Chapter 30
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), conta
ining nicotine and intended to assist tobacco use cessation (heading 24.04);
(c) Plasters
specially calcined or finely ground for use in dentistry (heading 25.20);
(d) Aqueous
distillates or aqueous solutions of essential oils, suitable for
medicinal uses (heading 33.01);
(e) Preparations
of headings 33.03 to 33.07, even if they have therapeutic or
prophylactic properties;
(f) Soap
or other products of heading 34.01 containing added medicaments;
(g) Preparations
with a basis of plaster for use in dentistry (heading 34.07);
(h) Blood
albumin not prepared for therapeutic or prophylactic uses (heading
35.02); or
(ij) Diagnostic reagents of heading 38.22.
2. -
For the purposes of heading 30.02, the expression “immunological
products” applies to peptides and proteins (other than goods of heading
29.37) 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 30.03 and 30.04 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 13.02, merely
standardised or dissolved in any solvent;
(b)
As products which have been mixed :
(1)
Colloidal solutions and suspensions (other than colloidal sulphur);
(2)
Vegetable extracts obtained by the treatment of mixtures of vegetable
materials; and
(3)
Salts and concentrates obtained by evaporating natural mineral waters.
4. -
Heading 30.06 applies only to the following, which are to be classified
in that heading and in no other heading of the Nomenclature :
(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 haemostatics; 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 recogn
ised 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 29.37 or on spermicides;