PIGMENT MASTERBATCH CONTAINING METHYL METHACRYLATE (NON-AQUEOUS) CARRIER PRODUCT FORMULATION IS 50% CI PIGMENT BROWN 24 CHROME ANTIMONY TITANIUM BUFF RUTILE (CURRENTLY SICOTAN YELLOW L 1910) DISPERSED IN 39% METHYL METHACRYLATE WHICH CONTAINS AN 11% BLEND OF METHYL METHACRYLATE COPOLYMERS. THE MANUFACTURING PROCESS BRIEFLY INVOLVES THE PRODUCTION OF A POLYMERIC DISPERSANT SOLVATED IN METHYL METHACRYLATE. THIS DISPERSANT CARRIER IS THEN HIGH SHEAR MIXED WITH THE PIGMENT. THE PRODUCT IS THEN PACKAGED AND SOLD IN SMALL OR LARGE METAL DRUMS RANGING FROM APPROXIMATELY 1 TO 300 KG NET WEIGHT. THE PRODUCT CAN BE SUMMARISED AS BEING A PIGMENT DISPERSED IN A NON-AQUEOUS LIQUID AND A COLOURING MATTER PUT UP IN PACKINGS (DRUMS) FOR RETAIL SALE.

CLASSIFICATION HAS BEEN DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING:- GENERAL INTERPRETATIVE RULES (GIRS) GIR 1 HAS BEEN USED TO CLASSIFY THIS PRODUCT BY THE TERMS OF HEADING 3206 - OTHER COLOURING MATTER; PREPARATIONS AS SPECIFIED IN NOTE 3 TO THIS CHAPTER, OTHER THAN THOSE OF HEADING 3203, 3204 OR 3205; INORGANIC PRODUCTS OF A KIND USED AS LUMINOPHORES, WHETHER OR NOT CHEMICALLY DEFINED GIR 5B HAS BEEN USED TO IDENTIFY THE TYPE OF PACKAGING. GIR 6 HAS BEEN USED TO CLASSIFY THE GOODS TO SUBHEADING LEVEL 320649 - OTHER THAN ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED WITHIN THIS HEADING CN CODE 32064970 - OTHER THAN ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED WITHIN THIS HEADING TARIC CODE 3206497090 - OTHER THAN ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED WITHIN THIS HEADING ALSO CLASSIFIED IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHAPTER NOTE 3 TO CHAPTER 32 HSENs TO 3206