Pebbles, gravel, crushed stone for concrete aggregates for road or railway ballast, shingle or flint; macadam of slag, dross etc tarred granules, chippings, powder of stones of heading no. 2515 and 2516
In plain English
This category includes natural stones like pebbles, gravel, and flint, as well as processed materials such as crushed stone, slag macadam, and tarred granules. These items are generally used for concrete, road surfaces, or railway ballast. The classification separates these goods by their source and treatment, distinguishing between common natural aggregates, industrial waste products, tarred mixtures, and specific stone types like marble or those from other designated headings.
6-digit subheadings (5)
Official HS 2022 subheading texts. National tariff schedules subdivide these further (8-10 digit lines) and set the actual duty rates.
Pebbles, gravel, broken or crushed stone; of a kind commonly used for concrete aggregates, for road metalling or for railway or other ballast, shingle and flint, whether or not heat-treated
Macadam of slag, dross or similar industrial waste; whether or not incorporating the materials in Tariff item 2517.10.00
Tarred macadam
Stones; of marble, in granules, chippings and powder, whether or not heat-treated
Stones; of heading no. 2515 or 2516 (excluding marble), in granules, chippings and powder, whether or not heat-treated
Chapter 25 classification notes
Frequent misclassification in this chapter
Worked marble / granite goes to Chapter 68 (articles of stone) not 25; raw blocks stay in 25.
Classification certainty
The 6-digit level shown here is the internationally harmonised layer. Duty rates attach to national 8-10 digit tariff lines, which differ by country — use the duty calculator for lane estimates. For binding certainty, request a ruling from the destination customs authority.
Binding tariff ruling databaseOther headings in Chapter 25
- 2501 — Salt (including table salt and denatured salt); pure sodium chloride w…
- 2502 — Iron pyrites; unroasted
- 2503 — Sulphur of all kinds; other than sublimed, precipitated and colloidal …
- 2504 — Graphite; natural
- 2505 — Sands of all kinds; natural, whether or not coloured, other than metal…
- 2506 — Quartz; (other than natural sands), quartzite, whether or not roughly …
- 2507 — Kaolin and other kaolinic clays; whether or not calcined
- 2508 — Clays; (not including expanded clays of heading no. 6806), andalusite …
- 2509 — Chalk
- 2510 — Natural calcium phosphates; natural aluminium calcium phosphates and p…
- 2511 — Natural barium sulphate (barytes); natural barium carbonate, (witherit…
- 2512 — Siliceous fossil meals (e.g. kieselguhr, tripolite and diatomite) and …
- 2513 — Pumice stone; emery; natural corundum, natural garnet and other natura…
- 2514 — Slate, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or othe…
- 2515 — Marble, travertine, ecaussine and other calcareous stone; of an appare…
- 2516 — Granite, porphyry, basalt, sandstone, other monumental and building st…
- 2518 — Dolomite, whether or not calcined or sintered, including dolomite roug…
- 2519 — Natural magnesium carbonate (magnesite); fused magnesia; dead-burned (…
- 2520 — Gypsum; anhydrite; plasters (consisting of calcined gypsum or calcium …
- 2521 — Limestone flux; limestone and other calcareous stone, of a kind used f…
- 2522 — Quicklime, slaked lime and hydraulic lime; other than calcium oxide an…
- 2523 — Portland cement, aluminous cement (ciment fondu), slag cement, supersu…
- 2524 — Asbestos
- 2525 — Mica, including splittings; mica waste
- 2526 — Natural steatite; whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by saw…
- 2528 — Natural borates and concentrates thereof (whether or not calcined), bu…
- 2529 — Feldspar; leucite; nepheline and nepheline syenite; fluorspar
- 2530 — Mineral substances not elsewhere specified or included