Wire-bars and billets with their ends tapered or otherwise worked simply to facilitate their entry into machines for converting them into, for example, drawing stock (wire-rod) or tubes, are however to be taken to be unwrought copper of heading No 7403. (e)Profiles : Rolled, extruded, drawn, forged or formed products, coiled or not, of a uniform cross-section along their whole length, which do not conform to any of the definitions of bars, rods, wire, plates, sheets, strip, foil, tubes or pipes.
Trådämnen och billets med ändarna avfasade eller på annat sätt bearbetade enbart för att underlätta deras insättning i maskiner för omformning till exempelvis valstråd eller rör skall dock klassificeras som obearbetad koppar enligt nr 7403.EurLex-2 EurLex-2