Customs Declare
HS 2022 subheading

HS code 3906.90: Acrylic polymers

HS code 3906.90 covers: Acrylic polymers; (other than polymethyl methacrylate), in primary forms. It is a subheading of heading 3906, in chapter 39.

Where 3906.90 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

    39 Plastics and articles thereof

  2. Heading

    3906I. PRIMARY FORMS

  3. Subheading

    3906.90 Acrylic polymers; (other than polymethyl methacrylate), in primary forms

Other subheadings under heading 3906

  • 3906.10Acrylic polymers; poly(methyl methacrylate), in primary forms
  • 3906.90Acrylic polymers; (other than polymethyl methacrylate), in primary formsThis page

How tariffs divide 3906.90 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 3906.90 in this language, in each publisher's own wording.

TariffApplies inLines
EU Combined Nomenclature (CN8)European Union7
US Harmonized Tariff ScheduleUnited States3
UK Global Tariff commodity codesUnited Kingdom16
India ITC-HS (8-digit)India5
GCC integrated customs tariff (12-digit)Gulf Cooperation Council, UAE schedule2
EAC Common External TariffEast African Community1
Brazil NCMBrazil and Mercosur20
Turkey GTIPTürkiye7
Egypt customs tariff (10-digit)Egypt3
ECOWAS Common External TariffWest Africa1
Lines in total65

EU Combined Nomenclature (CN8)

European Union — 7 lines

CodeDescription
3906 90 10Acrylic polymers in primary forms – Other – Poly[N-(3-hydroxyimino-1,1-dimethylbutyl)acrylamide]
3906 90 20Acrylic polymers in primary forms – Other – Copolymer of 2-diisopropylaminoethyl methacrylate with decyl methacrylate, in the form of a solution in N,N-dimethylacetamide, containing by weight 55 % or more of copolymer
3906 90 30Acrylic polymers in primary forms – Other – Copolymer of acrylic acid with 2-ethylhexyl acrylate, containing by weight 10 % or more but not more than 11 % of 2-ethylhexyl acrylate
3906 90 40Acrylic polymers in primary forms – Other – Copolymer of acrylonitrile with methyl acrylate, modified with polybutadiene-acrylonitrile (NBR)
3906 90 50Acrylic polymers in primary forms – Other – Polymerisation product of acrylic acid with alkyl methacrylate and small quantities of other monomers, for use as a thickener in the manufacture of textile printing pastes
3906 90 60Acrylic polymers in primary forms – Other – Copolymer of methyl acrylate with ethylene and a monomer containing a non-terminal carboxy group as a substituent, containing by weight 50 % or more of methyl acrylate, whether or not compounded with silica
3906 90 90Acrylic polymers in primary forms – Other – Other

US Harmonized Tariff Schedule

United States — 3 lines

CodeDescription
3906 90 10 00Other – Elastomeric
3906 90 20 00Other – Other – Plastics
3906 90 50 00Other – Other – Other

UK Global Tariff commodity codes

United Kingdom — 16 lines

CodeDescription
3906 90 10 00Other – Poly[N-(3-hydroxyimino-1,1-dimethylbutyl)acrylamide]
3906 90 20 00Other – Copolymer of 2-diisopropylaminoethyl methacrylate with decyl methacrylate, in the form of a solution in N,N-dimethylacetamide, containing by weight 55 % or more of copolymer
3906 90 30 00Other – Copolymer of acrylic acid with 2-ethylhexyl acrylate, containing by weight 10 % or more but not more than 11 % of 2-ethylhexyl acrylate
3906 90 40 00Other – Copolymer of acrylonitrile with methyl acrylate, modified with polybutadiene-acrylonitrile (NBR)
3906 90 50 00Other – Polymerisation product of acrylic acid with alkyl methacrylate and small quantities of other monomers, for use as a thickener in the manufacture of textile printing pastes
3906 90 60 00Other – Copolymer of methyl acrylate with ethylene and a monomer containing a non-terminal carboxy group as a substituent, containing by weight 50 % or more of methyl acrylate, whether or not compounded with silica
3906 90 90 17Other – Other – Superabsorbent polymers, insoluble in water, which result from a polymerization of acrylic monomer molecules with crosslinkers to form crosslinked polymer networks, with a high capacity to absorb and retain water and aqueous liquids
3906 90 90 23Other – Other – Copolymer of methylmethacrylate, butylacrylate, glycidylmethacrylate and styrene (CAS RN 37953-21-2), with an epoxy equivalent weight of not more than 500, in form of ground flakes with a particle size of not more than 1 cm
3906 90 90 28Other – Other – Mixture containing by weight:-80 % or more but not more than 90 % of a core shell polymer of butyl acrylate, ethyl acrylate, methyl-acrylate and allyl methacrylate (CAS RN 73026-23-0) and-10 % or more but not more than 20 % of a copolymer of methyl methacrylate and ethyl acrylate (CAS RN 9010-88-2)
3906 90 90 43Other – Other – Copolymer of methacrylic esters, butylacrylate and cyclic dimethylsiloxanes (CAS RN 143106-82-5)
3906 90 90 50Other – Other – Polymers of esters of acrylic acid with one or more of the following monomers in the chain:- chloromethyl vinyl ether,- chloroethyl vinyl ether,- chloromethylstyrene,- vinyl chloroacetate,- methacrylic acid,- butenedioic acid monobutyl ester,- butenedioic acid monocyclohexyl estercontaining by weight not more than 5 % of each monomer unit
3906 90 90 58Other – Other – Mixture of polymers, containing by weight: -77 % or more but not more than 81 % of polyacrylamide (CAS RN 9003-05-8), -18 % or more but not more than 21 % of polyethylene glycol (CAS RN 25322-68-3)
3906 90 90 60Other – Other – Aqueous dispersion containing by weight:- more than 10 % but not more than 15 % of ethanol, and- more than 7 % but not more than 11 % of a reaction product of poly(epoxyalkylmethacrylate-co-divinylbenzene) with a glycerol derivative
3906 90 90 71Other – Other – Acrylonitrile-styrene-acrylate copolymer in the form of granules containing by weight:-48 % of styrene,-22 % of acrylonitrile,-29 % of butylacrylate, and-1 % of dihydrodicyclopentadienyl acrylate
3906 90 90 73Other – Other – Preparation containing by weight:- 33 % or more but not more than 37 % of butyl methacrylate - methacrylic acid copolymer,- 24 % or more but not more than 28 % of propylene glycol, and- 37 % or more but not more than 41 % of water
3906 90 90 90Other – Other – Other

India ITC-HS (8-digit)

India — 5 lines

CodeDescription
3906 90 40Other : – Poly (acrylic acid)
3906 90 50Other : – Polyacrylonitrile (PAN)
3906 90 60Other : – Copolymers of acrylonitrile
3906 90 70Other : – Sodium polyacrylate
3906 90 90Other : – Other

GCC integrated customs tariff (12-digit)

Gulf Cooperation Council, UAE schedule — 2 lines

CodeDescription
3906 90 10 00 00Super Absorbent Polymers (SAP)
3906 90 90 00 00Acrylic polymers in primary forms, excluding poly (methyl methacrylate) and Super Absorbent Polymers (SAP)

EAC Common External Tariff

East African Community — 1 line

CodeDescription
3906 90 00Other

Brazil NCM

Brazil and Mercosur — 20 lines

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

CodeDescription
3906 90 11Other – In the forms provided for in Note 6 (a) to this Chapter, in water – Poly(acrylic acid) and its salts
3906 90 12Other – In the forms provided for in Note 6 (a) to this Chapter, in water – Sodium salt of poly(acrylamidic acid), soluble in water
3906 90 19Other – In the forms provided for in Note 6 (a) to this Chapter, in water – Other
3906 90 21Other – In the forms referred to in Note 6 (a) to this Chapter, in organic solvents – Poly(acrylic acid) and its salts
3906 90 22Other – In the forms referred to in Note 6 (a) to this Chapter, in organic solvents – Copolymer of 2-di-isopropylaminoethyl methacrylate and n-decyl methacrylate, in suspension in dimethylacetamide
3906 90 29Other – In the forms referred to in Note 6 (a) to this Chapter, in organic solvents – Other
3906 90 31Other – In the forms referred to in Note 6 (a) to this Chapter, in other solvents or without solvent – Poly(acrylic acid) and its salts
3906 90 32Other – In the forms referred to in Note 6 (a) to this Chapter, in other solvents or without solvent – Sodium salt of poly(acrylamidic acid), soluble in water
3906 90 39Other – In the forms referred to in Note 6 (a) to this Chapter, in other solvents or without solvent – Other
3906 90 51Other – In the forms provided for in Note 6 (b) to this Chapter, except copolymers – Poly(acrylic acid) and its salts
3906 90 52Other – In the forms provided for in Note 6 (b) to this Chapter, except copolymers – Sodium salt of poly(acrylamidic acid), soluble in water
3906 90 53Other – In the forms provided for in Note 6 (b) to this Chapter, except copolymers – Carboxypolymethylene, in powder
3906 90 54Other – In the forms provided for in Note 6 (b) to this Chapter, except copolymers – Poly(sodium acrylate), with absorption capacity of a 0.9% by weight aqueous sodium chloride solution equal to or greater than twenty times its own weight
3906 90 59Other – In the forms provided for in Note 6 (b) to this Chapter, except copolymers – Other
3906 90 61Other – Copolymers in the forms referred to in Note 6 (b) to this Chapter – Copolymer of potassium acrylate and acrylamide, with absorption capacity of distilled water of up to four hundred times its own weight
3906 90 62Other – Copolymers in the forms referred to in Note 6 (b) to this Chapter – Methyl acrylate-ethylene copolymers with a methyl acrylate content equal to or greater than 50% by weight
3906 90 63Other – Copolymers in the forms referred to in Note 6 (b) to this Chapter – Copolymer of ethyl acrylate, n-butyl acrylate and 2-methoxyethyl acrylate
3906 90 64Other – Copolymers in the forms referred to in Note 6 (b) to this Chapter – Copolymer of potassium acrylate and acrylic acid, with a distilled water absorption capacity of up to four hundred times its own weight
3906 90 65Other – Copolymers in the forms referred to in Note 6 (b) to this Chapter – Copolymer of acrylamide and sodium acrylate
3906 90 69Other – Copolymers in the forms referred to in Note 6 (b) to this Chapter – Other

Turkey GTIP

Türkiye — 7 lines

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

CodeDescription
3906 90 10 00 00Other: – Poly(N-(3-hydroxyiminо-1,1-dimethylbutyl) acrylamide)
3906 90 20 00 00Other: – Solutions containing, by weight, 55% or more of copolymer of 2-diisopropylaminoethyl methyl acrylate with decyl methyl acrylate in N,N-dimethylacetamide
3906 90 30 00 00Other: – Copolymer of acrylic acid and 2-ethylhexyl acrylate (containing by weight 10 or more but not more than 11 of 2-ethylhexyl acrylate)
3906 90 40 00 00Other: – Acrylonitrile-methyl acrylate copolymers (modified with polybutadiene-acrylonitrile (NBR))
3906 90 50 00 00Other: – Polymerization product of acrylic acid and methyl acrylate with small amounts of other monomers, of a kind used as thickeners in the manufacture of textile printing pastes
3906 90 60 00 00Other: – Copolymers of methyl acrylate with ethylene and with a monomer containing a non-terminal RR RR substituted carboxy group, containing by weight 50% or more of methyl acrylate (whether or not containing silica)
3906 90 90 00 00Other: – Other

Egypt customs tariff (10-digit)

Egypt — 3 lines

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

CodeDescription
3906 90 00 10Liquids or pastes of other acrylic polymers
3906 90 00 15CARBAPOL
3906 90 00 90Pieces, granules, flakes, powders of other acrylic polymers, in primary forms

ECOWAS Common External Tariff

West Africa — 1 line

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

CodeDescription
3906 90 00 00Other

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