Chapter notes
CHAPTER 34
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
1. This Chapter does not cover:
(a) Edible mixtures or preparations of animal or
vegetable 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 20oC 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.).