Salt; sulphur; earths, stone; plastering materials, lime and cement
Chapter 25 of the Harmonised System covers Salt; sulphur; earths, stone; plastering materials, lime and cement. It groups 29 four-digit headings used worldwide to classify these goods for customs and duty.
Sourcing this category from India
Products classified under HS 25 can be sourced from India across a range of clusters and price points. Use this page to understand where Salt; sulphur; earths, stone; plastering materials, lime and cement sits in the tariff schedule, then explore the Indian sectors and products that supply it.
How to read this code
25 is the two-digit HS chapter. Your destination country extends it to 8–10 digits and assigns the duty rate. India's preferential trade agreements (UAE CEPA, Australia ECTA, and others) can reduce or zero out that duty for many goods — check our import guides for your market.
Headings under HS 25
The Harmonised System breaks Salt; sulphur; earths, stone; plastering materials, lime and cement into these 29 headings. Drill down to the exact classification for your goods.
Salt (including table salt and denatured salt); pure sodium chloride whether or not in aqueous solution; sea water
Iron pyrites; unroasted
Sulphur of all kinds; other than sublimed, precipitated and colloidal sulphur
Graphite; natural
Sands of all kinds; natural, whether or not coloured, other than metal-bearing sands of chapter 26
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
Kaolin and other kaolinic clays; whether or not calcined
Clays; (not including expanded clays of heading no. 6806), andalusite kyanite and sillimanite, whether or not calcined; mullite; chamotte or dinas earth
Chalk
Natural calcium phosphates; natural aluminium calcium phosphates and phosphatic chalk
Natural barium sulphate (barytes); natural barium carbonate, (witherite) whether or not calcined, other than barium oxide of heading no. 2816
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
Pumice stone; emery; natural corundum, natural garnet and other natural abrasives, whether or not heat treated
Slate, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape
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
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
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
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
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
Gypsum; anhydrite; plasters (consisting of calcined gypsum or calcium sulphate), coloured or not, with or without small quantities of accelerators or retarders
Limestone flux; limestone and other calcareous stone, of a kind used for the manufacture of lime or cement
Quicklime, slaked lime and hydraulic lime; other than calcium oxide and hydroxide of heading no. 2825
Portland cement, aluminous cement (ciment fondu), slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers
Asbestos
Mica, including splittings; mica waste
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
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
Feldspar; leucite; nepheline and nepheline syenite; fluorspar
Mineral substances not elsewhere specified or included
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