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Pig iron Iron-carbon alloys not usefully malleable, containing more than 2 per cent by mass of carbon and which may contain by mass one or more other elements within the following limits:

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not more than 10 per cent of chromium

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not more than 6 per cent of manganese

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not more than 3 per cent of phosphorus

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not more than 8 per cent of silicon

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a total of not more than 10 per cent of other elements.

Spiegeleisen Iron-carbon alloys containing by mass more than 6 per cent but not more than 30 per cent of manganese and otherwise conforming to the specification at (a) above.

Ferro-alloys Alloys in pigs, blocks, lumps or similar primary forms, in forms obtained by continuous casting and also in granular or powder forms, whether or not agglomerated, commonly used as an additive in the manufacture of other alloys or as de-oxidants, de-sulphurising agents or for similar uses in ferrous metallurgy and generally not usefully malleable, containing by mass 4 per cent or more of the element iron and one or more of the following:

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more than 10 per cent of chromium

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more than 30 per cent of manganese

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more than 3 per cent of phosphorus

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more than 8 per cent of silicon

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a total of more than 10 per cent of other elements, excluding carbon, subject to a maximum content of 10 per cent in the case of copper.

Steel Ferrous materials (excluding those of heading 72.03) which (with the exception of certain types produced in the form of castings) are usefully malleable and which contain by mass 2 per cent or less of carbon. However, chromium steels may contain higher proportions of carbon.

Stainless steel Alloy steels containing, by mass, 1,2 per cent or less of carbon and 10,5 per cent or more of chromium, with or without other elements.

Other alloy steel Steel not complying with the definition of stainless steel and containing by mass one or more of the following elements in the proportion shown:

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0,3 per cent or more of aluminium

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0,0008 per cent or more of boron

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0,3 per cent or more of chromium

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0,3 per cent or more of cobalt

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0,4 per cent or more of copper

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0,4 per cent or more of lead

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1,65 per cent or more of manganese

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0,08 per cent or more of molybdenum

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0,3 per cent or more of nickel

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0,06 per cent or more of niobium

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0,6 per cent or more of silicon

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0,05 per cent or more of titanium

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0,3 per cent or more of tungsten (wolfram)

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0,1 per cent or more of vanadium

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0,05 per cent or more of zirconium

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0,1 per cent or more of other elements (except sulphur, phosporus, carbon and nitrogen), taken separately.

Remelting scrap ingots of iron or steel Products roughly cast in the form of ingots without feeder-heads or hot tops, or of pigs, having obvious surface faults and not complying with the chemical composition of pig iron, spiegeleisen or ferro-alloys.

Granules Products of which less than 90 per cent by mass passes through a sieve with a mesh aperture of 1 mm and of which 90 per cent or more by mass passes through a sieve with a mesh aperture of 5 mm.

Semi-finished products Continuous cast products of solid section, whether or not subjected to primary hot-rolling; and

Other products of solid section, which have not been further worked than subjected to primary hot-rolling or roughly shaped by forging, including blanks for angles, shapes or sections.

These products are not presented in coils.

Flat-rolled products Rolled products of solid rectangular (excluding square) cross-section, which do not conform to the definition at (ij) above in the form of:

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coils of successively superimposed layers, or

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straight lengths, which is of a thickness less than 4,75 mm are of a width measuring at least ten times the thickness or is of a thickness of 4,75 mm or more are of a width which exceeds 150 mm and measures at least twice the thickness. Flat-rolled products include those with patterns in relief derived directly from rolling (for example, grooves, ribs, chequers, tears, buttons, lozenges) and those which have been perforated, corrugated or polished, provided that they do not thereby assume the character of articles or products of other headings.

Flat-rolled products of a shape (excluding rectangular or square), of any size, are to be classified as products of a width of 600 mm or more, provided that they do not assume the character of articles or products of other headings.

Bars and rods, hot-rolled, in irregularly wound coils Hot-rolled products in irregularly wound coils, which have a solid cross-section in the shape of circles, segments or circles, ovals, rectangles (including squares), triangles or other convex polygons (including "flattened circles" and "modified rectangles", of which two opposite sides are convex arcs, the other two sides being straight, of equal length and parallel). These products may have indentations, ribs, grooves or other deformations produced during the rolling process (reinforcing bars and rods).

Other bars and rods Products which do not conform to any of the definitions at (ij), (k) or (I) above or to the definition of wire, which have a uniform solid cross-section along their whole length in the shape of circles, segments of circles, ovals, rectangles (including squares), triangles or other convex polygons (including "flattened circles" and "modified rectangles", of which two opposite sides are convex arcs, the other two sides being straight, of equal length and parallel).These products may -

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have indentations, ribs, grooves or other deformations produced during the rolling process (reinforcing bars and rods);

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be twisted after rolling.

Angles, Shapes and Sections Products having a uniform solid cross-section along their whole length which do not conform to any of the definitions at (ij), (k), (I) or (m) above or to the definition of wire.

Chapter 72 does not include products of heading No. 73.01 or 73.02.

Wire Cold-formed products in coils, of any uniform solid cross-section along their whole length, which do not conform to the definition of flat-rolled products.

Hollow Drill Bars and Rods Hollow bars and rods of any cross-section, suitable for drills, of which the greatest external dimension of the cross-section exceeds 15 mm but does not exceed 52 mm, and of which the greatest internal dimension does not exceed one half of the greatest external dimension. Hollow bars and rods of iron or steel not conforming to this definition are to be classified in heading No. 73.04.

Alloy Pig Iron: Pig iron containing, by mass, one or more of the following elements in the specified proportions:

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more than 0,2 per cent of chromium

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more than 0,3 per cent of copper

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more than 0,3 per cent of nickel

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more than 0,1 per cent of any of the following elements: aluminium, molybdenum, titanium, tungsten (wolfram), vanadium.

Non-alloy Free-cutting Steel: Non-alloy steel containing, by mass, one or more of the following elements in the specified proportions:

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0,08 per cent or more of sulphur

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0,1 per cent or more of lead

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more than 0,05 per cent of selenium

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more than 0,01 per cent of tellurium

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more than 0,05 per cent of bismuth

Silicon-electrical Steel: Alloy steels containing by mass at least 0,6 per cent but not more than 6 per cent of silicon and not more than 0,08 per cent of carbon. They may also contain by mass not more than 1 per cent of aluminium but no other element in a proportion that would give the steel the characteristics of another alloy steel.

High Speed Steel: Alloy steels containing, with or without other elements, at least two of the three elements molybdenum, tungsten and vanadium with a combined content by mass of 7 per cent or more, 0,6 per cent or more of carbon and 3 to 6 per cent of chromium.

Silico-manganese Steel:

Alloy steels containing by mass:

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not more than 0,7 per cent of carbon;

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0,5 per cent or more but not more than 1,9 per cent of manganese; and

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0,6 per cent or more but not more than 2,3 per cent of silicon, but no other element in a proportion that would give the steel the characteristics of another alloy steel.

REFINED COPPER: Metal containing at least 99,85 per cent by mass of copper; or

metal containing at least 97,5 per cent by mass of copper, provided that the content by mass of any other element does not exceed the limit specified in the following table:

Element	Limiting Content percentage by mass
Ag: Silver	0,25
As: Arsenic	0,5
Cd: Cadmium	1,3
Cr: Chromium	1,4
Mg: Magnesium	0,8
Pb: Lead	1,5
S: Sulphur	0,7
Sn: Tin	0,8
Te: Tellurium	0,8
Zn: Zinc	1
Zr: Zirconium	0,3
Other elements*, each	0,3

* Other elements are for example:Al, Be, Co, Fe, Mn, Ni, Si.

COPPER ALLOYS: Metallic substances (excluding unrefined copper) in which copper predominates by mass over each of the other elements, provided:

the content by mass of at least one of the other elements is greater than the limit specified in the foregoing table; or

MASTER ALLOYS: Alloys containing with other elements more than 10 per cent by mass of copper, not usefully malleable and commonly used as an additive in the manufacture of other alloys or as de-oxidants, de- sulphurising agents or for similar uses in the metallurgy of non-ferrous metals. However, copper phosphide (phosphor copper) containing more than 15 per cent by mass of phosphorus falls in heading 28.53.

BARS AND RODS: Rolled, extruded, drawn or forged products, not in coils, which have a uniform solid cross-section along their whole length in the shape of circles, ovals, rectangles (including squares), equilateral triangles or regular convex polygons (including "flattened circles" and "modified rectangles", of which two opposite sides are convex arcs, the other two sides being straight, of equal length and parallel). Products with a rectangular (including square), triangular or polygonal cross-section may have corners rounded along their whole length. The thickness of such products which have a rectangular (including "modified rectangular") cross-section exceeds one-tenth of the width. The expression also covers cast or sintered products, of the same forms and dimensions, which have been subsequently worked after production (otherwise than by simple trimming or de-scaling), provided that they have not thereby assumed the character of articles or products of other headings.

Wire-bars and billets with their ends tapered or otherwise worked simply to facilitate their entry into machines for converting them into, for example, drawing stock (wire-rod) or tubes, are however to

be taken to be unwrought copper of heading 74.03.

PROFILES: Rolled, extruded, drawn, forged or formed products, coiled or not, of a uniform cross-section along their whole length, which do not conform to any of the definitions of bars, rods, wire, plates, sheets, strip, foil, tubes or pipes. The expression also covers cast or sintered products, of the same forms, which have been subsequently worked after production (otherwise than by simple trimming or de- scaling), provided that they have not thereby assumed the character of articles or products of other headings.

WIRE: Rolled, extruded or drawn products, in coils, which have a uniform solid cross-section along their whole length in the shape of circles, ovals, rectangles (including squares), equilateral triangles or regular convex polygons (including "flattened circles" and "modified rectangles", of which two opposite sides are convex arcs, the other two sides being straight, of equal length and parallel). Products with a rectangular (including square), triangular or polygonal cross-section may have corners rounded along their whole length. The thickness of such products which have a rectangular (including "modified rectangular") cross-section exceeds one-tenth of the width.

PLATES, SHEETS, STRIP AND FOIL: Flat-surfaced products (excluding the unwrought products of heading 74.03), coiled or not, of solid rectangular (excluding square) cross-section with or without rounded corners (including "modified rectangles" of which two opposite sides are convex arcs, the other two sides being straight, of equal length and parallel) of a uniform thickness, which are:

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of rectangular (including square) shape with a thickness not exceeding one-tenth of the width,

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of a shape (excluding rectangular or square), of any size, provided they do not assume the character of articles or products of other headings. Headings 74.09 and 74.10 apply, inter alia, to plates, sheets, strip and foil with patterns (for example, grooves, ribs, chequers, tears, buttons, lozenges) and to such products which have been perforated, corrugated, polished or coated, provided they do not thereby assume the character of articles or products of other headings.

TUBES AND PIPES: Hollow products, coiled or not, which have a uniform cross-section with only one enclosed void along their whole length in the shape of circles, ovals, rectangles (including squares), equilateral triangles or regular convex polygons, and which have a uniform wall thickness. Products with a rectangular (including square), equilateral triangular or regular convex polygonal cross-section, which may have corners rounded along their whole length, are also to be taken to be tubes and pipes provided the inner and outer cross-sections are concentric and have the same form and orientation. Tubes and pipes of the foregoing cross-sections may be polished, coated, bent, threaded, drilled, waisted, expanded, cone-shaped or fitted with flanges, collars or rings.

COPPER-ZINC BASE ALLOYS (BRASSES): Alloys of copper and zinc, with or without other elements. When other elements are present:

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zinc predominates by mass over each of such other elements;

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any nickel content by mass is less than 5 per cent (see copper-nickel-zinc alloys (nickel silvers)); and

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any tin content by mass is less than 3 per cent (see copper-tin alloys (bronzes).

COPPER-TIN BASE ALLOYS (BRONZES): Alloys of copper and tin, with or without other elements. When other elements are present, tin predominates by mass over each of such other elements, except that when the tin content is 3 per cent or more the zinc content by mass may exceed that of tin but must be less than 10 per cent.

COPPER-NICKEL-ZINC BASE ALLOYS (NICKEL SILVERS): Alloys of copper, nickel and zinc, with or without other elements.The nickel content is 5 per cent or more by mass (see copper-zinc alloys (brasses)).

COPPER-NICKEL BASE ALLOYS: Alloys of copper and nickel, with or without other elements but in any case containing by mass not more than 1 per cent of zinc.When other elements are present, nickel predominates by mass over each of such other elements.

BARS AND RODS: Rolled, extruded, drawn or forged products, not in coils, which have a uniform solid cross-section along their whole length in the shape of circles, ovals, rectangles (including squares), equilateral triangles or regular convex polygons (including "flattened circles" and "modified rectangles", of which two opposite sides are convex arcs, the other two sides being straight, of equal length and parallel). Products with a rectangular (including square), triangular or polygonal cross-section may have corners rounded along their whole length. The thickness of such products which have a rectangular (including "modified-rectangular") cross-section exceeds one-tenth of the width. The expression also covers cast or sintered products, of the same forms and dimensions, which have been subsequently worked after production (otherwise than by simple trimming or de-scaling), provided that they have not thereby assumed the character of articles or products of other headings.

PROFILES: Rolled, extruded, drawn, forged or formed products, coiled or not, of a uniform cross-section along their whole length, which do not conform to any of the definitions of bars, rods, wire, plates, sheets, strip, foil, tubes or pipes. The expression also covers cast or sintered products, of the same forms, which have been subsequently worked after production (otherwise than by simple trimming or de- scaling), provided they have not thereby assumed the character of articles or products of other headings.

WIRE: Rolled, extruded or drawn products, in coils, which have a uniform solid cross-section along their whole length in the shape of circles, ovals, rectangles (including squares), equilateral triangles or regular convex polygons (including "flattened circles" and "modified rectangles", of which two opposite sides are convex arcs, the other two sides being straight, of equal length and parallel). Products with a rectangular (including square), triangular or polygonal cross-section may have corners rounded along their whole length. The thickness of such products which have a rectangular (including "modified rectangular") cross-section exceeds one-tenth of the width.

PLATES, SHEETS, STRIP AND FOIL: Flat-surfaced products (excluding the unwrought products of heading 75.02), coiled or not, of solid rectangular (excluding square) cross-section with or without rounded corners (including "modified rectangles" of which two opposite sides are convex arcs, the other two sides being straight, of equal length and parallel) of a uniform thickness, which are:

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of rectangular (including square) shape with a thickness not exceeding one-tenth of the width,

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of a shape (excluding rectangular or square), of any size, provided that they do not assume the character of articles or products of other headings. Heading 75.06 applies, inter alia, to plates, sheets, strip and foil with patterns (for example, grooves, ribs, chequers, tears, buttons, lozenges) and to such products which have been perforated, corrugated, polished or coated, provided they do not thereby assume the character of articles or products of other headings.

TUBES AND PIPES: Hollow products, coiled or not, which have a uniform cross-section with only one enclosed void along their whole length in the shape of circles, ovals, rectangles (including squares), equilateral triangles or regular convex polygons, and which have a uniform wall thickness. Products with a rectangular (including square), equilateral triangular, or regular convex polygonal cross-section, which may have corners rounded along their whole length, are also to be considered as tubes and pipes provided the inner and outer cross-sections are concentric and have the same form and orientation. Tubes and pipes of the foregoing cross-sections may be polished, coated, bent, threaded, drilled, waisted, expanded, cone-shaped or fitted with flanges, collars or rings.

NICKEL, NOT ALLOYED: Metal containing by mass at least 99 per cent of nickel plus cobalt, provided:

the cobalt content by mass does not exceed 1,5 per cent, and

NICKEL ALLOYS: Metallic substances in which nickel predominates by mass over each of the other elements provided:

the content by mass of cobalt exceeds 1,5 per cent,

BARS AND RODS: Rolled, extruded, drawn or forged products, not in coils, which have a uniform solid cross-section along their whole length in the shape of circles, ovals, rectangles (including squares), equilateral triangles or regular convex polygons (including "flattened circles" and "modified-rectangles", of which two opposite sides are convex arcs, the other two sides being straight, of equal length and parallel). Products with a rectangular (including square), triangular or polygonal cross-section may have corners rounded along their whole length. The thickness of such products which have a rectangular (including "modified-rectangular") cross-section exceeds one-tenth of the width. The expression also covers cast or sintered products, of the same forms and dimensions, which have been subsequently worked after production (otherwise than by simple trimming or de-scaling), provided that they have not thereby assumed the character of articles or products of other headings.

PROFILES: Rolled, extruded, drawn, forged or formed products, coiled or not, of a uniform cross-section along their whole length, which do not conform to any of the definitions of bars, rods, wire, plates, sheets, strip, foil, tubes or pipes. The expression also covers cast or sintered products, of the same forms, which have been subsequently worked after production (otherwise than by simple trimming or de- scaling), provided that they have not thereby assumed the character of articles or products of other headings.

WIRE: Rolled, extruded or drawn products, in coils, which have a uniform solid cross-section along their whole length in the shape of circles, ovals, rectangles (including squares), equilateral triangles or regular convex polygons (including "flattened circles" and "modified rectangles", of which two opposite sides are convex arcs, the other two sides being straight, of equal length and parallel). Products with a rectangular (including square), triangular or polygonal cross-section may have corners rounded along their whole length. The thickness of such products which have a rectangular (including "modified rectangular") cross-section exceeds one-tenth of the width.

PLATES, SHEETS, STRIP AND FOIL: Flat-surfaced products (excluding the unwrought products of heading 76.01), coiled or not, of solid rectangular (excluding square) cross-section with or without rounded corners (including "modified rectangles" of which two opposite sides are convex arcs, the other two sides being straight, of equal length and parallel) of a uniform thickness, which are:

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of rectangular (including square) shape with a thickness not exceeding one-tenth of the width,

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of a shape (excluding rectangular or square), of any size, provided that they do not assume the character of articles or products of other headings. Headings 76.06 and 76.07 apply, inter alia, to plates, sheets, strip and foil with patterns (for example, grooves, ribs, chequers, tears, buttons, lozenges) and to such products which have been perforated, corrugated, polished or coated, provided that they do not thereby assume the character of articles or products of other headings.

TUBES AND PIPES: Hollow products, coiled or not, which have a uniform cross-section with only one enclosed void along their whole length in the shape of circles, ovals, rectangles (including squares), equilateral triangles or regular convex polygons, and which have a uniform wall thickness. Products with a rectangular (including square), equilateral triangular or regular convex polygonal cross-section, which may have corners rounded along their whole length, are also to be considered as tubes and pipes provided the inner and outer cross-sections are concentric and have the same form and orientation. Tubes and pipes of the foregoing cross-sections may be polished, coated, bent, threaded, drilled, waisted, expanded, cone-shaped or fitted with flanges, collars or rings.

ALUMINIUM, NOT ALLOYED: Metal containing by mass at least 99 per cent of aluminium, provided that the content by mass of any other element does not exceed the limit specified in the following table:

Element	Limiting content per cent by mass
Fe + Si (iron plus silicon)	1
Other elements (¹), each	0,1 (²)

ALUMINIUM ALLOYS: Metallic substances in which aluminium predominates by mass over each of the other elements, provided that:

the content by mass of at least one of the other elements or of iron plus silicon taken together is greater than the limit specified in the foregoing table; or

TAINT/TABOR - Clean mixed old alloy sheet aluminium:

Shall consist of clean old alloy aluminium sheet of two or more alloys, free of foil, venetian blinds, castings, hair wire, screen wire, food or beverage containers, radiator shells, airplane sheet, bottle caps, plastic, dirt, and other non-metallic items.

TALK - Aluminium copper radiators:

Shall consist of clean aluminium and copper radiators, and/or aluminium fins on copper tubing, free of brass tubing, iron and other foreign contamination.

TENSE - Mixed aluminium castings:

Shall consist of all clean aluminium castings which may contain auto and airplane castings but no ingots, and to be free of iron, brass, dirt and other non-metallic items.

TRUMP - Aluminium auto castings:

Shall consist of all clean automobile aluminium castings of sufficient size to be readily identified and to be free form iron, dirt, brass, bushings, and non-metallic items.