ITC (HS), 2022
SCHEDULE 1 – IMPORT POLICY

CHAPTER 26
ORES, SLAG AND ASH

NOTES:

1. This Chapter does not cover:

(a) Slag or similar industrial waste prepared as macadam (heading 2517);

(b) Natural magnesium carbonate (magnesite), whether or not calcined (heading 2519);

(c) Sludges from the storage tanks of petroleum oils, consisting mainly of such oils (2710);

(d) Basic slag of Chapter 31;

(e) Slag wool, rock wool or similar mineral wools (heading 6806);

(f) Waste or scrap of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal; other waste or scrap containing precious metal or precious metal compounds, of a kind used principally for the recovery of precious metal ¹[(heading 7112 or 8549)] ^old[(heading 7112)]; or

(g) Copper, nickel or cobalt mattes produced by any process of smelting (Section XV).

2. For the purposes of headings 2601 to 2617, the term "ores" means minerals of mineralogical species actually used in the metallurgical industry for the extraction of mercury, of the metals of heading 2844 or of the metals of Section XIV or XV, even if they are intended for non-metallugical purposes. Headings 2601 to 2617 do not, however, include minerals which have been submitted to processes not normal to the metallurgical industry.

3. Heading 2620 applies only to:

(a) Slag, ash and residue of a kind used in industry either for the extraction of metals or as a basis for the manucture of chemical compounds of metals, excluding ash and residues from the incineration of municipal waste (heading 2621); and

(b) Slag, ash and residues containing arsenic, whether or not containing metals, of a kind used either for the extraction of arsenic or metals or for the manufacture of their chemical compounds.

SUB-HEADING NOTE:

1. For the purpose of sub-heading 2620 21, "leaded gasoline sludges and leaded and knock compound sludges” mean sludges obtained from storage tanks of leaded gasoline and leaded anti-knock compounds (for example, tetraethyl lead), and consisting essentially of lead, lead compounds and iron oxide.

2. Slag, ash and residue containing arsenic, mercury, thallium or their mixtures, of a kind used for the extraction of arsenic or those metals or for the manufacture of their chemical compounds, are to be classified in sub-heading 262060.

²[Supplementary Notes

1. For the products of heading 2601, the percentage of Fe content, wherever specified, shall be calculated on the Dry Weight or Dry Metric Tonne (DMT) basis.]

Policy Conditions of this Chapter:

(1) Import of ‘Prescribed substances’ as notified by Department of Atomic Energy shall be subject to the provisions of Atomic Energy Act, 1962 and rules made there under;

(2) Import of the following kinds of zinc ash/skimmings is permitted without a licence to units registered with Ministry of Environment and Forest, Government of India, on actual user basis upto the annual quantity limits indicated in the registration certificate:

(i) Zinc ash in dispersible form containing zinc greater than 65% and lead and cadmium equal to or less than 1.25% and 0.1% respectively;

(ii) Zinc skimmings containing zinc 65% and above, lead and cadmium less than 1.25% and 0.1% respectively;

(iii) Spent cleaned metal catalyst containing zinc.

(3) Import of the following types of ashes and residue containing mainly copper is permitted without a licence to units registered with Ministry of Environment and Forest, Government of India:

(i) Brass dross containing lead equal to or less than 1.25%;

(ii) Copper oxide mill scale;

(iii) Copper reverts, cake and residue containing lead and cadmium equal to or less than 1.25% and 0.1% respectively;

(iv) Copper dross containing copper greater than 65% and lead and cadmium equal to or less than 1.25% and 0.1% respectively;

(v) Spent cleaned metal catalyst containing copper.

1. Substituted Vide Notification No. 20/2015-2020 Dated 07.07.2022

2. Inserted Vide Notification No. 20/2015-2020 Dated 07.07.2022