HS code 2530: Mineral substances not elsewhere specified or included
Heading 2530 of the EU Combined Nomenclature 2026, in chapter 25, with the official text of every 6-digit subheading and 8-digit CN code below it.
Official description
2530Mineral substances not elsewhere specified or included
Place in the nomenclature: 25 Salt; sulphur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement > 2530
Explanatory note (Eurostat)
Vermiculite, perlite and other mineral substances, n.e.s.
- Subheadings (6 digits)
- 3
- CN codes (8 digits)
- 6
Subheadings and CN codes in heading 2530
- 2530 10Vermiculite, perlite and chlorites, unexpanded
- 2530 10 00 Vermiculite, perlite and chlorites, unexpanded
- 2530 20Kieserite, epsomite (natural magnesium sulphates)
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Kieserite and epsomite "natural magnesium sulphates"
- 2530 20 00 Kieserite, epsomite (natural magnesium sulphates)
- 2530 90Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Arsenic sulfides, alunite, pozzuolana, earth colours and other mineral substances, n.e.s.
- 2530 90 30 Celestine and strontianite
- 2530 90 40 Spodumene, petalite, lepidolite, amblygonite, hectorite, jadarite and similar minerals, suitable for the extraction of lithium
- 2530 90 50 Bastnaesite, xenotime and similar minerals, suitable for the extraction of rare-earth metals, scandium or yttrium
- 2530 90 70 Other
The first 6 digits are the Harmonized System, shared worldwide: a US HTS code that starts with the same 6 digits sits under the same subheading. The last 2 digits are the EU's own CN split.
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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.