HS chapter 38
Miscellaneous chemical products
Chapter 38 has 26 headings with 149 EU tariff lines and 243 Mercosur tariff lines. Duty-free from entry into force: 35 EU and 1 Mercosur lines. Ten years or more, a quota or excluded: 6 EU and 190 Mercosur lines.
Official chapter title: Chemical products n.e.c. · Data last updated 18 October 2026
How fast duties fall
Tariff lines of the chapter by staging category, in each schedule.
| Treatment | EU lines | Mercosur lines |
|---|---|---|
| Duty-free from entry into force (0) | 35 | 1 |
| Phased out over 4 to 8 years | 108 | 52 |
| Phased out over 10 years | 2 | 174 |
| Phased out over 15 years (15, 15V) | 0 | 12 |
| Tariff-rate quota | 4 | 0 |
| Excluded (E) | 0 | 4 |
Headings in this chapter
Headings with a product page are linked. For the others, open the calculator. Heading descriptions are the English HS nomenclature.
| Heading | Description | Into the EU | Into Brazil | Calculate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3801 | Artificial graphite; colloidal or semi-colloidal graphite; preparations based on graphite or other carbon in the form of pastes, blocks, plates or other semi-manufactures | base 3.6–6.5%zero by 2030 | base 2–10%zero by 2036 | Calculate |
| 3802 | Activated carbon; activated natural mineral products; animal black, including spent animal black | base 3.2–5.7%zero by 2030 | base 2–12%zero by 2036 | Calculate |
| 3803 | Tall oil, whether or not refined | base 0–4.1% | base 12%zero by 2036 | Calculate |
| 3804 | Residual lyes from the manufacture of wood pulp, whether or not concentrated, desugared or chemically treated, including lignin sulphonates, but excluding tall oil of heading no. 3803 | base 5%zero by 2030 | base 10%zero by 2036 | Calculate |
| 3805 | Gum, wood or sulphate turpentine, other terpenic oils; crude dipentene; sulphite turpentine, other crude para-cymene; pine oil containing alpha-terpineol as the main constituent | base 3.2–4% | base 14%zero by 2036 | Calculate |
| 3806 | Rosin and resin acids and derivatives thereof; rosin spirit and rosin oils; run gums | base 4.2–6.5%zero by 2030 | base 12–14%zero by 2036 | Calculate |
| 3807 | Wood tar; wood tar oils; wood creosote; wood naphtha; vegetable pitch; brewers' pitch and similar preparations based on rosin, resin acids or on vegetable pitch | base 2.1–4.6%zero by 2030 | base 14%zero by 2036 | Calculate |
| 3808 | PesticidesExcluded lines | base 4.6–6.5%zero by 2030 | base 0–14%zero by 2041 | Calculate |
| 3809 | Finishing agents, dye carriers to accelerate the dyeing, fixing of dyestuffs, other products and preparations, of a kind used in the textile, paper, leather or like industries, n.e.c. or included | base 6.3–8.3%zero by 2033 | base 14%zero by 2036 | Calculate |
| 3810 | Metal-pickling preparations; fluxes etc for soldering, brazing; welding powders, pastes of metal and other materials; preparations used as cores or coatings for welding electrodes or rods | base 4.1–6.5%zero by 2030 | base 14%zero by 2036 | Calculate |
| 3811 | Anti-knock preparations, oxidation and gum inhibitors, viscosity improvers, anti-corrosive preparations and the like, for mineral oils (including gasoline) or other liquids used for the same purposes | base 5.3–6.5%zero by 2030 | base 2–14%zero by 2036 | Calculate |
| 3812 | Prepared rubber accelerators; compound plasticisers for rubber or plastics, n.e.c. or included; anti-oxidising preparations and other compound stabilisers for rubber or plastics | base 0–6.5%zero by 2030 | base 2–14%zero by 2036 | Calculate |
| 3813 | Preparations and charges for fire extinguishers; charged fire-extinguishing grenades | base 6.5%zero by 2030 | base 14%zero by 2036 | Calculate |
| 3814 | Organic composite solvents and thinners, not elsewhere specified or included; prepared paint or varnish removers | base 6.5%zero by 2030 | base 14%zero by 2036 | Calculate |
| 3815 | Reaction initiators, reaction accelerators and catalytic preparations n.e.c. or included | base 0–6.5%zero by 2030 | base 2–12%zero by 2036 | Calculate |
| 3816 | Refractory cements, mortars, concretes and similar compositions, including dolomite ramming mix, other than products of heading 38.01 | base 2.7% | base 2–14%zero by 2036 | Calculate |
| 3817 | Mixed alkylbenzenes and mixed alkylnaphthalenes, other than those of heading no. 2707 or 2902Excluded lines | base 6.3%zero by 2030 | base 12–14%zero by 2036 | Calculate |
| 3818 | Chemical elements doped for use in electronics, in the form of discs, wafers or similar forms; chemical compounds doped for use in electronics | base 0% | base 2%zero by 2030 | Calculate |
| 3819 | Hydraulic brake fluids and other prepared liquids for hydraulic transmission, not containing or containing less than 70% by weight of petroleum oils or oils obtained from bituminous mineralsExcluded lines | base 6.5%zero by 2030 | base 14% | Calculate |
| 3820 | Anti-freezing preparations and prepared de-icing fluids | base 6.5%zero by 2030 | base 14%zero by 2036 | Calculate |
| 3821 | Prepared culture media for the development or maintenance of micro-organisms (including viruses and the like) or of plant, human or animal cells | base 5%zero by 2030 | base 0%zero by 2036 | Calculate |
| 3822 | Reagents; diagnostic or laboratory reagents on a backing, prepared diagnostic or laboratory reagents whether or not on a backing, whether or not put up in the form of kits, other than those of heading 30.06; certified reference materials | base 0% | base 0–2%zero by 2036 | Calculate |
| 3823 | Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids; acid oils from refining; industrial fatty alcoholsExcluded lines | base 2.9–5.1% | base 2–20%zero by 2041 | Calculate |
| 3824 | Chemical products n.e.s.Quota | base 0–9.6%zero by 2030 | base 0–14%zero by 2036 | Calculate |
| 3825 | Residual products of the chemical or allied industries, not elsewhere specified or included; municipal waste; sewage sludge; other residual products. | base 5–6.5%zero by 2030 | base 14%zero by 2036 | Calculate |
| 3826 | Biodiesel and mixtures thereof; not containing or containing less than 70% by weight of petroleum oils or oils obtained from bituminous mineralsQuota | base 6.5%zero by 2036 | base 14%zero by 2036 | Calculate |