CLANAE 13.111—Preparation of vegetable textile fibers; cotton ginning

Where 13.111 sits

1. C Manufacturing industry
2. 13 Manufacture of textile products, except clothing
3. 13.1 Manufacture of yarns and fabrics; finishing of textile products
4. 13.11 Preparation and spinning of textile fibers
5. 13.111 Preparation of vegetable textile fibers; cotton ginning

What 13.111 includes

• Plant fibers can come from different parts of plants: seeds, stems, leaves, and fruits. The most important processes in this activity are related to obtaining cotton fiber. Cotton ginning consists of separating the cotton fiber from the seed. It is a mechanical process that yields three main products: cotton fiber, which is the part that can be spun and is destined for spinning mills or export; cottonseed, which is used as animal feed, seed, for industrial oils, for the manufacture of margarine, or as fertilizer; and cotton linters, which are very short (non-spinnable) fibers with a high cellulose content used in the manufacture of synthetic fibers and paper.
• Bleaching, dyeing, and similar processes of vegetable fibers, when carried out at the production facilities where they are obtained.
• The drying or maceration of plants that provide textile fibers.
• The production of byproducts and waste from vegetable fiber preparation processes.
• The processes of preparing vegetable silk.

What 13.111 excludes

• Cotton ginning when carried out on the farm as part of the integrated cotton cultivation process (subclass 01.150).
• The cultivation of plants for obtaining vegetable fibers for textile use (subclass 01.150).
• Carding and combing processes carried out in spinning mills (subclass 13.113).
• Bleaching, dyeing, and similar processes for vegetable fibers, carried out in production units independent of their production (subclass 13.130).
• The manufacture of fiberglass (subclass 23.109).
• The production of fibers from scraps as a waste recovery activity, independent of the activity that generates said waste (subclass 38.202).

13.111 in other systems