HS codes for natural stone and quarry products: bilingual codebook (English, Arabic)

Compiled by Phoenician Stone Group, this English-Arabic codebook explains the eleven HS headings under which natural stone and quarry products are traded, so that buyers, freight forwarders and researchers can match a Syrian stone offer, a customs declaration and a trade statistic to the same heading.

Plain-language English and Arabic descriptions of the eleven Harmonized System headings that cover natural stone and quarry products (2514-2518, 2520, 2521, 2530, 6801-6803), grouped as building stone, worked stone and aggregates, paraphrased from the WCO HS 2022 nomenclature.

Files

• natural-stone-hs-codes-v1.csv: 11 rows, 4,633 bytes
• natural-stone-hs-codes-v1.json: 11 rows, 8,536 bytes

Method

• Paraphrase of the WCO HS 2022 heading texts (not the legal text); Arabic descriptions written for this codebook.
• 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.
• Arabic descriptions were written for this codebook in plain language; they are not taken from an official Arabic tariff.

Limits

• Plain-language paraphrase, not the legal HS text; classification of a shipment is decided by customs, using the official nomenclature and its Explanatory Notes.
• Arabic descriptions were written for this codebook; they are not an official Arabic tariff text.

Rights and credit

Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Copyright 2026 Phoenician Stone Group for this compilation.

The HS heading numbers are the internationally used codes of the Harmonized System (World Customs Organization). The descriptions are Phoenician Stone Group's own plain-language paraphrase and Arabic text, not the WCO legal text, which is copyright World Customs Organization and is not reproduced here.

Attribution requested: Phoenician Stone Group, paraphrasing the WCO HS 2022 nomenclature.

Online: dataset page (English) https://phoenicianstone.net/data/natural-stone-hs-codes/; Arabic https://phoenicianstone.net/ar/data/natural-stone-hs-codes/; catalogue https://phoenicianstone.net/data/. The same files, with a data viewer: https://huggingface.co/datasets/phoenician-stone-group/syrian-natural-stone-open-data.

About the publisher

Phoenician Stone Group is a Syrian natural stone company, founded in 2004, with its own quarries and production in Syria and its sales and client service run from Europe. It quarries, processes and exports limestone, fossil limestone (shell stone), travertine and volcanic basalt, and supplies industrial minerals.

It publishes these data because buyers, specifiers and researchers have little reliable, sourced information on Syrian stone and its trade, and much of what circulates predates the changes in Syria's trade rules since 2025. Every figure is tied to a dated public source, so that it can be checked independently and corrected openly in a new version.

Disclosure: A neutral reference table; it contains no information about the company. Website: https://phoenicianstone.net/.

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• Syrian Natural Stone Guide: Limestone to Basalt: how the nine stones differ, and which finishes and formats each comes in.
• Aleppo Stone and Syrian Limestone: A Buyer's Guide: why "Aleppo stone" is a regional name rather than a quality standard.
• Hauran Basalt and Syrian Basalt: A Buyer's Guide: where southern Syria's black stone comes from, and how Bosra was built from it.
• Exporting Syrian Stone: A Practical Guide for Buyers: from the first enquiry to the containers, what to agree in writing and which documents to expect.
• Syrian Stone, Sourced the European Way: how an order from the company's own quarries is checked, documented and handled by its sales team in Europe.
• The Mediterranean Has More Than One Shore: Syria's place among the Mediterranean's stone origins, from Ugarit's harbour to the port of Latakia.

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]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.24108336