heading 05.11). (b) Wadding (heading 30.05 or 56.01). (c) Waste of wool or animal hair suitable only for use as fertilisers (Chapter 31). (d) Garnetted stock of wool or of fine or coarse animal hair (heading 51.04). (e) Carded or combed waste of wool or of fine or coarse animal hair (heading 51.05). (f) Textile flock and dust and mill neps (heading 56.01).
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