28 Inorganic chemicals; organic or inorganic compounds of precious metals, of rare-earth metals, of radioactive elements or of isotopes
| Heading | Description | General |
|---|---|---|
| 2801 | Fluorine, chlorine, bromine and iodine | — |
| 2802 | Sulfur, sublimed or precipitated; colloidal sulfur | Free |
| 2803 | Carbon (carbon blacks and other forms of carbon not elsewhere specified or included) | Free |
| 2804 | Hydrogen, rare gases and other nonmetals | — |
| 2805 | Alkali or alkaline-earth metals; rare-earth metals, scandium and yttrium, whether or not intermixed or interalloyed; mercury | — |
| 2806 | Hydrogen chloride (Hydrochloric acid); chlorosulfuric acid | — |
| 2807 | Sulfuric acid; oleum | Free |
| 2808 | Nitric acid; sulfonitric acids | Free |
| 2809 | Diphosphorus pentaoxide; phosphoric acid;polyphosphoric acids, whether or not chemically defined | — |
| 2810 | Oxides of boron; boric acids | 1.5% |
| 2811 | Other inorganic acids and other inorganic oxygen compounds of nonmetals | — |
| 2812 | Halides and halide oxides of nonmetals | — |
| 2813 | Sulfides of nonmetals; commercial phosphorus trisulfide | — |
| 2814 | Ammonia, anhydrous or in aqueous solution | — |
| 2815 | Sodium hydroxide (Caustic soda); potassium hydroxide (Caustic potash); peroxides of sodium or potassium | — |
| 2816 | Hydroxide and peroxide of magnesium; oxides, hydroxides and peroxides, of strontium or barium | — |
| 2817 | Zinc oxide; zinc peroxide | Free |
| 2818 | Artificial corundum, whether or not chemically defined; aluminum oxide; aluminum hydroxide | — |
| 2819 | Chromium oxides and hydroxides | — |
| 2820 | Manganese oxides | — |
| 2821 | Iron oxides and hydroxides; earth colors containing 70 percent or more by weight of combined iron evaluated as Fe2O3 | — |
| 2822 | Cobalt oxides and hydroxides; commercial cobalt oxides | 0.1% |
| 2823 | Titanium oxides | 5.5% |
| 2824 | Lead oxides; red lead and orange lead | — |
| 2825 | Hydrazine and hydroxylamine and their inorganic salts; other inorganic bases; other metal oxides, hydroxides and peroxides | — |
| 2826 | Fluorides; fluorosilicates, fluoroaluminates and other complex fluorine salts | — |
| 2827 | Chlorides, chloride oxides and chloride hydroxides; bromides and bromide oxides; iodides and iodide oxides | — |
| 2828 | Hypochlorites; commercial calcium hypochlorite; chlorites; hypobromites | — |
| 2829 | Chlorates and perchlorates; bromates and perbromates; iodates and periodates | — |
| 2830 | Sulfides; polysulfides, whether or not chemically defined | — |
| 2831 | Dithionites and sulfoxylates | — |
| 2832 | Sulfites; thiosulfates | — |
| 2833 | Sulfates; alums; peroxosulfates (persulfates) | — |
| 2834 | Nitrites; nitrates | — |
| 2835 | Phosphinates (hypophosphites), phosphonates (phosphites) and phosphates; polyphosphates, whether or not chemically defined | — |
| 2836 | Carbonates; peroxocarbonates (percarbonates); commercial ammonium carbonate containing ammonium carbamate | — |
| 2837 | Cyanides, cyanide oxides and complex cyanides | — |
| 2839 | Silicates; commercial alkali metal silicates | — |
| 2840 | Borates; peroxoborates (perborates) | — |
| 2841 | Salts of oxometallic or peroxometallic acids | — |
| 2842 | Other salts of inorganic acids or peroxoacids (including aluminosilicates whether or not chemically defined), other than azides | — |
| 2843 | Colloidal precious metals; inorganic or organic compounds of precious metals, whether or not chemically defined; amalgams of precious metals | — |
| 2844 | Radioactive chemical elements and radioactive isotopes (including the fissile or fertile chemical elements and isotopes) and their compounds; mixtures and residues containing these products | — |
| 2845 | Isotopes other than those of heading 2844; compounds, inorganic or organic, of such isotopes, whether or not chemically defined | — |
| 2846 | Compounds, inorganic or organic, of rare-earth metals, of yttrium or of scandium, or of mixtures of these metals | — |
| 2847 | Hydrogen peroxide, whether or not solidified with urea | 3.7% |
| 2849 | Carbides, whether or not chemically defined | — |
| 2850 | Hydrides, nitrides, azides, silicides and borides, whether or not chemically defined, other than compounds which are also carbides of heading 2849 | — |
| 2852 | Inorganic or organic compounds of mercury, whether or not chemically defined, excluding amalgams | — |
| 2853 | Phosphides, 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: USITC HTS (2026 Basic Edition, frozen to the exam). Rates shown at heading level; duty rates are set on 8/10-digit subheadings. Not legal or classification advice.