Metal clad with precious metal (including base metal inlaid with precious metal) is defined in Note 7 to this Chapter and the General Explanatory Note to this Chapter.
The alloys of tin, nickel, zinc and particularly of copper are sometimes clad with silver. Unalloyed copper and steel may also be clad in this way. Such metals are used in silversmiths' wares (tableware, articles of interior decoration, etc.), and in tubing, vessels and apparatus for the chemical or food industries. Base metal clad with silver falling in this heading is usually in the form of bars, rods, sections, wire, plates, sheets, strip, tubes or pipes. In general, the provisions of Explanatory Note to heading 71.06 also apply, mutatis mutandis, to base metal clad with silver.
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