| Hide or skin with its original
fibrous structure more or less intact, tanned to be
imputrescible. The hair or wool may or may not have
been removed. It is also made from a hide or skin
that has been split into layers or segmented either
before or after tanning.
Note 1:
If the leather has a surface coating, the mean thickness
of this surface layer, however applied, has to be
0.15mm or less.
Note 2:
If the tanned hide or skin is disintegrated mechanically
and/or chemically into fibrous particles, small
pieces or powder and then, with or without combination
of a binding agent, is made into sheets or forms,
such sheets are not leather.
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