Made-Up Fishing Nets of Manmade Textile Materials

A made-up fishing net is a finished article cut to shape, assembled, and ready for deployment—typically with floats, weights, lead lines, or other rigging attached, or at minimum cut and finished to a specific configuration. Netting fabric sold in continuous lengths or rolls without further making-up would generally fall under Chapter 60 (knitted or crocheted fabrics) or remain in Chapter 56 as knotted netting, not as a made-up article.

5608110010 is reserved for hand-cast, string-drawn nets—a traditional construction method where the net is cast by hand and drawn closed by a string, typical of cast nets used in artisanal and recreational fishing. All other made-up fishing nets of manmade materials, including machine-knotted trawl nets and seine nets, fall into 5608110090. Importers should obtain manufacturing process documentation from the supplier to support the correct line selection.