HS chapter 34: Soap, organic surface-active agents, washing preparations, lubricating
Chapter 34 of the EU Combined Nomenclature 2026, with the official text of every heading in it and their 6-digit subheadings.
Official description
34SOAP, ORGANIC SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS, WASHING PREPARATIONS, LUBRICATING PREPARATIONS, ARTIFICIAL WAXES, PREPARED WAXES, POLISHING OR SCOURING PREPARATIONS, CANDLES AND SIMILAR ARTICLES, MODELLING PASTES, ‘DENTAL WAXES’ AND DENTAL PREPARATIONS WITH A BASIS OF PLASTER
- Headings (4 digits)
- 7
- Subheadings (6 digits)
- 24
- CN codes (8 digits)
- 31
Headings in chapter 34
- 3401 11 Soap and organic surface-active products and preparations, in the form of bars, cakes, moulded pieces or shapes, and paper, wadding, felt and nonwovens, impregnated, coated or covered with soap or detergent | For toilet use (including medicated products)
- 3401 19 Soap and organic surface-active products and preparations, in the form of bars, cakes, moulded pieces or shapes, and paper, wadding, felt and nonwovens, impregnated, coated or covered with soap or detergent | Other
- 3401 20 Soap in other forms
- 3401 30 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
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Organic surface-active agents (excl. soap); surface-active preparations, washing preparations, incl. auxiliary washing preparations, and cleaning preparations, whether or not containing soap (excl. those of heading 3401)
- 3402 31 Anionic organic surface-active agents, whether or not put up for retail sale | Linear alkylbenzene sulphonic acids and their salts
- 3402 39 Anionic organic surface-active agents, whether or not put up for retail sale | Other
- 3402 41 Other organic surface-active agents, whether or not put up for retail sale | Cationic
- 3402 42 Other organic surface-active agents, whether or not put up for retail sale | Non-ionic
- 3402 49 Other organic surface-active agents, whether or not put up for retail sale | Other
- 3402 50 Preparations put up for retail sale
- 3402 90 Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Lubricant preparations, incl. cutting-oil preparations, bolt or nut release preparations, anti-rust or anti-corrosion preparations and mould-release preparations based on lubricants; textile lubricant preparations and preparations of a kind used for the oil or grease treatment of textile materials, leather, furskins or other materials (excl. preparations containing, as basic constituents, >= 70% petroleum oil or bituminous mineral oil by weight)
- 3403 11 Containing petroleum oils or oils obtained from bituminous minerals | Preparations for the treatment of textile materials, leather, furskins or other materials
- 3403 19 Containing petroleum oils or oils obtained from bituminous minerals | Other
- 3403 91 Other | Preparations for the treatment of textile materials, leather, furskins or other materials
- 3403 99 Other | Other
- 3404 20 Of poly(oxyethylene) (polyethylene glycol)
- 3404 90 Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Shoe polish, furniture wax and floor waxes, polishes and creams for coachwork, glass or metal, scouring pastes and powders and similar preparations, whether or not in the form of paper, wadding, felt, nonwovens, sponge plastics, cellular plastics or cellular rubber, impregnated, coated or covered with such preparations (excl. artificial and prepared waxes of heading 3404)
- 3405 10 Polishes, creams and similar preparations, for footwear or leather
- 3405 20 Polishes, creams and similar preparations, for the maintenance of wooden furniture, floors or other woodwork
- 3405 30 Polishes and similar preparations for coachwork, other than metal polishes
- 3405 40 Scouring pastes and powders and other scouring preparations
- 3405 90 Other
- 3406 00 Candles, tapers and the like
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Modelling pastes, incl. 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 sulphate"
- 3407 00 Modelling 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 sulphate)
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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.