Subpart A headnotes:

1. For the purposes of this subpart

(a) the term "leather" covers leathers made from hides
and skins of all animals (including birds and fish); and
(b) the term "fancy", as applied to leather, means
leather which has been em bossed, printed, or otherwise
decorated in any manner or to any extent (including leather
finished in aluminum, gold, silver, or like effects and
leather on which the original grain has been accentuated by
any process).

2. Articles of leather, and leather which has been cut or
wholly or partly made into forms or shapes suitable for con-
version into footwear or other articles are covered in schedule 7.
Hides and skins (except furskins) of all animals (including birds
and fish), raw or uncured, or dried, salted, limed, pickled, or
otherwise cured:

Bovine:
Buffalo..

1

Rates of Duty

2

120. 11

1. This subpart covers all furskins, except carroted furskins,
but does not cover fur or hair which has been removed from the
skin. (Carroted furskins and fur or hair removed from the skin
are covered in subpart D of part 15 of schedule 1).
2. As used in this subpart-

(a) the terms "furskins" or "skins" include the whole
skins, or cuttings, heads, paws, tails, or other parts of whole
skins, whether or not assembled into plates, mats, linings,
strips, crosses, or similar forms, but do not cover such skins
or parts of skins assembled in the rough form of garments, of
parts or accessories of garments, or of other articles (see part
13B of schedule 7);

(b) the term "raw or not dressed" refers to raw, unprocessed skins, or to processed skins which have not been subjected to any processing which preserves them indefinitely in a pliant state; and

See footnote at end of table.

123.00

123.50

Subpart B.-Furskins-Continued

Subpart B headnotes-Continued

(c) the term "dressed" refers to skins which have been subjected to any processing which preserves them indefinitely in a pliant state, whether or not dyed or otherwise processed and whether or not in condition ready for manufacture into garments or other articles.

3. If the wool or hair on any skins which have been released from customs custody under item 123.00 is removed from such skins otherwise than as an unsought residue resulting from the processing of the skins for use as furs, the entire importation shall be subject to duty at the appropriate rate for such wool or hair on the skin under subpart C of part 1 of schedule 3, and for the purposes of this headnote, the clean content of such wool or hair shall be deemed to be 100%.

4. The entry, or withdrawal from warehouse, for consumption of ermine, fox, kolinsky, marten, mink, muskrat, and weasel furskins, raw or not dressed, or dressed, which are the product of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or of Communist China, is prohibited.

Free.

Skins bearing wool or hair of a kind described in subpart C of part 1
of schedule 3, raw or not dressed, if suitable for use as furs without
the removal of the wool or hair from the skins (except removal
resulting in an unsought residue of wool or hair incidental to proc-
essing of the skins for use as furs) and imported to be so used.
Furskins of the silver, black, or platinum fox (including those of any 22% ad val...
fox which is a mutation, or type developed, from silver, black, or
platinum foxes), whether or not dressed.

Free.

50% ad val.

124. 10

Other furskins, raw or not dressed, or dressed:
Raw or not dressed..