This heading includes :
(A) Hooks, eyes and eyelets, for clothing, footwear, awnings, tents or sails. (B) Tubular or bifurcated rivets of all kinds. These are used in clothing, footwear, awnings, tents, travel goods, leather goods, belting, etc.; they also serve in engineering (e.g., in aircraft construction). The heading also covers break mandrel blind rivets, where during the setting operation the mandrel is pulled into or against the rivet body and breaks at or near the junction of the mandrel shank and its upset end. (C) Clasps, fasteners, and frames with clasps, for handbags, purses, brief-cases, executive-cases or other travel goods, or for books or wrist-watches; but the heading excludes locks (including locking clasps), and frames with clasps, incorporating locks (heading 83.01). (D) Buckles (with or without tongues) and buckle-clasps, whether or not ornamental, for clothes, belts, braces, suspenders, gloves, footwear, gaiters, wrist-watches, haversacks, travel goods and leather goods. (E) Metal beads and spangles used, inter alia, for making imitation jewellery, or for decorating textile material, embroidery, clothing, etc. They are generally made of copper, copper alloys or aluminium (often gilded or silvered), and are designed to be fixed in position by glueing, sewing, etc. Beads are generally spherical or tubular or sometimes facetted; spangles, generally of geometrical form (round, hexagonal, etc.), are cut from metal foil and usually pierced. The articles referred to in (A), (C) and (D) above may contain parts of leather, textiles, plastics, wood, horn, bone, ebonite, mother of pearl, ivory, imitation precious stones, etc., provided they retain the essential character of articles of base metal. They may also be ornamented by working of the metal. This heading also excludes : (a) Ornaments, other than buckles, for hats, handbags, shoes, belts, etc. (heading 71.17). (b) Metal flakes (Chapters 74 to 76, in particular). (c) Rivets, other than tubular or bifurcated rivets; snap hooks (usually Chapters 73 to 76). (d) Press-studs and push-buttons (heading 96.06). (e) Slide fasteners and parts thereof (heading 96.07).
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