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HS 2022 subheading

HS code 3402.50: Washing powder detergent

HS code 3402.50 covers: Washing and cleaning preparations; powders, flakes and granules, surface-active, whether or not containing soap (excluding those of heading no. 3401), put up for retail sale. It is a subheading of heading 3402, in chapter 34.

Where 3402.50 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

    3402Organic 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 3401

  3. Subheading

    3402.50 Washing and cleaning preparations; powders, flakes and granules, surface-active, whether or not containing soap (excluding those of heading no. 3401), put up for retail sale

Other subheadings under heading 3402

  • 3402.31Anionic organic surface-active agents (other than soap); linear alkylbenzene sulphonic acids and their salts, whether or not put up for retail sale
  • 3402.39Anionic organic surface-active agents (other than soap); other than linear alkylbenzene sulphonic acids and their salts, whether or not put up for retail sale
  • 3402.41Organic surface-active agents; cationic (other than soap), whether or not put up for retail sale
  • 3402.42Organic surface-active agents; non-ionic (other than soap), whether or not put up for retail sale
  • 3402.49Organic surface-active agents; whether or not put up for retail sale, n.e.c. in item no. 3402
  • 3402.50Washing and cleaning preparations; powders, flakes and granules, surface-active, whether or not containing soap (excluding those of heading no. 3401), put up for retail saleThis page
  • 3402.90Washing and cleaning preparations; surface-active, whether or not containing soap (excluding those of heading no. 3401), including auxiliary washing preparations, not for retail sale

How tariffs divide 3402.50 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 3402.50 in this language, in each publisher's own wording.

TariffApplies inLines
EU Combined Nomenclature (CN8)European Union2
US Harmonized Tariff ScheduleUnited States2
UK Global Tariff commodity codesUnited Kingdom2
India ITC-HS (8-digit)India1
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)Egypt4
ECOWAS Common External TariffWest Africa1
Lines in total22

EU Combined Nomenclature (CN8)

European Union — 2 lines

CodeDescription
3402 50 10Preparations put up for retail sale – Surface-active preparations
3402 50 90Preparations put up for retail sale – Washing preparations and cleaning preparations

US Harmonized Tariff Schedule

United States — 2 lines

CodeDescription
3402 50 11 00Preparations put up for retail sale – Containing any aromatic or modified aromatic surface-active agent
3402 50 51 00Preparations put up for retail sale – Other

UK Global Tariff commodity codes

United Kingdom — 2 lines

CodeDescription
3402 50 10 00Preparations put up for retail sale – Surface-active preparations
3402 50 90 00Preparations put up for retail sale – Washing preparations and cleaning preparations

India ITC-HS (8-digit)

India — 1 line

CodeDescription
3402 50 00Preparations put up for retail sale

GCC integrated customs tariff (12-digit)

Gulf Cooperation Council, UAE schedule — 4 lines

CodeDescription
3402 50 10 00 00Organic surface-active agents, put up for retail sale, such as clorex.
3402 50 21 00 00Washing preparations, dry powdered (For example, Tide . etc.), put up for retail sale.
3402 50 22 00 00Washing preparations, liquid, put up for retail sale.
3402 50 29 00 00Other washing preparations (excluding dry powdered (For example, Tide . etc.) & liquid), put up for retail sale.

EAC Common External Tariff

East African Community — 1 line

CodeDescription
3402 50 00Preparations put up for retail sale

Brazil NCM

Brazil and Mercosur — 1 line

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

CodeDescription
3402 50 00Preparations put up for retail sale

Turkey GTIP

Türkiye — 4 lines

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

CodeDescription
3402 50 10 00 11Preparations put up for retail sale: – Surface-active preparations – Containing soap
3402 50 10 00 12Preparations put up for retail sale: – Surface-active preparations – Not containing soap '
3402 50 90 00 15Preparations put up for retail sale: – Washing and cleaning preparations – Containing soap
3402 50 90 00 16Preparations put up for retail sale: – Washing and cleaning preparations – Not containing soap

Egypt customs tariff (10-digit)

Egypt — 4 lines

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

CodeDescription
3402 50 00 10Washing preparations (including auxiliary washing preparations) whether or not containing soap, for household use, put up for retail sale, other than those of heading 34.01.
3402 50 00 20Washing preparations and cleaning preparations, whether or not containing soap, for household use, put up for retail sale, other than those of heading 34.01.
3402 50 00 50Other washing preparations (including auxiliary washing preparations), whether or not containing soap, put up for retail sale, other than those of heading 34.01.
3402 50 00 90Other washing preparations and other cleaning preparations, whether or not containing soap, put up for retail sale, other than those of heading 34.01.

ECOWAS Common External Tariff

West Africa — 1 line

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

CodeDescription
3402 50 00 00Preparations put up for retail sale

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  • Egyptian Customs
  • ECOWAS
  • EAC
  • World Bank WITS
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  • Eurasian Economic Commission
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