section V
MINERAL PRODUCTS
Chapter 25
Salt; sulphur; earth 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 physica1 processes (except crystallization), 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 specific use rather than for general use.
2. This Chapter does not cover:
(a) Sublimed sulphur, precipitated sulphur, or colloidal sulphur (heading 28.02);
(b) Earth colours containing 70% or more by weight of combined iron evaluated as Fe 2O3(heading 28.21);
(c) Medicaments or other products of Chapter 30;
(d) Perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations (Chapter 33);
(e) Setts, curbstones, or flagstones (heading 68.01); mosaic cubes or the like (heading 68.02); roofing, facing or damp course slates (heading 68.03);
(f) Precious or semi-precious stones (heading 71.02 or71.03);
(g) Cultured crystals (other than optical elements) weighing not less than 2.5 g each, of sodium chloride or of magnesium oxide, of heading 38.24; optical elements of sodium chloride or of magnesium oxide (heading90.01);
(h) Billiard chalks (heading 95.04); or
(j) Writing or drawing chalks or tailors' chalks (heading 96.09).
3. Any products classifiable in heading 25.17 and any other heading of the Chapter are to be classified in heading 25.17.
4. Heading 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 pieces of pottery, brick or concrete.
Explanatory remarks to Chapter 25
1. Importation of pure sodium chloride (salt) is subject to the observance of Article 16 of the Law on Foodstuffs and beverages approved in 1967 (1346).
2. Importation of kaolinc clays, whether or not calcined for pharmaceutical purposes is subject to the approval of theMinistry of Health, Treatment and Medical Education.
| Heading, Subheading No. | Description | Remark | Preferential Tariff | SUQ | Import duty |
| 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; seawater. | ||||
| 2501 00 10 | --- Ordinary salt (including table and denatured salt) | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2501 00 20 | --- For chemical alteration (to separate sodium from chlorine to produce other materials. | Kg | 10 | ||
| 2501 00 30 | --- Modified for industrial uses (including purified) | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2501 00 40 | --- Sodium chloride of pharmaceutical-grade imported by producers of medicines | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2501 00 90 | --- Other | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2502 00 00 | Unroasted iron pyrites. | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2503 00 | Sulphur of all kinds, other than sublimed sulphur, precipitated sulphur and colloidal sulphur. | ||||
| 2503 00 10 | --- Crude or unrefined | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2503 00 90 | --- Other | Kg | 5 | ||
| 25 04 | Natural graphite. | ||||
| 2504 10 | - In powder or in flakes: | ||||
| 2504 00 90 | --- flakes (other than flake powder) crystaline | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2504 10 90 | --- Other | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2504 90 00 | - Other | Kg | 5 | ||
| 25 05 | Natural sands of all kinds, whether or not coloured, other than metalbearing sands of Chapter 26. | ||||
| 2505 10 | - Silica sands and quartz sands | ||||
| 2505 10 10 | --- Silica sands containing by weight 95 percent or more of silica and 0.6 percent or less of iron oxide | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2505 10 90 | --- Other | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2505 90 00 | - Other | Kg | 5 | ||
| 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 | ||||
| 2506 10 10 | --- Containing by weight 95 percent or more of silica and 0.6 percent or less of iron oxide | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2506 10 90 | --- Other | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2506 20 00 | - Quartzite | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2507 00 | Kaolin and other kaolinic clays, whether or not calcined. | 2 | |||
| 2507 00 10 | --- Kaolin | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2507 00 90 | --- Other | Kg | 5 | ||
| 25 08 | Other clays (not including expanded clays of heading 68.06), andalusite, kyanite, and sillimanite, whether or not calcined; mullite; chamotte or dinas earths. | ||||
| 2508 10 00 | - Bentonite | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2508 30 00 | - Fire-clay | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2508 40 | - Other clays | ||||
| 2508 40 10 | --- discoloar Clay and Shampoo mud | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2508 40 90 | --- Other | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2508 50 00 | - Andalusite, kyanite and sillimanite | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2508 60 00 | - Mullite | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2508 70 | - Chamotte or dinas earths | ||||
| 2508 70 10 | --- Chamotte earth | Kg | 10 | ||
| 2508 70 20 | --- Dinas earth | Kg | 10 | ||
| 2509 00 | Chalk. | ||||
| 2509 00 10 | --- Crude | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2509 00 90 | --- Other | Kg | 5 | ||
| 25 10 | Natural calcium phosphates, natural aluminium calcium phosphates and phosphatic chalk. | ||||
| 2510 10 00 | - Unground | 8 | Kg | 5 | |
| 2510 20 00 | - Ground | 8 | Kg | 5 | |
| 25 11 | Natural barium sulphate (barytes); natural barium carbonate (witherite), whether or not calcined, other than barium oxide of heading 28.16. | ||||
| 2511 10 | - Natural barium sulphate (barytes) | ||||
| 2511 10 10 | --- Ground | Kg | 15 | ||
| 2511 10 90 | --- Other | Kg | 15 | ||
| 2511 20 00 | - Natural barium carbonate (witherite) | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2512 00 00 | Siliceous fossil meals (for example, kieselguhr, tripolite, and diatomite) and similar siliceous earth, whether or not calcined, of an apparent specific gravity of 1 or less. | Kg | 5 | ||
| 25 13 | Pumice stone; emery; natural corundum, natural garnet and other natural abrasives, whether or not heat- treated. | ||||
| 2513 10 00 | - Pumice stone | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2513 20 | - Emery, natural corundum, natural garnet and other natural abrasives: | ||||
| 2513 20 10 | --- Unwrought | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2513 20 90 | --- Other | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2514 00 00 | Slate, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape. | Kg | 26 | ||
| 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. | 1 | |||
| - Marble and travertine: | |||||
| 2515 11 | -- Crude or roughly trimmed | 3 | |||
| 2515 11 10 | --- Marble | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2515 11 20 | --- Travertine | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2515 11 30 | --- Known as the chinese stones and crystals lacks polished surface with different dimensions and thicknennes | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2515 11 90 | ---Marbly | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2515 12 00 | -- Merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape | 3 | Kg | 5 | |
| 2515 20 00 | - Ecaussine and other calcareous monumental or building stone; alabaster | 3 | Kg | 5 | |
| 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 00 | -- Crude or roughly trimmed | 3 | Kg | 5 | |
| 2516 12 00 | -- Merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape | 3 | Kg | 20 | |
| 2516 20 00 | - Sandstone | 3 | Kg | 5 | |
| 2516 90 00 | - Other monumental or building stone | 3 | Kg | 5 | |
| 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 25.15 or25.16, 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 | ||||
| 2517 10 10 | --- Pebbles, gravel, shingle, and flint | Kg | 10 | ||
| 2517 10 20 | --- Crushed or cut dolomite | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2517 10 90 | --- Other | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2517 20 00 | - Macadam of slag, dross, or similar industrial waste, whether or not incorporating the materials cited in subheading 2517.10 | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2517 30 00 | - Tarred macadam - Granules, chippings, and powder, of stones of heading 25.15 or 25.16, whether or not heat-treated: | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2517 41 00 | -- Of marble | 4 | Kg | 10 | |
| 2517 49 00 | -- Other | Kg | 5 | ||
| 25 18 | Dolomite, whether or not calcined or sintered, including dolomite roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape; dolomite ramming mix. | ||||
| 2518 10 00 | - Dolomite, not calcined or sintered | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2518 20 00 | - Calcined or sintered dolomite | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2518 30 00 | - Dolomite ramming mix | Kg | 15 | ||
| 25 19 | Natural magnesium carbonate (magnesite); fused magnesia; dead burned (sintered) magnesia, whether or not containing small quantities of other oxides added before sintering; another magnesium oxide, whether or not pure. | ||||
| 2519 10 00 | - Natural magnesium carbonate (magnesite) | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2519 90 | - Other: | ||||
| 2519 90 10 | --- Dead-burned magnesite from Sintered of magnesium oxide content 93% or less,fe 2 o 3 less than 3% | Kg | 15 | ||
| 2519 90 20 | --- Calcined magnesium carbonate | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2519 90 30 | --- Fused magnesium oxide powder imported by bulb producers | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2519 90 90 | --- Other | Kg | 5 | ||
| 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 00 | - Gypsum; anhydrite | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2520 20 00 | - Plasters | Kg | 15 | ||
| 2521 00 00 | Limestone flux; limestone and other calcareous stone, of a kind used for the manufacture of lime or cement. | Kg | 5 | ||
| 25 22 | Quicklime, slaked lime and hydraulic lime, other than calcium oxide and hydroxide of heading 28.25. | ||||
| 2522 10 00 | - Quicklime | 4.8 | Kg | 5 | |
| 2522 20 00 | - Slaked lime | 8 | Kg | 5 | |
| 2522 30 00 | - Hydraulic lime | 8 | Kg | 5 | |
| 25 23 | Portland cement, aluminous cement, slag cement, super sulphate cement and similar hydraulic cement, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers. | 1 | |||
| 2523 10 00 | - Cement clinkers - Portland cement: | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2523 21 00 | -- White cement, whether or not artificially coloured | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2523 29 00 | -- Other | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2523 30 00 | - Aluminous cement | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2523 90 | - Other hydraulic cements: | ||||
| 2523 90 10 | --- Tall furnace cement | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2523 90 20 | --- Pozzolanic cement | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2523 90 90 | --- Other | Kg | 5 | ||
| 25 24 | Asbestos. | ||||
| 2524 10 00 | - Crocidolite | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2524 90 00 | - Other | Kg | 5 | ||
| 25 25 | Mica, including splitings; mica waste. | ||||
| 2525 10 | - Crude mica and mica rifted into sheets or splittings | ||||
| 2525 10 10 | --- Rifted into sheets | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2525 10 20 | --- Rifted into splittings | Kg | 15 | ||
| 2525 10 90 | --- Other | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2525 20 | - Mica powder: | ||||
| 2525 20 10 | --- In size exceeding 250 micron | Kg | 15 | ||
| 2525 20 90 | --- Other | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2525 30 00 | - Mica waste | Kg | 5 | ||
| 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 00 | - Not crushed, not powdered | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2526 20 | - Crushed or powdered | ||||
| 2526 20 10 | --- Hygienic and pharmaceutical talc | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2526 20 90 | --- Other | Kg | 5 | ||
| [25 27] | |||||
| 2528 00 00 | ـ 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 H 3 BO 3 calculated on the dry weight. | Kg | 5 | ||
| 25 29 | Feldspar; leucite, nepheline and nepheline syenite; fluorspar. | ||||
| 2529 10 00 | - Feldspar | Kg | 5 | ||
| - Fluorspar: | |||||
| 2529 21 00 | -- Containing by weight 97% or less of calcium fluoride | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2529 22 00 | -- Containing by weight more than 97% of calcium fluoride | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2529 30 | - Leucite; nepheline and nepheline syenite | ||||
| 2529 30 10 | --- Nepheline syenite | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2529 30 90 | --- Other | Kg | 5 | ||
| 25 30 | Mineral substances not elsewhere specified or included. | ||||
| 2530 10 | - Vermiculite, perlite and chlorites, unexpanded | ||||
| 2530 10 10 | --- Perlite | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2530 10 20 | --- Vermiculite and chlorite | 8 | Kg | 5 | |
| 2530 20 | - Kieserite, epsomite (natural magnesium sulphates) | ||||
| 2530 20 10 | --- Kieserite | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2530 20 20 | --- Epsomite (natural magnesium sulphates) | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2530 90 | - Other: | ||||
| 2530 90 10 | --- Natural cerulite, natural culite | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2530 90 20 | --- Sepulite | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2530 90 30 | --- Selestite | Kg | 5 | ||
| 2530 90 90 | --- Other | Kg | 5 |