Chapter 25 — Salt; sulphur; earths, stone; plastering materials, lime and cement 4-digit heading

25.04 Graphite; natural

One level above the number you declare. Pick one of the six-digit codes below.

Section V, Mineral Products — salt, sulphur, earths, stone, ores, mineral fuels and mineral oils.

  1. 25 Chapter Salt; sulphur; earths, stone; plastering materials, lime and cement
  2. 04 Heading Graphite; natural
  3. —— Subheading Pick one of the 2 six-digit codes below

Chapter 25 covers salt, sulphur, earths and stone, plastering materials, lime and cement: bulk mineral commodities in their natural or minimally processed state, used mostly as construction and industrial inputs. Classification tip: These are typically high-volume, low-value-per-tonne bulk commodities, so freight cost (not duty) usually dominates the landed-cost calculation: confirm the shipping mode and Incoterm before quoting a price.

All of chapter 25

The 2 six-digit codes under 25.04

One of these is the number you declare.

Other headings in chapter 25

25.01 Salt (including table salt and denatured salt); pure sodium chloride whether or not in aqueous solution; sea water 25.02 Iron pyrites; unroasted 25.03 Sulphur of all kinds; other than sublimed, precipitated and colloidal sulphur 25.05 Sands of all kinds; natural, whether or not coloured, other than metal-bearing sands of chapter 26 25.06 Quartz; (other than natural sands), quartzite, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape 25.07 Kaolin and other kaolinic clays; whether or not calcined 25.08 Clays; (not including expanded clays of heading no. 6806), andalusite kyanite and sillimanite, whether or not calcined; mullite; chamotte or dinas earth 25.09 Chalk 25.10 Natural calcium phosphates; natural aluminium calcium phosphates and phosphatic chalk 25.11 Natural barium sulphate (barytes); natural barium carbonate, (witherite) whether or not calcined, other than barium oxide of heading no. 2816 25.12 Siliceous fossil meals (e.g. kieselguhr, tripolite and diatomite) and similar siliceous earths; whether or not calcined, of an apparent specific gravity of 1 or less 25.13 Pumice stone; emery; natural corundum, natural garnet and other natural abrasives, whether or not heat treated 25.14 Slate, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape 25.15 Marble, travertine, ecaussine and other calcareous stone; of an apparent specific gravity of less than 2.5, alabaster, whether cut by sawing etc, into blocks, slabs of a rectangular (square) shape 25.16 Granite, porphyry, basalt, sandstone, other monumental and building stone, whether or not roughly trimmed, cut, by sawing etc, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape 25.17 Pebbles, gravel, crushed stone for concrete aggregates for road or railway ballast, shingle or flint; macadam of slag, dross etc tarred granules, chippings, powder of stones of heading no. 2515 and 2516 25.18 Dolomite, whether or not calcined or sintered, including dolomite roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape 25.19 Natural magnesium carbonate (magnesite); fused magnesia; dead-burned (sintered) magnesia, whether or not containing small quantities of other oxides added before sintering; magnesium oxide, pure or not 25.20 Gypsum; anhydrite; plasters (consisting of calcined gypsum or calcium sulphate), coloured or not, with or without small quantities of accelerators or retarders 25.21 Limestone flux; limestone and other calcareous stone, of a kind used for the manufacture of lime or cement 25.22 Quicklime, slaked lime and hydraulic lime; other than calcium oxide and hydroxide of heading no. 2825 25.23 Portland cement, aluminous cement (ciment fondu), slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers 25.24 Asbestos 25.25 Mica, including splittings; mica waste 25.26 Natural steatite; whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape; talc 25.28 Natural borates and concentrates thereof (whether or not calcined), but not including borates separated from natural brine; natural boric acid containing not more than 85 % of H3BO3 calculated on the dry weight 25.29 Feldspar; leucite; nepheline and nepheline syenite; fluorspar 25.30 Mineral substances not elsewhere specified or included

The wording above is the Harmonized System nomenclature as published by the World Customs Organization, HS 2022 edition. It is a classification reference, not a tariff: it carries no duty rates, and it stops at six digits — the importing country adds its own beyond that.

Classification is decided by the General Rules of Interpretation and the section and chapter notes, and it is the importing country’s customs authority that makes it binding.

Shipping goods under 25.04? A customs hold shows up as a milestone that stops moving — follow the container or the air waybill from departure to delivery.

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25.04 FAQ

Heading 25.04 covers graphite; natural. It is part of chapter 25 (salt; sulphur; earths, stone; plastering materials, lime and cement), and it is subdivided into 2 six-digit subheadings — the level you actually declare.

Pick one of the 2 subheadings below. Those six digits are what customs recognises internationally; the importing country may extend them to eight or ten in its own tariff schedule.

The General Rules of Interpretation, read together with the notes to Section V and to chapter 25. A description that reads right is not enough on its own — the notes routinely pull goods out of the chapter they obviously belong to and put them somewhere else. Where duty or licensing turns on the answer, ask the importing country’s customs authority for a binding ruling.

A wrong or missing code is one of the common reasons customs holds a container, and a hold shows up as a milestone that stops moving. Watch for it in the container tracking app, on the air waybill in the air cargo tracker, or through the tracking API.

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