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PRODUCTS OF THE CHEMICAL OR ALLIED INDUSTRIES
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Chapter notes
Notes.
1. This Chapter does not cover:
(a) Foods or beverages (such as dietetic,
diabetic or fortified foods, food
supplements, tonic beverages and mineral
waters), other than nutritional
preparations for intravenous administration
(Section IV);
(b) Plasters specially calcined or finely
ground for use in dentistry (heading
25.20);
(c) Aqueous distillates or aqueous solutions of
essential oils, suitable for medicinal uses
(heading 33.01);
(d) Preparations of headings 3303.00 to 33.07,
even if they have therapeutic or
prophylactic properties;
(e) Soap or other products of heading 34.01
containing added medicaments;
(f) Preparations with a basis of plaster for
use in dentistry (heading 3407.00); or
(g) Blood albumin not prepared for therapeutic
or prophylactic uses (heading 35.02).
2. For the purposes of heading 30.02, the expression
"modified immunological products" applies only to
monoclonal antibodies (MABs), antibody fragments,
antibody conjugates and antibody fragment
conjugates.
3. For the purposes of headings 30.03 and 30.04 and of
Note 4 (d) to this Chapter, the following are to be
treated:
(a) As unmixed products:
(1) Unmixed products dissolved in water;
(2) All goods of Chapter 28 or 29; and
(3) Simple vegetable extracts of heading
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.
4. Heading 30.06 applies only to the following, which
are to be classified in that heading and in no
other heading of the Nomenclature:
(a) Sterile surgical catgut, similar sterile
suture materials (including sterile
absorbable surgical or dental yarns) and
sterile tissue adhesives for surgical
wound closure;
(b) Sterile laminaria and sterile laminaria
tents;
(c) Sterile absorbable surgical or dental
haemostatics; sterile surgical or dental
adhesion barriers, whether or not
absorbable;
(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;
(h) Chemical contraceptive preparations based
on hormones, on other products of heading
29.37 or on spermicides.
(ij) Gel preparations designed to be used in
human or veterinary medicine as a lubricant
for parts of the body for surgical
operations or physical examinations or as a
coupling agent between the body and me