Chapter 25: Salt; sulphur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement

Section V — Mineral products

29 headings · 96 total HS codes

Classification Notes for Chapter 25
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 (2802.00.00); b. Earth colours containing 70% or more by weight of combined iron evaluated as Fe2O3 (2821); c. Medicaments or other products of Chapter 30; d. Perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations (Chapter 33); e. Dolomite ramming mix (3816.00.10);​​ f. Setts, curbstones or flagstones (6801.00.00​); mosaic cubes or the like (6802); roofing, facing or damp course slates (6803.00.00); g. Precious or semi-precious stones (7102 or 7103); h. Cultured crystals (other than optical elements) weighing not less than 2.5 g each, of sodium chloride or of magnesium oxide, of 3824; optical elements of sodium chloride or of magnesium oxide (9001); i. ij. Billiard chalks ​(9504); or j. Writing or drawing chalks or tailors' chalks (9609). 3. Any products classifiable in 2517 and any other heading of the Chapter are to be classified in 2517. 4. 2530 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 pieces of pottery, brick or concrete.
HeadingDescriptionGeneral RateSub-codesFTAs
2501Salt (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 water0%116 FTAs
2502Unroasted iron pyrites0%115 FTAs
2503Sulphur of all kinds, other than sublimed sulphur, precipitated sulphur and colloidal sulphur0%314 FTAs
2504Natural graphite0%216 FTAs
2505Natural sands of all kinds, whether or not coloured, other than metal- bearing sands of chapter 260%216 FTAs
2506Quartz (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) shape0%216 FTAs
2507Kaolin and other kaolinic clays, whether or not calcined0%117 FTAs
2508Other clays (not including expanded clays of 68.06), andalusite, kyanite and sillimanite, whether or not calcined; mullite; chamotte or dinas earths0%617 FTAs
2509Chalk5%115 FTAs
2510Natural calcium phosphates, natural aluminium calcium phosphates and phosphatic chalk0%217 FTAs
2511Natural barium sulphate (barytes); natural barium carbonate (witherite), whether or not calcined, other than barium oxide of 28.160%217 FTAs
2512Siliceous fossil meals (for example, kieselguhr, tripolite and diatomite) and similar siliceous earths, whether or not calcined, of an apparent specific gravity of 1 or less0%115 FTAs
2513Pumice stone; emery; natural corundum, natural garnet and other natural abrasives, whether or not heat-treated0%217 FTAs
2514Slate, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape5%115 FTAs
2515Marble, travertine, ecaussine and other calcareous monumental or building stone of an apparent specific gravity 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) shape0%415 FTAs
2516Granite, 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) shape0%717 FTAs
2517Pebbles, 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-treated0%617 FTAs
2518Dolomite, 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) shape0%215 FTAs
2519Natural 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 pure0%215 FTAs
2520Gypsum; anhydrite; plasters (consisting of calcined gypsum or calcium sulphate) whether or not coloured, with or without small quantities of accelerators or retarders0%214 FTAs
2521Limestone flux; limestone and other calcareous stone, of a kind used for the manufacture of lime or cement0%116 FTAs
2522Quicklime, slaked lime and hydraulic lime, other than calcium oxide and hydroxide of 28.250%314 FTAs
2523Portland cement, aluminous cement, slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers0%617 FTAs
2524Asbestos0%216 FTAs
2525Mica, including splittings; mica waste0%315 FTAs
2526Natural steatite, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape; talc0%216 FTAs
2528Natural borates and concentrates thereof (whether or not calcined), but not including borates separated from natural brine; natural boric acid containing not more than 85% of h3bo3 calculated on the dry weight0%116 FTAs
2529Feldspar; leucite; nepheline and nepheline syenite; fluorspar0%517 FTAs
2530Mineral substances not elsewhere specified or included0%316 FTAs

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