Commission Regulation (EU) No 861/2010Show full title

CHAPTER 31 U.K. FERTILISERS

Notes U.K.

1. This chapter does not cover: U.K.

(a)

animal blood of heading 0511;

(b)

separate chemically defined compounds (other than those answering to the descriptions in note 2(a), 3(a), 4(a) or 5 below); or

(c)

cultured potassium chloride crystals (other than optical elements) weighing not less than 2,5 g each, of heading 3824; optical elements of potassium chloride (heading 9001).

2. Heading 3102 applies only to the following goods, provided that they are not put up in the forms or packages described in heading 3105: U.K.

(a)

goods which answer to one or other of the descriptions given below:

(1)

sodium nitrate, whether or not pure;

(2)

ammonium nitrate, whether or not pure;

(3)

double salts, whether or not pure, of ammonium sulphate and ammonium nitrate;

(4)

ammonium sulphate, whether or not pure;

(5)

double salts (whether or not pure) or mixtures of calcium nitrate and ammonium nitrate;

(6)

double salts (whether or not pure) or mixtures of calcium nitrate and magnesium nitrate;

(7)

calcium cyanamide, whether or not pure or treated with oil;

(8)

urea, whether or not pure;

(b)

fertilisers consisting of any of the goods described in (a) above mixed together;

(c)

fertilisers consisting of ammonium chloride or of any of the goods described in (a) or (b) above mixed with chalk, gypsum or other inorganic non-fertilising substances;

(d)

liquid fertilisers consisting of the goods of subparagraph (a)(2) or (8) above, or of mixtures of those goods, in an aqueous or ammoniacal solution.

3. Heading 3103 applies only to the following goods, provided that they are not put up in the forms or packages described in heading 3105: U.K.

(a)

goods which answer to one or other of the descriptions given below:

(1)

basic slag;

(2)

natural phosphates of heading 2510, calcined or further heat-treated than for the removal of impurities;

(3)

superphosphates (single, double or triple);

(4)

calcium hydrogenorthophosphate containing not less than 0,2 % by weight of fluorine calculated on the dry anhydrous product;

(b)

fertilisers consisting of any of the goods described in (a) above mixed together, but with no account being taken of the fluorine content limit;

(c)

fertilisers consisting of any of the goods described in (a) or (b) above, but with no account being taken of the fluorine content limit, mixed with chalk, gypsum or other inorganic non-fertilising substances.

4. Heading 3104 applies only to the following goods, provided that they are not put up in the forms or packages described in heading 3105: U.K.

(a)

goods which answer to one or other of the descriptions given below:

(1)

crude natural potassium salts (for example, carnallite, kainite and sylvite);

(2)

potassium chloride, whether or not pure, except as provided in note 1(c) above;

(3)

potassium sulphate, whether or not pure;

(4)

magnesium potassium sulphate, whether or not pure;

(b)

fertilisers consisting of any of the goods described in (a) above mixed together.

5. Ammonium dihydrogenorthophosphate (monoammonium phosphate) and diammonium hydrogenorthophosphate (diammonium phosphate), whether or not pure, and intermixtures thereof, are to be classified in heading 3105. U.K.

6. For the purposes of heading 3105, the term ‘other fertilisers’ applies only to products of a kind used as fertilisers and containing, as an essential constituent, at least one of the fertilising elements nitrogen, phosphorus or potassium. U.K.

CN code	Description	Conventional rate of duty (%)	Supplementary unit
31010000	Animal or vegetable fertilisers, whether or not mixed together or chemically treated; fertilisers produced by the mixing or chemical treatment of animal or vegetable products	Free	—
3102	Mineral or chemical fertilisers, nitrogenous
310210	Urea, whether or not in aqueous solution
31021010	Urea containing more than 45 % by weight of nitrogen on the dry anhydrous product	6,5	kg N
31021090	Other	6,5	kg N
Ammonium sulphate; double salts and mixtures of ammonium sulphate and ammonium nitrate
31022100	Ammonium sulphate	6,5	kg N
31022900	Other	6,5	kg N
310230	Ammonium nitrate, whether or not in aqueous solution
31023010	In aqueous solution	6,5	kg N
31023090	Other	6,5	kg N
310240	Mixtures of ammonium nitrate with calcium carbonate or other inorganic non-fertilising substances
31024010	With a nitrogen content not exceeding 28 % by weight	6,5	kg N
31024090	With a nitrogen content exceeding 28 % by weight	6,5	kg N
310250	Sodium nitrate
31025010	Natural sodium nitrate(1)	Free	—
31025090	Other	6,5	kg N
31026000	Double salts and mixtures of calcium nitrate and ammonium nitrate	6,5	kg N
31028000	Mixtures of urea and ammonium nitrate in aqueous or ammoniacal solution	6,5	kg N
31029000	Other, including mixtures not specified in the foregoing subheadings	6,5	kg N
3103	Mineral or chemical fertilisers, phosphatic
310310	Superphosphates
31031010	Containing more than 35 % by weight of diphosphorus pentaoxide	4,8	kg P2O5
31031090	Other	4,8	kg P2O5
31039000	Other	Free	kg P2O5
3104	Mineral or chemical fertilisers, potassic
310420	Potassium chloride
31042010	With a potassium content evaluated as K2O, by weight, not exceeding 40 % on the dry anhydrous product	Free	kg K2O
31042050	With a potassium content evaluated as K2O, by weight, exceeding 40 % but not exceeding 62 % on the dry anhydrous product	Free	kg K2O
31042090	With a potassium content evaluated as K2O, by weight, exceeding 62 % on the dry anhydrous product	Free	kg K2O
31043000	Potassium sulphate	Free	kg K2O
31049000	Other	Free	kg K2O
3105	Mineral or chemical fertilisers containing two or three of the fertilising elements nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium; other fertilisers; goods of this chapter in tablets or similar forms or in packages of a gross weight not exceeding 10 kg
31051000	Goods of this chapter in tablets or similar forms or in packages of a gross weight not exceeding 10 kg	6,5	—
31052000	Mineral or chemical fertilisers containing the three fertilising elements nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium	6,5	—
31053000	Diammonium hydrogenorthophosphate (diammonium phosphate)	6,5	—
31054000	Ammonium dihydrogenorthophosphate (monoammonium phosphate) and mixtures thereof with diammonium hydrogenorthophosphate (diammonium phosphate)	6,5	—
Other mineral or chemical fertilisers containing the two fertilising elements nitrogen and phosphorus
31055100	Containing nitrates and phosphates	6,5	—
31055900	Other	6,5	—
31056000	Mineral or chemical fertilisers containing the two fertilising elements phosphorus and potassium	3,2	—
310590	Other
31059010	Natural potassic sodium nitrate, consisting of a natural mixture of sodium nitrate and potassium nitrate (the proportion of potassium nitrate may be as high as 44 %), of a total nitrogen content not exceeding 16,3 % by weight on the dry anhydrous product(1)	Free	—
Other
31059091	With a nitrogen content exceeding 10 % by weight on the dry anhydrous product	6,5	—
31059099	Other	3,2	—

(1)

Entry under this subheading is subject to the conditions laid down in section II, paragraph F, of the preliminary provisions.