1233.0 - Australian Harmonized Export Commodity Classification (AHECC), Jan 2006

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Contents >> Detailed export commodity classification >> Section 14: Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal, and articles thereof; imitation jewellery; coin >> Chapter 71: Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal, and articles thereof; imitation jewellery; coin

Sub-Chapter I

Natural or cultured pearls and precious or semi-precious stones

7101	Pearls, natural or cultured, whether or not worked or graded but not strung, mounted or set; pearls, natural or cultured, temporarily strung for convenience of transport
7102	Diamonds, whether or not worked, but not mounted or set
7103	Precious stones (other than diamonds) and semi-precious stones, whether or not worked or graded but not strung, mounted or set; ungraded precious stones (other than diamonds) and semi-precious stones, temporarily strung for convenience of transport
7104	Synthetic or reconstructed precious or semi-precious stones, whether or not worked or graded but not strung, mounted or set; ungraded synthetic or reconstructed precious or semi-precious stones, temporarily strung for convenience of transport
7105	Dust and powder of natural or synthetic precious or semi-precious stones

Sub-Chapter II

Precious metals and metals clad with precious metal

7106	Silver (including silver plated with gold or platinum), unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form
7107	Base metals clad with silver, not further worked than semi-manufactured
7108	Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form
7109	Base metals or silver, clad with gold, not further worked than semi-manufactured
7110	Platinum, unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form
7111	Base metals, silver or gold, clad with platinum, not further worked than semi-manufactured
7112	Waste and scrap of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal; other waste and scrap containing precious metal or precious metal compounds, of a kind used principally for the recovery of precious metal

Sub-Chapter III

Jewellery, goldsmiths' and silversmiths' wares and other articles

7113	Articles of jewellery and parts thereof, of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal
7114	Articles of goldsmiths' or silversmiths' wares and parts thereof, of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal
7115	Other articles of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal
7116	Articles of natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed)
7117	Imitation jewellery
7118	Coin

NOTES

1. Subject to Note 1(a) to Section 6 and except as provided below, all articles consisting wholly or partly:

(a) Of natural or cultured pearls or of precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed), or

(b) Of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal, are to be classified in this Chapter.

(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) Amalgams of precious metal, or colloidal precious metal (2843);

(b) Sterile surgical suture materials, dental fillings or other goods of Chapter 30;

(d) Supported catalysts (3815);

(e) Articles of 4202 or 4203 referred to in Note 2(B) to Chapter 42;

(f) Articles of 4303 or 4304;

(g) Goods of Section 11 (textiles and textile articles);

(h) Footwear, headgear and other articles of Chapter 64 or 65;

(ij) Umbrellas, walking-sticks or other articles of Chapter 66;

(k) Abrasive goods of 6804 or 6805 or Chapter 82, containing dust or powder of precious or semi-precious stones (natural or synthetic); articles of Chapter 82 with a working part of precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed); machinery, mechanical appliances or electrical goods, or parts thereof, of Section 16. However, articles and parts thereof, wholly of precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed) remain classified in this Chapter, except unmounted worked sapphires and diamonds for styli (8522);

(l) Articles of Chapter 90, 91 or 92 (scientific instruments, clocks and watches, musical instruments);

(m) Arms or parts thereof (Chapter 93);

(n) Articles covered by Note 2 to Chapter 95;

(o) Articles of Chapter 96 by virtue of Note 4 to that Chapter; or

(p) Original sculptures or statuary (9703), collectors' pieces (9705) or antiques of an age exceeding one hundred years (9706), other than natural or cultured pearls or precious or semi-precious stones.

(a) "Precious metal" means silver, gold and platinum.

(b) "Platinum" means platinum, iridium, osmium, palladium, rhodium and ruthenium.

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:

(a) An alloy containing 2% or more, by weight, of platinum is to be treated as an alloy of platinum;

(b) An alloy containing 2% or more, by weight, of gold but no platinum, or less than 2%, by weight, of platinum, is to be treated as an alloy of gold;

6. Except where the context otherwise requires, any reference in this Classification 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 Classification "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 6, goods answering to a description in 7112 are to be classified in that heading and in no other heading of this Classification.

9. For the purposes of 7113, "articles of jewellery" means:

(a) Any small objects of personal adornment (gem-set or not) (for example, rings, bracelets, necklaces, brooches, ear-rings, watch-chains, fobs, pendants, tie-pins, cuff-links, dress-studs, religious or other medals and insignia); and

(b) Articles of personal use of a kind normally carried in the pocket, in the handbag or on the person (such as cigarette cases, powder boxes, chain purses, cachou boxes).

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, 7108.11, 7110.11, 7110.21, 7110.31 and 7110.41, "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 and 7110.19, "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.

SECTION 14 - NATURAL OR CULTURED PEARLS, PRECIOUS OR SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES, PRECIOUS METALS, METALS CLAD WITH PRECIOUS METAL, AND ARTICLES THEREOF; IMITATION JEWELLERY; COIN
CHAPTER 71 - NATURAL OR CULTURED PEARLS, PRECIOUS OR SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES, PRECIOUS METALS, METALS CLAD WITH PRECIOUS METAL, AND ARTICLES THEREOF; IMITATION JEWELLERY; COIN

NOTE:For goods exempt from Export Entry,refer to Explanatory Notes, 1.5 Instructions for Completing an Export Entry.


Heading no	HS code	Export Statistical Item	Unit of quantity	Description


				SUB-CHAPTER 01 - NATURAL OR CULTURED PEARLS AND PRECIOUS OR SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES
7101				PEARLS, NATURAL OR CULTURED, WHETHER OR NOT WORKED OR GRADED BUT NOT STRUNG, MOUNTED OR SET; PEARLS, NATURAL OR CULTURED, TEMPORARILY STRUNG FOR CONVENIENCE OF TRANSPORT:
	7101.10	7101.10.01	NO	- Natural pearls
	7101.2			- Cultured pearls:
	7101.21	7101.21.01	NO	-- Unworked
	7101.22	7101.22.01	NO	-- Worked
7102				DIAMONDS, WHETHER OR NOT WORKED, BUT NOT MOUNTED OR SET:
	7102.10	7102.10.00	MC	- Unsorted
	7102.2			- Industrial:
	7102.21	7102.21.00	MC	-- Unworked or simply sawn, cleaved or bruted
	7102.29	7102.29.00	MC	-- Other
	7102.3			- Non-industrial:
	7102.31	7102.31.00	MC	-- Unworked or simply sawn, cleaved or bruted
	7102.39	7102.39.00	MC	-- Other
7103				PRECIOUS STONES (OTHER THAN DIAMONDS) AND SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES, WHETHER OR NOT WORKED OR GRADED BUT NOT STRUNG, MOUNTED OR SET; UNGRADED PRECIOUS STONES (OTHER THAN DIAMONDS) AND SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES, TEMPORARILY STRUNG FOR CONVENIENCE OF TRANSPORT:
	7103.10			- Unworked or simply sawn or roughly shaped:
		7103.10.10 7103.10.20 7103.10.90	NR NR NR	-- Sapphires -- Opals -- Other


	7103.9			- Otherwise worked:
	7103.91	7103.91.00	NR	-- Rubies, sapphires and emeralds
	7103.99			-- Other:
				--- Opals:
		7103.99.11 7103.99.19	NR NR	---- Black ---- Other
		7103.99.11 7103.99.19	NR NR	---- Black ---- Other
				--- Other precious and semi-precious stones:
		7103.99.91 7103.99.99	NR NR	---- Cut and polished (cabochons) ---- Other
		7103.99.91 7103.99.99	NR NR	---- Cut and polished (cabochons) ---- Other
7104				SYNTHETIC OR RECONSTRUCTED PRECIOUS OR SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES, WHETHER OR NOT WORKED OR GRADED BUT NOT STRUNG, MOUNTED OR SET; UNGRADED SYNTHETIC OR RECONSTRUCTED PRECIOUS OR SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES, TEMPORARILY STRUNG FOR CONVENIENCE OF TRANSPORT:
	7104.10	7104.10.00	NR	- Piezo-electric quartz
	7104.20	7104.20.00	NR	- Other, unworked or simply sawn or roughly shaped
	7104.90	7104.90.00	NR	- Other
7105				DUST AND POWDER OF NATURAL OR SYNTHETIC PRECIOUS OR SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES:
	7105.10	7105.10.00	NR	- Of diamonds
	7105.90	7105.90.00	NR	- Other
				SUB-CHAPTER 02 - PRECIOUS METALS AND METALS CLAD WITH PRECIOUS METAL
7106				SILVER (INCLUDING SILVER PLATED WITH GOLD OR PLATINUM), UNWROUGHT OR IN SEMI-MANUFACTURED FORMS, OR IN POWDER FORM:
	7106.10	7106.10.00	NR	- Powder
	7106.9			- Other:
	7106.91	7106.91.00	NR	-- Unwrought
	7106.92			-- Semi-manufactured:
		7106.92.11(A) 7106.92.19(A)	G G	--- Refined bullion: ---- Mint bullion (i.e., in the form accepted in interbank transactions) ---- Other


		7106.92.91(A) 7106.92.99	G NR	--- Other: ---- Silver welding or brazing rods not flux coated or cored ---- Other


7107	7107.00	7107.00.00	NR	BASE METALS CLAD WITH SILVER, NOT FURTHER WORKED THAN SEMI-MANUFACTURED
7108				GOLD (INCLUDING GOLD PLATED WITH PLATINUM) UNWROUGHT OR IN SEMI-MANUFACTURED FORMS, OR IN POWDER FORM:
	7108.1			- Non-monetary:
	7108.11	7108.11.00	NR	-- Powder
	7108.12	7108.12.00	NR	-- Other unwrought forms
	7108.13(B)			-- Other semi-manufactured forms:
		7108.13.11	NR	--- Fabricated (including granules), purl, leaf and foil
		7108.13.31 7108.13.32	G G	--- Gold bullion: ---- Refined (purity of 99.5% or higher) ---- Other


		7108.13.40	G	--- Other
	7108.20	7108.20.00	NR	- Monetary
7109	7109.00	7109.00.00	NR	BASE METALS OR SILVER, CLAD WITH GOLD, NOT FURTHER WORKED THAN SEMI-MANUFACTURED
7110				PLATINUM, UNWROUGHT OR IN SEMI-MANUFACTURED FORMS, OR IN POWDER FORM:
	7110.1			- Platinum:
	7110.11	7110.11.00	G	-- Unwrought or in powder form
	7110.19	7110.19.00	G	-- Other
	7110.2			- Palladium:
	7110.21	7110.21.00	G	-- Unwrought or in powder form
	7110.29	7110.29.00	G	-- Other
	7110.3			- Rhodium:
	7110.31	7110.31.00	G	-- Unwrought or in powder form
	7110.39	7110.39.00	G	-- Other
	7110.4			- Iridium, osmium and ruthenium:
	7110.41	7110.41.00	G	-- Unwrought or in powder form
	7110.49	7110.49.00	G	-- Other
7111	7111.00	7111.00.00	G	BASE METALS, SILVER OR GOLD, CLAD WITH PLATINUM, NOT FURTHER WORKEDTHAN SEMI-MANUFACTURED
7112				WASTE AND SCRAP OF PRECIOUS METAL OR OF METAL CLAD WITH PRECIOUS METAL; OTHER WASTE AND SCRAP CONTAINING PRECIOUS METAL OR PRECIOUS METAL COMPOUNDS, OF A KIND USED PRINCIPALLY FOR THE RECOVERY OF PRECIOUS METAL:
	7112.30	7112.30.00	KG	- Ash containing precious metal or precious metal compounds
	7112.9			- Other:
	7112.91	7112.91.00	KG	-- Of gold, including metal clad with gold but excluding sweepings containing other precious metals
	7112.92	7112.92.00	KG	-- Of platinum, including metal clad with platinum but excluding sweepings containing other precious metals
	7112.99	7112.99.00	KG	-- Other
				SUB-CHAPTER 03 - JEWELLERY, GOLDSMITHS' AND SILVERSMITHS' WARES AND OTHER ARTICLES
7113				ARTICLES OF JEWELLERY AND PARTS THEREOF, OF PRECIOUS METAL OR OF METAL CLAD WITH PRECIOUS METAL
	7113.1			- Of precious metal whether or not plated or clad with precious metal:
	7113.11	7113.11.00	NR	-- Of silver, whether or not plated or clad with other precious metal
	7113.19	7113.19.00	NR	-- Of other precious metal, whether or not plated or clad with precious metal
	7113.20	7113.20.00	NR	- Of base metal clad with precious metal
7114				ARTICLES OF GOLDSMITHS' OR SILVERSMITHS' WARES AND PARTS THEREOF, OF PRECIOUS METAL OR OF METAL CLAD WITH PRECIOUS METAL:
	7114.1			- Of precious metal whether or not plated or clad with precious metal:
	7114.11	7114.11.00	NR	-- Of silver, whether or not plated or clad with other precious metal
	7114.19	7114.19.00	NR	-- Of other precious metal, whether or not plated or clad with precious metal
	7114.20	7114.20.00	NR	- Of base metal clad with precious metal
7115				OTHER ARTICLES OF PRECIOUS METAL OR OF METAL CLAD WITH PRECIOUS METAL:
	7115.10	7115.10.00	KG	- Catalysts in the form of wire cloth or grill, of platinum
	7115.90	7115.90.00	NR	- Other
7116				ARTICLES OF NATURAL OR CULTURED PEARLS, PRECIOUS OR SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES (NATURAL, SYNTHETIC OR RECONSTRUCTED):
	7116.10	7116.10.01	NO	- Of natural or cultured pearls
	7116.20			- Of precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed):
		7116.20.10 7116.20.90	NR NR	-- Opals set in precious metal -- Other
		7116.20.10 7116.20.90	NR NR	-- Opals set in precious metal -- Other
7117				IMITATION JEWELLERY:
	7117.1			- Of base metal, whether or not plated with precious metal:
	7117.11	7117.11.00	NR	-- Cuff-links and studs
	7117.19	7117.19.00	NR	-- Other
	7117.90	7117.90.00	NR	- Other
7118				COIN:
	7118.10(C)	7118.10.00	NO	- Coin (other than gold coin), not being legal tender
	7118.90			- Other:
				-- Coins not in circulation: --- Gold --- Other
		7118.90.10(C)(D) 7118.90.20(E)	NO NO
		7118.90.10(C)(D) 7118.90.20(E)	NO NO
		7118.90.30 7118.90.40	NO NO	-- Coins in circulation: --- Gold --- Other

(A) Grams of silver content.
(B) Grams of gold content.
(C) This item includes coin minted in Australia for use in another country but which is not yet in circulation in that country.
(D) Includes Australian Nugget bullion coins.
(E) Includes Australian Koala platinum coins and the Holey Dollar and Dump silver coins.

ISSUE DATE: 1 JANUARY 2002