Chemicals

Classifying a satellite and classifying a chemical take the same discipline. You take what you are about to ship, find the parameter the control entry is written on, compare it to the threshold, and write down what you compared and where the number came from. The record is the classification.

What changes is who holds the number. For a chemical it may be regulatory affairs, product stewardship, or whoever holds the composition data behind the safety data sheet. We start from the CAS number, then check the actual composition and concentration of what ships.

When we are called

• A customer or forwarder asks for the export classification of a substance or a mixture
• A shipment cannot leave and the classification is the missing piece
• A list of products needs its Y codes checked, in bulk
• The safety data sheet gives a CAS number but not the composition that decides the entry
• You are not sure who in your company holds the technical data behind the safety data sheet

Common cases

• An urgent classification and exportability analysis for a chemicals producer whose shipment could not leave, opened and delivered within the day, through a law firm.
• Y-code confirmation for the 13 products of a chemicals producer, delivered as one report per product with a summary table, through a law firm.

Examples are anonymised and are not linked to the organisations listed.

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