Appendix II — Preferential import tariff

Tanning or dyeing extracts; tannins and

their derivatives; dyes, pigments and other colouring

matter; paints and varnishes; putty and other mastics; inks

Notes.

1. This Chapter does not cover:

(a) Separate chemically defined elements or compounds (except those falling in heading 32.03 or 32.04, inorganic products of a kind used as luminophores (heading 32.06), glass obtained from fused quartz or other fused silica in the forms provided for in heading 32.07, and also dyes and other colouring matter put up in forms or packings for retail sale, of heading 32.12);

(b) Tannates or other tannin derivatives of products of headings 29.36 to 29.39, 29.41 or 35.01 to 35.04; or

(c) Mastic of asphalt or other bituminous mastics (heading 27.15).

2. Heading 32.04 includes mixtures of stabilised diazonium salts and couplers for the production of azo dyes.

3. Headings 32.03, 32.04, 32.05 and 32.06 also apply to preparations based on colouring matter (including, in the case of heading 32.06, colouring pigments of heading 25.30 or Chapter 28, metallic flakes and metallic powders), of a kind used for colouring any material or used as ingredients in the manufacture of colouring preparations. These headings do not, however, apply to pigments dispersed in non-aqueous media, in liquid or paste form, of a kind used in the manufacture of paints, including enamels (heading 32.12), or to other preparations of heading 32.07, 32.08, 32.09, 32.10, 32.12, 32.13 or 32.15.

4. Heading 32.08 includes solutions (other than collodions) consisting of any of the products specified in headings 39.01 to 39.13 in volatile organic solvents when the weight of the solvent exceeds 50% of the weight of the solution.

5. The expression "colouring matter" in this Chapter does not include products of the kind used as extenders in oil paints, whether or not they are also suitable for use as colouring matter in distemper.

6. The expression "stamping foils" in heading 32.12 applies only to thin sheets of a kind used for printing, for example, book covers or hat bands, and consisting of:

(a) Metallic powder (including powder of precious metal) or pigment, agglomerated with glue, gelatin or other binder; or

(b) Metal (including precious metal) or pigment, deposited on a supporting sheet of any material.

Commodity Notes.

1. The commodity "Paint semi-finished products", according to the type of paint, classified in subheadings 32.08, 32.09, 32.10, is a product in liquid or paste form (not being colouring matter of headings 32.04, 32.06 and 32.12), having a nature, and a content of colouring matter and film-forming substances, similar to paint, which becomes finished paint after being blended with a small amount of additives and organic solvents.