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- 1. This chapter does not cover:
- (a) Separate chemically defined elements or compounds with the exception of the following:
- (1) Artificial graphite (heading 3801);
- (2) Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, antisprouting products and plant-growth regulators, disinfectants and similar products put up as described in heading 3808;
- (3) Products put up as charges for fire-extinguishers or put up in fire-extinguishing grenades (heading 3813);
- (4) Certified reference materials specified in note 2 below;
- (5) Products specified in note 3(a) or 3(c) below.
- (b) Mixtures of chemicals with foodstuffs or other substances with nutritive value, of a kind used in the preparation of human foodstuffs (generally, heading 2106);
- (c) Products of heading 2404;
- (d) Slag, ash and residues (including sludges, other than sewage sludge), containing metals, arsenic or their mixtures and meeting the requirements of note 3(a) or 3(b) to chapter 26 (heading 2620);
- (e) Medicaments (heading 3003 or 3004); or
- (f) Spent catalysts of a kind used for the extraction of base metals or for the manufacture of chemical compounds of base metals (heading 2620), spent catalysts of a kind used principally for the recovery of precious metal (heading 7112) or catalysts consisting of metals or metal alloys in the form of, for example, finely divided powder or woven gauze (section XIV or XV).
- (a) Separate chemically defined elements or compounds with the exception of the following:
- 2.
- (a) For the purposes of heading 3822, 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 materials, heading 3822 shall take precedence over any other heading in the tariff schedule.
- 3. Heading 3824 includes the following goods which are not to be classified in any other heading of the tariff schedule:
- (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 9612), put up inpackings for retail sale; and
- (e) Ceramic firing testers, fusible (for example, Seger cones).
- 4. Throughout the tariff schedule, "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," does not cover:
- (a) Individual materials or articles segregated from the waste, for example wastes of plastics, rubber, wood, paper, textiles, glass or metals, electrical and electronic waste and scrap (including spent batteries) which fall in their appropriate headings of the tariff schedule;
- (b) Industrial waste:
- (c) Waste pharmaceuticals, as defined in note 4(k) to chapter 30; or
- (d) Clinical waste, as defined in note 6(a), below.
- 5. For the purposes of heading 3825, "sewage sludge" means sludge arising from urban effluent treatment plants and includes pre-treatment waste, scourings and unstabilized sludge. Stabilized sludge, when suitable for use as fertilizer, is excluded (chapter 31).
- 6. For the purposes of heading 3825, 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, brake fluids and anti-freezing fluids; and
- (d) Other wastes from chemical or allied industries.
The expression "other wastes" does not, however, cover wastes which contain mainly petroleum oils or oils obtained from bituminous materials (heading 2710). - 7. For the purposes of heading 3826, 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.
- 1. Subheadings 3808.52 and 3808.59 cover only goods of heading 3808, containing one or more of the following substances: alachlor (ISO); aldicarb (ISO); aldrin (ISO); azinphos-methyl (ISO); binapacryl (ISO); camphechlor (ISO) (toxaphene); captafol (ISO); carbofuran (ISO); chlordane (ISO); chlordimeform (ISO); chlorobenzilate (ISO); DDT (ISO) (clofenotane (INN), 1,1,1-trichloro-2,2-bis(p-chlorophenyl)ethane); dieldrin (ISO, INN); 4,6-dinitro-o-cresol (DNOC (ISO)) or its salts; dinoseb (ISO), its salts or its esters; endosulfan (ISO); ethylene dibromide (ISO) (1,2- dibromoethane; ethylene dichloride (ISO) (1,2-dichloroethane); fluoroacetamide (ISO); heptachlor (ISO); hexachlorobenzene (ISO); 1,2,3,4,5,6-hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH (ISO)), including lindane (ISO, INN); mercury compounds; methamidophos (ISO); monocrotophos (ISO); oxirane (ethylene oxide); parathion (ISO); parathion-methyl (ISO) (methylparathion); pentachlorophenol (ISO), its salts or its esters; perfluorooctane sulphonic acid and its salts; perfluorooctane sulphonamides; perfluorooctane sulphonyl fluoride; phosphamidon (ISO); 2,4,5-T (ISO) (2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid), its salts or its esters; tributyltin compounds; trichlorfon (ISO).
- 2. Subheadings 3808.61 to 3808.69 cover only goods of heading 3808, containing alpha-cypermethrin (ISO), bendiocarb (ISO), bifenthrin (ISO), chlorfenapyr (ISO), cyfluthrin (ISO), deltamethrin (INN, ISO), etofenprox (INN), fenitrothion (ISO), lambda-cyhalothrin (ISO), malathion (ISO), pirimiphos-methyl (ISO) or propoxur (ISO).
- 3. Subheadings 3824.81 to 3824.89 cover only mixtures and preparations containing one or more of the following substances: oxirane (ethylene oxide); polybrominated biphenyls (PBBs); polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs); polychlorinated terphenyls (PCTs); tris(2,3-dibromopropyl) phosphate; aldrin (ISO); camphechlor (ISO) (toxaphene); chlordane (ISO); chlordecone (ISO); DDT (ISO) (clofenotane (INN); 1,1,1-trichloro-2,2-bis(p-chlorophenyl)ethane); dieldrin (ISO, INN); endosulfan (ISO); endrin (ISO); heptachlor (ISO); mirex (ISO); 1,2,3,4,5,6-hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH (ISO)), including lindane (ISO, INN); pentachlorobenzene (ISO); hexachlorobenzene (ISO); perfluorooctane sulphonic acid, its salts; perfluorooctane sulphonamides; perfluorooctane sulphonyl fluoride; tetra-, penta-, hexa-, hepta- or octabromodiphenyl ethers; short-chain chlorinated paraffins.
- 4. For the purposes of subheadings 3825.41 and 3825.49, "waste organic solvents" are wastes containing mainly organic solvents, not fit for further use as presented as primary products, whether or not intended for recovery of the solvents.
- 1. For the purposes of statistical reporting number 3808.94.5080, hand sanitizer must meet the requirements of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the preparation of the disinfecting hand sanitizers.
- 2. For the purposes of heading 3824, the term "biodiesel" means fatty acid esters of a kind used as fuel, derived from animal or vegetable fats and oils, whether or not used.
U.S. Tariff Rates
Artificial graphite; colloidal or semi-colloidal graphite; preparations based on graphite or other carbon in the form of pastes, blocks, plates or other semimanufactures
Artificial graphite
Plates, rods, powder and other forms, wholly or partly manufactured, for manufacturing into brushes for electric generators, motors or other machines or appliances
Other
Colloidal or semi-colloidal graphite
Carbonaceous pastes for electrodes and similar pastes for furnace linings
Other
Activated carbon; activated natural mineral products; animal black, including spent animal black
Activated carbon
Derived from coal
Derived from coconut
Other
Other
Bone black
Activated clays and activated earths
Other
Tall oil, whether or not refined
Lignin sulfonic acid and its salts
Other
Gum, wood or sulfate turpentine oils
Other
Pine oil
Other
Rosin and resin acids, and derivatives thereof; rosin spirit and rosin oils; run gums
Rosin and resin acids
Gum rosin
Other
Salts of rosin, of resin acids or of derivatives of rosin or resin acids, other than salts of rosin adducts
Ester gums
Other
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
Good specified in subheading note 1 to this chapter
DDT (ISO) (clofenatone (INN)), in packings of a net weight content not exceeding 300 g
Other
Containing any aromatic or modified aromatic pesticide
Other
Disinfectants
Other
Good specified in subheading note 2 to this chapter
In packings of a net weight content not exceeding 300 g
Containing any aromatic or modified aromatic pesticide
Other
In packings of a net weight content exceeding 300 g but not exceeding 7.5 kg
Containing any aromatic or modified aromatic pesticide
Other
Other
Containing any aromatic or modified aromatic pesticide
Other
Other
Insecticides
Fly ribbons (ribbon fly catchers)
Other
Containing any aromatic or modified aromatic insecticide
Mixtures of <i>N</i>-[[(4-chlorophenyl)amino]- carbonyl]-2,6-difluorobenzamide and inert substances
Other
Containing an inorganic substance
Other
Fungicides
Containing any aromatic or modified aromatic fungicide
Mixtures of dinocap and application adjuvants
Other
Other
Containing any fungicide which is a thioamide, thiocarbamate, dithiocarbamate, thiuram or isothiocyanate
Maneb; Zineb; Mancozeb; and Metiram
Other
Other
Containing an inorganic substance
Other
Other
Herbicides, anti-sprouting products and plant-growth regulators
Containing any aromatic or modified aromatic herbicide, anti-sprouting agent or plant-growth regulator
Other
Other
Containing an inorganic substance
Other
Mixtures of 2-amino-4-[hydroxy(methyl)phosphonoyl] butanoic acid (glufosinate) or its salts or esters and application adjuvants
Mixtures of N-(phosphonomethyl) glycine (glyphosate) or its salts or esters and application adjuvants
Other
Disinfectants
Containing any aromatic or modified aromatic disinfectant
Other
Wipes, other than paper wipes or nonwoven wipes, impregnated with alcohol or other disinfectants
Hydrogen peroxide put up in disinfectant preparations for sanitizing or disinfecting surfaces.
Alcohol-based hand sanitizer containing 60 percent or more by weight of ethanol, of a kind described in statistical note 1 to this chapter
Other
Other
Containing any aromatic or modified aromatic pesticide
Mixtures of 1,1-bis(4-chlorophenyl)-2,2,2- trichloroethanol (Dicofol) and application adjuvants
Other
Other
Other
Containing an inorganic substance
Other
With a basis of amylaceous substances
Other
Of a kind used in the textile or like industries
Of a kind used in the paper or like industries
Containing 5 percent or more by weight of one or more aromatic or modified aromatic substances
Other
Of a kind used in the leather or like industries
Containing 5 percent or more by weight of one or more aromatic or modified aromatic substances
Other
Pickling preparations for metal surfaces; soldering, brazing or welding powders and pastes consisting of metal and other materials
Other
Containing 5 percent or more by weight of one or more aromatic or modified aromatic substances
Consisting wholly of inorganic substances
Other
Antiknock preparations
Based on lead compounds
Other
Other
Additives for lubricating oils
Containing petroleum oils or oils obtained from bituminous minerals
Other
Other
Prepared rubber accelerators
Containing any aromatic or modified aromatic rubber accelerator
Other
Compound plasticizers for rubber or plastics
Containing any aromatic or modified aromatic plasticizer
Other
Anti-oxidizing preparations and other compound stabilizers for rubber or plastics
Mixtures of oligomers of 2,2,4-trimethyl-1,2-dihydroquinoline (TMQ)
Other
Containing any aromatic or modified aromatic antioxidant or other stabilizer
Mixtures of N,N'-diaryl-p-phenylenediamines
Other
Other
Bis(1,2,2,6,6-pentamethyl-4-piperidinyl) sebacate
Other
Preparations and charges for fire extinguishers; charged fire-extinguishing grenades
Consisting wholly of inorganic substances
Other
Organic composite solvents and thinners, not elsewhere specified or included; prepared paint or varnish removers
Containing 5 percent or more but not more than 25 percent by weight of one or more aromatic or modified aromatic substances
Containing more than 25 percent by weight of one or more aromatic or modified aromatic substances
Other
Other
Reaction initiators, reaction accelerators and catalytic preparations, not elsewhere specified or included
Supported catalysts
With nickel or nickel compounds as the active substance
With precious metal or precious metal compounds as the active substance
Other
Other
Consisting wholly of inorganic substances
Of bismuth, of tungsten or of vanadium
Of mercury or of molybdenum
Other
Other
Refractory cements, mortars, concretes and similar compositions, including dolomite ramming mix, other than products of heading 3801
Dolomite ramming mix
Other
Clay
Other
Mixed alkylbenzenes and mixed alkylnaphthalenes, other than those of heading 2707 or 2902
Mixed alkylbenzenes
Mixed linear alkylbenzenes
Other
Mixed alkylnaphthalenes
Chemical elements doped for use in electronics, in the form of discs, wafers or similar forms; chemical compounds doped for use in electronics
Gallium arsenide wafers, doped
Other
Hydraulic brake fluids
Other
Antifreezing preparations and prepared deicing fluids
Prepared culture media for development or maintenance of micro-organisms (including viruses and the like) or of plant, human or animal cells
Viral transport media
Other
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
For malaria
For blood-grouping
Other
Containing antigens or antisera
Containing methyl chloroform (1,1,1-trichloroethane) or carbon tetrachloride
Other
Other
Containing methyl chloroform (1,1,1-trichloroethane) or carbon tetrachloride
Other
Certified reference materials
Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids; acid oils from refining; industrial fatty alcohols
Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids; acid oils from refining
Stearic acid
Oleic acid
Tall oil fatty acids
Containing less than two percent rosin
Other
Other
Derived from coconut, palm-kernel or palm oil
Other
Industrial fatty alcohols
Derived from fatty substances of animal or vegetable origin
Oleyl
Other
Other
Prepared binders for foundry molds or cores
Nonagglomerated metal carbides mixed together or with metallic binders
Prepared additives for cements, mortars or concretes
Containing 5 percent or more by weight of one or more aromatic or modified aromatic substances
Consisting wholly of inorganic substances
Other
Nonrefractory mortars and concretes
Wet
Other
Sorbitol other than that of subheading 2905.44
Goods specified in subheading note 3 to this chapter
Containing oxirane (ethylene oxide)
Containing polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polychlorinated terphenyls ({PCTs) or polybrominated biphenyls (PBBs)
Chlorinated but not otherwise halogenated
Other
Containing tris(2,3-dibromopropyl) phospate
Containing 1,2,3,4,5,6-hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH (ISO)), including lindane (ISO,INN)
Containing pentachlorobenzene (ISO) or hexachlorobenzene (ISO)
Containing perfluorooctane sulfonic acid, its salts, perfluorooctane sulfonamides, or perfluorooctane sulfonyl fluoride
Containing tetra-, penta-, hexa-, hepta-, or octabromodiphenyl ethers
Containing short-chain chlorinated paraffins
Other
Polyglycol esters of methylphosphonic acid.
Other
Cultured crystals (other than optical elements of chapter 90), weighing not less than 2.5 g each
In the form of ingots
Other
Other
Mixtures containing 5 percent or more by weight of one or more aromatic or modified aromatic substances
Consisting wholly of substances found naturally in coal tar, whether obtained from coal tar or other source
Aqueous mixtures of triphenyl sulfonium chloride, diphenyl (4-phenylthio)phenyl sulfonium chloride and (thiodi-4,1- phenylene)bis(diphenyl sulfonium) dichloride
Other
Mixtures of two or more inorganic compounds
Of bismuth
Of hydrosulfite compounds, of sulfoxylate compounds, or of both
Of mercury
Of molybdenum
Of tungsten
Of vanadium
Other
Fatty substances of animal or vegetable origin and mixtures thereof
Mixtures of fatty acid esters
Other
Other
Mixtures that are in whole or in part of hydrocarbons derived in whole or in part from petroleum, shale oil or natural gas
Mixtures of halogenated hydrocarbons
Chlorinated but not otherwise halogenated
Other
Other
Naphthenic acids, their water-insoluble salts and their esters
Naphthenic acids
Other
Other
Mixtures of acyclic, monohydric, unsubstituted alcohols
Containing C<sub>11</sub> or lower alcohols only
Containing C<sub>12</sub> or higher alcohols only
Other
Mixtures consisting mainly of chemicals containing a phosphorus atom to which is bonded one methyl, ethyl, <i>n</i>-propyl or isopropyl group, but no other carbon atoms
Mixtures of a kind containing magnesium used as a desulfurization reagent
Other
Municipal waste
Sewage sludge
Clinical waste
Waste organic solvents
Halogenated
Other
Wastes of metal-pickling liquors, hydraulic fluids, brake fluids and anti-freeze fluids
Other wastes from the chemical or allied industries
Mainly containing organic constituents
Other
Other
Biodiesel and mixtures thereof, not containing or containing less than 70 percent by weight of petroleum oils or oils obtained from bituminous materials
Biodiesel not containing petroleum oils or oils obtained from bituminous materials (B100)
Other
Mixtures containing halogenated derivatives of methane, ethane or propane, not elsewhere specified or included
Containing chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), whether or not containing hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs), perfluorocarbons (PFCs) or hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)
Containing hydrobromofluorocarbons (HBFCs)
Containing carbon tetrachloride
Containing 1,1,1-trichloroethane (methyl chloroform)
Containing bromochlorodifluoromethane (Halon-1211), bromotrifluoromethane (Halon-1301) or dibromotetrafluoroethanes (Halon-2402)
Containing hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs), whether or not containing perfluorocarbons (PFCs) or hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), but not containing chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)
Containing substances of subheadings 2903.41 to 2903.48
Other, containing substances of subheadings 2903.71 to 2903.75
Other
Containing methyl bromide (bromomethane) or bromochloromethane
Containing trifluoromethane (HFC-23) or perfluorocarbons (PFCs) but not containing chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) or hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs)
Containing trifluoromethane (HFC-23)
Other
Containing other hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) but not containing chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) or hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs)
Containing 15 percent or more by mass of 1,1,1-trifluoroethane (HFC-143a)
Other, not included in the subheadings above, containing 40 percent or more by mass of pentafluoroethane (HFC-125)
Other, not included in the subheadings above, containing substances of subheadings 2903.41 to 2903.48
Other
Other
Chlorinated but not otherwise halogenated
Other
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