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This heading covers knives with cutting blades, serrated or not, with the exception of those included in heading 82.08, and of certain tools and tableware sometimes called "knives" but covered implicitly or explicitly by other headings of this Chapter (for example, hay knives of heading 82.01, and other articles listed in the exclusions at the end of this Explanatory Note).
The heading covers :(1) Non-folding table knives of all kinds, including carving or dessert knives. Their handles and blades may be made of a single piece of metal, or they may have a fitted handle of base metal, wood, horn, plastics, etc. (2) Non-folding knives for kitchen, trade or other uses, generally of a less decorative appearance than the preceding type. This category includes, inter alia :
Butchers' knives; knives for bookbinders or papermakers; tanners', furriers', saddlers' or cobblers' knives, with or without handles; bee-keepers' uncapping knives; gardeners' pruning knives, etc.; hunting knives, sheath knives; oyster knives; fruit peeling knives. (3) Folding knives of all kinds, with handles of base metal, wood, horn, plastics, etc. This group includes, inter alia :
Pocket knives, pen knives, jack knives, campers' knives and sports knives (all these knives may have more than one blade, or be equipped with auxiliary corkscrews, spikes, screwdrivers, scissors, can openers, etc.); pocket folding knives for pruning, budding, grafting, etc. (4) Knives with several interchangeable blades, whether or not these are contained in the handles. The heading also covers blades for the manufacture of the knives listed above which may be in the form of crude or machined blanks, polished or completely finished blades. Handles of base metal for the knives of this heading are also included.
In addition to the exclusions mentioned in the first paragraph above, the heading also excludes : (a) Bill hooks and matchets (heading 82.01). (b) Articles of cutlery of heading 82.14. (c) Fish-knives and butter-knives (heading 82.15). Subheading Explanatory Note. Subheading 8211.10
The scope of subheading 8211.10 is limited to sets of different knives or sets of assorted articles, in which the knives predominate in number over the other articles.
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