25 SALT; SULPHUR; EARTHS AND STONE; PLASTERING MATERIALS, LIME AND CEMENT

Duty rate for goods from outside the EU

No duty rate is set for this code.

Other measures can apply depending on the country of origin, for example preferences, quotas or anti-dumping duties. Check the TARIC for your case.

Import VAT, standard rate

• Netherlands: 21%
• Germany: 19%
• France: 20%
• Belgium: 21%

Standard rate. A reduced rate can apply to some goods.

Codes below this level

• 2501 00 Salt (including table salt and denatured salt) and pure sodium chloride, whether or not in aqueous solution or containing added anti-caking or free-flowing agents; sea water:
• 2502 00 00 Unroasted iron pyrites
• 2503 00 Sulphur of all kinds, other than sublimed sulphur, precipitated sulphur and colloidal sulphur:
• 2504 Natural graphite:
• 2505 Natural sands of all kinds, whether or not coloured, other than metal-bearing sands of Chapter 26:
• 2506 Quartz (other than natural sands); quartzite, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape:
• 2507 00 Kaolin and other kaolinic clays, whether or not calcined:
• 2508 Other clays (not including expanded clays of heading 6806), andalusite, kyanite and sillimanite, whether or not calcined; mullite; chamotte or dinas earths:
• 2509 00 00 Chalk
• 2510 Natural calcium phosphates, natural aluminium calcium phosphates and phosphatic chalk:
• 2511 Natural barium sulphate (barytes); natural barium carbonate (witherite), whether or not calcined, other than barium oxide of heading 2816:
• 2512 00 00 Siliceous fossil meals (for example, kieselguhr, tripolite and diatomite) and similar siliceous earths, whether or not calcined, of an apparent specific gravity of 1 or less
• 2513 Pumice stone; emery; natural corundum, natural garnet and other natural abrasives, whether or not heat-treated:
• 2514 00 00 Slate, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape
• 2515 Marble, travertine, ecaussine and other calcareous monumental or building stone of an apparent specific gravity of 2,5 or more, and alabaster, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape:
• 2516 Granite, porphyry, basalt, sandstone and other monumental or building stone, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape:
• 2517 Pebbles, gravel, broken or crushed stone, of a kind commonly used for concrete aggregates, for road metalling or for railway or other ballast, shingle and flint, whether or not heat-treated; macadam of slag, dross or similar industrial waste, whether or not incorporating the materials cited in the first part of the heading; tarred macadam; granules, chippings and powder, of stones of heading 2515 or 2516, whether or not heat-treated:
• 2518 Dolomite, whether or not calcined or sintered, including dolomite roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape:
• 2519 Natural magnesium carbonate (magnesite); fused magnesia; dead-burned (sintered) magnesia, whether or not containing small quantities of other oxides added before sintering; other magnesium oxide, whether or not pure:
• 2520 Gypsum; anhydrite; plasters (consisting of calcined gypsum or calcium sulphate) whether or not coloured, with or without small quantities of accelerators or retarders:
• 2521 00 00 Limestone flux; limestone and other calcareous stone, of a kind used for the manufacture of lime or cement
• 2522 Quicklime, slaked lime and hydraulic lime, other than calcium oxide and hydroxide of heading 2825:
• 2523 Portland cement, aluminous cement, slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers:
• 2524 Asbestos:
• 2525 Mica, including splittings; mica waste:
• 2526 Natural steatite, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape; talc:
• 2528 00 00 Natural borates and concentrates thereof (whether or not calcined), but not including borates separated from natural brine; natural boric acid containing not more than 85 % of H3BO3 calculated on the dry weight
• 2529 Feldspar; leucite; nepheline and nepheline syenite; fluorspar:
• 2530 Mineral substances not elsewhere specified or included:

Notes of the nomenclature