Industrial salt Hs Code

Industrial salt harmonized system code

Product Overview Industrial salt classified under HS Code 250100 refers primarily to naturally occurring sodium chloride (NaCl) in its raw or refined forms, utilized predominantly for non-edible industrial applications. This product encompasses various grades, including coarse rock salt, granulated salt, and vacuum salt, characterized by high purity levels typically ranging from 97% to 99.5% NaCl content. Physically, industrial salt appears as crystalline white granules or coarse chunks with defined particle size distributions tailored to specific industrial processes. The salt undergoes mechanical refining processes such as washing, screening, and drying to meet stringent quality parameters including moisture content below 1%, minimal insoluble matter, and low heavy metal concentrations. Within HS Code 250100, subcategories include rock salt, solar salt, and refined salt variants, differentiated by extraction methods and refinement levels. Commercially, this salt serves critical roles in chemical manufacturing, water treatment, de-icing, and food processing industries where food-grade salt is required, ensuring conformity with purity and contaminant standards. Its competitive advantages lie in consistent quality, traceability, and compliance with international purity specifications, establishing it as a reliable commodity for diverse industrial supply chains. HS Code Classification & Trade Specifications The HS Code 250100 is structured hierarchically as follows: Chapter 25 (Salt; sulphur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement), Heading 01 (Salt, including table salt and denatured salt), and Subheading 2501.00 (Salt, pure sodium chloride, whether or not in aqueous solution or containing added anti-caking or free-flowing agents). This classification is applied because the product consists predominantly of sodium chloride in solid state, meeting the criteria for pure salt used in industrial and food processing contexts. Trade professionals must adhere to standardized packaging formats, typically in 25 kg to 50 kg polypropylene or multi-wall paper bags with moisture-resistant liners to ensure product integrity during transit. Preservation protocols include moisture control and contamination prevention, critical for maintaining physicochemical properties. Shipping requirements comply with international transport regulations, including proper labeling and documentation for customs clearance under WTO agreements. Quality standards conform to ISO 9001 and, where applicable, food safety certifications such as HACCP for food-grade salt. Accurate classification facilitates tariff application, customs valuation, and regulatory compliance, thereby streamlining import/export operations and minimizing trade disputes.

Industrial salt Chapter Note

1.- Except where their context or Note 4 to this Chapter otherwise requires, the headings of this Chapter cover only products which are in the crude state or which have been washed (even with chemical substances eliminating the impurities without changing the structure of the product), crushed, ground, powdered, levigated, sifted, screened, concentrated by flotation, magnetic separation or other mechanical or physical processes (except crystallisation), but not products which have been roasted, calcined, obtained by mixing or subjected to processing beyond that mentioned in each heading. The products of this Chapter may contain an added anti-dusting agent, provided that such addition does not render the product particularly suitable for specific use rather than for general use. 2.- This Chapter does not cover : (a) Sublimed sulphur, precipitated sulphur or colloidal sulphur (heading 28.02); (b) Earth colours containing 70 % or more by weight of combined iron evaluated as Fe2O3 (heading 28.21); (c) Medicaments or other products of Chapter 30; (d) Perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations (Chapter 33); (e) Dolomite ramming mix (heading 38.16); (f) Setts, curbstones or flagstones (heading 68.01); mosaic cubes or the like (heading 68.02); roofing, facing or damp course slates (heading 68.03); (g) Precious or semi-precious stones (heading 71.02 or 71.03); (h) Cultured crystals (other than optical elements) weighing not less than 2.5 g each, of sodium chloride or of magnesium oxide, of heading 38.24; optical elements of sodium chloride or of magnesium oxide (heading 90.01); (ij) Billiard chalks (heading 95.04); or (k) Writing or drawing chalks or tailors' chalks (heading 96.09). 3.- Any products classifiable in heading 25.17 and any other heading of the Chapter are to be classified in heading 25.17. 4.- Heading 25.30 applies, inter alia, to : vermiculite, perlite and chlorites, unexpanded; earth colours, whether or not calcined or mixed together; natural micaceous iron oxides; meerschaum (whether or not in polished pieces); amber; agglomerated meerschaum and agglomerated amber, in plates, rods, sticks or similar forms, not worked after moulding; jet; strontianite (whether or not calcined), other than strontium oxide; broken pieces of pottery, brick or concrete.