Central Excise Tariff 2002-03

Chapter 28

Table
 
  

Heading
No. 

Sub-heading No. 

Description of goods 

Rate of duty 

(1) 

(2) 

(3) 

(4) 

 

 

I. CHEMICAL ELEMENTS 

 

28.01 

 

Fluorine, Chlorine, Bromine and Iodine 

 

 

2801.10 

-Chlorine (including liquefied or solidified gas) 

16%. 

 

2801.90 

-Other 

16% 

28.02

2802.00 

Sulphur, sublimed or precipitated; colloidal sulphur

16% 

28.03 

2803.00 

Carbon (carbon blacks and other forms of carbon not elsewhere specified or included) 

16% 

28.04 

 

Hydrogen, rare gases and other non-metals 

 

 

 

- Oxygen (including liquefied or solidified gas):

 

 

2804.11 

--Medicinal grade 

Nil 

 

2804.12 

-- For use in the manufacture of heavy water 

Nil 

 

2804.19 

-- Other 

16% 

 

 

- Hydrogen:

 

 

2804.21 

-- Consumed within the factory of production 

Nil 

 

2804.29 

-- Other 

16% 

 

 

- Nitrogen:

 

 

2804.31 

-- For use in the manufacture of heavy water 

Nil 

 

2804.32 

-- In liquid form, for use in processing and storage of semen for artificial insemination of cattle 

Nil 

 

2804.33 

-- Consumed within the factory of production 

Nil 

 

2804.39 

-- Other 

16% 

 

2804.40 

- Silicon in all forms 

16% 

 

2804.90 

- Other 

16% 

28.05 

 

Alkali or alkaline-earth metals; rare-earth metals, scandium and yttrium, whether or not intermixed or interalloyed; mercury 

 

 

 

- Potassium metal:

 

 

2805.11 

-- For use in a heavy water plant 

Nil 

 

2805.12 

-- Other 

16% 

 

2805.90 

-Other 

16% 

 

 

II. INORGANIC ACIDS AND INORGANIC OXYGEN COMPOUNDS OF NON-METALS 

 

28.06 

 

Hydrogen chloride (hydrochloric acid); chlorosul-phuric acid 

 

 

2806.10 

-Hydrogen chloride (hydrochloric acid) 

16% 

 

2806.90 

-Other 

16% 

28.07 

2807.00 

Sulphuric acid and anhydrides thereof; Oleum

16% 

28.08 

 

Nitric acid; sulphonitric acids 

 

 

2808.10 

-Nitric acid 

16% 

 

2808.90 

-Other 

16% 

28.09 

2809.00 

Diphosphorus pentaoxide; phosphoric acid and polyphosphoric acids 

16% 

28.10 

2810.00 

Oxides of boron; boric acids 

16% 

28.11 

 

Other inorganic acids and other inorganic oxygen compounds of non-metals 

 

 

2811.10 

- Carbon dioxide 

16% 

 

 

- Sulphur dioxide and sulphur trioxide :

 

 

2811.21 

-- Consumed in the manufacture of sulphuric acid, within the factory of production 

Nil

 

2811.29 

-- Other 

16% 

 

2811.90 

-Other 

16% 

 

 

III. HALOGEN OR SULPHUR COMPOUNDS OF NON-METALS 

 

28.12 

2812.00 

Halides and halide oxides of non-metals 

16% 

28.13 

2813.00 

Sulphides of non-metals; commercial phosphorus trisulphide 

16% 

 

 

IV. INORGANIC BASES AND OXIDES, HYDROXIDES AND PEROXIDES OF METALS AND PEROXIDES OF METALS 

 

28.14 

 

Ammonia, anhydrous or in aqueous solution 

 

 

2814.10 

- For use in the manufacture of heavy water 

Nil 

 

2814.90 

- Other 

16% 

28.15 

2815.00 

Sodium hydroxide (caustic soda); potassium hydroxide (caustic potash); peroxides of sodium or potassium 

16% 

28.16

2816.00 

Hydroxide and peroxide of magnesium; oxides, hydroxides and peroxides of strontium or barium 

16 %

28.17 

 

Zinc Oxide; Zinc peroxide 

 

 

2817.10 

-Zinc oxide 

16% 

 

2817.90 

-Other 

16 %

28.18 

 

Artificial corundum, whether or not chemically defined; aluminium oxide; aluminium hydroxide 

 

 

2818.10 

-Aluminium hydroxide 

16 %

 

2818.90 

-Other 

16% 

28.19 

2819.00 

Chromium oxides and hydroxides 

16% 

28.20 

2820.00 

Manganese oxides 

16% 

28.21 

 

Iron oxides and hydroxides; earth colours containing 70% or more by weight of combined iron evaluated as Fe2O3h 

 

 

2821.10 

-Iron oxides and hydroxides 

16% 

 

2821.90 

-Other 

16% 

28.22 

2822.00 

Cobalt oxides and hydroxides; commercial cobalt oxides 

16% 

28.23

2823.00 

Titanium oxide 

16% 

28.24 

2824.00 

Lead oxides; red lead and orange lead 

16% 

28.25 

2825.00 

Hydrazine and hydroxylamine and their inorganic salts; other inorganic bases; other metal oxides, hydroxides and peroxides 

16% 

 

 

V. SALTS AND PEROXYSALTS, OF INORGANIC ACIDS AND METALS 

 

28.26 

2826.00 

Fluorides; fluorosilicates, fluoroaluminates and other complex fluorine salts 

16% 

28.27 

2827.00 

Chlorides, chloride oxides and chloride hydroxides; bromides and bromide oxides; iodides and iodide oxides 

16% 

28.28 

 

Hypochlorites; commercial calcium hypochlorite; chlorites;hypobromites

 

 

2828.10 

-Bleaching paste and powder 

16% 

 

2828.90 

-Other 

16 %

28.29

 

Chlorates and Perchlorates; Bromates an Perbromates; lodates and periodates 

 

 

2829.10 

-Potassium Chlorate 

16 %

 

2829.90 

-Other 

16 %

28.30

2830.00 

Sulphides; Polysulphides 

16 %

28.31

 

Dithionites and sulphoxylates 

 

 

2831.10 

-Sodium hydrosulphite 

16 %

 

2831.90 

-Other 

16 %

28.32 

2832.00 

Sulphites; thiosulphates 

16 %

28.33 

 

Sulphates; alums; peroxosulphates (persulphates

 

 

2833.10 

- Copper Sulphate 

16 %

 

2833.20 

- Agricultural grade zinc sulphate intended for use as micronutrient 

Nil 

 

2833.90 

 

- Other 

16 %

 

28.34

 

2834.00 

 

-nitrates;nitrates 

 

16 %

 

28.35 

2835.00 

Phosphinates (hypophosphites), Phosphonates (Phosphites); phosphates and polyphosphates 

16% 

28.36 

 

Carbonates; peroxocarbonates (percarbonates); commercial ammonium carbonates containing ammonium carbamate 

 

 

2836.10 

-Soda ash 

16% 

 

2836.20 

-Bicarbonate of soda 

16% 

 

2836.90 

-Other 

16% 

28.37

2837.00 

Cyanides, cyanide oxides and complex cyanides 

16% 

28.38 

2838.00 

Fulminates, cyanates and thiocyanates 

16% 

28.39 

 

Silicates; commercial alkali metal silicates 

 

 

2839.10 

-Sodium silicate 

16% 

 

2839.90 

-Other 

16% 

28.40 

2840.00 

Borates; peroxoborates (perborates

16% 

28.41 

 

Salts of oxometallic or peroxometallic acids 

 

 

2841.10 

-Sodium dichromate 

16% 

 

2841.20 

-Potassium dichromate 

16% 

 

2841.30 

-Potassium permanganate 

16% 

 

2841.90 

-Other 

16% 

28.42

2842.00 

Other salts of inorganic acids or peroxoacids, excluding azides 

16% 

 

 

VI. MISCELLANEOUS 

 

28.43 

2843.00 

Colloidal precious metals; inorganic or organic compounds of precious metals, whether or not chemically defined; amalgams of precious metals

16% 

28.44

 

Radioactive chemical elements and radioactive isotopes (including the fissile or fertile chemical elements and isotopes) and their compounds; mixtures and residues containing these products 

 

 

2844.10 

- Nuclear fuel 

Nil 

 

2844.20 

- Thorium Hydroxide 

Nil 

 

2844.90 

- Other 

16% 

28.45 

 

Isotopes other than those of heading No. 28.44; compounds, inorganic or organic, of such isotopes, whether or not chemically defined 

 

 

2845.10 

- Nuclear fuel 

Nil 

 

2845.20 

- Heavy water (Deuterium Oxide) 

Nil 

 

2845.90 

- Other 

16% 

28.46 

2846.00 

Compounds, inorganic or organic, of rare earth metals, of yttrium or of scandium or of mixtures of these metals 

16% 

28.47 

 

Hydrogen peroxide, whether or not solidified with urea 

 

 

 

-Hydrogen peroxide 

 

 

2847.11 

--Medicinal grade 

Nil 

 

2847.19 

--Other 

16% 

 

2847.90 

- Other 

16% 

28.48 

2848.00 

Phosphides, whether or not chemically defined, excluding ferrophosphorus 

16% 

28.49 

 

Carbides, whether or not chemically defined 

 

 

2849.10 

-Calcium Carbide 

16% 

 

2849.90 

-Other 

16% 

28.50 

2850.00 

Hydrides, nitrides, azides, silicides and borides, whether or not chemically defined, other than compounds which are also carbides of heading No. 28.49 

16% 

28.51 

 

Other inorganic compounds (including distilled or conductivity water and water of similar purity); liquid air (whether or not rare gases have been removed); compressed air; amalgams, other than amalgams of precious metals 

 

 

 

- Distilled or conductivity water and water of similar purity :

 

 

2851.11 

-- Used within the factory of production 

Nil 

 

2851.19 

-- Other 

16% 

 

 

- Liquid air (whether or not any fraction has been removed):

 

 

2851.21 

-- Used within the factory of production 

Nil 

 

2851.29 

-- Other 

16% 

 

2851.30 

- Compressed air 

Nil 

 

2851.90 

- Other 

16%