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 flotation, 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 that such addition does not render the product particularly suitable for specific use rather than for general use.

2.- This Chapter does not cover :

(a) Sublimed sulphur, precipitated sulphur or colloidal sulphur (heading No. 28.02);

(b) Earth colours containing 70 % or more by weight of combined iron evaluated as Fe2O3   ( heading

No. 28.21);

(c) Medicaments or other products of Chapter 30;

(d) Perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations (Chapter 33);

(e) Setts, curbstones or flagstones (heading No. 68.01); mosaic cubes or the like (heading No. 68.02);

, roofing,  facing or damp course slates (heading No. 68.03);

(f) Precious or semi-precious stones (heading No. 71.02 or 71.03);

(g) Cultured crystals (other than optical elements) weighing not less than 2.5 g each, of sodium

chloride or of magnesium oxide, of heading No. 38.24; optical elements of sodium chloride or of magnesium oxide (heading No. 90.01);

(h) Billiard chalks (heading No. 95.04); or

(ij) Writing or drawing chalks or tailors' chalks (heading No. 96.09).

3.- Any products classifiable in heading No. 25.17 and any other heading of the Chapter are to be

classified in heading No. 25.17.

 4.- Heading No. 25.30 applies, inter alia, to: vermiculite, perlite and chlorites, unexpanded; earth colours, whether or not calcined or mixed together; natural micaceous 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), other than strontium oxide; broken pottery .

Explanatory remarks to chapter 25

Exportation is subject to the approval of the Ministry of  Commerce.

 

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