Organic composite solvents and thinners, not elsewhere specified or included; prepared paint or varnish removers
In plain English
This category covers various chemical products, specifically organic mixtures used as solvents or thinners that are not listed elsewhere, as well as preparations designed to remove paint or varnish. The classification groups these items together without further subdivision, treating all such organic composite solvents, thinners, and paint removers as a single unified group.
6-digit subheadings (1)
Official HS 2022 subheading texts. National tariff schedules subdivide these further (8-10 digit lines) and set the actual duty rates.
Solvents and thinners; organic composite solvents and thinners, n.e.c. or included, prepared paint or varnish removers
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;…
- 3808 — Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, anti-sprouting pro…
- 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…
- 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…