NMFC 104460 - Billets, Other Than Copper Clad, Or Blooms Or Ingots, See Note, Item 104462

NOTE-(a) Provisions for billets or blooms apply on unfinished material, rough hot-rolled, rough hot-pressed or rough hot-hammered or rough hot-cast and not smooth nor surface finished, commercially known as billets or blooms, to be reheated for purposes of rerolling, forging or hammering, which can be transported on open vehicles without damage from weather and which is of the following description: billets or blooms, square or rectangular-shaped in cross-section and round cornered, the combined measurement of the four sides of the cross-sectional area of each being 14 inches or over; also billets of smaller sizes, provided they are square shaped in cross-section, and round cornered, 1 1/2 inches square or over, weighing each 150 pounds or over. (b) Provisions also apply on unfinished material, rough hot-rolled or rough hot-cast and not smooth nor surface finished, commercially known as round billets, to be reheated for purpose of rerolling, forging, hammering or piercing, which can be transported on open vehicles without damage from weather and which is of the following description: billets, round shaped, in cross-section, the diameter of which is 3 inches or over. (c) Provisions also apply on iron or steel billet or bloom crop ends, if cropped from iron or steel billets or blooms as described above, provided no further work has been done on same. (d) Provisions provided herein will not apply on billets or blooms manufactured true to gauge as to dimensions.