Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, anti-sprouting products, plant growth regulators, disinfectants and the like, put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles
In plain English
This category covers insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, anti-sprouting products, plant growth regulators, and disinfectants that are prepared or packaged for retail sale. The items are sorted into specific groups based on their type, such as whether they are insecticides, fungicides, or herbicides, and whether they contain certain specified goods. Insecticides are further divided by the specific substances they contain and the net weight of their packaging, with different categories for weights under 300 grams, between 300 and 7.5 kilograms, and over 7.5 kilograms. Other products like rodenticides and disinfectants are grouped separately if they do not contain the specified goods mentioned in the notes.
6-digit subheadings (10)
Official HS 2022 subheading texts. National tariff schedules subdivide these further (8-10 digit lines) and set the actual duty rates.
Insecticides and the like; containing goods specified in Subheading Note 1 to this Chapter; for retail sale or as preparations or articles; DDT (ISO) (clofenotane (INN)), in packings of 300g or less
Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, disinfectants, herbicides and the like; containing goods specified in Subheading Note 1 to this Chapter; not DDT (ISO) (clofenotane (INN)), put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles
Insecticides and the like; containing goods specified in Subheading Note 2 to this Chapter; in packings of a net weight content not exceeding 300g; for retail sale or as preparations or articles
Insecticides; containing goods specified in Subheading Note 2 to this Chapter; put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles, in packings of a net weight content exceeding 300g but not exceeding 7.5kg
Insecticides; containing goods named in Subheading Note 2 to this Chapter, put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles, in packings of a net weight content exceeding 7.5kg
Insecticides; other than containing goods specified in Subheading Notes 1 & 2 to this Chapter; put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles
Fungicides; other than containing goods specified in Subheading Note 1 to this Chapter; put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles
Herbicides, anti-sprouting products and plant-growth regulators; other than containing goods of Subheading Note 1 to this Chapter; put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles
Disinfectants; other than containing goods specified in Subheading Note 1 in this Chapter; put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles
Rodenticides and other similar products n.e.c. in heading no. 3808.9; other than containing goods specified in Subheading Note 1 in this Chapter, put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles
Covered items classified under 3808
- 3808.94Pepper Spray— country-by-country customs rules
Chapter 38 classification notes
Frequent misclassification in this chapter
Insect repellent (DEET) — depending on form, 3808 (commercial pesticide) vs. 3304 (cosmetic preparation).
Classification certainty
The 6-digit level shown here is the internationally harmonised layer. Duty rates attach to national 8-10 digit tariff lines, which differ by country — use the duty calculator for lane estimates. For binding certainty, request a ruling from the destination customs authority.
Binding tariff ruling databaseOther headings in Chapter 38
- 3801 — Artificial graphite; colloidal or semi-colloidal graphite; preparation…
- 3802 — Activated carbon; activated natural mineral products; animal black, in…
- 3803 — Tall oil, whether or not refined
- 3804 — Residual lyes from the manufacture of wood pulp, whether or not concen…
- 3805 — Gum, wood or sulphate turpentine, other terpenic oils; crude dipentene…
- 3806 — Rosin and resin acids and derivatives thereof; rosin spirit and rosin …
- 3807 — Wood tar; wood tar oils; wood creosote; wood naphtha; vegetable pitch;…
- 3809 — Finishing agents, dye carriers to accelerate the dyeing, fixing of dye…
- 3810 — Metal-pickling preparations; fluxes etc for soldering, brazing; weldin…
- 3811 — Anti-knock preparations, oxidation and gum inhibitors, viscosity impro…
- 3812 — Prepared rubber accelerators; compound plasticisers for rubber or plas…
- 3813 — Preparations and charges for fire extinguishers; charged fire-extingui…
- 3814 — Organic composite solvents and thinners, not elsewhere specified or in…
- 3815 — Reaction initiators, reaction accelerators and catalytic preparations …
- 3816 — Refractory cements, mortars, concretes and similar compositions, inclu…
- 3817 — Mixed alkylbenzenes and mixed alkylnaphthalenes, other than those of h…
- 3818 — Chemical elements doped for use in electronics, in the form of discs, …
- 3819 — Hydraulic brake fluids and other prepared liquids for hydraulic transm…
- 3820 — Anti-freezing preparations and prepared de-icing fluids
- 3821 — Prepared culture media for the development or maintenance of micro-org…
- 3822 — Reagents; diagnostic or laboratory reagents on a backing, prepared dia…
- 3823 — Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids; acid oils from refining; indust…
- 3824 — Prepared binders for foundry moulds or cores; chemical products and pr…
- 3825 — Residual products of the chemical or allied industries, not elsewhere …
- 3826 — Biodiesel and mixtures thereof; not containing or containing less than…
- 3827 — Mixtures containing halogenated derivatives of methane, ethane or prop…