[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 19, Volume 2]

[Revised as of April 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 19CFR151.61]



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                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES

 

   CHAPTER I--BUREAU OF CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION, DEPARTMENT OF 

        HOMELAND SECURITY; DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY (CONTINUED)

 

PART 151_EXAMINATION, SAMPLING, AND TESTING OF MERCHANDISE--Table of 

Contents

 

                         Subpart E_Wool and Hair

 

Sec.  151.61  Definitions.





    The following are general definitions for the purposes of this 

subpart:

    (a) Clean kg. `Clean kg' means kilograms of clean yield as defined 

in paragraph (b) of this section.

    (b) Clean yield. Except for the purposes of carbonized fibers, 

``Clean yield'' means the absolute clean content (that is, all that 

portion of the merchandise which consists exclusively of wool or hair 

free of all vegetable and other foreign material, containing by weight 

12 percent of moisture and 1.5 percent of material removable from the 

wool or hair by extraction with alcohol, and having an ash content of 

not over 0.5 percent by weight), less an allowance, equal by weight to 

0.5 percent



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of the absolute clean content plus 60 percent of the vegetable matter 

present, but not exceeding 15 percent by weight of the absolute clean 

content, for wool or hair that would ordinarily be lost during 

commercial cleaning operations.

    (c) For the purposes of carbonized fibers, the term clean yield 

means the condition as entered.

    (d) Sampling unit. ``Sampling unit'' means all the similar packages 

covered by one entry or withdrawal containing wool or hair of the same 

kind or same general condition and character, produced in the same 

country, packed in substantially the same manner, and entered as or 

found to be subject to the same rate of entry.

    (e) General sample. ``General sample'' means the composite of the 

individual portions of wool or hair drawn from a sampling unit.



[T.D. 73-175, 38 FR 17470, July 2, 1973, as amended by T.D. 89-1, 53 FR 

51269, Dec. 21, 1988]