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Chapter Note 29

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Organic Chemicals

Notes:

1.
Except where the context otherwise requires, the headings of this Chapter apply only to:
    (a) Separate chemically defined organic compounds, whether or not containing impurities;

    (b) Mixtures of two or more isomers of the same organic compound (whether or not containing impurities), except mixtures of acyclic hydrocarbon isomers (other than stereoisomers), whether or not saturated (Chapter 27);

    (c) The products of heading 29.36 to 29.39 or the sugar ethers, sugar acetals and sugar esters, and their salts of heading 29.40 or the products of heading 29.41, whether or not chemically defined;
    (Clause (c) has been inserted vide Finance Bill, 2001-02)

    (d) The products mentioned in (a), (b) or (c) above dissolved in water;

    (e) The products mentioned in (a). (b) or (c) above dissolved in other solvents provided that the solution constitutes a normal and necessary method of putting up these products adopted solely for reasons of safety or for transport and that the solvent does not render the product particularly suitable for specific use rather than for general use;

    (f) The products mentioned in (a), (b), (c), (d) or (e) above with an added stabiliser (including an anti-caking agent) necessary for their preservation or transport;

    (g) The products mentioned in (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), or (f) above with an added anti-dusting agent or a colouring or odoriferous substances added to facilitate their identification or for safety reasons, provided that the additions do not render the product particularly suitable for specific use rather than for general use;

    (h) The following products, diluted to standard strengths, for the production of azo dyes: diazonlum salts, couplers used for these salts and diazotisable amines and their salts.

2.
This Chapter does not cover:
    (a) Goods of heading No. 15.04 or crude glycerol of heading No.15.20;

    (b) Ethyl alcohol (heading No. 22.07 or 22.08);

    (c) Methane or propane (heading No. 27.11);

    (d) The compounds of carbon mentioned in Note 2 to Chapter 28;

    (e) Urea (heading No. 31.02 or 31.05);

    (f) Colouring matter or vegetable or animal origin (heading No. 32.03), synthetic organic colouring matter, synthetic organic products of a kind used as fluorescent brightening agents or as luminophores (heading No. 32.04) or dyes or other colouring matter put up in forms or packings for retail sale (heading No. 32.12);

    (g) Enzymes (heading No. 35.07);

    (h) Metaldehyde, hexamethylenetetramine or similar substances, put up in forms (for example, tablets, sticks or similar forms) for use as fuels, or liquid or liquefied-gas fuels in containers of a kind used for filling or refilling cigarette or similar lighters and of a capacity not exceeding 300 cm3.. (heading No. 36.06);

    (i) Products put up as charges for fire-extinguishers or put up in fire extinguishing grenades, of heading No. 38.13; ink removers put up in packings for retail sale, of heading No. 38.24; or

    (j) Optical elements, for example, of ethylenediamine tartrate (heading No. 90.01).

3.
Goods which could be included in two or more of the headings of this Chapter are to be classified in that one of those headings which occurs last in numerical order.
4.
In heading Nos.29.04 to 29.06, 29.08 to 29.11 and 29.13 to 29.20, any reference to halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives includes a reference to compound derivatives, such as sulphohalogenated, nitrohalogenated, nitrosulphonated or nitrosulphohalogenated derivatives.
Nitro or nitroso groups are not to be taken as "nitrogen-functions" for the purposes of heading No. 29.29.
For the purposes of heading Nos. 29.11, 29.12, 29.14, 29.18 and 29.22, "oxygen-function" is to be restricted to the functions (the characterisitc organic oxygen-containing groups) referred to in heading Nos. 29.05 to 29.20.

5.
(a) The esters of acid-function organic compounds of sub-Chapter I to VII with organic compounds of these sub-Chapters are to be classified with that compound which is classified in the heading which occurs last in numerical order in these sub-Chapters.

(b) Esters of ethyl alcohol with acid-function organic compounds of sub-Chapters I to VII are to be classified in the same heading as the corresponding acit-function compounds.

(c) Subject to Note I to Section VI and Note 2 to Chapter 28:

    (1) Inorganic salts of organic compounds such as acid-phenol-or enol-function compounds or organic bases, of sub-Chapters I to X or heading No. 29.42, are to be classified in the heading which occurs last in numerical order in these sub-Chapters.

    (2) Salts formed between organic compounds of sub-Chapters 1 to X or heading No. 29.42 are to be classified in the heading appropriate to the base or to the acid (including phenol-or enol-function compounds) from which they are formed, whichever occurs last in numerical order in the Chapter.

(d) Metal alcoholates are to be classified in the same heading as the corresponding alcohols except in the case of ethanol (heading No. 29.05)

(e) Halides of carboxylic acids are to be classified in the same heading as the corresponding acids.

6.
The compounds of heading Nos. 29.30 and 29.31 are organic compounds the molecules of which contain, in addition to atoms of hydrogen, oxygen or nitrogen, atoms of other non-metals or of metal (such as sulphur, arsenic, mercury or lead) directly linked to carbon atoms. Heading No. 29.30 (organo-sulphur commpounds) and heading No. 29.31 ( other organo-inorganic compounds) do not include sulphonated or halogenated derivatives (including compounds derivatives) which, apart from hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen, only have directly linked to carbon the atoms of sulphur or of a halogen which give them their nature of sulphonated or halogenated derivative (or compound derivatives).

7.
Heading Nos. 29.32, 29.33 and 29.34 do not include epoxides with a three membered ring, ketone peroxides, cyclic polymers of aldehydes or of thioaldehydes, anhydrides of polybasic carboxylic acids, cyclic esters of polyhydric alcohols or phenols with polybasic acids orimides or polybasic acids.
These provisions apply only when the ring-poisition hetero-atoms are those resulting solely from the cyclising function or functions here listed.

8.
For the pupose of heading 29.37:

(a) the term "hormones" includes hormone-releasing or hormone-stimulating factors, hormone inhibitors and hormone antagonists (anti-hormones);

(b) the expression "used primarily as hormones" applies not only to hormone derivatives and structural analogues used primarily for their hormonal effect, but also to those derivatives and structural analogues used primarily as intermediates in the synthesis of products of this heading.

(Note 8 has been inserted vide Finance Bill, 2001-02)

Sub-heading Note

1.
Within any one heading of this Chapter, derivatives of a chemical compounds (or group of chemical compounds) are to be classified in the same subheadings as that compound (or group of compounds) provided that are not more specifically covered by any other subheading and that there is no residual subheading named "Other" in the series of sub-headings concerned.

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