HS chapter 25: Salt
Chapter 25 of the EU Combined Nomenclature 2026, with the official text of every heading in it and their 6-digit subheadings.
Official description
25SALT; SULPHUR; EARTHS AND STONE; PLASTERING MATERIALS, LIME AND CEMENT
- Headings (4 digits)
- 29
- Subheadings (6 digits)
- 67
- CN codes (8 digits)
- 80
Headings in chapter 25
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Salts, incl. 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
- 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 Unroasted iron pyrites
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Sulphur of all kinds (excl. sublimed sulphur, precipitated sulphur and colloidal sulphur)
- 2503 00 Sulphur of all kinds, other than sublimed sulphur, precipitated sulphur and colloidal sulphur
- 2504Natural graphite
- 2504 10 In powder or in flakes
- 2504 90 Other
- 2505Natural sands of all kinds, whether or not coloured, other than metal-bearing sands of Chapter 26
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Natural sands of all kinds, whether or not coloured (excl. gold- and platinum-bearing sands, zircon, rutile and ilmenite sands, monazite sands, and tar or asphalt sands)
- 2505 10 Silica sands and quartz sands
- 2505 90 Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Quartz (excl. natural sands); quartzite, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a square or rectangular shape
- 2506 10 Quartz
- 2506 20 Quartzite
- 2507 00 Kaolin and other kaolinic clays, whether or not calcined
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Clays, andalusite, kyanite and sillimanite, whether or not calcined; mullite; chamotte or dinas earths (excl. kaolin and other kaolinic clays, and expanded clay)
- 2508 10 Bentonite
- 2508 30 Fireclay
- 2508 40 Other clays
- 2508 50 Andalusite, kyanite and sillimanite
- 2508 60 Mullite
- 2508 70 Chamotte or dinas earths
- 2509Chalk
- 2509 00 Chalk
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Natural calcium phosphates and natural aluminium calcium phosphates, natural and phosphatic chalk
- 2510 10 Unground
- 2510 20 Ground
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Natural barium sulphate "barytes"; natural barium carbonate "witherite", whether or not calcined (excl. barium oxide)
- 2511 10 Natural barium sulphate (barytes)
- 2511 20 Natural barium carbonate (witherite)
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Siliceous fossil meals, e.g. kieselguhr, tripolite and diatomite, and similar siliceous earths, whether or not calcined, of an apparent specific gravity of <= 1
- 2512 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 10 Pumice stone
- 2513 20 Emery, natural corundum, natural garnet and other natural abrasives
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Slate, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a square or rectangular shape; slate powder and slate refuse
- 2514 00 Slate, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Marble, travertine, ecaussine and other calcareous monumental or building stone of an apparent specific gravity of >= 2,5, and alabaster, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a square or rectangular shape (excl. in the form of granules, chippings or powder)
- 2515 11 Marble and travertine | Crude or roughly trimmed
- 2515 12 Marble and travertine | Merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape
- 2515 20 Ecaussine and other calcareous monumental or building stone; alabaster
Explanatory note (Eurostat): 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 square or rectangular shape (excl. in the form of granules, chippings or powder, or already with the characteristics of setts, curbstones and flagstones, and monumental or building stone of an apparent specific gravity of >= 2,5)
- 2516 11 Granite | Crude or roughly trimmed
- 2516 12 Granite | Merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape
- 2516 20 Sandstone
- 2516 90 Other monumental or building stone
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Pebbles, gravel, broken or crushed stone, for concrete aggregates, for road metalling or for railway 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 and 2516, whether or not heat-treated
- 2517 10 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
- 2517 20 Macadam of slag, dross or similar industrial waste, whether or not incorporating the materials cited in subheading 251710
- 2517 30 Tarred macadam
- 2517 41 Granules, chippings and powder, of stones of heading 2515 or 2516, whether or not heat-treated | Of marble
- 2517 49 Granules, chippings and powder, of stones of heading 2515 or 2516, whether or not heat-treated | Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Dolomite, whether or not calcined or sintered, incl. dolomite roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular "incl. square" shape (excl. broken or crushed dolomite for concrete aggregates, road metalling or railway or other ballast)
- 2518 10 Dolomite, not calcined or sintered
- 2518 20 Calcined or sintered dolomite
- 2519 10 Natural magnesium carbonate (magnesite)
- 2519 90 Other
- 2520 10 Gypsum; anhydrite
- 2520 20 Plasters
- 2521 00 Limestone flux; limestone and other calcareous stone, of a kind used for the manufacture of lime or cement
- 2522Quicklime, slaked lime and hydraulic lime, other than calcium oxide and hydroxide of heading 2825
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Quicklime, slaked lime and hydraulic lime (excl. pure calcium oxide and calcium hydroxide)
- 2522 10 Quicklime
- 2522 20 Slaked lime
- 2522 30 Hydraulic lime
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Cement, incl. cement clinkers, whether or not coloured
- 2523 10 Cement clinkers
- 2523 21 Portland cement | White cement, whether or not artificially coloured
- 2523 29 Portland cement | Other
- 2523 30 Aluminous cement
- 2523 90 Other hydraulic cements
- 2524Asbestos
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Asbestos (excl. products made from asbestos)
- 2524 10 Crocidolite
- 2524 90 Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Mica, whether or not rifted into sheets or splittings; mica waste
- 2525 10 Crude mica and mica rifted into sheets or splittings
- 2525 20 Mica powder
- 2525 30 Mica waste
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Natural steatite, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a square or rectangular shape; talc
- 2526 10 Not crushed, not powdered
- 2526 20 Crushed or powdered
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Borates, natural, and concentrates thereof, whether or not calcined, and natural boric acids containing <= 85% of H3BO3 calculated on the dry weight (excl. borates separated from natural brine)
- 2528 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 10 Feldspar
- 2529 21 Fluorspar | Containing by weight 97 % or less of calcium fluoride
- 2529 22 Fluorspar | Containing by weight more than 97 % of calcium fluoride
- 2529 30 Leucite; nepheline and nepheline syenite
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Vermiculite, perlite and other mineral substances, n.e.s.
- 2530 10 Vermiculite, perlite and chlorites, unexpanded
- 2530 20 Kieserite, epsomite (natural magnesium sulphates)
- 2530 90 Other
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Source
Source: EU Combined Nomenclature 2026 (Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1926), © European Union, https://eur-lex.europa.eu/. Reformatted by WISEPIM: indent dashes removed and parent lines joined. Only the Official Journal is authentic.