3825 61 — Wastes from chemical or allied industries, mainly containing organic constituents (excl. anti-freeze fluids)

3825 Residual products of the chemical or allied industries, not elsewhere specified or included; municipal waste; sewage sludge; other wastes specified in Note 6 to this Chapter: 3825 10 – Municipal waste 3825 20 – Sewage sludge 3825 30 – Clinical waste – Waste organic solvents: 3825 41 – – Halogenated 3825 49 – – Other 3825 50 – Wastes of metal pickling liquors, hydraulic fluids, brake fluids and anti-freeze fluids – Other wastes from chemical or allied industries: 3825 61 – – Mainly containing organic constituents 3825 69 – – Other 3825 90 – Other

(a) Residual products of chemical or related industries, in another place not named or included (1) Basic iron oxide for gas purification (in particular coal gas) containing crude trivalent iron oxide obtained as a by-product of the process of extracting aluminum from bauxite. These byproducts also contain sodium carbonate, silicon dioxide, etc. (2) Residues from the production of antibiotics (called "tortillas") with very low antibiotic content, suitable for use in the preparation of combined animal feed. (3) Ammonia liquids obtained as a water part of untreated coal tar condensed from coal gas, and obtained also by absorption of ammonia from coal washing waters. They are usually concentrated before transportation. These are brownish liquids used in the production of ammonium salts (in particular, ammonium sulfate) and purified and concentrated aqueous solutions of ammonia. (4) After most of the ammonia is extracted by water, coal gas is chemically purified by passing through a mass usually consisting of swamp ore or hydrated iron (III) oxide, sawdust and calcium sulfate. This mass removes some pollution from the gas.

(Hydrogen sulfide, hydrocyanic acid, etc.). After the cleaning process, the waste gas treatment mass contains a mixture of sulfur, Berlin azure, a small amount of ammonium salts and other substances and is known as the spent mass of the iron ore gas cleaner. This mass is usually in the form of powder or granules, from greenish to brownish, has an unpleasant odor and is used mainly as a source of sulfur and cyanides (in particular, Berlin azure) and as a fertilizer or insecticide. (5) Residues from the treatment of flue gases produced by power plants by means of limestone-gypsum desulfurization. These residues in solid form or in the form of a liquid cement solution can be further processed and used as a substitute for natural gypsum in the production of gypsum plates. However, purified calcium sulphate separated from these residues is excluded (heading 2833). (B) CITY WASTE This heading also includes municipal waste collected from houses, hotels, restaurants, hospitals, shops, offices, etc., road and sidewalk debris, and construction and demolition waste. Urban waste usually contains a variety of materials, such as plastic, rubber, wood, paper, fabrics, glass, metals, food waste, broken furniture and other damaged or discarded items. Individual materials or items isolated from waste (such as plastics, rubber, wood, paper, fabrics, glass or metals and spent batteries) and industrial waste are excluded and fall into the corresponding headings of the Nomenclature. (For industrial waste from chemical or related industries, see paragraph (D) below.) These materials or articles, but sorted, must also be included in the headings concerned. (C) Wastewater sludge is sludge produced in urban wastewater treatment plants, including pretreatment waste, washing water and unstabilized sludge. This heading does not cover stabilized sludge if it is suitable for use as fertilizer (Chapter 31). However, this heading covers wastewater sludges containing other materials harmful to agriculture (e.g. heavy metals) and rendering stabilized sludges unfit for use as fertilizers. (D) Other wastes referred to in NOTE 6 to this Chapter This heading also includes a wide variety of other wastes referred to in Note 6 to this Chapter. They include: (1) Clinical waste, which is contaminated waste resulting from scientific research in the field of medicine, diagnostic, curative or other medical, surgical, dental or veterinary procedures. Such wastes often contain pathogens, pharmaceuticals, and body fluids, and require special disposal procedures (e.g., contaminated clothing, used gloves, and syringes).

(2) Waste organic solvents, generally resulting from cleaning and washing processes and containing mainly organic solvents, not usable in their original state for further use as primary products, whether or not intended for the recovery of the solvents. Wastes containing mainly petroleum oils or those obtained from bituminous minerals are excluded (heading 2710). (3) Wastes of metal pickling liquors, hydraulic fluids, brake fluids and anti-freezing fluids, unfit for further use in their original state as primary products. They are generally used for the recovery of the primary products. However, the heading excludes ash and residues from waste metal pickling liquors, of a kind used for the recovery of metals or metal compounds (heading 2620), and waste hydraulic fluids and brake fluids containing mainly petroleum oils or those obtained from bituminous minerals (heading 2710). (4) Other wastes from the chemical or allied industries. This category covers, inter alia, wastes from the production, formulation and use of inks, printing inks, dyes, pigments, paints, lacquers and varnishes, other than municipal waste and spent organic solvents. They are generally heterogeneous mixtures which may vary from liquid to semi-solid dispersions in aqueous or non-aqueous media with a wide range of viscosities. They are unfit for further use as presented. However, the heading excludes slag, ash and residues from the wastes from the production, formulation and use of inks, printing inks, dyes, pigments, paints, lacquers and varnishes, used for the recovery of metals or their compounds (heading 2620), and wastes containing mainly petroleum oils or those obtained from bituminous minerals (heading 2710). The heading also excludes: (a) slag, ash and residues containing metals, arsenic or their mixtures, of a kind used in industry for the extraction of arsenic or metals or for the manufacture of their compounds (heading 2620); (b) ash and residues from the incineration of municipal waste (heading 2621); (c) terpenic by-products from the deterpenation of essential oils (heading 3301); (d) residual lyes from the manufacture of wood pulp (heading 3804).

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) separate chemically defined elements or compounds with the exception of the following:

(1) artificial graphite (heading 3801);

(2) insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, anti-sprouting products and plant-growth regulators, disinfectants and similar products, put up as described in heading 3808;

(3) products put up as charges for fire-extinguishers or put up in fire-extinguishing grenades (heading 3813);

(4) certified reference materials specified in note 2 below;

(5) products specified in note 3(a) or 3(c) below;

(b) mixtures of chemicals with foodstuffs or other substances with nutritive value, of a kind used in the preparation of human foodstuffs (generally, heading 2106);

(c) products of heading 2404;

(d) slag, ash and residues (including sludges, other than sewage sludge), containing metals, arsenic or their mixtures and meeting the requirements of note 3(a) or 3(b) to Chapter 26 (heading 2620);

(e) medicaments (heading 3003 or 3004); or

(f) spent catalysts of a kind used for the extraction of base metals or for the manufacture of chemical compounds of base metals (heading 2620), spent catalysts of a kind used principally for the recovery of precious metal (heading 7112) or catalysts consisting of metals or metal alloys in the form of, for example, finely divided powder or woven gauze (Section XIV or XV).

2. (A) For the purpose of heading 3822, the expression ‘certified reference materials’ means reference materials which are accompanied by a certificate which indicates the values of the certified properties, the methods used to determine these values and the degree of certainty associated with each value and which are suitable for analytical, calibrating or referencing purposes.

(B) With the exception of the products of Chapter 28 or 29, for the classification of certified reference materials, heading 3822 shall take precedence over any other heading in the nomenclature.

3. Heading 3824 includes the following goods which are not to be classified in any other heading of the nomenclature:

(a) cultured crystals (other than optical elements) weighing not less than 2,5 g each, of magnesium oxide or of the halides of the alkali or alkaline-earth metals;

(b) fusel oil; Dippel's oil;

(c) ink removers put up in packings for retail sale;

(d) stencil correctors, other correcting fluids and correction tapes (other than those of heading 9612), put up in packings for retail sale; and

(e) ceramic firing testers, fusible (for example, Seger cones).

4. Throughout the nomenclature, ‘municipal waste’ means waste of a kind collected from households, hotels, restaurants, hospitals, shops, offices, etc., road and pavement sweepings, as well as construction and demolition waste. Municipal waste generally contains a large variety of materials such as plastics, rubber, wood, paper, textiles, glass, metals, food materials, broken furniture and other damaged or discarded articles. The term ‘municipal waste’, however, does not cover:

(a) individual materials or articles segregated from the waste, for example wastes of plastics, rubber, wood, paper, textiles, glass or metals, electrical and electronic waste and scrap (including spent batteries) which fall in their appropriate headings of the nomenclature;

(b) industrial waste;

(c) waste pharmaceuticals, as defined in note 4(k) to Chapter 30; or

(d) clinical waste, as defined in note 6(a) below.

5. For the purposes of heading 3825, ‘sewage sludge’ means sludge arising from urban effluent treatment plant and includes pre-treatment waste, scourings and unstabilised sludge. Stabilised sludge when suitable for use as fertiliser is excluded (Chapter 31).

6. For the purposes of heading 3825, the expression ‘other wastes’ applies to:

(a) clinical waste, that is, contaminated waste arising from medical research, diagnosis, treatment or other medical, surgical, dental or veterinary procedures, which often contain pathogens and pharmaceutical substances and require special disposal procedures (for example, soiled dressings, used gloves and used syringes);

(b) waste organic solvents;

(c) wastes of metal pickling liquors, hydraulic fluids, brake fluids and anti-freezing fluids; and

(d) other wastes from chemical or allied industries. The expression ‘other wastes’ does not, however, cover wastes which contain mainly petroleum oils or oils obtained from bituminous minerals (heading 2710).

7. For the purposes of heading 3826, the term ‘biodiesel’ means mono-alkyl esters of fatty acids of a kind used as a fuel, derived from animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils whether or not used.

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. Subheadings 3808 52 and 3808 59 cover only goods of heading 3808, containing one or more of the following substances : alachlor (ISO); aldicarb (ISO); aldrin (ISO); azinphos-methyl (ISO); binapacryl (ISO); camphechlor (ISO) (toxaphene); captafol (ISO); carbofuran (ISO); chlordane (ISO); chlordimeform (ISO); chlorobenzilate (ISO); DDT (ISO) (clofenotane (INN), 1,1,1-trichloro-2,2-bis(p-chlorophenyl)ethane); dieldrin (ISO, INN); 4,6-dinitro-o-cresol (DNOC (ISO)) or its salts; dinoseb (ISO), its salts or its esters; endosulfan (ISO); ethylene dibromide (ISO) (1,2-dibromoethane); ethylene dichloride (ISO) (1,2-dichloroethane); fluoroacetamide (ISO); heptachlor (ISO); hexachlorobenzene (ISO); 1,2,3,4,5,6-hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH (ISO)), including lindane (ISO, INN); mercury compounds; methamidophos (ISO); monocrotophos (ISO); oxirane (ethylene oxide); parathion (ISO); parathion-methyl (ISO) (methyl-parathion); pentachlorophenol (ISO), its salts or its esters; perfluorooctane sulphonic acid and its salts; perfluorooctane sulphonamides; perfluorooctane sulphonyl fluoride; phosphamidon (ISO); 2,4,5-T (ISO) (2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid), its salts or its esters; tributyltin compounds; trichlorfon (ISO).

2. Subheadings 3808 61 to 3808 69 cover only goods of heading 3808, containing alpha-cypermethrin (ISO), bendiocarb (ISO), bifenthrin (ISO), chlorfenapyr (ISO), cyfluthrin (ISO), deltamethrin (INN, ISO), etofenprox (INN), fenitrothion (ISO), lambda-cyhalothrin (ISO), malathion (ISO), pirimiphos-methyl (ISO) or propoxur (ISO).

3. Subheadings 3824 81 to 3824 89 cover only mixtures and preparations containing one or more of the following substances : oxirane (ethylene oxide); polybrominated biphenyls (PBBs); polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs); polychlorinated terphenyls (PCTs); tris(2,3-dibromopropyl) phosphate; aldrin (ISO); camphechlor (ISO) (toxaphene); chlordane (ISO); chlordecone (ISO); DDT (ISO) (clofenotane (INN); 1,1,1-trichloro-2,2-bis(p-chlorophenyl)ethane); dieldrin (ISO, INN); endosulfan (ISO); endrin (ISO); heptachlor (ISO); mirex (ISO); 1,2,3,4,5,6-hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH (ISO)), including lindane (ISO, INN); pentachlorobenzene (ISO); hexachlorobenzene (ISO); perfluorooctane sulphonic acid, its salts; perfluorooctane sulphonamides; perfluorooctane sulphonyl fluoride; tetra-, penta-, hexa-, hepta- or octabromodiphenyl ethers; short-chain chlorinated paraffins. Short-chain chlorinated paraffins are mixtures of compounds, with a chlorination degree of more than 48 % by weight, with the following molecular formula : CxH(2x-y+2)Cly, where x=10 – 13 and y= 1 – 13.

4. For the purposes of subheadings 3825 41 and 3825 49, ‘waste organic solvents’ are wastes containing mainly organic solvents, not fit for further use as presented as primary products, whether or not intended for recovery of the solvents.