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Tanning or dyeing extracts; tannins and their derivatives; dyes, pigments
and other colouring matter; paints arid varnishes; putty and other mastics;
inks
Notes:
1. This Chapter does not cover:
(a) Separate chemically defined elements or compounds [except those of Heading No. 32.03 or 32.04, inorganic products of a kind used as luminophores (Heading No. 32.06), glass obtained from fused quartz or other fused silica in the forms provided for in Heading No. 32.07, and also dyes and other colouring matter put up in forms or packings for retail sale, of Heading No. 32.12];
(b) Tannates or other tannin derivatives of products of Headings Nos. 29.36 to 29.39, 29.41 or 35.01 to 35.04; or
(c) Mastics of asphalt or other bituminous mastics (Heading No. 27.15).
2. Heading No. 32.04 includes mixtures of stabilised diazonium salts and couplers for the production of azo dyes.
3. Headings Nos. 32.03, 32.04, 32.05 and 32.06 apply also to preparations based on colouring matter (including, in the case of Heading No. 32.06, colouring pigments of Heading No. 25.30 or Chapter 28, metal flakes and metal powders), of a kind used for colouring any material or used as ingredients in the manufacture of colouring preparations. The headings do not apply, however, to pigments dispersed in non-aqueous media, in liquid or paste form, of a kind used in the manufacture of paints, including enamels (Heading No. 32.12), or to other preparations of Heading No. 32.07,32.08,32.09, 32.10, 32.12, 32.13 or 32.15.
4. Heading No. 32.08 includes solutions (other than collodions) consisting of any of the products specified in Headings Nos. 39.01 to 39.13 in volatile organic solvents when the weight of the solvent exceeds 50 per cent of the weight of the solution.
5. The expression "colouring matter" in this Chapter does not include products of a kind used as extenders in oil paints, whether or not they are also suitable for colouring distempers.
6. The expression "stamping foils" in Heading No. 32.12 applies only to thin sheets of a kind used for printing, for example, book covers or hat bands, and consisting of:
(a) Metallic powder (including powder of precious metal) or pigment, agglomerated with glue, gelatin or other binder; or
(b) Metal (including precious metal) or pigment, deposited on a supporting sheet of any material.
| Heading No. |
Sub-heading No. |
Description of article | Rate of duty | |
| Standard | Preferential Areas |
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| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) |
| 32.01 | Tanning extracts of vegetable origin; tannins and their salts, ethers, esters and other derivatives | |||
| 3201.10 | - Quebracho extract | 15% | ||
| 3201.20 | - Wattle extract | 15% | ||
| 3201.90 | -Other | 15% | 5% | |
| 32.02 | Synthetic organic tanning substances; inorganic tanning substances; tanning preparations, whether or not containing natural tanning substances; enzymatic preparations for pre-tanning | |||
| 3202.10 | - Synthetic organic tanning substances | 35% | ||
| 3202.90 | - Other | 35% | ||
| 32.03 | 3203.00 | Colouring matter of vegetable or animal origin (including dyeing extracts but excluding animal black), whether or not chemically defined; preparations as specified in Note 3 to this Chapter based on colouring matter of vegetable or animal origin | 35% | |
| 32.04 | Synthetic organic colouring matter, whether or not chemically defined; preparations as specified in Note 3 to this Chapter based on synthetic organic colouring matter; synthetic organic products of a kind used as fluorescent brightening agents or as luminophores, whether or not chemically defined | |||
| - Synthetic organic colouring matter and preparations based thereon as specified in Note 3 to this Chapter: | ||||
| 3204.11 | -- Disperse dyes and preparations based thereon | 35% | ||
| 3204.12 | -- Acid dyes, whether or not premetallised, and preparations based thereon; mordant dyes and preparations based thereon | 35% | ||
| 3204.13 | -- Basic dyes and preparations based thereon | 35% | ||
| 3204.14 | -- Direct dyes and preparations based thereon | 35% | ||
| 3204.15 | -- Vat dyes (including those usable in that state as pigments) and preparations based thereon | 35% | ||
| 3204.16 | -- Reactive dyes and preparations based thereon | 35% | ||
| 3204.17 | -- Pigments and preparations based thereon | 35% | ||
| 3204.19 | --Other, including mixtures of colouring matter of two or more of the sub-heading Nos. 3204.11 to 3204.19 | 35% | ||
| 3204.20 | - Synthetic organic products of a kind used as fluorescent brightening agents | 35% | ||
| 3204.90 | - Other | 35% | ||
| 32.05 | 3205.00 | Colour lakes; preparations as specified in Note 3 to this Chapter based on colour lakes | 35% | |
| 32.06 | Other colouring matter; preparations as specified in Note 3 to this Chapter, other than those of Heading Nos. 32.03,32.04 or 32.05; inorganic products of a kind used as luminophores, whether or not chemically defined | |||
| - Pigments and preparations based on titanium dioxide: | ||||
| 3206.11 | --
Containing 80% or more by weight of titanium dioxide calculated on the dry weight |
35% | ||
| 3206.19 | -- Other | 35% | ||
| 3206.20 | - Pigments and preparations based on chromium compounds | 35% | ||
| 3206.30 | - Pigments and preparations based on cadmium compounds | 35% | ||
| - Other colouring matter and other preparations: | ||||
| 3206.41 | -- Ultramarine and preparations based thereon | 35% | ||
| 3206.42 | -- Lithopone and other pigments and preparations based on zinc sulphide | 35% | ||
| 3206.43 | -- Pigments and preparations based on hexacyanoferrates (ferrocyanides and ferricyanides) | 35% | ||
| 3206.49 | --Other | 35% | ||
| 3206.50 | - Inorganic products of a kind used as luminophores | 35% | ||
| 32.07 | Prepared pigments, prepared opacifiers and prepared colours, vitrifiable enamels and glazes, engobes (slips), liquid lustres and similar preparations, of a kind used in the ceramic enamelling or glass industry; glass frit and other glass, in the form of powder, granules or flakes | |||
| 3207.10 | - Prepared pigments, prepared opacifiers, prepared colours and similar preparations | 35% | ||
| 3207.20 | - Vitrifiable enamels and glazes, engobes (slips) and similar preparations | 35% | ||
| 3207.30 | - Liquid lustres and similar preparations | 35% | ||
| 3207.40 | - Glass frit and other glass, in the form of powder, granules or flakes | 35% | ||
| 32.08 | Paints and varnishes (including enamels and lacquers) based on synthetic polymers or chemically modified natural polymers, dispersed or dissolved in a non-aqueous medium; solutions as defined in Note 4 to this Chapter | |||
| 3208.10 | - Based on polyesters | 35% | ||
| 3208.20 | - Based on acrylic or vinyl polymers | 35% | ||
| 3208.90 | - Other | 35% | ||
| 32.09 | Paints and varnishes (including enamels and lacquers) based on synthetic polymers or chemically modified natural polymers, dispersed or dissolved in an aqueous medium | |||
| 3209.10 | - Based on acrylic or vinyl polymers | 35% | ||
| 3209.90 | - Other | 35% | ||
| 32.10 | 3210.00 | Other paints and varnishes (including enamels, lacquers and distempers); prepared water pigments of a kind used for finishing leather | 35% | |
| 32.11 | 3211.00 | Prepared driers | 35% | |
| 32.12 | Pigments (including metallic powders and flakes) dispersed in non-aqueous media, in liquid or paste form, of a kind used in the manufacture of paints (including enamels); stamping foils; dyes and other colouring matter put up in forms or packings for retail sale | |||
| 3212.10 | - Stamping foils | 35% | ||
| 3212.90 | - Other | 35% | ||
| 32.13 | Artists', students' or signboard painters' colours, modifying tints, amusement colours and the like, in tablets, tubes, jars, bottles, pans or in similar forms or packings | |||
| 3213.10 | - Colours in sets | 35% | ||
| 3213.90 | - Other | 35% | ||
| 32.14 | Glaziers' putty, grafting putty, resin cements, caulking compounds and other mastics; painters' fillings; non-refractory surfacing preparations for facades, indoor walls, floors, ceilings or the like | |||
| 3214.10 | - Glaziers' putty, grafting putty, resin cements, caulking compounds and other mastics; painters' fillings | 35% | ||
| 3214.90 | - Other | 35% | ||
| 32.15 | Printing ink, writing or drawing ink and other inks, whether or not concentrated or solid | |||
| - Printing ink: | ||||
| 3215.11 | -- Black | 35% | ||
| 3215.19 | -- Other | 35% | ||
| 3215.90 | - Other | 35% | ||
