Schedule III to Part 700 - Technical Definitions of Controlled Materials Products

Steel

Alloy steel—Steel containing 50 percent or more of iron or steel and any one or more of the following elements in the following amounts: manganese, maximum of range in excess of 1.65 percent; silicon, maximum of range in excess of 0.60 percent (excepting electrical sheet and strip); copper, maximum of range in excess of 0.60 percent; aluminum, boron, chromium (less than 10 percent), cobalt, columbium, molybdenum, nickel, tantalum, titanium, tungsten, vanadium, zirconium, or any other alloying elements in any amount specified or known to have been added to obtain a desired alloying effect. Clad steels which have an alloy steel base or carbon steel base for which nickel and/or chromium is contained in the coating or cladding material (e.g., nickel-copper alloy, nickel-chrome-iron alloy or stainless) are alloy steels.

Alloy steel plate includes the following specifications:

—0.180 inch or thicker, over 48 inches wide —0.230 inch or thicker, over 8 inches wide —7.53 pounds per square foot or heavier, over 8 inches wide

Carbon steel—Any steel (including wrought iron) customarily so classified and also includes: (a) ingot iron; (b) all grades of electrical sheet and strip; (c) high-strength low-alloy steels; (d) clad and coated carbon steels not included with alloy steels: e.g., galvanized, tin, terne, copper (excluding copper wire mill products) or aluminum clad and/or coated carbon steels; and (e) leaded carbon steels.

Carbon steel plate includes the following specifications, plus floor plates of any thickness:

—0.180 inch or thicker, over 48 inches wide —0.230 inch or thicker, over 8 inches wide —7.53 pounds per square foot or heavier, over 48 inches wide —9.62 pounds per square foot or heavier, over 8 inches wide

High-strength low-alloy steels—Only the proprietary grade promoted and sold for this purpose, and Navy high-tensile steel grade HT Specification Mil-S-16113 (Ships).

Stainless steel—Heat and corrosion resisting steel containing 50 percent or more of iron or steel and 10 percent or more of chromium whether with or without nickel, molybdenum, or other elements.

Stainless steel plate includes the following size specifications: 3/16 inch (0.1875) or thicker, over 10 inches wide.

Standard steel pipe includes the following:

Ammonia pipe Bedstead tubing Driven well pipe Drive pipe Dry kiln pipe Dry pipe for locomotives English gas and steam pipe Fence pipe Furniture pipe Ice machine pipe Mechanical service pipe Nipple pipe Pipe for piling Pipe for plating and enameling Pump pipe Signal pipe Standard pipe coupling Structural pipe Turbine pump pipe Water main pipe Water well casing Water well reamed and drifted pipe

Structural steel shapes—Rolled flanged sections having at least one dimension of their cross section 3 inches or greater, commonly referred to as angles, channels, beams, and wide flange sections.

Copper

Brass-mill products—Copper and copper-base alloys in the following forms: sheet, plate, and strip in flat lengths or coils; rod, bar, shapes, and wire (except copper wire mill products); anodes, rolled, forged, or sheared from cathodes; and seamless tube and pipe. Straightening, threading, chamfering, cutting to width or length, or reduction in gauge, do not constitute changes in form of brass mill products. The following related products which have been produced by a change in form of brass mill products are not included in the definition of brass mill products:

Circles, discs (except brass military ammunition discs) Cups (except brass military ammunition cups) Blanks and segments Forgings (except anodes) Welding rod, 3 feet or less in length Rotating bands Tube and nipple—welded, brazed, or mechanically seamed Formed flashings Engravers’ copper

Copper-base alloy—Any alloy of which the percentage of copper metal equals or exceeds 40 percent by weight of the metallic content of the alloy. It does not include alloyed gold produced in accordance with U.S. Commercial Standard CS 67-38.

Copper foundry products—Cast copper and copper-based alloy shapes or forms suitable for ultimate use without remelting, rolling, drawing, extruding, or forging. The process of casting includes the removal of gates, risers, and sprues, and sandblasting, tumbling, and dipping, but does not include any machining or further processing. For centrifugal casting, the process includes the removal of the rough cut in the inner or outer diameter, or both, before delivery to a customer. Castings include anodes and shot cast in a foundry or by an ingot maker.

Copper powder mill products—Copper or copper-base alloy in the form of granular or flake powder.

Copper raw materials include:

(a) Refined copper—Copper metal which has been refined by any process of electrolysis or fire-refined to a grade and in a form suitable for fabrication;

(b) Blister copper—High-grade crude copper in any form produced from converter operations and from which nearly all the oxidizable impurities have been removed by slagging and volatilization;

(c) Copper and copper-base alloy scrap—Including fired and demilitarized cartridge and artillery cases;

(d) Brass mill casting—From which brass mill or intermediate shapes may be rolled, drawn, or extruded, without remelting;

(e) Copper-base alloy ingot—To be used in remelting, alloying, or deoxidizing operations;

(f) Copper or copper-base alloy shot and waffle—To be used in remelting, alloying, deoxidizing, or chemical operations; and

(g) Copper precipitates (or cement copper)—Precipitated from mine water by contact with iron scrap, tin cans, or iron in other forms.

Copper wire mill products—Uninsulated or insulated wire and cable made from copper or copper-base alloy, used for transmission of electrical energy, whatever the outer protective coverings may be, and also copper-clad steel or aluminum wire containing over 20 percent copper by weight regardless of end use. Copper wire mill products shall be measured in terms of pounds of copper content.

Aluminum

Foil—A flat rolled product, rectangular in cross section, of thickness less than 0.006 inch.

Ingot includes:

(a) Extrusion ingot (billet)—A solid or hollow cast form, usually cylindrical, suitable for extruding;

(b) Other ingot and molten metal, primary—A cast form other than extrusion ingot (or molten metal), shipped by an integrated producer or nonintegrated fabricator from a company-owned facility not exclusively devoted to producing secondary ingot; and

(c) Other ingot and molten metal, secondary—A cast form other than extrusion ingot (or molten metal), principally produced from aluminum scrap to specification by secondary smelters (or others at a facility exclusively devoted to producing ingot from scrap for sale); excludes remelt scrap ingot (RSI) which is considered scrap until remelted and cast into specification ingot.

Pipe and tube includes:

(a) Drawn tube—A hollow wrought product that is long in relation to its cross section, which is round, square, rectangular, hexagonal, octagonal, or elliptical in shape, sharp or rounded corners, with a uniform wall thickness except as affected by corner radii, and brought to final dimensions by cold drawing through a die (includes tube that is sized);

(b) Extruded pipe and tube—A hollow wrought product formed by hot extruding with a uniform wall thickness (except as affected by corner radii) that is long in relation to its cross section, round, square, rectangular, hexagonal, octagonal, or elliptical in shape (excludes tube that is sized by cold drawing); and

(c) Welded tube—A hollow product that is long in relation to its cross section, which is round, square, rectangular, hexagonal, octagonal, or elliptical in shape, produced by forming and seam-welding sheet longitudinally.

Plate includes:

(a) Plate, nonheat-treatable—A flat rolled product, rectangular in cross section, 0.250 inch or greater in thickness, which can be strengthened only by cold work; and

(b) Plate, heat-treatable—A flat rolled product, in 2000, 6000, or 7000 alloy series (except 7072), rectangular in cross section, 0.250 inch or greater in thickness, which can be strengthened by a suitable thermal treatment.

Powder—An aggregate of discrete particles of aluminum, substantially all of which are finer than 1,000 microns (minus 18 mesh); and includes:

(a) Atomized powder—Powder produced by blowing or asperating molten metal through an orifice;

(b) Flaked powder—Powder consisting of flat or scale-like particles of a thickness small compared with other dimensions, produced by milling in the presence of a lubricant; and

(c) Paste—A blend of powder or flake with a thinner or plasticizer.

Rod and bar includes:

(a) Conductor redraw rod (continuous-cast or rolled)—A solid round product that is long in relation to cross section, 0.375 inch or greater in diameter, produced by continuous casting followed by size-rolling or by rolling from DC cast ingot, suitable for drawing into electrical conductor wire;

(b) Nonconductor redraw rod (continuous-cast or rolled)—A solid round product that is long in relation to cross section, 0.375 inch or greater in diameter, produced by continuous casting followed by size-rolling, or by rolling from D.C. cast ingot, suitable for drawing into nonconductor wire;

(c) Other rod and bar (continuous-cast or rolled)—A solid round, square, rectangular, hexagon, or octagon-shaped product, produced by continuous casting or rolling that is long in relation to cross section, 0.375 inch or greater in diameter or in at least one perpendicular distance between parallel faces, other than the redraw rod and DC cast ingot; and

(d) Extruded rod and bar—A solid product produced by extruding (sometimes brought to final dimensions by drawing) that is long in relation to cross section, which is round, square, rectangular, hexagonal, or octagonal in shape and 0.375 inch or greater in diameter or in at least one perpendicular distance between parallel faces.

Shapes includes:

(a) Extruded shapes—A product produced by extruding, that is long in relation to its cross-sectional dimensions and has a cross section other than that of rod and bar and pipe and tube; and

(b) Rolled structural shapes—A structural shape produced by hot rolling.

Sheet includes:

(a) Sheet, nonheat-treatable—A rolled product, flat or coiled, rectangular in cross section, of 0.006 inch thickness but under 0.250 inch thickness, which can be strengthened only by cold work; and

(b) Sheet, heat-treatable—A rolled product, in 2000, 6000, 7000 alloy series (except 7072), flat or coiled, rectangular in cross section, of 0.006 inch thickness but under 0.250 inch thickness, which can be strengthened by a suitable thermal treatment.

Wire and cable includes:

(a) Wire, bare, conductor and nonconductor—A solid wrought product that is long in relation to its cross section, which is square, round, rectangular, hexagonal, or octagonal in shape, whose diameter or greatest perpendicular distance between parallel faces (except for flattened wire) is less than 0.375 inch;

(b) ACSR and aluminum cable, bare—Aluminum stranded conductor reinforced by a core of steel (ACSR), or aluminum (ACAR), or any other bare stranded aluminum conductor; and

(c) Wire and cable, insulated or covered—Aluminum electrical conductor wire or stranded conductors that are insulated or covered.

Nickel Alloys

Nickel alloys—Those alloys for which the specified nickel content is 10 percent or more up to and including pure nickel, and which the iron content is nominally less than 50 percent of iron, and which does not contain as much as 40 percent of copper, nor as much as 50 percent of aluminum, in the shapes and forms shown in Schedule II. It also includes cast iron for which the specified nickel content is 5 percent or more. It does not include primary nickel in the forms of electrolytic cathodes, pigs, rondelles, cubes, pellets, shot, briquettes, oxide (including sintered oxide), salts, or chemicals; nor does it include primary nickel in the forms of ingots or powder for remelting.