PIGMENT MASTERBATCH CONTAINING TRIACETIN (NON-AQUEOUS) CARRIER PRODUCT FORMULATION IS 5% CARBON BLACK (CURRENTLY SPECIAL BLACK 5) DISPERSED IN 85.5% TRIACETIN (GLYCEROL TRIACETATE) WHICH CONTAINS 9.5% METHYL METHACRYLATE COPOLYMER. THE MANUFACTURING PROCESS BRIEFLY INVOLVES THE PRODUCTION OF A POLYMERIC DISPERSANT SOLVATED IN TRIACETIN, KNOWN INTERNALLY AS GT6. THIS DISPERSANT CARRIER IS THEN HIGH SHEAR MIXED WITH CARBON BLACK. THE RESULTANT PIGMENT DISPERSION IS MILLED TO PRODUCE A FINER DISPERSED PRODUCT. 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