Freight Classes & Shipping Codes

Mineral Fuels, Mineral Oils and Products of Their Distillation; Bituminous Substances; Mineral Waxes

Select the heading below that best describes what type of Mineral product is being shipped.

Note: Mineral shipments under 150 lbs. may be shipped as parcels by common carrier such as UPS, Canpar Express and FedEx Express (over 150 lbs. use ShipNerd LTL Freight service).

CodeDescription
2701Coal; briquettes, ovoids and similar solid fuels manufactured from coal.
2702Lignite, whether or not agglomerated, excluding jet.
2703Peat (including peat litter), whether or not agglomerated.
2704Coke and semicoke of coal, of lignite or of peat, whether or not agglomerated; retort carbon.
2705Coal gas, water gas, producer gas and similar gases, other than petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons.
2706Tar distilled from coal, from lignite or from peat, and other mineral tars, whether or not dehydrated or partially distilled, including reconstituted tars.
2707Oils and other products of the distillation of high temperature coal tar; similar products in which the weight of the aromatic constituents exceeds that of the nonaromatic constituents.
2708Pitch and pitch coke, obtained from coal tar or from other mineral tars.
2709Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, crude.
2710Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, other than crude; preparations not elsewhere specified or included, containing by weight 70 % or more of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals, these oils being the basic con
2711Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons.
2712Petroleum jelly; paraffin wax, microcrystalline petroleum wax, slack wax, ozokerite, lignite wax, peat wax, other mineral waxes, and similar products obtained by synthesis or by other processes, whether or not coloured.
2713Petroleum coke, petroleum bitumen and other residues of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals.
2714Bitumen and asphalt, natural; bituminous or oil shale and tar sands; asphaltites and asphaltic rocks.
2715Bituminous mixtures based on natural asphalt, on natural bitumen, on petroleum bitumen, on mineral tar or on mineral tar pitch (for example, bituminous mastics, cutbacks).
2716Electrical energy. (optional heading)