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HS Code 30
Pharmaceutical products
- 1. This chapter does not cover:
- (a) Foods or beverages (such as dietetic, diabetic or fortified foods, food supplements, tonic beverages and mineral waters), other than nutritional preparations for intravenous administration (section IV);
- (b) Products, such as tablets, chewing gum or patches (transdermal systems), containing nicotine and intended to assist tobacco use cessation (heading 2404);
- (c) Plasters specially calcined or finely ground for use in dentistry (heading 2520);
- (d) Aqueous distillates or aqueous solutions of essential oils, suitable for medicinal uses (heading 3301);
- (e) Preparations of headings 3303 to 3307, even if they have therapeutic or prophylactic properties;
- (f) Soap or other products of heading 3401 containing added medicaments;
- (g) Preparations with a basis of plaster for use in dentistry (heading 3407);
- (h) Blood albumin not prepared for therapeutic or prophylactic uses (heading 3502); or
- (ij) Diagnostic reagents of heading 3822.
- 2. For the purposes of heading 3002, the expression "immunological products" applies to peptides and proteins (other than goods of heading 2937) which are directly involved in the regulation of immunological processes, such as monoclonal antibodies (MAB), antibody fragments, antibody conjugates and antibody fragment conjugates, interleukins, interferons (IFN), chemokines and certain tumor necrosis factors (TNF), growth factors (GF), hematopoietins and colony stimulating factors (CSF).
- 3. For the purposes of headings 3003 and 3004 and of note 4(d) to this chapter the following are to be treated--
- (a) As unmixed products:
- (1) Unmixed products dissolved in water;
- (2) All goods of chapter 28 or 29; and
- (3) Simple vegetable extracts of heading 1302, merely standardized or dissolved in any solvent;
- (b) As products which have been mixed:
- (1) Colloidal solutions and suspensions (other than colloidal sulfur);
- (2) Vegetable extracts obtained by the treatment of mixtures of vegetable materials; and
- (3) Salts and concentrates obtained by evaporating natural mineral waters.
- (a) As unmixed products:
- 4. Heading 3006 applies only to the following, which are to be classified in that heading and in no other heading of the tariff schedule:
- (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 hemostatics, 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) Placebos and blinded (or double-blinded) clinical trial kits for use in recognized clinical trials, put up in measured doses, even if they might contain active medicaments.
- (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, for example, because of 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.
Subheading Notes- 1. For the purposes of subheadings 3002.13 and 3002.14, the following are to be treated:
- (a) As unmixed products, pure products, whether or not containing impurities;
- (b) As products which have been mixed:
- (1) The products mentioned in (a) above dissolved in water or in other solvents;
- (2) The products mentioned in (a) and (b)(1) above with an added stabilizer necessary for their preservation or transport; and
- (3) The products mentioned in (a), (b)(1) and (b)(2) above with any other additive.
- 2. Subheadings 3003.60 and 3004.60 cover medicaments containing artemisinin (INN) for oral ingestion combined with other pharmaceutical active ingredients, or containing any of the following active principles, whether or not combined with other pharmaceutical active ingredients: amodiaquine (INN); artelinic acid or its salts; artenimol (INN); artemotil (INN); artemether (INN); artesunate (INN); chloroquine (INN); dihydroartemisinin (INN); lumafantrine (INN); mefloquine (INN); piperaquine (INN); pyrimethamine (INN) or sulfadoxine (INN).
U.S. Tariff Rates
A/Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) (duty-free treatment).
Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Anguilla, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia-Hercegov, Botswana, Br Virgin Is, Br Indian O Ter, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Cen African Rep, Chad, Christmas Is, Cocos Is, Comoros, Congo (DROC), Congo (ROC), Cook Is, Cote d`Ivoire, Djibouti, Dominica Is, Ecuador, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Is, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Gaza Strip, Georgia, Ghana, Grenada Is, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Heard & McDn Is, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Maldive Is, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat Is, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Norfolk Is, Pakistan, Papua New Guin, Paraguay, Philippines, Pitcairn Is, Rwanda, Samoa, Sao Tome & Prin, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Solomon Is, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, St Helena, St Kitts-Nevis, St Lucia Is, St Vinc & Gren, Suriname, Swaziland, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tokelau Is, Tonga, Tunisia, Turkey, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Wallis & Futuna, West Bank, Western Sahara, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe
A+/Only imports from least-developed beneficiary developing countries eligible for GSP under that subheading (duty-free treatment).
Afghanistan, Angola, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cen African Rep, Chad, Comoros, Congo (DROC), Djibouti, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Kiribati, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Nepal, Niger, Rwanda, Samoa, Sao Tome & Prin, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Is, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tuvalu, Uganda, Vanuatu, Yemen, Zambia
AU/Australia Special Rate
Australia
BH/Bahrain Special Rate
Bahrain
CL/Chile Special Rate
Chile
CO/Colombia Special Rate
Colombia
D/Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) (duty-free treatment)
Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chad, Comoros, Congo (ROC), Cote d`Ivoire, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome & Prin, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia
E/Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI)
CBERA
IL/Israel Special Rate (duty-free treatment)
Israel
JO/Jordan Special Rate
Jordan
K/Agreement on Trade in Pharmaceutical Products (duty-free treatment);
Afghanistan, Albania, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia-Hercegov, Botswana, Br Virgin Is, Br Indian O Ter, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burma (Myanmar), Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Cayman Is, Cen African Rep, Chad, Chile, China, Christmas Is, Cocos Is, Colombia, Comoros, Congo (DROC), Congo (ROC), Cook Is, Costa Rica, Cote d`Ivoire, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica Is, Dominican Rep, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Eq Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Ethiopia 89-93, F St Micronesia, Falkland Is, Faroe Islands, Fiji, Finland, Fr Polynesia, Fr S & Ant land, France, French Guiana, Gabon, Gambia, Gaza Strip, Georgia, Germany, Germany DR, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Grenada Is, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Heard & McDn Is, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Internat Org, Iran, Iraq, Iraq-Saudi Arb, Ireland, Israel, Israel 1989, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Korea, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macao, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldive Is, Mali, Malta, Marshall Is, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat Is, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, Netherlands Ant, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Norfolk Is, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guin, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Pitcairn Is, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico/US, Qatar, Reunion, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome & Prin, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Serbia, Serbia/Montenegro, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Solomon Is, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Soviet Union, Spain, Sri Lanka, St Helena, St Kitts-Nevis, St Lucia Is, St Pierre & Miq, St Vinc & Gren, Sudan, Sudan pre-2012, Suriname, Svalbard,May Is, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tokelau Is, Tonga, Transshipment, Trin & Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Turks & Caic Is, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Em, United Kingdom, Unspecified, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City, Venezuela, Vietnam, Wallis & Futuna, West Bank, Western Sahara, Yemen, Yemen (Aden), Zambia, Zimbabwe
KR/Korea Special Rate
Korea
MA/Morocco Special Rate
Morocco
OM/Oman Special Rate
Oman
P/Dominican Republic- Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA)
CAFTA + Dom. Rep.
P+/Dominican Republic- Central America Free Trade Agreement Plus (DR-CAFTA Plus)
CAFTA + Dom. Rep.
PA/Panama Special Rate
Panama
PE/Peru Special Rate
Peru
SG/Singapore Special Rate
Singapore