>> Good afternoon, ladies and
gentlemen.
My name is Lynn Banks from the
U.S. Customs and Border
Protections Office of Trade
Relations.
Thank you for joining us today
for the Classification of Class
Containers, Heading 7010 Versus
7013 webinar.
Today's webinar is part of the
2023 Educations Commodity
Specific Webinar Series, and
we're expecting to go about one
hour.
We have a few housekeeping
items.
Everyone will be kept on mute
during the presentation so that
we can keep the line clear of
any background noise.
We invite you to place any
comments or questions in the
chat throughout the
presentation.
We will answer as many questions
as we can from the chat box at
the end of the presentation, and
the continuing education credit
code will be placed in the
webinar chat box throughout the
presentation.
Today's presenter is National
Import Specialist Elena Pietron.
Ms. Pietron, over to you.
>>ELENA PIETRON: Good
afternoon, everyone.
Hopefully everybody is well.
I hope everybody can hear me
okay.
I'm National Import Specialist
126, and Elena Pietron, and I
handle chapter 70 for glass and
glassware with National Import
Specialist Associates Natalia
Puerto Rico and Lauren Sane.
I want to thank them for all
their help that they, you know,
that they provided, and it's
invaluable before I begin.
I also happen to handle chapter
71 for precious and
semi-precious stones and
precious metals.
And then also gold and platinum,
and the unwrought and
semi-manufactured form.
I also handle chapter 41 for
rawhides and skins and chapter
44 for fur skins.
So today we're going to be
discussing the classification of
glass containers, and chapter
7010, heading 7010 versus 7013.
So we -- it should last about an
hour or a little bit over an
hour.
Hopefully I don't go much over.
It could be an hour and a
quarter.
So we do have a lot of
information to cover.
I hopefully would hold the
questions to the end, like
Calenthia had said.
I would prefer that methodology,
but if, you know, I do like
interaction so I know people are
grasping the concept.
So we will basically, I'm going
to be going over the chapters
and the chapter notes, the
tariff breakouts, and we're
going to do some examples, and
then questions with examples and
case studies at the end.
So I might ask you a couple of
questions in between, and
hopefully it will be as
interactive as possible and I
hope you will find the
information useful.
So let us begin.
Okay.
This is our mission statement.
And I'm sure you've seen this,
and mainly the Office of Trade
Mission Statement is what we're
concerned with today.
Not concerned, but that affects
us.
It facilitates legitimate trade
and protects the American
economy to ensure consumer
safety and to create a level
playing field for American
businesses.
This is our disclaimer.
And basically, regarding
classification of glass
containers, and it's for general
purposes, and intended just to
provide guidance and information
to everybody out in the trade
and to promote the understanding
and compliance with importing
laws, and most importantly,
obviously classification,
there's many complicated factors
with customs issues and reliance
solely on this information I
provide you today.
It's not going to be considered
-- to be using reasonable care.
And any of the audio/visual, I
do have a little movie in here,
basically it's all public
information, and majority of the
pictures that I do have are from
samples that we've obtained over
the years, or that, you know,
I've had in particularly to
rulings that we've ruled upon,
and also, you know, mainly
they're stock pictures are the
few that I've used.
This is the link for the ruling
to obtain a binding ruling.
We're going to have this at the
end of the training as well.
And this is the address if you
prefer to apply for a binding
ruling.
So, okay, to begin our webinar,
basically, most of you, you've
probably used a glass container
today or you're using one right
now.
Hopefully it's a water bottle.
And they may seem boring and
simple articles to produce, but
it represents centuries and
years of innovation in the
manufacturing process.
So glass is mysterious.
Since I handle glass, I kind of
have a love for it.
So, of course I like the
diamonds better, but glass is
mysterious, and it's basically
made from sand, opaque sand, but
it's actually transparent, and
it acts like a solid, but
similar to a liquid.
So it's one of the oldest and
most versatile materials, and I
was reading a little bit about
the history of it, and it goes
way back.
It was just actually glass was a
commodity to be held just under
silver and gold and diamonds
centuries of years ago.
So natural glass, it's produced
whenever glass-forming rocks,
they're basically heated at high
temperatures, okay, and they
turn into a solid rapidly, and
it happens when a volcano erupts
or lightning strikes sand, or
when meteorites hit the earth's
surface.
I don't know if anybody's ever
found a meteorite, but if you
have, it's probably worth money.
So that being said, but during
the stone ages, humans used it
as cutting tools that were made
of volcanic origin known as
obsidian and tektites.
So no one knows exactly when
glass was first artificially
made, but it was -- the oldest
finds are from Egypt and eastern
Mesopotamia, and it was also
developed independently in
Greece, Italy, China and North
Tyrol.
I think there was artifacts
found from, you know,
archaeologists from King Tut's
tomb that were from some of the
earliest finds that they could
find, and if you want to read up
on it, I have so much material
today, I would get into the
history of it, because you'll
see that I forgot to say that
I've been import specialist for
probably over 20 years, a
national import specialist
probably almost seven years, six
years, and seems like going on
seven, but I also forgot to
mention that I was also with the
industrial Manufacturing Center
before I came, so I'm basically
an alumni.
I probably have some folks on
the line.
So that being said, but my love
is really for teaching.
You know, I work various lines
before glass, and the precious
metals over the years.
But have obviously found a love
of glass and the stones, and,
you know, the metals as well,
you know, as I've worked those
over these past several years.
So your glass composition is
basically made of sand,
limestone and sodium carbonate.
These are going to be your main
ingredients, okay, with some
others.
So I'm not going to, you know,
eget into the semantics of
reading every screen here, of
all the -- but, you know,
basically, it's to reduce the
melting point, they -- it's
necessary to add a flux, and
that's the soda ash, the sodium
carbonate, which makes the
fluxing agent calls it sodium
oxide.
So basically this reduces the
melting point in half to
probably about from over 3,000
degrees Fahrenheit to just over
1500 degrees Fahrenheit.
And this talks about sheet
glass, which I -- you know,
we're going to be talking about
containers today, so I will --
the only thing I will say on
this slide is the most notable
fact here is your other
materials are also added to
assist in the -- in refining of
glass, that's to remove the
bubbles left behind by the
melting process, and other
components or ingredients are
added, chemicals are added to
improve its color.
Okay?
Because basically glass, they
have small amounts of impurity
that -- it gives it an
undesirable green color to all
the containers, so by
using selenium or cobalt oxite
together with other traces such
as like sodium nitrate, it will
make it colorless, or it will
neutralize the green color and
produce, it's called a white
glass or decolorized glass.
That's the one thing I wanted to
mention from this slide.
This is where to find the
containers of glass within the
tariff under 7010-90 and we're
going to get into some glass
ware as opposed to, you know,
it's not a container, and
classified in 7010, heading
7010, this is where glassware is
found for other articles of
glass would be 7013.10 through
99.
So we'll have to get into some
of the basics here before we
really begin into the
classification issues, into the
meat of the education today
here, or the presentation.
But anyways, this is -- it's
glassware found within the
tariff under section 13, and the
notes that are pertinent are
basically throughout the tariff
schedule, the expression glass
includes fused quarts and other
fused silica.
The subheading note that is
pertinent that is chapter note 1
and that is for the purposes of
7013, subheading 7013.22, 33,
41, 91, the expression lead
crystal means only glass having
a minimum lead monoxide content
of weight by weight of 24
percent.
The additional U.S. note for the
purposes of this chapter, the
term "fused quarts, or other
fused silica" means contain more
than 95 percent of silica, or
percent silica by weight.
So those are the most noted
things to keep in mind.
So this chapter, okay, does not
cover goods of heading 3207,
which is enamels and glazes,
glass frit.
Chapter 171, it does not cover
chapter 71, imitation jewelry,
and Sandra Sary handles the
jewelry portion of 71, and then
it does not handle headings
8544, which is optical fiber
cables and heading 8547, also
chapter 90, it does not cover,
which is optical fibers that are
optically worked, and hypodermic
syringes, artificial eyes,
thermometers, and the such,
barometers and hydrometers, and
it does not cover chapter 94,
heading 9405.
It doesn't handle -- it doesn't
include toys in chapter -- in
games, sports equipment or
Christmas tree ornaments of
chapter 95, and it excludes
chapter 96, buttons, fitted
vacuum flasks and similar
sprays.
Okay.
So that's what it does not
include.
Now, subheading 7010, this
basically it provides for
carboys, carboys, bottles,
flasks, jars, pots, vials,
ampules and other containers of
glass, of the kind used for the
conveyance or packing of goods.
And after the semicolon, we're
going to be touched based on
preserving jars of glass today.
Explanatory notes.
The -- under the Harmonized
Commodity Description and the
Coding System Explanatory Notes,
the ENs, well, they obviously
constitute the official
interpretation of the tariff,
while they're not legally
binding or dispositive, they
provide commentary on the scope
of each heading, and they're
used to interpret the tariff and
assist with the classification
of merchandise, so we know these
are invaluable.
Okay.
The explanatory notes for 70.10,
for the above that I had noted,
these cover that we're going to
be discussing today, 70.10,
ampules or we're going to be
going into 7010.90, which is for
the other provision, and that
covers, and that's mainly what
we're going to be covering today
is the 90, 7010.90 subheading.
And this heading covers all
glass containers of the kind
commonly used commercially for
the conveyance of packing or
liquids -- of liquids or solids,
and which include powders and
granules, and they include,
here's a little picture of them,
okay, because I was always like,
what's a dem John.
The carboys, the demijohns, the
bottles, and vials and similar
containers, so a large glass
bottle with a neck, and if you
can see maybe the blue one in
the center.
It's a bulbous neck bottle
holding approximately three to
ten gallons of liquid, so
sometimes you'll see Wicker over
them, so you'll see that on the
bottom one in the center, in the
middle.
Now, basically they're usually,
what I want to focus in on, is
they're usually made of ordinary
glass, although some bottles,
example for example, one example
is perfume bottles, they may be
made of lead crystal, and
certain large carboys are made
of fused quarts or other fused
silica.
That's to be noted from this
slide.
They remain in this heading,
these containers remain in this
heading even if they're ground,
cut, sand-blasted, etched or
engraved or decorated.
And particularly we're talking
about maybe perfume or a liqueur
bottle.
They could be banded, wickered
or otherwise trimmed with
various materials such as
Wicker, straw, raffia or metal,
et cetera, and they may also
have tumbler caps fitted to the
neck.
They may be fitted with a drop
measuring device or they may be
graduated, provided they are not
of a kind used for laboratory
glassware.
That has its own special
provision.
So B, it's the containers, the
jars, pots and similar
containers for the conveyance or
packing of certain foodstuffs,
which would be your preserves,
your honey, condiments, things
such as that.
It also includes your cosmetic
and toiletry preparations, your
toilet preparations, which would
be, you know, lotions for your
face, anything such as that, and
ointment, pharmaceutical
product, any kind of a polish or
a cleaning preparation.
So these articles are usually
made of ordinary glass.
There might be some changes in
some of these in the next few
years, but with the blow
molding, but anyways, we'll get
on to -- they generally have a
large opening and a short neck,
very imperative, if any neck, so
it could be a short neck, and as
a rule, it will have a lip or a
flange to hold the lip or the
cap.
They can also, however, just
keep in mind that they could
have a cork or a screw top.
Okay.
The ampules, they're intended to
serve -- it's containers for a
serum or a pharmaceutical
product, maybe, you know -- or
for liquid fuel.
I don't think we see many
cigarette lighters these days,
but could be wrong.
I don't smoke, but -- okay, I
guess there are some of those,
and chemical products.
Tubular containers and similar
containers generally obtained
from lamp-worked glass tubes or
by blowing.
Okay, we're -- or for the
conveyance or packing of
pharmaceutical.
These lamp things we're working
on, but the heading also
includes preserving jars.
Anyways, I won't say much more
about that.
But could be some changes in
some of the language for the
ENs, but the heading also
includes preserving jars of
glass, closures of any material
presented with the container for
which they are intended to
remain classified in this
heading.
The heading also covers stoppers
and other closures of glass.
It further includes like a glass
ball for like on the top of a
roller bottle that you'll see,
maybe in a essential oil.
Mechanically worked after being
shaped into the form of this
ball.
So okay, so basically, those
are the end of the pertinent
explanatory notes.
The classification here, now,
this is one of the examples
we'll talk about and we're going
to talk about it in the end.
So this is a shoe in a bottle,
and sit classified, okay, now
I'm not going to ask you, we're
going to go back to this at the
end for our answer, but, you
know, we're going to review some
of the facts for classification
and hopefully you'll be able to
answer this at the end.
But is it classified in heading
7010, which we just went
through, and 7013 for the
conveyance or packing of good is
7010 and 7013 is the other glass
article or 7020, which is other
articles of glass.
So this is -- was a hand-blown
glass bottle in this particular
case study, ruling, if you will.
It's presented in two pieces,
and the larger section of the
bottle, okay, it says it's about
17 inches long, so fairly good
size, and include the neck with
the cork or stop, and the second
section of the bottle, which is
the bottom of the bottle, I
guess, you know, had a two-inch
base, but basically there was a
bag of sand inside.
There was a shoe and a metal
band to connect the two
sections.
To resemble this modified shoe
in a bottle.
So once they were assembled,
they were sent to shoe retailers
who used them to display and
promote shoes, as you see in the
upper right-hand corner of that
picture.
So basically, we want to look
at, you know, where is it going
to be classified?
Is it going to be under 7010,
which we just discussed?
For containers of the glass of a
kind for the conveyance of
package or good, or under 17 of
glassware of the kind for table,
kitchen, indoor office or
similar decoration, or is it
going to be classified in 7020?
So we're going to go back to
this at the end.
This is kind of our unusual
classification.
Intriguing question.
So these are going to be some
questions that you're going to
want to ask yourself.
Now, whether this is in order to
be able to help you to classify
these articles.
So, you know, obviously
internally we're going to ask
for a sample of the article in
its imported condition,
including its packaging as sold
to the consumer.
You know, we need to know or you
would need to ask yourself what
type of glass.
That would be great if you could
send that forward to us when
we're making a decision.
What type of glass?
Is it soda lined, or Silicon, et
cetera?
What kind of glass is it made
of?
We need a breakdown of the
components by weight and value.
Sometimes it could be a, you
know, a product that has, you
know, combination.
Of materials, you know, it could
be glass and have some other
components added to it.
It could have a handle.
It could have a wooden handle.
It could have, you know, plastic
involved so we need to know
everything which it would be a
breakdown by weight and by value
of all the component materials
of the product.
And pertinent facts would be,
and particularly for 7010,
heading 7010, is the glass
produced by machine, by
automatic machine?
What is the capacity of the
article in liters, and if it's
7010.90.50, the size of the
outer diameter of the mouth,
which what we mean by the mouth
is the opening.
So we need that -- the outside
diameter of the mouth in
millimeters.
Which there are tariff breakouts
for that in 7010, and how is
that product principally used?
Which would be a very pertinent
factor.
Now, for 7013, some of the
items that we would need or you
need to ask yourself are is the
glass article table or
kitchenware?
Again, what kind of glass is it
made from?
The breakdown of components by
weight and value.
Is the glass pressed and
toughened and specially
tempered?
Is it cut or engraved?
Because there's breakouts within
the tariff, so we would need to
know that.
How is the color applied to the
glass?
And we're going to get into that
in some screens below.
Is it surface painted?
Is it colored prior to being
turned into a solid?
And does it have bubbles and
seeds?
And the other factor, and we're
going to get into more detail of
these, so you'll have -- can
everybody hear me?
It looks like we have one
question.
Yes, okay.
We have one person without
sound.
Does the glass have a linear
coefficient of expansion?
Which does not exceed the kelvin
test.
We're going to talk about this
in a couple slides down the road
in a couple of minutes into the
presentation.
So what is the unit value of
each glass item?
Okay.
Good.
We've got -- okay.
Sound back.
Okay.
And here, this is another
important factor.
For 7013.
What is the unit value of each
glass item?
So the unit value refers to the
price at which a single article
is sold.
We're going to talk more about
that in a minute.
So the materials, okay, of how
is glass made.
Basically, it's made by
combining sand with limestone,
with limestone and soda ash,
along with other ingredients,
like we discussed before, and
it's melted in a furnace or
basically in a kiln, if you
will.
So glass containers were
formerly produced -- I guess --
is there like -- okay, I'm not
sure -- I'll have to defer to my
-- the people that are running
the webinar.
I can't answer that question.
Anyways, okay, glass
containers, okay, were formerly
produced by blowing, but
basically, they're mainly --
most likely they're manufactured
-- or not mainly, they are
mainly made by machines, which
automatically feed the molten
glass into these molds where the
finished articles are formed by
compressed air.
We're going to have a little
video coming up pretty soon, and
it will kind of give you a
little bird's eye view on how
the bottles are made, and I
found it very informative.
There is hand-blown glass.
Correct.
Okay, Joni, I see you.
There is.
And sometimes if you've gone to
Italy in Murano, the Murano
glass in Venice, rather, they do
hand-blown glass, and there are
different places that do
hand-blown.
They will hand blow glass, and
I've actually -- different shows
and those sorts of things, so
it's not a lost trade, but it's
mainly -- you know, some of the
bottles and those sorts of
things that you're going to see
the containers mainly, we're
referring to those that are
mainly manufactured by machines,
but yeah, they do have
hand-blown glass.
Thank you.
Now, the molding, when you --
the molded glass is placed into
forming machines and then molded
into functional glass
containers, and you'll see the
picture at the top right of that
being done, and the annealing,
you'll basically see these
bottles on the bottom, the
larger picture of the green
bottles, they're going to pass
through machine, which is called
a Lehr, that basically reheats,
and it gradually cools them to
relieve any stresses in the
glass to help, which -- so the
-- and it will strengthen the
glass so it doesn't crack.
But let me see here.
And I saw something in the chat.
Okay.
Wait a minute here.
Yeah, the Corning Museum of
Glass in New York has a great
collection of shows and the
hand-blown glass.
That's actually very
interesting, from Helen.
Thank you so much.
Yeah, I would like to see that
one day when I come to New York.
I'll have to put that on my
list.
I was -- those sorts of things
are pretty fascinating for the
hand-blown glass.
And I've actually -- you know,
it's pretty mesmerizing, and I
don't know if anybody is in to
art, but some of the designs are
very phenomenal on the
hand-blown glass.
It's quite a craft, quite an
art, if you will.
Okay.
Now, here's our little movie.
So this video clip is the little
video clip here, we're going to
-- it's about five minutes, and
I think you're going to finder
it really interesting, and then
we'll discuss it.
And hopefully everybody will be
able to hear the video, and if
you can't, notate it in the chat
box, but I'm going to start the
video now, and I think you'll
find this helpful.
>> Glass is made of natural
ingredients that are abundant.
Making it uses less energy than
producing metal or plastic, and
it can be endlessly recycled.
Whether that colored or clear,
then, glass bottles and jars are
always green.
The recipe for glass combines
several natural raw materials.
The main ones are silica sand --
ash and limestone.
>>ELENA PIETRON: Wait a minute.
I'm going to start this over.
I'm sorry.
Sorry about that.
>> Glass is made of natural
ingredients that are abundant.
Making it uses less energy than
producing metal or plastic and
it can be endlessly recycled.
Whether they're colored or
clear, then, glass bottles and
jars are always green.
The recipe for glass combines
several natural raw materials.
The main ones are silica sand,
soda ash and limestone.
Silica sand usually makes up
about 45 percent of the batch.
The soda ash helps melt the
silica evenly.
It makes up about 15 percent.
A limestone content of about 10
percent makes the finished glass
more durable.
These ingredients are combined
with recycled glass called
cullet.
The factor's equipment feeds
precise amounts of the materials
into a furnace.
After 24 hours at 1500 degrees
Celsius, a gooey liquid that's
the consistency of honey is
produced.
The molten glass pours out of
the furnace.
Shears cut the flow at precise
intervals to produce cylindrical
globs.
Each glob is the exact amount
required to make up one bottle
or jar.
They drop to a device called the
scoop.
The scoop moves them to troughs
that feed them to jar-forming
and bottle-forming machines.
A glob of molten glass goes into
a preliminary mold.
In a matter of seconds, it comes
out as a miniature version of
the bottle, known as a Parisian.
Each Parisian then moves into a
blow mold.
The cavity of which is the shape
of the final bottle.
The equipment blows compressed
air into the Parisian,
stretching the glass outward
towards the wall of the mold
cavity.
This produce creates the final
bottle shape and hollows out the
inside.
These are am better-colored beer
bottles.
The color is produced by adding
small amounts of iron, sulfur
and carbon to the glass mix.
A similar manufacturing process
is used to produce other types
of bottles and jars.
In this one, the company is
making 375 milliliter wine
bottles out of clear glass.
This run is producing bottles
also out of clear glass.
This mold, though, has a special
feature, a recessed insignia on
one of the walls which produces
a raised insignia on the front
of the bottle.
After the bottles leave the
forming machine, they travel
through flames, otherwise they
would cool down too quickly and
crack from thermal shock.
A loader now gently pushes the
bottles into what's called an
annealing layer.
The bottles cool at a controlled
rate as they move Lou the Lehr.
This gradually released the
stress from the glass.
As the bottles exit, they're
sprayed with lubricant.
This enables them to move
smoothly through the rest of the
inspection and packaging line.
The bottles now -- single file
to head into the automatic
inspection station.
As the machine spins each
bottle, cameras and probes check
for imperfections such as cracks
or bottles.
The inspection equipment then
examines the top to check
dimensions and ensure the
threads for the screw cap are
molded correctly.
Before shipping, each bottle
gets a final visual inspection.
The proportion of cullet in
glass can be as high as 90
percent.
Cullet melts at a lower
temperature, so for every 10
percent of cullet in the mix,
the factory uses up to two and a
half percent less energy to
produce its glass.
Now, that is a clear incentive
to recycle.
Now, that is up to two and a
half percent --
>>ELENA PIETRON: Okay.
Hopefully everyone was able to
hear the video and found that
interesting.
So these are some common forms
of glass.
Hopefully, you know, the
previous video was able to help
you conceptualize exactly, you
know, the manufacturing process
of the glass bottles.
So these next types of glass
are -- one is borosilicate
glass, and it's the type of
glass with silica and boron
trioxide as the main
constituents.
And it's commonly used for the
construction of reagent bottles.
Soda lime glass is most often
what I see, not always, but it's
probably one of the more common
glass produced.
It's composed of 70 percent
silica, 15 percent soda, and 9
percent lime, which is smaller
than the various amounts of
other compounds.
And then there's glass ceramics,
which this is a poly crystalline
material produced through
controlled crystallization of
the base glass, and the
glass-ceramic materials share
many properties with both glass
and ceramics.
It's widely used for cooktops,
so you probably have one in your
home.
Maybe or maybe not.
A lot of people I know have, you
know, elaborate gas grills now,
too, but anyways, the cooktops I
always thought were cleaner, and
actually it's used in cookware
and bakeware, or as a
high-performance reflectors for
digital projectors.
And then the crackle glass,
which you see often, I see that
in maybe decorative articles.
They have a rough, irregular
surface and it looks like
cracked ice, and basically, the
manufacturing of -- for the
crackling, they plunge the glass
-- the hot glass into cold water
and it basically creates these
random cracks, and then they
re-form the piece with a mold
after reheating.
But it's interesting.
I've seen, you know, different
decorative articles that are
very pretty for the crackle
glass.
And then there's float glass,
and those are produced by
solidifying the molten glass on
the surface of a bath of molten
tin.
So we're going to get into the
7010 of containers and
preserving jars, basically a
little bit of the background
knowledge for you to take with
you today.
So the mason type preserving
jars have always been regarded
as a preserving jar.
Not sure if we have any team
that still do canning, which I
hope we do, you know, a lot of
people do, like in my case,
like, resort to the freezer jam,
but the -- making jam, you know,
in a preserving jar, there's
nothing better than homemade
jam, you know, and it lasts,
wonderful gifts and, whatnot.
So the common mason type jar
consists of a flat metal lid
held in place by a metal screw
band during the process.
It's basically, you know, with
the mason jar on the bottom, the
glass, and the lid is crimped
around the bottom edge to form a
trough filled with a colored
gasket compound.
So in addition, the glass
storage articles with bail and
trigger, and you'll see those
are, you know, you'll see some
of those with the wire
enclosure, with the bail and
trigger closure, and those are
regarded as preserving jars.
And we note the Myers versus the
United States court case here.
We're going to get more into
this in a minute.
So our containers are
principally used to convey and
pack merchandise, which is going
to be sold commercially to the
consumer, for an example.
They're generally disposable.
They're principally sold by
importers to wholesalers and
distributors who will pack them
with goods to be marketed to the
consumer, and they're also
principally sold to consumers
and they're filled with goods.
They're filled with different
could be, you know, honey or
something like that, or any type
of good principally sold, or,
you know, food stuff is one of
the things it could be used for
basically.
So 7010 is principally used to
convey and pack merchandise
which will be sold to -- sold
commercially.
Now, this is the difference
between 7010 and 7013, and then
we just noted there's also an
Italglass versus the United
States case that we used for
7010, and then versus the 7013,
which is classified as the
kitchenware, table and
kitchenware in 7013, principally
used to store the food or other
materials in the home for the
indoor setting, and it's
basically sold empty.
So you're going to use it more
for storage under 7013.
It's not -- you know, it's not
-- 7010 is used to convey and
pack the merchandise when they
sell it to you in the store.
We're going to get more into
this.
So for the container of the
conveyance of the packing of
goods.
So basically, for customs -- we
-- customs adopted the following
criteria.
It's indicative, but not
conclusive of whether a
particular glass article
qualifies as a container of
glass for the conveyance or
packing of goods.
So there are seven items here.
They generally have a large
opening and a short neck, we
talked about that.
And the ultimate purchaser's
primary expectation is to
discard the container after they
have used the goods.
They sold from the importer to
the wholesaler/distributor, who
then packs the goods -- the
container with the goods.
Four, they're sold in an
environment of sale that
features the goods packed in the
container and not the jar
itself.
And then it's used commercially
to convey your food items, your
food items, beverages, oils or
it could be any kind of an
extract, a meat extract, et
cetera.
It's capable of being used in
the hot packing process, and
it's recognized, finally, it's
recognized in the trade as used
primarily to pack and convey the
goods to the consumer.
That's what you need to keep in
mind, okay, who then is going to
discard the container after
they've used it.
So basically, customs concluded
that for 7013, okay, so they
included glass storage articles,
okay, the class glass storage
articles, and this is how it was
adopted.
We adopted the following
principles -- the principal use
criteria.
So the principal use criteria
stated that, it states, made of
ordinary glass, lead glass or
glass having a low coefficient
of expansion, or glass ceramics
or glass ceramics.
They may also be colorless or
colored, maybe cut, frosted,
etched, engraved, painted, could
have a motif on it.
The consumer purchases these
primarily for storages, for
storage, under 7013.
And it's sold from the importer
to the wholesaler, who then
sells them to the retailer.
Sold in an environment of sale
that emphasizes the article's
use or the reuse.
You're basically using it as a
storage article.
So it's sold to the ultimate
purchaser empty, and it's
recognized in the trade,
primarily as being -- having a
storage use.
So the Myers versus the United
States, the preserving jars of
glass in 7010 were considered in
the Myers court case, and it
concerned the jars with the wire
veil and trigger.
It was a veil and rubber ring
closure system and the court
found these jars to be
classified under the provision
of preserving jars in 7010, and
the court concluded that the
three fundamental features that
are listed here, which
distinguish preserving jars from
packing and conveyance jars of
7010, basically, it
distinguished them by the
thickness of the glass in the
walls of the jar, so we would
need to know that, if we're
trying to classify an article.
We need -- and particularly if
you're thinking that it's going
to go into 7010.
We need the thickness of the
walls.
But the jar's ability to form
and maintain a hermetic seal,
that's very important.
It has to do that.
It has to form and maintain --
form and maintain a hermetic
seal, and the jar's potential
for reuse as a canning or
preserving jar.
So with these things, we'll get
into these in one minute.
This is the Mason type jar,
photo of it with a self-sealing
lid.
It's classified as a preserving
jar in 7010.
This is what -- with the bail
and trigger closure, and this is
also classified in 7010 as a
preserving jar.
Of course, if it meets the above
that we just previously
discussed.
So going back to this slide, I'm
going to talk a little bit more
about that because by the naked
eye, you cannot tell if it
maintains a hermetic seal, and
I'll talk about that in a
minute.
You have to send that to a lab
for analysis.
And we're going to talk about
that in a couple of slides.
Let me go back to where we were.
Here we go.
Okay.
Slide 37.
Okay.
So section -- basically, here's
the breakout for 7010, and for
the carboys, the bottles, and
basically, 7010.2030, we're
discussing mainly in detail
today, it also has additional
duties, section 301 duties,
okay, chapter 99, for products
of China classified under
7010.10, 10.20, 7010.30,
7010.90.
Okay, of additional 25 percent
duty.
So upon importation, you have to
report the chapter 99
subheading, for an example.
In this case it would be the
9903.88.03, in addition to the
applicable subheading listed
above.
These are the other breakouts.
7090.10.
90.
This is all for 90.
So this is your other.
.05 would include your other
serum bottles, vials and
pharmaceutical containers, your
7010.90.20 would be your
containers.
These are for the conveyance of
the packing of perfume and -- or
toilet preparations produced by
automatic machine, and your
7010.90.30 breakout is for your
other, which is other than
produced by machine, which is --
so that's basically not produced
by automatic machine, is your
7010.90.30.
Now, some of the classification
questions that I'm going to ask,
I'm not sure if anyone has your
tariff, a link that they can
open or not, but it would be
useful if you have that to
answer some of the questions
that I asked shortly.
So otherwise, you know, I'm
just showing you them here, and
I usually am asking even if you
can tell me at the heading
level, that would be great.
And this is for your subheading
breakout for your 7010.90.50,
your other containers, and these
are broken out by exceeding a
certain liter, like one liter,
for an example, in the first
breakout, which would be
7010.90.5005, and it's having a
mouth of the outer diameter of
38 millimeters or more.
And then it goes down, you know,
breaking it out further, you
know, with different sizes with
the outer mouth.
Or the capacity, basically, the
capacity.
We'll go into this in a minute
just to see -- so you have a
general idea.
So your classification, we're
going to have our first question
here, and you can answer these
in the chat box.
And I know we do have -- I can't
really -- ideally, I can't see
everyone, so hopefully, you
know, you'll just be able to put
your answer in the chat box so I
just can get a grasp if you're
understanding the concepts, and
that would be great.
And if you want to kind of keep
a tally, that would be
wonderful.
Hopefully everybody gets all of
them right because I can't call
on everyone.
I can't see your beautiful
faces.
Okay.
So what is the classification of
-- these are bottles.
You know, the classification of
these bottles, if they're in
7010 or 7013.
So the bottles are going to be
filled with basically an
essential oil, or a
nutraceutical and they're fitted
with steel and plastic roller
balls insert and cap.
The bottles are used to dispense
the oil contained within
directly on the skin.
They're produced by automatic
molding machine, and once they
can't be removed once the roll
er ball is inserted into the
bottle, and the bottles must be
discarded when they're empty.
So these are -- they're going
to be filled.
So they're imported empty.
So these are .10 millimeters
and .15 milliliters, so that's
the volume and capacity on these
bottles.
So what would you say?
Would they go into 7010 or 7013?
Even if you guess at it.
Okay.
I'm sorry.
I had to reopen it.
No wonder I didn't see anything
from anybody.
Okay.
It looks like everybody --
there's a lot of people -- and
I'm glad, I just seen an answer
that is -- if you want to answer
it to the further level, if you
have the tariff breakouts, I'm
just saying I think I have an
answer here that is correct, but
I have an "A" student, I
believe.
Okay.
And I was going to say -- --
okay.
Pretty close.
But let's go to the next slide
and see this.
I thought I had the right
answer, but I don't.
Okay.
Anyways, it is -- well, I got
something going on with my
screen here.
Let me see.
Okay.
It's 7010.90.20.federal court so
they basically are -- they're
carboys glass, they're basically
used -- they're kind of used for
conveyance of packing of perfume
or other toilet preparations.
They're going to be
filled:they're going to be
thrown away but they're going to
be filled.
They're not going to be used for
storage.
So that was great.
Okay.
So that was a good start.
So our next one is, okay, our
glass bottles were manufactured
by automatic machine and we have
two bottles.
Okay.
The first bottle has a capacity
of 1 liter and a mouth with an
outer diameter of 31
millimeters, and an item -- the
item number 2 has a capacity
of .37 liters and a mouth with
an outer diameter of 28
millimeters.
The necks of both of these
bottles feature a lug finish,
and the bottles are empty upon
importation into the U.S. and
sold for your clients,
customers, they were filled with
maple syrup using a hot-pack
press.
So we went through that and what
classification and they're
fitted with a closure and sold
and distributed commercially.
So do you think this is 7010 or
7013?
You don't have to be exactly.
And if somebody gives me an
exact classification, that's
great, too, but I don't know if
you're going to have access to
your tariff at this point in
time.
So even a 7010, a heading, or a
7013, anybody want to give it a
try?
What would you think, where
would this one go?
I gave you the answer too soon.
I didn't mean to -- they're
7010.
Okay.
And basically, these basically
go by the capacity of not
exceeding liters, which were --
okay.
.237, and the other one was the
outer diameter of 28
millimeters, and they're
basically used for the
conveyance, okay, because these
were used for maple syrup and
the hot pack press.
So they're going to be filled
and distributed commercially.
And they're going to be -- so
that one there.
Okay.
We'll go on to our next one.
So for 7013, this is -- okay.
Those were the only two.
Okay.
For that.
For right now.
So your glassware in 7013.
Okay.
So the breakouts for the
subheading, here are some of
your breakouts are 7013.41.
This is for other glassware of
lead crystal, and for your
glassware having a linear
coefficient for the kelvin test
would go into your subheading
breakout of 7013.42, and your
other glassware would be
7013.49, and for your decorative
glass articles of lead crystal
would be 7013.91.
And we discussed that about the
at least 24 percent of lead by
weight, which is note 1 to
chapter 70, and for your other
decorative glassware, it would
be 7013.99.
So basically, we're going to
get into more detail on these
breakouts here.
This is just a brief synopsis.
I don't know if -- I believe
you're going to be able to
access this webinar, so for you
to be able to have a reference
is what those are for.
So the linear coefficient,
okay, per the kelvin test of
thermal expansion basically the
bottom line is it's usually
employed in describing the
expansion of a solid, but
basically, all of that, I don't
want to fill up your brain.
Already we've had enough
information for everybody to
digest, but what it means is the
glass is very resistant to
cracking and it's unlikely to
break going from hot to cold.
So you know, you want to be --
you know, hopefully, if you're
using a casserole dish, you're
going to want it to be, you
know, basically very resistant
to cracking.
You're not going to want it to
crack, so -- but in order to be
able to make this requirement or
to meet this requirement, if you
will, it has to be tested at the
customs lab to make the
determination, or, you know, an
outside laboratory, if you're
trying to do classification as
an importer.
But us as customs employees,
we're going to have that
verified.
I will have that verified from
our customs lab, which I want to
know, we work very closely with,
and we can't thank them enough,
of our chemists at the lab, the
customs lab.
And we work closely with them,
particularly with the glass
line, and many other lines as
well.
Okay.
So this heading covers the
following types of articles for
7013 obtained by pressing or
blowing, which is your table.
This is the explanatory notes
for basically it -- it covers
pictures and jugs we're going to
be concentrating on, glassware
for indoor decoration and other
glassware, such as vases or
fruit bowls, et cetera,
including items for churches and
the like.
The articles may be of ordinary
glass and it's got all of those
listed above.
I won't read everything.
We've talked about most of
these, and colorless.
Same thing.
Table centerpieces, plated
glass, frosted, flash glass,
those sorts of things.
They can be -- like we talked
about -- they can be combined
with other materials like base
metal and wood, et cetera.
We deal with that all the time,
where it could be several
national import specialists
involved, if it's a combination
article, but basically, they're
classified in this heading only
if the glass is determined to be
its essential character, the
whole of the character of the
glass article.
It excludes 7013 excludes your
glass mirrors.
They're handled under 7009,
which I do handle also.
It excludes -- 7013 excludes
commonly used for commercial
packing, 7013, obviously those
go in to 7010.
We know that, right?
And the lighting -- or I'm
sorry, leaded lights, 70.16.
70.18, articles of a kind
suitable for interior
decoration, which is glass
beads, and imitation flowers.
It excludes clock cases and in
heading 91.12, lamps and light
fittings of heading 94.05, I
believe, and I asked -- Michael
Chen handles that, and your
toilet sprays, which would be --
or scent sprays, heading 96.16,
and your 96.17, vacuum flasks.
So your specialty -- or
specially tempered glassware.
It must be both pressed and
toughened.
Products which are not specially
tempered are often entered
correctly -- incorrectly, I'm
sorry, okay, that are not
specially tempered.
So they have to be both, okay,
so they have to be tempered and
pressed and toughened and
specially tempered.
So let me get into this.
So analysis by our customs lab,
it's necessary to verify the
product is actually specially
tempered and pressed and
toughened.
And this is just the citation
for the lab to determine whether
it's specially tempered, and
also, please refer to our
informed compliance publication
for decorative articles, for
decorative glassware, ICP, and
that reference will be at the
end of my presentation on one
slide.
And most importantly, for 7013
subheading, they're dependent on
value.
So a unit value refers to the
price at which a single article
is sold from the foreign seller
to the American importer.
Okay.
So basically, here's an example,
there's a decanter coming in
with some glasses, and it's sold
by the foreign firm to the
American importer for the price
of $5.50.
But going back to the previous
screen, or to reiterate this
point on how we value it, the
value of the decanter is $2.50,
and the value of each drinking
glass is .50 cents.
So how is a decanter and the
glasses classified?
Heading 7010 or 7013?
Okay.
7013.
Okay.
I think -- let's see.
It looks like everybody is on
the right track.
It looks like we've got all
correct answers.
This is fabulous.
Everybody's getting it.
This is wonderful.
Okay.
Yes, it's 7013.49.20.
It was based on a GRI3 (b)
determination.
It was the decanter that
represented the essential
character of the set.
So the entire set was classified
based on that amount, the $2.50.
So the actual classification was
7013.49.20.
That's great.
Fabulous.
Everybody's really getting it.
Okay.
So basically, for colored bubble
glass, both criteria must be met
for 7013.99.10.
These are the two criteria that
must be met.
It must have -- must be colored,
have color, and it must have
bubble seeds or stones.
Okay.
So the provision for the
7013.99.10 is also subject to
the additional 25 percent
duties, section 301 duties, and
as I stated before, you'd have
to, you know, list those along
with the chapter 99 subheading
along with the additional
applicable subheading.
So that's the breakout for that.
And so for colored bubble glass,
it must be colored prior to
being turned into a solid, okay,
prior to solidification, and
inserted into the glass, okay,
and then it must be -- if it's
simply applied to the surface
and painted, that would not be
considered bubble glass or
colored glass.
But if color is simply derived
from recycled glass, it's also
not generally regarded as
colored glass.
So we mainly need to get that
information from the importer or
the manufacturer, submit that to
us.
That would be wonderful.
The second criterion is the
bubble seeds or stone, so it
must be characterized by the
random distribution of the
bubble seeds or stones
throughout the mass of the
glass.
So visual analysis reveals that
there's numerous bubbles and
seeds or stones, we're going to
have a picture on the next
slide.
This criteria has been met.
Let's see.
I have one question here, too.
I'm going to get to that
question at the end.
But basically, one of the main
factors separating 7010 from
7013, yes, it's conveyance of
packing, yeah, for packing of
goods.
That's one of the factors.
But there's several others that
we mentioned above, and I'll
probably go back to that slide
for you.
Okay.
Complete 7013 classification on
the decanter.
Oh, okay, type of glass.
Sorry about that.
Have to go back to that.
Okay.
But anyway, it's a type of
glass, but we gave you the
answer, so I'll have to look at
that.
But anyways, so let's go back to
my slide.
Criteria 2.
I was just looking at the chat
box question.
So visual analysis, okay, so it
shows only -- it -- okay.
This is important.
If your visual analysis shows
only some bubble seeds or
stones, then we check for the
presence of the fining agents.
This would be at the lab.
Because it's -- you know, the
fining agents can't be really
detected by the naked eye.
So that's if they have
antimony or arsenic oxides,
which would allow classification
as colored bubble glass, so that
would have to be done by a lab
analysis of some sort.
So when is a product colored
bubble glass in 7013.99?
Our answer is right here, when
it's colored prior to being
solidified and it contains many
bubble, seeds or stones that are
randomly disbursed and this is a
picture of basically kind of
what it looks -- what it looks
like up close.
And that's actually an article
that we have in a sample, but
it's very hard to see a bubble
glass, so I basically did a
little photo of something zoomed
in.
Okay.
Now, okay.
So now this is a decorative
glass apple.
It's bubble glass with a clear
-- let's see, it consists of red
colored bubble glass with a
clear glass stem and leaf.
It's not specially toughened or
specially tempered and the
coloring agent was inserted into
the glass prior to
solidification, and our exam
revealed many bubbles throughout
the mass of the glass, so is it
classified in 7013.99.1000?
Or 7013.99.2000?
So we said it's not pressed and
toughened and specially
tempered, right?
Okay.
We've got it.
Everybody's got it down pretty
much.
I see them all coming through
right.
Beautiful.
It is 7013.99.1000.
Okay.
It's characterized by the
numerous bubble, seeds and
stones throughout the mass.
Okay.
Excellent.
You guys are doing great.
Here's a couple of rulings based
on our bubble glass, and you can
refer to these at your leisure,
and it will give you some
insight, you know, into several
additional rulings to help you
to be able to better understand.
So now, I know we're running
out of time, but this was my
virtual break screen.
I thought I would give everybody
a laugh, even though we'd like
to go take a nap.
It looks like a golden retriever
puppy.
We're really not going to be
able to.
So I shouldn't be very much
longer.
I'm going to try to tie this up
quickly.
I know if some of you have to
leave, that's okay, too.
So we'll go on to this.
Hopefully you have something to
drink there, and you can look to
getting into your pajamas, or
whatever, with your puppy after
my presentation.
It will be over shortly.
Other products covered by
7013.99.10, okay, glassware
decorated with metal Flecking.
Your glassware decorated with
pictorial scenes, with a
picture, some kind of a picture
scene, and then thread or
ribbon-like effects, it's
glassware decorated with these
ribbon-like effects, I'm going
to show you some pictures in a
minute, and one of my favorite
glassware is the Millefiori
glassware, I mentioned to you
that a lot of it is made in
Venice.
So in each case, it must be
embedded or introduced into the
glassware prior to it being
turned into a solid.
And in the effect, it's merely
etched or painted on the
surface.
It does not apply, 7013.99.10
does not apply.
So here, let's see, your colored
-- okay, your bubble glass with
metal Flecking is 7013 and your
ribbon-like and Millefiori glass
is the 7013.99.10, just one of
your breakouts again.
Pressed and toughened and
specially tempered, like in the
photo above that everybody got
correct and the example above,
that would be if it was pressed
and toughened, it would have
been in the 7013.99.2000.
Smokers' articles, your perfume
bottles fitted with ground glass
stoppers, those are provided for
is what I should say, provided
for in 7013.99.30.
So votive candle holders, the
7013.99.35, and those are
currently under review at
headquarters, and we're going to
go on to a couple of examples,
and then we should be hopefully
wrapping it up shortly.
So your perfume bottle with
ground glad stopper is your
7013.99.30, but if it -- so if
it meets the criterion for
bubble glassware, then it's
going to go into 7013.99.10.
Because there is no breakout.
So this is the ribbon effect,
the ribbons within the frog.
So if they're within the frog,
which they are in this
particular case, this is a
sample, before it solidifies,
then 7013.99.10, it will apply.
So this is provided for.
And the same thing with the
vase.
It was harder to see on the
bottom, if it's made and
inserted into the glass vase,
which it appears to be, just
prior to solidification, I
believe those were both samples,
I know the top one was.
And this one is a glass vase
with a blue stripe and a handle.
So do you think this one is a
threaded or ribbon glass of
7013.99.10?
Excellent.
This is no.
Very good.
Excellent.
And I know I thought I saw a
question about they couldn't see
bubbles above but I'll get to
that question after because I
want to try to move along and
we'll go back to that slide.
Excellent.
You guys are all doing fabulous.
Okay.
This is a glass egg.
So the lab determined that the
sample did contain thread-like
and ribbon-like effects in this
glass egg, and it was colored
prior to being turned into a
solid, solidification.
But it does not contain bubbles,
seeds or stone and it does,
however, contain arsenic oxide
as a fining agent but it was
still classified in 7013.
I believe we'll get back to that
one.
It does not contain the bubbles,
seeds and stone.
I think I want to get back to
this one.
This is the Millefiori glass
right here.
And this is what it looks like,
page 68.
Okay.
Let's go back.
Okay.
Everybody wanted me to go back
to 68.
Okay.
So no, it is not glass, thread
or ribbon glass -- this one
here, the reason why it wasn't
is because they were not
inserted.
The glass, the ribbon-like
effect was not inserted into the
glass prior to solidification.
So if you look at it, it's hard
to tell by the picture.
It is done on top of the glass.
The stripes with painted on the
surface and the handle was
attached on the top.
That's why it is not 7013.99.10.
Very good.
Okay.
You're welcome.
You're very welcome.
Okay.
So this one was 7013.99.1000.
Now, this is what Millefiori
glass looks like, and basically,
it's a type of mosaic glassware,
and -- which is characterized by
a flower pattern.
So what they do is I almost want
to run a video but we don't have
time, but anyways, they first
heat the bundle of these thin --
they're thin glass rods, if you
will, with different colors.
They almost look like a little
flower in themselves, but -- and
they're fused together, and then
it's pulled thin to make them
look like that.
And they're -- it's sliced,
then, almost like taffy, if you
will, when the glass is soft,
cross-sectionally to produce
these little disks with
flower-like designs, and then
they're -- it's re-heated and
blown a second time.
That's probably why this glass
is very expensive.
And it's the result is produced
is brilliantly colored piece of
glassware with an intricate or
ornamental design.
And that -- the classification
is 7013.99.10.
So the -- now, this here,
7013.99.10 versus 7013.28, .37
and .49.
So 7013.99.10 only applies to
articles for toilet, office,
indoor decoration or similar
purposes.
It does not apply to drinking
glasses.
Okay?
So it's irrelevant if the
drinking glass or other article
of glassware has any special
properties listed in 7013.99.10,
which is all of the listed
bubble glass, Millefiori, the
ribbon effect thread or
ribbon-effect glasses or
pictorial, since 7013.28, .37
and .49, they have no subheading
for these special type of
glasses.
These are additional rulings to
help you better understand so
you can go back to these and
Peruse these on your own if you
need to at a later date.
So what is a classification of
this Mason jar?
Now, this here, this is a tricky
question, though.
The jars are not designed -- a
little tricky -- they're not
designed for use in preserving
food.
So rather, they're designed for
drinking glasses and for
household storage.
And the unit value of the jar is
over .30 cents but not over $3.
Okay.
We've got a couple of 7010.
Let's see here.
Okay.
It looks like everybody's headed
in the right direction.
Excellent.
I just saw one come in.
Perfect.
Okay.
Beautiful.
Okay.
You guys are on the right track.
It is 7013.
They're designed for use as both
drinking glasses and household
storage.
They're equal in merit and
they're classified in 7013.10.
So this was a GRI 3 (C), which
was last in the tariff.
So you guys did great in that
one.
Fabulous.
Okay.
The next classification, what's
the -- this happened to be --
what's the classification on
this one?
And this was -- the lab
determined, the lab analysis,
came back and said that the
linear coefficient did not
exceed the kelvin test, and the
glass is pressed but not -- but
the glass is pressed and not
specially tempered.
So it was considered to be a
composite good of GRI3 (b) and
the glass provided the essential
care of the item.
But can you tell me, though, the
value was under $3.
Do you think it would be the
7013.42.1000 or .2000 on this
one?
This one's a little harder.
Yay, I love it.
You guys are doing great.
Okay.
And plus it's getting late.
You guys are awesome.
Okay.
Excellent.
All the right -- they're 2000.
It's basically, they tested it,
and it met the condition for
7013.42.2000 of glass ceramics.
It was of a kind used having a
linear coefficient not exceeding
the kelvin test.
Excellent.
So there you go.
It's the 7042.2000, and then it
also -- for -- that's -- for the
section 301 duties on
7013.42.2000, it would be an
additional 7.5 percent
additional duties for subheading
-- for chapter 99, under
9903.88.15.
Okay.
Let me keep going because I have
a few more to go here.
Okay.
So this one here, what's the
classification of this
container, they're imported
empty, shipped directly to the
customer, and they're filled
with jelly using a hot-filled
pasturizing process, fitted with
a lid and distributed to grocery
and similar stores and they give
you the capacity, 14 ounces in
the mouth, so we'll just get
into it, is it 7010 or 7013?
Okay.
They're all coming through
correct.
Excellent.
Because we know, right,
conveyance for packing,
basically, and they're going to
be thrown away.
They're not going to be used for
storage.
Okay.
Excellent.
So that is 7010.90.5025.
You guys are really killing it.
Okay.
Let's see, so we got a few more
here.
And let's see here.
This one is a fresh herb keeper.
7013.49.1000, or would it be
7013.49.5090?
And basically, it was -- it's
going to be used to store the
herbs.
Its essential character is
imparted by the glass because it
is a composite good.
It's over 3 but not over 5, but
the lab, however, on the bottom
here, all these factors, it's
not pressed and toughened and
specially tempered.
So would anyone want to take a
shot at that one?
Excellent.
You guys are really doing
fabulous.
It is.
It's basically 7013.49.5090,
because it wasn't pressed and
toughened and specially
tempered, as we did say.
Okay.
Excellent.
I'm coming down to the last few
here.
What's a classification of this
glass container?
I think we got just a couple --
two three more.
Okay.
I'm looking at the time here.
Okay.
We got a few more minutes.
This one here is a glass
container with a lid and a wire
bail and trigger closure system,
gasket.
The glass is not pressed and
toughened and specially
tempered.
Let's see, 7013.49.1000 or .2000
on this one?
Okay.
You guys are really doing great.
You are doing great.
2000.
Yep.
Exactly.
Okay.
And the reason is, on this one
here, it's because it did not
perform a hermetic seal.
Because you see that and you
think it's a container for
preserving but not always does
it perform the test and in this
case it did not.
It could not perform -- form a
hermetic seal, so for that fact
there, that's why it went into
the 2000 provision.
Okay.
So this was a fish, basically
depicting a fish.
It was a pictorial scene.
If it was made of glass and
inserted into the glass article,
that's what it would look like
and it didn't look that good.
That was our sample several
years ago, if you ever see
something like this, it has to
be a pictorial scene inserted
into the glass article, so that
helps you to understand it a
little bit better.
This here, I don't have that
much time.
We've got a few more minutes, so
I'm wondering if I should just
cut it off here.
This happened to be, let's see,
in the bottle, not of a kind
normally used for packing.
Large decorative, it's re-- oh,
this is a reusable rolling pin
so what would you think?
7010 or 7013?
We're not going to worry about
the seeds.
The ingredients for the -- or
I'm sorry, the spices.
7013.
You guys, excellent.
Excellent.
Everyone's got the concept here.
I basically want to try to wrap
it up because we've got two
minutes.
Unfortunately.
This was a spice bottle here.
This goes in -- is clear soda
wine glass.
It's going to be disposed of.
So that went into 7010.90.5055
based on the capacity.
Unfortunately these are whisky
bottles.
This went into 7013.49.
They were tasting, and it's for
storing, so it wasn't basically,
you know, its essential
character.
You brought them home and you
enjoyed these whiskey samplings
type of thing, so that was in
other articles of glass.
These apothecary jars, bottles,
they were basically craft
supplies.
They were used as storage, so
these went into 7013.99.4000,
you know, they were also used in
shadow boxes and those sorts of
things, determination, basically
they were used to store things.
These were basically used in
spice rack holders.
The spice bottle -- well, in
this one here, they stated,
okay, from the information
provided, it sold as a storage
-- it was to be used and
retained in conjunction with a
rack for display in the home is
why it was determined to be 7013
on that one.
These are wine bottles.
The ruling, I also did a country
of origin ruling on it but I was
just getting into the
classification for this issue
because it gets involved.
You can look the ruling up
later.
But they were wine bottles and
it went based on 7010 .5019
based on the size of the
diameter of the ring.
The bottles were sold to
distributor so they were
imported empty.
On that, our shoe in a bottle,
turned out to be other articles
of glass and I -- you know, I
don't see any other questions
because I don't know if they're
going to cut us off right at
3:00.
They may.
I'll turn it over, but thank
you, and everyone have a
wonderful afternoon.
I hope -- if you have any
questions, please E-mail me.
I'm going to put my E-mail up.
These are the links of the
tariff, the rulings, myself and
my E-mail.
Probably easier to reach me by
E-mail.
Thank you so much.
I hope everybody has learned.
I'm sorry to not get through
everything and if you have any
questions, please E-mail me.
I would love to hear from you.
I would have loved to see
everyone's lovely face today,
but we did the best that we
could through our Teams meeting,
and I hope -- I wish everyone
well, and stay, you know, all
the other states that have the
fog and everything else under
the sun happening.
Please -- you're very, very
welcome.
I very much enjoyed it.