HS chapter 32: Tanning or dyeing extracts
Chapter 32 of the EU Combined Nomenclature 2026, with the official text of every heading in it and their 6-digit subheadings.
Official description
32TANNING OR DYEING EXTRACTS; TANNINS AND THEIR DERIVATIVES; DYES, PIGMENTS AND OTHER COLOURING MATTER; PAINTS AND VARNISHES; PUTTY AND OTHER MASTICS; INKS
- Headings (4 digits)
- 15
- Subheadings (6 digits)
- 45
- CN codes (8 digits)
- 59
Headings in chapter 32
- 3201Tanning extracts of vegetable origin; tannins and their salts, ethers, esters and other derivatives
- 3201 10 Quebracho extract
- 3201 20 Wattle extract
- 3201 90 Other
- 3202 10 Synthetic organic tanning substances
- 3202 90 Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Colouring matter of vegetable or animal origin, incl. dye extracts (excl. animal black), whether or not chemically defined; preparations based on colouring matter of vegetable or animal origin of a kind used to dye fabrics or produce colorant preparations (excl. preparations of heading 3207, 3208, 3209, 3210, 3213 and 3215)
- 3203 00 Colouring matter of vegetable or animal origin (including dyeing extracts but excluding animal black), whether or not chemically defined; preparations as specified in note 3 to this chapter based on colouring matter of vegetable or animal origin
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Synthetic organic colouring matter, whether or not chemically defined; preparations based on synthetic organic colouring matter of a kind used to dye fabrics or produce colorant preparations; synthetic organic products of a kind used as fluorescent brightening agents or as luminophores, whether or not chemically defined (excl. preparations of heading 3207, 3208, 3209, 3210, 3213 and 3215)
- 3204 11 Synthetic organic colouring matter and preparations based thereon as specified in note 3 to this chapter | Disperse dyes and preparations based thereon
- 3204 12 Synthetic organic colouring matter and preparations based thereon as specified in note 3 to this chapter | Acid dyes, whether or not premetallised, and preparations based thereon; mordant dyes and preparations based thereon
- 3204 13 Synthetic organic colouring matter and preparations based thereon as specified in note 3 to this chapter | Basic dyes and preparations based thereon
- 3204 14 Synthetic organic colouring matter and preparations based thereon as specified in note 3 to this chapter | Direct dyes and preparations based thereon
- 3204 15 Synthetic organic colouring matter and preparations based thereon as specified in note 3 to this chapter | Vat dyes (including those usable in that state as pigments) and preparations based thereon
- 3204 16 Synthetic organic colouring matter and preparations based thereon as specified in note 3 to this chapter | Reactive dyes and preparations based thereon
- 3204 17 Synthetic organic colouring matter and preparations based thereon as specified in note 3 to this chapter | Pigments and preparations based thereon
- 3204 18 Synthetic organic colouring matter and preparations based thereon as specified in note 3 to this chapter | Carotenoid colouring matters and preparations based thereon
- 3204 19 Synthetic organic colouring matter and preparations based thereon as specified in note 3 to this chapter | Other, including mixtures of colouring matter of two or more of the subheadings 320411 to 320419
- 3204 20 Synthetic organic products of a kind used as fluorescent brightening agents
- 3204 90 Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Colour lakes (other than Chinese or Japanese lacquer and paints); preparations based on colour lakes of a kind used to dye fabrics or produce colorant preparations (excl. preparations of heading 3207, 3208, 3209, 3210, 3213 and 3215)
- 3205 00 Colour lakes; preparations as specified in note 3 to this chapter based on colour lakes
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Inorganic or mineral colouring matter, n.e.s.; preparations based on inorganic or mineral colouring matter of a kind used for colouring any material or produce colorant preparations (excl. preparations of heading 3207, 3208, 3209, 3210, 3213 and 3215); inorganic products of a kind used as luminophores, whether or not chemically defined
- 3206 11 Pigments and preparations based on titanium dioxide | Containing 80 % or more by weight of titanium dioxide calculated on the dry matter
- 3206 19 Pigments and preparations based on titanium dioxide | Other
- 3206 20 Pigments and preparations based on chromium compounds
- 3206 41 Other colouring matter and other preparations | Ultramarine and preparations based thereon
- 3206 42 Other colouring matter and other preparations | Lithopone and other pigments and preparations based on zinc sulphide
- 3206 49 Other colouring matter and other preparations | Other
- 3206 50 Inorganic products of a kind used as luminophores
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Prepared pigments, prepared opacifiers and prepared colours, vitrifiable enamels and glazes, engobes, liquid lustres and similar preparations of a kind used in the ceramic, enamelling or glass industry; glass frit and other glass in the form of powder, granules or flakes
- 3207 10 Prepared pigments, prepared opacifiers, prepared colours and similar preparations
- 3207 20 Vitrifiable enamels and glazes, engobes (slips) and similar preparations
- 3207 30 Liquid lustres and similar preparations
- 3207 40 Glass frit and other glass, in the form of powder, granules or flakes
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Paints and varnishes, incl. enamels and lacquers, based on synthetic polymers or chemically modified natural polymers, dispersed or dissolved in a non-aqueous medium; solutions of products of headings 3901 to 3913 in volatile organic solvents, containing > 50% solvent by weight (excl. solutions of collodion)
- 3208 10 Based on polyesters
- 3208 20 Based on acrylic or vinyl polymers
- 3208 90 Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Paints and varnishes, incl. enamels and lacquers, based on synthetic polymers or chemically modified natural polymers, dispersed or dissolved in an aqueous medium
- 3209 10 Based on acrylic or vinyl polymers
- 3209 90 Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Paints and varnishes, incl. enamels, lacquers and distempers (excl. those based on synthetic polymers or chemically modified natural polymers that are dispersed or dissolved in a medium); prepared water pigments of a kind used for finishing leather
- 3210 00 Other paints and varnishes (including enamels, lacquers and distempers); prepared water pigments of a kind used for finishing leather
- 3211Prepared driers
- 3211 00 Prepared driers
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Pigments, incl. metallic powders and flakes, dispersed in non-aqueous media, in liquid or paste form, of a kind used in the manufacture of paints; stamping foils of a kind used in the printing of book bindings or hatband leather; colorants and other colouring matter, n.e.s. put up for retail sale
- 3212 10 Stamping foils
- 3212 90 Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Artist's, student's or signboard painter's colours, modifying tints, amusement colours and the like, in tablets, tubes, jars, bottles, pans or similar packages
- 3213 10 Colours in sets
- 3213 90 Other
- 3214 10 Glaziers' putty, grafting putty, resin cements, caulking compounds and other mastics; painters' fillings
- 3214 90 Other
- 3215 11 Printing ink | Black
- 3215 19 Printing ink | Other
- 3215 90 Other
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Source
Source: EU Combined Nomenclature 2026 (Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1926), © European Union, https://eur-lex.europa.eu/. Reformatted by WISEPIM: indent dashes removed and parent lines joined. Only the Official Journal is authentic.