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Section VI
Products of the Chemical or Allied Industries

Notes

1.

(A)

Goods (excluding radioactive ores) answering to a description in heading 28.44 or 28.45 are to be classified in those headings and in no other heading of this Schedule.

(B)

Subject to paragraph (A) above, goods answering to a description in heading 28.43, 28.46 or 28.52 are to be classified in those subheadings and in no other heading of this Section.

2.

Subject to Note 1 above, goods classifiable in heading 30.04, 30.05, 30.06, 32.12, 33.03, 33.04, 33.05, 33.06, 33.07, 35.06, 37.07 or 38.08 by reason of being put up in measured doses or for retail sale are to be classified in those headings and in no other heading of this Schedule.

3.

Goods put up in sets consisting of two or more separate constituents, some or all of which fall in this Section and are intended to be mixed together to obtain a product of Section VI or VII, are to be classified in the heading appropriate to that product, provided that the constituents are:

(a)

having regard to the manner in which they are put up, clearly identifiable as being intended to be used together without first being repacked;

(b)

presented together; and

(c)

identifiable, whether by their nature or by the relative proportions in which they are present, as being complementary one to another.

4.

Where a product answers to a description in one or more of the headings in Section VI by virtue of being described by name or function and also to heading 38.27, then it is classifiable in a heading that references the product by name or function and not under heading 38.27.

Chapter 29
Organic Chemicals

Notes

1.

Except where the context otherwise requires, the headings of this Chapter apply only to the following:

(a)

separate chemically defined organic compounds, whether or not containing impurities;

(b)

mixtures of two or more isomers of the same organic compound (whether or not containing impurities), except mixtures of acyclic hydrocarbon isomers (excluding stereoisomers), whether or not saturated (Chapter 27);

(c)

the products of headings 29.36 to 29.39 or the sugar ethers, sugar acetals and sugar esters, and their salts, of heading 29.40, or the products of heading 29.41, whether or not chemically defined;

(d)

the products mentioned in (a), (b) or (c) above dissolved in water;

(e)

the products mentioned in (a), (b) or (c) above dissolved in other solvents provided the solution constitutes a normal and necessary method of putting up these products adopted solely for reasons of safety or for transport and that the solvent does not render the product particularly suitable for specific use rather than for general use;

(f)

the products mentioned in (a), (b), (c), (d) or (e) above with an added stabiliser (including an anti-caking agent) necessary for their preservation or transport;

(g)

The products mentioned in (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) or (f) above with an added anti-dusting agent or a colouring or odoriferous substance or an emetic added to facilitate their identification or for safety reasons, provided that the additions do not render the product particularly suitable for specific use rather than for general use;

(h)

the following products, diluted to standard strengths, for the production of azo dyes: diazonium salts, couplers used for these salts and diazotisable amines and their salts.

2.

This Chapter does not cover the following:

(a)

goods of heading 15.04 or crude glycerol of heading 15.20;

(b)

ethyl alcohol (heading 22.07 or 22.08);

(c)

methane or propane (heading 27.11);

(d)

the compounds of carbon mentioned in Note 2 to Chapter 28;

(e)

immunological products of heading 30.02;

(f)

urea (heading 31.02 or 31.05);

(g)

colouring matter of vegetable or animal origin (heading 32.03), synthetic organic colouring matter, synthetic organic products of a kind used as fluorescent brightening agents or as luminophores (heading 32.04) or dyes or other colouring matter put up in forms or packings for retail sale (heading 32.12);

(h)

enzymes (heading 35.07);

(ij)

metaldehyde, hexamethylenetetramine or similar substances, put up in forms (for example, tablets, sticks or similar forms) for use as fuels, or liquid or liquefied-gas fuels in containers of a kind used for filling or refilling cigarette or similar lighters and of a capacity not exceeding 300 cm³ (heading 36.06);

(k)

products put up as charges for fire-extinguishers or put up in fire-extinguishing grenades, of heading 38.13; ink removers put up in packings for retail sale, of heading 38.24; or

(l)

optical elements, for example, of ethylenediamine tartrate (heading 90.01).

3.

Goods which could be included in two or more of the headings of this Chapter are to be classified in that one of those headings which occurs last in numerical order.

4.

In headings 29.04 to 29.06, 29.08 to 29.11 and 29.13 to 29.20, any reference to halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives includes a reference to compound derivatives, such as sulphohalogenated, nitrohalogenated, nitrosulphonated or nitrosulphohalogenated derivatives.

Nitro or nitroso groups are not to be taken as "nitrogen-functions" for the purposes of heading 29.29.

For the purposes of headings 29.11, 29.12, 29.14, 29.18 and 29.22, oxygen function, the characteristic organic oxygen-containing group of those respective headings, is restricted to the oxygen-functions referred to in headings 29.05 to 29.20.

5.

(A)

The esters of acid-function organic compounds of sub-chapters I to VII with organic compounds of these sub-chapters are to be classified with that compound which is classified in the heading which occurs last in numerical order in these sub-chapters.

(B)

Esters of ethyl alcohol with acid-function organic compounds of sub-chapters I to VII are to be classified in the same heading as the corresponding acid-function compounds.

(C)

Subject to Note 1 to Section VI and Note 2 to Chapter 28:

(i)

inorganic salts of organic compounds such as acid-, phenol- or enol-function compounds or organic bases, of sub-chapters I to X or heading 29.42, are to be classified in the heading appropriate to the organic compound;

(ii)

salts formed between organic compounds of sub-chapters I to X or heading 29.42 are to be classified in the heading appropriate to the base or to the acid (including phenol- or enol-function compounds) from which they are formed, whichever occurs last in numerical order in the Chapter; and

(iii

co-ordination compounds, other than products classifiable in sub-Chapter XI or heading 29.41, are to be classified in the heading which occurs last in numerical order in Chapter 29, among those appropriate to the fragments formed by "cleaving" of all metal bonds, other than metal-carbon bonds.

(D)

Metal alcoholates are to be classified in the same heading as the corresponding alcohols except in the case of ethanol (heading 29.05).

(E)

Halides of carboxylic acids are to be classified in the same heading as the corresponding acids.

6.

The compounds of headings 29.30 and 29.31 are organic compounds the molecules of which contain, in addition to atoms of hydrogen, oxygen or nitrogen, atoms of other non-metals or of metals (such as sulphur, arsenic or lead) directly linked to carbon atoms.

Heading 29.30 (organo-sulphur compounds) and heading 29.31 (other organo-inorganic compounds) do not include sulphonated or halogenated derivatives (including compound derivatives) which, apart from hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen, only have directly linked to carbon the atoms of sulphur or of a halogen which give them their nature of sulphonated or halogenated derivatives (or compound derivatives).

7.

Headings 29.32, 29.33 and 29.34 do not include epoxides with a three-membered ring, ketone peroxides, cyclic polymers of aldehydes or of thioaldehydes, anhydrides of polybasic carboxylic acids, cyclic esters of polyhydric alcohols or phenols with polybasic acids, or imides of polybasic acids.

These provisions apply only when the ring-position hetero-atoms are those resulting solely from the cyclising function or functions here listed.

8.

For the purposes of heading 29.37:

(a)

the term "hormones" includes hormone-releasing or hormone-stimulating factors, hormone inhibitors and hormone antagonists (anti-hormones);

(b)

the expression "used primarily as hormones" applies not only to hormone derivatives and structural analogues used primarily for their hormonal effect, but also to those derivatives and structural analogues used primarily as intermediates in the synthesis of products of this heading.

Subheading Notes

1.

Within any one heading of this Chapter, derivatives of a chemical compound (or group of chemical compounds) are to be classified in the same subheading as that compound (or group of compounds) provided that they are not more specifically covered by any other subheading and that there is no residual subheading named "Other" in the series of subheadings concerned.

2.

Note 3 to Chapter 29 does not apply to the subheadings of this Chapter.

Chapter 7
Carboxylic Acids and Their Anhydrides, Halides, Peroxides and Peroxyacids and Their Halogenated, Sulphonated, Nitrated or Nitrosated Derivatives
Heading CD Description Unit General EU EFTA SADC MERCOSUR AfCFTA
29.17 Polycarboxylic acids, their anhydrides, halides, peroxides and peroxyacids; their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives:
2917.1 - Acyclic polycarboxylic acids, their anhydrides, halides, peroxides, peroxyacids and their derivatives:
2917.11 2 -- Oxalic acid, its salts and esters kg free free free free free free
2917.12 -- Adipic acid, its salts and esters:
2917.12.20 3 --- Dioctyl adipate kg 15% free free free 15% 6%
2917.12.90 4 --- Other kg free free free free free free
2917.13 5 -- Azelaic acid, sebacic acid, their salts and esters kg free free free free free free
2917.14 1 -- Maleic anhydride kg 15% free free free 15% 6%
2917.19 -- Other:
2917.19.35 6 --- Fumaric acid kg 10% free free free 10% 4%
2917.19.45 3 --- Other acids kg free free free free free free
2917.19.90 9 --- Other kg 10% free free free 10% 4%

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