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INORGANIC CHEMICALS; ORGANIC OR INORGANIC COMPOUNDS OF PRECIOUS METALS, OF RARE-EARTH METALS, OF RADIOACTIVE ELEMENTS OR OF ISOTOPES Notes.

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Except where the context otherwise requires, the headings of this Chapter apply only to: (a) Separate chemical elements and separate chemically defined compounds, whether or not containing impurities; (b) The products mentioned in (a) above dissolved in water; (c) (d) (e) The products mentioned in (a) above dissolved in other solvents 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 than for general use; The products mentioned in (a), (b) or (c) above with an added stabiliser (including an anti-caking agent) necessary for their preservation or transport; The products mentioned in (a), (b), (c) or (d) above with an added anti- dusting agent or a colouring 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.
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In addition to dithionites and sulphoxylates, stabilised with organic substances (heading 28.31), carbonates and peroxocarbonates of inorganic bases (heading 28.36), cyanides, cyanide oxides and complex cyanides of inorganic bases (heading 28.37), fulminates, cyanates and thiocyanates, of inorganic bases (heading 28.42), organic products included in headings 28.43 to 28.46 and 28.52 and carbides (heading 28.49), only the following compounds of carbon are to be classified in this Chapter: (a) Oxides of carbon, hydrogen cyanide and fulminic, isocyanic, thiocyanic and other simple or complex cyanogen acids (heading 28.11); (b) Halide oxides of carbon (heading 28.12); (c) Carbon disulphide (heading 28.13); 163 (d) selenocyanates, Thiocarbonates, tellurocyanates, tetrathiocyanato-diamminochromates (reineckates) and other complex cyanates, of inorganic bases (heading 28.42); tellurocarbonates, selenocarbonates, (e) Hydrogen peroxide, solidified with urea (heading 28.47), carbon oxysulphide, thiocarbonyl halides, cyanogen, cyanogen halides and cyanamide and its metal derivatives (heading 28.53) other than calcium cyanamide, whether or not pure (Chapter 31).
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Subject to the provisions of Note 1 to Section VI, this Chapter does not cover: (a) Sodium chloride or magnesium oxide, whether or not pure, or 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) (e) Inorganic products of a kind used as luminophores, of heading 32.06; glass frit and other glass in the form of powder, granules or flakes, of heading 32.07; Artificial graphite (heading 38.01); 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 retail sale, of heading 38.24; cultured crystals (other than optical elements) weighing not less than 2.5g each, of the halides of the alkali or alkaline-earth metals, of heading 38.24; (f) Precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed) or dust or powder of such stones (headings 71.02 to 71.05), or precious metals or precious metal alloys of Chapter 71; (g) The metals, whether or not pure, metal alloys or cermets, including sintered metal carbides (metal carbides sintered with a metal), of Section XV; or (h) Optical elements, for example, of the halides of the alkali or alkaline-earth metals (heading 90.01).
Chemically defined complex acids consisting of a non-metal acid of sub-Chapter II and a metal acid of sub-Chapter IV are to be classified in heading 28.11.

Headings 28.26 to 28.42 apply only to metal or ammonium salts or peroxysalts.

1.1.2 Except where the context otherwise requires, double or complex salts are to be classified in heading 28.42.

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Heading 28.44 applies only to: 164 (a) Technetium (atomic No.

43), promethium (atomic No.

61), polonium (atomic No.
84) and all elements with an atomic number greater than 84; (b) Natural or artificial radioactive isotopes (including those of the precious metals or of the base metals of Sections XIV and XV), whether or not mixed together; (c) (d) Compounds, inorganic or organic, of these elements or isotopes, whether or not chemically defined, whether or not mixed together; Alloys, dispersions (including cermets), ceramic products and mixtures containing these elements or isotopes or inorganic or organic compounds thereof and having a specific radioactivity exceeding 74 Bq/g (0.002 µ Ci/g).
(e) Spent (irradiated) fuel elements (cartridges) of nuclear reactors; (f) Radioactive residues whether or not usable.
The term "isotopes", for the purposes of this Note and of the wording of headings 28.44 and 28.45, refers to: - - individual nuclides, excluding, however, those existing in nature in the monoisotopic state; mixtures of isotopes of one and the same element, enriched in one or several of the said isotopes, that is, elements of which the natural isotopic composition has been artificially modified.

Heading 28.53 includes copper phosphide (phosphor copper) containing more than 15% by weight of phosphorus.
Chemical elements (for example, silicon 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 cylinders or rods.

When cut in the form of discs, wafers or similar forms, they fall in heading 38.18.

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Subheading Note.

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For the purposes of subheading 2852.10, the expression "chemically defined" means all organic or inorganic compounds of mercury meeting the requirements of paragraphs (a) to (e) of Note 1 to Chapter 28 or paragraphs (a) to (h) of Note 1 to Chapter 29.
165 HS CET PR1 DESCRIPTION OF GOODS DUTY RATE UNIT(S) SITC REV I - CHEMICAL ELEMENTS Fluorine, chlorine, bromine and iodine.
- Chlorine - Iodine - Flourine; bromine Sulphur, sublimed or precipitated; colloidal sulphur.

Carbon (carbon blacks and other forms of carbon not elsewhere specified or included).

Hydrogen, rare gases and other non-metals.


- Hydrogen - Rare gases: - - Argon - - Other - Nitrogen - Oxygen - Boron; tellurium - Silicon: - - Containing by weight not less than 99.99% of silicon - - Other - Phosphorus - Arsenic - Selenium Alkali or alkaline-earth metals; rare-earth metals, scandium and yttrium, whether or not intermixed or inter-alloyed; mercury.
- Alkali or alkaline-earth metals: - - Sodium - - Calcium - - Other - Rare-earth metals, scandium and yttrium, whether or not intermixed or inter-alloyed - Mercury II - INORGANIC ACIDS AND INORGANIC OXYGEN COMPOUNDS OF NON-METALS Hydrogen chloride (hydrochloric acid); chlorosulphuric acid.
- Hydrogen chloride (hydrochloric acid) - Chlorosulphuric acid 166 Free 5% 5% 5% kg kg kg kg 522.24 522.251 522.252 522.26 5% kg 522.1 10% Kg/m3 522.211 Free Kg/m3 Free Kg/m3 10% Kg/m3 25% Kg/m3 5% kg 522.212 522.213 522.214 522.215 522.221 5% kg 522.231 5% 5% 5% 5% 5% 5% 5% 5% kg kg kg kg kg kg kg kg 522.239 522.222 522.223 522.224 522.281 522.282 522.289 522.293 5% kg 522.27 5% 5% kg kg 522.311 522.312 HS CET PR1 DESCRIPTION OF GOODS DUTY RATE UNIT(S) SITC REV Sulphuric acid; oleum.
- - - Sulphuric acid, for chemical analysis - - - Other sulphuric acid - - - Oleum Nitric acid; sulphonitric acids.

Diphosphorus pentaoxide; phosphoric acid; polyphosphoric acids, whether or not chemically defined.

- Diphosphorus pentaoxide - Phosphoric acid and polyphosphoric acid Oxides of boron; boric acids.

Other inorganic acids and other inorganic oxygen compounds of non-metals.
- Other inorganic acids: - - Hydrogen fluoride (hydrofluoric acid) - - Hydrogen cyanide (hydrocyanic acid) - - Other - Other inorganic oxygen compounds of non- metals: - - Carbon dioxide - - Silicon dioxide - - Other: - - - Nitrous oxide - - - Other III - HALOGEN OR SULPHUR COMPOUNDS OF NON-METALS Halides and halide oxides of non-metals.
- Chlorides and chloride oxides - - Carbonyl dichloride (phosgene) - - Phosphorus oxychloride - - Phosphorus trichloride - - Phosphorus pentachloride - - Sulphur monochloride - - Sulphur dichloride - - Thionyl chloride - - Other - Other Sulphides of non-metals; commercial phos- phorus trisulphide.
- Carbon disulphide 167 5% 15% 5% 5% 5% 5% 5% 5% 5% 5% 25% 5% 5% 5% 5% 5% 5% 5% 5% 5% 5% 5% 5% kg kg kg kg kg kg kg kg kg kg kg kg kg kg kg kg kg kg kg kg kg kg kg 522.321 522.322 522.323 522.33 522.341 522.342 522.35 522.361 522.361 522.369 522.391 522.37 522.392 522.399 522.411 522.411 522.411 522.411 522.411 522.411 522.411 522.411 522.419 5% kg 522.421 HS CET PR1 DESCRIPTION OF GOODS - Other IV - INORGANIC BASES AND OXIDES, HYDROXIDES AND PEROXIDES OF METALS Ammonia, anhydrous or in aqueous solution.
- Anhydrous ammonia - Ammonia in aqueous solution Sodium hydroxide (caustic soda); potas-sium hydroxide (caustic potash); peroxides of sodium or potassium.

- Sodium hydroxide (caustic soda): - - Solid - - In aqueous solution (soda lye or liquid soda) - Potassium hydroxide (caustic potash) - Peroxides of sodium or potassium Hydroxide and peroxide of magnesium; oxides, hydroxides and peroxides, of strontium or barium.
- Hydroxide and peroxide of magnesium - Oxides, hydroxides and peroxides, of strontium or barium Zinc oxide; zinc peroxide.

Artificial corundum, whether or not chemically defined; aluminium oxide; aluminium hydroxide.

- Artificial corundum, whether or not chemically defined - Aluminium oxide (alumina), other than artificial corundum - Aluminium hydroxide Chromium oxides and hydroxides.

- Chromium trioxide - Other Manganese oxides.


- Manganese dioxide - Other Iron oxides and hydroxides; earth colours containing 70% or more by weight of combined iron evaluated as Fe2O3.
- Iron oxides and hydroxides - Earth colours 168 DUTY RATE 5% UNIT(S) kg SITC REV 4 522.429 15% 5% kg kg 522.611 522.612 5% 5% 5% 5% kg kg kg kg 522.62 522.63 522.641 522.642 5% 5% kg kg 522.651 522.658 5% kg 522.51 5% kg 522.67 15% kg 285.2 5% kg 522.66 5% 5% 5% 5% kg kg kg kg 522.521 522.529 522.531 522.539 5% 5% kg kg 522.541 522.542