This heading covers the following textile products :
(1) Rags of textile fabrics (including knitted or crocheted fabrics, felt or nonwovens). Rags may consist of articles of furnishing or clothing or of other old textile articles so worn out, soiled or torn as to be beyond cleaning or repair, or of small new cuttings (e.g., dressmakers' or tailors' snippings). (2) Scrap pieces of twine, cordage, rope or cables, used or unused (e.g., scrap pieces resulting from the manufacture of twine, cordage, rope or cables, or of articles thereof), and old twine, cordage, rope and cables and worn out articles of such materials. To fall in the heading, these products must be worn, dirty or torn, or in small pieces. They are generally fit only for the recovery (e.g., by pulling) of the fibres (which are usually re-spun), for the manufacture of paper or plastics, for the manufacture of polishing materials (e.g., polishing wheels), or for use as industrial wipers (e.g., machine wipers). All other textile waste and scrap, however, is excluded from this heading. This exclusion applies particularly to tangled yarn obtained during the process of manufacturing knitted and crocheted fabrics, or by unravelling worn out knitted or crocheted articles; any other waste or scrap textile yarns or fibres (including those obtained from the padding of old mattresses, cushions, bedspreads, etc.); garnetted stock. These products are classified in Chapters 50 to 55 in the relevant headings relating to "waste" or "garnetted stock". The heading also excludes fabrics showing faults in weaving, dyeing, etc., but which do not fulfil the conditions mentioned above. These fabrics are classified in the headings appropriate to new fabrics. Subheading Explanatory Note. Subheading 6310.10 Products of heading 63.10 are considered "sorted" when graded according to specific criteria or when resulting from the use of a particular textile product (e.g., goods of the same nature or the same textile material, twine of uniform textile composition, new snippings all of the same colour).
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