HS code 3206: Colouring Matter
- Covers:
- Other colouring matter; preparations as specified in note 3 to this chapter, other than… (7 subcodes below).
- Not covered:
- 3201 (Tanning extracts of vegetable origin; tannins…); 3202 (Synthetic organic tanning substances; inorganic…); 3203 (Colouring matter of vegetable or animal origin…); and others.
Official description
Other colouring matter; preparations as specified in note 3 to this chapter, other than those of heading 3203, 3204 or 3205; inorganic products of a kind used as luminophores, whether or not chemically defined
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What 3206 covers and what it doesn’t
Official text: Other colouring matter; preparations as specified in note 3 to this chapter, other than those of heading 3203, 3204 or 3205; inorganic products of a kind used as luminophores, whether or not chemically defined.
This is the “other” line of heading . It takes goods of that heading that no more specific subheading names. These go elsewhere:
Subheadings
- 320611Pigments and preparations based on titanium dioxide — Containing 80 % or more by weight of titanium dioxide calculated on the dry matter
- 320619Pigments and preparations based on titanium dioxide — Other
- 320620Pigments and preparations based on chromium compounds
- 320641Other colouring matter and other preparations — Ultramarine and preparations based thereon
- 320642Other colouring matter and other preparations — Lithopone and other pigments and preparations based on zinc sulphide
- 320649Other colouring matter and other preparations — Other
- 320650Inorganic products of a kind used as luminophores
Common questions
- What is HS code 3206?
- Other colouring matter; preparations as specified in note 3 to this chapter, other than those of heading 3203, 3204 or 3205; inorganic products of a kind used as luminophores, whether or not chemically defined
- What does 3206 include?
- It covers 7 subheadings: 320611 Pigments and preparations based on titanium dioxide — Containing 80 % or more by weight of titanium dioxide calculated on the dry matter; 320619 Pigments and preparations based on titanium dioxide — Other; 320620 Pigments and preparations based on chromium compounds; 320641 Other colouring matter and other preparations — Ultramarine and preparations based thereon; 320642 Other colouring matter and other preparations — Lithopone and other pigments and preparations based on zinc sulphide; 320649 Other colouring matter and other preparations — Other; 320650 Inorganic products of a kind used as luminophores.
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