CLA-2-51:S:N:N6:351 808494
Mr. John L. Ross
EFI, Inc.
464 Bremen Street, Suite A
East Boston, MA 02128
RE: The tariff classification of boiled wool from Australia.
Dear Mr. Ross:
In your letter dated March 7, 1995, on behalf of Calvin B.
Geary, Inc., you requested a tariff classification ruling.
You have submitted two sample bags of boiled wool from your
last two shipments, # 2378 and # 2379. In your letter, you claim
that the boiled wool is wool waste, and you refer to a letter from
Conagra Wool in Australia which states that a bacterial process is
used to remove the skin from the wool plus minimal sulfuric acid to
remove residual dead skin from the wool, not to carbonize the wool.
The raw wool fibers in each of the two bags appear to be identical.
According to our Customs laboratory in Savannah, the samples are
two bags of degreased, carbonized wool fibers which have not been
carded or combed. In the laboratory's opinion, the samples are not
wool waste. Also, the samples have the following grades: bag A -
58'S, and bag B - 64'S.
The applicable subheading for the boiled wool will be
5101.30.4000, Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States
(HTS), which provides for wool, not carded or combed, carbonized,
not processed in any manner beyond the carbonized condition, other.
The rate of duty will be 28 cents per kilogram.
This ruling is being issued under the provisions of Section
177 of the Customs Regulations (19 C.F.R. 177).
A copy of this ruling letter should be attached to the entry
documents filed at the time this merchandise is imported. If the
documents have been filed without a copy, this ruling should be
brought to the attention of the Customs officer handling the
transaction.
Sincerely,
Jean F. Maguire
Area Director
New York Seaport