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

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

the products mentioned in (a) above dissolved in other solvents provided 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;

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

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 the additions do not render the product particularly suitable for specific use rather than for general use.

oxides of carbon, hydrogen cyanide and fulminic, isocyanic, thiocyanic and other simple or complex cyanogen acids (heading 28.11);

halide oxides of carbon (heading 28.12);

carbon disulphide (heading 28.13);

thiocarbonates, selenocarbonates, tellurocarbonates, selenocyanates, tellurocyanates, tetrathiocyanatodiamminochromates (reineckates) and other complex cyanates, of inorganic bases (heading 28.42);

hydrogen peroxide, solidified with urea (heading 28.47), carbon oxysulphide, thiocarbonyl halides, cyanogen, cyanogen halides and cyanamide and its metal derivatives (heading 28.53) (excluding calcium cyanamide, whether or not pure) (Chapter 31).

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

organo-inorganic compounds (excluding those mentioned in Note 2 above);

products mentioned in Note 2, 3, 4 or 5 to Chapter 31;

inorganic products of a kind used as luminophores, of heading 32.06; glass frit and other glass in the form of powder, granules or flakes, of heading 32.07;

artificial graphite (heading 38.01); products put up as charges for fire-extinguishers or put up in fire-extinguishing grenades, of heading 38.13; ink removers put up in packings for retail sale, of heading 38.24; cultured crystals (excluding optical elements) weighing not less than 2,5 g each, of the halides of the alkali or alkaline-earth metals, of heading 38.24;

precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed) or dust or powder of such stones (headings 71.02 to 71.05), or precious metals or precious metal alloys of Chapter 71;

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

optical elements, for example, of the halides of the alkali or alkaline-earth metals (heading 90.01).

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

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

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

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 (µ0,002 Ci/g);

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

radioactive residues whether or not usable. The term "isotopes", for the purposes of this Note and of the wording of headings 28.44 and 28.45, 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.

separate chemically defined organic compounds, whether or not containing impurities;

mixtures of two or more isomers of the same organic compound (whether or not containing impurities), except mixtures of acyclic hydrocarbon isomers (excluding stereoisomers), whether or not saturated (Chapter 27);

the products of headings 29.36 to 29.39 or the sugar ethers, sugar acetals and sugar esters, and their salts, of heading 29.40, or the products of heading 29.41, whether or not chemically defined;

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

the products mentioned in (a), (b) or (c) above dissolved in other solvents provided 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;

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

The products mentioned in (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) or (f) above with an added anti-dusting agent or a colouring or odoriferous substance or an emetic 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;

the following products, diluted to standard strengths, for the production of azo dyes: diazonium salts, couplers used for these salts and diazotisable amines and their salts.

goods of heading 15.04 or crude glycerol of heading 15.20;

ethyl alcohol (heading 22.07 or 22.08);

methane or propane (heading 27.11);

the compounds of carbon mentioned in Note 2 to Chapter 28;

immunological products of heading 30.02;

urea (heading 31.02 or 31.05);

colouring matter of vegetable or animal origin (heading 32.03), synthetic organic colouring matter, synthetic organic products of a kind used as fluorescent brightening agents or as luminophores (heading 32.04) or dyes or other colouring matter put up in forms or packings for retail sale (heading 32.12);

enzymes (heading 35.07);

metaldehyde, hexamethylenetetramine or similar substances, put up in forms (for example, tablets, sticks or similar forms) for use as fuels, or liquid or liquefied-gas fuels in containers of a kind used for filling or refilling cigarette or similar lighters and of a capacity not exceeding 300 cm³ (heading 36.06);

products put up as charges for fire-extinguishers or put up in fire-extinguishing grenades, of heading 38.13; ink removers put up in packings for retail sale, of heading 38.24; or

optical elements, for example, of ethylenediamine tartrate (heading 90.01).

the term "hormones" includes hormone-releasing or hormone-stimulating factors, hormone inhibitors and hormone antagonists (anti-hormones);

the expression "used primarily as hormones" applies not only to hormone derivatives and structural analogues used primarily for their hormonal effect, but also to those derivatives and structural analogues used primarily as intermediates in the synthesis of products of this heading.