Car care products|HS Code

Car care products harmonized system code

Product Overview Car Care Products under HS Code 3405 are a specialized category of polishes and creams, and similar preparations, used for the maintenance and preservation of vehicles. Key characteristics of these products include specific formulation for cleaning, protecting, and enhancing the appearance of cars. These products encompass a broad range of subcategories such as car waxes, polishes, detergents, rust removers, and tire and dashboard cleaners, each designed for specific tasks within car care. The primary commercial applications of these products are in the automotive industry, car detailing services, and retail sectors for individual car owners' use. The market positioning of these car care products is driven by their high quality, efficiency in delivering desired results, and ease of use, offering significant value for both professional and personal users. HS Code Classification & Trade Specifications The complete HS Code for Car Care Products is 3405.30, with Chapter 34 representing 'Soap, 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', Heading 05 standing for 'Polishes and creams, for footwear, furniture, floors, coachwork, glass or metal, scouring pastes and powders and similar preparations (whether or not in the form of paper, wadding, felt, nonwovens, cellular plastics or cellular rubber, impregnated, coated or covered with such preparations), excluding waxes of heading 34.04', and Subheading 30 referring to 'Preparations for the maintenance of wooden furniture, floors, or other woodwork'. These products are classified under this code due to their specific formulation and intended use in vehicle maintenance. Common trade considerations include packaging in plastic or metal containers to preserve the product's integrity, and shipping requirements that consider the product's chemical composition. Quality standards adhere to the World Trade Organization and customs documentation standards, ensuring products are safe, effective, and compliant with international trade regulations.

Car care products Chapter Note

1.- 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; or (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). 2.- 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”. 3.- 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. 4.- In heading 34.03 the expression “petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals” applies to the products defined in Note 2 to Chapter 27. 5.- In heading 34.04, subject to the exclusions provided below, 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, even if having a waxy character; (b) Unmixed animal waxes or unmixed vegetable waxes, whether or not refined or coloured, of heading 15.21; (c) Mineral waxes or similar products of heading 27.12, whether or not intermixed or merely coloured; or (d) Waxes mixed with, dispersed in or dissolved in a liquid medium (headings 34.05, 38.09, etc.).