3809 10 50 — Finishing agents, dye carriers to accelerate the dyeing or fixing of dyestuffs and other products and preparations such as dressings and mordants of a kind used in the textile, paper, leather or like industries, n.e.s., with a basis of amylaceous substances, containing >= 70% to < 83% of these substances by weight

3809 Finishing 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: 3809 10 – With a basis of amylaceous substances – Other: 3809 91 – – Of a kind used in the textile or like industries 3809 92 – – Of a kind used in the paper or like industries 3809 93 – – Of a kind used in the leather or like industries

This heading covers a wide range of products and preparations commonly used in the processing or finishing of yarn, textiles, paper, cardboard, leather or similar materials, not elsewhere specified or included in the Nomenclature. They can be identified as being included in this heading according to their composition and characteristics and which provide them with a specific use in the manufactures listed in this heading in the above-mentioned and similar industries, for example in textiles, in the manufacture of flooring, in the manufacture of vulcanized fiber and in fur production. Such products and preparations (e.g. textile softeners) intended for domestic rather than industrial use are also classified in this heading. This heading covers: (A) Products and preparations used in the textile or similar industries: (1) Prepared preparations that change the tactile properties of products, for example: thickeners, usually based on natural starches (such as starch obtained from wheat, rice, corn or potatoes, and dextrin), adhesives (lichenics, alginates, etc.), gelatin, casein, plant adhesives (tragant, etc.) or rosifol; weightants; softeners based on glycerin, imidazoline derivatives, etc.; fillers based on natural or synthetic compounds.

In addition to the principal components mentioned above, certain preparations may also contain wetting agents (soaps, etc.), lubricants (linseed oil, wax, etc.), fillers (kaolin, barium sulphate, etc.) and preservatives (in particular, zinc salts, copper sulphate and phenol). (2) Non-slip and anti-snag agents. These products are intended to reduce the slipping properties of textile materials and to prevent snagging in hosiery and knitted articles. They are generally based on polymers, natural resins or silicic acid. (3) Soil-repellent agents. They are generally based on silicic acid, aluminium or organic derivatives. (4) Crease-resisting and anti-shrink preparations, which are mixtures of chemically defined compounds with at least two reactive groups (e.g., bis-hydroxymethyl derivatives, certain aldehydes and acetals). (5) Delustring agents, intended to reduce the lustre or sheen of textile articles. They usually consist of suspensions of pigments (titanium oxide, zinc oxide, lithopone, etc.) stabilised by cellulose ethers, gelatin, glue, surface-active agents, etc. The preparations covered here should not be confused with paints (headings 3208, 3209 or 3210) or with lubricating preparations intended for oiling wool (heading 2710 or 3403). (6) Fireproofing preparations based on ammonium salts, compounds of boron, nitrogen, bromine or phosphorus, or preparations based on chlorinated organic substances with antimony oxide or with other oxides. (7) Lustring agents. These are intended to impart lustre or sheen to textile articles. They are usually emulsions of paraffins, waxes, polyolefins or polyglycols. (8) Mordants, intended for use in the dyeing of textile articles and in printing processes as fixatives for colouring matter. These preparations, which are soluble in water, are usually based on metal salts (e.g., sulphates or acetates of aluminium, ammonium, chromium or iron, potassium dichromate, potassium antimony tartrate) or on tannin (see exclusion (d) below). (9) Dye carriers, which are used to accelerate dyeing and printing processes by causing synthetic fibres to swell. They include preparations based on biphenyl or on derivatives of benzene, phenol or hydroxytoluic acid, such as trichlorobenzenes, biphenyl-2-ol, methyl hydroxytoluates, and mixtures thereof (whether or not containing surface-active agents). (10) Anti-felting agents, intended to reduce the felting of fibres of animal origin. They are often chlorinating agents or oxidising agents or special compositions of synthetic resin-forming substances. (11) Sizing agents, which are used to give yarn greater strength during the weaving process. These preparations are generally based on starch, derivatives of starch or other natural or synthetic polymeric binders. They may also contain wetting agents, softeners, fats,

waxes or other materials. This group also includes emulsified waxes for sizing warp and emulsified fats prepared for sizing. (12) Oil-repellent agents, intended to impart oil-repellent properties to textile materials. They are usually emulsions or solutions of organic fluorine compounds, such as perfluorinated carboxylic acids, and may contain modified resins (extenders). (13) Water-repellent agents, usually consisting of aqueous emulsions of water-repellent products (such as waxes or lanolin), stabilised by cellulose ethers, gelatin, glue, organic surface-active agents, etc., and additionally containing soluble salts, e.g., of aluminium or zirconium. This group of products also includes preparations based on silicones and fluorine derivatives. (B) Products and ready preparations of a kind used in the pulp and paper, paperboard or similar industries: (1) Binders, used to bind pigment particles in mixtures used for coating. These are preparations based on natural products such as casein, starch, derivatives of starch, soya protein, animal glue, alginates or cellulose derivatives. (2) Sizing agents or additives, used in papermaking to give paper improved printing properties, to provide gloss and sheen, and to impart writing properties. These preparations may be based on rosin soaps, fortified resins, dispersions of wax, paraffin, acrylic polymers, starch and carboxymethylcellulose or vegetable gum. (3) Wet-strength agents, used to increase the tensile, tear, burst and abrasion resistance of paper webs or nonwovens. (C) Products and ready preparations of a kind used in the leather or similar industries: (1) Binders. These preparations are used to fix pigment colours in leather. They have a special composition based on proteinaceous substances, natural resins or waxes, etc. (2) Additives specially intended for compacting the surface of leather at the final finishing stage. Their structure and composition are similar to those of the binders mentioned in paragraph (1) above. (3) Water-repellent agents. They usually consist of (i) chromium soaps, (ii) derivatives of alkylsuccinic or citric acids, etc., in solvents (such as isopropyl alcohol) or (iii) chemical compounds of fluorine in the form of a solution or dispersion. Apart from the products referred to above, the heading excludes: (a) Preparations used for the oiling or greasing of textile materials, leather, furskins or other materials (heading 2710 or 3403); (b) Separate chemically defined elements or compounds (generally Chapter 28 or 29); (c) Pigments, prepared colours, dyes, etc. (Chapter 32);

(d) organic surfactants or agents, such as dyes enhancing agents (heading 3402); (e) dextrins and other modified starches and adhesives derived from starches or dextrins or other modified starches (heading 3505); (f) insecticides and other preparations of heading 3808; (g) emulsions, dispersions or solutions of polymers (heading 3209 or Chapter 39).

Notes

English text as published in Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2021/1832 (Combined Nomenclature). The EAEU tariff and the EU nomenclature copy these notes from the same convention. For a Russian declaration the binding version is the Russian one: Annex to Decision No 80 of the EEC Council of 14 September 2021.

1. This chapter does not cover:

(a) separate chemically defined elements or compounds with the exception of the following:

(1) artificial graphite (heading 3801);

(2) insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, anti-sprouting products and plant-growth regulators, disinfectants and similar products, put up as described in heading 3808;

(3) products put up as charges for fire-extinguishers or put up in fire-extinguishing grenades (heading 3813);

(4) certified reference materials specified in note 2 below;

(5) products specified in note 3(a) or 3(c) below;

(b) mixtures of chemicals with foodstuffs or other substances with nutritive value, of a kind used in the preparation of human foodstuffs (generally, heading 2106);

(c) products of heading 2404;

(d) slag, ash and residues (including sludges, other than sewage sludge), containing metals, arsenic or their mixtures and meeting the requirements of note 3(a) or 3(b) to Chapter 26 (heading 2620);

(e) medicaments (heading 3003 or 3004); or

(f) spent catalysts of a kind used for the extraction of base metals or for the manufacture of chemical compounds of base metals (heading 2620), spent catalysts of a kind used principally for the recovery of precious metal (heading 7112) or catalysts consisting of metals or metal alloys in the form of, for example, finely divided powder or woven gauze (Section XIV or XV).

2. (A) For the purpose of heading 3822, 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 materials, heading 3822 shall take precedence over any other heading in the nomenclature.

3. Heading 3824 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 9612), put up in packings for retail sale; and

(e) ceramic firing testers, fusible (for example, Seger cones).

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) individual materials or articles segregated from the waste, for example wastes of plastics, rubber, wood, paper, textiles, glass or metals, electrical and electronic waste and scrap (including spent batteries) which fall in their appropriate headings of the nomenclature;

(b) industrial waste;

(c) waste pharmaceuticals, as defined in note 4(k) to Chapter 30; or

(d) clinical waste, as defined in note 6(a) below.

5. For the purposes of heading 3825, ‘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. For the purposes of heading 3825, 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, brake fluids and anti-freezing fluids; and

(d) other wastes from chemical or allied industries. The expression ‘other wastes’ does not, however, cover wastes which contain mainly petroleum oils or oils obtained from bituminous minerals (heading 2710).

7. For the purposes of heading 3826, 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.

Subheading notes

English text as published in Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2021/1832 (Combined Nomenclature). The EAEU tariff and the EU nomenclature copy these notes from the same convention. For a Russian declaration the binding version is the Russian one: Annex to Decision No 80 of the EEC Council of 14 September 2021.

1. Subheadings 3808 52 and 3808 59 cover only 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); DDT (ISO) (clofenotane (INN), 1,1,1-trichloro-2,2-bis(p-chlorophenyl)ethane); 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); 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).

2. Subheadings 3808 61 to 3808 69 cover only 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).

3. Subheadings 3824 81 to 3824 89 cover only mixtures and preparations containing one or more of the following substances : oxirane (ethylene oxide); polybrominated biphenyls (PBBs); polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs); polychlorinated terphenyls (PCTs); tris(2,3-dibromopropyl) phosphate; aldrin (ISO); camphechlor (ISO) (toxaphene); chlordane (ISO); chlordecone (ISO); DDT (ISO) (clofenotane (INN); 1,1,1-trichloro-2,2-bis(p-chlorophenyl)ethane); dieldrin (ISO, INN); endosulfan (ISO); endrin (ISO); heptachlor (ISO); mirex (ISO); 1,2,3,4,5,6-hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH (ISO)), including lindane (ISO, INN); pentachlorobenzene (ISO); hexachlorobenzene (ISO); perfluorooctane sulphonic acid, its salts; perfluorooctane sulphonamides; perfluorooctane sulphonyl fluoride; tetra-, penta-, hexa-, hepta- or octabromodiphenyl ethers; short-chain chlorinated paraffins. Short-chain chlorinated paraffins are mixtures of compounds, with a chlorination degree of more than 48 % by weight, with the following molecular formula : CxH(2x-y+2)Cly, where x=10 – 13 and y= 1 – 13.

4. For the purposes of subheadings 3825 41 and 3825 49, ‘waste organic solvents’ are wastes containing mainly organic solvents, not fit for further use as presented as primary products, whether or not intended for recovery of the solvents.