Harmonized Tariff Schedule
Chapter 34: Soap/Wax
HTS Chapter 34 covers soap/wax imported into the United States. Use this page to review tariff classifications, MFN duty rates, and special program rates by code.
HTS Codes in Chapter 34
71 codes| Code | Description | General Rate | Special Rate | Flags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3401 | Soap; organic surface-active products and preparations for use as soap, in the form of bars, cakes, molded pieces or shapes, whether or not containing soap; organic surface-active products and preparations for washing the skin, in the form of liquid or cream and put up for retail sale, whether or not containing soap; paper, wadding, felt and nonwovens, impregnated, coated or covered with soap or detergent: | Free | - | Section 301 |
| 3401.11 | For toilet use (including medicated products): | Free | - | Section 301 |
| 3401.11.10.00 | Castile soap | Free | - | Section 301 |
| 3401.11.50.00 | Other | Free | - | Section 301 |
| 3401.19.00.00 | Other | Free | - | Section 301 |
| 3401.20.00.00 | Soap in other forms | Free | - | Section 301 |
| 3401.30 | Organic surface-active products and preparations for washing the skin, in the form of liquid or cream and put up for retail sale, whether or not containing soap: | Free | - | Section 301 |
| 3401.30.10.00 | Containing any aromatic or modified aromatic surface-active agent | 4% | Free (A,AU,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL,JO,K,KR,MA,OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG) | Section 301 |
| 3401.30.50.00 | Other | Free | - | Section 301 |
| 3402 | Organic surface-active agents (other than soap); surface-active preparations, washing preparations (including auxiliary washing preparations) and cleaning preparations, whether or not containing soap, other than those of heading 3401: | Free | - | Section 301 |
| 3402.31 | Linear alkylbenzene sulfonic acids and their salts: | Free | - | Section 301 |
| 3402.31.10.00 | Aromatic or modified aromatic | 6.5% | Free (A, AU, BH, CL, CO, D, E, IL, JO, KR, MA, OM, P, PA, PE, S, SG) | Section 301 |
| 3402.31.90.00 | Other | 3.7% | Free (A, AU, BH, CL,CO, D, E, IL, JO, KR, MA, OM, P, PA, PE, S, SG) | Section 301 |
| 3402.39 | Other: | Free | - | Section 301 |
| 3402.39.10.00 | Aromatic or modified aromatic | 4% | Free (A, AU, BH, CL, CO, D, E, IL, JO, KR, MA, OM, P, PA, PE, S, SG) | Section 301 |
| 3402.39.90 | Other | 3.7% | Free (A, AU, BH, CL, CO, D, E, IL, JO, KR, MA, OM, P, PA, PE, S, SG) | Section 301 |
| 3402.39.90.10 | Salts of sulfated alcohols | Free | - | Section 301 |
| 3402.39.90.20 | Salts of sulfated polyethers | Free | - | Section 301 |
| 3402.39.90.50 | Other | Free | - | Section 301 |
| 3402.41 | Cationic: | Free | - | Section 301 |
| 3402.41.10.00 | Aromatic or modified aromatic | 4% | Free (A, AU, BH, CL, CO, D,E, IL, JO, KR, MA, OM, P, PA, PE, S, SG) | Section 301 |
| 3402.41.90.00 | Other | 4% | Free (A, AU, BH, CL, CO, D, E, IL, JO, KR, MA, OM, P, PA, PE, S, SG) | Section 301 |
| 3402.42 | Non-ionic: | Free | - | Section 301 |
| 3402.42.10.00 | Aromatic or modified aromatic | 4% | Free (A, AU, BH, CL, CO, D, E, IL, JO, K, KR, MA, OM, P, PA, PE, S, SG) | Section 301 |
| 3402.42.20 | Fatty substances of animal, vegetable or microbial origin | 4% | Free (A, AU, BH, CL, CO, D, E, IL, JO, K, KR, MA, OM, P, PA, PE, S, SG) | Section 301 |
| 3402.42.20.10 | Polyethers | Free | - | Section 301 |
| 3402.42.20.20 | Esters and ether-esters of polyhydric alcohols | Free | - | Section 301 |
| 3402.42.20.50 | Other | Free | - | Section 301 |
| 3402.42.90.00 | Other | 3.7% | Free (A, AU, BH, CL, CO, D, E, IL, JO, K, KR, MA, OM, P, PA, PE, S, SG) | Section 301 |
| 3402.49 | Other: | Free | - | Section 301 |
| 3402.49.10.00 | Aromatic or modified aromatic | 4% | Free (A, AU, BH, CL, CO, D, E, IL, JO, KR, MA, OM, P, PA, PE, S, SG) | Section 301 |
| 3402.49.90.00 | Other | 3.7% | Free (A, AU, BH, CL, CO, D, E, IL, JO, KR, MA, OM, P, PA, PE, S, SG) | Section 301 |
| 3402.50 | Preparations put up for retail sale: | Free | - | Section 301 |
| 3402.50.11.00 | Containing any aromatic or modified aromatic surface-active agent | 4% | Free (A, AU, BH, CL, CO, D, E, IL, JO, K, KR, MA, OM, P, PA, PE, S, SG) | Section 301 |
| 3402.50.51.00 | Other | Free | - | Section 301 |
| 3402.90 | Other: | Free | - | Section 301 |
| 3402.90.10.00 | Synthetic detergents | 3.8% | Free (A,AU,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL,JO,KR,MA,OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG) | Section 301 |
| 3402.90.30.00 | Containing any aromatic or modified aromatic surface-active agent | 4% | Free (A,AU,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL,JO,KR,MA,OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG) | Section 301 |
| 3402.90.50 | Other | 3.7% | Free (A,AU,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL,JO,KR,L,MA,OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG) | Section 301 |
| 3402.90.50.10 | Washing preparations | Free | - | Section 301 |
| 3402.90.50.30 | Cleaning preparations | Free | - | Section 301 |
| 3402.90.50.50 | Other | Free | - | Section 301 |
| 3403 | Lubricating preparations (including cutting-oil preparations, bolt or nut release preparations, antirust or anticorrosion preparations and mold release preparations, based on lubricants) and preparations of a kind used for the oil or grease treatment of textile materials, leather, furskins or other materials, but excluding preparations containing, as basic constituents, 70 percent or more by weight of petroleum oils or oils obtained from bituminous minerals: | Free | - | Section 301 |
| 3403.11 | Preparations for the treatment of textile materials, leather, furskins or other materials: | Free | - | Section 301 |
| 3403.11.20.00 | Containing 50 percent or more by weight of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals | 0.2% | Free (A+,AU,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL, JO,KR,MA,OM,P, PA,PE,S,SG) | Section 301 |
| 3403.11.40.00 | Other | 6.1% | Free (A,AU,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL,JO,KR,MA,OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG) | Section 301 |
| 3403.11.50.00 | Other | 1.4% | Free (A,AU,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL,JO,KR,MA,OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG) | Section 301 |
| 3403.19 | Other: | Free | - | Section 301 |
| 3403.19.10.00 | Containing 50 percent or more by weight of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals | 0.2% | Free (A+,AU,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL, JO, JP, KR,MA,OM,P, PA,PE,S,SG) | Section 301 |
| 3403.19.50.00 | Other | 5.8% | Free (A,AU,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL,JO,KR,MA,OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG) 2.9%(JP) | Section 301 |
| 3403.91 | Preparations for the treatment of textile materials, leather, furskins or other materials: | Free | - | Section 301 |
| 3403.91.10.00 | Preparations for the treatment of textile materials | 6% | Free (A,AU,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL,JO,KR,MA,OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG) 3%(JP) | Section 301 |
| 3403.91.50.00 | Other | 6.5% | Free (A+,AU,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL,JO,KR,MA,OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG) 3.25% (JP) | Section 301 |
| 3403.99.00.00 | Other | 6.5% | Free (A+,AU,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL,JO,KR,MA,OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG) 3.25% (JP) | Section 301 |
| 3404 | Artificial waxes and prepared waxes: | Free | - | Section 301 |
| 3404.20.00.00 | Of poly(oxyethylene) (polyethylene glycol) | Free | - | Section 301 |
| 3404.90 | Other: | Free | - | Section 301 |
| 3404.90.10.00 | Containing bleached beeswax | Free | - | Section 301 |
| 3404.90.51 | Other | Free | - | Section 301 |
| 3404.90.51.10 | Of chemically modified lignite | Free | - | Section 301 |
| 3404.90.51.50 | Other | Free | - | Section 301 |
| 3405 | Polishes and creams, for footwear, furniture, floors, coachwork, glass or metal, scouring pastes and powders and similar preparations (whether or not in the form of paper, wadding, felt, nonwovens, cellular plastics or cellular rubber, impregnated, coated or covered with such preparations), excluding waxes of heading 3404: | Free | - | Section 301 |
| 3405.10.00.00 | Polishes, creams and similar preparations for footwear or leather | Free | - | Section 301 |
| 3405.20.00.00 | Polishes, creams and similar preparations for the maintenance of wooden furniture, floors or other woodwork | Free | - | Section 301 |
| 3405.30.00.00 | Polishes and similar preparations for coachwork, other than metal polishes | Free | - | Section 301 |
| 3405.40.00.00 | Scouring pastes and powders and other scouring preparations | Free | - | Section 301 |
| 3405.90.00.00 | Other | Free | - | Section 301 |
| 3406.00.00.00 | Candles, tapers and the like | Free | - | Section 301 |
| 3407 | Modeling pastes, including those put up for children's amusement; preparations known as "dental wax" or as "dental impression compounds", put up in sets, in packings for retail sale or in plates, horseshoe shapes, sticks or similar forms; other preparations for use in dentistry, with a basis of plaster (of calcined gypsum or calcium sulfate): | Free | - | Section 301 |
| 3407.00.20.00 | Modeling pastes, including those put up for children's amusement | Free | - | Section 301 |
| 3407.00.40.00 | Other | Free | - | Section 301 |
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