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Products of the chemical or allied industries
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
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
DescriptionCommodity Code
  • 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
    • For toilet use (including medicated products)
      34
      01
      11
      00
      00
    • Other
      34
      01
      19
      00
      00
  • Soap in other forms
    • Flakes, wafers, granules or powders
      34
      01
      20
      10
      00
    • Other
      34
      01
      20
      90
      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
    34
    01
    30
    00
    00
Section Notes
Chapter Notes

1. This chapter does not cover:


(a) edible mixtures or preparations of animal, vegetable or microbial fats or oils of a kind used as mould release preparations (heading 1517);


(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 3305, 3306 or 3307).


2. For the purposes of heading 3401, the expression ‘soap’ applies only to soap soluble in water. Soap and the other products of heading 3401 may contain added substances (for example, disinfectants, abrasive powders, fillers or medicaments). Products containing abrasive powders remain classified in heading 3401 only if in the form of bars, cakes or moulded pieces or shapes. In other forms, they are to be classified in heading 3405 as ‘scouring powders and similar preparations’.


3. For the purposes of heading 3402, ‘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 × 10–2 N/m (45 dyn/cm) or less.


4. In heading 3403, the expression ‘petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals’ applies to the products defined in note 2 to Chapter 27.


5. In heading 3404, 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 1516, 3402 or 3823, even if having a waxy character;


(b) unmixed animal waxes or unmixed vegetable waxes, whether or not refined or coloured, of heading 1521;


(c) mineral waxes or similar products of heading 2712, whether or not intermixed or merely coloured; or


(d) waxes mixed with, dispersed in or dissolved in a liquid medium (headings 3405, 3809, etc.).


Commodity Footnotes
CodeDescription
TN701
According to Council Regulation (EU) No 692/2014 (OJ L183, p. 9) it shall be prohibited to import into European Union goods originating in Crimea or Sevastopol.
The prohibition shall not apply in respect of goods originating in Crimea or Sevastopol which have been made available to the Ukrainian authorities for examination, for which compliance with the conditions conferring entitlement to preferential origin has been verified and for which a certificate of origin has been issued in accordance with the Association Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and Ukraine, of the other part.

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According to Council Regulation (EU) 2022/263 (OJ L42I, p. 77):
It shall be prohibited to import into the European Union goods originating in non-government controlled areas of the Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts of Ukraine.
The import prohibitions shall not apply in respect of goods originating in the specified territories which have been made available to the Ukrainian authorities for examination, for which compliance with the conditions conferring entitlement to preferential origin has been verified and for which a certificate of origin has been issued in accordance with the Association Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and Ukraine, of the other part.