HS chapter 25
Salt, stone, cement and other minerals
Chapter 25 has 29 headings with 78 EU tariff lines and 87 Mercosur tariff lines. Duty-free from entry into force: 75 EU and 6 Mercosur lines. Ten years or more, a quota or excluded: 0 EU and 0 Mercosur lines.
Official chapter title: Salt; sulphur; earths, stone; plastering materials, lime and cement · Data last updated 18 October 2026
How fast duties fall
Tariff lines of the chapter by staging category, in each schedule.
| Treatment | EU lines | Mercosur lines |
|---|---|---|
| Duty-free from entry into force (0) | 75 | 6 |
| Phased out over 4 to 8 years | 3 | 81 |
Headings in this chapter
Headings with a product page are linked. For the others, open the calculator. Heading descriptions are the English HS nomenclature.
| Heading | Description | Into the EU | Into Brazil | Calculate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2501 | Salt (including table salt and denatured salt); pure sodium chloride whether or not in aqueous solution; sea water | base 0%zero by 2030 | base 4%zero by 2034 | Calculate |
| 2502 | Iron pyrites; unroasted | base 0% | base 4%zero by 2034 | Calculate |
| 2503 | Sulphur of all kinds; other than sublimed, precipitated and colloidal sulphur | base 0–1.7% | base 0% | Calculate |
| 2504 | Graphite; natural | base 0% | base 4%zero by 2034 | Calculate |
| 2505 | Sands of all kinds; natural, whether or not coloured, other than metal-bearing sands of chapter 26 | base 0% | base 4%zero by 2034 | Calculate |
| 2506 | Quartz; (other than natural sands), quartzite, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape | base 0% | base 4%zero by 2034 | Calculate |
| 2507 | Kaolin and other kaolinic clays; whether or not calcined | base 0% | base 4%zero by 2034 | Calculate |
| 2508 | Clays; (not including expanded clays of heading no. 6806), andalusite kyanite and sillimanite, whether or not calcined; mullite; chamotte or dinas earth | base 0% | base 4%zero by 2034 | Calculate |
| 2509 | Chalk | base 0% | base 4%zero by 2030 | Calculate |
| 2510 | Natural calcium phosphates; natural aluminium calcium phosphates and phosphatic chalk | base 0% | base 0% | Calculate |
| 2511 | Natural barium sulphate (barytes); natural barium carbonate, (witherite) whether or not calcined, other than barium oxide of heading no. 2816 | base 0% | base 4%zero by 2034 | Calculate |
| 2512 | Siliceous fossil meals (e.g. kieselguhr, tripolite and diatomite) and similar siliceous earths; whether or not calcined, of an apparent specific gravity of 1 or less | base 0% | base 4%zero by 2034 | Calculate |
| 2513 | Pumice stone; emery; natural corundum, natural garnet and other natural abrasives, whether or not heat treated | base 0% | base 4%zero by 2034 | Calculate |
| 2514 | Slate, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape | base 0% | base 4%zero by 2034 | Calculate |
| 2515 | Marble, travertine, ecaussine and other calcareous stone; of an apparent specific gravity of less than 2.5, alabaster, whether cut by sawing etc, into blocks, slabs of a rectangular (square) shape | base 0% | base 4–6%zero by 2034 | Calculate |
| 2516 | Granite, porphyry, basalt, sandstone, other monumental and building stone, whether or not roughly trimmed, cut, by sawing etc, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape | base 0% | base 4–6%zero by 2034 | Calculate |
| 2517 | 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 | base 0% | base 4%zero by 2034 | Calculate |
| 2518 | Dolomite, whether or not calcined or sintered, including dolomite roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape | base 0% | base 4%zero by 2034 | Calculate |
| 2519 | Natural magnesium carbonate (magnesite); fused magnesia; dead-burned (sintered) magnesia, whether or not containing small quantities of other oxides added before sintering; magnesium oxide, pure or not | base 0–1.7% | base 4%zero by 2034 | Calculate |
| 2520 | Gypsum; anhydrite; plasters (consisting of calcined gypsum or calcium sulphate), coloured or not, with or without small quantities of accelerators or retarders | base 0% | base 4–20%zero by 2034 | Calculate |
| 2521 | Limestone flux; limestone and other calcareous stone, of a kind used for the manufacture of lime or cement | base 0% | base 4%zero by 2034 | Calculate |
| 2522 | Quicklime, slaked lime and hydraulic lime; other than calcium oxide and hydroxide of heading no. 2825 | base 1.7% | base 4%zero by 2034 | Calculate |
| 2523 | Portland cement, aluminous cement (ciment fondu), slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers | base 1.7% | base 4%zero by 2034 | Calculate |
| 2524 | Asbestos | base 0% | base 4%zero by 2034 | Calculate |
| 2525 | Mica, including splittings; mica waste | base 0% | base 4%zero by 2034 | Calculate |
| 2526 | Natural steatite; whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape; talc | base 0% | base 4%zero by 2030 | Calculate |
| 2528 | Natural borates and concentrates thereof (whether or not calcined), but not including borates separated from natural brine; natural boric acid containing not more than 85 % of H3BO3 calculated on the dry weight | base 0% | base 4%zero by 2034 | Calculate |
| 2529 | Feldspar; leucite; nepheline and nepheline syenite; fluorspar | base 0% | base 4%zero by 2034 | Calculate |
| 2530 | Mineral substances not elsewhere specified or included | base 0% | base 4%zero by 2034 | Calculate |