Chapter notes
Notes.
1. This Chapter does not cover:
(a) Separate chemically defined elements or
compounds with the exception of the
following:
(1) Artificial graphite (heading 38.01);
(2) Insecticides, rodenticides,
fungicides, herbicides,
anti-sprouting products and
plant-growth regulators,
disinfectants and similar products,
put up as described in heading
38.08;
(3) Products put up as charges for
fire-extinguishers or put up in
fire-extinguishing grenades
(heading 3813.00.00);
(4) Certified reference materials
specified in Note 2 below;
(5) Products specified in Note 3 (a) or
3 (c) below;
(b) Mixtures of chemicals with foodstuffs or
other substances with nutritive value, of a
kind used in the preparation of human
foodstuffs (generally heading 21.06);
(c) Slag, ash and residues (including sludges,
other than sewage sludge), containing
metals, arsenic or their mixtures and
meeting the requirements of Note 3 (a) or
3 (b) to Chapter 26 (heading 26.20);
(d) Medicaments (heading 30.03 or 30.04); or
(e) Spent catalysts of a kind used for the
extraction of base metals or for the
manufacture of chemical compounds of base
metals (heading 26.20), spent catalysts of
a kind used principally for the recovery of
precious metal (heading 71.12) or catalysts
consisting of metals or metal alloys in the
form of, for example, finely divided powder
or woven gauze (Section XIV or XV).
2. (A) For the purpose of heading 3822.00.00, the
expression "certified reference materials"
means reference materials which are
accompanied by a certificate which
indicates the values of the certified
properties, the methods used to determine
these values and the degree of certainty
associated with each value and which are
suitable for analytical, calibrating or
referencing purposes.
(B) With the exception of the products of
Chapter 28 or 29, for the classification of
certified reference materials, heading
3822.00.00 shall take precedence over any
other heading in the Nomenclature.
3. Heading 38.24 includes the following goods which
are not to be classified in any other heading of
the Nomenclature:
(a) Cultured crystals (other than optical
elements) weighing not less than 2.5 g
each, of magnesium oxide or of the halides
of the alkali or alkaline-earth metals;
(b) Fusel oil; Dippel's oil;
(c) Ink removers put up in packings for retail
sale;
(d) Stencil correctors and other correcting
fluids put up in packings for retail sale; and
(e) Ceramic firing testers, fusible (for
example, Seger cones).
4. Throughout the Nomenclature, "municipal waste"
means waste of a kind collected from households,
hotels, restaurants, hospitals, shops, offices,
etc., road and pavement sweepings, as well as
construction and demolition waste. Municipal waste
generally contains a large variety of materials