1. - This Chapter does not cover:
(a) Separate chemically defined elements or compounds (except
those of heading 32.03 or 32.04, inorganic products of a kind used as
luminophores (heading 32.06), glass obtained from fused quartz or other
fused silica in the forms provided for in heading 32.07, and also dyes
and other colouring matter put up in forms or packings for retail sale,
of heading 32.12);
(b) Tannates or other tannin derivatives of products of headings
29.36 to 29.39, 29.41 or 35.01 to 35.04; or
(c) Mastics of asphalt or other bituminous mastics (heading 27.15).
2. - Heading 32.04 includes mixtures of stabilised
diazonium salts and couplers for the production of azo dyes.
3. - Headings 32.03, 32.04, 32.05 and 32.06 apply also
to preparations based on colouring matter (including, in the case of
heading 32.06, colouring pigments of heading 25.30 or Chapter 28, metal
flakes and metal powders), of a kind used for colouring any material or
used as ingredients in the manufacture of colouring preparations. The
headings do not apply, however, to pigments dispersed in non-aqueous
media, in liquid or paste form, of a kind used in the manufacture of
paints, including enamels (heading 32.12), or to other preparations of
heading 32.07, 32.08, 32.09, 32.10, 32.12, 32.13 or 32.15.
4. - Heading 32.08 includes solutions (other than
collodions) consisting of any of the products specified in headings
39.01 to 39.13 in volatile organic solvents when the weight of the
solvent exceeds 50 % of the weight of the solution.
5. - The expression “colouring matter” in this Chapter
does not include products of a kind used as extenders in oil paints,
whether or not they are also suitable for colouring distempers.
6. - The expression “stamping foils” in heading 32.12
applies only to thin sheets of a kind used for printing, for example,
book covers or hat bands, and consisting of :
(a) Metallic powder (including powder of precious metal) or
pigment, agglomerated with glue, gelatin or other binder; or
(b) Metal (including precious metal) or pigment,
deposited on a supporting sheet of any material.