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TARIFF SCHEDULES OF THE UNITED STATES

SCHEDULE 6. - METALS AND METAL PRODUCTS Part 2. - Metals, Their Alloys, and Their Basic Shapes and Forms

261

Rates of Duty

Item

Articles

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Subpart A. - Precious Metals Subpart A headnotes: 1.

This subpart does not cover

(a) base metals coated or plated with precious metal or articles thereof; or (b) jewelry, parts of jewelry, and other articles and parts specially provided for elsewhere in this schedule or In schedule 7. 2.

For the purposes of the tariff schedules — (a) the term "platinum" refers to platinum and other metals of the platinum group (iridium, osmium, palladium, rhodium, and ruthenium), separately or together, and the term "the metal platinum" refers to the metal platinum alone; (b) the term "semimanufactured" refers to wrought metal products in the form of bars, rods, sections, plates, sheets, strips, wire, tubes, pipes, and hollow bars, and to powder (other than primary metal in powder form); (cl the term "rolled", as used in reqard to precious metals, means material made with a metal base upon one or more surfaces of which a covering of precious metal is affixed by soldering, brazing, welding, hot-rolling, or similar mechanical methods, and also includes base metal inlaid with precious metal.

605.02

1

Platinum (including gold- or silver-plated platinum but not rolled platinum), unwrought or semimanufactured: Unwrought: Metals of the platinum group separately; native combinations of such metals; and artificial combinations of such metals containing by weight not less than 90 Free ^^0% ad val. 5 0 ^ (55*) ad val. 2k% ad val.

655^ ad val. 65% ad val.

Free kO^ ad val.

Free 6551^ ad val.

Free

605.03

Free 6 5 ^ ad val.

Free

32.5S^ ad val. kO% ad val.

6556 ad val. 65S^ ad val.

Semimanufactured: 605.05 605.06 605.07

605.08 605.20

Other: Bars, plates, and sheets, all the foregoing not under 0.125 inch in thickness, wholly of metals of the platinum group separately, wholly of native combinations of metals of the platinum group, or wholly of artificial combinations thereof containing by weight not less than 90 percent of the metal Other, including alloys of platinum Gold or silver bullion, dore, and gold or silver

Gold (including platinum- or silver-plated gold but not rolled gold), unwrought (except bullion, dore, and precipitates) or semimanufactured: 605.27 605.28