Chapter 38: Miscellaneous chemical products

Kapitelhinweise (7)

1. 1. This Chapter does not cover: • (a) Separate chemically defined elements or compounds with the exception of the following: (1) Artificial graphite (heading 38.01); (2) Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, anti-sprouting products and plant-growth regulators, disinfectants and similar products, put up as described in heading 38.08; (3) Products put up as charges for fire-extinguishers or put up in fire-extinguishing grenades (heading 38.13); (4) Certified reference materials...

2. 2. (A) For the purpose of heading 38.22, the expression "certified reference materials" means reference materials which are accompanied by a certificate which indicates the values of the certified properties, the methods used to determine these values and the degree of certainty associated with each value and which are suitable for analytical, calibrating or referencing purposes. (B) With the exception of the products of Chapter 28 or 29, for the classification of certified reference...

3. 3. Heading 38.24 includes the following goods which are not to be classified in any other heading of the Nomenclature: • (a) Cultured crystals (other than optical elements) weighing not less than 2.5 g each, of magnesium oxide or of the halides of the alkali or alkaline earth metals; • (b) Fusel oil; Dippel's oil; • (c) Ink removers put up in packings for retail sale; • (d) Stencil correctors, other correcting fluids and correction tapes (other than those of heading 96.12), put up in...

4. 4. Throughout the Nomenclature, "municipal waste" means waste of a kind collected from households, hotels, restaurants, hospitals, shops, offices, etc., road and pavement sweepings, as well as construction and demolition waste. Municipal waste generally contains a large variety of materials such as plastics, rubber, wood, paper, textiles, glass, metals, food materials, broken furniture and other damaged or discarded articles. The term "municipal waste", however, does not cover: • (a)...

5. 5. For the purposes of heading 38.25, "sewage sludge" means sludge arising from urban effluent treatment plant and includes pre-treatment waste, scourings and unstabilised sludge. Stabilised sludge when suitable for use as fertiliser is excluded (Chapter 31).

6. 6. For the purposes of heading 38.25, the expression "other wastes" applies to: • (a) Clinical waste, that is, contaminated waste arising from medical research, diagnosis, treatment or other medical, surgical, dental or veterinary procedures, which often contain pathogens and pharmaceutical substances and require special disposal procedures (for example, soiled dressings, used gloves and used syringes); • (b) Waste organic solvents; • (c) Wastes of metal pickling liquors, hydraulic fluids,...

7. 7. For the purposes of heading 38.26, the term “biodiesel” means mono-alkyl esters of fatty acids of a kind used as a fuel, derived from animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils whether or not used.

3801

Artificial graphite; colloidal or semi-colloidal graphite; preparations based on graphite or other carbon in the form of pastes, blocks, plates or other semi-manufactures.

4 subheadings · 4 tariff items

3802

Activated carbon; activated natural mineral products; animal black, including spent animal black.

2 subheadings · 5 tariff items

3803

Tall oil, whether or not refined.

1 subheadings · 1 tariff items

3804

Residual lyes from the manufacture of wood pulp, whether or not concentrated, desugared or chemically treated, including lignin sulphonates, but excluding tall oil of heading 38.03.

1 subheadings · 1 tariff items

3805

Gum, wood or sulphate turpentine and other terpenic oils produced by the distillation or other treatment of coniferous woods; crude dipentene; sulphite turpentine and other crude para-cymene; pine oil containing alpha-terpineol as the main constituent.

2 subheadings · 2 tariff items

3806

Rosin and resin acids, and derivatives thereof; rosin spirit and rosin oils; run gums.

4 subheadings · 4 tariff items

3807

Wood tar; wood tar oils; wood creosote; wood naphtha; vegetable pitch; brewers' pitch and similar preparations based on rosin, resin acids or on vegetable pitch.

1 subheadings · 1 tariff items

3808

Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, anti-sprouting products and plant-growth regulators, disinfectants and similar products, put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles (for example, sulphur-treated bands, wicks and candles, and fly-papers).

10 subheadings · 27 tariff items

3809

Finishing agents, dye carriers to accelerate the dyeing or fixing of dye-stuffs and other products and preparations (for example, dressings and mordants), of a kind used in the textile, paper, leather or like industries, not elsewhere specified or included.

4 subheadings · 5 tariff items

3810

Pickling preparations for metal surfaces; fluxes and other auxiliary preparations for soldering, brazing or welding; soldering, brazing or welding powders and pastes consisting of metal and other materials; preparations of a kind used as cores or coatings for welding electrodes or rods.

2 subheadings · 2 tariff items

3811

Anti-knock preparations, oxidation inhibitors, gum inhibitors, viscosity improvers, anti-corrosive preparations and other prepared additives, for mineral oils (including gasoline) or for other liquids used for the same purposes as mineral oils.

5 subheadings · 7 tariff items

3812

Prepared rubber accelerators; compound plasticizers for rubber or plastics, not elsewhere specified or included; anti-oxidizing preparations and other compound stabilizers for rubber or plastics.

4 subheadings · 8 tariff items

3813

Preparations and charges for fire-extinguishers; charged fire-extinguishing grenades.

1 subheadings · 5 tariff items

3814

Organic composite solvents and thinners, not elsewhere specified or included; prepared paint or varnish removers.

1 subheadings · 4 tariff items

3815

Reaction initiators, reaction accelerators and catalytic preparations, not elsewhere specified or included.

4 subheadings · 5 tariff items

3816

Refractory cements, mortars, concretes and similar compositions, including dolomite ramming mix, other than products of heading 38.01.

1 subheadings · 3 tariff items

3817

Mixed alkylbenzenes and mixed alkylnaphthalenes, other than those of heading 27.07 or 29.02.

1 subheadings · 2 tariff items

3818

Chemical elements doped for use in electronics, in the form of discs, wafers or similar forms; chemical compounds doped for use in electronics.

1 subheadings · 1 tariff items

3819

Hydraulic brake fluids and other prepared liquids for hydraulic transmission, not containing or containing less than 70% by weight of petroleum oils or oils obtained from bituminous minerals.

1 subheadings · 3 tariff items

3820

Anti-freezing preparations and prepared de-icing fluids.

1 subheadings · 4 tariff items

3821

Prepared culture media for the development or maintenance of micro-organisms (including viruses and the like) or of plant, human or animal cells.

1 subheadings · 2 tariff items

3822

Diagnostic or laboratory reagents on a backing, prepared diagnostic or laboratory reagents whether or not on a backing, whether or not put up in the form of kits, other than those of heading 30.06; certified reference materials.

5 subheadings · 6 tariff items

3823

Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids; acid oils from refining; industrial fatty alcohols.

5 subheadings · 5 tariff items

3824

Prepared binders for foundry moulds or cores; chemical products and preparations of the chemical or allied industries (including those consisting of mixtures of natural products), not elsewhere specified or included.

17 subheadings · 18 tariff items

3825

Residual products of the chemical or allied industries, not elsewhere specified or included; municipal waste; sewage sludge; other wastes specified in Note 6 to this Chapter.

9 subheadings · 11 tariff items

3826

Biodiesel and mixtures thereof, not containing or containing less than 70% by weight of petroleum oils or oils obtained from bituminous minerals.

1 subheadings · 1 tariff items

3827

Mixtures containing halogenated derivatives of methane, ethane or propane, not elsewhere specified or included.

19 subheadings · 19 tariff items

Miscellaneous chemical products

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