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