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Heading 3808

Insecticides, 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).

10 subheadings

Subheadings

3808.52

Insecticides, 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). - Goods specified in Subheading Note 1 to this Chapter: - DDT (ISO) (clofenotane (INN)), in packings of a net weight content not exceeding 300 g

1 tariff items

3808.59

Insecticides, 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). - Goods specified in Subheading Note 1 to this Chapter: - Other

2 tariff items

3808.61

Insecticides, 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). - Goods specified in Subheading Note 2 to this Chapter: - In packings of a net weight content not exceeding 300 g

1 tariff items

3808.62

Insecticides, 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). - Goods specified in Subheading Note 2 to this Chapter: - In packings of a net weight content exceeding 300 g but not exceeding 7.5 kg

2 tariff items

3808.69

Insecticides, 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). - Goods specified in Subheading Note 2 to this Chapter: - Other

1 tariff items

3808.91

Insecticides, 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). - Other: - Insecticides

4 tariff items

3808.92

Insecticides, 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). - Other: - Fungicides

4 tariff items

3808.93

Insecticides, 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). - Other: - Herbicides, anti-sprouting products and plant-growth regulators

4 tariff items

3808.94

Insecticides, 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). - Other: - Disinfectants

4 tariff items

3808.99

Insecticides, 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). - Other: - Other

4 tariff items

Related Advance Rulings

Explanatory Notes

Section 11 of the Customs Tariff states that in interpreting the headings and subheadings, regard shall be had to the World Customs Organization's (WCO) Compendium of Classification Opinions and Explanatory Notes to the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (HS). General Interpretative Rule 1 (GIR 1) directs that titles of Sections, Chapters and sub-Chapters are provided for ease...

Source: advance_ruling (8000005090)

08 covers “Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, anti-sprouting products and plant-growth regulators, disinfectants and similar products, put up in forms or packing for retail sale or as preparations or articles (for example, sulphur-treated bands, wicks and candles, and fly-papers)”. The Explanatory Notes to heading 38.08 state that this heading includes products “when they are...

Source: advance_ruling (C-2017-009161)

Insecticides, 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)►M47See Note 1 (a) (2) to Chapter 38 and the HS Explanatory Note to heading 3808 , fourth paragraph, (1),...

Source: eu_cn_en (EUR-Lex 02019XC0329(02)-20250113)

Insecticides See the HS Explanatory Note to heading 3808 , (I), after the three asterisks.

Source: eu_cn_en (EUR-Lex 02019XC0329(02)-20250113)

Fungicides See the HS Explanatory Note to heading 3808 , (II), after the three asterisks.

Source: eu_cn_en (EUR-Lex 02019XC0329(02)-20250113)

Preparations based on copper compounds This subheading includes: 1.  Bordeaux mixture, made from copper sulphate and slaked lime, used in agriculture as a fungicide; 2.  preparations made from basic copper chloride and basic copper sulphate, copper oxychloride, copper silicate, copper acetoarsenite, copper oxide(s), copper hydroxide or copper carbonate, used for the same...

Source: eu_cn_en (EUR-Lex 02019XC0329(02)-20250113)

Plant-growth regulators This subheading covers substances which, when applied to plants, alter their physiological processes in a desired direction. They are applied to the whole plant, to parts of the plant or to the soil. Their action can influence, for example: (a)  overall growth; (b)  plant height (stem lengthening or shortening); (c)  size or form of tubers; (d)  internodal length...

Source: eu_cn_en (EUR-Lex 02019XC0329(02)-20250113)

Disinfectants See the HS Explanatory Note to heading 3808 , (IV), after the three asterisks, first three paragraphs.

Source: eu_cn_en (EUR-Lex 02019XC0329(02)-20250113)

&&Section 10 of the Customs Tariff directs that classification of imported goods shall be determined in accordance with the General Rules for the Interpretation of the Harmonized System. Section 11 of the Customs Tariff states that in interpreting the headings and subheadings, regard shall be had to the World Customs Organization's (WCO) Explanatory Notes to the Harmonized Commodity...

Source: advance_ruling (C-2017-009315)

&&You have requested classification under 3919.10.99.90 as self-adhesive strips of plastics in rolls of a width not exceeding 20 cm. However, the Explanatory Notes to heading 39.19 state: “The heading is, however, limited to flat shapes which are pressure-sensitive, i.e., which at room temperature, without wetting or other addition, are permanently tacky (on one or both sides) and which firmly...

Source: advance_ruling (C-2017-009315)

Chapter 38 Notes (7)
1. 1. This Chapter does not cover: • (a) Separate chemically defined elements or compounds with the exception of the following: (1) Artificial graphite (heading 38.01); (2) Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, anti-sprouting products and plant-growth regulators, disinfectants and similar products, put up as described in heading 38.08; (3) Products put up as charges for fire-extinguishers or put up in fire-extinguishing grenades (heading 38.13); (4) Certified reference materials...
2. 2. (A) For the purpose of heading 38.22, the expression "certified reference materials" means reference materials which are accompanied by a certificate which indicates the values of the certified properties, the methods used to determine these values and the degree of certainty associated with each value and which are suitable for analytical, calibrating or referencing purposes. (B) With the exception of the products of Chapter 28 or 29, for the classification of certified reference...
3. 3. Heading 38.24 includes the following goods which are not to be classified in any other heading of the Nomenclature: • (a) Cultured crystals (other than optical elements) weighing not less than 2.5 g each, of magnesium oxide or of the halides of the alkali or alkaline earth metals; • (b) Fusel oil; Dippel's oil; • (c) Ink removers put up in packings for retail sale; • (d) Stencil correctors, other correcting fluids and correction tapes (other than those of heading 96.12), put up in...
4. 4. Throughout the Nomenclature, "municipal waste" means waste of a kind collected from households, hotels, restaurants, hospitals, shops, offices, etc., road and pavement sweepings, as well as construction and demolition waste. Municipal waste generally contains a large variety of materials such as plastics, rubber, wood, paper, textiles, glass, metals, food materials, broken furniture and other damaged or discarded articles. The term "municipal waste", however, does not cover: • (a)...
5. 5. For the purposes of heading 38.25, "sewage sludge" means sludge arising from urban effluent treatment plant and includes pre-treatment waste, scourings and unstabilised sludge. Stabilised sludge when suitable for use as fertiliser is excluded (Chapter 31).
6. 6. For the purposes of heading 38.25, the expression "other wastes" applies to: • (a) Clinical waste, that is, contaminated waste arising from medical research, diagnosis, treatment or other medical, surgical, dental or veterinary procedures, which often contain pathogens and pharmaceutical substances and require special disposal procedures (for example, soiled dressings, used gloves and used syringes); • (b) Waste organic solvents; • (c) Wastes of metal pickling liquors, hydraulic fluids,...
7. 7. For the purposes of heading 38.26, the term “biodiesel” means mono-alkyl esters of fatty acids of a kind used as a fuel, derived from animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils whether or not used.

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