Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 77A.djvu/111

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TARIFF SCHEDULES OF THE UNITED STATES

SCHEDULE 2. - WOOD AND PAPER; PRINTED MATTER Part 3. - Wood Veneers, Plywood, and Other Wood-Veneer Assemblies, and Building Boards Rates of Duty

PART 3. - WOOD VENEERS, PLYWOOD AND OTHER WOOD-VENEER ASSEMBLIES, AND BUILDING BOARDS

Part 3 headnotts: 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 1/4 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 piles 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 piles) 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 m'aterlal. 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, woodveneer panels, hardboard, wood particle board, or other board composed of vegetable fibers, and with a core of hollow, honeycomb, or sponge-like construction, whether or not the interstices are filled with loose or loosely matted fibrous materials; and (e) BuiIdinq boards: Panels of rigid construction. Including tiles and insulation board, chiefly used in the construction of walls, ceilings, or other parts of buiIdings. 2, The term "face finished", as applied to the boards and panels provided for In this part, means that one or both surfaces of a panel or board have been treated with creosote or other wood preservatives, or with fillers, sealers, waxes, oils, stains, varnishes, paints, or enamels, or have been overlaid with paper, fabric, plastics, base metal or other material.

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