Pharmaceutical products
1. This Chapter does not cover:
(b) Plasters specially calcined or finely ground for use in dentistry (heading No. 25.20);
(c) Aqueous distillates or aqueous solutions of essential oil, suitable for medicinal uses (heading No. 33.01);
(d) Preparations of headings Nos. 33.03 to 33.07, even if they have therapeutic or prophylactic properties;
(e) Soap or other products of heading No. 34.01 containing added medicaments;
(f) Preparations with a basis of plaster for use in dentistry (heading No. 34.07); or
(g) Blood albumin not prepared for therapeutic or
prophylactic uses (heading No. 35.02).
3. For the purposes of headings Nos. 30.03 and 30.04 and of Note 4(d) to this Chapter, the following are to be treated :-
(a) As unmixed products :
(2) All goods of Chapter 28 or 29; and
(3) Simple vegetable extracts of heading No. 13.02, merely standardised or dissolved in any solvent;
(b) As products which have been mixed:
(1) Colloidal solutions and suspensions (other than colloidal sulphur);
(2) Vegetable extracts obtained by the treatment of mixtures of vegetable materials; and
(3) Salts and concentrates obtained by evaporating natural mineral waters.
(b) Sterile laminaria and sterile laminaria tents;
(c) Sterile absorbable surgical or dental haemostatics;
(d) Opacifying preparations for X-ray examinations and diagnostic reagents designed to be administered to the patient, being unmixed products put up in measured doses or products consisting of two or more ingredients which have been mixed together for such uses;
(e) Blood-grouping reagents;
(f) Dental cements and other dental fillings; bone reconstruction cements;
(g) First-aid boxes and kits; and
(h) Chemical contraceptive preparations based on hormones or spermicides.
| Heading
No. |
Sub-heading
No. |
Description of article | Rate of duty | |
| Standard | Preferential
Areas | |||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) |
| 30.01 | Glands and other organs for organo- ther- apeutic uses, dried, whether or not pow dered; extracts of glands or other organs or of their secretions for organo therapeutic uses; heparin and its salts; other human or animal substances prepare for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, no elsewhere specified or included | |||
| 3001.10 | - Glands and other organs, dried, whether or not powdered | 35% | 25% | |
| 3001.20 | - Extracts of glands or other organs or their secretions | 35% | 25% | |
| 3001.90 | - Other | 35% | 25% | |
| 30.02 | Human blood; animal blood prepared for therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnos tic uses; antisera and other blood fractions and modified immunological products, whether or not obtained by means of biotechnological processes vaccines, toxins, cultures of micro-organisms (excluding yeasts) and similar products | |||
| 3002.10 | - Antisera and other blood fractions an modified immunological products whether or not obtained by means of bio technological processes | 35% | 25% | |
| 3002.20 | - Vaccines for human medicine | 35% | 25% | |
| 3002.30 | - Vaccines for veterinary medicine | 35% | 25% | |
| 3002.90 | - Other | 35% | 25% | |
| 30.03 | Medicaments (excluding goods of heading No. 30.02, 30.05 or 30.06) consisting of two or more constituents which have been mixed together for therapeutic 01 prophylactic uses, not put up in measured doses or in forms or packings for retail sale | |||
| 3003.10 | - Containing penicillins or derivatives thereof, with a penicillanic acid structure, or streptomycins or their derivatives | 35% | 25% | |
| 3003.20 | - Containing other antibiotics | 35% | 25% | |
| - Containing hormones or other products of heading No. 29.37 but not containing antibiotics : | ||||
| 3003.31 | -- Containing insulin | 35% | 25% | |
| 3003.39 | -- Other | 35% | 25% | |
| 3003.40 | - Containing alkaloids or derivatives thereof but not containing hormones or other products of heading No. 29.37 or antibiotics | 35% | 25% | |
| 3003.90 | - Other | 35% | 25% | |
| 30.04 | Medicaments (excluding goods of heading No. 30.02, 30.05 or 30.06) consisting of mixed or unmixed products for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, put up in measured doses or in forms or packings for retail sale | |||
| 3004.10 | - Containing penicillins or derivatives thereof, with a penicillanic acid structure, or streptomycins or their derivatives | 35% | 25% | |
| 3004.20 | - Containing other antibiotics | 35% | 25% | |
| - Containing hormones or other products of heading No. 29.37 but not containing antibiotics : | ||||
| 3004.31 | -- Containing insulin | 35% | 25% | |
| 3004.32 | -- Containing adrenal cortical hormones | 35% | 25% | |
| 3004.39 | -- Other | 35% | 25% | |
| 3004.40 | - Containing alkaloids or derivatives thereof but not containing hormones, other products of heading No. 29.37 or antibiotics | 35% | 25% | |
| 3004.50 | - Other medicaments containing vitamins or other products of heading No. 29.36 | 35% | 25% | |
| 3004.90 | - Other | 35% | 25% | |
| 30.05 | Wadding, gauze, bandages and similar articles (for example, dressings, adhesive plasters, poultices), impregnated or coated with pharmaceutical substances or put up in forms or packings for retail sale for medical, surgical, dental or veterinary purposes | |||
| 3005.10 | - Adhesive dressings and other articles having an adhesive layer | 35% | ... | |
| 3005.90 | - Other | 35% | ... | |
| 30.06 | Pharmaceutical goods specified in note 4 to this Chapter | |||
| 3006.10 | - Sterile surgical catgut, similar sterile suture materials and sterile tissue adhesives for surgical wound closure; sterile laminaria and sterile laminaria tents; sterile absorbable surgical or dental haemostatics | 35% | ... | |
| 3006.20 | - Blood grouping reagents | 35% | ... | |
| 3006.30 | - Opacifying preparations for X-ray examinations; diagnostic reagents designed to be administered to the patient | 35% | ... | |
| 3006.40 | - Dental cements and other dental fillings; bone reconstruction cements | 35% | ... | |
| 3006.50 | - First-aid boxes and kits | 35% | ... | |
| 3006.60 | - Chemical contraceptive preparations based on hormones or spermicides | Free | ... | |
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