HS codes for natural stone and quarry products: bilingual codebook (English, Arabic)
Which customs code fits Syrian limestone, basalt or gypsum? This codebook summarises, in plain language, the eleven headings that cover natural stone and quarry products: the same headings used in the trade-by-heading data.1
The headings
| Heading | Description | Arabic name | Group |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2514 | Slate, crude, roughly trimmed or merely cut into rectangular blocks or slabs | أردواز خام أو مقطّع (2514) | Building stone, crude or cut (2514-2516) |
| 2515 | Marble, travertine, ecaussine and other calcareous building stone with an apparent specific gravity of 2.5 or more, and alabaster; crude, roughly trimmed or merely cut into rectangular blocks or slabs | رخام وترافرتين وحجر كلسي (2515) | Building stone, crude or cut (2514-2516) |
| 2516 | Granite, porphyry, basalt, sandstone and other building stone (calcareous stone outside heading 2515 usually falls here); crude, roughly trimmed or merely cut into rectangular blocks or slabs | غرانيت وبازلت وأحجار أخرى (2516) | Building stone, crude or cut (2514-2516) |
| 2517 | Pebbles, gravel and broken or crushed stone for concrete aggregate, road metalling or ballast; granules, chippings and powder of stones of headings 2515 and 2516 (marble chips: 2517.41) | حصى وحجر مجروش وكِسَر الحجر ومسحوقه (2517) | Aggregates, gypsum and industrial stone (2517-2530) |
| 2518 | Dolomite, calcined or sintered or not, including dolomite roughly trimmed or merely cut into rectangular blocks or slabs | دولوميت (2518) | Aggregates, gypsum and industrial stone (2517-2530) |
| 2520 | Gypsum and anhydrite; plasters of calcined gypsum or calcium sulphate | جبس وأنهيدريت وجص (2520) | Aggregates, gypsum and industrial stone (2517-2530) |
| 2521 | Limestone flux; limestone and other calcareous stone of a kind used to make lime or cement | حجر جيري للكلس أو الإسمنت (2521) | Aggregates, gypsum and industrial stone (2517-2530) |
| 2530 | Mineral substances not specified elsewhere (a residual heading that includes, among others, vermiculite, perlite and earth colours) | مواد معدنية أخرى (2530) | Aggregates, gypsum and industrial stone (2517-2530) |
| 6801 | Setts, curbstones and flagstones of natural stone (except slate) | حجارة رصف وبردورات وبلاطات حجرية (6801) | Worked stone and stone articles (6801-6803) |
| 6802 | Worked monumental or building stone (except slate) and articles of it: cut, dressed or polished slabs, tiles and products; also mosaic cubes and artificially coloured granules of natural stone | حجر بناء مشغول (6802) | Worked stone and stone articles (6801-6803) |
| 6803 | Worked slate and articles of slate or of agglomerated slate | أردواز مشغول (6803) | Worked stone and stone articles (6801-6803) |
Descriptions are summaries, not the legal text; the importing country's customs authority has the final word on classification.
Method and limits
- Heading texts are summarised from the WCO HS 2022 nomenclature (chapters 25 and 68). The 2.5 apparent specific gravity criterion of heading 2515 is kept because it decides between 2515 and 2516 for calcareous stone.1
- Arabic descriptions were written for this codebook in plain language; they are not taken from an official Arabic tariff.
How to cite
Phoenician Stone Group (2026). HS codes for natural stone and quarry products: bilingual codebook (English, Arabic) (version 1.0.0) [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.24108336
Sources
- HS Nomenclature 2022 edition, Chapter 25, World Customs Organization (accessed 2026-11-09)