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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 that have been roasted, calcined, obtained by mixing or subjected to processing beyond that mentioned in each heading.
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 that 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 No. 28.02);
(b) Earth colours containing 70 per cent or more by weight of combined iron evaluated at Fe203 (heading No. 28.21);
(c) Medicaments and other products of Chapter 30;
(d) Perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations (Chapter 33);
(e) Setts, curbstones and flagstones (heading No. 68.01); mosaic cubes or the like (heading No. 68.02); roofing, facing or damp course slates (heading No. 68.03);
(f) Precious or semi-precious stones (heading No. 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 No. 38.24; optical elements of sodium chloride or of magnesium oxide (heading No. 90.01);
(h) Billiard chalks (heading No. 95.04); or
(ij) Writing or drawing chalks and tailors' chalks (heading No. 96.09).
3. Any products classifiable in heading No. 25.17 and any other heading of this Chapter are to be classified in heading No. 25.17.
4. Heading No. 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 pottery.
| Heading No. | Sub- heading No. | Description of article | Rate of duty | |
| Standard | Preferential Areas | |||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) |
| 25.01 | 2501.00 | 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 | 25% | |
| 25.02 | 2502.00 | Unroasted iron pyrites | 25% | |
| 25.03 | 2503.00 | Sulphur of all kinds, other than sublimed sulphur, precipitated sulphur and colloidal sulphur | 25% | |
| 25.04 | Natural graphite | |||
| 2504.10 | - In powder or in flakes | 35% | 25% | |
| 2504.90 | -Other | 35% | 25% | |
| 25.05 | Natural sands of all kinds, whether or not coloured, other than metal-bearing sands of Chapter 26 | |||
| 2505.10 | - Silica sand and quartz sands | 25% | ||
| 2505.90 | -Other | 25% | ||
| 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 | -Quartz | 25% | ||
| - Quartzite: | ||||
| 2506.21 | --Crude or roughly trimmed | 25% | ||
| 2506.29 | -- Other | 25% | ||
| 25.07 | 2507.00 | Kaolin and other kaolinic clays, whether or not calcined | 25% | |
| 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 | - Bentonite | 25% | ||
| 2508.20 | - Decolourising earths and fuller's earth | 25% | ||
| 2508.30 | - Fire-clay | 25% | ||
| 2508.40 | - Other clays | 25% | ||
| 2508.50 | - Andalusite, kyanite and sillimanite | 25% | ||
| 2508.60 | - Mullite | 25% | ||
| 2508.70 | - Chamotte or dinas earths | 25% | ||
| 25.09 | 2509.00 | Chalk | 25% | |
| 25.10 | Natural calcium phosphates, natural aluminium calcium phosphates and phos-phatic chalk | |||
| 2510.10 | - Unground | 5% | ||
| 2510.20 | - Ground | 5% | ||
| 25.11 | Natural barium sulphate (barytes); natural barium carbonate (witherite), whether or not calcined, other than barium oxide of heading No. 28.16 | |||
| 2511.10 | -Natural barium sulphate (barytes) | 25% | ||
| 2511.20 | - Natural barium carbonate (witherite) | 25% | ||
| 25.12 | 2512.00 | 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 | 25% | |
| 25.13 | Pumice stone; emery; natural corundum, natural garnet and other natural abrasives, whether or not heat-treated | |||
| - Pumice stone: | ||||
| 2513.11 | -- Crude or in irregular pieces, including crushed pumice ("bimskies") | 25% | ||
| 2513.19 | -- Other | 25% | ||
| 2513.20 | - Emery, natural corundum, natural garnet and other natural abrasives | 25% | ||
| 25.14 | 2514.00 | Slate, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape | 25% | |
| 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 | |||
| - Marble and travertine : | ||||
| 2515.11 | -- Crude or roughly trimmed | 35% | ||
| 2515.12 | -- Merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape | 35% | ||
| 2515.20 | - Ecaussine and other calcareous monumental or building stone; alabaster | 35% | ||
| 25.16 | Granite, 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) shape | |||
| - Granite: | ||||
| 2516.11 | --Crude or roughly trimmed | 35% | ||
| 2516.12 | -- Merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape | 35% | ||
| - Sandstone: | ||||
| 2516.21 | -- Crude or roughly trimmed | 35% | ||
| 2516.22 | -- Merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape | 35% | ||
| 2516.90 | - Other monumental or building stone | 35% | ||
| 25.17 | Pebbles, 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 No. 25.15 or 25.16, whether or not heat-treated | |||
| 2517.10 | - Pebbles, 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 | 25% | ||
| 2517.20 | - Macadam of slag, dross or similar industrial waste, whether or not incorporating the materials cited in sub-heading No. 2517.10 | 25% | ||
| 2517.30 | - Tarred macadam ¦ | 25% | ||
| - Granules, chippings and powder, of stones of \ heading No. 25.15 or 25.16, whether or not I heat-treated: ¦ | ||||
| 2517.41 | -- Of marble I | 25% | ||
| 2517.49 | -- Other | 25% | ||
| 25.18 | Dolomite, whether or not calcined; dolomite roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape; agglomerated dolomite (including tarred dolomite) | |||
| 2518.10 | - Dolomite not calcined | 25% | ||
| 2518.20 | - Calcined dolomite | 25% | ||
| 2518.30 | - Agglomerated dolomite (including tarred | 25% | ||
| dolomite) | ||||
| 25.19 | Natural 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 pure | |||
| 2519.10 | - Natural magnesium carbonate (magnesite) | 35% | ||
| 2519.90 | - Other | 35% | ||
| 25.20 | Gypsum; anhydrite; plasters (consisting of calcined gypsum or calcium sulphate) whether or not coloured, with or without small quantities of accelerators or retarders | |||
| 2520.10 | - Gypsum; anhydrite | 25% | ||
| 2520.20 | - Plasters | 25% | ||
| 25.21 | 2521.00 | Limestone flux; limestone and other calcareous stones, of a kind used for the manufacture of lime or cement | 25% | |
| 25.22 | Quicklime, slaked lime and hydraulic lime, other than calcium oxide and hydroxide of heading No. 28.25 | |||
| 2522.10 | - Quicklime | 25% | ||
| 2522.20 | - Slaked lime | 25% | ||
| 2522.30 | - Hydraulic lime | 25% | ||
| 25.23 | Portland cement, aluminous cement, slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers | |||
| 2523.10 | - Cement clinkers | 35% | ||
| - Portland cement: | ||||
| 2523.21 | -- White cement, whether not artificially coloured | 35% | ||
| 2523.29 | -- Other | 35% | ||
| 2523.30 | - Aluminous cement | 35% | ||
| 2523.90 | - Other hydraulic cements | 35% | ||
| 25.24 | 2524.00 | Asbestos | 25% | |
| 25.25 | Mica, including splittings; mica waste | |||
| 2525.10 | - Crude mica and mica rifted into sheets or splittings | 25% | ||
| 2525.20 | - Mica powder | 25% | ||
| 2525.30 | - Mica waste | 25% | ||
| 25.26 | Natural steatite, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape; talc | |||
| 2526.10 | - Not crushed, not powdered | 25% | . | |
| 2526.20 | - Crushed or powdered | 25% | ||
| 25.27 | 2527.00 | Natural cryolite; natural chiolite | 25% | 15% |
| 25.28 | Natural 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 weight | |||
| 2528.10 | - Natural sodium, borates and concentrates thereof (whether or not calcined) | 25% | ||
| 2528.90 | - Other | 25% | ||
| 25.29 | Felspar; leucite; nepheline and nepheline syenite; fluorspar | |||
| 2529.10 | - Felspar | 25% | ||
| - Fluorspar : | ||||
| 2529-21 | -- Containing by weight 97% or less of calcium fluoride | 25% | ||
| 2529.22 | -- Containing by weight more than 97% of calcium fluoride | 25% | ||
| 2529.30 | - Leucite; nepheline and nepheline syenite | 25% | ||
| 25.30 | Mineral substances not elsewhere specified or included | |||
| 2530.10 | - Vermiculite, perlite and chlorites, unex-panded | 25% | ||
| 2530.20 | - Kieserite, epsomite (natural magnesium sulphates) | 25% | ||
| 2530.40 | - Natural micaceous iron oxides | 25% | ||
| 2530.90 | - Other | 25% | ||
