HS Chapter 25 — Salt; sulphur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement

HS chapter 25 (Salt; sulphur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement) covers 60 product categories in U.S. import records, with 551,570 bill-of-lading shipments. The most imported headings are Granite, porphyry, basalt, sandstone and other monumental or building stone, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape, Marble, travertine and other calcareous monumental or building stone of an apparent specific gravity of 2.5 or more, and alabaster, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape, and Pebbles, gravel, broken or crushed stone, of a kind commonly used for concrete aggregates, for road metalling, or for railway or other ballast.

Sourced from U.S. Customs bill of lading data · Updated monthly · Data through July 2026 · Chapter → heading → product, drill in for importers and suppliers

Headings in this chapter

HS	Heading	Products	Shipments
2516	Granite, porphyry, basalt, sandstone and other monumental or building stone, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape	4	153,961
2515	Marble, travertine and other calcareous monumental or building stone of an apparent specific gravity of 2.5 or more, and alabaster, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape	3	79,800
2517	Pebbles, gravel, broken or crushed stone, of a kind commonly used for concrete aggregates, for road metalling, or for railway or other ballast	3	64,294
2525	Mica, including splittings	3	63,588
2522	Quicklime, slaked lime and hydraulic lime, other than calcium oxide and hydroxide of heading 2825	3	46,468
2523	Portland cement, aluminous cement, slag cement, supersulfate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not colored or in the form of clinkers	5	39,136
2501	HS 2501	1	31,248
2508	Other clays (not including expanded clays of heading 6806), andalusite, kyanite and sillimanite, whether or not calcined	5	14,033
2505	Natural sands of all kinds, whether or not colored, other than metalbearing sands of chapter 26	2	10,726
2521	HS 2521	1	10,665
2504	Natural graphite	2	4,700
2529	Feldspar	4	4,636
2509	HS 2509	1	4,183
2530	Mineral substances	3	3,453
2519	Natural magnesium carbonate (magnesite)	2	3,395
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	2	3,039
2520	Gypsum	2	2,694
2512	HS 2512	1	2,388
2511	Natural barium sulfate (barytes)	2	2,211
2513	Pumice	1	1,430
2507	HS 2507	1	1,295
2506	Quartz (other than natural sands)	2	1,075
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	2	982
2514	HS 2514	1	827
2528	HS 2528	1	439
2502	HS 2502	1	399
2510	Natural calcium phosphates, natural aluminum calcium phosphates and phosphatic chalk	1	341
2503	HS 2503	1	164