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Chapter 30 |
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PHARMACEUTICAL
PRODUCTS |
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Notes. |
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1.
This Chapter does not cover: |
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(a)
Foods or beverages (such as dietetic, diabetic or fortified foods, food
supplements, tonic beverages and mineral waters), other than nutritional
preparations for intravenous administration (Section IV); |
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(b)
Preparations, such as tablets, chewing gum or patches (transdermal systems),
intended to assist smokers to stop smoking (heading 21.06 or 38.24); |
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(c)
Plasters specially calcined or finely ground for use in dentistry (heading
25.20); |
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(d)
Aqueous distillates or aqueous solutions of essential oils, suitable for
medicinal uses (heading 33.01); |
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(e)
Preparations of headings 33.03 to 33.07, even if they have therapeutic or
prophylactic properties; |
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(f)
Soap or other products of heading 34.01 containing added medicaments; |
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(g)
Preparations with a basis of plaster for use in dentistry (heading 34.07); or |
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(h)
Blood albumin not prepared for therapeutic or prophylactic uses (heading
35.02). |
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2.
For the purposes of heading 30.02, the expression “immunological products”
applies to peptides and proteins (other than goods of heading 29.37) which
are directly involved in the regulation of immunological processes, such as
monoclonal antibodies (MAB), antibody fragments, antibody conjugates and
antibody fragment conjugates, interleukins, interferons (IFN), chemokines and
certain tumor necrosis factors (TNF), growth factors (GF), hematopoietins and
colony stimulating factors (CSF). |
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3.
For the purposes of headings 30.03 and 30.04 and of Note 4 (d) to this
Chapter, the following are to be treated: |
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(a)
As unmixed products: |
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(1)
Unmixed products dissolved in water; |
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(2)
All goods of Chapter 28 or 29; and |
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(3)
Simple vegetable extracts of heading 13.02, merely standardised or dissolved
in any solvent; |
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(b)
As products which have been mixed: |
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(1)
Colloidal solutions and suspensions (other than colloidal sulphur); |
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(2)
Vegetable extracts obtained by the treatment of mixtures of vegetable
materials; and |
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(3)
Salts and concentrates obtained by evaporating natural mineral waters. |
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4.
Heading 30.06 applies only to the following, which are to be classified in
that heading and in no other heading of the Nomenclature: |
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(a)
Sterile surgical catgut, similar sterile suture materials (including sterile
absorbable surgical or dental yarns) and sterile tissue adhesives for
surgical wound closure; |
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(b)
Sterile laminaria and sterile laminaria tents; |
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(c)
Sterile absorbable surgical or dental haemostatics; sterile surgical or
dental adhesion barriers, whether or not absorbable; |
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(d)
Opacifying preparations for X-ray examinations and diagnostic reagents
designed to be administered to the patient, being unmixed products put up in
measured doses or products consisting of two or more ingredients which have
been mixed together for such uses; |
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(e)
Blood-grouping reagents; |
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(f)
Dental cements and other dental fillings; bone reconstruction cements; |
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(g)
First-aid boxes and kits; |
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(h)
Chemical contraceptive preparations based on hormones, on other products of
heading 29.37 or on spermicides; |
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(ij)
Gel preparations designed to be used in human or veterinary medicine as a
lubricant for parts of the body for surgical operations or physical
examinations or as a coupling agent between the body and medical instruments; |
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(k)
Waste pharmaceuticals, that is, pharmaceutical products which are unfit for
their original intended purpose due to, for example, expiry of shelf life;
and |
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(l)
Appliances identifiable for ostomy use, that is, colostomy, ileostomy and
urostomy pouches cut to shape and their adhesive wafers or faceplates. |
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Subheading
Notes. |
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1.
For the purposes of subheadings 3002.13 and 3002.14, the following are to be
treated: |
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(a)
As unmixed products, pure products, whether or not containing impurities; |
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(b)
As products which have been mixed: |
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(1)
The products mentioned in (a) above dissolved in water or in other solvents; |
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(2)
The products mentioned in (a) and (b) (1) above with an added stabiliser
necessary for their preservation or transport; and |
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(3)
The products mentioned in (a), (b) (1) and (b) (2) above with any other
additive. |
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2.
Subheadings 3003.60 and 3004.60 cover medicaments containing artemisinin
(INN) for oral ingestion combined with other pharmaceutical active
ingredients, or containing any of the following active principles, whether or
not combined with other pharmaceutical active ingredients: amodiaquine (INN);
artelinic acid or its salts; artenimol (INN); artemotil (INN); artemether
(INN); artesunate (INN); chloroquine (INN); dihydroartemisinin (INN);
lumefantrine (INN); mefloquine (INN); piperaquine (INN); pyrimethamine (INN)
or sulfadoxine (INN). |
| HS code |
Product
description in English |
| 3001 |
Glands and
other organs for organo- therapeutic uses, dried, whether or not powdered;
extracts of glands or other organs or of their secretions for
organo-therapeutic uses; heparin and its salts; other human or animal
substances prepared for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, not elsewhere
specified or included. |
| 30012000 |
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Extracts of glands or other organs or of their secretions |
| 30019000 |
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Other |
| 3002 |
Human
blood; animal blood prepared for therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic
uses; antisera, other blood fractions and immunological products, whether or
not modified or obtained by means of biotechnological processes; vaccines,
toxins, cultures of micro-organisms (excluding yeasts) and similar products. |
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Antisera, other blood fractions and immunological products, whether or not
modified or obtained by means of biotechnological processes: |
| 30021100 |
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- Malaria diagnostic test kits |
| 300212 |
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- Antisera and other blood fractions: |
| 30021210 |
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- - Antisera; plasma protein solutions; haemoglobin powder |
| 30021290 |
-
- - Other |
| 30021300 |
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- Immunological products, unmixed, not put up in measured doses or in forms
or packings for retail sale |
| 30021400 |
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- Immunological products, mixed, not put up in measured doses or in forms or
packings for retail sale |
| 30021500 |
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- Immunological products, put up in measured doses or in forms or packings
for retail sale |
| 30021900 |
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- Other |
| 300220 |
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Vaccines for human medicine: |
| 30022010 |
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- Tetanus toxoid |
| 30022020 |
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- Pertussis, measles, meningitis or polio vaccines |
| 30022090 |
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- Other |
| 30023000 |
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Vaccines for veterinary medicine |
| 30029000 |
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Other |
| 3003 |
Medicaments
(excluding goods of heading 30.02, 30.05 or 30.06) consisting of two or more
constituents which have been mixed together for therapeutic or prophylactic
uses, not put up in measured doses or in forms or packings for retail sale. |
| 300310 |
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Containing penicillins or derivatives thereof, with a penicillanic acid
structure, or streptomycins or their derivatives: |
| 30031010 |
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- Containing amoxicillin (INN) or its salts |
| 30031020 |
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- Containing ampicillin (INN) or its salts |
| 30031090 |
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- Other |
| 30032000 |
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Other, containing antibiotics |
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Other, containing hormones or other products of heading 29.37: |
| 30033100 |
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- Containing insulin |
| 30033900 |
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- Other |
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Other, containing alkaloids or derivatives thereof: |
| 30034100 |
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- Containing ephedrine or its salts |
| 30034200 |
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- Containing pseudoephedrine (INN) or its salts |
| 30034300 |
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- Containing norephedrine or its salts |
| 30034900 |
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- Other |
| 30036000 |
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Other, containing antimalarial active principles described in Subheading Note
2 to this Chapter |
| 30039000 |
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Other |
| 3004 |
Medicaments
(excluding goods of heading 30.02, 30.05 or 30.06) consisting of mixed or
unmixed products for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, put up in measured
doses (including those in the form of transdermal administration systems) or
in forms or packings for retail sale. |
| 300410 |
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Containing penicillins or derivatives thereof, with a penicillanic acid
structure, or streptomycins or their derivatives: |
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-
- Containing penicillins or derivatives thereof: |
| 30041015 |
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- - Containing penicillin G (excluding penicillin G benzathine),
phenoxymethyl penicillin or salts thereof |
| 30041016 |
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- - Containing ampicillin, amoxycillin or salts thereof, of a kind taken
orally |
| 30041019 |
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- - Other |
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- Containing streptomycins or derivatives thereof: |
| 30041021 |
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- - In ointment form |
| 30041029 |
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- - Other |
| 300420 |
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Other, containing antibiotics: |
| 30042010 |
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- Containing gentamycin, lincomycin, sulfamethoxazole or their derivatives,
of a kind taken orally or in ointment form |
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- Containing erythromycin or derivatives thereof: |
| 30042031 |
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- - Of a kind taken orally |
| 30042032 |
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- - In ointment form |
| 30042039 |
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- - Other |
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- Containing tetracyclines or chloramphenicols or derivatives thereof: |
| 30042071 |
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- - Of a kind taken orally or in ointment form |
| 30042079 |
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- - Other |
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- Other: |
| 30042091 |
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- - Of a kind taken orally or in ointment form |
| 30042099 |
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- - Other |
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Other, containing hormones or other products of heading 29.37: |
| 30043100 |
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- Containing insulin |
| 300432 |
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- Containing corticosteroid hormones, their derivatives or structural
analogues: |
| 30043210 |
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- - Containing dexamethasone or their derivatives |
| 30043240 |
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- - Containing hydrocortisone sodium succinate or fluocinolone acetonide |
| 30043290 |
-
- - Other |
| 30043900 |
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- Other |
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Other, containing alkaloids or derivatives thereof: |
| 30044100 |
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- Containing ephedrine or its salts |
| 30044200 |
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- Containing pseudoephedrine (INN) or its salts |
| 30044300 |
-
- Containing norephedrine or its salts |
| 300449 |
-
- Other: |
| 30044910 |
-
- - Containing morphine or its derivatives |
| 30044950 |
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- - Containing papaverine or berberine, of a kind taken orally |
| 30044960 |
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- - Containing theophyline, of a kind taken orally |
| 30044970 |
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- - Containing atropine sulphate |
| 30044980 |
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- - Containing quinine hydrochloride or dihydroquinine chloride, for
injection; Containing quinine sulphate or bisulphate, of a kind taken orally |
| 30044990 |
-
- - Other |
| 300450 |
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Other, containing vitamins or other products of heading 29.36: |
| 30045010 |
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- Of a kind suitable for children, in syrup form |
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- Other, containing more than one vitamin: |
| 30045021 |
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- - Of a kind taken orally |
| 30045029 |
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- - Other |
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- Other: |
| 30045091 |
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- - Containing vitamin A, B or C |
| 30045099 |
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- - Other |
| 300460 |
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Other, containing antimalarial active principles described in Subheading Note
2 to this Chapter: |
| 30046010 |
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- Containing artemisinin combined with other pharmaceutical active
ingredients |
| 30046020 |
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- Containing artesunate or chloroquine |
| 30046090 |
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- Other |
| 300490 |
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Other: |
| 30049010 |
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- Transdermal therapeutic system patches for the treatment of cancer or heart
diseases |
| 30049020 |
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- Closed sterile water for inhalation, pharmaceutical grade |
| 30049030 |
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- Antiseptics |
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- Anaesthetics: |
| 30049041 |
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- - Containing procaine hydrochloride |
| 30049049 |
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- - Other |
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- Analgesics, antipyretics and other medicaments for the treatment of coughs
or colds, whether or not containing antihistamines: |
| 30049051 |
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- - Containing acetylsalicylic acid, paracetamol or dipyrone (INN), of a kind
taken orally |
| 30049052 |
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- - Containing chlorpheniramine maleate |
| 30049053 |
-
- - Containing diclofenac, of a kind taken orally |
| 30049054 |
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- - Containing piroxicam (INN) or ibuprofen |
| 30049055 |
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- - Other, in liniment form |
| 30049059 |
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- - Other |
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- Antimalarials: |
| 30049062 |
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- - Containing primaquine |
| 30049064 |
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- - Containing artemisinin other than of subheading 3004.60.10 |
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-
- - Other: |
| 30049065 |
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- - - Herbal medicaments |
| 30049069 |
-
- - - Other |
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- Anthelmintic: |
| 30049071 |
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- - Containing piperazine or mebendazole (INN) |
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- - Other: |
| 30049072 |
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- - - Herbal medicaments |
| 30049079 |
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- - - Other |
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- Other medicaments for the treatment of cancer, HIV/AIDS or other
intractable diseases: |
| 30049081 |
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- - Containing deferoxamine, for injection |
| 30049082 |
-
- - Anti HIV/AIDS medicaments |
| 30049089 |
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- - Other |
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- Other: |
| 30049091 |
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- - Containing sodium chloride or glucose, for infusion |
| 30049092 |
-
- - Containing sorbitol or salbutamol, for infusion |
| 30049093 |
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- - Containing sorbitol or salbutamol, in other forms |
| 30049094 |
-
- - Containing cimetidine (INN) or ranitidine (INN) other than for injection |
| 30049095 |
-
- - Containing phenobarbital, diazepam or chlorpromazine, other than for
injection or infusion |
| 30049096 |
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- - Nasal-drop medicaments containing naphazoline, xylometazoline or
oxymetazoline |
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- - Other: |
| 30049098 |
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- - - Herbal medicaments |
| 30049099 |
-
- - - Other |
| 3005 |
Wadding,
gauze, bandages and similar articles (for example, dressings, adhesive
plasters, poultices), impregnated or coated with pharmaceutical substances or
put up in forms or packings for retail sale for medical, surgical, dental or
veterinary purposes. |
| 300510 |
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Adhesive dressings and other articles having an adhesive layer: |
| 30051010 |
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- Impregnated or coated with pharmaceutical substances |
| 30051090 |
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- Other |
| 300590 |
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Other: |
| 30059010 |
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- Bandages |
| 30059020 |
-
- Gauze |
| 30059090 |
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- Other |
| 3006 |
Pharmaceutical
goods specified in Note 4 to this Chapter. |
| 300610 |
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Sterile surgical catgut, similar sterile suture materials (including sterile
absorbable surgical or dental yarns) and sterile tissue adhesives for
surgical wound closure; sterile laminaria and sterile laminaria tents;
sterile absorbable surgical or dental haemostatics; sterile surgical or
dental adhesion barriers, whether or not absorbable: |
| 30061010 |
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- Sterile absorbable surgical or dental yarn; sterile surgical or dental
adhesion barriers, whether or not absorbable |
| 30061090 |
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- Other |
| 30062000 |
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Blood-grouping reagents |
| 300630 |
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Opacifying preparations for X-ray examinations; diagnostic reagents designed
to be administered to the patient: |
| 30063010 |
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- Barium sulphate, of a kind taken orally |
| 30063020 |
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- Reagents of microbial origin, of a kind suitable for veterinary biological
diagnosis |
| 30063030 |
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- Other microbial diagnostic reagents |
| 30063090 |
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- Other |
| 300640 |
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Dental cements and other dental fillings; bone reconstruction cements: |
| 30064010 |
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- Dental cements and other dental fillings |
| 30064020 |
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- Bone reconstruction cements |
| 30065000 |
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First-aid boxes and kits |
| 30066000 |
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Chemical contraceptive preparations based on hormones, on other products of
heading 29.37 or on spermicides |
| 30067000 |
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Gel preparations designed to be used in human or veterinary medicine as a
lubricant for parts of the body for surgical operations or physical
examinations or as a coupling agent between the body and medical instruments |
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Other: |
| 30069100 |
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- Appliances identifiable for ostomy use |
| 300692 |
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- Waste pharmaceuticals: |
| 30069210 |
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- - Of medicaments for the treatment of cancer, HIV/AIDS or other intractable
diseases |
| 30069290 |
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- - Other |