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2008 Schedule B - Chapter 38

Section VI - Chapter 38                                                                             
                                                                                                    
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). Slag, 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 Notes                                                                                    
                                                                                                    
1.  Subheading 3808.50 covers only goods of heading 3808, containing one or more of the             
     following substances: aldrin (ISO); binapacryl (ISO); camphechlor (ISO) (toxaphene); captafol  
     (ISO); chlordane (ISO); chlordimeform (ISO); chlorobenzilate (ISO); DDT (ISO) (clofenotane     
     (INN), 1,1,1-trichloro-2,2-bis(p-chlorophenyl)ethane); dieldrin (ISO, INN); dinoseb (ISO), its 
     salts or its esters; ethylene dibromide (ISO) (1,2-dibromoethane); ethylene dichloride (ISO)   
     (1,2-dichloroethane); fluoroacetamide (ISO); heptachlor (ISO); hexachlorobenzene (ISO);        
     1,2,3,4,5,6-hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH (ISO)), including lindane (ISO, INN); mercury           
     compounds; methamidophos (ISO); monocrotophos (ISO); oxirane (ethylene oxide);                 
     parathion (ISO); parathion-methy (ISO) (methy-parathion); pentachlorophenol (ISO);             
     phosphamidon (ISO); 2,4,5-T (ISO) (2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid), its salts or its esters.
                                                                                                    
2.  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                                                
380590        Other:                                                                                           
3805901000       Pine oil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                
3805905000       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):                                                    
3808500000    Goods specified in subheading note 1 to this chapter kg                                          
               Other:                                                                               
3808910000       Insecticides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                
3808920000       Fungicides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                
3808930000       Herbicides, antisprouting products and plant-growth                                           
                   regulators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                   
3808940000       Disinfectants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                
3808990000       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 elsewhere specified or included:                      
3809100000    With a basis of amylaceous substances . . . . .kg                                                
               Other:                                                                               
3809910000       Of a kind used in the textile or like industrieskg                                            
3809920000       Of a kind used in the paper or like industrieskg                                              
3809930000       Of a kind used in the leather or like industrieskg                                            
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, anticorrosive 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 removerskg                           
3815        Reaction initiators, reaction accelerators and catalytic                                           
              preparations, not elsewhere specified or included:                                    
               Supported catalysts:                                                                 
3815110000       With nickel or nickel compounds as the active substancekg                                     
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 alkylnaphthalenes, 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 containing or containing less than 70                               
              percent by weight of petroleum oils or oils obtained from                             
              bituminous minerals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                   
3820000000  Antifreezing preparations and prepared deicing fluidskg                                            
3821000000  Prepared culture media for development or maintenance of                                           
              microorganisms (including viruses and the like) or of plant,                          
              human or animal cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . .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 oilkg                                             
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                                                
3824300000    Nonagglomerated metal carbides mixed together or with                                            
                metallic binders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                   
3824400000    Prepared additives for cements, mortars or concreteskg                                           
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 containing two or more different halogens:                             
3824710100       Containing chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), whether or not                                         
                   containing hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs),                                     
                   perfluorocarbons (PFCs) or hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)kg                           
3824720000       Containing bromochlorodifluoromethane,                                                        
                   bromotrifluoromethane or dibromotetrafluoroethanes kg                            
3824730000       Containing hydrobromofluorocarbons (HBFCs) .kg                                                
3824740000       Containing hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs), whether                                          
                   or not containing perfluorocarbons (PFCs) or                                     
                   hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), but not containing                                    
                   chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                           
3824750000       Containing carbon tetrachloride  . . . . . .kg                                                
3824760000       Containing 1,1,1-trichloroethane (methyl chloroform) kg                                       
3824770000       Containing bromomethane (methyl bromide) or                                                   
                   bromochloromethane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                           
3824780000       Containing perfluorocarbons (PFCs) or hydrofluorocarbons                                      
                   (HFCs), but not containing chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) or                         
                   hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) . . . . . . . . . .kg                           
3824790002       Other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                
               Mixtures and preparations containing oxirane (ethylene oxide),                       
                polybrominated biphenyls (PBBs), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs),                  
                polychlorinated terphenyls (PCTs) or tris(2,3-dibromopropyl)                        
                phosphate:                                                                          
3824810000       Containing oxirane (ethylene oxide)  . . . .kg                                                
3824820000       Containing polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs),                                                  
                   polychlorinated terphenyls (PCTs) or polybrominated                              
                   biphenyls (PBBs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                   
3824830000       Containing tris (2,3-dibromopropyl) phosphate 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 includedkg                           
                  Other:                                                                            
                    Mixtures of halogenated hydrocarbons:                                           
3824905000            Chlorinated but not otherwise halogenatedkg                                              
3824905595            Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                
                    Other:                                                                          
3824907500            Naphthenic acids, their water insoluble salts and                                        
                        their esters  . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                   
                       Mixtures of acyclic, monohydric, unsubstituted                               
                        alcohols:                                                                   
3824909210              Containing C11 or lower alcohols only kg                                               
3824909240              Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kg                                                
3824909261            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                                   
3824909270            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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