Silver (Including Gold & Platinum Plated Silver), Unwrought

Unwrought silver refers to metal in cast, ingot, or similarly unworked form — it has not been rolled, drawn, extruded, or otherwise mechanically processed. Once silver is rolled into sheet, drawn into wire, or reduced to powder, it moves into the semimanufactured category (SITC 68114). The distinction is critical because the two headings can carry different duty rates and are tracked separately in trade statistics.

No — silver that has been plated with gold or platinum remains classified under the silver heading (68113) as long as the base metal is silver and the article is still in unwrought form. The plating is acknowledged in the heading description but does not shift the product into a gold or platinum classification.