Section VI: Products of the Chemical or Allied Industries

HTS Chapter 28: Inorganic chemicals; organic or inorganic compounds of precious metals, of rare-earth metals, of radioactive elements or of isotopes

Chapter 28 of the US Harmonized Tariff Schedule has 50 headings. Open a heading to see every subheading, duty rate and 10-digit statistical line.

  • 2801Fluorine, chlorine, bromine and iodine:
  • 2802Sulfur, sublimed or precipitated; colloidal sulfur
  • 2803Carbon (carbon blacks and other forms of carbon not elsewhere specified or included)
  • 2804Hydrogen, rare gases and other nonmetals:
  • 2805Alkali or alkaline-earth metals; rare-earth metals, scandium and yttrium, whether or not intermixed or interalloyed; mercury:
  • 2806Hydrogen chloride (Hydrochloric acid); chlorosulfuric acid:
  • 2807Sulfuric acid; oleum
  • 2808Nitric acid; sulfonitric acids
  • 2809Diphosphorus pentaoxide; phosphoric acid;polyphosphoric acids, whether or not chemically defined:
  • 2810Oxides of boron; boric acids
  • 2811Other inorganic acids and other inorganic oxygen compounds of nonmetals:
  • 2812Halides and halide oxides of nonmetals:
  • 2813Sulfides of nonmetals; commercial phosphorus trisulfide:
  • 2814Ammonia, anhydrous or in aqueous solution:
  • 2815Sodium hydroxide (Caustic soda); potassium hydroxide (Caustic potash); peroxides of sodium or potassium:
  • 2816Hydroxide and peroxide of magnesium; oxides, hydroxides and peroxides, of strontium or barium:
  • 2817Zinc oxide; zinc peroxide
  • 2818Artificial corundum, whether or not chemically defined; aluminum oxide; aluminum hydroxide:
  • 2819Chromium oxides and hydroxides:
  • 2820Manganese oxides:
  • 2821Iron oxides and hydroxides; earth colors containing 70 percent or more by weight of combined iron evaluated as Fe2O3:
  • 2822Cobalt oxides and hydroxides; commercial cobalt oxides
  • 2823Titanium oxides
  • 2824Lead oxides; red lead and orange lead:
  • 2825Hydrazine and hydroxylamine and their inorganic salts; other inorganic bases; other metal oxides, hydroxides and peroxides:
  • 2826Fluorides; fluorosilicates, fluoroaluminates and other complex fluorine salts:
  • 2827Chlorides, chloride oxides and chloride hydroxides; bromides and bromide oxides; iodides and iodide oxides:
  • 2828Hypochlorites; commercial calcium hypochlorite; chlorites; hypobromites:
  • 2829Chlorates and perchlorates; bromates and perbromates; iodates and periodates:
  • 2830Sulfides; polysulfides, whether or not chemically defined:
  • 2831Dithionites and sulfoxylates:
  • 2832Sulfites; thiosulfates:
  • 2833Sulfates; alums; peroxosulfates (persulfates):
  • 2834Nitrites; nitrates:
  • 2835Phosphinates (hypophosphites), phosphonates (phosphites) and phosphates; polyphosphates, whether or not chemically defined:
  • 2836Carbonates; peroxocarbonates (percarbonates); commercial ammonium carbonate containing ammonium carbamate:
  • 2837Cyanides, cyanide oxides and complex cyanides:
  • 2839Silicates; commercial alkali metal silicates:
  • 2840Borates; peroxoborates (perborates):
  • 2841Salts of oxometallic or peroxometallic acids:
  • 2842Other salts of inorganic acids or peroxoacids (including aluminosilicates whether or not chemically defined), other than azides:
  • 2843Colloidal precious metals; inorganic or organic compounds of precious metals, whether or not chemically defined; amalgams of precious metals:
  • 2844Radioactive chemical elements and radioactive isotopes (including the fissile or fertile chemical elements and isotopes) and their compounds; mixtures and residues containing these products:
  • 2845Isotopes other than those of heading 2844; compounds, inorganic or organic, of such isotopes, whether or not chemically defined:
  • 2846Compounds, inorganic or organic, of rare-earth metals, of yttrium or of scandium, or of mixtures of these metals:
  • 2847Hydrogen peroxide, whether or not solidified with urea
  • 2849Carbides, whether or not chemically defined:
  • 2850Hydrides, nitrides, azides, silicides and borides, whether or not chemically defined, other than compounds which are also carbides of heading 2849:
  • 2852Inorganic or organic compounds of mercury, whether or not chemically defined, excluding amalgams:
  • 2853Phosphides, whether or not chemically defined, excluding ferrophosphorous; other inorganic compounds (including distilled or conductivity water and water of similar purity); liquid air (whether or not rare gases have been removed); compressed air; amalgams, other than amalgams of precious metals:

Source: Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States, 2026 HTS Revision 20 (effective 2026-09-28), U.S. International Trade Commission (hts.usitc.gov), imported 2026-10-07. Reference only; not legal or customs advice or a binding classification. Additional duties under Chapter 99 may apply. ShipWave is not affiliated with the USITC or U.S. Customs and Border Protection.