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Section VI
Products of the Chemical or Allied Industries

Notes

1.

(A)

Goods (excluding radioactive ores) answering to a description in heading 28.44 or 28.45 are to be classified in those headings and in no other heading of this Schedule.

(B)

Subject to paragraph (A) above, goods answering to a description in heading 28.43, 28.46 or 28.52 are to be classified in those subheadings and in no other heading of this Section.

2.

Subject to Note 1 above, goods classifiable in heading 30.04, 30.05, 30.06, 32.12, 33.03, 33.04, 33.05, 33.06, 33.07, 35.06, 37.07 or 38.08 by reason of being put up in measured doses or for retail sale are to be classified in those headings and in no other heading of this Schedule.

3.

Goods put up in sets consisting of two or more separate constituents, some or all of which fall in this Section and are intended to be mixed together to obtain a product of Section VI or VII, are to be classified in the heading appropriate to that product, provided that the constituents are:

(a)

having regard to the manner in which they are put up, clearly identifiable as being intended to be used together without first being repacked;

(b)

presented together; and

(c)

identifiable, whether by their nature or by the relative proportions in which they are present, as being complementary one to another.

4.

Where a product answers to a description in one or more of the headings in Section VI by virtue of being described by name or function and also to heading 38.27, then it is classifiable in a heading that references the product by name or function and not under heading 38.27.

Chapter 33
Essential Oils and Resinoids; Perfumery, Cosmetic or Toilet Preparations

Notes

1.

This Chapter does not cover the following:

(a)

natural oleoresins or vegetable extracts of heading 13.01 or 13.02;

(b)

soap or other products of heading 34.01; or

(c)

gum, wood or sulphate turpentine or other products of heading 38.05.

2.

The expression "odoriferous substances" in heading 33.02 refers only to the substances of heading 33.01, to odeoriferous constituents isolated from those substances or to synthetic aromatics.

3.

Headings 33.03 to 33.07 apply, inter alia,to products, whether or not mixed (excluding aqueous distillates and aqueous solutions of essential oils), suitable for use as goods of these headings and put up in packings of a kind sold by retail for such use.

4.

The expression "perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations" in heading 33.07 applies, inter alia, to the following products: scented sachets; odoriferous preparations which operate by burning; perfumed papers and papers impregnated or coated with cosmetics; contact lens or artificial eye solutions; wadding, felt and nonwovens, impregnated, coated or covered with perfume or cosmetics; animal toilet preparations.

Heading CD Description Unit General EU EFTA SADC
33.01 Essential oils (terpeneless or not), including concretes and absolutes; resinoids; extracted oleoresins; concentrates of essential oils in fats, in fixed oils, in waxes or the like, obtained by enfleurage or maceration; terpenic by-products of the deterpenation of essential oils; aqueous distillates and aqueous solutions of essential oils:
3301.1 - Essential oils of citrus fruit:
3301.19 -- Other:
3301.19.90 1 --- Other kg free free free free

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