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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1995-1359/annex-I/chapter-34",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1995-1359/annex-I/chapter-34.json",
  "legislation": "eur/1995/1359",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 1359/95 of 13 June 1995 amending Annexes I and II to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff, and repealing Regulation (EEC) No 802/80",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1995-1359",
  "path": "annex/I/chapter/34",
  "kind": "chapter",
  "number": "34",
  "heading": "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",
  "text": "CN code\nDescription\nRate of duty\nautonomous (%)\nconventional (%)\nSupplementary unit\n3401\nSoap; organic surface-active products and preparations for use as soap, in the form of bars, cakes, moulded pieces or shapes, whether or not containing soap; paper, wadding, felt and non-wovens, impregnated, coated or covered with soap or detergent\nSoap and organic surface-active products and preparations, in the form of bars, cakes, moulded pieces or shapes, and paper, wadding, felt and non-wovens, impregnated, coated or covered with soap or detergent\n34011100\nFor toilet use (including medicated products)\n19\n5,5\n—\n34011900\nOther\n19\n5,5\n—\n340120\nSoap in other forms\n34012010\nFlakes, wafers, granules or powders\n19\n5,5\n—\n34012090\nOther\n19\n5,5\n—\n3402\nOrganic surface-active agents (other than soap); surface-active preparations, washing preparations (including auxiliary washing preparations) and cleaning preparations, whether or not containing soap, other than those of heading No 3401\nOrganic surface-active agents, whether or not put up for retail sale\n34021100\nAnionic\n17\n6,3\n—\n34021200\nCationic\n17\n6,3\n—\n34021300\nNon-ionic\n17\n6,3\n—\n34021900\nOther\n17\n6,3\n—\n340220\nPreparations put up for retail sale\n34022010\nSurface-active preparations\n17\n6,3\n—\n34022090\nWashing preparations and cleaning preparations\n17\n6,3\n—\n340290\nOther\n34029010\nSurface-active preparations\n17\n6,3\n—\n34029090\nWashing preparations and cleaning preparations\n17\n6,3\n—\n3403\nLubricating preparations (including cutting-oil preparations, bolt or nut release preparations, anti-rust or anti-corrosion preparations and mould release preparations, based on lubricants) and preparations of a kind used for the oil or grease treatment of textile materials, leather, furskins or other materials, but excluding preparations containing, as basic constituents, 70 % or more by weight of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals\nContaining petroleum oils or oils obtained from bituminous minerals\n34031100\nPreparations for the treatment of textile materials, leather, furskins or other materials\n10\n4,6\n—\n340319\nOther\n34031910\nContaining 70 % or more by weight of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals but not as the basic constituent\n18\n7,4\n—\nOther\n34031991\nPreparations for lubricating machines, appliances and vehicles\n10\n4,6\n—\n34031999\nOther\n10\n4,6\n—\nOther\n34039100\nPreparations for the treatment of textile materials, leather, furskins or other materials\n10\n4,6\n—\n340399\nOther\n34039910\nPreparations for lubricating machines, appliances and vehicles\n10\n4,6\n—\n34039990\nOther\n10\n4,6\n—\n3404\nArtificial waxes and prepared waxes\n34041000\nOf chemically modified lignite\n12\n4,2\n—\n34042000\nOf polyethylene glycol\n12\n4,2\n—\n340490\nOther\n34049010\nPrepared waxes, including sealing waxes\n12\n4,2\n—\n34049090\nOther\n12\n4,2\n—\n3405\nPolishes 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, non-wovens, cellular plastics or cellular rubber, impregnated, coated or covered with such preparations), excluding waxes of heading No 3404\n34051000\nPolishes, creams and similar preparations, for footwear or leather\n15\n4,8\n—\n34052000\nPolishes, creams and similar preparations, for the maintenance of wooden furniture, floors or other woodwork\n15\n4,8\n—\n34053000\nPolishes and similar preparations for coachwork, other than metal polishes\n15\n4,8\n—\n34054000\nScouring pastes and powders and other scouring preparations\n15\n4,8\n—\n340590\nOther\n34059010\nMetal polishes\n15\n4,8\n—\n34059090\nOther\n15\n4,8\n—\n340600\nCandles, tapers and the like\nCandles\n34060011\nPlain, not perfumed\n16\n5,7\n—\n34060019\nOther\n16\n5,7\n—\n34060090\nOther\n16\n5,7\n—\n34070000\nModelling pastes, including those put up for children's amusement; preparations known as ‘dental wax’ or as ‘dental impression compounds’, put up in sets, in packings for retail sale or in plates, horseshoe shapes, sticks or similar forms; other preparations for use in dentistry, with a basis of plaster (of calcined gypsum or calcium sulphate)\n16\n5,5\n—",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/1995/1359/annex/I/chapter/34",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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