Chapter 14 — Vegetable plaiting materials; vegetable products not elsewhere specified or included

1. This chapter does not cover the following products which are to be classified within Section XI: vegetable materials or fibres of vegetable materials of a kind used primarily in the manufacture of textiles, however prepared, or other vegetable materials which have undergone treatment so as to render them suitable for use only as textile materials. 2. Heading [1401](/headings/1401) applies, inter alia, to bamboos (whether or not split, sawn lengthwise, cut to length, rounded at the ends, bleached, rendered non-inflammable, polished or dyed), split osier, reeds and the like, to rattan cores and to drawn or split rattans. The heading does not apply to chipwood (heading [4404](/headings/4404)). 3. Heading [1404](/headings/1404) does not apply to wood wool (heading [4405](/headings/4405)) and prepared knots or tufts for broom or brush making (heading [9603](/headings/9603)).