NY 863039: The tariff classification of Nomex Honeycomb Material, fromEcuador.

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                              NY 863039
May 14, 1991

CLA-2-39:S:N:N3H:350 863039

CATEGORY:  Classification

TARIFF NO.: 3921.90.1500

Mr. Frank W. Schmitt
Overton & Co. Air Services, Inc. 
150 Nassau Street
New York, N.Y. 10038 

RE:  The tariff classification of Nomex Honeycomb Material, from
Ecuador.

Dear Mr. Schmitt:

     In your letter dated May 3, 1991, on behalf of Baltek
Corporation, you requested a tariff classification ruling.
         
     The sample submitted, identified in your letter as Nomex
"paper" Honeycomb Material, is in reality, a nonwoven textile
fabric composed of polyamide man-made fibers.  This nonwoven
textile fabric is formed into sheets or blocks having a honeycomb
cell configuration and measures about 1/2" in thickness.  This
material, we note, per a recent telephone conversation with your
office, has been immersed into a phenolic resin solution (a
plastics material), and then cured.  While it was not stated in
your letter, this plastics material does not appear to comprise
over 70 percent by weight of the total weight of the fabric. This
type of material has various applications for such things as
aircraft, boats and skiis, etc.     
     The applicable subheading for the product will be
3921.90.1500, Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States
(HTS), which provides for other plates, sheets, film, foil and
strip, of plastics, combined with textile components and weighing
not more than 1.492kg per square meter, products with textile
components in which man-made fibers predominate by weight over
any other single textile fiber, not over 70 percent by weight of
plastics.  The rate of duty will be 8.5 percent ad valorem.

     This ruling is being issued under the provisions of Section
177 of the Customs Regulations (19 C.F.R. 177).

                                                                 
                                                                 
                                                                 
                                                                 
                                                                 
                                                                 
                                                                 
                                                                 
                                                                 
                                   A copy of this ruling letter
should be attached to the entry documents filed at the time this
merchandise is imported.  If the documents have been filed
without a copy, this ruling should be brought to the attention of
the Customs officer handling the transaction.



                                   Sincerely,

                                   
  
                                   Jean F. Maguire
                                   Area Director
                                   New York Seaport