Chapter notes
Chapter 25 - NOTES
1. Except where their context or Note 4 to this Chapter
otherwise requires, the headings of this Chapter cover
only products which are in the crude state or which have
been washed (even with chemical substances eliminating the
impurities without changing the structure of the product),
crushed, ground, powdered, levigated, sifted, screened,
concentrated by flotation, magnetic separation or other
mechanical or physical processes (except crystallisation),
but not products which have been roasted, calcined,
obtained by mixing or subjected to processing beyond that
mentioned in each heading.
The products of this Chapter may contain an added
anti-dusting agent, provided that such addition does not
render the product particularly suitable for specific use
rather than for general use.
2. This chapter does not cover:
(a) Sublimed sulphur, precipitated sulphur or colloidal
sulphur (heading No. 28.02);
(b) Earth colours containing 70% or more by weight of
combined iron evaluated as Fe2O3 (heading No. 28.21);
(c) Medicaments and other products of Chapter 30;
(d) Perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations (Chapter
33);
(e) Setts, curbstones or flagstones (heading No. 68.01);
mosaic cubes or the like (heading No. 68.02); roofing,
facing or damp course slates (heading No. 68.03);
(f) Precious or semi-precious stones (heading No. 71.02
or 71.03);
(g) Cultured crystals (other than optical elements)
weighing not less than 2.5 g each, of sodium chloride or
of magnesium oxide, of heading No. 38.23; optical elements
of sodium chloride or of magnesium oxide (heading No.
90.0l);
(h) Billiard chalks (heading No. 94.04); or
(ij) Writing or drawing chalks, or tailors' chalks
(heading No. 96.09).
3. Any products classifiable in heading No.25.17 and any
other heading of the Chapter are to be classified in
heading No. 25.17.
4. Heading No. 25.30 applies, inter alia, to:
vermiculite, perlite and chlorites, unexpanded; earth
colours, whether or not calcined or mixed together;
natural micaceous iron oxides; meerschaum (whether or not
in polished pieces); amber; agglomerated meerschaum and
agglomerated amber, in plates, rods, sticks or similar
forms, not worked after moulding; jet; strontianite
(whether or not calcined), other than strontium oxide;
broken pottery.