Division 4 Heading 3006 applies only to the following, which are to be classified in that heading and in no other heading of the nomenclature:
United Kingdom
- (a)
sterile surgical catgut, similar sterile suture materials (including sterile absorbable surgical or dental yarns) and sterile tissue adhesives for surgical wound closure;
- (b)
sterile laminaria and sterile laminaria tents;
- (c)
sterile absorbable surgical or dental haemostatics; sterile surgical or dental adhesion barriers, whether or not absorbable;
- (d)
opacifying preparations for X-ray examinations and diagnostic reagents designed to be administered to the patient, being unmixed products put up in measured doses or products consisting of two or more ingredients which have been mixed together for such uses;
- (e)
blood-grouping reagents;
- (f)
dental cements and other dental fillings; bone reconstruction cements;
- (g)
first-aid boxes and kits;
- (h)
chemical contraceptive preparations based on hormones, on other products of heading 2937 or on spermicides;
- (ij)
gel preparations designed to be used in human or veterinary medicine as a lubricant for parts of the body for surgical operations or physical examinations or as a coupling agent between the body and medical instruments;
- (k)
waste pharmaceuticals, that is, pharmaceutical products which are unfit for their original intended purpose due to, for example, expiry of shelf life; and
- (l)
appliances identifiable for ostomy use, that is, colostomy, ileostomy and urostomy pouches cut to shape and their adhesive wafers or faceplates.
Notes on Chapter 30
Footnotes
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Autonomous rate of duty: Free.