2619 — Slag, dross, scalings and other waste from the manufacture of iron or steel (excl. granulated slag)

2619 Slack, dross (except granulated slag), scaling and other wastes of ferrous metal production

The slags to be classified in this heading are the silicates of aluminium, calcium or slag produced during the smelting of iron ore (domain slag) in

the time of refining of cast iron or in the production of steel (converter slag). These slags are covered in this heading, whether or not they contain a sufficient amount of iron to extract the metal. But it does not include phosphate slags (“basic slag” or “tomas-slag”); they are important fertilizers and are included in Chapter 31. Slack and dross are used in the production of cement and as ballast in the construction of roads. Slag crushed and roughly ground like macadam falls in heading 2517. This heading also excludes granular slag (slag sand) of heading 2618. Ocalina is pieces of iron oxide, which are obtained as a result of forging, hot rolling, etc. ferrous metals. This heading also includes bead dust from blast furnaces and other waste from the manufacture of cast iron and steel, but excludes scrap metal from cutting, stamping or other metalworking processes which falls in heading 7204.

Notes

English text as published in Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2021/1832 (Combined Nomenclature). The EAEU tariff and the EU nomenclature copy these notes from the same convention. For a Russian declaration the binding version is the Russian one: Annex to Decision No 80 of the EEC Council of 14 September 2021.

1. This chapter does not cover:

(a) slag or similar industrial waste prepared as macadam (heading 2517);

(b) natural magnesium carbonate (magnesite), whether or not calcined (heading 2519);

(c) sludges from the storage tanks of petroleum oils, consisting mainly of such oils (heading 2710);

(d) basic slag of Chapter 31;

(e) slag wool, rock wool or similar mineral wools (heading 6806);

(f) waste or scrap of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal; other waste or scrap containing precious metal or precious-metal compounds, of a kind used principally for the recovery of precious metal (heading 7112 or 8549); or

(g) copper, nickel or cobalt mattes produced by any process of smelting (Section XV).

2. For the purposes of headings 2601 to 2617, the term ‘ores’ means minerals of mineralogical species actually used in the metallurgical industry for the extraction of mercury, of the metals of heading 2844 or of the metals of Section XIV or XV, even if they are intended for non-metallurgical purposes. Headings 2601 to 2617 do not, however, include minerals which have been submitted to processes not normal to the metallurgical industry.

3. Heading 2620 applies only to:

(a) slag, ash and residues of a kind used in industry either for the extraction of metals or as a basis for the manufacture of chemical compounds of metals, excluding ash and residues from the incineration of municipal waste (heading 2621); and

(b) slag, ash and residues containing arsenic, whether or not containing metals, of a kind used either for the extraction of arsenic or metals or for the manufacture of their chemical compounds.

Subheading notes

English text as published in Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2021/1832 (Combined Nomenclature). The EAEU tariff and the EU nomenclature copy these notes from the same convention. For a Russian declaration the binding version is the Russian one: Annex to Decision No 80 of the EEC Council of 14 September 2021.

1. For the purposes of subheading 2620 21, ‘leaded gasoline sludges and leaded anti-knock compound sludges’ mean sludges obtained from storage tanks of leaded gasoline and leaded anti-knock compounds (for example, tetraethyl lead), and consisting essentially of lead, lead compounds and iron oxide.

2. Slag, ash and residues containing arsenic, mercury, thallium or their mixtures, of a kind used for the extraction of arsenic or those metals or for the manufacture of their chemical compounds, are to be classified in subheading 2620 60.