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CHAPTER 31
Fertilisers
Notes:
1. This Chapter does not cover:
2. Heading No. 31.02 applies only to the following goods, provided that they are not put up in the forms or packages described in heading No. 31.05 :

(A) Goods which answer to one or other of the descriptions given below :
 

(B) Fertilisers consisting of any of the goods described in (A) above mixed together.

(C) Fertilisers consisting of ammonium chloride or of any of the goods described in (A) or (B) above mixed with chalk, gypsum or other inorganic non-fertilising substances.

(D) Liquid fertilisers consisting of the goods of sub-paragraph (A) (ii) or (viii) above, or of mixtures of those goods, in an aqueous or ammoniacal solution.

3. Heading No. 31.03 applies only to the following goods, provided that they are not put up in the forms or packages described in heading No. 31.05 :

(A) Goods which answer to one or other of the descriptions given below :
 

(B) Fertilisers consisting of any of the goods described in (A) above mixed together, but with no account being taken of the flourine content limit.

(C) Fertilisers consisting of any of the goods described in (A) or (B) above, but with no account being taken of the flourine content limit, mixed with chalk, gypsum or other inorganic non-fertilising substances.

4. Heading No. 31.04 applies only to the following goods, provided that they are not put up in the forms or packages described in heading No. 31.05 :

(A) Goods which answer to one or other of the descriptions given below :
 

(B) Fertilisers consisting of any of the goods described in (A) above mixed together.

5. Ammonium dihydrogenorthophosphate (monoammonium phosphate) and diammonium hydrogenorthophosphate (diammonium phosphate), whether or not pure, and intermixtures thereof, are to be classified in heading No. 31.05.

6. For the purposes of heading No. 31.05, the term "other fertilisers" applies only to products of a kind used as fertilisers and containing, as an essential constituent, at least one of the fertilising elements nitrogen, phosphorus or potassium.
 
 

Heading
No. 
Sub-heading 
No. 
Description of article  Rate of duty 
      Standard  Preferential 
Areas 
(l)  (2)  (3)  (4)  (5) 
31.01  3101.00  Animal or vegetable fertilisers, whether or not mixed together or chemically treated; fertilisers produced by the mixing or chemical treatment of animal or vegetable products  35%  ... 
31.02   Mineral or chemical fertilisers, nitrogenous     
  3102.10  - Urea, whether or not in aqueous solution  35%  ... 
    - Ammonium sulphate; double salts and mixtures of ammonium sulphate and ammonium nitrate:    
  3102.21  -- Ammonium sulphate  5%  ... 
  3102.29  -- Other  35%  ... 
  3102.30  - Ammonium nitrate, whether or not in aqueous solution  35%  ... 
  3102.40  - Mixtures of ammonium nitrate with calcium carbonate or other inorganic non-fertilising substances  35%  ... 
  3102.50  - Sodium nitrate  Free  ... 
  3102.60  - Double salts and mixtures of calcium nitrate and ammonium nitrate  35%  ... 
  3102.70  - Calcium cyanamide  35%  ... 
  3102.80  - Mixtures of urea and ammonium nitrate in aqueous or ammoniacal solution  35%  ... 
  3102.90  - Other, including mixtures not specified in the foregoing sub-headings  35%  ... 
31.03   Mineral or chemical fertilisers, phosphatic    
  3103.10  - Superphosphates  35%  ... 
  3103.20  - Basic slag  35%  ... 
  3103.90  - Other  35%  ... 
31.04   Mineral or chemical fertilisers, potassic    
  3104.10  - Carnallite, sylvite and other crude natural potassium salts  35%  ... 
  3104.20  - Potassium chloride  35%  ... 
  3104.30  - Potassium sulphate  5%  ... 
  3104.90  - Other  35%  ... 
31.05   Mineral or chemical fertilisers containing two or three of the fertilising elements nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium; other fertilisers; goods of this Chapter in tablets or similar forms or in packages of a gross weight not exceeding 10 kg    
  3105.10  - Goods of this Chapter in tablets or similar forms or in packages of a gross weight not exceeding 10 kg  35%  ... 
  3105.20  - Mineral or chemical fertilisers containing the three fertilising elements nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium  5%  ... 
  3105.30  - Diammonium hydrogenorthophosphate (diammonium phosphate)  5%  ... 
  3105.40  - Ammonium dihydrogenorthophosphate (monoammonium phosphate) and mixtures thereof with diammonium hydrogenorthophosphate (diammonium phosphate)  5%  ... 
    - Other mineral or chemical fertilisers containing the two fertilising elements nitrogen and phosphorus:    
  3105.51  -- Containing nitrates and phosphates  5%  ... 
  3105.59  -- Other  5%  ... 
  3105.60  - Mineral or chemical fertilisers containing the two fertilising elements phosphorus and potassium  5%  ... 
  3105.90 -Other 5% ...