chapter 31
Fertilisers
Notes.
1. This Chapter does not cover:
(a) Animal blood of heading 05.11;
(b) Separate chemically defined compounds (other than those answering to the descriptions in Note 2 (a), 3 (a), 4 (a) or 5 below; or
(c) Cultured potassium chloride crystals (other than optical elements) weighing not less than 2.5 g each, of heading 38.24; optical elements of potassium chloride (heading 90.01).
2. Heading 31.02 applies only to the following goods, provided that they are not put up in the forms or packages described in heading 31.05:
(a) Goods which answer to one or other of the descriptions given below:
(i) Sodium nitrate, whether or not pure;
(ii) Ammonium nitrate, whether or not pure;
(iii) Double salts, whether or not pure, of ammonium sulphate and ammonium nitrate;
(iv) Ammonium sulphate, whether or not pure;
(v) Double salts (whether or not pure) or mixtures of calcium nitrate and ammonium nitrate;
(vi) Double salts (whether or not pure) or mixtures of calcium nitrate and magnesium nitrate;
(vii) Calcium cyanamide, whether or not pure or treated with oil;
(viii) Urea, whether or not pure.
(b) Fertilisers consisting of any of the goods described in (a) above mixed together.
(c) Fertilisers consisting of ammonium chloride or of any of the goods described in (a) or (b) above mixed with chalk, gypsum or other inorganic non-fertilising substances.
(d) Liquid fertilisers consisting of the goods of subparagraph (a) (ii) or (viii) above, or of mixtures of those goods, in an aqueous or ammoniacal solution.
3. Heading 31.03 applies only to the following goods, provided that they are not put up in the forms or packages described in heading 31.05:
(a) Goods which answer to one or other of the descriptions given below:
(i) Basic slag;
(ii) Natural phosphates of heading 25.10, calcined or further heat-treated than for the removal of impurities;
(iii) Superphosphates (single, double or triple);
(iv) Calcium hydrogenorthophosphate containing not less than 0.2% by weight of fluorine calculated on the dry anhydrous product.
(b) Fertilisers consisting of any of the goods described in (a) above mixed together, but with no account being takenof the fluorine content limit.
(c) Fertilisers consisting of any of the goods described in (a)nor (b) above, but with no account being taken of thenfluorine content limit, mixed with chalk, gypsum or other inorganic non-fertilising substances.
4. Heading 31.04 applies only to the following goods, provided that they are not put up in the forms or packages described in heading 31.05:
(a) Goods which answer to one or other of the descriptions given below:
(i) Crude natural potassium salts (for example, carnallite, kainite and sylvite);
(ii) Potassium chloride, whether or not pure, except as provided in Note 1 (c) above;
(iii) Potassium sulphate, whether or not pure;
(iv) Magnesium potassium sulphate, whether or not pure.
(b) Fertilisers consisting of any of the goods described in (a) above mixed together.
5. Ammonium dihydrogen orthophosphate (monoammonium phosphate) and diammonium hydro-genorthophosphate (diammonium phosphate), whether or not pure, and intermixtures thereof, are to be classified in heading 31.05.
6. For the purposes of heading 31.05, the term "other fertilisers" applies only to products of a kind used as fertilisers and containing, as an essential constituent, at least one of the fertilising elements nitrogen, phosphorus or potassium.
Explanatory remarks to Chapter 31
1- The importation of sodium nitrate is subject to the approval of the Ministry of Defence.
2- The entry of fertilizer is subject to registration and Consent of water and soli institute and approval of the ministry of jihad-e agricalture.
Heading, Subheading No. | Description | Remark | Preferential Tariff | SUQ | Import duty |
3101 00 00 | Animal or vegetable fertilisers, whether or not mixed together or chemically treated; fertilisers produced by the mixing or chemical treatment of animal or vegetable products. | Kg | 5 | ||
31 02 | Mineral or chemical fertilisers, nitrogenous: | ||||
3102 10 00 | - Urea, whether or not in aqueous solution | Kg | 5 | ||
- Ammonium sulphate; double salts and mixtures of ammonium sulphate and ammonium nitrate: | |||||
3102 21 00 | -- Ammonium sulphate | Kg | 5 | ||
3102 29 00 | -- Other | Kg | 5 | ||
3102 30 00 | - Ammonium nitrate, whether or not in aqueous solution | Kg | 5 | ||
3102 40 00 | - Mixtures of ammonium nitrate with calcium carbonate or other inorganic non- fertilising substances | Kg | 5 | ||
3102 50 00 | - Sodium nitrate | Kg | 5 | ||
3102 60 00 | - Double salts and mixtures of calcium nitrate and ammonium nitrate | Kg | 5 | ||
3102 80 00 | - Mixtures of urea and ammonium nitrate in aqueous or ammoniacal solution | Kg | 5 | ||
3102 90 00 | - Other, including mixtures not specified in the foregoing subheadings | Kg | 5 | ||
31 03 | Mineral or chemical fertilisers, phosphatic. | ||||
- Superphosphates | 4 | ||||
3103 11 00 | -- Containing by weight 35% or more of diphosphorus ours pentaxide (p2o5) | Kg | 5 | ||
3103 19 00 | -- Other | Kg | 5 | ||
3103 90 00 | - Other | Kg | 5 | ||
31 04 | Mineral or chemical fertilisers, potassic. | ||||
3104 20 00 | - Potassium chloride | Kg | 5 | ||
3104 30 00 | - Potassium sulphate | Kg | 5 | ||
3104 90 00 | - Other | Kg | 5 | ||
31 05 | Mineral or chemical fertilisers containing two or three of the fertilising elements nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium; other fertilisers; goods of this Chapter in tablets or similar forms or in packages of a gross weight not exceeding 10 kg. | ||||
3105 10 | - Goods of this Chapter in tablets or similar forms or in packages of a gross weight not exceeding 10 kg | ||||
3105 10 10 | --- NPK fertilizers | Kg | 5 | ||
3105 10 20 | --- Micro-mineral fertilizers | 8 | Kg | 5 | |
3105 10 90 | --- Other | Kg | 5 | ||
3105 20 00 | - Mineral or chemical fertilisers containing the three fertilising elements nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium | Kg | 5 | ||
3105 30 00 | - Diammonium hydrogenorthophosphate (diammonium phosphate) | 4 | Kg | 5 | |
3105 40 00 | - Ammonium dihydrogenorthophosphate (monoammonium phosphate) and mixtures thereof with diammonium hydrogenorthophosphate (diammonium phosphate) | Kg | 5 | ||
- Other mineral or chemical fertilisers containing the two fertilising elements nitrogen and phosphorus: | |||||
3105 51 00 | -- Containing nitrates and phosphates | Kg | 5 | ||
3105 59 00 | -- Other | Kg | 5 | ||
3105 60 00 | - Mineral or chemical fertilisers containing the two fertilising elements phosphorus and potassium | Kg | 5 | ||
3105 90 | - Other: | ||||
3105 90 10 | --- Micro-mineral fertilizers | Kg | 5 | ||
3105 90 90 | --- Other | Kg | 5 |