Salt; sulphur; earths, stone; plastering… (chapter 25): which countries import it

Fact sheet

Code

25

Sector

Construction and Materials

Headings in this chapter

• Salt (including table salt and denatured salt); pure sodium chloride whether or not in aqueous solution; sea waterHeading 2501
• Iron pyrites; unroastedHeading 2502
• Sulphur of all kinds; other than sublimed, precipitated and colloidal sulphurHeading 2503
• Graphite; naturalHeading 2504
• Sands of all kinds; natural, whether or not coloured, other than metal-bearing sands of chapter 26Heading 2505
• 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) shapeHeading 2506
• Kaolin and other kaolinic clays; whether or not calcinedHeading 2507
• Clays; (not including expanded clays of heading no. 6806), andalusite kyanite and sillimanite, whether or not calcined; mullite; chamotte or dinas earthHeading 2508
• ChalkHeading 2509
• Natural calcium phosphates; natural aluminium calcium phosphates and phosphatic chalkHeading 2510
• Natural barium sulphate (barytes); natural barium carbonate, (witherite) whether or not calcined, other than barium oxide of heading no. 2816Heading 2511
• Siliceous fossil meals (e.g. kieselguhr, tripolite and diatomite) and similar siliceous earths; whether or not calcined, of an apparent specific gravity of 1 or lessHeading 2512
• Pumice stone; emery; natural corundum, natural garnet and other natural abrasives, whether or not heat treatedHeading 2513
• Slate, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shapeHeading 2514
• Marble, travertine, ecaussine and other calcareous stone; of an apparent specific gravity of less than 2.5, alabaster, whether cut by sawing etc, into blocks, slabs of a rectangular (square) shapeHeading 2515
• Granite, porphyry, basalt, sandstone, other monumental and building stone, whether or not roughly trimmed, cut, by sawing etc, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shapeHeading 2516
• Pebbles, gravel, crushed stone for concrete aggregates for road or railway ballast, shingle or flint; macadam of slag, dross etc tarred granules, chippings, powder of stones of heading no. 2515 and 2516Heading 2517
• Dolomite, whether or not calcined or sintered, including dolomite roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shapeHeading 2518
• Natural magnesium carbonate (magnesite); fused magnesia; dead-burned (sintered) magnesia, whether or not containing small quantities of other oxides added before sintering; magnesium oxide, pure or notHeading 2519
• Gypsum; anhydrite; plasters (consisting of calcined gypsum or calcium sulphate), coloured or not, with or without small quantities of accelerators or retardersHeading 2520
• Limestone flux; limestone and other calcareous stone, of a kind used for the manufacture of lime or cementHeading 2521
• Quicklime, slaked lime and hydraulic lime; other than calcium oxide and hydroxide of heading no. 2825Heading 2522
• Portland cement, aluminous cement (ciment fondu), slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkersHeading 2523
• AsbestosHeading 2524
• Mica, including splittings; mica wasteHeading 2525
• Natural steatite; whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape; talcHeading 2526
• Natural cryolite; natural chiolite.Heading 2527
• 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 weightHeading 2528
• Feldspar; leucite; nepheline and nepheline syenite; fluorsparHeading 2529
• Mineral substances not elsewhere specified or includedHeading 2530

Trade fairs in this sector

• Mondial du Bâtiment (Batimat, Idéobain e Interclima)
• BAU
• Big 5 Global
• Cevisama
• Construmat – Feria Internacional de la Construcción
• Marmomac, la Fiera del Marmo e della Pietra Naturale

What you need to know to export Chapter 25

Chapter 25 covers 31 headings grouped into three types: raw minerals (salt, sulphur, earths, stone), processed construction materials (cement, lime, gypsum) and specialty products (asbestos, mica, feldspar). Each heading has its own tariff and import rules in destination markets.

Questions about exporting Chapter 25