Customs Tariff

CHAPTER 29

Organic chemicals

NOTES :
1. Except where the context otherwise requires, the headings of this Chapter apply only to :

(a) separate chemically defined organic compounds, whether or not containing impurities;
(b) mixtures of two or more isomers of the same organic compound (whether or not containing impurities), except mixtures of acyclic hydrocarbon isomers (other than stereoisomers), whether or not saturated (Chapter 27
(c) the products of headings 2936 to 2939 or the sugar ethers, sugar acetals and sugar esters, and their salts, of heading 2940, or the products of heading 2941, whether or not chemically defined;
(d) the products mentioned in (a), (b) or (c) above dissolved in water;
(e) the products mentioned in (a), (b) or (c) above dissolved in other solvents provided that the solution constitutes a normal and necessary method of putting up these products adopted solely for reasons of safety or for transport and that the solvent does not render the product particularly suitable for specific use rather than for general use;
(f) the products mentioned in (a), (b), (c), (d) or (e) above with an added stabiliser (including an anti-caking agent) necessary for their preservation or transport;
(g) the products mentioned in (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) or (f) above with an added anti-dusting agent or a colouring or odoriferous substance *or an emetic added to facilitate their identification or for safety reasons, provided that the additions do not render the product particularly suitable for specific use rather than for general use;
(h) the following products, diluted to standard strengths, for the production of azo dye: diazonium salts, couplers used for these salts and diazotisable amines and their salts.

2. This Chapter does not cover :

(a) goods of heading 1504 or crude glycerol of heading 1520;
(b) ethyl alcohol (heading 2207 or 2208);
(c) methane or propane (heading 2711);
(d) the compounds of carbon mentioned in Note 2 to Chapter 28;
(e) Immunological products of heading 3002;
(f) urea (heading 3102 or 3105);
(g) colouring matter of vegetable or animal origin (heading 3203), synthetic organic colouring matter, synthetic organic products of a kind used as fluorescent brightening agents or as luminophores (heading 3204) or dyes or other colouring matter put up in forms or packings for retail sale (heading 3212);
(h) enzymes (heading 3507);
(ij) metaldehyde, hexamethylenetetramine or similar substances, put up in forms (for example,tablets, sticks or similar forms) for use as fuels or liquid or liquefied-gas fuels in containers of a kind used for filling or refilling cigarette or similar lighters and of a capacity not exceeding 300 cm3 (heading 3606);
(k) products put up as charges for fire-extinguishers or put up in fire-extinguishing grenades, of heading 3813; ink removers put up in packing for retail sale, of heading 3824; or
(l) optical elements, for example, of ethylenediamine tartrate (heading 9001).

3. Goods which could be included in two or more of the headings of this Chapter are to be classified in that one of those headings which occurs last in numerical order.

4. In headings 2904 to 2906, 2908 to 2911 and 2913 to 2920, any reference to halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives includes a reference to compound derivatives, such as sulphohalogenated, nitrohalogenated, nitrosulphonated or nitrosulphohalogenated derivatives.
Nitro or nitroso groups are not to be taken as -nitrogen-functions? for the purposes of heading 2929.
For the purposes of headings 2911, 2912, 2914, 2918 and 2922, “oxygen function”, the characteristic organic oxygen-containing group of those respective headings, is restricted to the oxygen-functions referred to in headings 2905 to 2920.

5. (A) The esters of acid-function organic compounds of Sub-Chapters I to VII with organic compounds of these Sub-Chapters are to be classified with that compound which is classified in the heading which occurs last in numerical order in these Sub-Chapters.

(B) Esters of ethyl alcohol with acid-function organic compounds of Sub-Chapters I to VII are to be classified in the same heading as the corresponding acid-function compounds.

(C) Subject to Note 1 to Section VI and Note 2 to Chapter 28 :

(1) inorganic salts of organic compounds such as acid-, phenol-or enol-function compounds or organic bases, of Sub-Chapters I to X or heading 2942, are to be classified in the heading appropriate to the organic compound;
(2) salts formed between organic compounds of Sub-Chapters I to X or heading 2942 are to be classified in the heading appropriate to the base or to the acid (including phenol- or enol- function compounds) from which they are formed, whichever occurs last in numerical order in the Chapter.
(3) co-ordination compounds, other than products classifiable in Sub-Chapter XI or heading 2941, are to be classified in the heading which occurs last in numerical order in Chapter 29, among those appropriate to the fragments formed by "cleaving" of all metal bonds, other than metal-carbon bonds.

(D) Metal alcoholates are to be classified in the same heading as the corresponding alcohols except in
the case of ethanol (heading 2905).

(E) Halides of carboxylic acids are to be classified in the same heading as the corresponding acids.

6. The compounds of headings 2930 and 2931 are organic compounds the molecules of which contain, in addition to atoms of hydrogen, oxygen or nitrogen, atoms of other non-metals or of metals (such as sulphur, arsenic, or lead) directly linked to carbon atoms. Heading 2930 (organo-sulphur compounds) and heading 2931 (other organo-inorganic compounds) do not include sulphonated or halogenated derivatives (including compound derivatives) which, apart from hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen, only have directly linked to carbon the atoms of sulphur or of a halogen which give them their nature of sulphonated or halogenated derivatives (or compound derivatives).

7. Headings 2932, 2933 and 2934 do not include epoxides with a three-membered ring, ketone peroxides, cyclic polymers of aldehydes or of thioaldehydes, anhydrides of polybasic carboxylic acids, cyclic esters of polyhydric alcohols or phenols with polybasic acids or imides of polybasic acids. These provisions apply only when the ring-position hetero-atoms are those resulting solely from the cyclising function or functions here listed.

8. For the purpose of heading 2937 :

(a) the term “hormones” includes hormone-releasing or hormone-stimulating factors, hormone inhibitors and hormone antagonists (anti-hormones);
(b) the expression “used primarily as hormones” applies not only to hormone derivatives and structural analogues used primarily for their hormonal effect, but also to those derivatives and structural analogues used primarily as intermediates in the synthesis of products of this heading.

SUB-HEADING NOTE :

1.Within any one heading of this Chapter, derivatives of a chemical compound (or group of chemical compounds) are to be classified in the same sub-heading as that compound (or group of compounds) provided that they are not more specially covered by any other sub-heading and that there is no residual sub-heading named “other” in the series of sub-headings concerned.

2. Note 3 to this Chapter shall not be applicable to the sub-heading of this Chapter.

1[Supplementary Notes:

1. For the purposes of the tariff item 2906 11 10, the term “Natural Menthol” means an organic compound (C10H20O) which is obtained from the distillation of the Japanese type oil of mint or menthol mint known as Mentha arvensis but does not include those made synthetically through any chemical routes.

2. Tariff item 2916 39 70 covers one of the following goods of sub-heading 2916 39: Alphanaphthyl acetic acid, cyclanilide, kresoxim methyl, metofluthrin, permethrin, renofluthrin, transfluthrin.

3. Tariff item 2918 99 30 covers one of the following goods of sub-heading 2918 99: 2,4-D amine salt, 2,4-D-ethyl ester, 2,4-D sodium salt, 2,4-dichlorophenoxy acetic acid, prohexadione calcium, s-bioallethrin, sodium acifluorfen.

4. Tariff item 2924 19 10 covers one of the following goods of sub-heading 2924 19: Bendiocarb, carboxin, chlorpropham, fenobucarb (BPMC), fluazaindolizine, methomyl, metolachlor, propamocarb hydrochloride, thiodicarb.

5. Tariff item 2924 21 40 covers one of the following goods of sub-heading 2924 21: Bifenazate, carbosulfan, cyflufenamide, fenoxanil, flufenoxuron, ipfencarbazone, lufenuron, metaflumizone, metsulfuron methyl, novaluron, orthosulfamuron, pencycuron, teflubenzuron, trifloxysulfuron sodium.

6. Tariff item 2924 29 70 covers one of the following goods of sub-heading 2924 29: Pretilachlor (ISO), anilophos, benalaxyl, benalaxyl M, broflanilide, butachlor, carpropamid, cyclaniliprole, diflubenzuron, dimethenamid-P, diuron, fluxametamide, iprovalicarb, mandipropamid, metalaxyl-M, propanil, propoxur, pydiflumetofen.

7. Tariff item 2926 90 10 covers one of the following goods of sub-heading 2926 90: Alphacypermethrin, beta cyfluthrin, chlorothalonil, cyflumetofen, cyfluthrin, cyhalofop-butyl, cymoxanil, cyphenothrin, deltamethrin (decamethrin), dithianon, fenpropathrin, fenvalerate, fluvalinate, hydrogen cyanamide, lambdacyhalothrin, myclobutanil

8. Tariff item 2930 20 10 covers one of the following goods of sub-heading 2930 20: Cartap hydrochloride (ISO), mancozeb, metiram, propineb, thiobencarb (benthiocarb), triallate, ziram.

9. Tariff item 2930 90 92 covers one of the following goods of sub-heading 2930 90: Acephate (ISO), phorate (ISO), captan, clethodim, diafenthiuron, ethion, malathion, oxydemeton-methyl, phenthoate, profenophos, temephos, thiophanate-methyl.

10. Tariff item 2932 20 30 covers one of the following goods of sub-heading 2932 20: Brodifacoum, bromadiolone, coumachlor, coumatetralyl, flocoumafen, milbemectin, spiromesifen.

11. Tariff item 2933 19 92 covers one of the following goods of sub-heading 2933 19: Cyenopyrafen, fenpyroximate, fipronil, fluxapyroxad, penflufen, pyraclostrobin, pyroxasulfon, tetraniliprole, tolfenpyrad, topramezone.

12. Tariff item 2933 29 60 covers one of the following goods of sub-heading 2933 29: Imidacloprid (ISO), fenamidone, imazamox, imiprothrin, iprodione, prochloraz.

13. Tariff item 2933 31 10 covers one of the following goods of sub-heading 2933 31: Florpyrauxifen benzyl, fluroxypyr meptyl, halauxifen-methyl, haloxyfop-R-methyl, paraquat dichloride, pyrifluquinazon, triclopyr acid, triclopyr butotyl ester.

14. Tariff item 2933 39 23 covers one of the following goods of sub-heading 2933 39: Afidopyropen, boscalid, chlorpyriphos, chlorpyriphos methyl, clodinafop-propargyl, cyantraniliprole, flonicamid, florpyrauxifen-benzyl, fluazifop-P-butyl, fluopicolide, fluopyram, forchlorfenuron, haloxyfop-P-methyl, picoxystrobin, pyridalyl, pyriofenone, pyriproxyfen, sulfoxaflor.

15. Tariff item 2933 59 50 covers one of the following goods of sub-heading 2933 59: Bispyribac-sodium (ISO), ametroctradin, azoxystrobin, benzpyrimoxam, buprimate, florasulam, polyoxin D zinc salt, primiphos-methyl, pyribenzoxim, pyriftalid, pyrithiobac sodium, triflumezopyrim.

16. Tariff item 2933 69 60 covers one of the following goods of sub-heading 2933 69: Ametryn, atrazine, carfentrazone ethyl, cyproconazole, difenoconazole, flusilazole, hexaconazole, hexazinone, indaziflam, iodosulfuron methyl sodium, mefentrifluaconazole, metamitron, metribuzin, paclobutrazol, propiconazole, pymetrozin, tebuconazole, tetraconazole, triadimefon, tricyclazole, triticonazole.

17. Tariff item 2933 99 20 covers one of the following goods of sub-heading 2933 99: Carbendazim (ISO), bitertanol, chlorfenopyr, chlorfluazuron, fenoxaprop-P-ethyl, flufenzine, flupyradifurone, penconazole, propaquizafop, quizalofop-P-tefuryl, triazophos.

18. Tariff item 2934 99 40 covers one of the following goods of sub-heading 2934 99: Bentazone, bixlozone, clomazone, dazomet, dimethomorph, etoxazole, fluensulfone, flufenacet, flumioxazin, hexythiazox, indoxacarb, isocycloseram, oxadiargyl, oxadiazon, phosalone, pinoxaden, thiacloprid, thiocyclam hydrogen oxalate, valifenalate.

19. Tariff item 2935 90 40 covers one of the following goods of sub-heading 2935 90: Amisulbrom, azimsulfuron, bensulfuron methyl, chlorimuron ethyl, cyazofamid, cyzofamide, diclosulam, flucetosulfuron, helosulfuron methyl, mesosulfuron methyl, penoxsulam, pyrazosulfuron ethyl, pyroxsulam, sulfentrazone, sulfosulfuron, triafamone, triasulfuron.]

[helldodold[Supplementary Note:

For the purposes of tariff item 2906 11 10, the term “Natural Menthol” means an organic compound (C10H20O) which is obtained from the distillation of the Japanese type oil of mint or menthol mint known as Mentha arvensis but does not include those made synthetically through any chemical routes.]helldod]

 

1. Substituted Vide:- Section 103(b) of Finance Act 2025