Division 1 This chapter does not cover:

articles of a kind used in machines, appliances or for other technical uses, of vulcanized rubber other than hard rubber (heading No 4016), of leather or of composition leather (heading No 4204) or of textile material (heading No 5911);

supporting belts or other support articles of textile material, whose intended effect on the organ to be supported or held derives solely from their elasticity (for example, maternity belts, thoracic support bandages, abdominal support bandages, supports for joints or muscles) (Section XI);

refractory goods of heading No 6903; ceramic wares for laboratory, chemical or other technical uses, of heading No 6909;

glass mirrors, not optically worked, of heading No 7009, or mirrors of base metal or of precious metal, not being optical elements (heading No 8306 or Chapter 71);

goods of heading No 7007, 7008, 7011, 7014, 7015 or 7017;

parts of general use, as defined in note 2 to Section XV, of base metal (Section XV) or similar goods of plastics (Chapter 39);

pumps incorporating measuring devices, of heading No 8413; weight-operated counting and checking machinery, or separately presented weights for balances (heading No 8423); lifting pr handling machinery (heading Nos 8425 to 8428); paper or paperboard cutting machines of all kinds (heading No 8441); fittings for adjusting work or tools on machine-tools, of heading No 8466, including fittings with optical devices for reading the scale (for example, ‘optical’ dividing heads) but not those, which are in themselves essentially optical instruments (for example, alignment telescopes); calculating machines (heading No 8470); valves and other appliances (heading No 8481);

searchlights or spotlights of a kind used for cycles or motor vehicles (heading No 8512); portable electric lamps of heading No 8513; cinematographic sound recording, reproducing or re-recording apparatus (heading No 8519 or 8520); sound-heads (heading No 8522); radar apparatus, radio navigational aid apparatus or radio remote-control apparatus (heading No 8526); sealed beam lamp units of heading No 8539; optical fibre cables of heading No 8544;

searchlights or spotlights of heading No 9405;

articles of Chapter 95;

capacity measures, which are to be classified according to their constituent material; or

spools, reels or similar supports (which are to be classified according to their constituent material, for example, in heading No 3923 or Section XV).