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HS 2022 subheading

HS code 3401.19: Soap bars

HS code 3401.19 covers: Soap and organic surface-active products; in the form of bars, cakes, moulded shapes, and paper, wadding, felt and nonwovens, impregnated, coated or covered with soap or detergent, not for toilet use. It is a subheading of heading 3401, in chapter 34.

Where 3401.19 sits in the tariff

The first six digits are the same in every country that uses the Harmonized System. Countries and regions add their own digits after them.

  1. Chapter

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

  2. Heading

    3401Soap; 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

  3. Subheading

    3401.19 Soap and organic surface-active products; in the form of bars, cakes, moulded shapes, and paper, wadding, felt and nonwovens, impregnated, coated or covered with soap or detergent, not for toilet use

Other subheadings under heading 3401

How tariffs divide 3401.19 further

National and regional tariffs add digits after the six shared ones, splitting this subheading into more specific lines. The tables list every line we hold for 3401.19 in this language, in each publisher's own wording.

TariffApplies inLines
EU Combined Nomenclature (CN8)European Union1
US Harmonized Tariff ScheduleUnited States1
UK Global Tariff commodity codesUnited Kingdom1
India ITC-HS (8-digit)India7
GCC integrated customs tariff (12-digit)Gulf Cooperation Council, UAE schedule4
EAC Common External TariffEast African Community1
Brazil NCMBrazil and Mercosur1
Turkey GTIPTürkiye4
Egypt customs tariff (10-digit)Egypt2
ECOWAS Common External TariffWest Africa3
Lines in total25

EU Combined Nomenclature (CN8)

European Union — 1 line

CodeDescription
3401 19 00Soap 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 – Other

US Harmonized Tariff Schedule

United States — 1 line

CodeDescription
3401 19 00 00Soap and organic surface-active products and preparations, in the form of bars, cakes, molded pieces or shapes, and paper, wadding, felt and nonwovens, impregnated, coated or covered with soap or detergent – Other

UK Global Tariff commodity codes

United Kingdom — 1 line

CodeDescription
3401 19 00 00Soap 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 – Other

India ITC-HS (8-digit)

India — 7 lines

CodeDescription
3401 19 11and preparations, in the form of bars, cakes, – Other: – Bars and blocks of not less than 500 gm in weight: – Industrial soap
3401 19 19and preparations, in the form of bars, cakes, – Other: – Bars and blocks of not less than 500 gm in weight: – Other
3401 19 20and preparations, in the form of bars, cakes, – Other: – Flakes, chips and powder
3401 19 30and preparations, in the form of bars, cakes, – Other: – Tablets and cakes
3401 19 41and preparations, in the form of bars, cakes, – Other: – Household and laundry soaps not elsewhere specified or included : – Household soaps
3401 19 42and preparations, in the form of bars, cakes, – Other: – Household and laundry soaps not elsewhere specified or included : – Laundry soaps
3401 19 90and preparations, in the form of bars, cakes, – Other: – Other

GCC integrated customs tariff (12-digit)

Gulf Cooperation Council, UAE schedule — 4 lines

CodeDescription
3401 19 20 00 00Rosin or tall oil soaps.
3401 19 30 00 00Industrial soaps, prepared for special purposes.
3401 19 40 00 00Paper, wadding, felt & nonwovens, impregnated or covered with soap or detergent, whether or not perfumed, excluding those for toilet use.
3401 19 90 00 00Soap & organic surface-active products & preparations for use as soap, in the form of bars, cakes, moulded pieces or shapes, whether or not containing soap, n.e.s.

EAC Common External Tariff

East African Community — 1 line

CodeDescription
3401 19 00Soap 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 – Other

Brazil NCM

Brazil and Mercosur — 1 line

Machine translation by Customs Declare, not the publisher's text.

CodeDescription
3401 19 00Soap, 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: – Other

Turkey GTIP

Türkiye — 4 lines

Machine translation by Customs Declare, not the publisher's text.

CodeDescription
3401 19 00 11 00Soap in the form of bars, cakes or moulded pieces or shapes; organic surface-active products and preparations for washing the skin, in the form of liquid or cream and put up for retail sale; paper, wadding, felt and nonwovens, impregnated, coated or covered with soap or detergent: – Other : – Paper wadding, felt and nonwovens, impregnated, coated or covered with soap or detergent: – Paper and wadding impregnated, coated or covered with soap
3401 19 00 12 00Soap in the form of bars, cakes or moulded pieces or shapes; organic surface-active products and preparations for washing the skin, in the form of liquid or cream and put up for retail sale; paper, wadding, felt and nonwovens, impregnated, coated or covered with soap or detergent: – Other : – Paper wadding, felt and nonwovens, impregnated, coated or covered with soap or detergent: – Felt impregnated, coated or covered with soap or detergent
3401 19 00 13 00Soap in the form of bars, cakes or moulded pieces or shapes; organic surface-active products and preparations for washing the skin, in the form of liquid or cream and put up for retail sale; paper, wadding, felt and nonwovens, impregnated, coated or covered with soap or detergent: – Other : – Paper wadding, felt and nonwovens, impregnated, coated or covered with soap or detergent: – Nonwovens impregnated, coated or covered with soap or detergent
3401 19 00 90 00Soap in the form of bars, cakes or moulded pieces or shapes; organic surface-active products and preparations for washing the skin, in the form of liquid or cream and put up for retail sale; paper, wadding, felt and nonwovens, impregnated, coated or covered with soap or detergent: – Other : – Other

Egypt customs tariff (10-digit)

Egypt — 2 lines

Machine translation by Customs Declare, not the publisher's text.

CodeDescription
3401 19 00 10Other soap in the form of pieces.
3401 19 00 90Soap other than that specified above; organic surface-active products and preparations for use as soap, in the form of bars, cakes or moulded pieces, and paper, wadding, felt and nonwovens, impregnated, coated or covered with soap or detergent.

ECOWAS Common External Tariff

West Africa — 3 lines

Machine translation by Customs Declare, not the publisher's text.

CodeDescription
3401 19 10 00Soap, organic surface-active products and preparations in bars, cakes, moulded pieces or shapes, and paper, wadding, felt and nonwovens, impregnated, coated or covered with soap or detergent – Other – Household soap
3401 19 20 00Soap, organic surface-active products and preparations in bars, cakes, moulded pieces or shapes, and paper, wadding, felt and nonwovens, impregnated, coated or covered with soap or detergent – Other – Surface-active products and preparations
3401 19 90 00Soap, organic surface-active products and preparations in bars, cakes, moulded pieces or shapes, and paper, wadding, felt and nonwovens, impregnated, coated or covered with soap or detergent – Other – Other

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