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2005 Schedule B - Chapter 38

                                                                                                    
                                                                                                    
Chapter - 38                                                                                        
2005 Sched ule B                                                                                               
                                                                                                    
Miscellaneous Chemical Products                                                                     
                                                                                                    
Notes                                                                                               
                                                                                                    
1.  This chapter does not cover:                                                                    
                                                                                                    
  (a). Separate chemically defined elements or compounds with                                       
       the exception of the following:                                                              
                                                                                                    
       (1). Artificial graphite (heading 3801);                                                     
                                                                                                    
       (2). Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides,                                     
	    antisprouting products and plant-growth regulators,                                            
	    disinfectants and similar products put up as                                                   
            described in heading 3808;                                                              
                                                                                                    
       (3). Products put up as charges for fire-extinquishers                                       
	    or put up in fire-extinguishing grenades                                                       
	    (heading 3813);                                                                                
                                                                                                    
       (4). Certified reference materials specified in note 2                                       
	    below;                                                                                         
                                                                                                    
       (5). Products specified in note (3a) or (3c) below.                                          
                                                                                                    
  (b). Mixtures of chemicals with foodstuffs or other                                               
       substances with nutritive value, of a kind used in the                                       
       preparation of human foodstuffs (generally, heading 2106);                                   
                                                                                                    
  (c). Ash and residues (including sludge, other than sewage                                        
       sludge), containing metals,  arsenic or their mixtures                                       
       and meeting the requirements of note (3a) or (3b) to                                         
       chapter 26 (heading 2620);                                                                   
                                                                                                    
  (d). Medicaments (heading 3003 or 3004); or                                                       
                                                                                                    
  (e). Spent catalysts of a kind used for the extraction of                                         
       base metals or for the manufacture of chemical compounds                                     
       of base metals (heading 2620), spent catalysts of a kind                                     
       used principally for the recovery of precious metal                                          
       (heading 7112) or catalysts consisting of metals or                                          
       metal alloys in the form of, for example, finely divided                                     
       powder or woven gauze (section XIV or XV).                                                   
                                                                                                    
2.  (a). For the purposes of heading 3822, the expression                                           
	 "certified reference materials" means reference                                                   
	 materials which are accompanied by a certificate                                                  
	 which indicates the values of the certified properties,                                           
	 the methods used to determine these values and the                                                
	 degree of certainty associated with each value and                                                
	 which are suitable for analytical, calibrating or                                                 
	 referencing purposes.                                                                             
                                                                                                    
    (b). With the exception of the products of chapter 28 or 29,                                    
	 for the classifications of certified reference                                                    
	 materials, heading 3822 shall take precedence over any                                            
	 other heading in the Schedule B.                                                                  
                                                                                                    
                                                                                                    
3.  Heading 3824 includes the following goods which are not to                                      
    be classified in any other heading of the export schedule:                                      
                                                                                                    
  (a). Cultured crystals (other than optical elements) weighing                                     
       not less than 2.5 g each, of magnesium oxide or of the                                       
       halides of the alkali or alkaline-earth metals;                                              
                                                                                                    
  (b). Fusel oil; Dippel's oil;                                                                     
                                                                                                    
  (c). Ink removers put up in packings for retail sale;                                             
                                                                                                    
  (d). Stencil correctors and other correcting fluids put up in                                     
       packings for retail sale; and                                                                
                                                                                                    
  (e). Ceramic firing testers, fusible (for example, Seger                                          
       cones).                                                                                      
                                                                                                    
4.  Throughout the Schedule B, "municipal waste" means waste of                                     
    a kind collected from households, hotels, restaurants,                                          
    hospitals, shops, offices, etc., road and pavement sweepings,                                   
    as well as construction and demolition waste.  Municipal                                        
    waste generally contains a large variety of materials such                                      
    as plastics, rubber, wood, paper, textiles, glass, metals,                                      
    food materials, broken furniture and other damaged or                                           
    discarded articles.  The term "municipal waste", however,                                       
    does not cover:                                                                                 
                                                                                                    
  (a). Individual materials or articles segregated from the                                         
       waste, such as wastes of plastics, rubber, wood, paper,                                      
       textiles, glass or metals and spent batteries, which                                         
       fall in their appropriate headings of the Schedule B;                                        
                                                                                                    
  (b). Industrial waste;                                                                            
                                                                                                    
  (c). Waste pharmaceuticals, as defined in note 4(k) to                                            
       chapter 30; or                                                                               
                                                                                                    
  (d). Clinical waste, as defined in note 6(a) below.                                               
                                                                                                    
5.  For the purposes of heading 3825, "sewage sludge" means                                         
    sludge arising from urban effluent treatment plants and                                         
    includes pre-treatment waste, scouring and unstabilized                                         
    sludge.  Stabilized sludge, when suitable for use as                                            
    fertilizer, is excluded (chapter 31).                                                           
                                                                                                    
6.  For the purposes of heading 3825, the expression "other                                         
    wastes" applies to:                                                                             
                                                                                                    
  (a). Clinical waste, that is, contaminated waste arising                                          
       from medical research, diagnosis, treatment or other                                         
       medical, surgical, dental or veterinary procedures,                                          
       which often contain pathogens and pharmaceutical                                             
       substances and require special disposal procedures                                           
       (for example, soiled dressings, used gloves and used                                         
       syringes);                                                                                   
                                                                                                    
  (b). Waste organic solvents;                                                                      
                                                                                                    
                                                                                                    
  (c). Wastes of metal pickling liquors, hydraulic fluids,                                          
       brake fluids and anti-freezing fluids; and                                                   
                                                                                                    
  (d). Other wastes from chemical or allied industries.                                             
                                                                                                    
  The expression "other wastes" does not, however, cover wastes                                     
  which contain mainly petroleum oils or oils obtained from                                         
  bituminous minerals (heading 2710).                                                               
                                                                                                    
                                                                                                    
Subheading Note                                                                                     
                                                                                                    
1.  For the purposes of subheadings 3825.41 and 3825.49,                                            
    "waste organic solvents" are wastes containing mainly                                           
    organic solvents, not fit for further use as presented                                          
    as primary products, whether or not intended for recovery                                       
    of the solvents.                                                                                
                                                                                                    
                                                                                                    
3801          Artificial graphite; colloidal or semi-colloidal                                                 
	     graphite; preparations based on graphite or                                                   
	     other carbon in the form of pastes, blocks,                                                   
	     plates or other semimanufactures:                                                             
                                                                                                    
3801100000      Artificial graphite . . . . . . . . . . . . . kg                                               
3801200000      Colloidal or semi-colloidal graphite  . . . . kg                                               
3801300000      Carbonaceous pastes for electrodes and                                                         
	       similar pastes for furnace linings  . . . . . kg                                            
3801900000      Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . kg                                               
                                                                                                    
3802          Activated carbon; activated natural mineral                                                      
	     products; animal black, including spent animal                                                
	     black:                                                                                        
3802100000      Activated carbon  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . kg                                               
                                                                                                    
380290          Other:                                                                                         
3802901000         Bone black . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . kg                                               
3802902000         Activated clays and activated earths . . . kg                                               
3802905000         Other  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . kg                                               
                                                                                                    
3803000000    Tall oil, whether or not refined  . . . . . . . kg                                               
                                                                                                    
3804          Residual lyes from the manufacture of wood                                                       
	     pulp, whether or not concentrated, desugared or                                               
	     chemically treated, including lignin sulfonates,                                              
	     but excluding tall oil of heading 3803:                                                       
3804001000      Lignin sulfonic acid and its salts  . . . . . kg                                               
3804005000      Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . kg                                               
                                                                                                    
3805          Gum, wood or sulfate turpentine and other                                                        
	     terpenic oils produced by the distillation or                                                 
	     other treatment of coniferous woods; crude                                                    
	     dipentene; sulfite turpentine and other crude                                                 
	     para-cymene; pine oil containing alpha-                                                       
	     terpineol as the main constituent:                                                            
3805100000      Gum, wood or sulfate turpentine oils  . . . .liter                                             
3805200000      Pine oil  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                
3805900000      Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                
                                                                                                    
3806          Rosin and resin acids, and derivatives thereof;                                                  
	     rosin spirit and rosin oils; run gums:                                                        
380610          Rosin and resin acids:                                                                         
3806100010         Gum rosin  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                
3806100050         Other  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                
                                                                                                    
3806200000      Salts of rosin, of resin acids or of                                                           
	       derivatives of rosin or resin acids, other                                                  
	       than salts of rosin adducts . . . . . . . . .kg                                             
3806300000      Ester gums  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                
3806900000      Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                
                                                                                                    
3807000000    Wood tar; wood tar oils; wood creosote; wood                                                     
	     naphtha; vegetable pitch; brewers' pitch and                                                  
	     similar preparations based on rosin, resin                                                    
	     acids or on vegetable pitch . . . . . . . . . .kg                                             
                                                                                                    
3808          Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides,                                                          
	     herbicides, antisprouting products and plant-                                                 
	     growth regulators, disinfectants and similar                                                  
             products, put up in forms or packings for                                              
	     retail sale or as preparations or articles                                                    
	     (for example, sulfur-treated bands, wicks and                                                 
	     candles, and flypapers):                                                                      
3808100000      Insecticides. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                
3808200000      Fungicides. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                
3808300000      Herbicides, antisprouting products and                                                         
	       plant-growth regulators . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                             
3808400000      Disinfectants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                
3808900000      Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                
                                                                                                    
3809          Finishing agents, dye carriers to accelerate                                                     
 	     the dyeing or fixing of dyestuffs and other                                                  
	     products and preparations (for example,                                                       
	     dressings and mordants), of a kind used in the                                                
             textile, paper, leather or like industries,                                            
	     not elsewherespecified or included:                                                           
3809100000      With a basis of amylaceous substances . . . .kg                                                
               Other:                                                                               
3809910000         Of a kind used in the textile or like                                                       
		  industries  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . kg                                                    
                                                                                                    
3809920000         Of a kind used in the paper or like                                                         
		  industries  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . kg                                                    
                                                                                                    
3809930000         Of a kind used in the leather or like                                                       
		  industries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                    
                                                                                                    
3810          Pickling preparations for metal surfaces;                                                        
	     fluxes and other auxiliary preparations for                                                   
	     soldering, brazing or welding; soldering,                                                     
	     brazing or welding powders and pastes                                                         
	     consisting of metal and other materials;                                                      
	     preparations of a kind used as cores or                                                       
	     coatings for welding electrodes or rods:                                                      
3810100000      Pickling preparations for metal surfaces;                                                      
	       soldering, brazing or welding powders and                                                   
	       pastes consisting of metal and other                                                        
	       materials   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                             
3810900000      Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                
                                                                                                    
3811          Antiknock preparations, oxidation inhibitors,                                                    
	     gum inhibitors, viscosity improvers, anti-                                                    
	     corrosive preparations and other prepared                                                     
	     additives, for mineral oils (including                                                        
	     gasoline) or for other liquids used for the                                                   
	     same purposes as mineral oils:                                                                
                                                                                                    
               Antiknock preparations:                                                              
3811110000         Based on lead compounds. . . . . . . . . .kg                                                
3811190000         Other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                
                                                                                                    
               Additives for lubricating oils:                                                      
3811210000         Containing petroleum oils or oils                                                           
		  obtained from bituminous minerals. . . . .kg                                                    
3811290000         Other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                
                                                                                                    
3811900000      Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                
                                                                                                    
3812          Prepared rubber accelerators; compound                                                           
	     plasticizers for rubber or plastics not                                                       
	     elsewhere specified or included, antioxidizing                                                
             preparations and other compound stabilizers                                            
	     for rubber or plastics:                                                                       
3812100000      Prepared rubber accelerators. . . . . . . . .kg                                                
3812200000      Compound plasticizers for rubber or plastics.kg                                                
3812300000      Antioxidizing preparations and other compound                                                  
	       stabilizers for rubber or plastics. . . . . .kg                                             
                                                                                                    
3813000000    Preparations and charges for fire-                                                               
	     extinguishers; charged fire-extinguishing                                                     
	     grenades  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                             
                                                                                                    
3814000000    Organic composite solvents and thinners, not                                                     
	     elsewhere specified or included; prepared                                                     
	     paint or varnish removers . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                             
                                                                                                    
3815          Reaction initiators, reaction accelerators and                                                   
	     catalytic preparations, not elsewhere                                                         
	     specified or included:                                                                        
               Supported catalysts:                                                                 
3815110000         With nickel or nickel compounds as the                                                      
		  active substance  . . . . . . . . . . . . kg                                                    
3815120000         With precious metal or precious metal                                                       
		  compounds as the active substance  . . . .kg                                                    
3815190000         Other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                
3815900000      Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                
                                                                                                    
3816          Refractory cements, mortars, concretes, and                                                      
	     similar compositions, other than products of                                                  
	     heading 3801:                                                                                 
3816000010      Of clay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                
3816000050      Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                
                                                                                                    
3817          Mixed alkylbenzenes and mixed alkyl-                                                             
	     naphthalenes, other than those of heading                                                     
	     2707 or 2902:                                                                                 
3817001250      Mixed alkylbenzenes . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                
3817002000      Mixed alkylnaphthalenes . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                
                                                                                                    
3818000000    Chemical elements doped for use in electronics,                                                  
	     in the form of discs, wafers or similar forms;                                                
	     chemical compounds doped for use in                                                           
	     electronics.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                             
                                                                                                    
3819000000    Hydraulic brake fluids and other prepared                                                        
	     liquids for hydraulic transmission, not con-                                                  
	     taining or containing less than 70 percent by                                                 
	     weight of petroleum oils or oils obtained from                                                
             bituminous minerals . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                      
                                                                                                    
3820000000    Antifreezing preparations and prepared deicing                                                   
	     fluids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . kg                                             
                                                                                                    
3821000000    Prepared culture media for development of                                                        
	     microorganisms  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                             
                                                                                                    
3822000002    Diagnostic or laboratory reagents on a backing,                                                  
	     prepared diagnostic or laboratory reagents                                                    
	     whether or not on a backing, other than those                                                 
	     of heading 3002 or 3006; certified reference                                                  
	     materials   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                             
                                                                                                    
3823          Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids; acid                                                      
	     oils from refining; industrial fatty alcohols:                                                
               Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids; acid                                          
	       oils from refining:                                                                         
3823110000         Stearic acid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                
3823120000         Oleic acid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                
3823130000         Tall oil fatty acids . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                
                                                                                                    
382319             Other:                                                                                      
3823192000           Derived from coconut, palm-kernel or                                                      
		    palm oil  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . kg                                                    
3823194000           Other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                
                                                                                                    
382370          Industrial fatty alcohols:                                                                     
                  Derived from fatty substances of animal                                           
		  or vegetable origin:                                                                            
3823702000           Oleyl alcohol. . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                
3823704000           Other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                
3823706000         Other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                
                                                                                                    
3824          Prepared binders for foundry molds or cores;                                                     
	     chemical products and preparations of the                                                     
	     chemical or allied industries (including those                                                
	     consisting of mixtures of natural products),                                                  
	     not elsewhere specified or included:                                                          
                                                                                                    
3824100000      Prepared binders for foundry molds or cores..kg                                                
                                                                                                    
3824200000      Naphthenic acids, their water-insoluble                                                        
	       salts and their esters . . . . . . . . . . . kg                                             
                                                                                                    
3824300000      Nonagglomerated metal carbides mixed                                                           
	       together or with metallic binders . . . . . .kg                                             
                                                                                                    
3824400000      Prepared additives for cements, mortars                                                        
	       or concretes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . kg                                             
                                                                                                    
382450          Nonrefractory mortars and concretes:                                                           
3824500010         Wet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .t                                                 
3824500050         Other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .t                                                 
                                                                                                    
3824600000      Sorbitol other than that of subheading                                                         
	       2905.44 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                             
                                                                                                    
               Mixtures containing perhalogenated                                                   
	       derivatives of acyclic hydrocarbons con-                                                    
	       taining two or more different halogens:                                                     
3824710000         Containing acyclic hydrocarbons per-                                                        
		  halogenated only with fluorine and                                                              
		  chlorine   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                    
3824790000         Other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                
382490          Other:                                                                                         
                  Cultured crystals (other than optical                                             
		  elements of chapter 90), weighing not                                                           
		  less than 2.5 g each:                                                                           
3824901100           In the form of ingots  . . . . . . . . .kg                                                
3824901900           Other  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                
                                                                                                    
3824904000         Fatty substances of animal or vegetable                                                     
		  origin and mixtures thereof not elsewhere                                                       
		  specified or included  . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                    
                  Other:                                                                            
                    Mixtures of halogenated hydrocarbons:                                           
3824904600              Chlorinated but not otherwise                                                          
		       halogenated  . . . . . . . . . . . . kg                                                    
3824904795              Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                
                    Other:                                                                          
                       Mixtures of acyclic, monohydric,                                             
		       unsubstituted alcohols:                                                                    
3824909110                Containing C11 or lower alcohols                                                     
			 only  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                           
3824909140                Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                
                                                                                                    
3824909161 	       Mixtures consisting mainly of                                                               
		       chemicals containing a phosphorus                                                          
		       atom to which is bonded one methyl,                                                        
		       ethyl, n-propyl or isopropyl group,                                                        
		       but no other carbon atoms . . . . . .kg                                                    
                                                                                                    
3824909170              Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                
                                                                                                    
3825          Residual products of the chemical or allied                                                      
	     industries, not elsewhere specified or                                                        
	     included; municipal waste; sewage sludge;                                                     
	     other wastes specified in note 6 to this                                                      
	     chapter:                                                                                      
                                                                                                    
3825100000      Municipal waste . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X                                                
3825200000      Sewage sludge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X                                                
3825300000      Clinical waste  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X                                                
               Waste organic solvents:                                                              
3825410000         Halogenated  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X                                                
3825490000         Other  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X                                                
                                                                                                    
3825500000      Waste of metal-pickling liquors, hydraulic                                                     
	       fluids, brake fluids, and anti-freeze fluids. X                                             
                                                                                                    
               Other wastes from the chemical or allied                                             
	       industries:                                                                                 
3825610000         Mainly containing organic constituents . . X                                                
3825690000         Other  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X                                                
3825900000      Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X                                                
                                                                                                    

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