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- 1. This chapter does not cover:
- (a) Foods or beverages (such as dietetic, diabetic or fortified foods, food supplements, tonic beverages and mineral waters), other than nutritional preparations for intravenous administration (section IV);
- (b) Products, such as tablets, chewing gum or patches (transdermal systems), containing nicotine and intended to assist tobacco use cessation (heading 2404);
- (c) Plasters specially calcined or finely ground for use in dentistry (heading 2520);
- (d) Aqueous distillates or aqueous solutions of essential oils, suitable for medicinal uses (heading 3301);
- (e) Preparations of headings 3303 to 3307, even if they have therapeutic or prophylactic properties;
- (f) Soap or other products of heading 3401 containing added medicaments;
- (g) Preparations with a basis of plaster for use in dentistry (heading 3407);
- (h) Blood albumin not prepared for therapeutic or prophylactic uses (heading 3502); or
- (ij) Diagnostic reagents of heading 3822.
- 2. For the purposes of heading 3002, the expression "immunological products" applies to peptides and proteins (other than goods of heading 2937) which are directly involved in the regulation of immunological processes, such as monoclonal antibodies (MAB), antibody fragments, antibody conjugates and antibody fragment conjugates, interleukins, interferons (IFN), chemokines and certain tumor necrosis factors (TNF), growth factors (GF), hematopoietins and colony stimulating factors (CSF).
- 3. For the purposes of headings 3003 and 3004 and of note 4(d) to this chapter the following are to be treated--
- (a) As unmixed products:
- (1) Unmixed products dissolved in water;
- (2) All goods of chapter 28 or 29; and
- (3) Simple vegetable extracts of heading 1302, merely standardized or dissolved in any solvent;
- (b) As products which have been mixed:
- (1) Colloidal solutions and suspensions (other than colloidal sulfur);
- (2) Vegetable extracts obtained by the treatment of mixtures of vegetable materials; and
- (3) Salts and concentrates obtained by evaporating natural mineral waters.
- (a) As unmixed products:
- 4. Heading 3006 applies only to the following, which are to be classified in that heading and in no other heading of the tariff schedule:
- (a) Sterile surgical catgut, similar sterile suture materials (including sterile absorbable surgical or dental yarns) and sterile tissue adhesives for surgical wound closure;
- (b) Sterile laminaria and sterile laminaria tents;
- (c) Sterile absorbable surgical or dental hemostatics, sterile surgical or dental adhesion barriers, whether or not absorbable;
- (d) Opacifying preparations for X-ray examinations and diagnostic reagents designed to be administered to the patient, being unmixed products put up in measured doses or products consisting of two or more ingredients which have been mixed together for such uses;
- (e) Placebos and blinded (or double-blinded) clinical trial kits for use in recognized clinical trials, put up in measured doses, even if they might contain active medicaments.
- (f) Dental cements and other dental fillings; bone reconstruction cements;
- (g) First-aid boxes and kits;
- (h) Chemical contraceptive preparations based on hormones, on other products of heading 2937 or on spermicides;
- (ij) Gel preparations designed to be used in human or veterinary medicine as a lubricant for parts of the body for surgical operations or physical examinations or as a coupling agent between the body and medical instruments;
- (k) Waste pharmaceuticals, that is, pharmaceutical products which are unfit for their original intended purpose, for example, because of expiry of shelf life; and
- (l) Appliances identifiable for ostomy use, that is, colostomy, ileostomy and urostomy pouches cut to shape and their adhesive wafers or faceplates.
Subheading Notes- 1. For the purposes of subheadings 3002.13 and 3002.14, the following are to be treated:
- (a) As unmixed products, pure products, whether or not containing impurities;
- (b) As products which have been mixed:
- (1) The products mentioned in (a) above dissolved in water or in other solvents;
- (2) The products mentioned in (a) and (b)(1) above with an added stabilizer necessary for their preservation or transport; and
- (3) The products mentioned in (a), (b)(1) and (b)(2) above with any other additive.
- 2. Subheadings 3003.60 and 3004.60 cover medicaments containing artemisinin (INN) for oral ingestion combined with other pharmaceutical active ingredients, or containing any of the following active principles, whether or not combined with other pharmaceutical active ingredients: amodiaquine (INN); artelinic acid or its salts; artenimol (INN); artemotil (INN); artemether (INN); artesunate (INN); chloroquine (INN); dihydroartemisinin (INN); lumafantrine (INN); mefloquine (INN); piperaquine (INN); pyrimethamine (INN) or sulfadoxine (INN).
U.S. Tariff Rates
Extracts of glands or other organs or of their secretions
Other
Glands and other organs, dried, whether or not powdered
Liver
Other
Other
Antisera, other blood fractions and immunological products, whether or not modified or obtained by means of biotechnological processes
Antisera and other blood fractions
Human blood plasma
Normal human blood sera, whether or not freeze-dried
Human immune blood sera
Fetal Bovine Serum (FBS)
Other
Immunological products, unmixed, not put up in measured doses or in forms or packings for retail sale
Monoclonal antibodies
Other
Immunological products, mixed, not put up in measured doses or in forms or packings for retail sale
Containing monoclonal antibodies
Other
Immunological products, put up in measured doses or in forms or packings for retail sale
Containing monoclonal antibodies
Other
Vaccines, toxins, cultures of micro-organisms (excluding yeasts) and similar products
Vaccines for human medicine
Vaccines for veterinary medicine
Other
Cell cultures, whether or not modified
Cell therapy products
Other
Other
Ferments
Other
Whole human blood
Antiallergenic preparations
Other
Containing penicillins or derivatives thereof, with a penicillanic acid structure, or streptomycins or their derivatives
Other, containing antibiotics
Other, containing hormones or other products of heading 2937
Containing insulin
Other
Artificial mixtures of natural hormones
Other
Other, containing alkaloids or derivatives thereof
Containing ephedrine or its salts
Containing pseudoephedrine (INN) or its salts
Containing norephedrine or its salts
Other
Other, containing antimalarial active principles described in subheading note 2 to this chapter
Other
Anti-infective medicaments
Antivirals
Antifungals
Other
Other
Containing penicillins or derivatives thereof, with a penicillanic acid structure, or streptomycins or their derivatives
Containing penicillin G salts
For veterinary use
Other
Singles
Combination antibiotics
Other
For veterinary use
Other
Combination antibiotics
Other
Other, containing antibiotics
For veterinary use
Other
Erythromycin, singles or in combination with other antibiotics
Tetracycline, singles or in combination with other antibiotics
Other
Other, containing hormones or other products of heading 2937
Containing insulin
Other
For veterinary use
Other
Other, containing alkaloids or derivatives thereof
Containing ephedrine or its salts
Containing pseudoephedrine (INN) or its salts
Containing norephedrine or its salts
Other
For veterinary use
Other
Cardiovascular medicaments
Medicaments primarily affecting the central nervous system
Anticonvulsants, hypnotics, and sedatives
Antidepressants, tranquilizers and other psychotherapeutic agents
Other
Dermatological agents and local anesthetics
Medicaments primarily affecting the eyes, ears or respiratory system
Other
Other, containing vitamins or other products of heading 2936
Containing vitamins synthesized wholly or in part from aromatic or modified aromatic industrial organic compounds
Vitamin B<sub>2</sub>
Vitamin B<sub>12</sub>
Vitamin E
Other
Other
For veterinary use
Other
Single vitamins
Combined with minerals or other nutrients
Other
Multiple vitamins
Combined with minerals or other nutrients
Other
Other, containing antimalarial active principles described in subheading note 2 to this chapter
Other
Containing antigens or hyaluronic acid or its sodium salt
Other
For veterinary use
Other
Anti-infective medicaments
Antivirals
Antifungals
Sulfonamides
Other
Antineoplastic and immunosuppressive medicaments
Cardiovascular medicaments
Medicaments primarily affecting the central nervous system
Analgesics, antipyretics and nonhormonal anti-inflammatory agents
Tolmetin
Tolmetin sodium dihyrate
Tolmetin sodium (anhydrous)
Other
Anticonvulsants, hypnotics and sedatives
Antidepressants, tranquilizers, and other psychotherapeutic agents
Other
Dermatological agents and local anethestics
Medicaments primarily affecting the digestive system
Laxatives
Antacids
Other
Preparations pimarily affecting the electrolytic, caloric or water balance
Diuretics
Other
Medicaments primarily affecting the eyes, ears, or respiratory system
Cough and cold preparations
Other
Antihistamines
Other
Other
Adhesive dressings and other articles having an adhesive layer
Coated or impregnated with pharmaceutical substances
Other
Other
Coated or impregnated with pharmaceutical substances
Other
Laparotomy sponges
Other
Pharmaceutical goods specified in note 4 to this chapter
Opacifying preparations for X-ray examinations; diagnostic reagents designed to be administered to the patient
Containing antigens or antisera
Other
Dental cements and other dental fillings; bone reconstruction cements
First-aid boxes and kits
Chemical contraceptive preparations based on hormones, on other products of heading 2937 or on spermicides
Other
Appliances identifiable for ostomy use
Waste pharmaceuticals
Placebos and blinded (or double-blinded) clinical trial kits for a recognized clinical trial, put up in measured doses
Packaged with medicinal preparations
Containing over 10 percent by dry weight of sugar
Containing ingredients having nutritional value, in which starch or other foodstuff predominates by weight
In liquid form for oral intake
Placebos and clinical trial kits containing other chemicals other than medicaments
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