Chapter 71: Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewellery; coin

Notes 1. Subject to Note 1(a) to Section VI and except as provided below, all articles consisting wholly or partly: a. 7113, 7114 and 7115 do not cover articles in which precious metal or metal clad with precious metal is present as minor constituents only, such as minor fittings or minor ornamentation (for example, monograms, ferrules and rims), and paragraph (b) of the foregoing Note does not apply to such articles. b. 7116 does not cover articles containing precious metal or metal clad with precious metal (other than as minor constituents). 3. This Chapter does not cover: a. "Precious metal" means silver, gold and platinum. b. "Platinum" means platinum, iridium, osmium, palladium, rhodium and ruthenium. c. "Precious or semi-precious stones" does not include any of the substances specified in Note 2(b) to Chapter 96. 5. For the purposes of this Chapter, any alloy (including a sintered mixture and an inter-metallic compound) containing precious metal is to be treated as an alloy of precious metal if any one precious metal constitutes as much as 2%, by weight, of the alloy.  Alloys of precious metal are to be classified according to the following: 6. Except where the context otherwise requires, any reference in this Schedule to precious metal or to any particular precious metal includes a reference to alloys treated as alloys of precious metal or of the particular metal in accordance with Note 5 above, but not to metal clad with precious metal or to base metal or non-metals plated with precious metal. 7. Throughout this Schedule "metal clad with precious metal" means material made with a base of metal upon one or more surfaces of which there is affixed by soldering, brazing, welding, hot-rolling or similar mechanical means a covering of precious metal. Except where the context otherwise requires, "metal clad with precious metal" also covers base metal inlaid with precious metal. 8. Subject to Note 1(a) to Section VI, goods answering to a description in 7112 are to be classified in that heading and in no other heading of this Schedule. 9. For the purposes of 7113, "articles of jewellery" means: 10. For the purposes of 7114, "articles of goldsmiths' or silversmiths' wares" includes such articles as ornaments, tableware, toilet-ware, smokers' requisites and other articles of household, office or religious use. 11. For the purposes of 7117, "imitation jewellery" means articles of jewellery within the meaning of paragraph (a) of Note 9 above (but not including buttons or other articles of 9606, or dress-combs, hair-slides or the like, or hairpins, of 9615), not incorporating natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed) nor (except as plating or as minor constituents) precious metal or metal clad with precious metal. Subheading Notes 1. For the purposes of 7106.10.00, 7108.11.00, 7110.11.00, 7110.21.00, 7110.31.00 and 7110.41.00, "powder" and "in powder form" mean products of which 90% or more by weight passes through a sieve having a mesh aperture of 0.5 mm. 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of Chapter Note 4(B), for the purposes of 7110.11.00 and 7110.19.00, "platinum" does not include iridium, osmium, palladium, rhodium or ruthenium. 3. For the classification of alloys in the subheadings of 7110, each alloy is to be classified with that metal, platinum, palladium, rhodium, iridium, osmium or ruthenium which predominates by weight over each other of these metals.