Section VI · Soap, waxes, polishing preparations, candles, modelling pastes

3405.40

Scouring pastes and powders and other scouring preparations

How this code is built
34

Chapter

Soap, waxes, polishing preparations, candles, modelling pastes

05

Heading

The product family within the chapter

40

Subheading

The specific good, identical worldwide

The first six digits are the same in every country that uses the Harmonized System. The United States adds two more for the tariff rate and, often, two more for statistics — which is why the rates below are listed against 8- and 10-digit numbers rather than against this code.

How the schedule reaches this code

  1. 34Soap, waxes, polishing preparations, candles, modelling pastes
  2. 3405Polishes 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 3404:
  3. Scouring pastes and powders and other scouring preparations

Published US duty rates

Duty is set at the 8- or 10-digit line, not at this 6-digit subheading, so more than one rate can sit under this code.

  • 3405.40.00.00Scouring pastes and powders and other scouring preparationskg
    General
    Free
    Special (FTA)
    —

    No preferential rate published.

    Column 2
    4.4¢/kg + 15%

    Countries without normal trade relations.

Schedule footnotes

  • See 9903.88.03.

A reference to Chapter 99 means an additional action — a Section 232 or 301 measure, an exclusion, or a quota — applies on top of the rate above.

This is the listed rate. Antidumping and countervailing duty orders, Chapter 99 actions and preference qualification all change what is actually collected, and classification is a judgement about your goods. Verify with your licensed customs broker before you file.

Other subheadings in heading 3405

Source: U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) — 2026 HTS Revision 12, released 2026-07-21, published at hts.usitc.gov. A U.S. Government work in the public domain.