Customs Tariff 

CHAPTER 25

Heading No. 

Sub-heading 
No. 

Description of article 

Rate of duty 

   

   

   

Standard 

Preferential Areas 

(1) 

(2) 

(3) 

(4) 

(5) 

25.01

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

25% 

... 

 

 

 

 

 

25.02

2502.00 

Unroasted iron pyrites

25% 

... 

25.03

2503.00 

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

25% 

... 

25.04

 

Natural graphite

 

 

 

2504.10 

- In powder or in flakes 

30% 

20% 

 

2504.90 

-Other 

30% 

20% 

25.05

 

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

 

 

 

2505.10 

- Silica sand and quartz sands 

25% 

... 

 

2505.90 

-Other 

25% 

... 

25.06

 

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 

25% 

... 

 

 

- Quartzite:

 

 

 

2506.21 

--Crude or roughly trimmed 

25% 

... 

 

2506.29 

-- Other 

25% 

... 

25.07

2507.00 

Kaolin and other kaolinic clays, whether or not calcined

25% 

... 

25.08

 

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 

25% 

... 

 

2508.20 

- Decolourising earths and fuller's earth 

25% 

... 

 

2508.30 

- Fire-clay 

25% 

... 

 

2508.40 

- Other clays 

25% 

... 

 

2508.50 

- Andalusite, kyanite and sillimanite 

25% 

... 

 

2508.60 

- Mullite 

25% 

... 

 

2508.70 

- Chamotte or dinas earths 

25% 

... 

 

 

 

 

 

25.09

2509.00 

Chalk

25% 

... 

25.10

 

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

 

 

 

2510.10 

- Unground 

5% 

... 

 

2510.20 

- Ground 

5% 

... 

25.11

 

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) 

25% 

... 

 

2511.20 

- Natural barium carbonate (witherite) 

25% 

... 

25.12

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

25% 

... 

25.13

 

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

 

 

 

 

- Pumice stone:

 

 

 

2513.11 

-- Crude or in irregular pieces, including crushed pumice ("bimskies") 

25% 

... 

 

2513.19 

-- Other 

25% 

... 

 

2513.20 

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

25% 

... 

25.14

2514.00 

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

25% 

... 

25.15

 

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 

-- Crude or roughly trimmed 

30% 

... 

 

2515.12 

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

30% 

... 

 

2515.20 

- Ecaussine and other calcareous monumental or building stone; alabaster 

30% 

... 

25.16

 

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 

--Crude or roughly trimmed 

30% 

... 

 

2516.12 

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

30% 

... 

 

 

- Sandstone:

 

 

 

2516.21 

-- Crude or roughly trimmed 

30% 

... 

 

2516.22 

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

30% 

... 

 

2516.90 

- Other monumental or building stone 

30% 

... 

25.17

 

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 

25% 

... 

 

2517.20 

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

25% 

... 

 

2517.30 

- Tarred macadam ¦ 

25% 

... 

 

 

- Granules, chippings and powder, of stones of \ heading No. 25.15 or 25.16, whether or not I heat-treated: ¦ 

 

 

 

2517.41 

-- Of marble I 

25% 

... 

 

2517.49 

-- Other 

25% 

... 

25.18

 

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 

- Dolomite not calcined 

25% 

... 

 

2518.20 

- Calcined dolomite 

25% 

... 

 

2518.30 

- Agglomerated dolomite (including tarred 

25% 

... 

 

 

dolomite) 

 

 

25.19

 

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 

- Natural magnesium carbonate (magnesite) 

30% 

... 

 

2519.90 

- Other 

30% 

... 

25.20

 

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 

25% 

... 

 

2520.20 

- Plasters 

25% 

... 

25.21

2521.00 

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

25% 

... 

25.22

 

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

 

 

 

2522.10 

- Quicklime 

25% 

... 

 

2522.20 

- Slaked lime 

25% 

... 

 

2522.30 

- Hydraulic lime 

25% 

... 

25.23

 

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

 

 

 

2523.10 

- Cement clinkers 

30% 

... 

 

 

- Portland cement:

 

 

 

2523.21 

-- White cement, whether not artificially coloured 

30% 

... 

 

2523.29 

-- Other 

30% 

... 

 

2523.30 

- Aluminous cement 

30% 

... 

 

2523.90 

- Other hydraulic cements 

30% 

... 

25.24

2524.00 

Asbestos

25% 

... 

25.25

 

Mica, including splittings; mica waste

 

 

 

2525.10 

- Crude mica and mica rifted into sheets or splittings 

25% 

... 

 

2525.20 

- Mica powder 

25% 

... 

 

2525.30 

- Mica waste 

25% 

... 

25.26

 

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 

25% 

.... 

 

2526.20 

- Crushed or powdered 

25% 

... 

25.27

  Omitted    

25.28

 

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

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

25%

... 

    

2528.90 

- Other 

25% 

... 

25.29

 

Felspar; leucite; nepheline and nepheline syenite; fluorspar

 

 

 

2529.10 

- Felspar 

25% 

... 

 

 

- Fluorspar :

 

 

 

2529-21 

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

25% 

... 

 

2529.22 

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

25% 

... 

 

2529.30 

- Leucite; nepheline and nepheline syenite 

25% 

... 

25.30

 

Mineral substances not elsewhere specified or included

 

 

 

2530.10 

- Vermiculite, perlite and chlorites, unex-panded 

25% 

... 

 

2530.20 

- Kieserite, epsomite (natural magnesium sulphates) 

25% 

... 

 

2530.90 

- Other 

25% 

...