HTS Chapter 34
Soap, washing and lubricating preparations, waxes, polishing preparations, candles, modeling pastes
The 7 headings and 48 HTS codes of chapter 34 (soap, lubricants and wax), with their duty rates from the 2026 HTS Revision 23.
The 7 headings of chapter 34
- 3401: Soap; organic surface-active products and preparations for use as soap, in the form of bars, cakes, molded 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 (6 codes, General duty Free to 4%)
- 3402: Organic 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 (22 codes, General duty Free to 6.5%)
- 3403: Lubricating preparations (including cutting-oil preparations, bolt or nut release preparations, antirust or anticorrosion preparations and mold release preparations, based on lubricants) and preparations of a kind used for the oil or grease treatment of textile materials, leather, furskins or other materials, but excluding preparations containing, as basic constituents, 70 percent or more by weight of petroleum oils or oils obtained from bituminous minerals (8 codes, General duty 0.2% to 6.5%)
- 3404: Artificial waxes and prepared waxes (4 codes, General duty Free)
- 3405: Polishes and creams, for footwear, furniture, floors, coachwork, glass or metal, scouring pastes and powders and similar preparations (whether or not in the form of paper, wadding, felt, nonwovens, cellular plastics or cellular rubber, impregnated, coated or covered with such preparations), excluding waxes of heading 3404 (5 codes, General duty Free)
- 3406: Candles, tapers and the like (1 code, General duty Free)
- 3407: Modeling pastes, including those put up for children's amusement; preparations known as "dental wax" or as "dental impression compounds", put up in sets, in packings for retail sale or in plates, horseshoe shapes, sticks or similar forms; other preparations for use in dentistry, with a basis of plaster (of calcined gypsum or calcium sulfate) (2 codes, General duty Free)
Where it sits in the schedule
Chapter 34 is in Section VI of the Harmonized System, chemical products (chapters 28 to 38). Rates are those printed in the 2026 HTS Revision 23; Chapter 99 duties (Section 232, Section 301, IEEPA) are charged on top and are not included.
Last reviewed 2026-11-12.