38 Miscellaneous chemical products

HeadingDescriptionGeneral
3801Artificial graphite; colloidal or semi-colloidal graphite; preparations based on graphite or other carbon in the form of pastes, blocks, plates or other semimanufactures
3802Activated carbon; activated natural mineral products; animal black, including spent animal black
3803Tall oil, whether or not refinedFree
3804Residual lyes from the manufacture of wood pulp, whether or not concentrated, desugared or chemically treated, including lignin sulfonates, but excluding tall oil of heading 3803
3805Gum, wood or sulfate turpentine and other terpenic oils produced by the distillation or other treatment of coniferous woods; crude dipentene; sulfite turpentine and other crude para-cymene; pine oil containing alpha-terpineol as the main constituent
3806Rosin and resin acids, and derivatives thereof; rosin spirit and rosin oils; run gums
3807Wood tar; wood tar oils; wood creosote; wood naphtha; vegetable pitch; brewers' pitch and similar preparations based on rosin, resin acids or on vegetable pitch0.1%
3808Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, antisprouting 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, sulfur-treated bands, wicks and candles, and flypapers)
3809Finishing agents, dye carriers to accelerate the dyeing or fixing of dyestuffs and other products and preparations (for example, dressings and mordants), of a kind used in the textile, paper, leather or like industries, not elsewhere specified or included
3810Pickling preparations for metal surfaces; fluxes and other auxiliary preparations for soldering, brazing or welding; soldering, brazing or welding powders and pastes consisting of metal and other materials; preparations of a kind used as cores or coatings for welding electrodes or rods
3811Antiknock preparations, oxidation inhibitors, gum inhibitors, viscosity improvers, anti-corrosive preparations and other prepared additives, for mineral oils (including gasoline) or for other liquids used for the same purposes as mineral oils
3812Prepared rubber accelerators; compound plasticizers for rubber or plastics, not elsewhere specified or included; antioxidizing preparations and other compound stabilizers for rubber or plastics
3813Preparations and charges for fire extinguishers; charged fire-extinguishing grenades
3814Organic composite solvents and thinners, not elsewhere specified or included; prepared paint or varnish removers
3815Reaction initiators, reaction accelerators and catalytic preparations, not elsewhere specified or included
3816Refractory cements, mortars, concretes and similar compositions, including dolomite ramming mix, other than products of heading 3801
3817Mixed alkylbenzenes and mixed alkylnaphthalenes, other than those of heading 2707 or 2902
3818Chemical elements doped for use in electronics, in the form of discs, wafers or similar forms; chemical compounds doped for use in electronicsFree
3819Hydraulic brake fluids and other prepared liquids for hydraulic transmission, not containing or containing less than 70 percent by weight of petroleum oils or oils obtained from bituminous minerals6.5%
3820Antifreezing preparations and prepared deicing fluids6.5%
3821Prepared culture media for development or maintenance of micro-organisms (including viruses and the like) or of plant, human or animal cells5%
3822Diagnostic or laboratory reagents on a backing, prepared diagnostic or laboratory reagents whether or not on a backing, whether or not put up in the form of kits, other than those of heading 3006; certified reference materials
3823Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids; acid oils from refining; industrial fatty alcohols
3824Prepared binders for foundry molds or cores; chemical products and preparations of the chemical or allied industries (including those consisting of mixtures of natural products), not elsewhere specified or included
3825Residual products of the chemical or allied industries, not elsewhere specified or included; municipal waste; sewage sludge; other wastes specified in note 6 to this chapter
3826Biodiesel and mixtures thereof, not containing or containing less than 70 percent by weight of petroleum oils or oils obtained from bituminous materials
3827Mixtures containing halogenated derivatives of methane, ethane or propane, not elsewhere specified or included

Source: USITC HTS (2026 Basic Edition, frozen to the exam). Rates shown at heading level; duty rates are set on 8/10-digit subheadings. Not legal or classification advice.

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