Item PART 3.-WOOD VENEERS, PLYWOOD, AND OTHER WOOD-VENEER ASSEMBLIES, AND BUILDING BOARDS Articles Part 8 headnotes: 1. For the purposes of this part, the following terms have the meanings hereby assigned to them: (a) Wood veneers: Wood sheets or strips, regardless of thickness, quality or intended use, produced by the slicing or rotary cutting of logs or flitches; and wood sheets, not over 4 inch in thickness, produced by sawing and of a type used to overlay inferior material; (b) Plywood: Rigid wood-veneer assemblies bonded together with adhesive substances having a central ply or core of wood veneer or lumber with one or more plies of wood veneer on each side thereof, the grain of at least one ply being at an angle (usually a right angle) with the grain of one or more of the other plies, including such assemblies the face ply (or plies) of which has been mechanically scored, striated, or similarly processed; (c) Wood-veneer panels: Rigid wood-veneer assemblies, bonded together with adhesive substances, except plywood, with a wood-veneer ply on one side of a backing, or on both sides of a core, which backing or core may be composed of lumber, veneer, hardboard, wood particle board, or other material, including such assemblies the face ply (or plies) of which has been mechanically scored, striated, or similarly processed; (d) Cellular panels: Rigid assemblies bonded together with adhesive substances with both sides or faces consisting of veneer, plywood, lumber, wood-veneer panels, hardboard, wood particle board, or other board composed of vegetable fibers, and with a core of hollow, honeycomb, or spongelike construction, whether or not the interstices are filled with loose or loosely matted fibrous materials; and (e) Building boards: Panels of rigid construction, including tiles and insulation board, chiefly used in the construction of walls, ceilings, or other parts of buildings. 2. The term "face finished", as applied to the boards and Wood veneers, whether or not face finished, including wood veneers Birch and maple.. 240.00 240.01 Reinforced or backed: 10% ad val. 20% ad val. Plywood, whether or not face finished: Not face finished, or face finished with a clear or transparent 240. 10 240. 12 With a face ply of Spanish cedar (Cedrela spp.). 240. 14 240. 16 With a face ply of Parana pine (Araucaria angustifolia). 40% ad val. 40% ad val. 240. 18 With a face ply of European red pine (Pinus sylvestris). 20% ad val. 40% ad val. PART 4.-PAPER, PAPERBOARD, AND PRODUCTS THEREOF Item Articles Part 4 headnotes: 1. This part covers certain papermaking materials, paper and paperboard, and articles of pulp, of paper, and of paperboard, but does not cover (i) certain boards (see part 3 of this schedule); (ii) certain printed matter (see part 5 of this schedule); (v) certain other articles specifically provided for in 2. For the purposes of this part (a) the term "ream" means 432,000 square inches; (iii) cut into nonrectangular shapes of any size, (c) the term "lithographically printed" means printed in whole or in part by a lithographic process; and (d) the term "writing paper" includes, but is not limited to, papers such as ledger, letter, manifold, mimeograph, note, onionskin, tablet, and typewriter papers. 3. Samples used in determining the weight of papers classifiable in this part according to weight shall be conditioned in an atmosphere at 50 percent (±2 percent) relative humidity under 23° C. (±2° C.) temperature. 4. If any country, dependency, province, or other subdivision of government shall forbid or restrict in any way the exportation of (whether by law, order, regulation, contractual relation, or otherwise, directly or indirectly), or impose any export duty, export license fee, or other export charge of any kind whatsoever (whether in the form of additional charge or license fee or otherwise) upon printing paper, or wood pulp, or wood for use in the manufacture of wood pulp, the President may enter into negotiations with such country, dependency, province, or other subdivision of government to secure the removal of such prohibition, restriction, export duty, or other export charge, and if it is not removed he may, by proclamation, declare such failure of negotiations, setting forth the facts. Thereupon, and until such prohibition, restriction, export duty, or other export charge is removed, there shall be imposed upon printing paper provided for in item 252.67 of this part when imported either directly or indirectly from such country, dependency, province, or other subdivision of government, an additional duty of 10 per centum ad valorem and in addition thereto an amount equal to the highest export duty or other export charge imposed by such country, dependency, province, or other subdivision of government, upon either an equal amount of printing paper or an amount of wood pulp or wood for use in the manufacture of wood pulp necessary to manufacture such printing paper. Subpart A.-Paper-Making Materials 1. This subpart covers paper and paperboard, in rolls and sheets, not cut to size or shape, and not made up into articles finished or not finished. Printed paper or paperboard is covered in this subpart only if the printing is merely incidental to the primary use of the article or is employed mainly for coloration or to produce a decorative or novelty effect. 2. For the purposes of this subpart, paperboard described in items 251.35, 251.40, 251.45, 251.49 and 251.51 under 0.012 inch in thickness shall be deemed to be paper. 251.05 Building papers and building paper-felts, whether or not coated or saturated. 251.10 Filter masse of pulp. 251.15 Pressboard and press paper.... 251.20 Stereotype-matrix board or mat. 251.25 251.30 Strawboard and strawpaper, 0.008 inch or more in thickness.. 252.05 252.10 252.13 252, 15 252.17 252.20 252.25 252.27 252.30 252.35 Papers, not impregnated, not coated, not surface-colored, not em- Basic paper ordinarily used in making blueprint or brown Bibulous paper, including blotting paper: Weighing not over 9 pounds per ream. Weighing over 9 but not over 18 pounds per ream. Bristol board weighing over 18 pounds per ream. Weighing not over 9 pounds per ream. Weighing over 9 but not over 18 pounds per ream. Cellulose wadding. Cigarette paper....... Condenser paper, copying paper, pottery paper, and tissue Weighing not over 9 pounds per ream. Weighing over 9 but not over 18 pounds per ream. India and bible paper: Weighing not over 9 pounds per ream. Weighing over 9 but not over 15 pounds per ream. 252.40 252.42 252.45 252.50 Filtering paper.. 252.55 Hanging paper.. Printing papers: 252.57 Cover paper. 252.59 252.61 252.63 252.65 252.67 252.70 252. 73 252.75 252.77 252.79 252.81 252.84 252.86 252.90 253.05 253.10 253. 15 1.25¢ per lb. + 10.5% ad val... 34 per lb. +25% ad val. 253.20 253.25 253.30 1.5¢ per lb. +3.75% ad val. 253.35 2.5¢ per lb. + 10% ad val. Any of the papers provided for in this subpart, if wholly or partly 6 per lb. +15% ad val. 3¢ per lb. + 15% ad val. 34 per lb. +15% ad val. 5¢ per lb. +17% ad val. 253.40 4 per lb. +8% ad val. 24 per lb. +8% ad val. Other Vegetable parchment paper. Grease-proof paper and imitation parchment paper, including Cloth-lined or reinforced paper. 253.45 254.05 254.09 With the surface or surfaces wholly or partly covered or deco- Papers, impregnated, coated, surface-colored, embossed, ruled, Weighing not over 9 pounds per ream.. Weighing over 9 pounds per ream... 254. 15 254. 18 254. 20 Cellulose wadding.. 2 per lb. +4.5% ad val... 5 per lb. +15% ad val. PART 5.-BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, AND OTHER PRINTED MATTER Item Articles Part 5 headnotes: 1. Except for decalcomanias, labels, flaps, and hands, all of which are covered by the provisions therefor in this part, regardless of the nature of the printing thereon, this part covers only printed matter consisting essentially of textual or pictorial matter produced by any printing process, and similar matter in manuscript or typewritten form. The text may be set forth in any language by means of any kind of characters. With the exceptions above indicated, this part does not cover any article in which printing is merely incidental to the primary use of the article or in which printing is employed mainly for coloration or to produce a decorative or novelty effect (see part 4 of this schedule). 2. For the purposes of this part (a) the term "paper" incluces paperboard; (b) the term "books" includes books, bound and not bound, and pamphlets; (c) the term "periodicals" embraces only paper-covered or unbound publications issued regularly at stated periods, such as weekly, monthly, or quarterly, and bearing the date of issue; and (d) the term "photographs" embraces only pictures other than motion pictures, produced on photosensitive materials, and includes positive and negative images on exposed, or exposed and developed, photographic film. 3. For the purposes of determining the classification of printed matter produced in whole or in part by a lithographic process, the thickness of such printed matter is that of the thinnest paper contained therein, except that the thickness of a permanently mounted lithograph is the combined thickness of the lithograph and its mounting. Printed matter issued by literary or scientific institutions for their subscribers or exchanges. 270.05 270. 10 270. 15 270.20 Printed matter of individuals, not advertising matter, for gratui- Books printed wholly or chiefly in languages other than English... Picture books (not including toy books), with an accompanying Books not specially provided for, consisting essentially of textual |