3206 11 — Pigments and preparations based on titanium dioxide of a kind used for colouring any material or produce colorant preparations, containing >= 80% by weight of titanium dioxide calculated on the dry matter (excl. preparations of heading 3207, 3208, 3209, 3210, 3212, 3213 and 3215)

3206 Other colouring substances; preparations referred to in Note 3 to this Chapter other than preparations of heading 3203, 3204 or 3205; inorganic products used as phosphors, certain or undetermined chemical composition (+): pigments and preparations made of titanium dioxide:

3206 11 – Containing 80 wt.% or more of titanium dioxide in terms of dry matter 3206 19 – other 3206 20 – pigments and preparations made on the basis of chromium compounds – other coloring substances and preparations: 3206 41 – ultramarine and preparations made on its basis 3206 42 – litopone and other pigments and preparations made on the basis of zinc sulfide 3206 49 – other 3206 50 – inorganic products used as phosphors

(A) OTHER COLOURING MATTER; PREPARATIONS AS SPECIFIED IN NOTE 3 TO THIS CHAPTER, OTHER THAN THOSE OF HEADING 3203, 3204 OR 3205 This heading covers inorganic colouring matter or colouring matter of mineral origin. The heading does not, however, cover: (a) natural micaceous iron oxides; earth colours, whether or not calcined or mixed together (see the Explanatory Note to heading 2530); (b) separate chemically defined inorganic colouring matter (e.g., basic lead carbonate; oxides of iron, lead, chromium or zinc; sulphides of zinc or mercury; lead chromate (Chapter 28)); Schweinfurt green (copper acetoarsenite) (heading 2942); (c) metal flakes and powders (Section XIV or XV). Colouring matter of this heading includes: (1) Pigments based on titanium dioxide. This includes titanium dioxide which has been surface-treated or mixed with calcium or barium sulphate or with other substances. It also includes titanium dioxide to which substances have been intentionally added during manufacture to obtain a product with specific physical properties enabling it to be used as a pigment. Other intentionally produced titanium dioxide unsuitable for use as a pigment because of its special properties falls in other headings (e.g., headings 3815, 38 24). Titanium dioxide which has not been surface-treated or mixed with other substances falls in heading 2823. (2) Pigments based on chromium compounds. These include yellow substances consisting of mixtures of lead chromates and other inorganic products such as lead sulphate, and green pigments consisting of chromium oxide mixed with other substances. (3) Ultramarine. Blue ultramarine is a complex compound formerly obtained from lapis lazuli, but now produced artificially by treating mixtures of various silicates, aluminates, sodium carbonate, sulphur, etc. Green, pink and violet ultramarines are also classified in this heading, but certain unmixed chromates, sometimes known as yellow ultramarine, are excluded (heading 2841).

(4) Litopone and other pigments made on the basis of zinc sulfide, such as white pigments consisting of mixtures with different contents of zinc sulfide and barium sulfate. (5) Pigments made from cadmium compounds, for example, yellow pigments consisting of mixtures of cadmium sulfide and barium sulfate, and red cadmium consisting of a mixture of cadmium sulfide and cadmium selenide. (6) Berlin azure and other pigments made on the basis of hexacyanoferrates (ferrocyanides and ferricyanides). Berlin azure consists of ferrocyanide trivalent iron of undefined chemical composition. It is obtained by precipitation of an alkaline ferrocyanide with a salt of two vaunted iron, followed by oxidation with hypochlorite. It is an amorphous blue solid used in the preparation of numerous pigments which are also included in this heading. This includes mineral blue (with barium sulfate and kaolin), milori green, or English greens (with yellow chromium and sometimes also with barium sulfate) and zinc greens (with zinc chromate) and compounds for producing printing paint, colored ink, carcass (with oxalic acid). Turnbull blue consists of ferricyanide divalent iron of undefined chemical composition, in pure form or in mixtures. (7) Mineral soot (other than soot of heading 2530 or 2803), for example: (a) shale soot, a mixture of various silicates and carbon, obtained by partial calcination of bituminous shales; (b) silica soot obtained by calcination of mixtures of coal and kieselgura; (c) a product known as alu soot, a mixture of aluminium oxide and carbon, obtained in May by calcination of a mixture of bauxite and tar. (8) Mineral dyes, lightened by very small amounts of synthetic organic dyes. (Dyes, whether mineral, mixed or not mixed together, but unlightened, are generally classified in heading 2530.) (9) Soluble brown Van-Dyke and similar products generally obtained by treatment of mineral dyes of heading 2530 (brown Van-Dyke, Cologne umbra or Kassel brown, etc.) with solutions of ammonia or potassium hydroxide. (10) Pigments made from cobalt compounds, such as cerulium blue. (11) Pigments consisting of finely ground ores, such as ilmenite. (12) Gray zinc (zinc oxide with a large amount of impurities). (13) Synthetic mother-of-pearl pigments, that is, such inorganic pearl pigments as: (a) bismuth chloride oxide with the addition of a small amount of surfactant; (b) mica coated with bismuth chloride oxide, titanium dioxide or t itanium dioxide and iron oxide. These products are used in the production of various cosmetics. Inorganic pigments with the addition of organic colouring substances are also classified in this heading.

These products are primary materials, mainly used in the manufacture of colours or pigments for the ceramic industry (see the Explanatory Note to heading 3207), of dyes, paints, enamels and polishes of headings 3208 – 3210 and 3212, of artists' or students' colours, or amusement colours, of heading 3213, and of printing ink (classified in heading 3215). This heading covers preparations based on the colouring matter described above, and also on colouring pigments of heading 2530 or Chapter 28, as well as metal flakes and powders, of a kind used for colouring any material or used as ingredients in the manufacture of colouring preparations, in the form of: (I) Concentrated dispersions in plastics, natural rubber, synthetic rubber, plasticisers or other media. These dispersions are used as raw materials for obtaining plastics, rubber, etc., coloured in the mass; or (II) Mixtures with relatively large quantities of surface-active agents or organic binders. These mixtures are used for colouring plastics, etc., in the mass or as ingredients in preparations for printing textiles. They are usually in the form of pastes. However, the preparations referred to in the last sentence of Note 3 to this Chapter are excluded. The heading also excludes products used as extenders in oil paints, whether or not also suitable for adding to distempers, e.g.: (a) kaolin (heading 2507); (b) calcium carbonate (heading 2509 or 2836); (c) barium sulphate (heading 2511 or 2833); (d) diatomite (heading 2512); (e) slate (heading 2514); (f) dolomite (heading 2518); (g) magnesium carbonate (heading 2519 or 2836); (h) gypsum (heading 2520); (ij) asbestos (heading 2524); (k) mica (heading 2525); (l) talc (heading 2526); (m) calcite (Iceland spar) (heading 2530); (n) aluminium hydroxide (heading 2818); (o) mixtures of two or more of the products referred to in paragraphs (a) – (n) above (mainly heading 3824).

(B) INORGANIC PRODUCTS OF A KIND USED AS LUMINOPHORES, WHETHER OR NOT CHEMICALLY DEFINED Inorganic products of a kind used as luminophores are products which, under the action of visible or invisible radiation (sunlight, ultraviolet rays, electron beams, X-rays, etc.), produce luminescence (fluorescence or phosphorescence). Most of these products consist of metal salts activated by very small quantities of activators such as silver, copper or manganese. For example, zinc sulphide,

activated by silver or copper, zinc sulfate activated by copper, zinc beryllium silicate activated by manganese. Among other products are metal salts, which owe their luminescent properties not to the presence of activating agents, but to a treatment that gives them a very specific crystal structure. These products, which are compounds of specific chemical composition and do not contain other substances, include calcium tungsramate and magnesium tungsramate. The same chemicals in nonluminescent form (e.g., less pure, with different crystalline structures) are not included (Chapter 28). Thus, amorphous calcium tungsramate used as reagent a is classified in heading 2841. Inorganic products used as phosphors sometimes contain traces of added radioactive salts that give them the ability to autoluminescence. They are to be regarded as mixtures containing radioactive substances and are to be classified in heading 2844 if the level of radioactivity exceeds 74 Bq/g (0.002 μCi/g). This heading covers inorganic products used as phosphors mixed together (e.g. copper-activated zinc sulfide mixed with copper-activated cadmium zinc sulfide) or with inorganic coloring pigments (Chapter 28 or (A) above). Luminophores are used in the preparation of fluorescent paints and for the manufacture of coatings of ek wounds of televisions, oscilloscopes, in radiography, radioscopy or radar equipment or in fluorescent lighting tubes. This heading does not cover products meeting the descriptions of headings 2843 to 2846 and 2852 (for example, a mixture of yttrium oxide and europium oxide), in whatever manner they are prepared and whatever their purpose. Explanation of the subheading. Subheading 3206 19 Preparations containing less than 80% titanium dioxide include concentrated dispersions in plastics, natural rubber, synthetic rubbers or plasticizers, and are commonly known as concentrated dyes used for dyeing plastics, rubber, etc. in mass.

Notes

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. This group does not include:

(a) individual elements or compounds of a specified chemical composition (other than products of heading 3203 or 3204, inorganic products used as phosphors (heading 3206), glass obtained from fused quartz or other fused silica in the forms specified in heading 3207, and dyes and other dyes packaged in molds or packaging for retail sale, heading 3212);

(b) Tannats or other tannin derivatives of headings 2936 to 2939, 2941 or 3501 to 3504; or

(c) Mastics of asphalt or other bitumen mastics (heading 2715).

2. Heading 3204 covers mixtures of stabilized diazonium salts and components for producing azo dyes.

3. Headings 3203 to 3206 also cover products made of colouring substances (including, in the case of heading 3206, colouring pigments of heading 2530 or of Chapter 28, metal flakes or metal powders) used for dyeing any material or as components in the manufacture of colouring agents. These headings do not, however, cover pigments dispersed in non-aqueous media, liquid or pasty, used in the manufacture of paints, including enamel (heading 3212), or other products of headings 3207 to 3210, 3212, 3213 and 3215.

4. Heading 3208 covers solutions (other than collodes) consisting of any products of headings 3901 to 3913 in volatile organic solvents where the solvent content exceeds 50% by weight of the solution.

5. The term “coloring substance” in this chapter does not refer to products used as fillers of oil paints, whether or not suitable for adhesive paints.

6. The term "embossing foil" in heading 3212 means only thin sheet materials used for imprinting, for example, on book covers or hat ribbons, and consisting of:

(a) metal powder (including precious metal powder) or pigment agglomerated with glue, gelatin or other binder; or

(b) metal (including precious metal) or pigment applied to a sheet substrate of any material.