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Chapter 25
Salt; Sulphur; Earths and Stone; Plastering Materials, Lime and Cement

Notes

1.

Except where their context or Note 4 to this Chapter otherwise requires, the headings of this Chapter cover only products which are in the crude state or which have been washed (even with chemical substances eliminating the impurities without changing the structure of the product), crushed, ground, powdered, levigated, sifted, screened, concentrated by floatation, magnetic separation or other mechanical or physical processes (except crystallisation), but not products which have been roasted, calcined, obtained by mixing or subjected to processing beyond that mentioned in each heading.

The products of this Chapter may contain an added anti-dusting agent, provided such addition does not render the product particularly suitable for specific use rather than for general use.

2.

This Chapter does not cover the following:

(a)

sublimed sulphur, precipitated sulphur and colloidal sulphur (heading 28.02);

(b)

earth colours containing 70 per cent or more by mass of combined iron evaluated at Fe(2)O(3) (heading 28.21);

(c)

medicaments and other products of Chapter 30;

(d)

perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations (Chapter 33);

(e)

dolomite ramming mix (heading 38.16);

(f)

setts, curbstones and flagstones (heading 68.01), mosaic cubes and the like (heading 68.02); roofing, facing or damp course slates (heading 68.03);

(g)

precious or semi-precious stones (heading 71.02 or 71.03);

(h)

cultured crystals (excluding optical elements) of a mass of not less than 2,5 g each, of sodium chloride or of magnesium oxide, of heading 38.24; optical elements of sodium chloride or of magnesium oxide (heading 90.01);

(ij)

billiard chalks (heading 95.04); or

(k)

writing or drawing chalks and tailors' chalks (heading 96.09).

3.

Any products classifiable in heading 25.17 and any other heading of the Chapter are to be classified in heading 25.17.

4.

Heading 25.30 applies, inter alia, to: vermiculite, perlite and chlorites, unexpanded; earth colours, whether or not calcined or mixed together; natural micaceaus iron oxides; meerschaum (whether or not in polished pieces); amber; agglomerated meerschaum and agglomerated amber, in plates, rods, sticks or similar forms, not worked after moulding; jet; strontianite (whether or not calcined)(excluding strontium oxide); broken pieces of pottery, brick or concrete.

Rates as at
HeadingDescriptionGeneral
2501.00Salt (including table salt and denatured salt) and pure sodium chloride, whether or not in aqueous solution or containing added anti-caking or free-flowing agents; sea water:
2501.00.10Not for human consumptionfree
2501.00.90Otherfree
2502.00Unroasted iron pyritesfree
2503.00Sulphur of all kinds (excluding sublimed sulphur, precipitated sulphur and colloidal sulphur)free
25.04Natural graphite:
2504.10In powder or in flakesfree
2504.90Otherfree
25.05Natural sands of all kinds, whether or not coloured, other than metal-bearing sands of Chapter 26:
2505.10Silica sand and quartz sandfree
2505.90Otherfree
25.06Quartz (other than natural sands); quartzite, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape:
2506.10Quartzfree
2506.20Quartzitefree
2507.00Kaolin and other kaolinic clays, whether or not calcinedfree
25.08Other clays (not including expanded clays of heading 68.06), andalusite, kyanite and sillimanite, whether or not calcined; mullite; chamotte or dinas earths:
2508.10Bentonitefree
2508.30Fire-clayfree
2508.40Other claysfree
2508.50Andalusite, kyanite and sillimanitefree
2508.60Mullitefree
2508.70Chamotte or dinas earthsfree
2509.00Chalkfree
25.10Natural calcium phosphates, natural aluminium calcium phosphates and phosphatic chalk:
2510.10Ungroundfree
2510.20Groundfree
25.11Natural barium sulphate (barytes); natural barium carbonate (witherite), whether or not calcined, other than barium oxide of heading 28.16:
2511.10Natural barium sulphate (barytes)free
2511.20Natural barium carbonate (witherite)free
2512.00Siliceous fossil meals (for example, kieselguhr, tripolite and diatomite) and similar siliceous earths, whether or not calcined, of an apparent relative density of 1 or lessfree
25.13Pumice stone; emery; natural corundum, natural garnet and other natural abrasives, whether or not heat-treated:
2513.10Pumice stonefree
2513.20Emery, natural corundum, natural garnet and other natural abrasivesfree
2514.00Slate, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shapefree
25.15Marble, travertine, ecaussine and other calcareous monumental or building stone of an apparent relative density of 2,5 or more, and alabaster, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape:
2515.1Marble and travertine:
2515.11Crude or roughly trimmedfree
2515.12Merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shapefree
2515.20Ecaussine and other calcareous monumental or building stone; alabasterfree
25.16Granite, porphyry, basalt, sandstone and other monumental or building stone, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape:
2516.1Granite:
2516.11Crude or roughly trimmedfree
2516.12Merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shapefree
2516.20Sandstonefree
2516.90Other monumental or building stonefree
25.17Pebbles, gravel, broken or crushed stone, of a kind commonly used for concrete aggregates, for road metalling or for railway or other ballast, shingle and flint, whether or not heat-treated; macadam of slag, dross or similar industrial waste, whether or not incorporating the materials cited in the first part of the heading; tarred macadam; granules, chippings and powder, of stones of heading 25.15 or 25.16, whether or not heat-treated:
2517.10Pebbles, gravel, broken or crushed stone, of a kind commonly used for concrete aggregates, for road metalling or for railway or other ballast, shingle and flint, whether or not heat-treatedfree
2517.20Macadam of slag, dross or similar industrial waste, whether or not incorporating the materials cited in subheading 2517.10free
2517.30Tarred macadamfree
2517.4Granules, chippings and powder, of stones of heading 25.15 or 25.16, whether or not heat-treated:
2517.41Of marblefree
2517.49Otherfree
25.18Dolomite, whether or not calcined or sintered, including dolomite roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape:
2518.10Dolomite, not calcined or sinteredfree
2518.20Calcined or sintered dolomitefree
25.19Natural magnesium carbonate (magnesite); fused magnesia; dead-burned (sintered) magnesia, whether or not containing small quantities of other oxides added before sintering; other magnesium oxide, whether or not pure:
2519.10Natural magnesium carbonate (magnesite)free
2519.90Otherfree
25.20Gypsum; anhydrite; plasters (consisting of calcined gypsum or calcium sulphate) whether or not coloured, with or without small quantities of accelerators or retarders:
2520.10Gypsum; anhydritefree
2520.20Plastersfree
2521.00Limestone flux; limestone and other calcareous stone, of a kind used for the manufacture of lime or cementfree
25.22Quicklime, slaked lime and hydraulic lime, (excluding calcium oxide and hydroxide of heading 28.25):
2522.10Quicklimefree
2522.20Slaked limefree
2522.30Hydraulic limefree
25.23Portland cement, aluminous cement, slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers:
2523.10Cement clinkersfree
2523.2Portland cement:
2523.21White cement, whether or not artificially colouredfree
2523.29Otherfree
2523.30Aluminous cementfree
2523.90Other hydraulic cementsfree
25.24Asbestos:
2524.10Crocidolite:
2524.10.10Chrysotilefree
2524.10.90Otherfree
2524.90.01Actinolitefree
2524.90.04Tremolitefree
2524.90.03Amositefree
2524.90.02Anthophyllitefree
2524.90Other:
2524.90.90Otherfree
25.25Mica, including splittings; mica waste:
2525.10Crude mica and mica rifted into sheets or splittingsfree
2525.20Mica powderfree
2525.30Mica waste10%
25.26Natural steatite, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape; talc:
2526.10Not crushed, not powderedfree
2526.20Crushed or powderedfree
2527.002527.00
2528.00Natural borates and concentrates thereof (whether or not calcined), but not including borates separated from natural brine; natural boric acid containing not more than 85 per cent of H3BO3 calculated on the dry massfree
25.29Feldspar; leucite; nepheline and nepheline syenite; fluorspar:
2529.10Feldsparfree
2529.2Fluorspar:
2529.21Containing by mass 97 per cent or less of calcium fluoridefree
2529.22Containing by mass more than 97 per cent of calcium fluoridefree
2529.30Leucite; nepheline and nepheline syenitefree
25.30Mineral substances not elsewhere specified or included:
2530.10Vermiculite, perlite and chlorites, unexpandedfree
2530.20Kieserite, epsomite (natural magnesium sulphates)free
2530.90Otherfree

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