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 haven washed (even with chemical substances eliminating the impurities without changin the structure of the product), crushed, ground, powdered, levitated, sifted, screened, concentrate 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 eat, vided that such addition does not render the product particularly suitable for specific use rather for general use.

 

2.‑ This Chapter does not cover:

 

(a)                    Sublimed sulphur, precipitated sulphur or colloidal sulphur (heading 28.02);

 

(b)                    Earth colours containing 70 % or more by weight of combined iron evaluated as Fez03 (heading 28.21);

 

(c)                     Medicaments or other products of Chapter 30;

 

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

 

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

 

(f)                      Precious or semi‑precious stones (heading 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 38.24; optical elements of sodium choride or of magnesium oxide (heading 90.01);

 

(h)                    Billiard chalks (heading 95.04); or

 

 (ij) Writing or drawing chalks or 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 ca lcined or mixed together; natural micaceous iron oxides; meerschaum (whether or not in polished laces); amber, agglomerated meerschaum and agglomerated amber, in plates, rods, sticks or similar forms, not worked after moulding, jet; strontiamte (whether or not calcined), other than strontium oxide; broken pieces of pottery, brick or concrete.

 

Explanatory remarks to chapter 25

 

Importation of pure sodium chloride (salt) is subject to the observance of Article 16 of the Law on Foodstuffs and Beverages approved in 1967 (1346).