HS code 3808: Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, anti-sprouting products
Heading 3808 of the EU Combined Nomenclature 2026, in chapter 38, with the official text of every 6-digit subheading and 8-digit CN code below it.
Official description
3808Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, anti-sprouting products and plant-growth regulators, disinfectants and similar products, put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles (for example, sulphur-treated bands, wicks and candles, and fly-papers)
Place in the nomenclature: 38 Miscellaneous chemical products > 3808
Explanatory note (Eurostat)
Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, anti-sprouting products and plant-growth regulators, disinfectants and similar products, put up for retail sale or as preparations or articles, e.g. sulphur-treated bands, wicks and candles, and fly-papers
- Subheadings (6 digits)
- 10
- CN codes (8 digits)
- 31
Subheadings and CN codes in heading 3808
- 3808 52Goods specified in subheading note 1 to this chapter | DDT (ISO) (clofenotane (INN)), in packings of a net weight content not exceeding 300 g
Explanatory note (Eurostat): DDT "ISO" "clofenotane "INN"", in packings of a net weight content <= 300 g
- 3808 52 00 DDT (ISO) (clofenotane (INN)), in packings of a net weight content not exceeding 300 g
- 3808 59Goods specified in subheading note 1 to this chapter | Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Goods of heading 3808 containing one or more of the following substances: alachlor (ISO); aldicarb (ISO); aldrin (ISO); azinphos-methyl (ISO); binapacryl (ISO); camphechlor (ISO) (toxaphene); captafol (ISO); carbofuran (ISO); chlordane (ISO); chlordimeform (ISO); chlorobenzilate (ISO); dieldrin (ISO, INN); 4,6-dinitro-o-cresol (DNOC (ISO)) or its salts; dinoseb (ISO), its salts or its esters; endosulfan (ISO); ethylene dibromide (ISO) (1,2-dibromoethane); ethylene dichloride (ISO) (1,2-dichloroethane); fluoroacetamide (ISO); heptachlor (ISO); hexachlorobenzene (ISO); 1,2,3,4,5,6-hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH (ISO)), including lindane (ISO, INN); mercury compounds; methamidophos (ISO); monocrotophos (ISO); oxirane (ethylene oxide); parathion (ISO); parathion-methyl (ISO) (methyl-parathion); penta-and-octabromodiphenyl ethers; pentachlorophenol (ISO), its salts or its esters; perfluorooctane sulphonic acid and its salts; perfluorooctane sulphonamides; perfluorooctane sulphonyl fluoride; phosphamidon (ISO); 2,4,5-T (ISO) (2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid), its salts or its esters; tributyltin compounds; trichlorfon (ISO)
- 3808 59 00 Other
- 3808 61Goods specified in subheading note 2 to this chapter | In packings of a net weight content not exceeding 300 g
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Goods of heading 3808, containing alpha-cypermethrin "ISO", bendiocarb "ISO", bifenthrin "ISO", chlorfenapyr "ISO", cyfluthrin "ISO", deltamethrin "INN, ISO", etofenprox "INN", fenitrothion "ISO", lambda-cyhalothrin "ISO", malathion "ISO", pirimiphos-methyl "ISO" or propoxur "ISO", in packings of a net weight content <= 300 g
- 3808 61 00 In packings of a net weight content not exceeding 300 g
- 3808 62Goods specified in subheading note 2 to this chapter | In packings of a net weight content exceeding 300 g but not exceeding 7,5 kg
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Goods of heading 3808, containing alpha-cypermethrin "ISO", bendiocarb "ISO", bifenthrin "ISO", chlorfenapyr "ISO", cyfluthrin "ISO", deltamethrin "INN, ISO", etofenprox "INN", fenitrothion "ISO", lambda-cyhalothrin "ISO", malathion "ISO", pirimiphos-methyl "ISO" or propoxur "ISO", in packings of a net weight content > 300 g but <= 7,5 kg
- 3808 62 00 In packings of a net weight content exceeding 300 g but not exceeding 7,5 kg
- 3808 69Goods specified in subheading note 2 to this chapter | Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Goods of heading 3808, containing alpha-cypermethrin "ISO", bendiocarb "ISO", bifenthrin "ISO", chlorfenapyr "ISO", cyfluthrin "ISO", deltamethrin "INN, ISO", etofenprox "INN", fenitrothion "ISO", lambda-cyhalothrin "ISO", malathion "ISO", pirimiphos-methyl "ISO" or propoxur "ISO" (excl. in packings of a net weight content <= 7,5 kg)
- 3808 69 00 Other
- 3808 91Other | Insecticides
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Insecticides, put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles (excl. goods of subheadings 3808.52 to 3808.69)
- 3808 91 10 Based on pyrethroids
- 3808 91 20 Based on chlorinated hydrocarbons
- 3808 91 30 Based on carbamates
- 3808 91 40 Based on organophosphorus compounds
- 3808 91 90 Other
- 3808 92Other | Fungicides
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Fungicides, put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles (excl. goods of subheading 3808.59)
- 3808 92 10 Inorganic | Preparations based on copper compounds
- 3808 92 20 Inorganic | Other
- 3808 92 30 Other | Based on dithiocarbamates
- 3808 92 40 Other | Based on benzimidazoles
- 3808 92 50 Other | Based on diazoles or triazoles
- 3808 92 60 Other | Based on diazines or morpholines
- 3808 92 90 Other | Other
- 3808 93Other | Herbicides, anti-sprouting products and plant-growth regulators
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Herbicides, anti-sprouting products and plant-growth regulators, put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles (excl. goods of subheading 3808.59)
- 3808 93 11 Herbicides | Based on phenoxy-phytohormones
- 3808 93 13 Herbicides | Based on triazines
- 3808 93 15 Herbicides | Based on amides
- 3808 93 17 Herbicides | Based on carbamates
- 3808 93 21 Herbicides | Based on dinitroaniline derivatives
- 3808 93 23 Herbicides | Based on derivatives of urea, of uracil or of sulphonylurea
- 3808 93 27 Herbicides | Other
- 3808 93 30 Anti-sprouting products
- 3808 93 90 Plant-growth regulators
- 3808 94Other | Disinfectants
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Disinfectants, put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles (excl. goods of subheading 3808.59)
- 3808 94 10 Based on quaternary ammonium salts
- 3808 94 20 Based on halogenated compounds
- 3808 94 90 Other
- 3808 99Other | Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Rodenticides and other plant protection products put up for retail sale or as preparations or articles (excl. insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, disinfectants, and goods of subheading 3808.59)
- 3808 99 10 Rodenticides
- 3808 99 90 Other
The first 6 digits are the Harmonized System, shared worldwide: a US HTS code that starts with the same 6 digits sits under the same subheading. The last 2 digits are the EU's own CN split.
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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.