Section V
Mineral
products
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 and colloidal sulphur (heading 28.02);
(b) Earth colours containing 70 per cent
or more by weight of combined iron evaluated as Fe2O3
(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 chloride or of
magnesium oxide (heading 90.01);
(h) Billiard
chalks (heading 95.04); or
(i) 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 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.
|
Heading |
H.S.Code |
Description |
Statutory Rate of Import Duty |
Statistical Unit |
Statutory Rate of Export Duty |
|
(1) |
(2) |
(3) |
(4) |
(5) |
(6) |
|
25.01 |
|
Salt (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 water. |
|
|
|
|
|
2501.00.10 |
---Pure
sodium chloride BP/USP pyrogen free |
15% |
kg |
Free |
|
|
|
---Salt
(other than pure sodium chloride) not in aqueous solution: |
|
|
|
|
|
2501.00.21 |
----Salt
boulder for crushing and salt in bulk |
32.5% |
kg |
Free |
|
|
2501.00.22 |
----Rock
salt/Bhit Lobon/nemiak siah,imported as raw material for the preparation
of medicaments under crude drugs category |
22.5% |
kg |
Free |
|
|
2501.00.29 |
----Other |
22.5% |
kg |
Free |
|
|
2501.00.90 |
---Other |
22.5% |
kg |
Free |
|
25.02 |
2502.00.00 |
Unroasted iron pyrites. |
15% |
kg |
Free |
|
25.03 |
2503.00.00 |
Sulphur of all kinds, other than sublimed sulphur, precipitated sulphur and colloidal sulphur. |
0% |
kg |
Free |
|
25.04 |
|
Natural graphite. |
|
|
|
|
|
2504.10.00 |
-In
powder or in flakes |
7.5% |
kg |
Free |
|
|
2504.90.00 |
-Other |
7.5% |
kg |
Free |
|
25.05 |
|
Natural sands of all kinds, whether or not coloured, other than metal-bearing sands of Chapter 26. |
|
|
|
|
|
2505.10.00 |
-Silica
sand and quartz sands |
15% |
kg |
Free |
|
|
2505.90.00 |
-Other |
15% |
kg |
Free |
|
25.06 |
|
Quartz (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) shape. |
|
|
|
|
|
2506.10.00 |
-Quartz |
7.5% |
kg |
Free |
|
|
|
-Quartzite: |
|
|
|
|
|
2506.21.00 |
--Crude
or roughly trimmed |
7.5% |
kg |
Free |
|
|
2506.29.00 |
--Other |
7.5% |
kg |
Free |
|
25.07 |
2507.00.00 |
Kaolin and other kaolinic clays, whether or not
calcined. |
7.5% |
kg |
Free |
|
25.08 |
|
Other clays (not including expanded clays of heading No. 68.06), andalusite, kyanite and sillimanite,
whether or not calcined; mullite; chamotte or dinas earths. |
|
|
|
|
|
2508.10.00 |
-Bentonite |
7.5% |
kg |
Free |
|
|
2508.20.00 |
-Decolourising
earths and fuller's earth |
7.5% |
kg |
Free |
|
|
2508.30.00 |
-Fire
clay |
7.5% |
kg |
Free |
|
|
2508.40.00 |
-Other
clays |
7.5% |
kg |
Free |
|
|
2508.50.00 |
-Andalusite,
kyanite and sillimanite |
7.5% |
kg |
Free |
|
|
2508.60.00 |
-Mullite |
7.5% |
kg |
Free |
|
|
2508.70.00 |
-Chamotte
or dinas earths |
7.5% |
kg |
Free |
|
25.09 |
|
-Chalk |
|
|
|
|
|
2509.00.10 |
---Chalk
stone (of natural calcium carbonate) |
7.5% |
kg |
Free |
|
|
2509.00.90 |
---Other
(of natural calcium carbonate) |
15% |
kg |
Free |
|
25.10 |
|
Natural calcium phosphates, natural aluminium
calcium phosphates and phosphatic chalk. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
-Unground: |
|
|
|
|
|
2510.10.10 |
---Rock
phosphate |
0% |
kg |
Free |
|
|
2510.10.90 |
---Other |
15% |
kg |
Free |
|
|
|
-Ground: |
|
|
|
|
|
2510.20.10 |
---Rock
phosphate |
0% |
kg |
Free |
|
|
2510.20.90 |
---Other |
15% |
kg |
Free |
|
25.11 |
|
Natural barium sulphate (barytes); natural barium
carbonate (witherite), whether or not calcined, other than barium oxide of
heading 28.16. |
|
|
|
|
|
2511.10.00 |
-Natural
barium sulphate (barytes) |
15% |
kg |
Free |
|
|
2511.20.00 |
-Natural
barium carbonate (witherite) |
15% |
kg |
Free |
|
25.12 |
2512.00.00 |
Siliceous fossil meals (for example, kieselguhr,
tripolite and diatomite) and similar siliceous earths, whether or not calcined, of an apparent specific gravity of
1 or less. |
15% |
kg |
Free |
|
25.13 |
|
Pumice stone; emery; natural corundum, natural
garnet and other natural abrasives, whether or not
heat-treated. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
-Pumice
stone: |
|
|
|
|
|
2513.11.00 |
--Crude
or in irregular pieces, including crushed pumice ("bimskies") |
15% |
kg |
Free |
|
|
2513.19.00 |
--Other |
15% |
kg |
Free |
|
|
2513.20.00 |
‑Emery,
natural corundum, natural garnet and other natural abrasives |
15% |
kg |
Free |
|
25.14 |
2514.00.00 |
Slate, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut,
by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs or a rectangular (including square) shape. |
22.5% |
kg |
Free |
|
25.15 |
|
Marble, 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) shape. |
|
|
|
|
|
|