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 550,889 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 May 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	154,263
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	80,117
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	64,177
2525	Mica, including splittings	3	63,170
2522	Quicklime, slaked lime and hydraulic lime, other than calcium oxide and hydroxide of heading 2825	3	46,385
2523	Portland cement, aluminous cement, slag cement, supersulfate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not colored or in the form of clinkers	5	39,140
2501	HS 2501	1	31,570
2508	Other clays (not including expanded clays of heading 6806), andalusite, kyanite and sillimanite, whether or not calcined	5	13,604
2521	HS 2521	1	10,645
2505	Natural sands of all kinds, whether or not colored, other than metalbearing sands of chapter 26	2	10,145
2529	Feldspar	4	4,749
2504	Natural graphite	2	4,686
2509	HS 2509	1	4,211
2530	Mineral substances	3	3,417
2519	Natural magnesium carbonate (magnesite)	2	3,367
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	3,023
2520	Gypsum	2	2,672
2512	HS 2512	1	2,369
2511	Natural barium sulfate (barytes)	2	2,213
2513	Pumice	1	1,453
2507	HS 2507	1	1,303
2506	Quartz (other than natural sands)	2	1,086
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	968
2514	HS 2514	1	831
2528	HS 2528	1	427
2502	HS 2502	1	390
2510	Natural calcium phosphates, natural aluminum calcium phosphates and phosphatic chalk	1	337
2503	HS 2503	1	171