Archived – Standard Classification of Goods (SCG) - Notes 1996-2001

Section V:  Mineral products

Chapter 25:  Salt; sulphur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement

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 which 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 a specific use rather than for general use.
2. This Chapter does not cover:
   1. Sublimed sulphur, precipitated sulphur or colloidal sulphur (heading No. 28.02);
   2. Earth colours containing 70% or more by weight of combined iron evaluated at Fe2O3 (heading No. 28.21);
   3. Medicaments or other products of Chapter 30;
   4. Perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations (Chapter 33);
   5. Setts, curbstones or flagstones (heading No. 68.01); mosaic cubes or the like (heading No. 68.02); roofing, facing or damp course slates (heading No. 68.03);
   6. Precious or semi-precious stones (heading No. 71.02 or 71.03);
   7. 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);
   8. Billiard chalks (heading No. 95.04); or
   9. Writing or drawing chalks or tailors' chalks (heading No. 96.09).
   10. Writing or drawing chalks or tailors' chalks (heading No. 96.09).
3. Any products classifiable in heading No. 25.17 and any other heading of the 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.

Chapter 26:  Ores, slag and ash

Notes.

1. This Chapter does not cover:
   1. Slag or similar industrial waste prepared as macadam (heading No. 25.17);
   2. Natural magnesium carbonate (magnesite), whether or not calcined (heading No. 25.19);
   3. Basic slag of Chapter 31;
   4. Slag wool, rock wool or similar mineral wools (heading No. 68.06);
   5. Waste or scrap of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal; other waste or scrap containing precious metal or precious metal compounds, of a kind used principally for the recovery of precious metal (heading No. 71.12);
   6. Copper, nickel or cobalt mattes produced by any process of smelting (Section XV).
2. For the purposes of headings Nos. 26.01 to 26.17, the term "ores" means minerals of mineralogical species actually used in the metallurgical industry for the extraction of mercury, of the metals of heading No. 28.44 or of the metals of Section XIV or XV, even if they are intended for non-metallurgical purposes. Headings Nos. 26.01 to 26.17 do not, however, include minerals which have been submitted to processes not normal to the metallurgical industry.
3. Heading No. 26.20 applies only to ash and residues of a kind used in industry either for the extraction of metals or as a basis for the manufacture of chemical compounds of metals.

Chapter 27:  Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes

Notes.

1. This Chapter does not cover:
   1. Separate chemically defined organic compounds, other than pure methane and propane which are to be classified in heading No. 27.11;
   2. Medicaments of heading No. 30.03 or 30.04; or
   3. Mixed unsaturated hydrocarbons of heading No. 33.01, 33.02 or 38.05.
2. References in heading No. 27.10 to "petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals" include not only petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals but also similar oils, as well as those consisting mainly of mixed unsaturated hydrocarbons, obtained by any process, provided that the weight of the non-aromatic constituents exceeds that of the aromatic constituents.
   
   However, the references do not include liquid synthetic polyolefins of which less than 60% by volume distils at 300 °C, after conversion to 1,013 millibars when a reduced-pressure distillation method is used (Chapter 39).

Subheading Notes.

1. For the purposes of subheading No. 2701.11, "anthracite" means coal having a volatile matter limit (on a dry, mineral-matter-free basis) not exceeding 14%.
2. For the purposes of subheading No. 2701.12, "bituminous coal" means coal having a volatile matter limit (on a dry, mineral-matter-free basis) exceeding 14% and a calorific value limit (on a moist, mineral-matter-free basis) equal to or greater than 5,833 kcal/kg.
3. For the purposes of subheadings Nos. 2707.10, 2707.20, 2707.30, 2707.40 and 2707.60, the terms "benzole", "toluole", "xylole", "naphthalene" and "phenols" apply to products which contain more than 50% by weight of benzene, toluene, xylene, naphthalene or phenols, respectively.