SECTION VI PRODUCTS OF THE CHEMICAL OR ALLIED INDUSTRIES

Chapter 34 Soap, organic surface-active agents, washing preparations, lubricating preparations, artificial waxes, prepared waxes, polishing or scouring preparations, candles and similar articles, modelling pastes, "dental waxes" and dental preparations with a basis of plaster.

Statistical code

Description

Tariff rate

Tariff rate (EPA)

Unit

H.S. code

General

Temporary

WTO

GSP

LDC

Singapore

Mexico

Malaysia

Chile

Thailand

34.01

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.

Free

Soap and organic surface-active products and preparations, in the form of bars, cakes, moulded pieces or shapes, and paper, wadding, felt and nonwovens, impregnated, coated or covered with soap or detergent :

3401.11

000

For toilet use (including medicated products)

5.5%

Free

3401.19

Other

010

1 Soap and organic surface-active products and preparations

4.6%

Free

020

2 Other

6.4%

Free

3401.20

Soap in other forms

010

1 For toilet use (including medicated soap)

5.8%

Free

020

2 Other

4.6%

Free

3401.30

000

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

4.6%

Free

34.02

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 34.01.

Free

Organic surface-active agents, whether or not put up for retail sale :

3402.11

000

Anionic

6.2%

Free

3402.12

000

Cationic

6.2%

Free

3402.13

000

Non-ionic

6.2%

Free

3402.19

000

Other

6.2%

Free

3402.20

Preparations put up for retail sale

010

1 Surface-active preparations

6.2%

Free

090

2 Other

4.6%

Free

3402.90

Other

010

1 Surface-active preparations

6.2%

Free

090

2 Other

4.6%

Free

34.03

Lubricating preparations (including cutting -oil preparations, bolt or nut release preparations, anti-rust or anti-corrosion preparations and mould 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 % or more by weight of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals.

Free

Containing petroleum oils or oils obtained from bituminous minerals :

3403.11

000

Preparations for the treatment of textile materials, leather, furskins or other materials

4.8%

4.4%

Free

3403.19

Other

4.8%

3.2%

Free

091

- Containing more than 50% by weight of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals in dehydrated state

099

- Other

Other

3403.91

000

Preparations for the treatment of textile materials, leather, furskins or other materials

4.8%

4.4%

Free

3403.99

000

Other

4.6%

3.1%

Free

34.04

Artificial waxes and prepared waxes.

Free

3404.20

000

Of poly(oxyethylene) (polyethylene glycol)

4.6%

Free

3404.90

Other

2.3%

Free

010

- Of chemically modified lignite

090

- Other

34.05

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 34.04.

Free

3405.10

000

Polishes, creams and similar preparations for footwear or leather

4.6%

Free

3405.20

000

Polishes, creams and similar preparations for the maintenance of wooden furniture, floors or other woodwork

4.6%

Free

3405.30

000

Polishes and similar preparations for coachwork, other than metal polishes

4.6%

Free

3405.40

000

Scouring pastes and powders and other scouring preparations

4.6%

Free

3405.90

000

Other

3.7%

Free

34.06

3406.00

000

Candles, tapers and the like.

3.9%

Free

34.07

3407.00

000

Modelling 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 sulphate).

4.6%

Free