| Sample 3: CHAPTER 28 |
| INORGANIC CHEMICALS; ORGANIC OR INORGANIC
COMPOUNDS OF PRECIOUS METALS, OF RARE-EARTH METALS, OF
RADIOACTIVE ELEMETNS OR OF ISOTOPES |
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| Notes |
1. Except where the
content otherwise requires, the headings of this Chapter
apply only to: (a) Separate chemical elements and separate
chemically defined compounds, whether or not contaning
impurities; (b) The products mentioned in (a) above
dissolved in waters; (b) The products mentioned in (a)
above disolved in other solvents provided that the solution
constitutes a normaland necessary method of puttign
up these products adopted solely for easons of safety
or for transport and thatthe solvent does not render
the product particularly suitable for specific use rather
than for general use; (d) The prodcuts mentioned (a),
(b) or © above with an added stabilizer (including an
anti-caking agent) necessaryfor their preservation or
transport; (e) The products mentioned in (a), (b), ©,
or (d) above with an added anti-dustign agent or a colouring
substanceadded to facilitate their identification or
for safety reasons, provided that the additions do not
render the product |
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2. In addition to dithionites
and sulphoxylates, stabilized with oranic sustabnces
heading No. 28.31), carbonatesand peroxocarbonates of
inorganic bases (heading NO. 28.36), (cyanides, cyanide
oxides and complex cyandiesof inorganic bases (heading
NO. 28.37), fulminates, cyanates and thiocyanates, of
inorganic bases (heading No. 28.38), organic products
incldued in heading Nos. 28. 43 to 28.46 and carbides
(heading No. 28.49), only |
| the following compoundes of carbon are to
be classfied in this Chapter. (a) Oxides of carbon, hydrogen
cyanide and fulminc, isocyanic, thiocyanci and other simple
or complex cyanogen acids (heading No. 28.112). |
(b) Halide oxides of
carbon (heading No. 28.12); (c) Carbon disuplhide (heading
No. 28.13); (d) Thiocarbonates, selenocarbonates, tellurocarbonates,
selenocyanates, tellurocyanate tetrathiocyanatodiamminochromates
(reineckates) and othe rcomplex cyanates, of inorganic
bases (heading No. 28.42).(e) Hydrogen peroxide, solifidied
with area (heading No. 28.47), carbon oxysulphide thiocarbonyl
halides, cyanogen, cyanogen halides and cyanamide and
its metal derivates (headign No. 28.51) othe rthan calcuim
evanamide, whether or not pure (Chapter 31). |
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3. Subject to the provisions
of Note 1 to Section Vi, this Chapter does ot cover:
(a) Sodium chloride or magnesium oxide, whether or tno
pure, other products of Section (V); (b) Organo-inorganic
compounds other than those mentioned in Note 2 above;
(c) Products mentioned in Note 2, 3, 4, or 5 to Chapter
31; (d) Inorganic products of a kidn used as luminophores,
of heading No. 32. 06; (e) Artifical graphic (heding
No. 38.01); products put up as charges for fire extinguishes
or put up in fire extingushing grenades, of heading
No. 38.13; ink removes put up in packings for retail
sale, of heading No. 38.24cultured crystals (other than
optical elements) weighing not less than 2.5g each,
of the halides of the alkali or alkaline earth metals,
of heading No. 38. 23; (f) Precious of semi-precious
stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed) or dust
or powder of such stones(headings Nos. 71.02 to 71.05)
or precious metals or precious metals alloys of Chapter
71; (g) The metals, whether or not pure, metal alloy
or cermets, including sintered metal carbides (metal
carbides sintered with a metal ) of Section XV; or (h)
Opitcal elements, for example of the halides of the
alkali or alkaline-earth metlas (heading No. 90.01). |
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| 4. Chemically defined complex acids consisting
of a non-metal acid of sub-Chapter II and metalic acid
of sub-Chapter IV are to be classifed in heading No. 28.
11 |
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| 5. Heading Nos. 28. 26 to 28.42 apply only
to metal or ammonium salts or peroxysalts. Except where
the context otherwise requires, double or complex salts
are to be classifeid in heading No. 28.42. |
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6. Heading No. 28.44
applies only to(a) Technetium (atomic No. 43) promethium
(atomic NO. 61) polomium (atomic No. 84) and all elements
with an atomic number greater than 84;(b) Natural or
artifical radioactive isotopes (including those of the
precious metals or of the base metals of SectionXIV
and XV), whether or not mixed together; (c) Compounds,
inoragnic or organic, of these elements or istopes,
whether or not chemically define, whether or not mixed
together; (d) Alloys, dispersions (including cermets),
ceramic products and mixtures containing these elements
or isotopes or inorganic or organic compounds thereof
and having a specific radioactivity exceedign 74Bq/g
(0.002ci/g) (e) Spent (irradiated) fuel elements (catridges)
of nuclear rectors; (Radioactive residues whether or
not usable) he term "isotopes for the purposes of this
Note and of the wording of heading Nos. 28.44 and 28.45
refers to: Individual nuclides, excluding, howerver,
those existing in nature in the monoisotopic Mixtures
of isotopes of one and the same elements, enriched in
one or several of the said isotopes, that is, elements
of which the natural isotopic composition has been artificially
modified. |
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| 7. Heading No. 28. 48 incldues coper phosphide
(phosphor copper) containing more than 15% by weight of
phosphorous. |
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8. Chemical elements
(for example, silicion and selenium) doped for use in
electronics are to be classified in this chapter, provided
that they are in forms unworked as drawn, or in the
form of cylindes of roads. When cut in the form of discs,
wafters or similar forms, they fall in heading No. 38.
18. |
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| Heading No. |
H.S. Code |
|
Customs Duty Rate |
| 1995 - 1996 |
1997 - 1998 |
1999 - 2000 |
2001 |
| 28.01 |
|
Fluorine, chlorine, bromine and iodine |
|
| 2801.1000 |
Chlorine |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2801.2000 |
Iodine |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2801.3000 |
Fluorine: bromine |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 28.02 |
2802.0000 |
Sulphur, sublimed or precipitated, colloidal sulphur
|
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 28.03 |
2803.0000 |
Carbon (carbon blaks and other form of carbon not elsewhere
specified or included |
15 |
15 |
20 |
20 |
| 28.04 |
Hydrogen, rare gases and other non-metal
|
|
| 2804.1000 |
Hydrogen |
15 |
15 |
20 |
20 |
| |
Rare gases: |
|
| 2804.2100 |
Argon |
15 |
15 |
20 |
20 |
| 2804.2900 |
Other |
15 |
15 |
20 |
20 |
| 2804.3000 |
Nitrogen |
15 |
15 |
20 |
20 |
| 2804.4000 |
Oxygen |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2804.5000 |
Boron; lellurium |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| |
Silicon: |
|
| 2804.6100 |
Containing by weight not less than 99.99% of silion |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2804.6900 |
Other |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2804.7000 |
Phosphorus |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2804.8000 |
Arsenie |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2804.9000 |
Selenium |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 28.05 |
Alkali or alkaline-earth metals; rare-earth
scandium and yttrium whether or not intermixed or interralloyed;
mercury. Alkali Metals: |
|
| 2805.1100 |
Sodium |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2805.1900 |
Other |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2805.2100 |
Calcium |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2805.2200 |
Strontium and barium |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2805.3000 |
Rare-earth metlas, scandium and yttrium whether or not
intermixed or interlloyed |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2805.4000 |
Mercury |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| |
II. INORGANIC ACIDS AND INORGANIC OXYGEN
COMPOUNDS OF NON-METALS |
|
| 28.06 |
Hydrogen chloride (hydrochloric acid) |
|
| 2806.1000 |
Hydrogen chloride (hydrochloric acid) |
15 |
15 |
20 |
20 |
| 2806.2000 |
Chlorosulphuric acid |
15 |
15 |
20 |
20 |
| 28.07 |
2807.0000 |
Sulphuric acid; oleum |
15 |
15 |
20 |
20 |
| 28.08 |
2808.0000 |
Nitric acid; sulphonitric acids |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 28.09 |
|
Diphosphorus pentaodie; phosphoricacid |
|
| 2809.1000 |
Diphosphorus pentaodie |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2809.2000 |
Phosphoric acid and polyphosphoric acids |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 28.10 |
2810.0000 |
Oxides of boron; boric acids |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| |
Other inorganic acids and other inorganic
|
|
| 28.11 |
|
oxygen compounds of non-metals Other inorganic acids
|
|
| 2811.1100 |
Hydrogen flouride(hydroflouric acid |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2811.1900 |
Other |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| |
Other inorganic oxygen compounds of nonmetals: |
|
| 2811.2100 |
Carbon dioxide |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2811.2200 |
Silicon dioxide |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2811.2300 |
Sulphur dioxide |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2811.2900 |
Other |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| |
III HALOGNE OR SULPHUR COMPOUNDS OF NON
-METALS |
|
| 28.12 |
|
Halides and halide oxdies of non-metals. |
|
| 2812.1000 |
Chloride and chloride oxides |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2812.9000 |
Other |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 28.13 |
|
Sulphides of non-metlas; commerical phosphorus trisulphide
Carbon disulphide |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| |
Other |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| |
IV- INORGANIC BASES AND OXIDESHYDROXIDESA
AND PEROXIDES OF METALS |
|
| 28.14 |
|
Ammonia, anhydrous or in aqueous solution |
|
| 2814.1000 |
Anhydrous ammonia |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2814.2000 |
Ammonia in aqueous solution |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 28.15 |
Sodium hydroxid Icaustic soda); potassium
hydroxide (caustic potash) perodixes of sodium or potassium
Sodium hydroxid Icaustic soda); |
|
| 2815.1100 |
Solid |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2815.1200 |
In aqueous solution (soda Iye or liquid soda) |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2815.2000 |
Potassum hydroxide (caustic potash) |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2815.3000 |
perodixes of sodium or potassium |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 28.16 |
Hydroxide and peroxide of magnesiumoxides,
hydroxides and peroxides, of strontium or barium |
|
| 2816.1000 |
Hydroxide and peroxide of magnesium |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2816.2000 |
Oxides, hydroxides and peroxides, ofstrontium |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2816.3000 |
oxides, hydroxides and peroxides, of barium |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 28.17 |
2817.0000 |
Zine oxide; zinc peroxide |
35 |
35 |
40 |
40 |
| 28.18 |
Artificial cornudum, whethero or not chemically
defined; aluminium oxide; alumium hydroxide |
|
| 2818.1000 |
Artificial cornudum, whethero or not chemically defined |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2818.2000 |
Aluminimum oxide, other than artificialcorundum |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2818.3000 |
Aluminimy hydroxide |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 28.19 |
Chromium oxides and by droxides |
|
| 2819.1000 |
Chronium trioxide |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2819.9000 |
Other |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 28.20 |
Manganese oxides |
|
| 2820.1000 |
Manganese doxides |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2820.9000 |
Other |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 28.21 |
Iron oxides and hydroxides; Earth colours
containing 70% or more by weight of combined iron evaluated
as Fe2O3 |
|
| 2821.1000 |
Iron oxides and hydroxides |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2821.2000 |
Earth colours |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 28.22 |
2822.0000 |
Cobalt oxides and hydroxides; commerical coblat oxides |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 28.23 |
2823.0000 |
Titanium oxides Leads oxides; red lead and orange lead |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 28.24 |
2824.1000 |
Lead monoxide (litharge, massicot) |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2824.2000 |
Red lead and orange led |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2824.9000 |
Other |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 28.25 |
Hdraxine and hydroxylamine and their inorganic
bases; othe rmetal oxideshydroxides and peroxides |
|
| 2825.1000 |
Hydrazine and hydroxylamine and their inorganic salts
|
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2825.2000 |
Lithium oxide and hydroxid |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2825.3000 |
Vanadium oxides and hydrodies |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2825.4000 |
Nickel axides and hydroxides |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2825.5000 |
Hydrides, Nitrides, oxides, silicides and borides, whether
or not chemically defined other than compounds which are
also carbides of heading No. 28.49 |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2825.6000 |
Germanium oxides and zirocnium dioxide |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2825.7000 |
Molybdenum oxides and hydroxides |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2825.8000 |
Antimony oxides |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2825.9000 |
Other |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 28.26 |
Fluroides; fluorosilicates, fluoroaluminates
and other complexfluroine salt Fluorides: |
|
| 2826.1100 |
Of ammonium or of sodium |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2826.1200 |
Of Aluminimum |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2826.1900 |
Other |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2826.2000 |
Fluorosilicates of sodium or postassium |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2826.3000 |
Sodium hexafluoroaluminate (synthetic cryolite) |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2826.9000 |
Other |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 28.27 |
Chloride, chloride oxides and chloridehydroxides;
bromides and bromide oxides, ioddies, and iodide oxides
|
|
| 2827.1000 |
Ammonimum chloride |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2827.2000 |
Calcium chloride Other chlorides: |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2827.3100 |
Of magnesium |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2827.3200 |
Of aluminimu |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2827.3300 |
Of iron |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2827.3400 |
Of Cobalt |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2827.3500 |
Of nickle |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2827.3600 |
Of zinc |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2827.3800 |
Of barium |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2827.3900 |
Other |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| Chloride oxides and chloride hydroxides: |
|
| 2827.4100 |
Of copper |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2827.4900 |
Other |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| Bromides and bromide oxides |
|
| 2827.5100 |
Bromides of sodium or of potassium |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2827.5900 |
Other |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
| 2827.6000 |
Ioddies and iodide oxides |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
