Chapter 25 — Salt; sulphur; earths, stone; plastering materials, lime and cement

2501 Salt (including table salt and denatured salt); pure sodium chloride whether or not in aqueous solution; sea water 1

250100 Salt (including table salt and denatured salt); pure sodium chloride whether or not in aqueous solution; sea water

2502 Iron pyrites; unroasted 1

250200 Iron pyrites; unroasted

2503 Sulphur of all kinds; other than sublimed, precipitated and colloidal sulphur 1

250300 Sulphur of all kinds; other than sublimed, precipitated and colloidal sulphur

2504 Graphite; natural 2

250410 Graphite; natural, in powder or in flakes 250490 Graphite; natural, in other forms, excluding powder or flakes

2505 Sands of all kinds; natural, whether or not coloured, other than metal-bearing sands of chapter 26 2

250510 Sands; natural, silica and quartz sands, whether or not coloured 250590 Sands; natural, (other than silica and quartz sands), whether or not coloured, (other than metal-bearing sands of chapter 26)

2506 Quartz; (other than natural sands), quartzite, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape 2

250610 Quartz; other than natural sands 250620 Quartzite; whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape

2507 Kaolin and other kaolinic clays; whether or not calcined 1

250700 Kaolin and other kaolinic clays; whether or not calcined

2508 Clays; (not including expanded clays of heading no. 6806), andalusite kyanite and sillimanite, whether or not calcined; mullite; chamotte or dinas earth 6

250810 Clays (excluding expanded clays of heading no. 6806); bentonite, whether or not calcined 250830 Clays (excluding expanded clays of heading no. 6806); fireclay, whether or not calcined 250840 Clays (excluding expanded clays of heading no. 6806); n.e.c. in heading no. 2508, whether or not calcined 250850 Clays (excluding expanded clays of heading no. 6806); andalusite, kyanite and sillimanite, whether or not calcined 250860 Clays (excluding expanded clays of heading no. 6806); mullite 250870 Clays (excluding expanded clays of heading no. 6806); chamotte or dinas earths

2509 Chalk 1

250900 Chalk

2510 Natural calcium phosphates; natural aluminium calcium phosphates and phosphatic chalk 2

251010 Natural calcium phosphates, natural aluminium calcium phosphates and phosphatic chalk; unground 251020 Natural calcium phosphates, natural aluminium calcium phosphates and phosphatic chalk; ground

2511 Natural barium sulphate (barytes); natural barium carbonate, (witherite) whether or not calcined, other than barium oxide of heading no. 2816 2

251110 Barium sulphate (barytes); natural 251120 Barium carbonate (witherite); natural, whether or not calcined, other than barium oxide of heading no. 2816

2512 Siliceous fossil meals (e.g. kieselguhr, tripolite and diatomite) and similar siliceous earths; whether or not calcined, of an apparent specific gravity of 1 or less 1

251200 Siliceous fossil meals (e.g. kieselguhr, tripolite and diatomite) and similar siliceous earths; whether or not calcined, of an apparent specific gravity of 1 or less

2513 Pumice stone; emery; natural corundum, natural garnet and other natural abrasives, whether or not heat treated 2

251310 Pumice stone, whether or not heat treated 251320 Emery, natural corundum, natural garnet and other natural abrasives, whether or not heat-treated

2514 Slate, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape 1

251400 Slate; whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape

2515 Marble, travertine, ecaussine and other calcareous stone; of an apparent specific gravity of less than 2.5, alabaster, whether cut by sawing etc, into blocks, slabs of a rectangular (square) shape 3

251511 Marble and travertine; having a specific gravity of 2.5 or more, crude or roughly trimmed by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape 251512 Marble and travertine; merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape, having a specific gravity of 2.5 or more 251520 Ecaussine and other calcareous monumental or building stone; alabaster, having a specific gravity of 2.5 or more

2516 Granite, porphyry, basalt, sandstone, other monumental and building stone, whether or not roughly trimmed, cut, by sawing etc, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape 4

251611 Granite; crude or roughly trimmed 251612 Granite; merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape 251620 Sandstone;. whether or not roughly trimmed, cut, by sawing etc, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape 251690 Monumental or building stone; n.e.c. in heading no. 2516, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape

2517 Pebbles, gravel, crushed stone for concrete aggregates for road or railway ballast, shingle or flint; macadam of slag, dross etc tarred granules, chippings, powder of stones of heading no. 2515 and 2516 5

251710 Pebbles, gravel, broken or crushed stone; of a kind commonly used for concrete aggregates, for road metalling or for railway or other ballast, shingle and flint, whether or not heat-treated 251720 Macadam of slag, dross or similar industrial waste; whether or not incorporating the materials in Tariff item 2517.10.00 251730 Tarred macadam 251741 Stones; of marble, in granules, chippings and powder, whether or not heat-treated 251749 Stones; of heading no. 2515 or 2516 (excluding marble), in granules, chippings and powder, whether or not heat-treated

2518 Dolomite, whether or not calcined or sintered, including dolomite roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape 2

251810 Dolomite, not calcined or sintered; including dolomite roughly trimmed, or merely cut by sawing or otherwise into blocks or slabs of rectangular (including square) shape 251820 Dolomite, calcined or sintered; including dolomite roughly trimmed, or merely cut by sawing or otherwise into blocks or slabs of rectangular (including square) shape

2519 Natural magnesium carbonate (magnesite); fused magnesia; dead-burned (sintered) magnesia, whether or not containing small quantities of other oxides added before sintering; magnesium oxide, pure or not 2

251910 Magnesium carbonate (magnesite); natural 251990 Magnesia, fused or dead-burned (sintered); whether or not containing small quantities of other oxides added before sintering, other magnesium oxide, whether or not pure, (not natural magnesium carbonate)

2520 Gypsum; anhydrite; plasters (consisting of calcined gypsum or calcium sulphate), coloured or not, with or without small quantities of accelerators or retarders 2

252010 Gypsum; anhydrite 252020 Plasters; (consisting of calcined gypsum or calcium sulphate), whether or not coloured, with or without small quantities of accelerators or retarders

2521 Limestone flux; limestone and other calcareous stone, of a kind used for the manufacture of lime or cement 1

252100 Limestone flux; limestone and other calcareous stone, of a kind used for the manufacture of lime or cement

2522 Quicklime, slaked lime and hydraulic lime; other than calcium oxide and hydroxide of heading no. 2825 3

252210 Quicklime; excluding calcium oxide and hydroxide of heading no. 2825 252220 Slaked lime; excluding calcium oxide and hydroxide of heading no. 2825 252230 Hydraulic lime; excluding calcium oxide and hydroxide of heading no. 2825

2523 Portland cement, aluminous cement (ciment fondu), slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers 5

252310 Cement clinkers (whether or not coloured) 252321 Cement; portland, white, whether or not artificially coloured 252329 Cement; portland, other than white, whether or not artificially coloured 252330 Cement; aluminous (ciment fondu), whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers 252390 Cement; hydraulic kinds n.e.c. in heading no. 2523

2524 Asbestos 2

252410 Asbestos; crocidolite (blue asbestos) 252490 Asbestos; other than crocidolite (blue asbestos)

2525 Mica, including splittings; mica waste 3

252510 Mica; crude and rifted into sheets or splittings 252520 Mica; powder 252530 Mica; waste

2526 Natural steatite; whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape; talc 2

252610 Steatite; natural, (not crushed or powdered), whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape; talc 252620 Steatite; natural, crushed, powdered, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape; talc

2528 Natural borates and concentrates thereof (whether or not calcined), but not including borates separated from natural brine; natural boric acid containing not more than 85 % of H3BO3 calculated on the dry weight 1

252800 Natural borates and concentrates thereof (whether or not calcined), but not including borates separated from natural brine; natural boric acid containing not more than 85 % of H3BO3 calculated on the dry weight

2529 Feldspar; leucite; nepheline and nepheline syenite; fluorspar 4

252910 Feldspar 252921 Fluorspar; containing by weight 97% or less of calcium fluoride 252922 Fluorspar; containing by weight more than 97% of calcium fluoride 252930 Leucite; nepheline and nepheline syenite

2530 Mineral substances not elsewhere specified or included 3

253010 Vermiculite, perlite and chlorites; unexpanded 253020 Kieserite, epsomite (natural magnesium sulphates) 253090 Mineral substances; n.e.c. in chapter 25