HSN chapter guide
Chapter 34 — Soap, waxes & cleaning preparations
57 eight-digit tariff lines. Rates below are from the Indian Customs Tariff First Schedule. Use the AI HSN classifier if you only have a product description. Reviewed by the CustomsAI compliance desk · 24 August 2026.
Chapter notes
- This Chapter does not cover: (a) Edible mixtures or preparations of animal, vegetable or microbial fats or oils of a kind used as mould release preparations (heading 15.17); (b) Separate chemically defined compounds; (c) Shampoos, dentifrices, shaving creams and foams, or bath preparations, containing soap or other organic surface-active agents (heading 33.05, 33.06 or 33.07).
- For the purposes of heading 34.01, the expression 'soap' applies only to soap soluble in water. Soap and the other products of heading 34.01 may contain added substances (for example, disinfectants, abrasive powders, fillers or medicaments). Products containing abrasive powders remain classified in heading 34.01 only if in the form of bars, cakes or moulded pieces or shapes. In other forms they are to be classified in heading 34.05 as scouring powders and similar preparations.
- For the purposes of heading 34.02, organic surface-active agents are products which when mixed with water at a concentration of 0.5% at 20°C and left to stand for one hour at the same temperature: (a) give a transparent or translucent liquid or stable emulsion without separation of insoluble matter; and (b) reduce the surface tension of water to 4.5 x 10-2 N/m (45 dyne/cm) or less.
- In heading 34.04, the expression 'artificial waxes and prepared waxes' applies only to: (a) chemically produced organic products of a waxy character, whether or not water-soluble; (b) products obtained by mixing different waxes; (c) products of a waxy character with a basis of one or more waxes and containing fats, resins, mineral substances or other materials. The heading does not apply to: (a) products of heading 15.16, 34.02 or 38.23; (b) unmixed animal or vegetable waxes (heading 15.21); (c) mineral waxes of heading 27.12 (whether or not intermixed or merely coloured); (d) waxes mixed with, dispersed in or dissolved in a liquid medium (headings 34.05, 38.09, etc.).
Sample 8-digit lines
| HSN | Description | BCD |
|---|---|---|
| 3401 11 10 | Medicated toilet soaps | 10% |
| 3401 11 20 | Shaving soaps other than shaving cream | 10% |
| 3401 11 90 | Other | 10% |
| 3401 19 11 | Industrial soap | 10% |
| 3401 19 19 | Other | 10% |
| 3401 19 20 | Flakes, chips and powder | 10% |
| 3401 19 30 | Tablets and cakes | 10% |
| 3401 19 41 | Household soaps | 10% |
| 3401 19 42 | Laundry soaps | 10% |
| 3401 19 90 | Other | 10% |
| 3401 20 00 | Soap in other forms | 10% |
| 3401 30 11 | Medicated toilet soaps | 10% |
| 3401 30 12 | Shaving cream and shaving gel | 10% |
| 3401 30 19 | Other | 10% |
| 3401 30 90 | Other | 10% |
| 3402 31 00 | Linear alkylbenzene sulphonic acids and their salts | 10% |
| 3402 39 00 | Other | 10% |
| 3402 41 00 | Cationic | 10% |
| 3402 42 00 | Non-ionic | 10% |
| 3402 49 00 | Other | 10% |
| 3402 50 00 | Preparations put up for retail sale | 10% |
| 3402 90 11 | Washing preparations (including auxiliary washing preparations) and cleaning preparations, having a basis of soap or other organic surface active agents | 10% |
| 3402 90 12 | Cleaning or degreasing preparations not having a basis of soap or other organic surface active agents | 10% |
| 3402 90 19 | Other | 10% |
| 3402 90 20 | Sulphonated or sulphated or oxidized or chlorinated castor oil; sulphonated or sulphated or oxidized or chlori-nated fish oil; sulphonated or sulpha-ted or oxidized or chlorinated sperm oil; sulphonated or sulphated or oxidized or chlorinated neats foot oil | 10% |
| 3402 90 30 | Penetrators | 10% |
| 3402 90 41 | Washing preparations (including auxiliary washing preparations) and cleaning preparations, having a basis of soap or other organic surface active agents | 10% |
| 3402 90 42 | Cleaning or degreasing preparations not having a basis of soap or other organic surface active agents | 10% |
| 3402 90 49 | Other | 10% |
| 3402 90 51 | Washing preparations (including auxiliary washing preparations) and cleaning preparations, having a basis of soap or other organic surface active agents | 10% |
| 3402 90 52 | Cleaning or degreasing preparations not having a basis of soap or other organic surface active agents | 10% |
| 3402 90 59 | Other | 10% |
| 3402 90 91 | Washing preparations (including auxiliary washing preparations) and cleaning preparations, having a basis of soap or other organic surface active agents | 10% |
| 3402 90 92 | Cleaning or degreasing preparations not having a basis of soap or other organic surface active agents | 10% |
| 3402 90 99 | Other | 10% |
| 3403 11 00 | Preparations for the treatment of textile materials, leather, furskins or other materials | 7.5% |
| 3403 19 00 | Other | 7.5% |
| 3403 91 00 | Preparations for the treatment of textile materials, leather, furskins or other materials | 7.5% |
| 3403 99 00 | Other | 7.5% |
| 3404 20 00 | Of poly (oxyethylene) (polyethylene glycol) | 10% |