2837 20 00 — Cyanides, cyanide oxides and complex cyanides: complex cyanides

2837 Cyanides, cyanide oxides, cyanides complex: - cyanides and cyanide oxides: 2837 11 - - sodium 2837 19 - - other 2837 20 - cyanides complex

Subject to the exceptions specified in the general provisions of this subclass, this heading includes cyanides, cyanide oxides (oxycyanides) and complex cyanides. Cyanides are metal salts of hydrogen cyanide (HCN) (heading 2811). These salts are very poisonous. (1) Sodium cyanide (NaCN). It is obtained by the action of coke or gaseous hydrocarbons and atmospheric nitrogen on sodium carbonate or by the treatment of calcium cyanamide (see heading 3102) with charcoal, as well as by the interaction of coal dust with sodium and gaseous ammonia. It is a white powder, plates or paste, hygroscopic crystals, very well soluble in water, with the smell of bitter almonds. When melting, it absorbs oxygen; it can also form hydrates. Stored in sealed vessels. It is used in metallurgical production of gold or silver, for electrodeposition of gold or silver, in photography, in lithography, as a means to destroy parasites or as an insecticide, etc. It is also used to obtain

cyanide of hydrogen, other cyanides and indigo; in flotation processes (in particular, to separate galenite from sphalerite and pyrites from chalcopyrite). (2) Potassium cyanide (CCN). It is obtained by similar methods and has similar properties and applications as sodium cyanide. (3) Calcium cyanide (Ca(CN)2). White or grayish powder, depending on the degree of purity, soluble in water. It is used to destroy insects, fungi, harmful animals. (4) Nickel cyanide (Ni(CN)2). Hydrated greenish plates or powder; amorphous yellow powder. It is used in metallurgy and in the application of galvanic coating. (5) Copper cyanides: (a) monovalent copper cyanide (CuCN). White or grayish powder, not soluble in water. Used in the same way as divalent copper cyanide and in medicine; (b) divalent copper cyanide (Cu(CN)2). Amorphous powder, not soluble in water. It decomposes easily. It is used for galvanic coating of iron with copper and in organic synthesis. (6) Zinc cyanide (Zn(CN)2). White powder, not soluble in water. It is used when applying galvanic coating. This heading excludes mercury cyanides (heading 2852) and non-metal cyanides such as bromine cyanide or cyanbromide (heading 2853). (B) Hexacyanoferrates (II) (FERROCIANIDS) Hexacyanoferrates (II) (ferrocyanides) are metal salts of hexacyanoferrate (II) hydrogen (H 4Fe(CN)6) (heading 2811). They are obtained by the action of calcium hydroxide on the spent oxide or by the action of bivalent iron hydroxide on cyanides. When heated, they decompose. The most important are: (1) Hexacyanoferrate tetraammonium ((NH4)4Fe(CN)6). Water-soluble crystals. It is used for black nickelization and as a catalyst in ammonia synthesis. (2) Hexacyanoferrate tetrasodium (Na4Fe(CN)6·10H2O). Yellow crystals that do not change in air, soluble in water, especially in hot. It is used to obtain hydrogen cyanide, Berlin azure, thioindigo, etc., for x imico-thermal hardening of the surface of steel; in photography; when dyeing (as an herb or to give a blue hue); when printing (as an oxidizer in black and white aniline printing) and as a fungicide. (3) Hexacyanoferrate tetrakali (K4Fe(CN)6·3H2O). Yellow e fading crystals, soluble in water, especially in hot. It is used in the same way as hexacyanopherrate tetrasodium. (4) Hexacyanoferrate dimedi (Cu2Fe(CN)6·H2O). Purple-brown powder, not soluble in water. It is used in the production of paints used in painting (Florentine or brown Van Dyck). (5) Double hexacyanoferrates (for example, hexacyanoferrate dicalium dilithium Li2K2(Fe(CN)6)·3H2O).

This heading excludes Prussian blue (Berlin azure) and other pigments based on hexacyanoferrates (heading 3206). (B) HEXACIANOFERRATES (III) (FERRICIANIDS) Hexacyanoferrates (III) (ferricyanides) are salts of hexacyanoferrate (III) hydrogen (H3Fe(CN)6) (heading 2811). The most important are: (1) Hexacyanoferrate trisodium (Na3Fe(CN)6·H2O). It is obtained by the action of chlorine on hexacyanoferrates (II); floating crystals of pomegranate color, soluble in water and toxic; in an aqueous solution it is greenish in color, decomposes in light. It is used in dyeing and wooling; in photography, for chemical-thermal hardening of the surface; when applying a galvanic coating and as an oxidizer in organic synthesis. (2) Hexacyanoferrate tricalium (K3Fe(CN)6). It has the same appearance as trisodium hexacyanopherrate, but the crystals are less blurred. It is used for the same purpose. (D) Other compounds These include pentacyonitrosylferrates (II), pentacyonitrosylferrates (III), cyanocadmates, cyanochromates, cyanomanganates, cyanocobalts, cyanoniccolates, cyanocuprates, etc. This category includes, for example, pentacyonitrosylferrate (III) sodium (sodium nitroprusside, sodium nitroferricyanide) (Na 2Fe(CN)5NO·2H2O) used in chemical analysis. Cyanomercurates, however, are not included (heading 2852).

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. Except where the context otherwise requires, the headings of this chapter apply only to:

(a) separate chemical elements and separate chemically defined compounds, whether or not containing impurities;

(b) the products mentioned in (a) above dissolved in water;

(c) the products mentioned in (a) 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;

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

(e) the products mentioned in (a), (b), (c) or (d) above with an added anti-dusting agent or a colouring substance 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.

2. In addition to dithionites and sulphoxylates, stabilised with organic substances (heading 2831), carbonates and peroxocarbonates of inorganic bases (heading 2836), cyanides, cyanide oxides and complex cyanides of inorganic bases (heading 2837), fulminates, cyanates and thiocyanates, of inorganic bases (heading 2842), organic products included in headings 2843 to 2846 and 2852 and carbides (heading 2849), only the following compounds of carbon are to be classified in this chapter:

(a) oxides of carbon, hydrogen cyanide and fulminic, isocyanic, thiocyanic and other simple or complex cyanogen acids (heading 2811);

(b) halide oxides of carbon (heading 2812);

(c) carbon disulphide (heading 2813);

(d) thiocarbonates, selenocarbonates, tellurocarbonates, selenocyanates, tellurocyanates, tetrathiocyanatodiamminochromates (reineckates) and other complex cyanates, of inorganic bases (heading 2842);

(e) hydrogen peroxide, solidified with urea (heading 2847), carbon oxysulphide, thiocarbonyl halides, cyanogen, cyanogen halides and cyanamide and its metal derivatives (heading 2853) other than calcium cyanamide, whether or not pure (Chapter 31).

3. Subject to the provisions of note 1 to Section VI, this chapter does not cover:

(a) sodium chloride or magnesium oxide, whether or not pure, or other products of Section V;

(b) organo-inorganic compounds other than those mentioned in note 2 above;

(c) products mentioned in note 2, 3, 4 or 5 to Chapter 31;

(d) inorganic products of a kind used as luminophores, of heading 3206; glass frit and other glass in the form of powder, granules or flakes, of heading 3207;

(e) artificial graphite (heading 3801); products put up as charges for fire-extinguishers or put up in fire-extinguishing grenades, of heading 3813; ink removers put up in packings for retail sale, of heading 3824; cultured crystals (other than optical elements) weighing not less than 2,5 g each, of the halides of the alkali or alkaline-earth metals, of heading 3824;

(f) precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed) or dust or powder of such stones (headings 7102 to 7105), or precious metals or precious-metal alloys of Chapter 71;

(g) the metals, whether or not pure, metal alloys or cermets, including sintered metal carbides (metal carbides sintered with a metal), of Section XV; or

(h) optical elements, for example, of the halides of the alkali or alkaline-earth metals (heading 9001).

4. Chemically defined complex acids consisting of a non-metal acid of sub-chapter II and a metal acid of sub-chapter IV are to be classified in heading 2811.

5. Headings 2826 to 2842 apply only to metal or ammonium salts or peroxysalts. Except where the context otherwise requires, double or complex salts are to be classified in heading 2842.

6. Heading 2844 applies only to:

(a) technetium (atomic No 43), promethium (atomic No 61), polonium (atomic No 84) and all elements with an atomic number greater than 84;

(b) natural or artificial radioactive isotopes (including those of the precious metals or of the base metals of Sections XIV and XV), whether or not mixed together;

(c) compounds, inorganic or organic, of these elements or isotopes, whether or not chemically defined, whether or not mixed together;

(d) alloys, dispersions (including cermets), ceramic products and mixtures containing these elements or isotopes or inorganic or organic compounds thereof and having a specific radioactivity exceeding 74 Bq/g (0,002 μCi/g);

(e) spent (irradiated) fuel elements (cartridges) of nuclear reactors;

(f) radioactive residues whether or not usable. The term ‘isotopes’, for the purposes of this note and of the wording of headings 2844 and 2845, refers to: — individual nuclides, excluding, however, those existing in nature in the monoisotopic state, — mixtures of isotopes of one and the same element, enriched in one or several of the said isotopes, that is, elements of which the natural isotopic composition has been artificially modified.

7. Heading 2853 includes copper phosphide (phosphor copper) containing more than 15 % by weight of phosphorus.

8. Chemical elements (for example, silicon and selenium) doped for use in electronics are to be classified in this chapter, provided that they are in forms unworked as drawn, or in the form of cylinders or rods. When cut in the form of discs, wafers or similar forms, they fall in heading 3818.

Subheading note

Machine translation. The original is the Russian text of the EAEU tariff, and customs goes by it; this translation is for understanding only and has no legal force.

1. В субпозиции 2852 10 термин «определенного химического состава» означает все органические или неорганические соединения ртути, удовлетворяющие требованиям примечаний 1 (а) – 1 (д) к группе 28 и примечаний 1 (а) – 1 (з) к группе 29.

Additional note

Machine translation. The original is the Russian text of the EAEU tariff, and customs goes by it; this translation is for understanding only and has no legal force.

1. Unless otherwise specified, the salts referred to in the subheadings include acid salts and basic salts.