chapter 34
Soap, organic surface-active agents, washing preparations, lubricating preparations, artificial waxes, prepared waxes, polishing or scouring preparations, candles, and similar articles, modeling pastes,
"dental waxes" and dental preparations with a basis of plaster
Notes.
1. This Chapter does not cover:
(a) Edible mixtures or preparations of animal or vegetable fats or oils of a kind used as mould release preparations (heading 15.17);
(b) Separate chemically defined compounds; or
(c) Shampoos, dentifrices, shaving creams, and foams, or bath preparations, containing soap or other organic surface-active agents (heading 33.05, 33.06, or 33.07).
2. For the purposes of heading 34.01, the expression "soap" applies only to soap soluble in water. Soap and the other products of heading 34.01 may contain added substances (for example, disinfectants, abrasive powders, fillers, or medicaments). Products containing abrasive powders remain classified in heading 34.01 only if in the form of bars, cakes, or moulded pieces or shapes. In other forms, they are to be classified in heading 34.05 as "scouring powders and similar preparations".
3. For the purposes of heading 34.02, "organic surface-active agents" are products which when mixed with water at a concentration of 0.5% at 20°C and left to stand for one hour at the same temperature:
(a) give a transparent or translucent liquid or stable emulsion without separation of insoluble matter; and
(b) reduce the surface tension of water to 4.5 x 10 -2 N/m (45 dynes/cm) or less.
4. In heading 34.03 the expression "petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals" applies to the products defined in Note 2 to Chapter 27.
5. In heading 34.04, subject to the exclusions provided below, the expression "artificial waxes and prepared waxes" applies only to:
(a) Chemically produced organic products of a waxy
character, whether or not water-soluble;
(b) Products obtained by mixing different waxes;
(c) Products of a waxy character with a basis of one or more waxes and containing fats, resins, mineral substances, or other materials. The heading does not apply to:
(a) Products of heading 15.16,34.02 or 38.23, even if having a waxy character;
(b) Unmixed animal waxes or unmixed vegetable waxes, whether or not refined or coloured, of heading 15.21;
(c) Mineral waxes or similar products of heading 27.12, whether or not intermixed or merely coloured; or
(d) Waxes mixed with, dispersed in, or dissolved in a liquid medium (headings 34.05, 38.09, etc.).
Explanatory remarks to Chapter 34
Importation is subject to the observance of Article 16 of the Law on Foodstuffs, Beverages, and Cosmetics adopted in the year 1967 (1346).
| Heading, Subheading No. | Description | Remark | Preferential Tariff | SUQ | Import duty |
| 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. | ||||
- 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 | -- For toilet use (including medicated products) | 4,5,1 | |||
| 3401 11 10 | --- Bath Soap | 4 | Kg | 26 | |
| 3401 11 20 | --- Glycerinated Soap | 4 | Kg | 26 | |
| 3401 11 30 | --- Baby Soap | 4 | Kg | 26 | |
| 3401 11 40 | --- Medical Soap | 4 | Kg | 26 | |
| 3401 11 50 | --- Laundry Soap | 4 | Kg | 26 | |
| 3401 11 90 | --- Other | 4 | Kg | 26 | |
| 3401 19 00 | -- Other | 5,1 | Kg | 26 | |
| 3401 20 | - Soap in Other forms | 4,5,1 | |||
| 3401 20 10 | --- Liquid | 4 | Kg | 26 | |
| 3401 20 20 | --- Industrial | 4 | Kg | 26 | |
| 3401 20 30 | --- Chips | 4 | Kg | 15 | |
| 3401 20 40 | --- Powder | 4 | Kg | 26 | |
| 3401 20 90 | --- Other | 4 | Kg | 26 | |
| 3401 30 00 | - 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 | 5 | Kg | 26 | |
| 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. | ||||
| - Organic surface-active agents, whether or not put up for retail sale: | |||||
| 3402 11 | -- Anionic | ||||
| 3402 11 10 | --- Sodium lauryle sulphate | 4 | Kg | 15 | |
| 3402 11 20 | --- Sodium lauryle ether sulphate | Kg | 20 | ||
| 3402 11 30 | --- Alkyl benzen sulphonate | Kg | 15 | ||
| 3402 11 90 | --- Other | Kg | 5 | ||
| 3402 12 | -- Cationic | ||||
| 3402 12 10 | --- Benzalkonium chloride | Kg | 15 | ||
| 3402 12 50 | --- Bis (acyloxy) hydroxiethyl methyl ammonium methosulfate (ester quats) 5% | Kg | 10 | ||
| 3402 12 90 | --- Other | Kg | 5 | ||
| 3402 13 | -- Non-ionic | ||||
| 3402 13 10 | --- Ethoxylated fatty alcohol | Kg | 15 | ||
| 3402 13 20 | --- Ethoxylated nonyl phenol | Kg | 15 | ||
| 3402 13 30 | --- polyethylene glycol | Kg | 15 | ||
| 3402 13 90 | --- Other | Kg | 5 | ||
| 3402 19 | -- Other | 4 | Kg | ||
| 3402 19 10 | --- Alkyl dimethyl betaine | Kg | 15 | ||
| 3402 19 20 | --- Cocoamide propyl betaine | Kg | 15 | ||
| 3402 19 30 | --- Coconut fatty acid di ethanol amine | Kg | 15 | ||
| 3402 19 90 | --- Other | Kg | 5 | ||
| 3402 20 | - preparations put up for retail sale | 1 | |||
| 3402 20 10 | ---moulded detergent Powder, liquid, granule, tablet, gel, concentrate and other like production for in packages of 5kg and less than that suitable for handwash | Kg | 40 | ||
--- Powder, liquid, granule, tablet, gel, concentrate and other like production for in packages of 5kg and less than that suitable for machinewash | |||||
| 3402 20 21 | ---- Dishwasher tablet | Kg | 40 | ||
| 3402 20 29 | ---- Other | Kg | 40 | ||
| 3402 20 90 | --- Other | Kg | 10 | ||
| 3402 90 | - Other | 7 | |||
| 3402 90 10 | --- Powder, Liquid, washing and use including granule for toilet manual and machine types in packages more than 5 kg | Kg | 10 | ||
| 3402 90 20 | --- Industrial detergents | Kg | 15 | ||
| 3402 90 30 | --- Plating materials | Kg | 15 | ||
| 3402 90 40 | --- Auxiliary agents for textiles | Kg | 15 | ||
| 3402 90 90 | ---Other | 4 | Kg | 5 | |
| 34 03 | Lubricating preparations (including cutting-oil preparations, bolt or nut release preparations, anti-rust or anticorrosion 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. | ||||
| - Containing petroleum oils or oils obtained from bituminous minerals: | |||||
| 3403 11 00 | -- Preparations for the treatment of textile materials, leather, furskins or other materials | Kg | 10 | ||
| 3403 19 | -- Other | ||||
| 3403 19 10 | --- Engine oils | Kg | 40 | ||
| 3403 19 90 | --- Other | Kg | 10 | ||
| - Other: | |||||
| 3403 91 00 | -- preparations for the treatment of textile materials, leather, furskins or Other materials | Kg | 10 | ||
| 3403 99 | -- Other | ||||
| 3403 99 10 | --- Silicon lubricants | Kg | 5 | ||
| 3403 99 90 | --- Other | Kg | 10 | ||
| 34 04 | Artificial waxes and prepared waxes. | ||||
| 3404 20 | - of poly (oxyethylene) (polyethylene glycol) | ||||
| 3404 20 10 | --- of polyethylene glycol | Kg | 26 | ||
| 3404 20 90 | --- of Polyoxyethylene | Kg | 5 | ||
| 3404 90 00 | - Other | Kg | 5 | ||
| 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. | ||||
| 3405 10 00 | - Polishes, creams and similar preparations for footwear or leather | 4 | Kg | 55 | |
| 3405 20 00 | - Polishes, creams and similar preparations for the maintenance of wooden furniture, floors or other woodwork | Kg | 55 | ||
| 3405 30 00 | - Polishes and similar preparations for coachwork, other than metal polishes | Kg | 55 | ||
| 3405 40 00 | - Scouring pastes and powders and other scouring preparations | Kg | 40 | ||
| 3405 90 00 | - Other | Kg | 20 | ||
| 3406 00 00 | Candles, tapers and the like. | Kg | 40 | ||
| 3407 00 | 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). | ||||
| 3407 00 10 | --- Preparations used in dentistry | Kg | 10 | ||
| 3407 00 90 | --- Other | Kg | 10 |