This heading covers all ceramic articles not covered by other headings of this Chapter or in other Chapters of the Nomenclature.
It includes, inter alia :(1) Stoves and other heating apparatus, made essentially of ceramics (generally of earthenware, sometimes of common pottery, etc.); non-refractory firebrick cheeks; ceramic parts of stoves or fireplaces, ceramic linings for wood burning stoves, including tiles of a kind specially adapted for stoves. Electric heating apparatus is, however, classified in heading 85.16. (2) Non-decorative flower-pots (e.g., for horticulture). (3) Fittings for doors, windows, etc., such as handles and knobs, finger plates, etc.; knobs, etc., for lavatory chains. (4) Letters, numbers, sign-plates and similar motifs for shop signs and shop windows, whether or not bearing a printed picture or text, except when illuminated (heading 94.05). (5) Spring lever stoppers, etc., predominantly of ceramics (e.g., for lemonade bottles). (6) General purpose jars and containers for laboratories and display jars for pharmacies, confectioners, etc. (7) Various other articles such as knife handles, school inkwells, humidifiers for radiators and bird-cage accessories. The heading excludes : (a) Artificial teeth of ceramics (heading 90.21). (b) Toys, games and sports requisites (Chapter 95). (c) Buttons, smoking pipes and other articles of Chapter 96.
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