Chapter 50: Silk

This raw silk is obtained by reeling the filaments from cocoons. In practice, since the filaments (baves) forming each cocoon are very fine, the raw silk (grège) is obtained by combining several filam...

stock). This heading covers silk waste of all kinds, in the crude unworked state or at its various stages of processing prior to its conversion into yarn. It includes : (A) Waste obtained from the raw...

This heading applies to thrown silk, i.e., yarns obtained by twisting (either singly or two or more together) the raw silk threads of heading 50.02. They are, however, excluded if put up for retail sa...

This heading covers single yarns produced by spinning the noil or other silk waste of heading 50.03; it also covers multiple (folded) yarns produced from these single yarns. They are, however, exclude...

(A) Silk yarn and yarn spun from silk waste. This group covers the yarns of headings 50.04 and 50.05 put up for retail sale, i.e., in the forms and subject to the conditions described in Part (I) (B) ...

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