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Heading 3207

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.

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Explanatory Notes

07 includes: "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". Explanatory Note (4) in the same heading covers liquid lustres, and more specifically gold lustres...

Source: advance_ruling (C-2017-000691)

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

Source: eu_cn_en (EUR-Lex 02019XC0329(02)-20250113)

Prepared pigments, prepared opacifiers, prepared colours and similar preparations This subheading covers the products described in the HS Explanatory Note to heading 3207 , first paragraph, (1). This subheading includes: 1.  the pigment known as cobalt aluminate, consisting of a non-stoichiometric mixture of aluminium oxide and cobalt oxide; 2.  the pigment known as cobalt silicate, consisting...

Source: eu_cn_en (EUR-Lex 02019XC0329(02)-20250113)

Engobes (slips) See the HS Explanatory Note to heading 3207 , first paragraph, (3).

Source: eu_cn_en (EUR-Lex 02019XC0329(02)-20250113)

Other This subheading basically covers vitrifiable compositions. These are products which are generally in the form of powders, granules or flakes which when heated vitrify to produce a smooth homogeneous surface on ceramic or metal goods. This surface may be glossy or matt, coloured or white, transparent or opaque. These products can be made up as follows: 1.  from mixtures, reduced to...

Source: eu_cn_en (EUR-Lex 02019XC0329(02)-20250113)

Liquid lustres and similar preparations In addition to the products referred to in the HS Explanatory Note to heading 3207 , first paragraph, (4), this subheading covers preparations with a basis of silver, dispersed in collodion or terpineol, which are applied to mica or glass in the electrical and ceramic industries.

Source: eu_cn_en (EUR-Lex 02019XC0329(02)-20250113)

Glass frit and other glass, in the form of powder, granules or flakes These subheadings cover: 1.  glass frit, i.e., the product obtained by suddenly cooling in water the liquid mass or paste resulting from the fusion of the original components of glass. These components include, for example, silica, sodium carbonate, magnesium carbonate, barium carbonate, potassium carbonate, calcium...

Source: eu_cn_en (EUR-Lex 02019XC0329(02)-20250113)

Chapter 32 Notes (6)
1. 1. This Chapter does not cover: • (a) Separate chemically defined elements or compounds (except those of heading 32.03 or 32.04, inorganic products of a kind used as luminophores (heading 32.06), glass obtained from fused quartz or other fused silica in the forms provided for in heading 32.07, and also dyes and other colouring matter put up in forms or packings for retail sale, of heading 32.12); • (b) Tannates or other tannin derivatives of products of headings 29.36 to 29.39, 29.41...
2. 2. Heading 32.04 includes mixtures of stabilised diazonium salts and couplers for the production of azo dyes.
3. 3. Headings 32.03, 32.04, 32.05 and 32.06 apply also to preparations based on colouring matter (including, in the case of heading 32.06, colouring pigments of heading 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,...
4. 4. Heading 32.08 includes solutions (other than collodions) consisting of any of the products specified in headings 39.01 to 39.13 in volatile organic solvents when the weight of the solvent exceeds 50% of the weight of the solution.
5. 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. 6. The expression "stamping foils" in heading 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.

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