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Chapter 28 · Inorganic chemicals, rare-earth compounds

All headings and subheadings for inorganic chemicals, rare-earth compounds. Each six-digit code links to the import and export shipments declared under it, with dates, quantities, declared values, ports and the companies involved.

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Heading 2801

Code	Goods covered	Shipments
280110	Chlorine	Imports · Exports
280120	Iodine	Imports · Exports
280130	Fluorine, bromine	Imports · Exports

Heading 2802

Code	Goods covered	Shipments
280200	Sulphur, sublimed or precipitated, colloidal sulphur	Imports · Exports

Heading 2803

Code	Goods covered	Shipments
280300	Carbon, carbon blacks and other forms of carbon n.e.c.	Imports · Exports

Heading 2804

Code	Goods covered	Shipments
280410	Hydrogen	Imports · Exports
280421	Gases, rare, argon	Imports · Exports
280429	Gases, rare, other than argon	Imports · Exports
280430	Nitrogen	Imports · Exports
280440	Oxygen	Imports · Exports
280450	Boron, tellurium	Imports · Exports
280461	Silicon, containing by weight not less than 99.99% of silicon	Imports · Exports
280469	Silicon, containing by weight less than 99.99% of silicon	Imports · Exports
280470	Phosphorus	Imports · Exports
280480	Arsenic	Imports · Exports
280490	Selenium	Imports · Exports

Heading 2805

Code	Goods covered	Shipments
280511	Alkali or alkali-earth metals, sodium	Imports · Exports
280512	Alkali or alkali-earth metals, calcium	Imports · Exports
280519	Alkali or alkali-earth metals, other than sodium and calcium	Imports · Exports
280530	Earth-metals, rare, scandium and yttrium, whether or not intermixed or interalloyed	Imports · Exports
280540	Mercury	Imports · Exports

Heading 2806

Code	Goods covered	Shipments
280610	Hydrogen chloride (hydrochloric acid)	Imports · Exports
280620	Chlorosulphuric acid	Imports · Exports

Heading 2807

Code	Goods covered	Shipments
280700	Sulphuric acid, oleum	Imports · Exports

Heading 2808

Code	Goods covered	Shipments
280800	Nitric acid, sulphonitric acids	Imports · Exports

Heading 2809

Code	Goods covered	Shipments
280910	Diphosphorus pentoxide	Imports · Exports
280920	Phosphoric acid and polyphosphoric acids	Imports · Exports

Heading 2810

Code	Goods covered	Shipments
281000	Oxides of boron, boric acids	Imports · Exports

Heading 2811

Code	Goods covered	Shipments
281111	Hydrogen fluoride (hydrofluoric acid)	Imports · Exports
281112	Hydrogen cyanide (hydrocyanic acid)	Imports · Exports
281119	Inorganic acids, other than hydrogen fluoride	Imports · Exports
281121	Carbon dioxide	Imports · Exports
281122	Silicon dioxide	Imports · Exports
281129	Inorganic oxygen compounds, of non-metals, n.e.c. in item no. 2811.2	Imports · Exports

Heading 2812

Code	Goods covered	Shipments
281211	Carbonyl dichloride (phosgene)	Imports · Exports
281212	Phosphorus oxychloride	Imports · Exports
281213	Phosphorus trichloride	Imports · Exports
281214	Phosphorus pentachloride	Imports · Exports
281215	Sulphur monochloride	Imports · Exports
281216	Sulphur dichloride	Imports · Exports
281217	Thionyl chloride	Imports · Exports
281219	Arsenic trichloride and other chlorides and chloride oxides, n.e.c. in item no. 2812	Imports · Exports
281290	Halides and halide oxides of non-metals, excluding chloride	Imports · Exports

Heading 2813

Code	Goods covered	Shipments
281310	Carbon disulphide	Imports · Exports
281390	Sulphides of non-metals, (excluding carbon), commercial phosphorus trisulphide	Imports · Exports

Heading 2814

Code	Goods covered	Shipments
281410	Ammonia, anhydrous	Imports · Exports
281420	Ammonia, in aqueous solution	Imports · Exports

Heading 2815

Code	Goods covered	Shipments
281511	Sodium hydroxide (caustic soda), solid	Imports · Exports
281512	Sodium hydroxide (caustic soda), in aqueous solution (soda lye or liquid soda)	Imports · Exports
281520	Potassium hydroxide (caustic potash)	Imports · Exports
281530	Peroxides of sodium or potassium	Imports · Exports

Heading 2816

Code	Goods covered	Shipments
281610	Hydroxide and peroxide of magnesium	Imports · Exports
281640	Oxides, hydroxides and peroxides, of strontium or barium	Imports · Exports

Heading 2817

Code	Goods covered	Shipments
281700	Zinc, oxide and peroxide	Imports · Exports

Heading 2818

Code	Goods covered	Shipments
281810	Aluminium oxide, artificial corundum	Imports · Exports
281820	Aluminium oxide, other than artificial corundum	Imports · Exports
281830	Aluminium hydroxide	Imports · Exports

Heading 2819

Code	Goods covered	Shipments
281910	Chromium trioxide	Imports · Exports
281990	Chromium oxides and hydroxides, excluding chromium trioxide	Imports · Exports

Heading 2820

Code	Goods covered	Shipments
282010	Manganese dioxide	Imports · Exports
282090	Manganese oxides, excluding manganese dioxide	Imports · Exports

Heading 2821

Code	Goods covered	Shipments
282110	Iron oxides and hydroxides	Imports · Exports
282120	Earth colours, containing 70% or more by weight of combined iron evaluated as Fe2o3	Imports · Exports

Heading 2822

Code	Goods covered	Shipments
282200	Cobalt oxides and hydroxides, commercial cobalt oxides	Imports · Exports

Heading 2823

Code	Goods covered	Shipments
282300	Titanium oxides	Imports · Exports

Heading 2824

Code	Goods covered	Shipments
282410	Lead, lead monoxide (litharge, massicot)	Imports · Exports
282490	Lead oxides, n.e.c. in heading no. 2824	Imports · Exports

Heading 2825

Code	Goods covered	Shipments
282510	Hydrazine and hydroxylamine and their inorganic salts	Imports · Exports
282520	Lithium oxide and hydroxide	Imports · Exports
282530	Vanadium oxides and hydroxides	Imports · Exports
282540	Nickel oxides and hydroxides	Imports · Exports
282550	Copper oxides and hydroxides	Imports · Exports
282560	Germanium oxides and zirconium dioxide	Imports · Exports
282570	Molybdenum oxides and hydroxides	Imports · Exports
282580	Antimony oxides	Imports · Exports
282590	Inorganic bases, metal oxides, hydroxides and peroxides, n.e.c. in heading no. 2825	Imports · Exports

Heading 2826

Code	Goods covered	Shipments
282612	Fluorides, of aluminium	Imports · Exports
282619	Fluorides, other than of aluminium	Imports · Exports
282630	Sodium hexafluoroaluminate (synthetic cryolite)	Imports · Exports
282690	Fluorides, fluorosilicates, fluoroaluminates and other complex fluorine salts, n.e.c. in heading no. 2826	Imports · Exports

Heading 2827

Code	Goods covered	Shipments
282710	Chlorides, of ammonium	Imports · Exports
282720	Chlorides, of calcium	Imports · Exports
282731	Chlorides, of magnesium	Imports · Exports
282732	Chlorides, of aluminium	Imports · Exports
282735	Chlorides, of nickel	Imports · Exports
282739	Chlorides, other than of ammonium, calcium, magnesium, aluminium and nickel	Imports · Exports
282741	Chloride oxides and chloride hydroxides, of copper	Imports · Exports
282749	Chloride oxides and chloride hydroxides, other than of copper	Imports · Exports
282751	Bromides, of sodium or of potassium	Imports · Exports
282759	Bromides and bromide oxides, other than item no. 2827.51	Imports · Exports
282760	Iodides and iodide oxides	Imports · Exports

Heading 2828

Code	Goods covered	Shipments
282810	Hypochlorites, commercial calcium hypochlorite and other calcium hypochlorites	Imports · Exports
282890	Hypochlorites, n.e.c. in heading no. 2828	Imports · Exports

Heading 2829

Code	Goods covered	Shipments
282911	Chlorates, of sodium	Imports · Exports
282919	Chlorates, other than sodium	Imports · Exports
282990	Perchlorates, bromates and perbromates, iodates and periodates	Imports · Exports

Heading 2830

Code	Goods covered	Shipments
283010	Sulphides, of sodium, whether or not chemically defined	Imports · Exports
283090	Sulphides and polysulphides, whether or not chemically defined, other than sulphides of sodium	Imports · Exports

Heading 2831

Code	Goods covered	Shipments
283110	Dithionites and sulphoxylates, of sodium	Imports · Exports
283190	Dithionites and sulphoxylates, other than sodium	Imports · Exports

Heading 2832

Code	Goods covered	Shipments
283210	Sulphites, of sodium	Imports · Exports
283220	Sulphites, other than of sodium	Imports · Exports
283230	Thiosulphates	Imports · Exports

Heading 2833

Code	Goods covered	Shipments
283311	Sodium sulphates, disodium sulphate	Imports · Exports
283319	Sodium sulphates, other than disodium sulphate	Imports · Exports
283321	Sulphates, of magnesium	Imports · Exports
283322	Sulphates, of aluminium	Imports · Exports
283324	Sulphates, of nickel	Imports · Exports
283325	Sulphates, of copper	Imports · Exports
283327	Sulphates, of barium	Imports · Exports
283329	Sulphates, n.e.c. in item no. 2833.2	Imports · Exports
283330	Alums	Imports · Exports
283340	Peroxosulphates (persulphates)	Imports · Exports

Heading 2834

Code	Goods covered	Shipments
283410	Nitrites	Imports · Exports
283421	Nitrates, of potassium	Imports · Exports
283429	Nitrates, of other than potassium	Imports · Exports

Heading 2835

Code	Goods covered	Shipments
283510	Phosphinates (hypophosphites) and phosphonates (phosphites), whether or not chemically defined	Imports · Exports
283522	Phosphates, of mono- or disodium, whether or not chemically defined	Imports · Exports
283524	Phosphates, of potassium, whether or not chemically defined	Imports · Exports
283525	Phosphates, calcium hydrogenorthophosphate (dicalcium phosphate), whether or not chemically defined	Imports · Exports
283526	Phosphates, of calcium n.e.c. in item no. 2835.25, whether or not chemically defined	Imports · Exports
283529	Phosphates, (other than of mono- or disodium, other than of potassium or of calcium hydrogenorthophosphate (dicalcium phosphate) and excluding other phosphates of calcium), whether or not chemically defined	Imports · Exports
283531	Polyphosphates, sodium triphosphate (sodium tripolyphosphate), whether or not chemically defined	Imports · Exports
283539	Polyphosphates, other than sodium triphosphate (sodium tripolyphosphate), whether or not chemically defined	Imports · Exports

Heading 2836

Code	Goods covered	Shipments
283620	Carbonates, disodium carbonate	Imports · Exports
283630	Carbonates, sodium hydrogen carbonate (sodium bicarbonate)	Imports · Exports
283640	Carbonates, potassium carbonate	Imports · Exports
283650	Carbonates, calcium carbonate	Imports · Exports
283660	Carbonates, barium carbonate	Imports · Exports
283691	Carbonates, lithium carbonate	Imports · Exports
283692	Carbonates, strontium carbonate	Imports · Exports
283699	Carbonates, n.e.c. in heading no. 2836 and other than lithium or strontium	Imports · Exports

Heading 2837

Code	Goods covered	Shipments
283711	Cyanides and cyanide oxides, of sodium	Imports · Exports
283719	Cyanides and cyanide oxides, other than of sodium	Imports · Exports
283720	Complex cyanides	Imports · Exports

Heading 2839

Code	Goods covered	Shipments
283911	Silicates, sodium metasilicates	Imports · Exports
283919	Silicates, of sodium (excluding sodium metasilicates)	Imports · Exports
283990	Silicates, commercial alkali metal silicates, other than of sodium	Imports · Exports

Heading 2840

Code	Goods covered	Shipments
284011	Borates, disodium tetraborate (refined borax), anhydrous	Imports · Exports
284019	Borates, disodium tetraborate (refined borax), other than anhydrous	Imports · Exports
284020	Borates, n.e.c. in heading no. 2840	Imports · Exports
284030	Peroxoborates (perborates)	Imports · Exports

Heading 2841

Code	Goods covered	Shipments
284130	Salts, sodium dichromate	Imports · Exports
284150	Salts, chromates, dichromates, peroxochromates, n.e.c. in heading no. 2841	Imports · Exports
284161	Salts, of oxometallic or peroxometallic acids, manganites, manganates and permanganates, potassium permanganate	Imports · Exports
284169	Salts, of oxometallic or peroxometallic acids, manganites, manganates and permanganates, other than potassium permanganate	Imports · Exports
284170	Salts, molybdates	Imports · Exports
284180	Salts, tungstates (wolframates)	Imports · Exports
284190	Salts of oxometallic or peroxometallic acids, n.e.c. in heading no. 2841	Imports · Exports

Heading 2842

Code	Goods covered	Shipments
284210	Salts of inorganic acids or peroxoacids, double or complex silicates, including aluminosilicates, whether or not chemically defined, excluding azides	Imports · Exports
284290	Salts, of inorganic acids or peroxoacids, other than double or complex silicates, including aluminosilicates, whether or not chemically, excluding azides	Imports · Exports

Heading 2843

Code	Goods covered	Shipments
284310	Colloidal precious metals, whether or not chemically defined	Imports · Exports
284321	Silver compounds, silver nitrates	Imports · Exports
284329	Silver compounds, excluding silver nitrates	Imports · Exports
284330	Gold compounds	Imports · Exports
284390	Inorganic or organic compounds of precious metals, n.e.c., amalgams	Imports · Exports

Heading 2844

Code	Goods covered	Shipments
284410	Uranium, natural uranium and its compounds, alloys, dispersions (including cermets), ceramic products and mixtures containing natural uranium or natural uranium compounds	Imports · Exports
284420	Uranium, enriched in U235, plutonium, their compounds, alloys dispersions (including cermets), ceramic products and mixtures containing uranium enriched in U235, plutonium or compounds of these products	Imports · Exports
284430	Uranium, depleted in U235, thorium, their compounds, alloys, dispersions (including cermets), ceramic products and mixtures containing uranium depleted in U235, thorium, compounds of these products	Imports · Exports
284441	Radioactive elements, tritium and its compounds, alloys, dispersions (including cermets), ceramic products and mixtures containing tritium or its compounds	Imports · Exports
284442	Radioactive elements, actinium-225, 227, californium-253, curium-240, 241, 242, 243, 244, einsteinium-253, 254, gadolinium-148, polonium-208, 209, 210, radium-223, uranium-230 or 232, compounds, alloys, dispersions, ceramic products and mixtures	Imports · Exports
284443	Radioactive elements, isotopes and compounds, other alloys, dispersions (including cermets), ceramic products and mixtures containing these elements, isotopes or compounds	Imports · Exports
284444	Radioactive elements, isotopes, compounds n.e.c. in heading no. 2844, alloys, dispersions (including cermets), ceramic products, mixtures containing the elements, isotopes, compounds, radioactive residues	Imports · Exports
284450	Spent (irradiated) fuel elements (cartridges) of nuclear reactors	Imports · Exports

Heading 2845

Code	Goods covered	Shipments
284510	Heavy water (deuterium oxide)	Imports · Exports
284520	Boron enriched in boron-10 and its compounds	Imports · Exports
284530	Lithium enriched in lithium-6 and its compounds	Imports · Exports
284540	Helium-3	Imports · Exports
284590	Isotopes other than those of heading no. 2844, 2845.20, 2845.30 or 2845.40, compounds, inorganic or organic, of such isotopes, whether or not chemically defined	Imports · Exports

Heading 2846

Code	Goods covered	Shipments
284610	Cerium compounds	Imports · Exports
284690	Compounds, inorganic or organic (excluding cerium), of rare-earth metals, of yttrium, scandium or of mixtures of these metals	Imports · Exports

Heading 2847

Code	Goods covered	Shipments
284700	Hydrogen peroxide, whether or not solidified with urea	Imports · Exports

Heading 2849

Code	Goods covered	Shipments
284910	Carbides, of calcium, whether or not chemically defined	Imports · Exports
284920	Carbides, of silicon, whether or not chemically defined	Imports · Exports
284990	Carbides, whether or not chemically defined, other than of calcium or silicon	Imports · Exports

Heading 2850

Code	Goods covered	Shipments
285000	Hydrides, nitrides, azides, silicides and borides, whether or not chemically defined, other than compounds which are also carbides of heading no. 2849	Imports · Exports

Heading 2852

Code	Goods covered	Shipments
285210	Inorganic or organic compounds of mercury, excluding amalgams, chemically defined	Imports · Exports
285290	Inorganic or organic compounds of mercury, excluding amalgams, not chemically defined,	Imports · Exports

Heading 2853

Code	Goods covered	Shipments
285310	Inorganic compounds, cyanogen chloride (chlorcyan)	Imports · Exports
285390	Phosphides, chemically defined or not, not ferrophosphorus, other inorganic compounds n.e.c. (including distilled, conductivity water and water of like purity), liquid air, rare gases removed or not, compressed air, amalgams, not precious metal amalgams	Imports · Exports

Working with chapter 28

Chapter 28 of the Harmonized System covers inorganic chemicals, rare-earth compounds. It is organised into 50 four-digit headings and 180 six-digit subheadings, and national tariffs extend those to eight or ten digits. Because the six-digit level is shared worldwide, it is the right level for comparing trade between countries, while the national digits matter for duty rates and licensing.

On EximTradeIntel each subheading opens a table of actual shipments, 2019-2026, so you can see how goods in this chapter are described on real declarations, what they are worth per unit, which ports they move through and which companies are trading them. That makes the chapter useful for classification checks, for pricing a tender, and for building buyer or supplier lists inside a narrow product family. Searching is free, and only exports use credits. See the full chapter index for neighbouring categories.

Neighbouring chapters

Ch. 26 — Ores, slag and ash Ch. 27 — Mineral fuels, oils… Ch. 29 — Organic chemicals Ch. 30 — Pharmaceutical products