Chapter notes
CHAPTER 31
FERTILISERS
1. This Chapter does not cover:
(a) Animal blood of heading 05.11;
(b) Separate chemically defined compounds (other than
those answering to the descriptions in Note 2(a),
3(a), 4(a) or 5 below); or
(c) Cultured potassium chloride crystals (other than
optical elements) weighing not less than 2.5 g
each, of heading 38.24; optical elements of
potassium chloride (heading 90.01).
2. Heading 31.02 applies only to the following goods,
provided that they are not put up in the forms or
packages described in heading 31.05:
(a) Goods which answer to one or other of the
descriptions given below:
(i) Sodium nitrate, whether or not pure;
(ii) Ammonium nitrate, whether or not pure;
(iii) Double salts, whether or not pure, of ammonium
sulphate and ammonium nitrate;
(iv) Ammonium sulphate, whether or not pure;
(v) Double salts (whether or not pure) or mixtures of
calcium nitrate and ammonium nitrate;
(vi) Double salts (whether or not pure) or mixtures
of calcium nitrate and magnesium nitrate;
(vii) Calcium cyanamide, whether or not pure or
treated with oil;
(viii) Urea, whether or not pure.
(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 31.03 applies only to the following goods,
provided that they are not put up in the forms or
packages described in heading 31.05:
(a) Goods which answer to one or other of the
descriptions given below:
(i) Basic slag;
(ii) Natural phosphates of heading 25.10, calcined or
further heat treated than for the removal of
impurities;
(iii) Superphosphates (single, double or triple);
(iv) Calcium hydrogenorthophosphate containing not
less than 0.2% by weight of fluorine calculated
on the dry anhydrous product.
(b) Fertilisers consisting of any of the goods
described in (a) above mixed together, but with
no account being taken of the fluorine content
limit.
(c) Fertilisers consisting of any of the goods
described in (a) or (b) above, but with no account
being taken of the fluorine content limit, mixed
with chalk, gypsum or other inorganic non
fertilising substances.
4. Heading 31.04 applies only to the following goods,
provided that they are not put up in the forms or
packages described in heading 31.05:
(a) Goods which answer to one or other of the
descriptions given below:
(i) Crude natural potassium salts (for example,
carnallite, kainite and sylvite);
(ii) Potassium chloride, whether or not pure, except
as provided in Note 1(c) above;
(iii) Potassium sulphate, whether or not pure;
(iv) Magnesium potassium sulphate, whether or not
pure.
(b) Fertilisers consisting of any of the goods
described in (a) above mixed together.
5. Ammonium dihydrogenorthophosphate (monoammonium
phosphate) and diammonium hydrogenorthophosphate
(diammonium phosph