Heading 3401 · Chapter 34

Soap and skin-washing products, including soap-impregnated paper and textiles

This covers soap and soap-like organic surfactant products in bars, blocks or moulded pieces and shapes; soap in flakes, granules, powders or paste; liquid or cream skin-washing products in retail packs; and paper, cotton wool, felt or nonwovens impregnated or coated with soap or cleansing products. The child heading is determined by the product’s form and, where stated, whether it is for toilet use or is packed for retail sale.

For example

Toilet soap bar
Laundry soap bar
Soap flakes
Liquid skin-washing product in a retail pack

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Official tariff text

Soap; organic surface-active products and preparations for use as soap, in the form of bars, cakes, moulded 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

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Step 1 · Section VI Products of the chemical or allied industries
Is it an inorganic or organic chemical; a pharmaceutical product; a fertilizer; a tanning or dye extract, pigment, paint, varnish, filler or printing ink; an essential oil, perfume, cosmetic or toilet product; soap, a surface-active, washing, cleaning, polishing or wax product; a protein, modified starch, glue or enzyme; an explosive, pyrotechnic article, match or other specified combustible material; a photographic or cinematographic product; or another chemical product?
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Is it soap or a skin-washing product in liquid or cream form for retail sale; another organic surfactant, washing or cleaning product; a prepared lubricant; synthetic or prepared wax; a polishing or scouring product; a stearin, paraffin or wax candle or similar product; or modelling paste, dental wax, dental impression material or another dental preparation based on gypsum, burnt gypsum or calcium sulphate?
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Which description fits the product: a bar, block or moulded piece or shape, or paper, cotton wool, felt or nonwoven impregnated or coated with soap or cleansing products (for toilet use or not); soap in flakes, granules, powder, paste or another form not specified here; or a liquid or cream for washing the skin in a retail pack?

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3401 Soap; organic surface-active products and preparations for use as soap, in the form of bars, cakes, moulded 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 you are here 0.0–4.0%
3402 Organic surface-active agents (excl. soap); surface-active preparations, washing preparations, incl. auxiliary washing preparations, and cleaning preparations, whether or not containing soap (excl. those of heading 3401) 0.0–4.0%
3403 Lubricant preparations, incl. cutting-oil preparations, bolt or nut release preparations, anti-rust or anti-corrosion preparations and mould-release preparations based on lubricants; textile lubricant preparations and preparations of a kind used for the oil or grease treatment of textile materials, leather, furskins or other materials (excl. preparations containing, as basic constituents, >= 70% petroleum oil or bituminous mineral oil by weight) 4.6–6.5%
3404 Artificial waxes and prepared waxes 0.0%
3405 Shoe polish, furniture wax and floor waxes, polishes and creams for coachwork, glass or metal, scouring pastes and powders and similar preparations, whether or not in the form of paper, wadding, felt, nonwovens, sponge plastics, cellular plastics or cellular rubber, impregnated, coated or covered with such preparations (excl. artificial and prepared waxes of heading 3404) 0.0%
3406 Stearin-, paraffin- og vokslys samt lignende varer 0.0%
3407 Modellermasse, også som legetøj; såkaldt dentalvoks samt aftryksmasse til dentalbrug, i assortimenter, i pakninger til detailsalg, i plader, i hesteskoform, som stænger eller i lignende former; andre præparater til dentalbrug, på basis af gips, af brændt gips eller calciumsulfat 0.0%

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