Central Excise Tariff 2007-08

CHAPTER 25

Heading No. 

Description of article

 Unit

Rate of duty 

   

   

   

  

 

(1) 

 

(2) 

(3) 

(4) 

2501

  

Salt (including table salt and denatured salt) and pure sodium chloride, whether or not in aqueous solution or containing added anti-caking or free flowing agents; sea water

    
2501 00  

- Salt (including table salt and denatured salt) and pure sodium chloride, whether or not in aqueous solution or containing added anti-caking or free flowing agents; sea water :

    
  2501 00 10 --- Common salt (including iodised salt) Kg.

Nil 
  2501 00 20 --- Rock salt Kg.

Nil 
  2501 00 90 --- Other Kg.

Nil 

2502 00 00

  

Unroasted iron pyrites

 Kg.

Nil 

2503

  

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

    
2503 00  

- Sulphur of all kinds, other than sublimed sulphur, precipitated sulphur and colloidal sulphur :

    
  2503 00 10 --- Sulphur recovered as by-product in refining of crude oil Kg.

16%
  2503 00 90 --- Other Kg.

Nil 

2504

 

Natural graphite

  

 

2504 10

  

- In powder or in flakes :

    
  2504 10 10 --- Graphite, crystalline Kg.

Nil
  2504 10 20 --- Graphite, amorphous Kg.

Nil 
  2504 10 90 --- Other Kg.

Nil 

2504 90

 

-Other :

    
  2504 90 10 --- Graphite, micronised Kg.

Nil 
  2504 90 90 --- Other Kg.

Nil 

2505

 

Natural sands of all kinds, whether or not coloured, other than metal-bearing sands of Chapter 26

  

 

2505 10

 

- Silica sand and quartz sands 

    
    --- Silica sands:    
  2505 10 11 ---- Processed (white) Kg.

Nil 
  2505 10 12 ---- Processed (brown) Kg.

Nil 
  2505 10 19 ---- Other Kg.

Nil 
  2505 10 20 --- Quartz sands Kg.

Nil 

 

2505 90 00 

- Other 

 Kg.

Nil 

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

  

 

2506 10

 

-Quartz :

    
  2506 10 10 --- In lumps Kg.

Nil 
  2506 10 20 --- In powder Kg.

Nil 
  2506 20 - Quartzite:    
  2506 20 10 --- In lumps Kg.

Nil 
  2506 20 20 --- In powder Kg.

Nil 
  2506 20 90 --- Other Kg.

Nil

2507

  

Kaolin and other kaolinic clays, whether or not calcined

    
2507 00  

- Kaolin and other kaolinic clays, whether or not calcined :

    
  2507 00 10 --- Crude Kg.

Nil 
    --- Other :    
  2507 00 21 ---- Pharmaceutical grade Kg.

Nil 
  2507 00 22 ---- Ceramic grade Kg.

Nil 
  2507 00 29 ---- Other Kg.

Nil 

2508

 

Other clays (not including expanded clays of heading No. 68.06), andalusite, kyanite and sillimanite, whether or not calcined; mullite; chamotte or dinas earths

  

 

2508 10

 

- Bentonite :

    
  2508 10 10 --- Crude Kg.

Nil 
  2508 10 90 --- Other (includes processed, and ground) Kg.

Nil 

2508 30

 

- Fire-clay :

    
  2508 30 10 --- Non-plastic Kg.

Nil 
  2508 30 20 --- Semi-plastic Kg.

Nil 
  2508 30 30 --- Plastic Kg.

Nil 
  2508 30 90 --- Other Kg.

Nil 

2508 40

 

- Other clays :

    
  2508 40 10 --- Ball clay Kg.

Nil 
  2508 40 20 --- Earth clay Kg.

Nil 
  2508 40 90 --- Other Kg.

Nil 

2508 50

 

- Andalusite, kyanite and sillimanite :

    
  2508 50 10 --- Andalusite Kg.

Nil 
    --- Kyanite :    
  2508 50 21 ---- Crude, other than calcined Kg.

Nil 
  2508 50 22 ---- Processed, other than calcined (washed or ground or screened or beneficiated) Kg.

Nil 
  2508 50 23 ---- Calcined Kg.

Nil 
    --- Sillimanite :    
  2508 50 31 ---- Lumps Kg.

Nil 
  2508 50 32 ---- Fines (including sand) Kg.

Nil 
  2508 50 39 ---- Other Kg.

Nil 

 

2508 60 00 

- Mullite 

 Kg.

Nil 

 

2508 70 00 

- Chamotte or dinas earths 

 Kg.

Nil 

2509 00 00

 

Chalk

 Kg.

Nil 

2510

 

Natural calcium phosphates, natural aluminium calcium phosphates and phos-phatic chalk

  

 

2510 10

 

- Unground :

    
  2510 10 10 --- Natural calcium phosphate Kg.

Nil 
  2510 10 20 --- Natural aluminium calcium phosphate Kg.

Nil 
  2510 10 30 --- Natural calcium phosphate apatite Kg.

Nil 
  2510 10 90 --- Other Kg.

Nil 

2510 20

 

- Ground :

  

 
  2510 20 10 --- Natural calcium phosphates Kg.

Nil 
  2510 20 20 --- Natural aluminium calcium phosphate Kg.

Nil 
  2510 20 30 --- Natural calcium phosphates apatite Kg.

Nil 
  2510 20 90 --- Other Kg.

Nil 

2511

 

Natural barium sulphate (barytes); natural barium carbonate (witherite), whether or not calcined, other than barium oxide of heading No. 28.16

  

 

2511 10

 

-Natural barium sulphate (barytes) :

    
  2511 10 10 --- Lumps Kg.

Nil 
  2511 10 20 --- Powder Kg.

Nil 
  2511 10 90 --- Other Kg.

Nil

 

2511 20 00 

- Natural barium carbonate (witherite) 

 Kg.

Nil 

2512

  

Siliceous fossil meals (for example, kieselguhr, tripolite and diatomite) and similar siliceous earths, whether or not calcined, of an apparent specific gravity of 1 or less

    
2512 00  

- Siliceous fossil meals (for example, kieselguhr, tripolite and diatomite) and similar siliceous earths, whether or not calcined, of an apparent specific gravity of 1 or less :

    
  2512 00 10 --- Kieselguhr Kg.

Nil 
  2512 00 20 --- Tripolite Kg.

Nil 
  2512 00 30 --- Diatomite Kg.

Nil 
  2512 00 90 --- Other Kg.

Nil 

2513 20

 

- Emery, natural corundum, natural garnet and other natural abrasives :

    
  2513 20 10 --- Emery Kg.

Nil 
  2513 20 20 --- Natural corundum Kg.

Nil 
  2513 20 30 --- Natural garnet Kg.

Nil 
  2513 20 90 --- Other Kg.

Nil 

2514 00 00

  

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

 Kg.

Nil 

2515

 

Marble, travertine, ecaussine and other Calcareous monumental or building stone of an apparent specific gravity of 2.5 or more, and alabaster, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape

  

 

 

 

- Marble and travertine :

  

 

 

2515 11 00 

-- Crude or roughly trimmed 

 Kg.

Nil 

2515 12

 

-- Merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape :

    
  2515 12 10 --- Blocks Kg.

Nil 
  2515 12 20 --- Slabs square metre

16%
  2515 12 90 --- Other square metre

16%

2515 20

 

- Ecaussine and other calcareous monumental or building stone; alabaster :

    
  2515 20 10 --- Alabaster Kg.

Nil 
  2515 20 90 --- Other Kg.

Nil 

2516

 

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

  

 

 

 

- Granite:

  

 

 

2516 11 00 

--Crude or roughly trimmed 

 Kg.

Nil 
  2516 12 00 -- Merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular Kg.

Nil 
  2516 20 00 - Sandstone Kg.

Nil

2516 90

 

- Other monumental or building stone :

    
  2516 90 10 --- Pakur stone Kg.

Nil 
  2516 90 20 --- Stone boulders Kg.

Nil 
  2516 90 90 --- Other Kg.

Nil 

2517

 

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; macadam of slag, dross or similar industrial waste, whether or not incorporating the materials cited in the first part of the heading; tarred macadam; granules, chippings and powder, of stones of heading No. 25.15 or 25.16, whether or not heat-treated

  

 

2517 10

 

- 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 

    
  2517 10 10 --- Pakurstone, crushed or broken Kg.

Nil
  2517 10 20 --- Flint Kg.

Nil
  2517 10 90 --- Other Kg.

Nil 

 

2517 20 00 

- Macadam of slag, dross or similar industrial waste, whether or not incorporating the materials cited in sub-heading No. 2517.10 

 Kg.

Nil 

 

2517 30 00 

- Tarred macadam

 Kg.

Nil

 

 

- Granules, chippings and powder, of stones of \ heading No. 2515 or 2516, whether or not I heat-treated: 

  

 

 

2517 41 00 

-- Of marble

 Kg.

Nil 

 

2517 49 00 

-- Other 

 Kg.

Nil 

2518

 

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

  

 

 

2518 10 00

- Dolomite not calcined 

 Kg.

Nil 

 

2518 20 00 

- Calcined dolomite 

 Kg.

Nil 

 

2518 30 00 

- Agglomerated dolomite (including tarred  dolomite)

 Kg.

Nil 

2519

 

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

  

 

 

2519 10 00 

- Natural magnesium carbonate (magnesite) 

 Kg.

Nil 

2519 90

 

- Other :

    
  2519 90 10 --- Fused magnesia (natural) Kg.

Nil 
  2519 90 20 --- Dead-burnt (sintered) magnesia Kg.

Nil 
  2519 90 30 --- Magnesium calcined (other than dead-burnt) not elsewhere specified or included Kg.

Nil 
  2519 90 40 --- Magnesium oxide Kg.

Nil 
  2519 90 90 --- Other Kg.

Nil 

2520

 

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

  

 

2520 10

 

- Gypsum; anhydrite :

    
  2520 10 10 --- Natural Kg.

Nil 
  2520 10 20 --- Marine Kg.

Nil 
  2520 10 90 --- Other Kg.

Nil 

2520 20

 

- Plasters :

    
  2520 20 10 --- Calcined Kg.

Nil 
  2520 20 90 --- Other Kg.

Nil 

2521

  

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

    
2521 00  

-Limestone flux; limestone and other calcareous stones, of a kind used for the manufacture of lime or cement :

    
  2521 00 10 --- Limestone flux (L.D., below 1% SiO2) Kg.

Nil 
  2521 00 90 --- Other Kg.

Nil 

2522

 

Quicklime, slaked lime and hydraulic lime, other than calcium oxide and hydroxide of heading No. 28.25

  

 

 

2522 10 00 

- Quicklime 

 Kg.

Nil 

 

2522 20 00 

- Slaked lime 

 Kg.

Nil 

 

2522 30 00 

- Hydraulic lime 

 Kg.

Nil 

2523

 

Portland cement, aluminous cement, slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers

  

 

 

2523 10 00 

- Cement clinkers 

 Kg.

Rs. 350 per tonne

 

 

- Portland cement:

  

 

 

2523 21 00 

-- White cement, whether not artificially coloured 

 Kg.

16%

2523 29

 

-- Other :

    
  2523 29 10 --- Ordinary portland cement, dry Kg.

Rs. 600 per tonne

 Old[ Rs. 400 per tonne ]
  2523 29 20 --- Ordinary portland cement, coloured Kg.

Rs. 600 per tonne

 Old[ Rs. 400 per tonne ]
  2523 29 30 --- Portland pozzolana Cement Kg.

Rs. 600 per tonne

 Old[ Rs. 400 per tonne ]
  2523 29 40 --- Portland slag cement Kg.

Rs. 600 per tonne

 Old[ Rs. 400 per tonne ]
  2523 29 90 --- Other Kg.

Rs. 600 per tonne

 Old[ Rs. 400 per tonne ]

 

2523 30 00 

- Aluminous cement 

 Kg.

16%

2523 90

 

- Other hydraulic cements :

    
  2523 90 10 --- Sagol; ashmoh Kg.

16%
  2523 90 20 --- High alumina refractory cement Kg.

16%
  2523 90 90 --- Other Kg.

16%

2524

  

Asbestos

    
  2524 10 00 - Crocidolite Kg.

Nil
  2524 90 - Other:    
    --- In rock form:    
  2524 90 11 ---- Chrysotile Kg.

Nil 
  2524 90 12 ---- Amphibole Kg.

Nil 
  2524 90 13 ---- Crysolite Kg.

Nil 
  2514 90 14 ---- Amosite Kg.

Nil 
  2524 90 19 ---- Other Kg.

Nil 
    --- Fibre raw, beaten or washed or graded to length:    
  2524 90 21 ---- Chrysotile Kg.

Nil 
  2524 90 22 ---- Amphibole Kg.

Nil 
  2524 90 23 ---- Crysolite Kg.

Nil 
  2514 90 24 ---- Amosite Kg.

Nil 
  2524 90 29 ---- Other Kg.

Nil 
    --- Flakes or powder :    
  2524 90 31 ---- Chrysotile Kg.

Nil 
  2524 90 32 ---- Amphibole Kg.

Nil 
  2524 90 33 ---- Crysolite Kg.

Nil 
  2514 90 34 ---- Amosite Kg.

Nil 
  2524 90 39 ---- Other Kg.

Nil 
    --- Other :    
  2524 90 91 ---- Waste Kg.

Nil 
  2524 90 99 ---- Other Kg.

Nil
2524 00  

-Asbestos :

    
    --- Asbestos in rock form :    
  2524 00 11 ---- Chrysotile Kg.

Nil 
  2524 00 12 ---- Amphibole Kg.

Nil 
  2524 00 19 ---- Other Kg.

Nil 
    --- Fibre raw, beaten or washed or graded to length :    
  2524 00 21 ---- Chrysolite Kg.

Nil 
  2524 00 22 ---- Amosite Kg.

Nil 
  2524 00 29 ---- Other Kg.

Nil
    --- Flakes or powder :    
  2524 00 31 ---- Amosite Kg.

Nil 
  2524 00 39 ---- Other Kg.

Nil 
    --- Other:    
  2524 00 91 ---- Waste Kg.

Nil 
  2524 00 99 ---- Other Kg.

Nil]

2525

 

Mica, including splittings; mica waste

  

 

2525 10

 

- Crude mica and mica rifted into sheets or splittings :

    
  2525 10 10 --- Mica blocks Kg.

Nil 
  2525 10 20 --- Condensor films trimmed but not cut to shape Kg.

Nil 
  2525 10 30 --- Mica splittings, book form Kg.

Nil 
  2525 10 40 --- Mica splittings, losse Kg.

Nil 
  2525 10 90 --- Other Kg.

Nil 

2525 20

 

- Mica powder :

    
  2525 20 10 --- Mica flakes, 2.20 mesh Kg.

Nil 
  2525 20 20 --- Mica powder, dry ground Kg.

Nil 
  2525 20 30 --- Mica powder, micronised Kg.

Nil 
  2525 20 40 --- Mica powder, wet ground Kg.

Nil 
  2525 20 50 --- Mica powder, calcined Kg.

Nil 
  2525 20 90 --- Other Kg.

Nil 

2525 30

 

- Mica waste :

    
  2525 30 10 --- Mica mine scrap and waste Kg.

Nil 
  2525 30 20 --- Mica factory scrap Kg.

Nil 
  2525 30 30 --- Mica cuttings book form Kg.

Nil 
  2525 30 90 --- Other Kg.

Nil 

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

  

 

2526 10

 

- Not crushed, not powdered :

    
  2526 10 10 --- Steatite (soap stone, etc.) block Kg.

Nil 
  2526 10 20 --- Steatite (soap stone, etc.) lumps Kg.

Nil
  2526 10 90 --- Other Kg.

Nil 

 

2526 20 00 

- Crushed or powdered 

 Kg.

Nil 

**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

  

 

     

2528 10 00

- Natural sodium, borates and concentrates thereof (whether or not calcined)

 Kg.

Nil

2528 90

 

- Other :

    
  2528 90 10 --- Natural boric acid (containing not more than 85% of H3BO3) Kg.

Nil
  2528 90 20 ---Natural calcium borates and concentrates

thereof (whether or not calcined)

 Kg.

Nil
  2528 90 90 --- Other Kg.

Nil

2529

 

Feldspar; leucite; nepheline and nepheline syenite; fluorspar

  

 

2529 10

 

- Feldspar

    
  2529 10 10 --- Lumps Kg.

Nil
  2529 10 20 --- Powder Kg.

Nil

 

 

- Fluorspar :

  

 

 

2529 21 00 

-- Containing by weight 97% or less of calcium fluoride 

 Kg.

Nil

 

2529 22 00 

-- Containing by weight more than 97% of calcium fluoride 

 Kg.

Nil

 

2529 30 00 

- Leucite; nepheline and nepheline syenite 

 Kg.

Nil

2530

 

Mineral substances not elsewhere specified or included

  

 

2530 10

 

- Vermiculite, perlite and chlorites, unexpanded 

    
  2530 10 10 --- Vermiculite Kg.

Nil 
  2530 10 20 --- Perlite Kg.

Nil 
  2530 10 90 --- Others (including powder) Kg.

Nil 

 

2530 20 00 

- Kieserite, epsomite (natural magnesium sulphates) 

 Kg.

Nil 

2530 90

 

- Other :

    
  2530 90 10 --- Meerachaum (whether or not in polished pieces) and amber agglomerated; meerachaum and agglomerated amber in plates, rods, etc., not worked after moulding jet. Kg.

Nil 
  2530 90 20 --- Natural arsenic suplhides (such as orpiment) Kg.

Nil 
  2530 90 30 --- Calcite Kg.

Nil 
  2530 90 40 --- Ores and concentrates of rare earth metals Kg.

Nil 
  2530 90 50 --- Wollastonite Kg.

Nil 
  2530 90 60 --- Earth colourochre, crude Kg.

Nil 
  2530 90 70 --- Other processed earth colour ochre Kg.

Nil 
    --- Other :    
  2530 90 91 ---- Strontium sulphate (natural ore) Kg.

Nil 
  2530 90 99 ---- Other Kg.

Nil 

** 2528 Missing in Official Text

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