EU tariff chapter 53
OTHER VEGETABLE TEXTILE FIBRES; PAPER YARN AND WOVEN FABRICS OF PAPER YARN. 10 headings and 34 eight-digit codes, with conventional duty rates from free to 8 per cent.
Notes
Additional note
1. (A) For the purposes of subheadings 5306 10 90, 5306 20 90 and 5308 20 90, the expression ‘put up for retail sale’ in relation to yarn (single, multiple or cabled) means, subject to the exceptions in paragraph (B) below, yarn put up: (a) in balls or on cards, reels, tubes or similar supports, of a weight (including support) not exceeding 200 grams; (b) in hanks or skeins of a weight not exceeding 125 grams; (c) in hanks or skeins comprising several smaller hanks or skeins separated by dividing threads which render them independent one of the other, each of uniform weight not exceeding 125 grams. (B) Exceptions: (a) multiple or cabled yarn, unbleached, in hanks or skeins; (b) multiple or cabled yarn, put up: (1) in cross-reeled hanks or skeins; or (2) put up on supports or in some other manner indicating its use in the textile industry (for example, on cops, twisting mill tubes, pirns, conical bobbins or spindles, or reeled in the form of cocoons for embroidery looms).
Headings and duty rates
Heading 5301
Flax, raw or processed but not spun; flax tow and waste (including yarn waste and garnetted stock):
| CN code | Description | Conventional duty | Supplementary unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5301 10 00 | Flax, raw or retted | Free | |
| Flax, broken, scutched, hackled or otherwise processed, but not spun: | |||
| 5301 21 00 | Broken or scutched | Free | |
| 5301 29 00 | Other | Free | |
| 5301 30 00 | Flax tow and waste | Free |
Heading 5302
True hemp (Cannabis sativa L.), raw or processed but not spun; tow and waste of true hemp (including yarn waste and garnetted stock):
| CN code | Description | Conventional duty | Supplementary unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5302 10 00 | True hemp, raw or retted | Free | |
| 5302 90 00 | Other | Free |
Heading 5303
Jute and other textile bast fibres (excluding flax, true hemp and ramie), raw or processed but not spun; tow and waste of these fibres (including yarn waste and garnetted stock):
| CN code | Description | Conventional duty | Supplementary unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5303 10 00 | Jute and other textile bast fibres, raw or retted | Free | |
| 5303 90 00 | Other | Free |
Heading 5305 00 00
| CN code | Description | Conventional duty | Supplementary unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5305 00 00 | Coconut, abaca (Manila hemp or Musa textilis Nee), ramie and other vegetable textile fibres, not elsewhere specified or included, raw or processed but not spun; tow, noils and waste of these fibres (including yarn waste and garnetted stock) | Free |
Heading 5306
Flax yarn:
| CN code | Description | Conventional duty | Supplementary unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5306 10 | Single: | ||
| Not put up for retail sale: | |||
| 5306 10 10 | Measuring 833,3 decitex or more (not exceeding 12 metric number)(18) | 4 % | |
| 5306 10 30 | Measuring less than 833,3 decitex but not less than 277,8 decitex (exceeding 12 metric number but not exceeding 36 metric number)(18) | 4 % | |
| 5306 10 50 | Measuring less than 277,8 decitex (exceeding 36 metric number) | 3.8 % | |
| 5306 10 90 | Put up for retail sale | 5 % | |
| 5306 20 | Multiple (folded) or cabled: | ||
| 5306 20 10 | Not put up for retail sale | 4 % | |
| 5306 20 90 | Put up for retail sale | 5 % |
- (18) WTO tariff quota.
Heading 5307
Yarn of jute or of other textile bast fibres of heading 5303:
| CN code | Description | Conventional duty | Supplementary unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5307 10 00 | Single | Free | |
| 5307 20 00 | Multiple (folded) or cabled | Free |
Heading 5308
Yarn of other vegetable textile fibres; paper yarn:
| CN code | Description | Conventional duty | Supplementary unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5308 10 00 | Coir yarn | Free | |
| 5308 20 | True hemp yarn: | ||
| 5308 20 10 | Not put up for retail sale | 3 % | |
| 5308 20 90 | Put up for retail sale | 4.9 % | |
| 5308 90 | Other: | ||
| Ramie yarn: | |||
| 5308 90 12 | Measuring 277,8 decitex or more (not exceeding 36 metric number) | 4 % | |
| 5308 90 19 | Measuring less than 277,8 decitex (exceeding 36 metric number) | 3.8 % | |
| 5308 90 50 | Paper yarn | 4 % | |
| 5308 90 90 | Other | 3.8 % |
Heading 5309
Woven fabrics of flax:
| CN code | Description | Conventional duty | Supplementary unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Containing 85 % or more by weight of flax: | |||
| 5309 11 | Unbleached or bleached: | ||
| 5309 11 10 | Unbleached | 8 % | m² |
| 5309 11 90 | Bleached | 8 % | m² |
| 5309 19 00 | Other | 8 % | m² |
| Containing less than 85 % by weight of flax: | |||
| 5309 21 00 | Unbleached or bleached | 8 % | m² |
| 5309 29 00 | Other | 8 % | m² |
Heading 5310
Woven fabrics of jute or of other textile bast fibres of heading 5303:
| CN code | Description | Conventional duty | Supplementary unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5310 10 | Unbleached: | ||
| 5310 10 10 | Of a width not exceeding 150 cm | 4 % | m² |
| 5310 10 90 | Of a width exceeding 150 cm | 4 % | m² |
| 5310 90 00 | Other | 4 % | m² |
Heading 5311 00
Woven fabrics of other vegetable textile fibres; woven fabrics of paper yarn:
| CN code | Description | Conventional duty | Supplementary unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5311 00 10 | Of ramie | 8 % | m² |
| 5311 00 90 | Other | 5.8 % | m² |
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