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CHAPTER 38
Miscellaneous chemical products
Notes:

1. This Chapter does not cover :
 

2. Heading No. 38.24 includes the following goods which are not to be classified in any other heading of this Schedule :
 
Heading No.  Sub-heading No.  Description of article  Rate  of duty
      Standard  Preferential Areas 
(1)  (2)  (3)  (4)  (5) 
38.01    Artificial graphite; colloidal or semi-colloidal graphite; preparations based on graphite or other carbon in the form of pastes, blocks, plates or other semi-manufactures     
  3801.10  - Artificial graphite  35%  25% 
  3801.20  - Colloidal or semi-colloidal graphite  35%  ... 
  3801.30  - Carbonaceous pastes for electrodes and similar pastes for furnace linings  35%  ... 
  3801.90  -Other  35%  ... 
38.02    Activated carbon; activated natural mineral products; animal black, including spent animal black     
  3802.10  - Activated carbon  35%  25% 
  3802.90  -Other  35%   ...
38.03  3803.00  Tall oil, whether or not refined  35%   ...
38.04  3804.00  Residual lyes from the manufacture of wood pulp,whether or not concentrated, desugared or chemically treated, including lignin sulphonates, but excluding tall oil of Heading No. 38.03  35%   ...
38.05    Gum, wood or sulphate turpentine and other terpenic oils produced by the distillation or other treatment of coniferous woods; crude dipentene; sulphite turpentine and other crude paracymene; pine oil containing alpha-terpineol as the main constituent     
  3805.10  - Gum, wood or sulphate turpentine oils  35%  ... 
  3805.20  - Pine oil  35%  ... 
  3805.90  - Other  35%  ...
38.06    Rosin and resin acids, and derivatives thereof; rosin spirit and rosin oils; run gums     
  3806.10  - Rosin and resin acids  35%  ... 
  3806.20  - Salts of rosin, of resin acids or of derivatives of rosin or resin acids, other than salts of rosin adducts  35%  ... 
  3806.30  - Easter gums  35%  ... 
  3806.90  - Other  35%  ... 
38.07  3807.00  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 35%  ... 
38.08    Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, anti-sprouting 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, sulphur- treated bands, wicks and candles, and fly-papers)     
  3808.10  - Insecticides  35%  ... 
  3808.20  - Fungicides  35%  ... 
  3808.30  - Herbicides, anti-sprouting products and plant-growth regulators  35%  ... 
  3808.40  -Disinfectants  35%  ... 
  3808.90  -Other  35%  ... 
38.09    Finishing agents, dye carriers to accelerate the dyeing or fixing of dye-stuffs 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 .     
  3809.10  - With a basis of amylaceous substances  35%  ... 
    -Other:    
  3809.91  --Of a kind used in the textile or like industries  35%  ... 
  3809.92  --Of a kind used in the paper or like industries  35%  ... 
  3809.93  --Of a kind used in the leather or like industries  35%  ... 
  3809.99  --Other  35%  ... 
38.10    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     
  3810.10  - Pickling preparations for metal surfaces; soldering, brazing or welding powders and pastes consisting of metal and other materials  35%  ... 
  3810.90  -Other  35%  ... 
38.11    Anti-knock 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     
    - Anti-knock preparations:    
  3811.11  --Based on lead compounds  35%  ... 
  3811.19  --Other  35%  ... 
    - Additives for lubricating oils:    
  3811.21  --Containing petroleum oils or oils obtained from bituminous minerals  35%  ... 
  3811.29  --Other  35%  ... 
  3811.90  -Other  35%  ... 
38.12    Prepared rubber accelerators; compound plasticisers for rubber or plastics, not elsewhere specified or included; anti-oxidising preparations and other compound stabilisers for rubber or plastics     
  3812.10  - Prepared rubber accelerators  35%  25% 
  3812.20  - Compound plasticisers for rubber or plastics  35%  ... 
  3812.30  - Anti-oxidising preparations and other compound stabilisers for rubber or plastics  35%  ... 
38.13  3813.00  Preparations and charges for fire-extinguishers; charged fire-extinguishing grenades  35%  ... 
38.14  3814.00  Organic composite solvents and thinners, not elsewhere specified or included; prepared paint or varnish removers  35%  ... 
38.15    Reaction initiators, reaction accelerators and catalytic preparations, not elsewhere specified or included     
    - Supported catalysts:    
  3815.11  --With nickel or nickel compounds as the active substance  25%  15% 
  3815.12  -- With precious metal or precious metal compounds as me active substance  25%  15% 
  3815.19  -- Other  25%  ... 
  3815.90  -Other  25%  ... 
38.16  3816.00  Refractory cements, mortars, concretes and similar compositions, other than products of Heading No. 38.01  35%  ...
38.17    Mixed alkylbenzenes and mixed alkylnaphthalenes, other than those of Heading No. 27.07 or 29.02     
  3817.10 - Mixed alkylbenzenes  25%  ... 
  3817.20  -Mixed alkylnaphthalenes  35%  ... 
38.18  3818.00  Chemical elements doped for use in electronics, in the form of discs, wafers or similar forms; chemical compounds doped for use in electronics  Free  ... 
38.19  3819.00  Hydraulic brake fluids and other prepared liquids for hydraulic transmission, not containing or containing less than 70% by weight of petroleum oils or oils obtained from bituminous minerals  35%  ... 
38.20 3820.00  Anti-freezing preparations and prepared de-icing fluids  35%  ... 
38.21  3821.00  Prepared culture media for development of micro-organisms  35%  ... 
38.22  3822.00  Diagnostic or laboratory reagents on a backing and prepared diagnostic or laboratory reagents whether or not on a backing, other than those of heading No. 30.02 or 30.06  35%  ... 
38.23    Industrial Monocarboxylic fatty acids; Acid oils from refining; industrial fatty alcohols    
    - Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids; acid oils from refining:     
  3823.11  --Stearic acid  35%  ... 
  3823.12  --Oleic acid  35%  ...
  3823.13  --Tall oil fatty acids  35%  ... 
  3823.19  --Other  35%  ... 
  3823.70  - Industrial fatty alcohols  50%  ... 
38.24    Prepared binders for foundry moulds 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; residual products of the chemical or allied industries, not elsewhere specified or included     
  3824.10  - Prepared binders for foundry moulds or cores  35%  ... 
  3824.20  - Naphthenic acids, their water-insoluble salts and their esters  35%  ... 
  3824.30  - Non-agglomerated metal carbides mixed together or with metallic binders  35%  ... 
  3824.40  - Prepared additives for cements, mortars or concretes  35%  ... 
  3824.50  - Non-refractory mortars and concretes  35%  ... 
  3824.60  - Sorbitol other than that of sub-heading No. 2905.44  35%  ... 
    - Mixtures containing perhalogenated derivatives of acyclic hydrocarbons containing two or more different halogens:    
  3824.71  --Containing acyclic hydrocarbons perhalogenated only with flourine and chlorine  35%  ... 
  3824.79  --Other  35%  ... 
  3824.90  -Other  35%  ...