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Chapter 29

Organic Chemicals

Notes.

1. Except where the context otherwise requires, the headings of this Chapter apply only to:

(a) Separate chemically defined organic compounds, whether or not containing impurities;

(b) Mixtures of two or more isomers of the same organic compound (whether or not containing impurities), except mixtures of acyclic hydrocarbon isomers (other than stereoisomers), whether or not saturated (Chapter 27);

(c) The products of headings 29.36 to 29.39 or the sugar ethers, sugar acetals and sugar esters, and their salts, of heading 29.40 or the products of heading 29.41, whether or not chemically defined;

(d) The products mentioned in (a), (b) or (c) above dissolved in water;

(e) The products mentioned in (a), (b) or (c) above dissolved in other solvent provided that the solution constitutes a normal and necessary method of putting up these products adopted solely for reasons of safety or for transport and that the solvent does not render the product particularly suitable for specific use rather that for general use;

(f) The products mentioned in (a), (b), (c), (d) or (e) above with an added stabiliser (including an anti‑caking agent) necessary for their preservation or transport;

(g) The products mentioned in (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) or (f) above with an added anti-dusting agent or a colouring or odoriferous substance added to facilitate their identification or for safety reasons, provided that the additions do not render the product particularly suitable for specific use rather than for general use;

(h) The following products, diluted to standard strengths, for the production of azo dyes: diazonium salts, couplers used for these salts and diazotisable amines and their salts.

2. This Chapter does not cover:

(a) Goods of heading 15.04 or crude glycerol of heading 15.20;

(b) Ethyl alcohol (heading 22.07 or 22.08),

(d) The compounds of carbon mentioned in Note 2 to Chapter 28;

(e) Urea (heading 31.02 or 31.05);

(f) Colouring matter of vegetable or animal origin (heading 32.03, synthetic organic colouring matter, synthetic organic products of a kind used as fluorescent brightening agents or as luminophores (heading 32.04) or dyes or other colouring matter put up in forms or packings for retail sale (heading 32.12);

(g) Enzymes (heading 35.07);

(h) Metaldehyde, hexamethylenetetramine or similar substances, put up in forms (for example, tablets, sticks or similar forms) for use as fuels, or liquid or liquefied-gas fuels in containers of a kind used for filling or refilling cigarette or similar lighters and of a capacity not exceeding 300 cm³ (heading 36.06);

(ij) Products put up as charges for fire-extinguishers or put up in fire-extinguishing grenades, of heading 38.13; ink removers put up in packings for retails sale, of heading 38.24; or

(k) Optical elements, for example, of ethylenediamine tartrate (heading 90.01).

3. Goods which could be included in two or more of the headings of this Chapter are to be classified in that one of those headings which occurs last in numerical order.

4. In headings 29.04 to 29.06, 29.08 to 29.11 and 29.13 to 29.20, any reference to halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives includes reference to compound derivatives, such as sulphohalogenated, nitrohalogenated, nitrosulphonated or nitrosulphohalogenated derivatives.

Nitro or nitroso groups are not to be taken as "nitrogen-function”: for the purposes of heading 29.29.

For the purposes of headings 29.11, 29.12, 29.14, 29.18 and 29.22, "oxygen-functions" is to be restricted to the functions (the characteristic organic oxygen-containing groups) referred to in headings 29.05 to 29.20.

5. (a) The esters of acid-function organic compounds of sub-Chapters I to VII with organic compounds of these sub-Chapters are to be classified with that compound which is classified in the heading which occurs last in numerical order in these sub-Chapters.

(b) Esters of ethyl alcohol with acid-function organic compounds of sub-Chapters I to VII are to be classified in the same heading as the corresponding acid-function compounds.

1. Inorganic salts of organic compounds such as acid, phenol- or enol- function compounds or organic bases, of sub-Chapters I to X or heading 29.42, are to be classified in the heading appropriate to the organic compound; and

2. Salts formed between organic compounds of sub-Chapter I to X or heading 29.42 are to be classified in the heading appropriate to the base or to the acid (including phenol- or enol-function compounds) from which they are formed, whichever occurs last in numerical order in the Chapter.

(d) Metal alcoholates are to be classified in the same heading as the corresponding alcohols except in the case of ethanol (heading 29.05).

(e) Halides of carboxylic acids are to be classified in the same heading as the corresponding acids.

6. The compounds of headings 29.30 and 29.31 are organic compounds the molecules of which contain, in addition to atoms of hydrogen, oxygen or nitrogen, atoms of other non-metals or of metals (such as sulphur, arsenic, mercury or lead) directly linked to carbon atoms.

Heading 29.30 (organo-sulphur compounds) and heading 29.31 (other organo-inorganic compounds) do not include sulphonated or halogenated derivatives (including compound derivatives) which, apart from hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen, only have directly linked to carbon the atoms of sulphur or of a halogen which give them their nature of sulphonated or halogenated derivatives (or compound derivatives).

7. Headings 39.32, 29.33 and 29.34 do not include epoxides with a three-membered ring, ketone peroxides, cyclic polymers of aldehydes or of thioaldehydes anhydrides of polybasic carboxylic acids, cyclic esters of polyhydric alcohols or phenols with polybasic acids or imides of polybasic acids.

These provisions apply only when the ring-position hetero-atoms are those resulting solely from the cyclising function or functions here listed.

8. For the purposes of heading 29.37:

(a) the term “hormones” includes hormone-releasing or hormone-stimulating factors, hormone inhibitors and hormone antagonists (anti-hormones);

(b) the expression “used primarily as hormones” applies not only to hormone derivatives and structural analogues used primarily for their hormonal effect, but also to those derivatives and structural analogues used primarily as intermediates in the synthesis of products of this heading.

Sub-heading Note.

1. Within any one heading of this Chapter, derivatives of a chemical compound (or group of chemical compounds) are to be classified in the same sub-heading as that compound (or group of compounds) provided that they are not more specifically covered by any other sub-heading and that there is no residual sub-heading named "Other" in the series of sub-headings concerned.

Heading

H.S.Code

Description

Statutory

Rate of

Import Duty

Statistical

Unit

Statutory

Rate of

Export Duty

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		I.- HYDROCARBONS AND THEIR HALOGENATED, SULPHONATED,NITRATED OR NITROSATED DERIVATIVES
29.01		Acyclic hydrocarbons.
	2901.10.00	-Saturated	15%	kg	Free
		-Unsaturated:
	2901.21.00	--Ethylene	15%	kg	Free
	2901.22.00	--Propene (propylene)	15%	kg	Free
	2901.23.00	--Butene (butylene) and isomers thereof	15%	kg	Free
	2901.24.00	--Buta- 1, 3- diene and isoprene	15%	kg	Free
	2901.29.00	--Other	15%	kg	Free
29.02		Cyclic hydrocarbons.
		-Cyclanes, cyclenes and cycloterpenes:
	2902.11.00	--Cyclohexane	15%	kg	Free
	2902.19.00	--Other	15%	kg	Free
	2902.20.00	-Benzene	15%	kg	Free
	2902.30.00	-Toluene	15%	kg	Free
		-Xylenes:
	2902.41.00	--o-Xylene	7.5%	kg	Free
	2902.42.00	--m-Xylene	7.5%	kg	Free
	2902.43.00	--p-Xylene	7.5%	kg	Free
	2902.44.00	--Mixed xylene isomers	7.5%	kg	Free
	2902.50.00	-Styrene	15%	kg	Free
	2902.60.00	-Ethylbenzene	15%	kg	Free
	2902.70.00	-Cumene	15%	kg	Free
	2902.90.00	-Other	15%	kg	Free
29.03		Halogenated derivatives of hydrocarbons.
		-Saturated chlorinated derivatives of acyclic hydrocarbons:
	2903.11.00	--Chloromethane (methyl chloride) and chloroethane (ethyl chloride)	15%	kg	Free
	2903.12.00	--Dichloromethane (methylene chloride)	15%	kg	Free
	2903.13.00	--Chloroform (trichloromethane)	15%	kg	Free
	2903.14.00	--Carbon tetrachloride	15%	kg	Free
	2903.15.00	--1, 2- Dichloroethane (ethylene dichloride)	15%	kg	Free
	2903.19.00	--Other	15%	kg	Free
		-Unsaturated chlorinated derivatives of acyclic hydrocarbons:
	2903.21.00	--Vinyl chloride (chloroethylene)	7.5%	kg	Free
	2903.22.00	--Trichloroethylene	15%	kg	Free
	2903.23.00	--Tetrachloroethylene (Perchloroethylene)	15%	kg	Free
	2903.29.00	--Other	15%	kg	Free
	2903.30.00	-Fluorinated, brominated or iodinated derivatives of acyclic hydrocarbons	15%	kg	Free