Customs Tariff
Chapter 32
TANNING OR DYEING EXTRACTS; TANNINS AND THEIR DERIVATIVES; DYES, PIGMENTS AND OTHER COLOURING MATTER; PAINTS AND VARNISHES; PUTTY AND OTHER MASTICS; INKS
1.
This
Chapter
does
not
cover:
(a)
Separate
chemically
defined
elements
or
compounds
[except
those
of
heading
3203
or
3204,
inorganic
products
of
a
kind
used
as luminophores
(heading
3206),
glass
obtained
from
fused
quartz
or
other
fused
silica
in
the
forms
provided
for
in
heading
3207,
and
also
dyes
and
other colouring
matter
put
up
in
forms
or
packings
for
retail
sale,
of
heading
3212];
(b)
Tannates
or
other
tannin
derivatives
of
products
of
headings
2936
to
2939,
2941
or
3501
to
3504;
or
(c)
Mastics
of
asphalt
or
other
bituminous
mastics
(heading
2715).
2. Heading 3204 includes mixtures of stabilised diazonium salts and couplers for the production of azo dyes.
3. Headings 3203, 3204, 3205 and 3206 apply also to preparations based on colouring matter (including, in the case of heading 3206, colouring pigments of heading 2530 or Chapter 28, metal flakes and metal powders), of a kind used for colouring any material or used as ingredients in the manufacture of colouring preparations. The headings do not apply, however, to pigments dispersed in non-aqueous media, in liquid or paste form, of a kind used in the manufacture of paints, including enamels (heading 3212), or to other preparations of heading 3207, 3208, 3209, 3210, 3212, 3213 or 3215.
4. Heading 3208 includes solutions (other than collodions ) consisting of any of the products specified in headings 3901 to 3913 in volatile organic solvents when the weight of the solvent exceeds 50 per cent of the weight of the solution.
5. The expression "colouring matter" in this Chapter does not include products of a kind used as extenders in oil paints, whether or not they are also suitable for colouring distempers.
6.
The
expression
"stamping
foils"
in
heading
3212
applies
only
to
thin
sheets
of
a
kind
used
for
printing,
for
example,
book
covers
or
hat
bands,
and
consisting
of:
(a)
Metallic
powder
(including
powder
of
precious
metal)
or
pigment,
agglomerated
with
glue,
gelatin
or
other
binder;
or
(b)
Metal
(including
precious
metal)
or
pigment,
deposited
on
a
supporting
sheet
of
any
material.