# Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1776 of 9 October 2019 amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff, Chapter 28: INORGANIC CHEMICALS; ORGANIC OR INORGANIC COMPOUNDS OF PRECIOUS METALS, OF RARE-EARTH METALS, OF RADIOACTIVE ELEMENTS OR OF ISOTOPES Extent: E+W+S+N.I. CN code Description Conventional rate of duty (%) Supplementary unit 2801 Fluorine, chlorine, bromine and iodine 28011000 Chlorine 5,5 — 28012000 Iodine Free — 280130 Fluorine; bromine 28013010 Fluorine 5 — 28013090 Bromine 5,5 — 28020000 Sulphur, sublimed or precipitated; colloidal sulphur 4,6 — 28030000 Carbon (carbon blacks and other forms of carbon not elsewhere specified or included) Free — 2804 Hydrogen, rare gases and other non-metals 28041000 Hydrogen 3,7 m3 Rare gases 28042100 Argon 5 m3 280429 Other 28042910 Helium Free m3 28042990 Other 5 m3 28043000 Nitrogen 5,5 m3 28044000 Oxygen 5 m3 280450 Boron; tellurium 28045010 Boron 5,5 — 28045090 Tellurium 2,1 — Silicon 28046100 Containing by weight not less than 99,99 % of silicon Free — 28046900 Other 5,5 — 28047000 Phosphorus 5,5 — 28048000 Arsenic 2,1 — 28049000 Selenium Free — 2805 Alkali or alkaline-earth metals; rare-earth metals, scandium and yttrium, whether or not intermixed or interalloyed; mercury Alkali or alkaline-earth metals 28051100 Sodium 5 — 28051200 Calcium 5,5 — 280519 Other 28051910 Strontium and barium 5,5 — 28051990 Other 4,1 — 280530 Rare-earth metals, scandium and yttrium, whether or not intermixed or interalloyed 28053010 Intermixtures or interalloys 5,5 — Other Of a purity by weight of 95% or more 28053020 Cerium, lanthanum, praseodymium, neodymium and samarium 2,7 — 28053030 Europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium, lutetium and yttrium 2,7 — 28053040 Scandium 2,7 — 28053080 Other 2,7 — 280540 Mercury 28054010 In flasks of a net content of 34,5 kg (standard weight), of a fob value, per flask, not exceeding € 224 3 — 28054090 Other Free — 2806 Hydrogen chloride (hydrochloric acid); chlorosulphuric acid 28061000 Hydrogen chloride (hydrochloric acid) 5,5 — 28062000 Chlorosulphuric acid 5,5 — 28070000 Sulphuric acid; oleum 3 — 28080000 Nitric acid; sulphonitric acids 5,5 — 2809 Diphosphorus pentaoxide; phosphoric acid; polyphosphoric acids, whether or not chemically defined 28091000 Diphosphorus pentaoxide 5,5 kg P2O5 28092000 Phosphoric acid and polyphosphoric acids 5,5 kg P2O5 281000 Oxides of boron; boric acids 28100010 Diboron trioxide Free — 28100090 Other 3,7 — 2811 Other inorganic acids and other inorganic oxygen compounds of non-metals Other inorganic acids 28111100 Hydrogen fluoride (hydrofluoric acid) 5,5 — 28111200 Hydrogen cyanide (hydrocyanic acid) 5,3 — 281119 Other 28111910 Hydrogen bromide (hydrobromic acid) Free — 28111980 Other 5,3 — Other inorganic oxygen compounds of non-metals 28112100 Carbon dioxide 5,5 — 28112200 Silicon dioxide 4,6 — 281129 Other 28112905 Sulphur dioxide 5,5 — 28112910 Sulphur trioxide (sulphuric anhydride); diarsenic trioxide 4,6 — 28112930 Nitrogen oxides 5 — 28112990 Other 5,3 — 2812 Halides and halide oxides of non-metals Chlorides and chloride oxides 28121100 Carbonyl dichloride (phosgene) 5,5 — 28121200 Phosphorus oxychloride 5,5 — 28121300 Phosphorus trichloride 5,5 — 28121400 Phosphorus pentachloride 5,5 — 28121500 Sulphur monochloride 5,5 — 28121600 Sulphur dichloride 5,5 — 28121700 Thionyl chloride 5,5 — 281219 Other 28121910 Of phosphorus 5,5 — 28121990 Other 5,5 — 28129000 Other 5,5 — 2813 Sulphides of non-metals; commercial phosphorus trisulphide 28131000 Carbon disulphide 5,5 — 281390 Other 28139010 Phosphorus sulphides, commercial phosphorus trisulphide 5,3 — 28139090 Other 3,7 — 2814 Ammonia, anhydrous or in aqueous solution 28141000 Anhydrous ammonia 5,5 — 28142000 Ammonia in aqueous solution 5,5 — 2815 Sodium hydroxide (caustic soda); potassium hydroxide (caustic potash); peroxides of sodium or potassium Sodium hydroxide (caustic soda) 28151100 Solid 5,5 — 28151200 In aqueous solution (soda lye or liquid soda) 5,5 kg NaOH 28152000 Potassium hydroxide (caustic potash) 5,5 kg KOH 28153000 Peroxides of sodium or potassium 5,5 — 2816 Hydroxide and peroxide of magnesium; oxides, hydroxides and peroxides, of strontium or barium 28161000 Hydroxide and peroxide of magnesium 4,1 — 28164000 Oxides, hydroxides and peroxides, of strontium or barium 5,5 — 28170000 Zinc oxide; zinc peroxide 5,5 — 2818 Artificial corundum, whether or not chemically defined; aluminium oxide; aluminium hydroxide 281810 Artificial corundum, whether or not chemically defined With an aluminium oxide content of 98,5 % by weight or more 28181011 With less than 50 % of the total weight having a particle size of more than 10 mm 5,2 — 28181019 With 50 % or more of the total weight having a particle size of more than 10 mm 5,2 — With an aluminium oxide content of less than 98,5 % by weight 28181091 With less than 50 % of the total weight having a particle size of more than 10 mm 5,2 — 28181099 With 50 % or more of the total weight having a particle size of more than 10 mm 5,2 — 28182000 Aluminium oxide, other than artificial corundum 4 — 28183000 Aluminium hydroxide 5,5 — 2819 Chromium oxides and hydroxides 28191000 Chromium trioxide 5,5 — 281990 Other 28199010 Chromium dioxide 3,7 — 28199090 Other 5,5 — 2820 Manganese oxides 28201000 Manganese dioxide 5,3 — 282090 Other 28209010 Manganese oxide containing by weight 77 % or more of manganese Free — 28209090 Other 5,5 — 2821 Iron oxides and hydroxides; earth colours containing 70 % or more by weight of combined iron evaluated as Fe2O3 28211000 Iron oxides and hydroxides 4,6 — 28212000 Earth colours 4,6 — 28220000 Cobalt oxides and hydroxides; commercial cobalt oxides 4,6 — 28230000 Titanium oxides 5,5 — 2824 Lead oxides; red lead and orange lead 28241000 Lead monoxide (litharge, massicot) 5,5 — 28249000 Other 5,5 — 2825 Hydrazine and hydroxylamine and their inorganic salts; other inorganic bases; other metal oxides, hydroxides and peroxides 28251000 Hydrazine and hydroxylamine and their inorganic salts 5,5 — 28252000 Lithium oxide and hydroxide 5,3 — 28253000 Vanadium oxides and hydroxides 5,5 — 28254000 Nickel oxides and hydroxides Free — 28255000 Copper oxides and hydroxides 3,2 — 28256000 Germanium oxides and zirconium dioxide 5,5 — 28257000 Molybdenum oxides and hydroxides 5,3 — 28258000 Antimony oxides 5,5 — 282590 Other Calcium oxide, hydroxide and peroxide 28259011 Calcium hydroxide of a purity of 98 % or more calculated on the dry weight, in the form of particles of which: not more than 1 % by weight have a particle-size exceeding 75 micrometres and not more than 4 % by weight have a particle-size of less than 1,3 micrometres Free — 28259019 Other 4,6 — 28259020 Beryllium oxide and hydroxide 5,3 — 28259040 Tungsten oxides and hydroxides 4,6 — 28259060 Cadmium oxide Free — 28259085 Other 5,5 — 2826 Fluorides; fluorosilicates, fluoroaluminates and other complex fluorine salts Fluorides 28261200 Of aluminium 5,3 — 282619 Other 28261910 Of ammonium or of sodium 5,5 — 28261990 Other 5,3 — 28263000 Sodium hexafluoroaluminate (synthetic cryolite) 5,5 — 282690 Other 28269010 Dipotassium hexafluorozirconate 5 — 28269080 Other 5,5 — 2827 Chlorides, chloride oxides and chloride hydroxides; bromides and bromide oxides; iodides and iodide oxides 28271000 Ammonium chloride 5,5 — 28272000 Calcium chloride 4,6 — Other chlorides 28273100 Of magnesium 4,6 — 28273200 Of aluminium 5,5 — 28273500 Of nickel 5,5 — 282739 Other 28273910 Of tin 4,1 — 28273920 Of iron 2,1 — 28273930 Of cobalt 5,5 — 28273985 Other 5,5 — Chloride oxides and chloride hydroxides 28274100 Of copper 3,2 — 282749 Other 28274910 Of lead 3,2 — 28274990 Other 5,3 — Bromides and bromide oxides 28275100 Bromides of sodium or of potassium 5,5 — 28275900 Other 5,5 — 28276000 Iodides and iodide oxides 5,5 — 2828 Hypochlorites; commercial calcium hypochlorite; chlorites; hypobromites 28281000 Commercial calcium hypochlorite and other calcium hypochlorites 5,5 — 28289000 Other 5,5 — 2829 Chlorates and perchlorates; bromates and perbromates; iodates and periodates Chlorates 28291100 Of sodium 5,5 — 28291900 Other 5,5 — 282990 Other 28299010 Perchlorates 4,8 — 28299040 Bromates of potassium or of sodium Free — 28299080 Other 5,5 — 2830 Sulphides; polysulphides, whether or not chemically defined 28301000 Sodium sulphides 5,5 — 283090 Other 28309011 Sulphides of calcium, of antimony or of iron 4,6 — 28309085 Other 5,5 — 2831 Dithionites and sulphoxylates 28311000 Of sodium 5,5 — 28319000 Other 5,5 — 2832 Sulphites; thiosulphates 28321000 Sodium sulphites 5,5 — 28322000 Other sulphites 5,5 — 28323000 Thiosulphates 5,5 — 2833 Sulphates; alums; peroxosulphates (persulphates) Sodium sulphates 28331100 Disodium sulphate 5,5 — 28331900 Other 5,5 — Other sulphates 28332100 Of magnesium 5,5 — 28332200 Of aluminium 5,5 — 28332400 Of nickel 5 — 28332500 Of copper 3,2 — 28332700 Of barium 5,5 — 283329 Other 28332920 Of cadmium; of chromium; of zinc 5,5 — 28332930 Of cobalt; of titanium 5,3 — 28332960 Of lead 4,6 — 28332980 Other 5 — 28333000 Alums 5,5 — 28334000 Peroxosulphates (persulphates) 5,5 — 2834 Nitrites; nitrates 28341000 Nitrites 5,5 — Nitrates 28342100 Of potassium 5,5 — 283429 Other 28342920 Of barium; of beryllium; of cadmium; of cobalt; of nickel; of lead 5,5 — 28342940 Of copper 4,6 — 28342980 Other 3 — 2835 Phosphinates (hypophosphites), phosphonates (phosphites) and phosphates; polyphosphates, whether or not chemically defined 28351000 Phosphinates (hypophosphites) and phosphonates (phosphites) 5,5 — Phosphates 28352200 Of mono- or disodium 5,5 — 28352400 Of potassium 5,5 — 28352500 Calcium hydrogenorthophosphate (‘dicalcium phosphate’) 5,5 — 28352600 Other phosphates of calcium 5,5 — 283529 Other 28352910 Of triammonium 5,3 — 28352930 Of trisodium 5,5 — 28352990 Other 5,5 — Polyphosphates 28353100 Sodium triphosphate (sodium tripolyphosphate) 5,5 — 28353900 Other 5,5 — 2836 Carbonates; peroxocarbonates (percarbonates); commercial ammonium carbonate containing ammonium carbamate 28362000 Disodium carbonate 5,5 — 28363000 Sodium hydrogencarbonate (sodium bicarbonate) 5,5 — 28364000 Potassium carbonates 5,5 — 28365000 Calcium carbonate 5 — 28366000 Barium carbonate 5,5 — Other 28369100 Lithium carbonates 5,5 — 28369200 Strontium carbonate 5,5 — 283699 Other Carbonates 28369911 Of magnesium; of copper 3,7 — 28369917 Other 5,5 — 28369990 Peroxocarbonates (percarbonates) 5,5 — 2837 Cyanides, cyanide oxides and complex cyanides Cyanides and cyanide oxides 28371100 Of sodium 5,5 — 28371900 Other 5,5 — 28372000 Complex cyanides 5,5 — 2838 2839 Silicates; commercial alkali metal silicates Of sodium 28391100 Sodium metasilicates 5 — 28391900 Other 5 — 28399000 Other 5 — 2840 Borates; peroxoborates (perborates) Disodium tetraborate (refined borax) 28401100 Anhydrous Free — 284019 Other 28401910 Disodium tetraborate pentahydrate Free — 28401990 Other 5,3 — 284020 Other borates 28402010 Borates of sodium, anhydrous Free — 28402090 Other 5,3 — 28403000 Peroxoborates (perborates) 5,5 — 2841 Salts of oxometallic or peroxometallic acids 28413000 Sodium dichromate 5,5 — 28415000 Other chromates and dichromates; peroxochromates 5,5 — Manganites, manganates and permanganates 28416100 Potassium permanganate 5,5 — 28416900 Other 5,5 — 28417000 Molybdates 5,5 — 28418000 Tungstates (wolframates) 5,5 — 284190 Other 28419030 Zincates and vanadates 4,6 — 28419085 Other 5,5 — 2842 Other salts of inorganic acids or peroxoacids (including aluminosilicates whether or not chemically defined), other than azides 28421000 Double or complex silicates, including aluminosilicates whether or not chemically defined 5,5 — 284290 Other 28429010 Salts, double salts or complex salts of selenium or tellurium acids 5,3 — 28429080 Other 5,5 — 2843 Colloidal precious metals; inorganic or organic compounds of precious metals, whether or not chemically defined; amalgams of precious metals 284310 Colloidal precious metals 28431010 Silver 5,3 — 28431090 Other 3,7 — Silver compounds 28432100 Silver nitrate 5,5 — 28432900 Other 5,5 — 28433000 Gold compounds 3 g 284390 Other compounds; amalgams 28439010 Amalgams 5,3 — 28439090 Other 3 g 2844 Radioactive chemical elements and radioactive isotopes (including the fissile or fertile chemical elements and isotopes) and their compounds; mixtures and residues containing these products 284410 Natural uranium and its compounds; alloys, dispersions (including cermets), ceramic products and mixtures containing natural uranium or natural uranium compounds Natural uranium 28441010 Crude; waste and scrap (Euratom) Free kg U 28441030 Worked (Euratom) Free kg U 28441050 Ferro-uranium Free kg U 28441090 Other (Euratom) Free kg U 284420 Uranium enriched in U 235 and its compounds; plutonium and its compounds; alloys, dispersions (including cermets), ceramic products and mixtures containing uranium enriched in U 235, plutonium or compounds of these products Uranium enriched in U 235 and its compounds; alloys, dispersions (including cermets), ceramic products and mixtures containing uranium enriched in U 235 or compounds of these products 28442025 Ferro-uranium Free gi F/S 28442035 Other (Euratom) Free gi F/S Plutonium and its compounds; alloys, dispersions (including cermets), ceramic products and mixtures containing plutonium or compounds of these products Mixtures of uranium and plutonium 28442051 Ferro-uranium Free gi F/S 28442059 Other (Euratom) Free gi F/S 28442099 Other Free gi F/S 284430 Uranium depleted in U 235 and its compounds; thorium and its compounds; alloys, dispersions (including cermets), ceramic products and mixtures containing uranium depleted in U 235, thorium or compounds of these products Uranium depleted in U 235; alloys, dispersions (including cermets), ceramic products and mixtures containing uranium depleted in U 235 or compounds of this product 28443011 Cermets 5,5 — 28443019 Other 2,9 — Thorium; alloys, dispersions (including cermets), ceramic products and mixtures containing thorium or compounds of this product 28443051 Cermets 5,5 — Other 28443055 Crude, waste and scrap (Euratom) Free — Worked 28443061 Bars, rods, angles, shapes and sections, sheets and strips (Euratom) Free — 28443069 Other (Euratom) 1,5 — Compounds of uranium depleted in U 235 or of thorium, whether or not mixed together 28443091 Of thorium or of uranium depleted in U 235, whether or not mixed together (Euratom), other than thorium salts Free — 28443099 Other Free — 284440 Radioactive elements and isotopes and compounds other than those of subheading 2844 10, 2844 20 or 2844 30; alloys, dispersions (including cermets), ceramic products and mixtures containing these elements, isotopes or compounds; radioactive residues 28444010 Uranium derived from U 233 and its compounds; alloys, dispersions (including cermets), ceramic products and mixtures and compounds derived from U 233 or compounds of this product Free — Other 28444020 Artificial radioactive isotopes (Euratom) Free — 28444030 Compounds of artificial radioactive isotopes (Euratom) Free — 28444080 Other Free — 28445000 Spent (irradiated) fuel elements (cartridges) of nuclear reactors (Euratom) Free gi F/S 2845 Isotopes other than those of heading 2844; compounds, inorganic or organic, of such isotopes, whether or not chemically defined 28451000 Heavy water (deuterium oxide) (Euratom) 5,5 — 284590 Other 28459010 Deuterium and compounds thereof; hydrogen and compounds thereof, enriched in deuterium; mixtures and solutions containing these products (Euratom) 5,5 — 28459090 Other 5,5 — 2846 Compounds, inorganic or organic, of rare-earth metals, of yttrium or of scandium or of mixtures of these metals 28461000 Cerium compounds 3,2 — 284690 Other 28469010 Compounds of lanthanum, praseodymium, neodymium or samarium 3,2 — 28469020 Compounds of europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium, lutetium or yttrium 3,2 — 28469030 Scandium compounds 3,2 — 28469090 Compounds of mixtures of metals 3,2 — 28470000 Hydrogen peroxide, whether or not solidified with urea 5,5 kg H2O2 2848 2849 Carbides, whether or not chemically defined 28491000 Of calcium 5,5 — 28492000 Of silicon 5,5 — 284990 Other 28499010 Of boron 4,1 — 28499030 Of tungsten 5,5 — 28499050 Of aluminium; of chromium; of molybdenum; of vanadium; of tantalum; of titanium 5,5 — 28499090 Other 5,3 — 285000 Hydrides, nitrides, azides, silicides and borides, whether or not chemically defined, other than compounds which are also carbides of heading 2849 28500020 Hydrides; nitrides 4,6 — 28500060 Azides; silicides 5,5 — 28500090 Borides 5,3 — 2851 2852 Inorganic or organic compounds of mercury, whether or not chemically defined, excluding amalgams 28521000 Chemically defined 5,5 — 28529000 Other 5,5 — 2853 Phosphides, whether or not chemically defined, excluding ferrophosphorus; other inorganic compounds (including distilled or conductivity water and water of similar purity); liquid air (whether or not rare gases have been removed); compressed air; amalgams, other than amalgams of precious metals 28531000 Cyanogen chloride (chlorcyan) 5,5 — 285390 Other 28539010 Distilled or conductivity water and water of similar purity 2,7 — 28539030 Liquid air (whether or not rare gases have been removed); compressed air 4,1 — 28539090 Other 5,5 — --- Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2019/1776/annex/I/chapter/28 (the official version) Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-1776/annex-I/chapter-28 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. 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