Chapter 32
Tanning or dyeing extracts; tannins and their derivatives; dyes,
pigments and other colouring matter; paints and varnishes; putty and other
mastics; inks
Notes.
1.- This Chapter does not cover :
(a) Separate chemically defined elements or compounds (except those of heading No. 32.03 or 32.04, inorganic products of a kind used as luminophores (heading No. 32.06), glass obtained from fused quartz or other fused silica in the forms provided for in heading No. 32.07, and also dyes and other colouring matter put up in forms or packings for retail sale, of heading No. 32.12);
(b) Tannates or other tannin derivatives of products of headings Nos. 29.36 to 29.39,29.41 or 35.01 to 35.04; or
(c) Mastics of asphalt or other bituminous mastics (heading No. 27.15).
2.- Heading No. 32.04 includes mixtures of stabilised diazonium salts and couplers for the production of azo dyes.
3.- Headings Nos. 32.03, 32.04, 32.05 and 32.06 apply also to preparations based on colouring matter (including, in the case of heading No. 32.06, colouring pigments of heading No. 25.30 or Chapter 28, metal flakes and metal powders), of a kind used for colouring any material or used as ingredients in the manufacture of colouring preparations. The headings do not apply, however, to pigments dispersed in non-aqueous media, in liquid or paste form, of a kind used in the manufacture of paints, including enamels (heading No. 32.12), or to other preparations of heading No. 32.07,32.08,32.09,32.10,32.12, 32.13 or 32.15.
4.- Heading No. 32.08 includes solutions (other than collodions) consisting of any of the products specified in headings Nos. 39.01 to 39.13 in volatile organic solvents when the weight of the solvent exceeds 50 % of the weight of the solution.
5.- The expression " colouring matter " in this Chapter does not include products of a kind used as extenders in oil paints, whether or not they are also suitable for colouring distempers.
6.- The expression " stamping foils " in heading No. 32.12 applies only to thin sheets of a kind used for printing, for example, book covers or hat bands, and consisting of :
(a) Metallic powder (including powder of precious metal) or pigment, agglomerated with glue, gelatin or other binder; or
(b) Metal (including precious metal) or pigment, deposited on a supporting sheet of any material.
The
exportation of all the goods covered by this chapter is subject to the approval
of the Ministry of Commerce.